It's not for end-users. It's a service for developers to add to their web application. You can certainly try to coax all your users into pre-encoding their video - and understanding how to do that - if you like....
There's no need for China to cut emissions. As western economy fails in the next 2 decades, its emissions will drastically fall as well. So why should east cut down emissions if western economy will cut back by itself?
This whole Copenhagen fiasco was to put a lid on developing nations so the west could further delay the transfer of global power to the Asian nations.
USA had no intention of cutting its own emissions but asks China that they should. What kind of deal is that?
Copenhagen is really waking the conspiracy theorists.
If the US had agreed to a minor cut, China would have probably agreed to limiting growth and eventually (10-15 years reducing). The argument is how big the gap is. I've mostly heard talk of between a 15% & a 30% delay for developing countries. @ 15% delay, the US cuts by 5% & China gets to grow by 10%. 20 years later the US cuts by 20% & China cuts by 5%. etc.
Any deal that emerges will probably slightly favour the developing world. It is they that will need to pay for most of it because they have the money. "The West" will subsidise "The East's" reductions somewhat. The only qestion is how much.
The US is holding up the show at the moment. Maybe after next US elections they will be ready for 5-10% cuts with China limiting itself to about 10% growth (by 2020 or 2025). Most other developed countries are ready for 20% by 2020 now.
Ah.. finally! StrongVPN's OpenVPN Client can connect to HK server now. Not sure who changed what on which side (China ISP vs StrongVPN) but I'm glad it's working now!
I fear the future. Once countries start compiling a blacklist of secure VPN providers worldwide and block these IP segments. Everyone will start building their own VPNs on SliceHost / Linode / RackSpace Cloud Servers. Then these countries (China) will start blocking SliceHost / Linode / <insert your fav VPS provider here>
I don't care much about using Twitter / Facebook / social apps. I have no doubt that I'll become a victim from further IP blocking. I won't be surprised to find my website on SliceHost GFW'd in China in the near future.
As I do most of my online business with China, hopefully a Chinese company will duplicate SliceHost's services here.
