Or maybe 2billion is what the thing actually has, but in order to get it to work they had to abandon a significant portion even if they still exist on the chip. It wouldn't be the first time unused banks of memory were left on chip but simply abandoned.
This also isn't the first time that they've shot down a drone. I imagine that they make a big deal about this in part because they can't do much about U-2 overflights
U2? Really?
I didn'e know it was still used in potential war zones. Are they actually employed where they might be shot down? The day when the U2 was safe from even surplus Russian missiles is LONG past. http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/21983.html
Just reporting what the Muslim claims were prior to the Gulf wars. Go read some history.
It was widely claimed by Muslims that they would never make war on each other and any attack by the US would build solidarity. Instead the opposite happened. Sunni and Shiite were turned against each other (even though they had long history of conflict), and the entire region was manipulated into fighting each other.
The solidarity never appeared. Instead they started bombing each other's mosques.
Ask yourself: When are you ever going to read all those email again? When is *anybody* ever going to read them again.
As soon as: 1) you divorce 2) you get arrested for ANYTHING 3) They arrive with a search warrant for any reason 4) You sue or are sued 5) You run for office 6) You get hacked
Seriously, I keep VERY little historical Email. Very little. I am not so vain that I believe there is any historical significance, and have never needed to go back more than a couple months for anything.
There is 0 incentive to fly into a territory to find radar sites *before* a conflict has started.
Ah, no. False. 100% False.
Mapping radar ahead of time is very cost effective. There is no point is shooting a HARM at a remote radar towed behind a truck to some god forsaken mountain side with no coms to any air defense sites, and then losing aircraft approaching their targets to Radars that were there all along but turned on at the last possible instant. You want to know ahead of time which radars you need to kill and which are decoys.
What ever fools marked the parent as insightful, Thank You: for staying in your Mom's basement and not joining the Military.
So the CIA is not assassinating the religious fanatics who are making Iran shitty in the first place, but assassinating Iran's rational, secular thinkers?
RATIONAL secular thinkers would not be arming religious fanatics with nuclear weapons.
Scientists (engaged in nuclear research) are hard to grow.
Radical religious fanatics require no education, and can be recreated virtually overnight.
One would have thought that religious fanatics willing to blow them selves up would be just about exhausted and cleaned from the gene pool by now even in a depressing society with a horrible economy. Yet such is not the case. There is no point in taking out fanatics. You can't win that way. You need to turn them against each other, and remove any means of acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
Pre Iraq, the Muslim world was united, Muslims would never attach Muslims, and attacking a Mosque was unthinkable. Now they are at each others throats and bombing each other's Mosques. ”Such subtlety . . . ” said Slartibartfast, ”one has to admire it.”.
The US would do the same thing the USSR did 50 years ago to a U2: shoot it down and complain.
Are you so sure?
Russian aircraft use to routinely overfly Alaska and penetrate as far as 100 miles from Fairbanks and the US did nothing. In recent times they F15s at Galena Forward Operations base, but even those are gone these days.
There is very little to be gleaned in drone surveillance over the US because we know better than to leave anything out side in view of satellites, and the society is so open there are easier ways.
Of course they do. But when you look at the satellite before and after images widely published on the web you see three different buildings in separate areas of the base taken out with other buildings between them left standing. The damage looks like James Bond work as opposed to an airstrike or drone strike.
Allegedly. Given the amount of evidence and the history of the regime (last time they made this claim they backed off it) I'm skeptical. It wouldn't really surprise me either way. Iran was putting their equivalent of a drone into Iraq while US forces were there. Maybe they're just returning the favor.
Given this is a mid-altitude drone (50K feet) which has significant lack of stealth technology, about which Wikipedia says:
Aviation Week postulates that these design elements suggest the designers have avoided 'highly sensitive technologies' due to the near certainty of eventual operational loss inherent with a single engine design and a desire to avoid the risk of compromising leading edge technology
the shoot down is entirely plausible, and could easily be accomplished with what ever operational missiles or even manned fighter aircraft the Iranian's have in operation. An unmasked exhaust makes this drone vulnerable to heat seeker missiles.
At 6 million per copy, they are relatively cheap, and containing nothing particularly secret, it may even have been used as cover decoy for a much more expensive and more capable vehicle on a concurrent mission.
Maybe it's because society ends up paying for your care after you've drunk your self into oblivion.
And don't pretend it would be fine with you if government left you there to freeze to death where you fell. You'd be the first in line to bitch about the rotting corpses.
All modern distros install KDE or Gnome in such a way that there are multiple desktops by default. Even XFCE4 installs that way. Complete with a pager at the bottom.
Now it is up to you to provide evidence that the majority of users disable this feature.
That might be so, but it doesn't change the fact that it's only Android devices where it's enabled by default.
That's probably because the carriers are not able to enable it in iOS. So Apple - the only manufacturer of iOS devices - doesn't want it enabled in their phone, and the carriers are not able to do this. Android is more open, so either the phone manufacturers like Samsung and HTC can install it, or the carriers. So it's true, but it's only true because of the open nature of Android.
Hate to break it to you, but Apple has their own stuff built into the systems. But because its closed source its harder to detect, and because it all goes back directly to Apple, embedded in all the other apple traffic, its much harder to spot.
Alcohol prohibition was never about money. It was about the moral uptight getting their way.
Perhaps, but it did serve a purpose.
Ken Burns recent documentary on Prohibition, and the reasons for the movement that eventually got the amendment passed.
The amount of Alcohol consumed in the US was utterly staggering prior to prohibition.
By 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year – three times as much as we drink today
Public drunkenness was rampant. We can't comprehend the amount of alcohol that flowed in that era, because people simply don't believe you can drink that much and get anything done, which, of course, was precisely the problem.
There was very little medical science and even less education available at that time to control this epidemic, and moral indignation was just about the only tool available. After the civil war, things got much worse, and the anti slavery movement turned its sights on alcohol.
More dead folks. You don't just confiscate things from these people without bad things happening to you.
You gotta get the drug cartels first. THEN their equipment.
You do if you are the Military.
For many years, the Mexican Navy was the only trustworthy service in the country. Lately some of the generals in the Mexican Army have been getting sick of what is happening to their country.
That's because their obscene profit is protected by the government.
Exactly. You can't put up such a system on this scale without the acquiescence of the powers that be.
Even posing as TelMex workers, someone had to know what was going on, and that there was spectrum being used that wasn't supposed to be there. And phones had to have been confiscated from the few arrested cartel members over the years.
I suspect the cartel was being protected by some corrupt officials, or this network had already been compromised by the Mexican Army and the cartel decided it had outlived its usefulness.
The Zetas, feature 31 ex-soldiers once part of an elite division of the Mexican army
31 guys out of how many thousands in the Mexican Army (who routinely train with the US), decide to get into crime after leaving the army and finding no work.
How many ex-US Soldiers decide on a life of crime after exiting the Military? Are you going to jump up and claim the US Government is training people to be Bank robbers?
Even the dumbest criminals usually make it thru the 6th grade. Howbout US Schools training Murderers and car thiefs?
Seems so, but isn't. For TCP traffic, a shallow buffer that drops traffic will result in more goodput than a deep buffer. Which is the point.
Exactly.
Early Congestion notification along with ONLY a minimal amount of client side buffering is really all you need. The deep buffer just make it worse for everyone.
Oh, and And just as a Car Analogy is inappropriate to describe TCP traffic the Airplane Analogy is worse.
You couldn't avoid them if you want multiple desktops with different wall paper. The stripped out any ability to do that an foisted activities on you.
Like I said, its better now, because the bitch level got so high they made an option that "looks" like the old way, but its still using activities. You really can't avoid activities.
By "dock" I mean, some form graphical display that lists currently running programs intermingled with programs that you can lauch if you wish.
So, a mashup of popular items from the 'Start' menu and the currently running windows list. A list of two completely different things - action buttons and status buttons
See, that doesn't bother me a bit. The only thing I use that type of facility for is High Frequency items, email, browser, file manager, command shells. If one of those is ALREADY open I want the open one 99.94444% of the time, and if I want a new one, its left click.
You keep most menu items in the start-bar menu / what ever you want to call it. But the high frequency items I want handy, and If they are running already chances are I want the running one, and not another one.
It may not be to your liking, but it is very well thought out in all the implementations I've see of something like that. Why dig thru application menus? Computers are supposed to be intuitive. See icon, click Icon, get the desired result. They are not two completely different things. Its the way people work.
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Hmm, 70K feet is listed as service ceiling for U2, so if that is higher than 90K, it must be some form of new math.
Or maybe 2billion is what the thing actually has, but in order to get it to work they had to abandon a significant portion even if they still exist on the chip.
It wouldn't be the first time unused banks of memory were left on chip but simply abandoned.
Reading comprehension 101.
The post you are replying to said "Manned Aircraft".
Which is why this story is about a drone.
http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/21983.html
The S-400 would have no problem taking out a U2.
This also isn't the first time that they've shot down a drone. I imagine that they make a big deal about this in part because they can't do much about U-2 overflights
U2? Really?
I didn'e know it was still used in potential war zones.
Are they actually employed where they might be shot down?
The day when the U2 was safe from even surplus Russian missiles is LONG past. http://edition.presstv.ir/detail/21983.html
Just reporting what the Muslim claims were prior to the Gulf wars.
Go read some history.
It was widely claimed by Muslims that they would never make war on each other and any attack by the US would build solidarity.
Instead the opposite happened. Sunni and Shiite were turned against each other (even though they had long history of conflict), and the entire region was manipulated into fighting each other.
The solidarity never appeared. Instead they started bombing each other's mosques.
DOH, forgot the word "Stationed".
Ask yourself: When are you ever going to read all those email again? When is *anybody* ever going to read them again.
As soon as:
1) you divorce
2) you get arrested for ANYTHING
3) They arrive with a search warrant for any reason
4) You sue or are sued
5) You run for office
6) You get hacked
Seriously, I keep VERY little historical Email. Very little.
I am not so vain that I believe there is any historical significance, and have never needed to go back more than a couple months for anything.
Just Delete it. Its safer that way.
There is 0 incentive to fly into a territory to find radar sites *before* a conflict has started.
Ah, no. False. 100% False.
Mapping radar ahead of time is very cost effective. There is no point is shooting a HARM at a remote radar towed behind a truck to some god forsaken mountain side with no coms to any air defense sites, and then losing aircraft approaching their targets to Radars that were there all along but turned on at the last possible instant. You want to know ahead of time which radars you need to kill and which are decoys.
What ever fools marked the parent as insightful, Thank You: for staying in your Mom's basement and not joining the Military.
So the CIA is not assassinating the religious fanatics who are making Iran shitty in the first place, but assassinating Iran's rational, secular thinkers?
RATIONAL secular thinkers would not be arming religious fanatics with nuclear weapons.
Scientists (engaged in nuclear research) are hard to grow.
Radical religious fanatics require no education, and can be recreated virtually overnight.
One would have thought that religious fanatics willing to blow them selves up would be just about exhausted and cleaned from the gene pool by now even in a depressing society with a horrible economy. Yet such is not the case. There is no point in taking out fanatics. You can't win that way. You need to turn them against each other, and remove any means of acquiring weapons of mass destruction.
Pre Iraq, the Muslim world was united, Muslims would never attach Muslims, and attacking a Mosque was unthinkable. Now they are at each others throats and bombing each other's Mosques. ”Such subtlety . . . ” said Slartibartfast, ”one has to admire it.”.
The US would do the same thing the USSR did 50 years ago to a U2: shoot it down and complain.
Are you so sure?
Russian aircraft use to routinely overfly Alaska and penetrate as far as 100 miles from Fairbanks and the US did nothing. In recent times they F15s at Galena Forward Operations base, but even those are gone these days.
There is very little to be gleaned in drone surveillance over the US because we know better than to leave anything out side in view of satellites, and the society is so open there are easier ways.
Iran claimed it was an accident...
Of course they do. But when you look at the satellite before and after images widely published on the web you see three different buildings in separate areas of the base taken out with other buildings between them left standing. The damage looks like James Bond work as opposed to an airstrike or drone strike.
.
Allegedly. Given the amount of evidence and the history of the regime (last time they made this claim they backed off it) I'm skeptical. It wouldn't really surprise me either way. Iran was putting their equivalent of a drone into Iraq while US forces were there. Maybe they're just returning the favor.
Given this is a mid-altitude drone (50K feet) which has significant lack of stealth technology, about which Wikipedia says:
Aviation Week postulates that these design elements suggest the designers have avoided 'highly sensitive technologies' due to the near certainty of eventual operational loss inherent with a single engine design and a desire to avoid the risk of compromising leading edge technology
the shoot down is entirely plausible, and could easily be accomplished with what ever operational missiles or even manned fighter aircraft the Iranian's have in operation. An unmasked exhaust makes this drone vulnerable to heat seeker missiles.
At 6 million per copy, they are relatively cheap, and containing nothing particularly secret, it may even have been used as cover decoy for a much more expensive and more capable vehicle on a concurrent mission.
Maybe it's because society ends up paying for your care after you've drunk your self into oblivion.
And don't pretend it would be fine with you if government left you there to freeze to death where you fell. You'd be the first in line to bitch about the rotting corpses.
I did provide evidence.
All modern distros install KDE or Gnome in such a way that there are multiple desktops by default.
Even XFCE4 installs that way.
Complete with a pager at the bottom.
Now it is up to you to provide evidence that the majority of users disable this feature.
That might be so, but it doesn't change the fact that it's only Android devices where it's enabled by default.
That's probably because the carriers are not able to enable it in iOS. So Apple - the only manufacturer of iOS devices - doesn't want it enabled in their phone, and the carriers are not able to do this. Android is more open, so either the phone manufacturers like Samsung and HTC can install it, or the carriers. So it's true, but it's only true because of the open nature of Android.
Hate to break it to you, but Apple has their own stuff built into the systems.
But because its closed source its harder to detect, and because it all goes back directly to Apple, embedded in all the other apple traffic, its much harder to spot.
http://theweek.com/article/index/214437/is-your-iphone-spying-on-you
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/04/iphones-camera-spying
http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/your-iphone-spying-you-al-franken-questions-steve-jobs-2779484.html
And also:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45527898/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/
Alcohol prohibition was never about money. It was about the moral uptight getting their way.
Perhaps, but it did serve a purpose.
Ken Burns recent documentary on Prohibition, and the reasons for the movement that eventually got the amendment passed.
The amount of Alcohol consumed in the US was utterly staggering prior to prohibition.
By 1830, the average American over 15 years old consumed nearly seven gallons of pure alcohol a year – three times as much as we drink today
Public drunkenness was rampant. We can't comprehend the amount of alcohol that flowed in that era, because people simply don't believe you can drink that much and get anything done, which, of course, was precisely the problem.
There was very little medical science and even less education available at that time to control this epidemic, and moral indignation was just about the only tool available. After the civil war, things got much worse, and the anti slavery movement turned its sights on alcohol.
More dead folks.
You don't just confiscate things from these people without bad things happening to you.
You gotta get the drug cartels first. THEN their equipment.
You do if you are the Military.
For many years, the Mexican Navy was the only trustworthy service in the country. Lately some of the generals in the Mexican Army have been getting sick of what is happening to their country.
That's because their obscene profit is protected by the government.
Exactly.
You can't put up such a system on this scale without the acquiescence of the powers that be.
Even posing as TelMex workers, someone had to know what was going on, and that there was
spectrum being used that wasn't supposed to be there. And phones had to have been confiscated
from the few arrested cartel members over the years.
I suspect the cartel was being protected by some corrupt officials, or this network had
already been compromised by the Mexican Army and the cartel decided it had outlived
its usefulness.
Why to hyperventilate.....
The Zetas, feature 31 ex-soldiers once part of an elite division of the Mexican army
31 guys out of how many thousands in the Mexican Army (who routinely train with the US), decide to get into crime
after leaving the army and finding no work.
How many ex-US Soldiers decide on a life of crime after exiting the Military? Are you going to jump up
and claim the US Government is training people to be Bank robbers?
Even the dumbest criminals usually make it thru the 6th grade.
Howbout US Schools training Murderers and car thiefs?
I can see why you post as an AC.
Since every distro installs that way by default, I believe no evidence is needed.
You must run windows all day I'm guessing.....
Seems so, but isn't. For TCP traffic, a shallow buffer that drops traffic will result in more goodput than a deep buffer. Which is the point.
Exactly.
Early Congestion notification along with ONLY a minimal amount of client side buffering is really all you need.
The deep buffer just make it worse for everyone.
Oh, and And just as a Car Analogy is inappropriate to describe TCP traffic the Airplane Analogy is worse.
You couldn't avoid them if you want multiple desktops with different wall paper.
The stripped out any ability to do that an foisted activities on you.
Like I said, its better now, because the bitch level got so high they made an option that "looks" like the old way, but its still using activities. You really can't avoid activities.
By "dock" I mean, some form graphical display that lists currently running programs intermingled with programs that you can lauch if you wish.
So, a mashup of popular items from the 'Start' menu and the currently running windows list. A list of two completely different things - action buttons and status buttons
See, that doesn't bother me a bit. The only thing I use that type of facility for is High Frequency items, email, browser, file manager, command shells. If one of those is ALREADY open I want the open one 99.94444% of the time, and if I want a new one, its left click.
You keep most menu items in the start-bar menu / what ever you want to call it. But the high frequency items I want handy, and If they are running already chances are I want the running one, and not another one.
It may not be to your liking, but it is very well thought out in all the implementations I've see of something like that. Why dig thru application menus? Computers are supposed to be intuitive. See icon, click Icon, get the desired result. They are not two completely different things. Its the way people work.