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  1. Re:Whats experimental and secretive about it? on SpaceX Will Launch Secretive X-37B Spaceplane's Next Mission (latimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Fucking with satellites of other nations?

  2. Re:TFA slightly overblown on PCs Connected To the Internet Will Get Infected With WanaDecrypt0r In Minutes (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Pretty much this. The hysteria has been laughable. This hits the organisations with large intranets where some idiot gets infected, and functions as an initial infection source, while intranet that actually has SMB enabled to mount network disks and printers is an excellent vector. Home users overwhelmingly sitting behind their router NATs and firewalls have no exposed SMB port access for worm to propagate over.

  3. Re:Windows 10 is loaded with spyware on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Performance is irrelevant is your game crashes consistently, or fails to start on one OS and is rock stable on another. Which is the case for many games to this date when it comes to win10 vs 7 and 8.

    No matter how desperately you try to mask this.

  4. Re:Windows 10 is loaded with spyware on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Real desperation on part of MS shills. To cover stability and reliability problems, all they can do is shift discussion to performance.

  5. Re:Windows 10 is loaded with spyware on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the Next Major Update To Desktop OS (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Games run better on 7 across the board. "I have this problem, I run windows 10" is one of the most common complaints on steam, and patches are commonly openly stating that "fixed these problems on windows 10". Same games have a habit of running perfectly fine on 7 with no manifestation of win10-specific issues.

  6. Re:Yes, absolutely on Can Parents Sue If Their Kid Is Born With the 'Wrong' DNA? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm genuinely surprised it's not 100% plus criminal responsibility. They literally made the woman gave birth to someone else's child than her husband against her will.

    Frankly, that's closer to rape than cuckoldery.

  7. Or you're building things. Like huge power plants with autocad software.

    Unlike the puny wanker who only works with computers and can't do anything else.

  8. "Citation is this specific text in this specific book. Google for the exact text".

    "No citation. [self-aggrandising insult]".

    Looks like you're not so much of a captain dork as you are a captain jock. All combativeness, no comprehension ability.

  9. Source is in islamic holy text description of day of the judgement.

    You can google the exact text yourself.

  10. And allah commanded that jews are to be exterminated by muslims to the last man, woman and child during the judgement day. There is a very detailed description of how it should be done, to the point where every rock behind which jew will hide will call out to muslim that there is a jew hiding behind it, so that he could kill the jew.

    If you want to make a point this specific, consider making the entirety of the point, in context rather than cherry picking parts.

  11. Do elaborate on how they became "their lands."

  12. Re:Sigh on Microsoft Delays February Patch Tuesday Indefinitely (sans.edu) · · Score: 2

    Up until the release of 10, they have been an excellent example of how to do updates. Individually installable, commonly individually uninstallable updates with excellent documentation on what each update does. Ease of both choosing how to install, when to install, and what not to install at all.

    That is all gone now.

  13. Re:If you want NPAPI, there is Pale Moon on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    In other news, nothing new on Eastern Front.

  14. Re:If you want NPAPI, there is Pale Moon on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I imagine people would. This change basically crippled Pale Moon to the point of uselessness to people like myself who migrated to it in search of alternative to Firefox when Firefox went nuts with UI experiments and other weird BS.

    That said, to me that also demonstrated full willingness on part of PM devs to remove add-on compatibility for [reasons]. Browser is a platform for add-ons, and many of them are crucial for me. That patch basically broke several add-ons that are absolute deal breakers for me. And considering the state of forums when I came to ask for support in possibly making these add-ons work, as I did after the previous patch that also broke many add-ons (but I was able to find replacements for all crucial ones then), it demonstrated to me that developers simply did not understand the same thing that Firefox developers miss. We don't come to them for the browser. We come to them for the browser that is also the add-on platform for our favourite add-ons that make everyday browsing far more comfortable, or meet specific work flow demands. As a result, removing support for some add-ons is simply unacceptable, especially when you consider that many of the more esoteric add-ons that people like are often not updated, ever. They just work. Until browser devs decide that they will break them.

  15. But it has killed jetpack add-on support recently, well ahead of Firefox which will only do it later this year for main channel and Q2 2018 for ESR. A good chunk of critical add-ons simply no longer work on it.

    Essentially it's gone down the path of Mozilla, but decided to do it before Mozilla at some points.

  16. Re:If you want NPAPI, there is Pale Moon on Mozilla To Drop Support For All NPAPI Plugins In Firefox 52 Except Flash (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But it has killed jetpack add-on support recently, well ahead of Firefox which will only do it later this year for main channel and Q2 2018 for ESR. A good chunk of critical add-ons simply no longer work on it.

    I.e. it's gone down the path of Mozilla, but decided to do it before Mozilla at some points.

  17. Re:Other than Brother... on HP Printers Have A Pre-Programmed Failure Date For Non-HP Ink Cartridges (myce.com) · · Score: 1

    Because some trees deserve to die. They killed Harambe. Even through it's the current year.

  18. Fuchsia the devil girl on Google Working On New 'Fuchsia' OS (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Can't turn, can't climb, can't run on The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com) · · Score: 1

    To haul comparable payload in stealth mode, you're actually going to need about four or five times as many F-35s.

  20. Re: Can't turn, can't climb, can't run on The New F-35 Is So Stealthy, It's Harder To Train Pilots (airforcetimes.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    I recall reading a more detailed account, and the last one is wrong. He later admitted that he was using stock hardware. His secret was in the fact that he had very well trained AA battery teams, who followed strict discipline when it came to things like time for which fire control radar would illuminate the target and had very high morale as they were the most successful AA team in the entire nation.

    The biggest problem for Serbs was the sheer volume of strike craft and the fact that you couldn't paint anything without being quickly targeted and destroyed by the plane itself or its allies because of it. Dani's people were trained to illuminate the target only for 20 seconds at a time and then shut the radar down and rapidly relocate no matter what. That meant that HARM based counter-strikes that killed so much AA hardware were ineffective against his batteries. It also meant that his people quickly understood that they weren't being under severe threat of getting randomly killed by air fired missile, which created significant amount of morale and bravery needed to put your neck out to spot, identify, target, paint and shoot at numerous aircraft that all really hate you, want to kill you and have weapons that are specifically designed to kill you.

    That got US pilots in the area used to the fact that they were only in danger for ~17 seconds. His shoot down of F-16 later on involved him breaking his own rule and telling the fire control people to keep the radar illuminating the aircraft, pilot of which expected to just jam off the missile once more powerful radar on the ground would turn off and decided to take a HARM shot to see if he could score a kill. He didn't and plane got shot down

    I recall similar thing was done to F-117, in that it was killed in a very specific window during which it could be tracked accurately enough for missile to stand a good chance of actually hitting the aircraft. I recall that he said he used a moment when F-117 opened it's bomb bay to get a tentative radar return that this is indeed his target, and then he just directed his powerful fire control radar to illuminate the spot with as much energy as it could pump. You can be stealthy enough to prevent a weapons grade lock on from fire control radar, but when you get bombarded by a fire control radar that already knows where you are because you flashed yourself for it to low quality lock on because spotters took their time to analyze the tactics used and know where to look, missile's logic has a good chance of estimating the range correctly and detonating close enough to kill the aircraft when aircraft is as slow and unmaneveurable as F-117.

    According to the leaks, for F-35 the moment when it's "low observable" rather than "stealth" is pretty much any time it's above and ahead of ground radar. It's stealthiness is mainly in the front hemisphere of the aircraft, and rear is far less stealthy. Which means that if it runs into a well trained team like one that Dani led, it's going to have a decent chance to get killed in a similar fashion. And that's when it's in the stealth configuration, which can carry almost no payload. When carrying a proper strike package, it's about as stealthy as most aircraft around, simply because of signal returns from the payload itself.

  21. Re:engineering reality on Energy Prices Skyrocket in South Australia (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    You could be the best one on the planet, and it will do pretty much nothing on the scale needed here.

    It's not about being leaders. It's about technology not existing, and not being easy to invent.

  22. Re:This seems to explain what's going on on Password App Developer Overlooks Security Hole to Preserve Ads (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Security of ads has nothing to do with what they're being served through.

  23. Re:Someone didn't do their research on Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    NSN was always a part of Nokia as a whole. While it was co-owned by Siemens for a while, it was never separated from Nokia itself as far as corporate structure goes.

  24. Re:Someone didn't do their research on Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Nokia was formed from three divisions. Approximately 2/3 of the company was the mobile phone division, about a quarter was networks and remains was the navigation.

    Mobile phones collapsed and is now dead, with remains sold off to foxconn after the rights to the brand name came back from microsoft. Navigation business was there to help the mobile phone, and it was sold off asap. The only part that remains of nokia is the network business, which was a completely separate division within the old company with little to no synergies with the rest of the business.

    Which is why it survived.

  25. Re:Someone didn't do their research on Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    You need to urgently get out from below the rock you're living in. Nokia was gutted from top position to utter collapse, and the remains of the phone business it still had were sold to Foxconn.

    Nokia is down to being just a network company now.