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Comment Re:f-35, beta feature set (Score 1) 417

If Australia, Canada, Japan and South Korea got together, they could get the F-15 Silent Eagle built to the appropriate specs. It can be more stealthy than the F-35, it would be cheaper, faster, it is a proven air frame and it would meet the internal defense roles as well as the role of supporting allies. The F-15 Silent Eagle (or F15 Advanced as that might be its current name) is an more modern F-15E Strike Eagle air frame with modifications taken from the failed F-23 prototypes.

Comment Re:Just a WM (Score 1) 611

+10 insightful.

I'd like to add my FUCK YOU to the Gnome project too :)

+1 here too.

I tried out the RHEL7 RC the other day and was very disappointed to see Gnome3 being the default desktop. No XFCE, only Gnome 3 or KDE. A bit of a shame. Means I won't be using RHEL7 on any desktops like I was hoping. At least the GUI selection won't matter for console only installs - which is the majority of my EL installations...

Right now, I'm using XFCE on Fedora 20 - and its not perfect, but does what I need. Getting Bluetooth back would be handy (blueman only works with bluez4, Fedora has bluez5).

Comment Re:Not GPS (Score 1) 298

This is the backup "GPS" system in military aircraft, and what we used before GPS

Not quite... The GPS is used for calibration, then INS is the primary system. For the logic to fall back far enough to use a pure GPS position, a lot of other things have failed....

Comment Re:... really 13 years to update? (Score 2) 341

When a hammer works, you don't get a new one just because there is a new one. Upgrades cost a fortune for most businesses and upgrades nearly always break some part of the business process. Most businesses have been burned by the upgrade process in the past and when they start putting a dollar figure on the upgrade vs the cost of not doing the upgrade, it is often cheaper to not do the upgrade.

Comment Re:Lat / Long? (Score 1) 461

I can see how a constant stream of telemetry might be cost-prohibitive, but what about a squirt of data consisting of -
  - Flight Number
- Lat / Long
- Airspeed
- Groundspeed
- Altitude
- Compass heeding ...sent every five minutes? At least that would give a 'last known' location.

Congratulations - You've just described ADS-B [1] - however its MUCH more often than every 5 minutes - and more airliners already have it. In fact, look at the tracking info from flightradar24.com for the flight in question [2] - then it disappeared... Having yet another bit of tech to combat this is stupid.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Bonus: How it works - http://www.airservicesaustrali...
[2] http://theaviationist.com/wp-c...

Comment Re:Obsolete (Score 1) 164

Oddly enough, it wouldn't. You could use NAT hardware in front of old gear and everything will just keep working. Stuff that gets updated, could just use the new syntax and deal with things correctly. Stuff like core routers and switches wouldn't care. It would be fare less disruptive than trying to install ipv6.

Comment Re:Obsolete (Score 1) 164

Early ip resolver libraries would sometimes parse octal ip addresses with commas as in your example of /.'s ip address as 330,42,265,55. Many of those would also deal with a 0xd822b52d or sometimes without the 0x. Many systems will let you do something like "ifconfig en0 0xd822b52d/32 alias"

Some of the early proposals to expand the IPv4 address space was to allow use more of the bits from the ports source and destination addresses so you could do things like "ping 8.8.8.888" or "ifconfig en0 8.8.8.8/32/13/2 dstbits 4 srcbits 8"

Comment Re:too late, Microsoft (Score 1) 172

I moved to KDE on Debian and haven't looked back.

You are hemorrhaging users to phones, tablets, OSX, gamers to game consoles, power users to Linux.... pretty much everything that isn't Windows. We told you people were only using Windows because there was no choice, but you failed to listen and use the chance to improve your technology. Now, it's too late. There are other choices, and people are moving to them. To quote B5:

"The avalanche has begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

In a way, I agree - but I can't say that I like KDE or Gnome 3. I ended up settling on XFCE using Fedora 20. It boots fast, everything works as it should (except a PCI DVB card - but I already had a spare USB one that works fine).

Thunderbird for email, Chrome for web browsing, terminal, Steam for my TF2 fix, and it all 'just works' - especially now the open source radeon driver does dynamic power management correctly.

I'm just in the middle of purchasing a new laptop - and the first thing that will happen is it be formatted and Fedora 20 get installed. I've also moved away from Google for contacts / calendar sync and now using OwnCloud (private stuff ftw!), and Dropbox is also replaced by OwnCloud. I'm finally getting to have a say in my OS and data security!

Comment Re:Tomorrow's News (Score 2, Insightful) 324

Security expert Bruce Schneier was found dead in his home. The cause of death is unknown but police are investigating possible foul play.

Thats too much work... They just need to pay some young girl a few grand to say she was raped by him. Oldest trick in the book....

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