Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
Most, but not all, of the fixed wing water bombers are prop type. Many WWII or Korean war vintage. Yes, they can take a beating but hit a prop and all hell will break loose.
As for choppers.. they range from Huey size all the way up to CH-54 size.
Hit any aircraft in the right spot and it will bend or at least change it's flight profile and usually in a negative way.
What a clown... not the funny type, he's more the B-Movie type. I'd almost bet that if someone with a drone prevented firefighters from keeping his house or land safe, he'd be the first idiot filing a lawsuit. I hope they toss his butt in a cell and maybe a nice sized fine to go with it.
Sidenote: If you've ever been around large wildfire, the ground and air crews do a hell of a job in working to contain them and get them out. My hat is off them.
In WW!!, the arming pins weren't pulled until the bomb bay doors were opened. I have no idea about nukes. I thought the bombs dropped on Japan were armed in a similar fashion. I could be wrong. There were some B-52 crashes with live a-bombs on board and none of them blew. One did contaminate a large (for some value of large) area on the east coast.
The big fear we had where I lived wasn't bombers but the ICBM's coming in from the north. The base we lived near was supposedly high on the target list.
Very weird time back in the '50's and '60's. There were even places in Nevada that offered "resort weekends" or something like that to tourists to come and watch the nuke tests. I think my mom still has a brochure from some hotel in a town next to White Sands.
A 300 metre fatal blast radius for a bomber formation? I wonder how many bombers that would have taken out? Were they expecting the Russians to launch mass bomber raids as the Allies did in WWII? I remember hearing about the Genie when I was a kid, and not too many folks where I lived bought the idea. But then, we lived near a SAC/TAC base too....
Oh goodie.... more grist for the election mills... Let's see.. Obama will get blamed. The Dems will blame it on the Republicans in Congress, and so on, so forth... ad nauseum. Personally... I think the government ought to just cut them a check and say "oops, our lousy post office didn't deliver the bill".
I know it's an election year but is there no more space for actual discussion of important topics, preferably lightly leavened with facts?
Short answer: No.
The knob is already set firmly to "ten" - when something really bad happens how will they reach for "eleven"?
Short answer: Nuclear launch codes.
I'm believing that the only real solution to the quandary of Trump and Clinton is Gary Johnson. But then again, the real dirt won't start getting tossed until after the conventions. Then it's load, lock, and fire at each other.
Maybe the Alibaba thing was worth it... the rest, not so much. But then I'm not shareholder or director. Buy the time they sell, the company may very well be worth less than her exit package. I gotta' feel sorry for anyone who's left and not a contractor. Correction... anyone who's left and not manglement or a contractor.
After waiting more hours than I care to think about today (3 to 6 hours depending on the machine).. all the PC's with Win7 got the patches (but not the Win10 downgrade). Now it seems that IE11 is dead dog slow in opening a new tab from a link or just a new tab. I suspect it's the IE11 update since Firefox and Chrome are working fine. Maybe a ploy to make everyone want to go the Edge?
My dual boot Mint/Win7 survived this round... but Win7 is acting decidedly a bit tired.. err.. sluggish. I'll be happy when I get one more program to run in Mint and I can kiss Win7 bye-bye on my machine. The wife's desktop and laptop are next for Mint as soon as she finishes the project she's working on in a few months. My travel laptop is going full Mint next week.
As Willy Nelson said: "It's been fun but it ain't been real fun". (Looking at MS very angrily.)
I thought I had escaped the parallel universe until Team rocket SpaceX ended their CRS9 launch video by finding a dragon.
Thanks for posting that. Interesting stuff including nailing the landing.
It's Monday... I guess El Reg is a bit hungover from the weekend and running behind.
I still wonder if the "white hats" looking for problems and the publishing the exploit is still a good idea. Seems they give their companies (especially the AV's) some publicity and income since the "black hats" jump all over the published exploits.
Why feed the bad guys info? It does seem to encourage them. You wouldn't publish security holes on bank vaults would you? You'd just tell the bank or the vault maker "here's a problem". Maybe the model for the "white hats" needs to change?
Just fail... announce where one is and only those on a "special" list will find it? WTF. Stings have worked in the past but they certainly weren't announced until after it was over.
Besides, the crims are probably setting up their own fake Pokemons to catch players, if the news hype is to be believed.
In most places, the mall cops can't pack "heat". Only pepper spray, a flashlight, and a cellphone to call the real cops. They're like TSA.... eyewash for the masses to make people feel safe. The have no power to arrest or detain as they are not LEO's.
Around here, they're basically minimum wage types in a uniform. Most are retired and just supplementing their pensions and/or Social Security.
Define "appropriate steps". Did they change the way they do emails? Did they fire the poor minion who screwed up? Did some manager lose a few dollars on his/her bonus?
I find this sort of statement belongs in the same bog with "we take security very seriously".
Either way does not bode well for us in the US or the rest of the world. From a purely US standpoint, I fear for the republic with either of these two in charge and the current (or newly elected) Congress off in the wings. There really doesn't seem to be a "lesser of two evils" in this election.
Can any of the video be downloaded or is it cloud accessible only? If it can't be downloaded than it's usefulness is limited as far as using the video if a crime is committed.
Probably a dumb question, but given the way corporates are operating, I thought I'd ask.
So the question is, are they actually seeking qualified people? Or just paying lip service?
Sorry.. this smells to like low grade fertilizer from FB.
We're was I? Oh yeah.. gotta keep digging as I'm pretty sure there's a large male bovine in here someone amongst this steaming pile.....
I do fail to see where having "quotas" will work as you'll just get unqualified people to fill a slot. Been there, saw the results back in the 70's and it wasn't pretty for anyone other than the PR types and HR spreadsheet types. These kinds of reports are bound to drive a "law" on hiring quotas...
A lot of us have been saying this. Then again, a lot of us have been around the block so to speak, a few times. "Cloud" is just PR hype/speak. People believed in Zing a long time ago for photo storage... gone. Since then there's been a lot more go belly up. When will people learn? Maybe we need something Darwinish to happen to those who believe the BS about the cloud? Like maybe getting horned by a Unicorn or something.
Well.. he's "old" news and not running for office apparently. There's more stink over Trump's women and Hillary's husband at this point. Those keep popping up and dogs try (and seemingly succeed) in covering that crap up pretty fast.
If the Halls of Power in Washington could talk, we'd all be appalled at finding out they're busier than a brothel on a Saturday night. There's been a lot of scandals involving staff, pages, and random women and men. FTR, I've been pretty pissed off that they preach what they do and then act the opposite and it goes back to the beginning.
I believe it was Lazarus Long who said (and I might not be accurate on this): "Money and power is all about sex. Everything is about sex."
This surprises anyone? Really? Chrysler is on the downslope and has been for years. When they brought Iacocca back the second time, it only slowed the slide for a bit. Now that the bean counters and shareholders are in full control, it'll continue to be milked until there is nothing left. Pay researchers? Why? That costs profit.
This company should have died several decades ago.
Perhaps some our Yank commentards could share their positive feelings on Google flying the flag for the US of A in this manner?
No. Or at least nothing positive here. Frankly, I'm rather disgusted by just about every American corporate (tech or otherwise) I can think of. I question if they have looked ahead to everyone being out of a job because everything has been outsourced... who here will buy their products?
OTOH, maybe Google is planning on opening a massive tech support call center: "I'm Boob, you have virus on your phone. I am degreed in the these phones. Give me credit card and I will fix it."...
I suspect deep in the bowels of the Tupperware Corporation IT department someone sent an email to his manager to "have a look and a laugh" and the manager sent it upward. Some places have no sense of humor but do have some legal firms on retainer that need billable hours.
Meantime, the poor guy who sent the email has been slapped about for reading El Reg and not "working". But still.. if it were me, I'd be laughing my butt at off the manglement.
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