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Comment Re:Was it a Russian drone? (Score 0) 56

"Ukrainian authorities said the drone was Russian"

Ukraine has good reason to attack the site, gauge response, and then blame the Russians.

There is no way for the rest of the world to know, except perhaps some intelligence agencies, and they will NOT tell.

In this scenario, the truth cannot help any of the parties involved, until you recognize that nuclear pollution from this site affects the world, and then the whole world is involved. And it's time to stop this madness in Ukraine before it escalates in a direction we should not and cannot tolerate.

Get over the right and wrong. That's past.

Comment Re: BSoD was an indicator (Score 1) 71

My point was that in an environment where random errors occur you may minimize the errors with reliable processes. But the unspoken caveat... If you have everything on one device, that becomes your point of failure. Partitioning a drive doesn't give you multiple points of physical failure. Logical points, perhaps...

Comment Re:BSoD was an indicator (Score 1) 71

Generally speaking, once you've gotten the BSoD, you're not reading logs.

And. "often it is hardware behind Microsoft's blue screen of death."

It is not well appreciated that Windows is reliant on independent vendors, manufacturers, etc. for drivers in particular. This is at once the greatest advantage (Microsoft can 'welcome' any hardware manufacturer that will bother to write drivers) and greatest vulnerability (Microsoft has to either do a LOT of work to insulate Windows from bad drivers, or suffer the consequences).

Yes, there was a time when Windows waited for sound card drivers to close up shop before shutting down. And suffer errors when sound card drivers, for example, encountered an unexpected circumstance. That's mostly over. Mostly.

Notice that Linux is beset with driver issues more than ever, of course. Those lazy or incompetent manufacturers don't save their worst work for Windows ya know.

Comment Re:Why was he given access to such info? (Score 1) 71

If you believe that russian sources are reliable you also believe that a female NASA astronaut drilled a hole in a Soyuz because she was homesick, that russian soldiers were not offically involved in seizing Crimea, that Zelensky is a Satan worshipping Nazi, that the russian AF has shot down 10 times more Ukranian jets than they have ever had in service, that many russians who crossed Putin died by being crushed from falling out of ground floor windows, that rapists and murderers were transformed into angels by surviving being used as bullet and drone sponges, etc , etc, etc...

"Proof" from untrustworthy sources isn't.

Comment Re:Standards Needed (Score 2) 122

There is a standardized protocol for garage door openers. It's called dry contacts.

Just terminals. Connect to a switch, relay, whatever. The stuff on the other side of this is yours, not theirs.

I won't buy an opener that doesn't have dry contacts. I saw the MyQ debacle and I'm not going there.

Comment Re:Why was he given access to such info? (Score 1) 71

Being a passenger in Falcon/Dragon being allowed to take pictures of export controlled parts of Falcon/Dragon. This isn't rocket science and you should be able to understand that.

Photographic memory doesn't include being able to determine the dimensions or other many other aspects of objects that pictures can nor does it imply being able to produce an accurate drawing from memory.

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