Oh you naive summer child. Cortana is just a small part of the "log everything user does and call home with this information" package, specifically the part that always listens to the user.
Tracking key presses is another part of internal spyware systems in win10, as is tracking of applications used and usage times and so on.
You already installed win10, which comes with built in microsoft keylogger, among other monitoring implements that call home. Your worry is like worrying about getting wet from crying after your ship sank and you're floating in the ocean.
If you have a proper educational system, new people will pick up old systems as they enter work force and work on them in entry level jobs doing those menial things you need to do to keep them maintained under tutelage of experienced specialists.
This is actually a major problem point for Russia, and likely one of the strategic reasons US decided to pick a major fight with Russia now, rather than earlier or later. Soviet Union collapsed in early 1990s, and with it, the education system and the "university to work" chain for engineers. That means that in Russia, where men's average age is still in their late 60s, the people who have the full kit of education and experience for most of the complex engineering work from infrastructure maintenance to space programs are starting to die out en masse. All while there's well over twenty year gap in replacements that aren't there due to the collapse of the system.
So US stands a very good chance of winning this fight by simply doing nothing but acting tough at this juncture of history, as Russia's engineering excellence simply dies out of natural causes and replacements for it are not there to pick up the slack. A good external boogie man to try to unite nation behind, unlike for example China, which has no such issue and would require significant sacrifices to truly engage in a geopolitical struggle.
It's not even a joke. Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, nor Russia, but it was in USSR. Most of Russian space know how is derived straight from USSR base.
Having to rework every little bit about launch trajectories for a new launch site is a difficult thing, and someone clearly fucked up here by assuming that "it always worked before". Because it did, back in Soviet days.
Low confidence is "it's politically necessary to cast shit in this direction to see if some of it will stick". Moderate is "this is kind of, sort of possible if it was us with our capabilities and our organisational structures, not sure if others are quite at our level yet".
"High confidence" is where you start thinking they may be on to something concrete rather than just assumptions. May be being the key words.
Refer to IME NSA "bug" released with Shadow Brokers leak to understand why any state that has any competition with any party headquartered in US should be looking to do just that.
Germany trusts Russia enough to push for second Nord Stream pipeline to bypass the nations that actually cause the instability in supply. Direct supply from Russia appears to be as stable as supply from Soviet Union back in the days of Warsaw Pact. That one was stable even through the worst Cold War crises.
They're switching as we speak, because they're desperate. Their environmental goals are de facto dead, and the trend of CO2 emissions going down at a decent rate ended in 2009, and the current trend is basically a flat line.
Hence the push for Nord Stream gas pipes from Russia, and build up of CCGTs.
Noscript, instead of all the grandstanding is apparently simply not portable. The functionality needed in the API does not exist.
In before a bunch of knights in shining armour start quoting Noscript's author from months ago. Yeah, he said it might be possible and that it was a high priority to firefox team themselves to get it working. And even with that level of support, it still hasn't been done. Draw the relevant conclusions and understand you're being lied to.
1. Lossy audio compression in bluetooth.. 2. Wireless lag. 3. Wireless disruptions in certain situations and areas. 4. Battery life that you have to worry about on an extra device.
Since you wanted one, pick the one that inconveniences you the most.
They do, but first various attack craft including A-10 go in to take out anything that looks like it has a calibre and elevation to actually be able to shoot at that low flying civilian transport with guns.
And that's why every time it's deployed, attack craft have to go in first to actually clear the area of anything that looks like it can elevate its gun to around 80 degrees up, and pretty much anything that looks like a missile.
Indeed it is. And "derps" like you who swallow the LM's billion dollar PR effort to paint all the aircraft that outperform F-35 that it's "supposed" to replace as reality, in direct opposition to:
1. Reports from troops on the ground. 2. Reports from operation commanders. 3. Reports from GAO.
I hope you're paid well for your efforts, and you're not just a "derp", who's doing the job for free.
Actually the main reason why everyone on the ground wants A-10s as support, is because they are slow enough to be able to get a good picture of what's going on on the ground. That enables pilots to provide air support even when belligerents are very close to friendlies. In this regard, it doesn't matter what weapons this aircraft carries. It can operate low enough and slow enough when needed, and that is what matters. In this role, it has no real fixed wing competitors other than AC-130. And that aircraft is actually severely vulnerable to ground fire, unlike A-10.
The rest of your points are exactly what you accuse "fanboys" of. Opinionated ignorance. A-10 like all low and slow aircraft is indeed threatened by shoulder launched guided missiles. It's also extremely resilient against such threats and more than capable to take multiple hits without suffering fatal damage, which is why it can and does operate as it does - low and slow. Its gun is an excellent tool to engage soft targets like technicals and supply trucks, conserving heavier missiles and bombs for hardened targets. It provides a unique niche just like Su-25 does. It's a faster and more resilient platform than an attack helicopter with greater payload and ability to loiter, mixed with greater survivability due to design than a gunship like AC-130. Yet it can and does operate "low and slow" when needed, able to accurately view the battlefield from close by and still have time to provide accurate fire support based on this information and not already have passed the target area like other fixed wing attack platforms.
And wings? They go because of metal fatigue as well as ground fire. The fact that they can easily take the ground fire and continue to operate needing just wing replacements every once in a while shows you just how well this particular platform is designed for its role.
They already won the game long ago. Now, they're just mopping up the tiny remains of the resistance. WeChat has long crushed all competitors in the WhatsApp's field in China.
It's not about backdoors. Chinese control communications on much greater level, such as policing content directly. Remember, there is no freedom of speech in China.
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Oh you naive summer child. Cortana is just a small part of the "log everything user does and call home with this information" package, specifically the part that always listens to the user.
Tracking key presses is another part of internal spyware systems in win10, as is tracking of applications used and usage times and so on.
You already installed win10, which comes with built in microsoft keylogger, among other monitoring implements that call home. Your worry is like worrying about getting wet from crying after your ship sank and you're floating in the ocean.
That's probably the reason for the cost. It's the best cat at being worst cat.
If you have a proper educational system, new people will pick up old systems as they enter work force and work on them in entry level jobs doing those menial things you need to do to keep them maintained under tutelage of experienced specialists.
This is actually a major problem point for Russia, and likely one of the strategic reasons US decided to pick a major fight with Russia now, rather than earlier or later. Soviet Union collapsed in early 1990s, and with it, the education system and the "university to work" chain for engineers. That means that in Russia, where men's average age is still in their late 60s, the people who have the full kit of education and experience for most of the complex engineering work from infrastructure maintenance to space programs are starting to die out en masse. All while there's well over twenty year gap in replacements that aren't there due to the collapse of the system.
So US stands a very good chance of winning this fight by simply doing nothing but acting tough at this juncture of history, as Russia's engineering excellence simply dies out of natural causes and replacements for it are not there to pick up the slack. A good external boogie man to try to unite nation behind, unlike for example China, which has no such issue and would require significant sacrifices to truly engage in a geopolitical struggle.
It's not even a joke. Baikonur is in Kazakhstan, nor Russia, but it was in USSR. Most of Russian space know how is derived straight from USSR base.
Having to rework every little bit about launch trajectories for a new launch site is a difficult thing, and someone clearly fucked up here by assuming that "it always worked before". Because it did, back in Soviet days.
Have you seen operational costs of a helicopter?
It's called "not squandering tax payer money when you can do same job for far less cost".
Low confidence is "it's politically necessary to cast shit in this direction to see if some of it will stick". Moderate is "this is kind of, sort of possible if it was us with our capabilities and our organisational structures, not sure if others are quite at our level yet".
"High confidence" is where you start thinking they may be on to something concrete rather than just assumptions. May be being the key words.
Refer to IME NSA "bug" released with Shadow Brokers leak to understand why any state that has any competition with any party headquartered in US should be looking to do just that.
The term is strictly halal, that's how. /s
Germany trusts Russia enough to push for second Nord Stream pipeline to bypass the nations that actually cause the instability in supply. Direct supply from Russia appears to be as stable as supply from Soviet Union back in the days of Warsaw Pact. That one was stable even through the worst Cold War crises.
They're switching as we speak, because they're desperate. Their environmental goals are de facto dead, and the trend of CO2 emissions going down at a decent rate ended in 2009, and the current trend is basically a flat line.
Hence the push for Nord Stream gas pipes from Russia, and build up of CCGTs.
Don't worry, google only wants your blood.
Noscript, instead of all the grandstanding is apparently simply not portable. The functionality needed in the API does not exist.
In before a bunch of knights in shining armour start quoting Noscript's author from months ago. Yeah, he said it might be possible and that it was a high priority to firefox team themselves to get it working. And even with that level of support, it still hasn't been done. Draw the relevant conclusions and understand you're being lied to.
He mentioned principles. You stated personality traits based on extremes of said principles.
It's the same thing.
1. Lossy audio compression in bluetooth..
2. Wireless lag.
3. Wireless disruptions in certain situations and areas.
4. Battery life that you have to worry about on an extra device.
Since you wanted one, pick the one that inconveniences you the most.
They do, but first various attack craft including A-10 go in to take out anything that looks like it has a calibre and elevation to actually be able to shoot at that low flying civilian transport with guns.
And that's why every time it's deployed, attack craft have to go in first to actually clear the area of anything that looks like it can elevate its gun to around 80 degrees up, and pretty much anything that looks like a missile.
Which hilariously is in some cases A-10s.
Indeed it is. And "derps" like you who swallow the LM's billion dollar PR effort to paint all the aircraft that outperform F-35 that it's "supposed" to replace as reality, in direct opposition to:
1. Reports from troops on the ground.
2. Reports from operation commanders.
3. Reports from GAO.
I hope you're paid well for your efforts, and you're not just a "derp", who's doing the job for free.
It is extremely vulnerable during day time operations to ground fire, because C-130 platform is not designed to take shots.
A-10 is.
Actually the main reason why everyone on the ground wants A-10s as support, is because they are slow enough to be able to get a good picture of what's going on on the ground. That enables pilots to provide air support even when belligerents are very close to friendlies. In this regard, it doesn't matter what weapons this aircraft carries. It can operate low enough and slow enough when needed, and that is what matters. In this role, it has no real fixed wing competitors other than AC-130. And that aircraft is actually severely vulnerable to ground fire, unlike A-10.
The rest of your points are exactly what you accuse "fanboys" of. Opinionated ignorance. A-10 like all low and slow aircraft is indeed threatened by shoulder launched guided missiles. It's also extremely resilient against such threats and more than capable to take multiple hits without suffering fatal damage, which is why it can and does operate as it does - low and slow. Its gun is an excellent tool to engage soft targets like technicals and supply trucks, conserving heavier missiles and bombs for hardened targets. It provides a unique niche just like Su-25 does. It's a faster and more resilient platform than an attack helicopter with greater payload and ability to loiter, mixed with greater survivability due to design than a gunship like AC-130. Yet it can and does operate "low and slow" when needed, able to accurately view the battlefield from close by and still have time to provide accurate fire support based on this information and not already have passed the target area like other fixed wing attack platforms.
And wings? They go because of metal fatigue as well as ground fire. The fact that they can easily take the ground fire and continue to operate needing just wing replacements every once in a while shows you just how well this particular platform is designed for its role.
That is exactly why. The export version that is being produced to deliver on existing contracts is M1A2.
That's because the current model is M1A2.
They already won the game long ago. Now, they're just mopping up the tiny remains of the resistance. WeChat has long crushed all competitors in the WhatsApp's field in China.
It's not about backdoors. Chinese control communications on much greater level, such as policing content directly. Remember, there is no freedom of speech in China.
AFAIK great firewall throttles ssh to point of uselessness, unless you're on the whitelist (i.e. a major company with special exemption).