Hang on, I have to look at my post-it note on the side of my monitor so I can remember all the 20 character complicated passwords for each web site I visit and secure application I use. Especially since I can't remember them as well since I started changing them every six weeks.
Passwords become pointless when you can't remember them and can no longer access the site/service/program that they were put there for to protect. Passwords are pointless when you have to keep cheatsheets in order to 'remember' them (cheatsheets that can be stolen, copied, or lost; making it impossible to for access what you need and possible for others to...).
Either some other method than passwords like those time based random PIN generator fob watchama-call-its we get to log into VPNs at some companies, or we just learn to deal with it.
Yes, you need a good medical system; it provides a healthy workforce and a basic human right. Yes you need paid vacation for the same reasons. But Europe has gone way too far in that direction. It is costing the countries there far too much. So much so that any sort of economic problems bankrupts some of their economies. It also makes it less profitable to do business there since the people don't have as much money to spend since they are paying more into social programs and less into their own bank accounts. And if you are taxed too highly, there is less incentive to try harder to advance yourself since it doesn't pay off. I don't like the corporate excesses that are going on in America, but I do know they have their place in helping people earn a buck (but they have turned more into a Mr. Hyde than their former Dr. Jekyll).
But I don't think that the corporations will have the same kind of power in China nor Russia. Their governments don't suffer the competition as well. So the corporations won't have the power to dominate. Besides, their governments won't likely allow foreign corporations to have more power than their own, so the competition laws will likely end up being more fair, if there are any at all. As well, with more competition to the U.S. the more the U.S. will see that their current laws are holding them back from competing. If innovation fails to take place because of strangulating patent laws and anti-competitive behaviour, America will fail even more.
He is worse in that he advertised so heavily that he was not as bad, and would bring a government that cared about the people rather than corporations. That was his mandate. Now people are finding that he is in fact a political huckster sucking so hard on the corporate cock that he is indistinguishable from a republican corporate whore. Personally I am not surprised as I never believe hype that is pushed as hard as his campaign and supporters pushed at us. I will admit that I am disappointed.
I think the American political support of corporations will self correct however. Unfortunately it will be when the rest of the world overtakes America economically. When the U.S. finds itself dying economically because the corporate stranglehold on innovation a fair competition finally kills any pretense of the U.S. having sound business sense/thinking. Granted with 300 million people it will be a slow and painful death, but it will happen.
The thing is, it has already started. China, Brazil, Russia, and India are becoming economic powerhouses (Brazil's economy is growing like gangbusters right now, and is expected to move up a place to be the seventh largest economy in the world in 2011... China will stay at number 2). If the EU finally gets its head out of its own ass and works together, it collectively can become one of the top three or four economies. But they need to balance their budgets and stop thinking they deserve one month summer vacations and free daycare and all their welfare state mentalities. And especially stop listening to U.S. lobbyists who want the E.U. to jump off the corporate control cliff with them.
What puzzles me is that there are so many Americans that run around claiming they need guns because they can't trust the government. Meanwhile it seems like the corporations are fucking them over even harder. Mind you they are doing it by controlling the government. So maybe they have something there.
The Wikimedia Foundation isn't pissing people off? I take it you have never read much of the Wikimedia Foundation...
This implies that I said Wikimedia is not pissing people off. I don't like people putting words in my mouth whether it was done overtly or accidentally. That does piss me off. I get into enough trouble on my own thank you very much.
I never said Wikipedia never pissed anyone off. I said they never pissed me off; and asked for reasons why others who are pissed, well, why they are pissed off. It is obvious that some people are pissed off since the original post is about this subject.
And then you get insulting because of your perception that I said that Wikipedia never pisses anyone off (which as mentioned is NOT what I said). Maybe you have issues with them because you miss the point sometimes. I mean, not EVERYONE is pissed off at Wikipedia. I would believe that some people who had their articles pulled or criticized actually do deserve to have their articles pulled or criticized. And when that happens at least some of them will likely get pissed off at Wikipedia... and are still pissed off at Wikipedia. I don't know if this is you. But it isn't me. Heck maybe you have a legitimate beef... but I don't care since you are so quick to misquote me. How can I trust your judgment?
And yes if people complain that Wikipedia pulled articles unfairly, there has to be at least some percentage in which this is true. And I do agree with the people who can't understand why there is so much information available about fictional characters, and relatively little on real people (relative to the size of the articles about fictional characters).
But what I was interested in were examples of what Wikipedia does that pisses people off. And to be truthful, I've had some edits reversed and been a little miffed; but not so much to get a hate on for Wikipedia. i.e. I'm not pissed off at them. I was and am interested if there is anything really egregious that I haven't heard of. That is what this forum is partly for, learning about new things. And yes, for trolling too of course. But that is not my intent here (and is almost never my intent... almost [grin]).
but their management structure is so flawed and filled with self serving, basement dwelling admins that have an axe to grind, that it turns off many people with the means to contribute.
So there have been two posts within the first few moments of this article's posting, including yours, that says the Wikipedia organization itself is pissing people off, so that is why people don't donate. I honestly haven't heard about any such issues, so could someone list some actual examples of things that Wikipedia does that turns people off to educate those of us who aren't in the know? I have edited articles and added a couple and haven't had any real issues. So I am curious about the issues people have had.
Wrong. A layman would tell you that 1 + 1 = 2. Layman means someone who understands a subject and can even work with it to some extent, but is NOT an expert. Most if not all of us are medical laymen for example. We can apply a band aid, apply CPR, know how to take a pulse and if one is not evident that a person is dead. But we wouldn't be the one to go to, to perform a complex diagnosis or prescribe medicine or perform an operation... because we are laymen. Laymen can know enough on a subject to sound like they know what they are talking about, and drive experts crazy. Now I am waiting for real language experts to go ballistic on me. [grin]
Yeah, but this decision hurts American companies, granting special rights to foreign companies.
I don't suppose that you noticed, but the jobs market has not improved and likely won't. That is because American companies don't give a rat's ass about Americans anymore. They are starting to manufacture their goods overseas. And the more the Chinese are able to afford to buy things, the less Americans will figure in to their thinking.
Notice how restrictive Apple is on what you can install on your iPhone etc??? Where do you think it is manufactured? Not in America that is for damn sure. It is manufactured in CHINA. How long before restrictive companies like Apple start restricting not only what software you install, but whether you can sell your iPod, iTouch, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iWhatever to someone else? It isn't just Chinese or European companies you have to worry about. This is one time I am glad to be in Canada again.
When you buy a 'book' do you not also purchase the remote storage? What happens if someone at Amazon 'accidentally' remotely wipes your kindle? Or more innocently, a flaw in the software corrupts you local storage? Or the stupid device just breaks. By whatever method, there is a higher chance of you losing your local files on a kindle than the letters accidentally sliding off the page of a printed book. This is my presumption on why Amazon provides access to the 'online archive'. Except now they aren't for select books of their choosing. OK incest is nasty, but so are many subjects that are written about. This is a slippery slope. What if someone who is politically correct gets into the censor's chair at Amazon? Another avenue of open dialog will disappear for those who rely on these things. Electronic books where you cannot maintain your own archives and no one has the ability to delete the books on the device except the owner of the device is the only acceptable policy. Otherwise, people shouldn't complain. Common sense tells us that Amazon will only ever do what is in the interest of Amazon, even if it means screwing their customers... if screwing them will generate more revenue. So if you bought one of these things and don't like what Amazon does with them... shut the fuck up, it's you're own fault for buying one.
We all know it costs a shitload of money for NASA to do anything. Based on what we hear about the SpaceX product (launches costing as little as ~US$50 million), I wonder if this will help reduce costs for setting up a sat phone operation. IIRC SpaceX can launch for 1/7 or 1/8 or less the cost of a NASA satellite launch. That amounts to a huge reduction in capital cost.
I would estimate at least one shitload of sales. Offtopic: we had a big dump of snow last night... I am enjoying the sound of gunning engines and spinning tires identifying the idiots (sort of) driving by my window who were too lazy to get their snow tires on yet... and it isn't much of a hill.
Whether true or not, Amazon pretty much has to say it was something other than a DDoS that impacted their site(s). It would be bad for business to say that an attack from a bunch of hackers can impact them negatively in any serious way. They have to maintain this "strong" outward face to their clients to maintain their level of trust. Given that Amazon did suffer some sort of outage or reduced service during the time period, I'm not sure of anything other than a trusted third party investigation to understand what level of effect the DDoS 'attack' had (if any) on Amazon. I'm not saying there isn't a way, I just don't know of one. Maybe someone can suggest one.
The OP was talking about FREE AV software. Try reading in context. Free... you get what you pay for... nothing for nothing... or maybe you live in a cave and never heard that expression before. And as far as anyone paying for MacAfee or Norton/Symantec products... that says a lot about anyone who has done that in the last ten or more years... that they aren't very bright. And AVG is a piece of shit in my books too... free or paid.
You get what you pay for. And with AVG you get the same whether you pay or not. This is not the first time that AVG's updates have screwed up something with the computer, from this latest episode, to updating then dropping all protection that was supposed to be provided by the software (and its updates). I found this happening a couple times, and had to reset the software to start protecting again. The last time I bought a different AV/Firewall suite; eset. Eset works fine, and generally hasn't messed up anything... with a notable exception that it can block pretty standard local ports used in development with respect to JEE app servers (e.g. glassfish). Anyway... get something free, don't bitch if it doesn't work... and you get what you pay for.
Also, both women are associated in some way with wikileaks. Leykis 101 says a guy should NEVER fuck any woman he works with. In fact, he should avoid talking to them if possible. This is the only sure way to avoid any bullshit from them; especially important if you will be seeing them every day at work.
Football: noted... a North American Football; as both Canada and the United States both play a very, very similar version of the same game, with their own professional leagues. Interestingly in Canada and possibly the U.S. (though I don't hear it in sports broadcasts from any of the major U.S. networks), people have begun using in small part at least, the slang term 'footy' for what we call soccer. And even if people don't use the term, they know to what 'football' you refer to when you use it.:)
What this weapon will replace is the need for many mortar fire missions by 81mm mortars (and possibly the squad or platoon 60mm mortar).
Mortars are used when a very rapid response is required in order to combat ground units that are firing on relatively open friendly units from relatively defensible positions. I say again, a very rapid response. They always fire at a high trajectory so can be dropped behind walls and even an advancing mortar group can be on the target or at least adjusting on, within five minutes or less from the time the incoming fire mission request is received. If the mortars are already stationary (e.g. they are in a fire base), then they can be 'on' even faster... faster than artillery can get on target. I've heard quotes that mortars were the most dangerous weapon on the battle field in both Vietnam and WWII; accounting for more killed and wounded than other weapons.
As to what you are worried about... collateral damage i.e. civilians. Mortars are fired from up to 5km away. Each tube has a 'beaten zone' where their bombs fall, shaped like a football. For an 81mm mortar, the beaten zone can be up to 100m long by 40 or 50 metres wide. Combine that with three other mortars in a mortar group and you have a wide area of damage (hence the term 'area suppression weapon'). Don't believe what you see in the movies... 81mm mortar HE has a kill radius of 40 metres. *kill* radius.
So if a squad/section, platoon, company, or even one or two soldiers are under fire and need a fire mission to save their asses, they call for a fire mission (which will usually be mortars if they are in range). If they are in a built up area and there are civilians around, they are likely to be hit unless they are underground. If artillery receives the fire mission, the amount of damage they will cause is at least double.
So now we have this infantry carried version of a shoulder fired light automatic mortar. To me, this is a better description of what it is. Since the target is directly sighted by the person firing, it is more likely that they will be able to hit the intended target quickly and more effectively. And since the blast area is smaller, collateral damage is for a certainly going to be far, far less than calling in fire missions from kilometres distant guns firing shells with explosive power orders of magnitude more powerful than those of this new weapon.
So no, it doesn't preclude you from having civilian casualties. The only way to preclude this is to never have war. Being that we are humans, you can have high hopes of this, but this will only happen when Santa Claus delivers it. However, if I were a civilian close to the fighting, I would rather have these fired when one side is trying to suppress fire (or take out the enemy).
As for the 60mm mortar, it almost certainly will be replaced by this in many armies, but I have heard, not all. I think it is not a direct replacement and getting rid of the 60 is a bad idea... something akin to removing the automatic cannon from the design of the F4 Phantom fighters; mainly because the prevailing rational that dog fights were a thing of the past since missiles would do it all. We now know that this is ridiculous, and they put the cannons back into the planes. i.e. I think the 60 could make a come back into armies that remove them thinking this is a direct replacement. Reason being is that this weapon likely won't provide as effective a solution when you want to drop some bombs behind a building or some other application that requires an extremely high elevation/trajectory. But this new weapon will be excellent to hit enemy behind the closest wall or other similar cover.
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Hang on, I have to look at my post-it note on the side of my monitor so I can remember all the 20 character complicated passwords for each web site I visit and secure application I use. Especially since I can't remember them as well since I started changing them every six weeks.
Passwords become pointless when you can't remember them and can no longer access the site/service/program that they were put there for to protect. Passwords are pointless when you have to keep cheatsheets in order to 'remember' them (cheatsheets that can be stolen, copied, or lost; making it impossible to for access what you need and possible for others to...).
Either some other method than passwords like those time based random PIN generator fob watchama-call-its we get to log into VPNs at some companies, or we just learn to deal with it.
Yes, you need a good medical system; it provides a healthy workforce and a basic human right. Yes you need paid vacation for the same reasons. But Europe has gone way too far in that direction. It is costing the countries there far too much. So much so that any sort of economic problems bankrupts some of their economies. It also makes it less profitable to do business there since the people don't have as much money to spend since they are paying more into social programs and less into their own bank accounts. And if you are taxed too highly, there is less incentive to try harder to advance yourself since it doesn't pay off. I don't like the corporate excesses that are going on in America, but I do know they have their place in helping people earn a buck (but they have turned more into a Mr. Hyde than their former Dr. Jekyll).
But I don't think that the corporations will have the same kind of power in China nor Russia. Their governments don't suffer the competition as well. So the corporations won't have the power to dominate. Besides, their governments won't likely allow foreign corporations to have more power than their own, so the competition laws will likely end up being more fair, if there are any at all. As well, with more competition to the U.S. the more the U.S. will see that their current laws are holding them back from competing. If innovation fails to take place because of strangulating patent laws and anti-competitive behaviour, America will fail even more.
He is worse in that he advertised so heavily that he was not as bad, and would bring a government that cared about the people rather than corporations. That was his mandate. Now people are finding that he is in fact a political huckster sucking so hard on the corporate cock that he is indistinguishable from a republican corporate whore. Personally I am not surprised as I never believe hype that is pushed as hard as his campaign and supporters pushed at us. I will admit that I am disappointed.
I think the American political support of corporations will self correct however. Unfortunately it will be when the rest of the world overtakes America economically. When the U.S. finds itself dying economically because the corporate stranglehold on innovation a fair competition finally kills any pretense of the U.S. having sound business sense/thinking. Granted with 300 million people it will be a slow and painful death, but it will happen.
The thing is, it has already started. China, Brazil, Russia, and India are becoming economic powerhouses (Brazil's economy is growing like gangbusters right now, and is expected to move up a place to be the seventh largest economy in the world in 2011... China will stay at number 2). If the EU finally gets its head out of its own ass and works together, it collectively can become one of the top three or four economies. But they need to balance their budgets and stop thinking they deserve one month summer vacations and free daycare and all their welfare state mentalities. And especially stop listening to U.S. lobbyists who want the E.U. to jump off the corporate control cliff with them.
What puzzles me is that there are so many Americans that run around claiming they need guns because they can't trust the government. Meanwhile it seems like the corporations are fucking them over even harder. Mind you they are doing it by controlling the government. So maybe they have something there.
This implies that I said Wikimedia is not pissing people off. I don't like people putting words in my mouth whether it was done overtly or accidentally. That does piss me off. I get into enough trouble on my own thank you very much.
You sound like you also suffer from Asperger's Syndrome.
I think you're being a tad pedantic.
I never said Wikipedia never pissed anyone off. I said they never pissed me off; and asked for reasons why others who are pissed, well, why they are pissed off. It is obvious that some people are pissed off since the original post is about this subject.
And then you get insulting because of your perception that I said that Wikipedia never pisses anyone off (which as mentioned is NOT what I said). Maybe you have issues with them because you miss the point sometimes. I mean, not EVERYONE is pissed off at Wikipedia. I would believe that some people who had their articles pulled or criticized actually do deserve to have their articles pulled or criticized. And when that happens at least some of them will likely get pissed off at Wikipedia... and are still pissed off at Wikipedia. I don't know if this is you. But it isn't me. Heck maybe you have a legitimate beef... but I don't care since you are so quick to misquote me. How can I trust your judgment?
And yes if people complain that Wikipedia pulled articles unfairly, there has to be at least some percentage in which this is true. And I do agree with the people who can't understand why there is so much information available about fictional characters, and relatively little on real people (relative to the size of the articles about fictional characters).
But what I was interested in were examples of what Wikipedia does that pisses people off. And to be truthful, I've had some edits reversed and been a little miffed; but not so much to get a hate on for Wikipedia. i.e. I'm not pissed off at them. I was and am interested if there is anything really egregious that I haven't heard of. That is what this forum is partly for, learning about new things. And yes, for trolling too of course. But that is not my intent here (and is almost never my intent... almost [grin]).
My bank does make me answer a security question if it doesn't recognize the IP.
So there have been two posts within the first few moments of this article's posting, including yours, that says the Wikipedia organization itself is pissing people off, so that is why people don't donate. I honestly haven't heard about any such issues, so could someone list some actual examples of things that Wikipedia does that turns people off to educate those of us who aren't in the know? I have edited articles and added a couple and haven't had any real issues. So I am curious about the issues people have had.
Wrong. A layman would tell you that 1 + 1 = 2. Layman means someone who understands a subject and can even work with it to some extent, but is NOT an expert. Most if not all of us are medical laymen for example. We can apply a band aid, apply CPR, know how to take a pulse and if one is not evident that a person is dead. But we wouldn't be the one to go to, to perform a complex diagnosis or prescribe medicine or perform an operation... because we are laymen. Laymen can know enough on a subject to sound like they know what they are talking about, and drive experts crazy. Now I am waiting for real language experts to go ballistic on me. [grin]
No, no, no, no, NO. God obviously exists because of faith.
I don't suppose that you noticed, but the jobs market has not improved and likely won't. That is because American companies don't give a rat's ass about Americans anymore. They are starting to manufacture their goods overseas. And the more the Chinese are able to afford to buy things, the less Americans will figure in to their thinking.
Notice how restrictive Apple is on what you can install on your iPhone etc??? Where do you think it is manufactured? Not in America that is for damn sure. It is manufactured in CHINA. How long before restrictive companies like Apple start restricting not only what software you install, but whether you can sell your iPod, iTouch, iPad, iPhone, iMac, iWhatever to someone else? It isn't just Chinese or European companies you have to worry about. This is one time I am glad to be in Canada again.
Well she is your sister.
When you buy a 'book' do you not also purchase the remote storage? What happens if someone at Amazon 'accidentally' remotely wipes your kindle? Or more innocently, a flaw in the software corrupts you local storage? Or the stupid device just breaks. By whatever method, there is a higher chance of you losing your local files on a kindle than the letters accidentally sliding off the page of a printed book. This is my presumption on why Amazon provides access to the 'online archive'. Except now they aren't for select books of their choosing. OK incest is nasty, but so are many subjects that are written about. This is a slippery slope. What if someone who is politically correct gets into the censor's chair at Amazon? Another avenue of open dialog will disappear for those who rely on these things. Electronic books where you cannot maintain your own archives and no one has the ability to delete the books on the device except the owner of the device is the only acceptable policy. Otherwise, people shouldn't complain. Common sense tells us that Amazon will only ever do what is in the interest of Amazon, even if it means screwing their customers... if screwing them will generate more revenue. So if you bought one of these things and don't like what Amazon does with them... shut the fuck up, it's you're own fault for buying one.
We all know it costs a shitload of money for NASA to do anything. Based on what we hear about the SpaceX product (launches costing as little as ~US$50 million), I wonder if this will help reduce costs for setting up a sat phone operation. IIRC SpaceX can launch for 1/7 or 1/8 or less the cost of a NASA satellite launch. That amounts to a huge reduction in capital cost.
We didn't even have zeros... and we had to use lower case 'L's for ones.
I would estimate at least one shitload of sales. Offtopic: we had a big dump of snow last night... I am enjoying the sound of gunning engines and spinning tires identifying the idiots (sort of) driving by my window who were too lazy to get their snow tires on yet... and it isn't much of a hill.
Whether true or not, Amazon pretty much has to say it was something other than a DDoS that impacted their site(s). It would be bad for business to say that an attack from a bunch of hackers can impact them negatively in any serious way. They have to maintain this "strong" outward face to their clients to maintain their level of trust. Given that Amazon did suffer some sort of outage or reduced service during the time period, I'm not sure of anything other than a trusted third party investigation to understand what level of effect the DDoS 'attack' had (if any) on Amazon. I'm not saying there isn't a way, I just don't know of one. Maybe someone can suggest one.
The OP was talking about FREE AV software. Try reading in context. Free... you get what you pay for... nothing for nothing... or maybe you live in a cave and never heard that expression before. And as far as anyone paying for MacAfee or Norton/Symantec products... that says a lot about anyone who has done that in the last ten or more years... that they aren't very bright. And AVG is a piece of shit in my books too... free or paid.
You get what you pay for. And with AVG you get the same whether you pay or not. This is not the first time that AVG's updates have screwed up something with the computer, from this latest episode, to updating then dropping all protection that was supposed to be provided by the software (and its updates). I found this happening a couple times, and had to reset the software to start protecting again. The last time I bought a different AV/Firewall suite; eset. Eset works fine, and generally hasn't messed up anything... with a notable exception that it can block pretty standard local ports used in development with respect to JEE app servers (e.g. glassfish). Anyway... get something free, don't bitch if it doesn't work... and you get what you pay for.
Also, both women are associated in some way with wikileaks. Leykis 101 says a guy should NEVER fuck any woman he works with. In fact, he should avoid talking to them if possible. This is the only sure way to avoid any bullshit from them; especially important if you will be seeing them every day at work.
Could be, but I know the 40mm grenade launcher also has displaced the 60mm mortar (or equivalent) in some countries' armies.
Football: noted... a North American Football; as both Canada and the United States both play a very, very similar version of the same game, with their own professional leagues. Interestingly in Canada and possibly the U.S. (though I don't hear it in sports broadcasts from any of the major U.S. networks), people have begun using in small part at least, the slang term 'footy' for what we call soccer. And even if people don't use the term, they know to what 'football' you refer to when you use it. :)
What this weapon will replace is the need for many mortar fire missions by 81mm mortars (and possibly the squad or platoon 60mm mortar).
Mortars are used when a very rapid response is required in order to combat ground units that are firing on relatively open friendly units from relatively defensible positions. I say again, a very rapid response. They always fire at a high trajectory so can be dropped behind walls and even an advancing mortar group can be on the target or at least adjusting on, within five minutes or less from the time the incoming fire mission request is received. If the mortars are already stationary (e.g. they are in a fire base), then they can be 'on' even faster... faster than artillery can get on target. I've heard quotes that mortars were the most dangerous weapon on the battle field in both Vietnam and WWII; accounting for more killed and wounded than other weapons.
As to what you are worried about... collateral damage i.e. civilians. Mortars are fired from up to 5km away. Each tube has a 'beaten zone' where their bombs fall, shaped like a football. For an 81mm mortar, the beaten zone can be up to 100m long by 40 or 50 metres wide. Combine that with three other mortars in a mortar group and you have a wide area of damage (hence the term 'area suppression weapon'). Don't believe what you see in the movies... 81mm mortar HE has a kill radius of 40 metres. *kill* radius.
So if a squad/section, platoon, company, or even one or two soldiers are under fire and need a fire mission to save their asses, they call for a fire mission (which will usually be mortars if they are in range). If they are in a built up area and there are civilians around, they are likely to be hit unless they are underground. If artillery receives the fire mission, the amount of damage they will cause is at least double.
So now we have this infantry carried version of a shoulder fired light automatic mortar. To me, this is a better description of what it is. Since the target is directly sighted by the person firing, it is more likely that they will be able to hit the intended target quickly and more effectively. And since the blast area is smaller, collateral damage is for a certainly going to be far, far less than calling in fire missions from kilometres distant guns firing shells with explosive power orders of magnitude more powerful than those of this new weapon.
So no, it doesn't preclude you from having civilian casualties. The only way to preclude this is to never have war. Being that we are humans, you can have high hopes of this, but this will only happen when Santa Claus delivers it. However, if I were a civilian close to the fighting, I would rather have these fired when one side is trying to suppress fire (or take out the enemy).
As for the 60mm mortar, it almost certainly will be replaced by this in many armies, but I have heard, not all. I think it is not a direct replacement and getting rid of the 60 is a bad idea... something akin to removing the automatic cannon from the design of the F4 Phantom fighters; mainly because the prevailing rational that dog fights were a thing of the past since missiles would do it all. We now know that this is ridiculous, and they put the cannons back into the planes. i.e. I think the 60 could make a come back into armies that remove them thinking this is a direct replacement. Reason being is that this weapon likely won't provide as effective a solution when you want to drop some bombs behind a building or some other application that requires an extremely high elevation/trajectory. But this new weapon will be excellent to hit enemy behind the closest wall or other similar cover.