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Submission + - North Korea conducts mass-evacuation drills as threat of war heightens (telegraph.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: The Telegraph reports, "North Korea has been conducting rare mass evacuation and black out drills throughout the country in preparation for war . . . the drills have taken place in secondary and tertiary cities and towns, particularly along the east coast, but not in the capital city, Pyongyang. The revelation comes during a time of heightening tensions . . . after a series of nuclear and missile tests, including an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of striking mainland America. . . . US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said . . . “North Korea has accelerated the threat that it poses to its neighbours and the world through its illegal and unnecessary missile and weapons programmes,” . . . “I have never heard of this type of training exercises before in North Korea, but am not surprised,” Chun In-bum, a recently retired South Korean three star lieutenant general told NK News. “They must realise how serious the situation is.”

Comment Re:Pull that cable! (Score 1) 101

>Quite often pulling the cable makes everything less secure as it breeds a culture of complacency at best and breeds a better kind of idiot at worst.
Strawman. I didn't mean neglecting security patches or just any software upgrades. Upgrade offline, if you have a bug that is confirmed fixed by a patch. But never allow a 3rd party to issue a half-decent patch which will be silently applied on your production environment. Oh, wait, "i see you are not working in the industry"

>That paper is often one of the following
That paper is often created by lazy people who fall for buzzwords.

>But I repeat myself: Oh I see now you don't actually work in the industry.
Where did you see that? You checked the wrong file. If, by industry, you meant computing and not spying.

Comment Re:Pull that cable! (Score 1) 101

Pulling the cable makes something more secure. It drastically diminishes the number of potential intruders. Having no physical connection is the best kind of firewall. Anything that doesn't need to be on the Internet shouldn't have a connection, so instead of a good firewall, you should chose the best firewall.
This 'need to be networked' thing is nice on paper, but in fact, a lot of these 'needs' are not your own (company's) needs.
If you think everything has to be on the Internet, then in your words 'you are an idiot'.

Comment Re: Political Party explains this (Score 1) 213

I agree with you. Even nuclear is better than coal, but as the things go, the US seem to have passed the advancement of nuclear power. The current reactors are worn down and old generation too. I've never heard of any nuclear incident in France, despite they use lots of nuclear power.

So, as progressive goes, restarting those old nuclear reactors isn't progressive and i'm not sure where would the US engineers got the experience of building and maintaining reactors if this was neglected in the past decades.

Comment Re: Political Party explains this (Score 4, Insightful) 213

Nope, he called the Democratic Party of the US progressive. He also said, the Chinese single Party has no competition, so it could embrace the progressive idea of man-made climate change and it actively fights against it. Partly, because their smog-ridden great cities suffered more than present day US cities. Having no progressive competition left them acting freely for the greater good of their people (in this issue).

Contrary to you, realizing that pollution/climate change is a problem and that developing green energies will also create jobs, it is indeed progressive. Much more than the Orange Clown's dumb denial. I bet, China will open factories in the US where the White Trash can build wind turbines and solar panels instead of cars AND Trump will PAY FOR IT.

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