Posts by Voland's right hand

Re: Airport radar should be able to show this.

Nope, does not have the resolution and it can pick up f*ck all at low altitude. It relies 100% on transponders at that point.

What's the terminal velocity

Killing one. I remember one retarded monkey from the garrizon of a small town in the Eastern European country I lived at the time copping a 20 year term. He set the targets for his troops on a hill ridge with nothing behind and they were shooting uphill. Hit a girl in the town Square 4km away in the neck. Dead on the spot. Ak47 with 7.62 bullet.

Let's face it, the only effective and safe solution is a shotgun on another drone.

Re: Facebook's shadow profile.

How did you formulate the request?

If you asked about yourself, sure you got a No and it is "true".

If you asked about "person X" appearing on the photo from yesterday posted by Facebook luser Joe Average in the right top corner - Do not think so. They do. They do not need to perform the final identification to serve their customers. They need to supply all the relevant data about you, your family, where you kids hangout, where you cross the road, etc as well as enough data which will allow the customer to identify you themselves. Thus they can pretend that you are an "unknown" to them.

Unfortunately, the only one who can put sufficiently spiky gloves to grab the slimy eel and make it spit out the real truth about the "additional non-user related data" is a major government. Nothing less. That has not happened. Yet.

Re: Good article

Cloudflare's general counsel Doug Kramer admitted to The Register this week that his company's relationship with customers, particularly terror groups that operate behind multiple fronts and aliases, can be difficult to police.

Sure.

What is so difficult to police about a site which openly advocates murdering people including prominent European politicians while operating from a fixed well defined URL using a fixed well defined name. What is so difficult to police about a site which publishes the details of their wives, children including which school they attend to and calls for the metering out punishment to these family members.

This is the site I have in mind: https://myrotvorets.center/

Served proudly by Cloudflare. As it "serves" OUR means and is a part of OUR information campaigns, we pretend that it is an excellent example of free speech. Nothing wrong with advocating murdering the "enemy", their wives and their children you know.

Most recently it put a bounty on Gerhard Shroeder's head and published his full personal details including details of his family whereabouts. Not linking not because I do not know the page in question, but out of principle (same as I would not link to RT).

Re: all that alien schtuff...

Did Bob's developer mix up which script to invoke? This reads like it was generated by aManFromMars1, not the trumptastic libertarian post generator...

Re: in other news

I perpetually am fascinated by the notion that trying to achieve a civil discourse in 160 (now 320) characters.

Fixed that for you.

While there is a problem with civil discourse on the Internet in general, the form used by Twitter has something to do with that as well.

Re: Meanwhile Mayhem in still playing chicken with the British economy

I have a tiny smidgeon of sympathy for May - she's pretty much in an impossible situation

No sympathy whatsoever.

She should have asked the parliament "what to be negotiated" and forced a vote on the model first. Then she should have forced a vote on red lines regarding what would be the "settlement" method and the higher authority to resolve conflicts. She should have invoked article 50 only after that.

What she did instead is to deliberately remove any option of anyone deciding anything but her and ran down the clock to do so. What she is doing is manoeuvres to achieve solely her goals and ensure that nobody except her gets a say. She would love to do that directly but that misfired. Remember "Teresa May and the Conservative Party" posters? As a result she is having it "her way" by wiggling about.

Re: 'Murica never ceases...

and each hunter is therefore only permitted to shoot a strict quota of animals within a clearly defined region to maintain population and health of the forests/farms.

Except for rabbits. The one thing I have always noted when travelling through Germany is that nearly every field has a gunner's hut on the edge providing nice complete coverage.

I would have loved this to exist in the UK. Anyone objecting - try to deal with a kid who is watching her pet going away from Myxomatosis after the local farmer has used this "more humane" means of rabbit management (despite it being completely illegal under current law).

Re: Automotive enhanced ?

Nope it has not. Same as the current. The real solution for that is called wire cutters.

Current ones are Arm by the way. You will have extreme difficulty finding a car stereo with a multifunction display which is not running some sort of Android on an ARM SOC. The give-away is the "Licenses" item in the settings menu which has to exist for legal reasons. So from that perspective I do not quite get it why the article is mentioning the display in future tense. It is already there (and we hate it).

Disclaimer - I am a bit biased because I had the stupid Pioneer P.O.S. called AVIC (the one that cannot even order MP3 tracks correctly) shut down my engine on the Autobahn near Karlsruhe while driving this summer. So I am a bit biased... Just a bit... As biased as one can get when the display lights up the Christmas tree and the car loses power when you are overtaking a long line of lorries at 85mph.

Re: The democracy is corrupt even without russian propaganda

and the russians will bring about laws to regulate internet propaganda

Being discussed in their parliament today jointly with the second reading of the animal cruelty law. Sort-a prophetic combination, don't you think? Just not sure what is it that is being prophesied.

Re: Interesting

Even apart from RISC-V, the MIPS has lost out to ARM on almost every area and x86-64 on servers & workstations.

Except routers and WiFi access points. Arm has started showing up lately, but on the overall it remains MIPS territory through and through.

Re: Who cares about the "instant recognition rate"?

I wouldn't want my part of the world to resemble those.

I suspect it already does. I smell the Snowdens of the yesteryear here.

At least the press in the UK is free and able to question the government narrative, even if it means the falls of a politician, a minister or a prime minister.

Who told you they are not over there. You are thinking about RT English edition as representative +/- whatever the Daily Mail feeds us about the life over there.

I suggest learning Russian and reading their press. They rip their government a new a***hole on a daily basis. Novaya, The Bell, Dozhd, etc regularly publish stuff which would be suppressed in the UK as D-Notice material. For example the fact that Russia government lost control of its Novichok stock as far back as 1996 and it was sold to the mob was dug up by RUSSIAN investigative journalists and published there. It was suppressed here for 2 weeks before it was republished. Because it did not match the narrative.

Half of the material on the two tourists (*) was first published there and some of the more interesting articles that followed on their other travels are still suppressed here so I ended up reading them in German (ugg... toothache at the thought) and Czech (more toothache, but at least I can read that). They were republished in Russia by the way too. But not here - did not match the narrative.

As far as the narrative, narratives are pushed by both governments equally. That is done by the howling Twitterati mob today.

For example, I can bet that the "Americans drilled it" was pushed at least as equally on both sides.

Them as a part of the narrative. Us as a part of "see they are paranoid vindictive lunatics". Just as prescribed by our propaganda outline.

Both sides gently filtering things which disprove the narrative like the very early leak from the investigative commission in RKK Energia published in their press that it would take a 50cm long drill bit to make the hole while in orbit. Exercise to the reader - material has not been republished even once by any English speaking mainline press despite being available almost immediately after the incident and the next day after the "Americans drilled it" in Russian. The Russian one is here: https://www.gazeta.ru/science/news/2018/09/13/n_12028513.shtml

(*) _{The two tourists are an entirely different story. Quite interesting one too. They clearly possess X-ray vision to end up in the same location as Mr Skripal on multiple of his consultancy stints all of which were classified and visiting various European secret services. This is published quite extensively by European press which continued digging long after the UK one moved along. They however, clearly suck as hired killers as they failed to eliminate him on all of the previous occasions. Or maybe...}

Re: More to this than meets the eye

Icon: nearest thing to me holding my nose because something stinks.

Wish I could +100 the comment.

Re: TBF...

the MOD has is that in the 60s, 70s, 80s

Sure. The Warsaw pact was just a figment of my imagination while growing up. Please carry on and share what you are smoking. While smoking cool stuff is not a crime, being an antisocial twit and not sharing is.

THEN IT GOT REAL.

It never stopped being real for a single minute after WW2 ended. The location changed, the proxies changed, but the constant lukewarm war continued day and night.

It has not changed since then either. The sole difference is that the Russians have now disposed of the proxies (in most cases) and intervene directly. Same goes for the west and NATO.

Re: Another Investment Opportunity for Congress

Love it when Europeans think they have a handle on how politics work in the USA.

We do. At least some of us - those who have had enough contact with Eastern Europe and Russia.

That is the standard modus operandi all the way up to prime ministers in some of the countries so nothing new here. No I am not pointing fingers at people who properly share their [Hračky | Játékok | Играчки ¦ Игрушки] with their relatives and in-laws. Each of us knows a few.

Re: Don't forget the other fallen

What surprises me that some of the surviving Mercury 13 are going along with this. They deserve better.

Re: What do you expect?

Welcome to Trump's America,

What makes you think that other places including UK are much different?

Sure, there is some spit, polish and decorum, but frankly, just walk from the Grenfeld Tower area to the other half of the borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Re: "a lack of evidence that it works all that well"

In fact, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary.

The issue is that most people look at "success recognition rates". Everybody thinks of an AI instantly recognizing someone and making a decision. Sure the rates for that are not exactly stellar. That, however is NOT THE USE CASE.

The use case is recognize ONCE and TRACK forward (realtime) and historically (through recordings). It also involves recognition of other characteristic treats, not just face. The way you walk for example.

What is presently available is already pretty good at it and can do the job usually without a lot of operator assistance. There are also plenty of cameras in "useful places" - turnstiles, payment points, ticket/smartcard validators. Lock on. And track.

Pity, still looking for something to fill the void left Ian Banks culture novels, thanks for the info.

Neil Asher.

Re: Good for Charlemont!

I would not be so sure.

The issue with small town municipal broadband is that the political will of today is not necessarily here tomorrow.

Who will maintain it? Who will upgrade it in a few years time? And then upgrade it again in a few years more? Will the will to be Comcast-free be there in 2 elections time?

Do we like it or not, some things like this require "minimum critical mass". The days of mom and pop ISPs are long gone. So are the days of municipal broadband for towns with less than at least 100k population. 10k is just too small. It will survive in the long run only if it manages to cooperate with a few neighbours.

Re: Could have been worse ..

. as they could have been sending supplies of concentrated acid

Have you tried to see what happens if you dump a pork chop (as most easily obtainable) into concentrated acid? I have - as a student.

If it is HCl, nothing happens. If it is one of the other usual suspects, you will need an lab grade hood to deal with the fumes. I do not think the ambassador residences are usually fitted with one. Then, once the reaction completes, you will be "pleasantly surprised" that it does not dissolve and there is plenty of residue left and there is plenty of acid left too which you cannot easily get rid of.

We have been selling them plenty of other "wonderful stuff" anyway. For decades. Some of it much more "interesting" than concentrated acid.

Re: That personal touch

The type of killing, great grandpa used to make.

That depends who is grandpa. AI is not by any means the first attempt at Cold and Methodical.

I can speak for myself - Mine died in the skies above Europe fighting the ones who were on the side of the "Cold and Methodical". Prior to that he fought them over Spain too.

My wive's grandpa died on the ground when the "Cold and Methodical" decided that some "obscure Balkan untermench" with no combat experience armed with mix of surplus, leftovers and museum exhibits from both allies and axis" will be a pushover. To be more specific he was one of the ones who stopped the "Cold and Methodical" group E from that event.

Yeah, I know unpopular activities - standing your ground against Cold and Methodical in this day and age. We are now supposed to cheer the cold and methodical(*).

Our grandparents are probably spinning in their graves at 10k RPM...

So frankly, we have been here before. Trusting the business of terminating people to Cold and Methodical is something we all know. We know where it ends up. It is a lucky day that it will end up with only 40M graves mark the success of people against Cold and Methodical. So frankly, this should be human business. No "Cold and Methodical". AI or not.

_{(*) If you are wondering about the link - see the non-regulation insignia on the 3rd paratrooper first line counting right to left. Compare to the "Cold and Methodical".}

Re: California != the world

Bullshit. I learned in California.

Based on observing the Californians on Interstate 101 in torrential downpour (I know, that is second coming nowdays), I can say that you are probably an exemption. 99% of them have serious issues to recover even out of a minimal tail-wag. Not that they are alone in that. UK in the snow is an even bigger clown show.