Re: Amazing...
Well ranted Lee, now go and have a lie down... :)
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it seems drone pilots knew exactly what they were doing when they deliberately closed Gatwick for days.
That's if you subscribe to the view that there were actually any drones involved in the Gatwick closure.
Some might be more inclined to think that it was complete ineptitude on the part of the authorities...
My only complaint about the LEGO sets today is that they seem to contain so many more bespoke pieces, which do not readily lend themselves to use in other builds. I recently saw the Bugatti Chiron, I think it was, which contained hardly any "normal" LEGO bricks.
I recall back in the day that LEGO sets actually had suggestions for alternative things to build from the same parts, is that still the case?
Windows Terminal now uses GPU-based text rendering (DirectWrite and DirectX), which means high quality fonts as well as emoji and so on if you want them.
Are we really now at the stage where users can't survive without pretty fonts and emojii?
FFS, it's a terminal window for typing commands and running scripts, not a fucking chat app!
@a_yank_lurker
I'm not American, so have no skin in this game, but I think you downplay the economic factors of outsourcing manufacturing. It isn't just to "save a few pennies" as you put it, the difference in the wages payed is such that to try and make the same products in any developed country and pay developed country's wages would mean a 30 - 40% increase in unit costs.
However, added to that, there is the cost of the regulatory burden in the US particularly, where the processes of manufacture used by the low-wage countries may not even be allowed in the US, or only by putting in place very expensive monitoring or containment processes.
Yes, of course there is an element of protecting their profits, but I'm not sure consumers would be prepared to pay for the actual cost of goods manufactured in the US, as opposed to abroad.
Nope, that's not what they've done.
They've set the default IIS site to point at the root of C:\ and then turned on file and folder browsing. So the whole drive is available over port 80 from the web server - which is how Google have managed to index it.
Which actually takes more concerted fail than your way...
We provide web hosting for a number of clients in the rail transport industry. They generally own their own domain names and just point the A records at our servers IPs.
I was on call one weekend, and at 3AM on Saturday morning I got a pager alert that one of the client sites wasn't responding. I jumped onto the server, but the site was up, just not receiving any traffic. I checked the registration details of the domain, and sure enough the domain had lapsed.
I sent an email to the client's internal IT, and the "Digital Experience Manager", and copied in my boss and various other interested parties, explaining that there was nothing we could do, and the client needed to re-register the domain, then I went back to bed.
By 10 o'clock on Saturday morning my inbox was filling up nicely with emails from various high-ups at the client, demanding that we fix the issue, and decrying our "useless" support, questioning our SLA's and all sorts of threats. I then had a phone call from the chairman of our company, asking what the hell was going on and why we didn't fix it.
So I explained to him what the problem was, and he calmed down and told me to ignore all the flack that was flying, and enjoy my weekend...
Come Monday morning, the site is still down, the domain is still unregistered, and the client is threatening legal action if we don't do something...
We have a very shouty conference call, where again, we explain that there is nothing we can do, they are responsible for registering the domain, and only they can fix the problem. It transpires that following a number of staff layoffs, there was nobody at the client who knew the registration details of the domain, or the login for the registrar account.
It took them until about Thursday to sort it out, and they reckon they lost about 18 million in online ticket sales, but get this, they STILL tried to say we were liable for those losses!
Unless I missed it, neither the article nor any commentard has mentioned that the primary reason for the grounding of aircraft is that the Traffic Collision Avoidance System (which is mandatory on all turbine powered commercial aircraft with more than 30 passengers seats) takes data from the ADS-B.
On affected aircraft using Rockwell-Collins hardware, ADS-B is no longer functional, and therefore TCAS isn't either. This is therefore a safety issue, rather than just a navigational issue, and that is why affected aircraft have been grounded.
Well we still use Pagers for On-call staff. Why? Because a pager only goes off if it's really meant to.
We used to hand out mobiles, but after a few times of staff being woken by Spam SMS or "Windows support" calls at silly-o'clock, we decided that pagers were much better.
I think most of the commentards up to now are missing the main point, it's not so much their visual interference, it's more about the fact that they are all broadcasting radio waves back in towards the planet.
For radio astronomy this is very bad, and cannot easily be countered.
Yes you can filter the frequencies used by the satellites, but the sheer strength of the signals means there will be a degradation of the ability of the radio telescope to pick up fainter signals from the cosmos.
Despite the fact there here, in these very forums, so many people posted to the effect that Assange was NOT wanted by the US, without a doubt, and was a fantasist for going into hiding in the first place, was simply being paranoid or seeking to inflate his own ego or importance.
That's because, at the time that he ran away from Sweden, there was no extradition request from the US, and they showed no sign of interest. The charges that they are now wanting him for were not raised until 2018.
Again, he claimed he ran from Sweden to England to avoid extradition by the US, but in fact Sweden was always less likely to allow that to happen than the UK was.
On balance then, he still comes across as a paranoid egotistical fantasist.
They dropped the case that was, let's face it, probably manufactured or embiggened in the first place.
No, they didn't drop it, it was put on hold until such time as Assange became available. And there's only conspiracy theory to say that the case was either manufactured or embiggened.
Just for a moment, consider that the case might be genuine. Why should Sweden not re-open it, and re-apply for extradition, so that Assange can answer to the charges?
The likelehood that he will be extradited from Sweden to the US is much less than from the UK, which is why his original excuse for running from Sweden to the UK so as to avoid extradition was less than believable.
of course the RAF was far more interested in bombing German civilians than hunting the U-boats
That's a stupid statement.
The tactics, weapons, training and aircraft required to hunt and sink U-boats are completely different to those required for the mass-bombings the RAF (and USAF) carried out.