Were that true there would have to be _some_ condemnation of Russian hackers amongst the incessant blaming of the NSA. As that's not the case and people like shotgun keep repeating the same falsehoods, something else is happening & it's not innocent.
The NSA _DID_ tell Microsoft and the other targeted software firms which vulnerabilities they were using months before the russians began releasing them (and pointing their finger at the NSA). It's the reason that patches were available on Win10 before the russian release and that Microsoft released patches for their unsupported OS's _the_day_ the russians leaked them.
Now there are better questions that need to be answered: Why are people blaming the NSA, and _ONLY_ the NSA? We know that the exploits were not a major problem until the russians released them because the NSA used the exploits for years and the public impact was nonexistent -- because the NSA was using them in targeted exploits and not as a tool of widespread untargeted economic destruction the way the russians have. We also know that the Russians have used other 0Days in the past and will certainly use different 0Days in the future that they didn't steal from the NSA. At what point will you recognise that the NSA _isn't_ the major problem here and that the big problem is with Putin's "patriotic" hackers spreading malware without _any_ thought to the consequences? Why does Putin get a free pass?
Google owes it's success in search to prioritising the best, most useful results and Google Maps already has arguably the best mapping site. We shouldn't be penalised for typing a french address in Google search by forcing Google to display before google maps the french yellow pages webpage for that address that comes up with a tiny scrollable iframe surrounded by ads, nor the mappy page that comes up with banner ads and preselected commercial addresses.
Write a letter to Putin@thekremlin.ru thanking his hackers for their thoughtful repackaging of the zero days the NSA released to Microsoft etc when they learned that the tools/0days were going to be released publicly. It was a few months before the "patriotic" hackers released the NSA tools.
The EU says that Google is abusing their dominant position in search by proposing their own tools (like maps) first.
Even though I don't use Google to search for addresses directly in the general search pages as many do, I still see more value in allowing Google to bring up their own maps rather than having to bury it behind pages of advertisement filled crap as the EU wants.
In other words you want to bury the good map sites in pages and pages of shit links like those that continue to show your results in a tiny subframe around which they placed huge ads.
I don't search for adresses on generic search sites. I search for map sites, bookmark those that have some utility without burying me in ads, use the bookmark go to the most germane map site for the search I want to perform and perform the search there.
On a more somber note it's _impossible_ to imagine a modern day Huck going off on his own on an adventure spanning multiple states with an adult that's not a close relative.
No question that Russia has excellent materiels scientists that were able to develop oxygen rich engines that usually don't RUD, but Space-X has gone in different directions where the russian expertise just isn't applicable.
Spaces-X's in-house development teams certainly don't need to be broken down and reformed around people that Russia isn't going to let go anyway -- they're already doing great & have largely outperformed _everybody_ else.
Nukes are terrible weapons but having them doesn't give Russia or NK or China or the US or the UK, or France or India or Pakistan or Japan or Israel a free pass to invade their neighbors and interfere with their elections without repercussions. Stop pretending that the consequences MUST lead to WWIII.
Does my acceptance/refusal that NK has solid fueled ICBMs change the fact that they have them? Nope. Does yours? Nope.
The only power that could "peacefully" stop NK's mad course is indeed China -- who have refused to do so for decades. I'm right there with you hoping that they do so before it is too late but reviewing their past inaction and projecting forward does not inspire hope that they will do so.
You're thinking of Kaningrad, It was never a part of Latvia but was a German enclave that was the heart of Prussia. After WWII Russia ethnically cleansed it, seeded it with Russians & annexed it. After the breakup of the Warsaw Pact & the fUSSR it is still part of Russia even if it isn't contiguous to the rest of Russia (much like Alaska). For the Poles, having a Russian enclave to the north is probably better than having a German one, even today.
I've called for steps that would punish Russia for their acts of aggression to others to get them to stop doing it. That's a far cry from calling for Russia's destabilization & saying that Russia should get a free pass on their adventurism because they are "too fragile" will not fly.
I doubt that Russia would allow the few people they have left that Space-X would want to leave. I also have my doubts on whether integrating them would be positive for Space-X, the culture is just too different, the NOFRN limitations too important and the risk that the recruits would be moles/agents too high.
I'm well aware that we bankrolled the fUSSR rocket scientists or I wouldn't have written "willing to bankroll the Russian rocket scientists a _second_ time".
Again, I have no problem with Russian pride when they're not using it to trample on the rights of others.
I just don't think that the now much smaller pool of russian rocket scientists are large and unique enough for us to want to bankroll again when NK is building it's own solid fuelled ICBMs & the Russians still don't have Angara flying regularly even though they started developing it in 1992. Space-X was founded from nothing in 2002 yet flight-proven F9s are flying, FH will launch before year end and DragonV2 is coming within 2 years. And that's without getting into the problems they've been having with Soyuz.
Agree about the effort Putin is forcing Russias into. If oil prices don't come up Putin is going to have as much success as Maduro.
Russia's recent demographics are actually getting better recently (but again, I agree globally).
Not so sure that anyone would be willing to bankroll the Russian rocket scientists a second time should they need it after another Russian overextension in a couple years. With NK building solid fuelled ICBMs today and almost certainly willing to sell to anyone willing to help them avoid sanctions, that barn door may not need closing.
Allow Putin to continue to continue to hack everyone else's elections with no consequences? Allow him to continue to seize territories from those he hasn't had the appetite to turn on yet?
I have no problem with Russian pride when they're not using it to trample on the rights of others.
Putin is 64. Whether or not he has groomed a successor or ossifies until his 90s matters little to me as long as his foreign adventurism is contained.
Never argued against the 3 letters not wanting a treaty (nor that their development/use of 0days is somehow "wrong" or that they "should" have just silently turned them all over to the makers so that they could be patched -- which they ended up doing anyway months before the exploits were revealed).
As for appearances, Putin may rue overusing his little green men & "patriots". The 3 letter agencies are not without resources as you pointed out & everyone now expects him to use them. There are many ways to use that against him.
The 3 letter agencies do more than just spy on Russia... Besides which, as I stated elsewhere, there is no point in signing a treaty with anyone who claims that his Military is just on vacation when they invaded a neighbor and that his hackers are merely unemployed patriots.
Treaties need to be verifiable and respected to be of any use. No possible good could have come of signing such a treaty with someone who claims that his military is just on vacation when they invade another country and that his hackers are just unemployed patriots.
What?!! The USG would be as likely to step in & save a mismanaged Apple as they did Yahoo.
Pride has almost nothing to do with either of the USG's recent interventions (The Auto industry & the Banks). JOBS and knock on JOBS are the reason for both and Apple doesn't have a comparable footprint in jobs disruption in the U.S.
Apples' underdog days are over true, but only the Apple haters are looking into their crystal balls and concluding that "the glory days are over". Given how poorly you understand why the USG intervened, your prognostics are certainly just as unreliable.
"Journalists" with almost nothing to say have to fill in their stories with useless information that everyone already knows to make them longer & get paid more.
All that supposedly implied in 5 words over what is clearly a joke? I think not.
The OP & you somehow invent a story of gloom and doom from a harmless joke. Michael Dell advised that Apple be split up, shut down, sold off and the value returned to the shareholders because they were clearly finished as a company. I doubt your crystal balls are any better than his was & again, it was a joke .
Any shuttle launched without a crew would have crashed and burned as the shuttles were unable to perform fully automated landings
Stop trying to make the X-35b into what it isnt: a shuttle, SLS's time of >$1billlion per launch costs is thankfully in the past and is a poor yardstick to use in any case.
It can stay in orbit for months to validate technology which cannot be tested any other way. It soft-lands so that the experiments can be controlled and validated It can be launched on any EELV compliant launcher It doesn't cost >$1B to refurbish for each launch.
I don't recall all of these existing 40 years ago in a single vehicle...
Launching a rocket OK, but taking off & landing this monstrosity in anything but sunny/no wind is likely to be verboten. As the runways they will need will be highly UNcommon (to the point of there only being the one) if there is any possibility that winds will come up between take-off and landing, it'll be a scrub.
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Were that true there would have to be _some_ condemnation of Russian hackers amongst the incessant blaming of the NSA. As that's not the case and people like shotgun keep repeating the same falsehoods, something else is happening & it's not innocent.
The NSA _DID_ tell Microsoft and the other targeted software firms which vulnerabilities they were using months before the russians began releasing them (and pointing their finger at the NSA). It's the reason that patches were available on Win10 before the russian release and that Microsoft released patches for their unsupported OS's _the_day_ the russians leaked them.
Now there are better questions that need to be answered: Why are people blaming the NSA, and _ONLY_ the NSA? We know that the exploits were not a major problem until the russians released them because the NSA used the exploits for years and the public impact was nonexistent -- because the NSA was using them in targeted exploits and not as a tool of widespread untargeted economic destruction the way the russians have. We also know that the Russians have used other 0Days in the past and will certainly use different 0Days in the future that they didn't steal from the NSA. At what point will you recognise that the NSA _isn't_ the major problem here and that the big problem is with Putin's "patriotic" hackers spreading malware without _any_ thought to the consequences? Why does Putin get a free pass?
Google owes it's success in search to prioritising the best, most useful results and Google Maps already has arguably the best mapping site. We shouldn't be penalised for typing a french address in Google search by forcing Google to display before google maps the french yellow pages webpage for that address that comes up with a tiny scrollable iframe surrounded by ads, nor the mappy page that comes up with banner ads and preselected commercial addresses.
Write a letter to Putin@thekremlin.ru thanking his hackers for their thoughtful repackaging of the zero days the NSA released to Microsoft etc when they learned that the tools/0days were going to be released publicly. It was a few months before the "patriotic" hackers released the NSA tools.
The EU says that Google is abusing their dominant position in search by proposing their own tools (like maps) first.
Even though I don't use Google to search for addresses directly in the general search pages as many do, I still see more value in allowing Google to bring up their own maps rather than having to bury it behind pages of advertisement filled crap as the EU wants.
In other words you want to bury the good map sites in pages and pages of shit links like those that continue to show your results in a tiny subframe around which they placed huge ads.
I don't search for adresses on generic search sites. I search for map sites, bookmark those that have some utility without burying me in ads, use the bookmark go to the most germane map site for the search I want to perform and perform the search there.
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On a more somber note it's _impossible_ to imagine a modern day Huck going off on his own on an adventure spanning multiple states with an adult that's not a close relative.
Go back another 50 years and the evil that was causing the days youths to spend their days uselessly indoors was "books".
No question that Russia has excellent materiels scientists that were able to develop oxygen rich engines that usually don't RUD, but Space-X has gone in different directions where the russian expertise just isn't applicable.
Spaces-X's in-house development teams certainly don't need to be broken down and reformed around people that Russia isn't going to let go anyway -- they're already doing great & have largely outperformed _everybody_ else.
Nukes are terrible weapons but having them doesn't give Russia or NK or China or the US or the UK, or France or India or Pakistan or Japan or Israel a free pass to invade their neighbors and interfere with their elections without repercussions. Stop pretending that the consequences MUST lead to WWIII.
Does my acceptance/refusal that NK has solid fueled ICBMs change the fact that they have them? Nope. Does yours? Nope.
The only power that could "peacefully" stop NK's mad course is indeed China -- who have refused to do so for decades. I'm right there with you hoping that they do so before it is too late but reviewing their past inaction and projecting forward does not inspire hope that they will do so.
You're thinking of Kaningrad, It was never a part of Latvia but was a German enclave that was the heart of Prussia. After WWII Russia ethnically cleansed it, seeded it with Russians & annexed it. After the breakup of the Warsaw Pact & the fUSSR it is still part of Russia even if it isn't contiguous to the rest of Russia (much like Alaska). For the Poles, having a Russian enclave to the north is probably better than having a German one, even today.
I've called for steps that would punish Russia for their acts of aggression to others to get them to stop doing it. That's a far cry from calling for Russia's destabilization & saying that Russia should get a free pass on their adventurism because they are "too fragile" will not fly.
I doubt that Russia would allow the few people they have left that Space-X would want to leave. I also have my doubts on whether integrating them would be positive for Space-X, the culture is just too different, the NOFRN limitations too important and the risk that the recruits would be moles/agents too high.
I'm well aware that we bankrolled the fUSSR rocket scientists or I wouldn't have written "willing to bankroll the Russian rocket scientists a _second_ time".
Again, I have no problem with Russian pride when they're not using it to trample on the rights of others.
I just don't think that the now much smaller pool of russian rocket scientists are large and unique enough for us to want to bankroll again when NK is building it's own solid fuelled ICBMs & the Russians still don't have Angara flying regularly even though they started developing it in 1992. Space-X was founded from nothing in 2002 yet flight-proven F9s are flying, FH will launch before year end and DragonV2 is coming within 2 years. And that's without getting into the problems they've been having with Soyuz.
Agree about the effort Putin is forcing Russias into. If oil prices don't come up Putin is going to have as much success as Maduro.
Russia's recent demographics are actually getting better recently (but again, I agree globally).
Not so sure that anyone would be willing to bankroll the Russian rocket scientists a second time should they need it after another Russian overextension in a couple years. With NK building solid fuelled ICBMs today and almost certainly willing to sell to anyone willing to help them avoid sanctions, that barn door may not need closing.
Allow Putin to continue to continue to hack everyone else's elections with no consequences? Allow him to continue to seize territories from those he hasn't had the appetite to turn on yet?
I have no problem with Russian pride when they're not using it to trample on the rights of others.
Putin is 64. Whether or not he has groomed a successor or ossifies until his 90s matters little to me as long as his foreign adventurism is contained.
Never argued against the 3 letters not wanting a treaty (nor that their development/use of 0days is somehow "wrong" or that they "should" have just silently turned them all over to the makers so that they could be patched -- which they ended up doing anyway months before the exploits were revealed).
As for appearances, Putin may rue overusing his little green men & "patriots". The 3 letter agencies are not without resources as you pointed out & everyone now expects him to use them. There are many ways to use that against him.
The 3 letter agencies do more than just spy on Russia... Besides which, as I stated elsewhere, there is no point in signing a treaty with anyone who claims that his Military is just on vacation when they invaded a neighbor and that his hackers are merely unemployed patriots.
Treaties need to be verifiable and respected to be of any use. No possible good could have come of signing such a treaty with someone who claims that his military is just on vacation when they invade another country and that his hackers are just unemployed patriots.
I'm sure you wouldn't want anything to happen to it...
Putin proposing a "cyber war treaty" is like the Mob proposing that they will "protect you".
What?!! The USG would be as likely to step in & save a mismanaged Apple as they did Yahoo.
Pride has almost nothing to do with either of the USG's recent interventions (The Auto industry & the Banks). JOBS and knock on JOBS are the reason for both and Apple doesn't have a comparable footprint in jobs disruption in the U.S.
Apples' underdog days are over true, but only the Apple haters are looking into their crystal balls and concluding that "the glory days are over". Given how poorly you understand why the USG intervened, your prognostics are certainly just as unreliable.
"Journalists" with almost nothing to say have to fill in their stories with useless information that everyone already knows to make them longer & get paid more.
All that supposedly implied in 5 words over what is clearly a joke? I think not.
The OP & you somehow invent a story of gloom and doom from a harmless joke. Michael Dell advised that Apple be split up, shut down, sold off and the value returned to the shareholders because they were clearly finished as a company. I doubt your crystal balls are any better than his was & again, it was a joke .
The A/UX I was using on my Mac II in 1987 was a full Unix that also had a fully functional MacOS GUI.
But it really isn't; it's just a harmless joke that even Bill Gates would laugh at.
Any shuttle launched without a crew would have crashed and burned as the shuttles were unable to perform fully automated landings
Stop trying to make the X-35b into what it isnt: a shuttle, SLS's time of >$1billlion per launch costs is thankfully in the past and is a poor yardstick to use in any case.
It can stay in orbit for months to validate technology which cannot be tested any other way.
It soft-lands so that the experiments can be controlled and validated
It can be launched on any EELV compliant launcher
It doesn't cost >$1B to refurbish for each launch.
I don't recall all of these existing 40 years ago in a single vehicle...
Launching a rocket OK, but taking off & landing this monstrosity in anything but sunny/no wind is likely to be verboten. As the runways they will need will be highly UNcommon (to the point of there only being the one) if there is any possibility that winds will come up between take-off and landing, it'll be a scrub.