The Russians claim they are opposing ISIL (or whatever we want to call them) but actually spend more energy attacking the other opposition to Assad. The Turks claim they are opposing ISIL but have a different agenda: Support the Ethnic Turks in the border area, fight the Kurds, Assad and any Shia muslims who get involved. ISIL are Sunni fanatics (as are Al Q), Turkey is mostly Sunni.
I'd guess that the downed plane did not enter Turkish airspace, it was definitely bombing the ethnic Turks in the border area. If Russia actually restricted their attacks to ISIL, Turkey would still be looking to attack the Kurds whenever they could.
The Russians only have one ally in the area - Assad. If they dropped him then they would lose face, other potential allies would not take them seriously. The US are allied with Saudi Arabia and have been since Eisenhower. The Saudis have done very well out of this alliance, so have - to a certain extent - the US. The problem now is that the Al Q / ISIL strain of Sunni Islam is the Wahabi strain which comes straight from the Saudi ruling house - those two organisations are practicing what the Saudis preach. Acceptance of that conflict of interest would mean the end of the US / Saudi alliance. That would leave the US out on a limb - it would take a lot to get them together with Iran and that is the main regional alternative.
If you had taken the time to actually read tfa, that point was answered. Scroll back to the bottom of the article - Securus' reply - and you will read how they try and exclude such calls. You will also read their claim that this was not a hack, it was a leak (paraphrasing).
I read recently that the conviction rate in Russia nowadays is something over 97%. No - I don't remember the url because the only lesson I drew from that was never to go there.
why? COBOL has accepted > = since at least the early 70's. COBOL got something else right as well, "=" is totally unambiguous - it takes MOVE FIELD1 TO FIELD2 to assign something.
I am in Europe and have a 50Mb line. Measuring on large downloads where the provider has the capacity - Youtube for example - I have seen over 4MB a second. No false advertising there. It is some time since I last checked the speed simply because I hardly ever download anything large enough for 4 Megabyte/Sec to make a significant difference.
Does it have to be AVG? btw, I have an older Samsung with no update-path unless I choose to root it. I have essentially blocked the stock browser and have disabled MMS.
I have actually seen something similar to this before, also involving an Air Traffic Control.
They were having some problem in handling "Large Messages", I am not sure of the exact details / circumstances - I was only peripherally involved. Anyway, the programmer wrote these to a file, then they were processed asynchronously and deleted. This minor change was tested - as usual at the site - by someone shooting an hour's production traffic through the test system and checking for unexpected aborts or other abnormalities. All was fine, the spooling file was 1% full. The patch went online. 4 days later (it was a Sunday morning and it was snowing) the file hit some limit and refused to accept new messages. At that moment things went "Keystone Cops".
All department heads were informed, except programming. Given that only one the patch had been applied in the previous week, not very helpful. Headless chickens ran around trying to find a solution.
Standard practice in this type of situation was to switch to the backup/standby system. Since ATC data is very short lived, the backup system had an empty database which would then be populated dynamically. All "Station Chiefs" had to approve this step. One refused because he could not see any problem. Finally someone managed to make him understand what the problem was, then it was "oh yes, we are seeing that as well". His was the smallest station of course.
Standard procedure was also to switch to manual control - rather than automated - and cancel short-haul flights. The railways could take up the slack. This was done.
The switch was duly made and everything was working again. It turned out that the deletion of the processed records had a bug. One hour of live data left the file 1% full. 100 hours . . . do the math. It took 5 or 10 minutes for the programmer to fix the problem, he could have done it live on the Sunday if anyone had bothered to tell him what was going on.
One of the lessons from that is also relevant here - one hour of live data left the file 1% full. I'd bet that they were testing that the new feature worked, not looking for hidden side-effects.
You are missing the point, and it was even in the article. Those false positives occasionally led to vital Windows components being quarantined, I remember a reboot loop caused this way.
There are chemicals you can apply to plastic to make it less brittle, chemicals which are banned in most of the developed world because of their carcenogenic side-effects. The computer magazine I read conducted a test of various components at the start of the year and had a very big surprise. I believe product lines were dropped.
Wait until a laptop power cable fails, at 240v. A smell of burning then the insulation burns through. I was really happy to be right there at that moment, it took a couple of seconds to turn the thing off at the wall.
The Ethernet cable I had simply fail during normal operations was harmless in comparison.
I don't even see the problem. My Browser default (under Windows 7, at work) is IE-whatever. If I want to start browsing, I fire up my browser of choice and get to it. IE does not get a look in.
Look at their losses in WW1 before complaining about their behaviour in WW2. I don't know what U.S. casualty figures have looked like in the various wars but I doubt they ever reached the 60% France suffered. Then they were supposed to do it all over again because their leaders had been asleep at the wheel. No.
The rock salt approach would imply premeditation, or how long would it take *you* to refill a cartridge with the stuff? (oh, we're out, head off to the store to get some more)
1 - Passenger-carrying fixed-wing aircraft. They have no place being near the ground except for takeoff or landing, light aircraft obviously fly much lower than jets. It ain't broke, don't fix it.
2 - Helicopters. They fly a lot lower and make a lot of noise, at least they are expensive and dangerous enough that they are not ubiquitous.
3 - Drones. They should be below the helicopters.
But what can - say - Gisele Bündchen do if some obnoxious prat has a camera-carrying drone hovering over her home? No "Lex Bündchen" here, anyone else should have the same expectation of privacy at their home. Drones have been adapted to carry firearms, how close should they be allowed to approach?
If people are telling the truth here, taking a shotgun to it was a fair response.
There appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding - on the part of Microsoft - just what a computer is for. I have a Windows 7 PC which I fire up a few times a month to perform specific tasks. Those tasks are the reason I bought the OS in the first place. I did not buy Windows 7 just so I could install Windows patches. Yes I had automatic updates turned on until a few months ago (The tasks I perform on that machine tend to be towards the end of the month, so the worst turkeys are gone by then) but some security update caused a major update-reboot-fallback loop on my dual-boot machine when I needed it in a hurry so now I only apply patches when various sources indicate they have seen no problems with them.
From what I hear of Apple, they are not much better.
I thought there were a couple of days in January when drivers had to scrape ice off their windscreens, sounds like you live somewhere between Mannheim and Freiburg.
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The Russians claim they are opposing ISIL (or whatever we want to call them) but actually spend more energy attacking the other opposition to Assad.
The Turks claim they are opposing ISIL but have a different agenda: Support the Ethnic Turks in the border area, fight the Kurds, Assad and any Shia muslims who get involved. ISIL are Sunni fanatics (as are Al Q), Turkey is mostly Sunni.
I'd guess that the downed plane did not enter Turkish airspace, it was definitely bombing the ethnic Turks in the border area.
If Russia actually restricted their attacks to ISIL, Turkey would still be looking to attack the Kurds whenever they could.
The Russians only have one ally in the area - Assad. If they dropped him then they would lose face, other potential allies would not take them seriously.
The US are allied with Saudi Arabia and have been since Eisenhower. The Saudis have done very well out of this alliance, so have - to a certain extent - the US. The problem now is that the Al Q / ISIL strain of Sunni Islam is the Wahabi strain which comes straight from the Saudi ruling house - those two organisations are practicing what the Saudis preach. Acceptance of that conflict of interest would mean the end of the US / Saudi alliance. That would leave the US out on a limb - it would take a lot to get them together with Iran and that is the main regional alternative.
You are aware that the attacks yesterday were by - mostly - Belgians? CLOSE THE BORDERS TO BELGIUM. You know it makes sense.
This is under 10 pence per capita a year.
This part of "the system" ain't broke, it is a waste of energy trying to fix it.
If you had taken the time to actually read tfa, that point was answered. Scroll back to the bottom of the article - Securus' reply - and you will read how they try and exclude such calls. You will also read their claim that this was not a hack, it was a leak (paraphrasing).
I read recently that the conviction rate in Russia nowadays is something over 97%. No - I don't remember the url because the only lesson I drew from that was never to go there.
why? COBOL has accepted > = since at least the early 70's.
COBOL got something else right as well, "=" is totally unambiguous - it takes MOVE FIELD1 TO FIELD2 to assign something.
What about Godzilla? This is worth nothing if it can't detect Godzilla.
I'm not obsessed, whatever makes you think I'm obsessed?
I miscounted/misremembered, it was more than 4 back then.
I just retested my 50Mb line, it now runs at around a third of that.
I am in Europe and have a 50Mb line. Measuring on large downloads where the provider has the capacity - Youtube for example - I have seen over 4MB a second. No false advertising there. It is some time since I last checked the speed simply because I hardly ever download anything large enough for 4 Megabyte/Sec to make a significant difference.
Does it have to be AVG?
btw, I have an older Samsung with no update-path unless I choose to root it. I have essentially blocked the stock browser and have disabled MMS.
Um, that "Advanced Civilisations Probably Don't Exist" around here includes this particular corner of the Galexy.
An Engineer's joke is no laughing matter?
whoosh.
I have actually seen something similar to this before, also involving an Air Traffic Control.
They were having some problem in handling "Large Messages", I am not sure of the exact details / circumstances - I was only peripherally involved. Anyway, the programmer wrote these to a file, then they were processed asynchronously and deleted. This minor change was tested - as usual at the site - by someone shooting an hour's production traffic through the test system and checking for unexpected aborts or other abnormalities. All was fine, the spooling file was 1% full.
The patch went online. 4 days later (it was a Sunday morning and it was snowing) the file hit some limit and refused to accept new messages. At that moment things went "Keystone Cops".
The switch was duly made and everything was working again.
It turned out that the deletion of the processed records had a bug. One hour of live data left the file 1% full. 100 hours . . . do the math. It took 5 or 10 minutes for the programmer to fix the problem, he could have done it live on the Sunday if anyone had bothered to tell him what was going on.
One of the lessons from that is also relevant here - one hour of live data left the file 1% full. I'd bet that they were testing that the new feature worked, not looking for hidden side-effects.
You are missing the point, and it was even in the article.
Those false positives occasionally led to vital Windows components being quarantined, I remember a reboot loop caused this way.
There are chemicals you can apply to plastic to make it less brittle, chemicals which are banned in most of the developed world because of their carcenogenic side-effects.
The computer magazine I read conducted a test of various components at the start of the year and had a very big surprise. I believe product lines were dropped.
Wait until a laptop power cable fails, at 240v. A smell of burning then the insulation burns through.
I was really happy to be right there at that moment, it took a couple of seconds to turn the thing off at the wall.
The Ethernet cable I had simply fail during normal operations was harmless in comparison.
I don't even see the problem.
My Browser default (under Windows 7, at work) is IE-whatever.
If I want to start browsing, I fire up my browser of choice and get to it. IE does not get a look in.
Look at their losses in WW1 before complaining about their behaviour in WW2.
I don't know what U.S. casualty figures have looked like in the various wars but I doubt they ever reached the 60% France suffered. Then they were supposed to do it all over again because their leaders had been asleep at the wheel. No.
The rock salt approach would imply premeditation, or how long would it take *you* to refill a cartridge with the stuff? (oh, we're out, head off to the store to get some more)
a large net? you are joking?
up to the level allowed to commercial aircraft
That is too high.
But what can - say - Gisele Bündchen do if some obnoxious prat has a camera-carrying drone hovering over her home? No "Lex Bündchen" here, anyone else should have the same expectation of privacy at their home.
Drones have been adapted to carry firearms, how close should they be allowed to approach?
If people are telling the truth here, taking a shotgun to it was a fair response.
If that is what you want from a PC, Ebay is probably your friend.
There appears to be a fundamental misunderstanding - on the part of Microsoft - just what a computer is for.
I have a Windows 7 PC which I fire up a few times a month to perform specific tasks. Those tasks are the reason I bought the OS in the first place. I did not buy Windows 7 just so I could install Windows patches. Yes I had automatic updates turned on until a few months ago (The tasks I perform on that machine tend to be towards the end of the month, so the worst turkeys are gone by then) but some security update caused a major update-reboot-fallback loop on my dual-boot machine when I needed it in a hurry so now I only apply patches when various sources indicate they have seen no problems with them.
From what I hear of Apple, they are not much better.
I thought there were a couple of days in January when drivers had to scrape ice off their windscreens, sounds like you live somewhere between Mannheim and Freiburg.