You have to remember how Boeing got here. They took over McDonnell Douglas but the MD management philosophy (abandoning knowledge and engineering) took over Boeing.
Nationalize Boeing and they will take over the US government. Rather than fixing Boeing, this will cause the US to fail. One theory might be that the process has already begun.
Funnily enough that shows that Russian Communism was a continuation of Tsarism and is continued in Putin's Russia today. There was a standard saying "if only the Czar knew". They have a name for the political phenomenon "Good tsar, bad boyars" and you can see the same thing in the annual phone calls with Putin as well as the videos that Russian soldiers make addressing him and complaining about their commanders.
Whatever is going on in Venezuela, and I don't know what kind or of which origin the communication links there are, the capabilities of US to jam signals there does not say a word about the capabilities of Russia to jam signals anywhere else.
Nobody said that the US capabilities say anything. The Russian capabilities in Venezuela were the most advanced Russian MANPADS and S300 long range air defense systems, which together with the shorter range ones were all active there. What was missing was the S400/500 which is supposed to add ballistic missile and stealth defense to the S300, none of which applies to a raid which used huge Chinook non-stealth helicopters and walked all over the entire range of defenses.
Now as to actively tracking signals in order to jam flexible transmissions I don't know what you mean by that. One does not jam transmitters.
When you are talking about radio communications (as opposed to passive radio detection), if there is no transmission you don't need to jam. That means that, particularly to target drones under radio control you need to be able to choose to jam the channels your enemy is using whilst moving your own drones to the channels you aren't jamming. Russia has been failing at that spectacularly.
Triangulation of transmitters is of course an important topic, but that's not part of the jamming tech stack.
If you lack detection in your jamming tech stack (and I'll give you the fact you used the word Triangulation) then you perhaps need to update your stack.
Failing units are left to their own devices, and succeeding ones get the support lined up behind them, and counterattack, and break through.
And it's this belief, more than the doctrine which sees Russia losing an Afghan war worth of (dead) soldiers every month whilst they have at the same time been pushed back so far that they still have less territory in Ukraine now than they did in August 2022. A three day military operation which has taken longer than the Great Patriotic War.
I had a realization, looking at the cartoons after prompting from an article which is that they appeared to be anti-corporate but in fact they always attacked specific people and groups in the corporations, not the corporations themselves. The pointy haired boss is definitely one of the worst. The higher bosses less so. The shareholders are definitely never the target.
The cartoons get stuck up all over offices precisely because they are not an actual threat to the corporate hierarchy. Your boss, even, gets to realize that he's nowhere as bad as the PHB and so you will be grateful. Once you start looking at early Dilbert cartoons with this framing you get much less convinced by them than you were.
The only appropriate asylum for him.
the obvious point, is that the Vision Pro costs too much money and sales are not going to be sustained because a few idiots are prepared to spend that much to be able to stream a game.
VisionPro and similar products are things that would be made much more cheaply if they became mass consumer items that everybody has. The problem is that nobody has found a way to make them into that system. Demonstrating that, say, 30% of the population would be willing to buy them and regularly buy access to top end seats in sports stadiums at close to the price of sitting in those seats would be transformational to that market.
For better or worse, Russian signal jamming is the best there is.
And yet, we have seen in Ukraine that Russia continues to be struck by radio controlled systems whilst in both Israel, Iran and Venezeula we have seen that American / Israeli / NATO electronic warfare systems were able to totally disable Russian air defense, command and communication systems. Maduro had the very latest kit, delivered by plane mere months before the attack and yet ended up completely defenseless.
Whilst Russian jamming does have some advantages in power, your statement is simply wrong. Several serious problems have been identified
* Russian jamming tends to fail to actively track signals allowing enemies with more flexible transmission to avoid it
* Russian jamming lacks effective deconfliction; not only does this mean it disturbs their own signals, it also means they have to switch it off at times and so lose protection
* Russian jamming tends to rely on singular large powerful transmitters for wide areas and so is unable to adapt to local situations and frequency requirements.
Incidentally, the India / Pakistan air fight provided some suggestion that Chinese systems may be superior to Russian ones as well.
So, I was going to concentrate on specifics, but then I realized that the main answer is "in ways that none of us could even dream of". Where companies like Google aspire to be truly evil, Microsoft has been doing it for years and has more experience than any other in the field. Firstly, they can just inject issues from copilot directly into your issue tracker: it's worth reading this issue to get some taste.
If you use a Microsoft product, Microsoft will just install CoPilot into it. In fact there are already desperate petitions begging microsoft to allow Windows and Edge users to opt out.
If your users sign up for GitHub in order to contribute to your project, Microsoft can default to turning on CoPilot in their Github account.
If you turn off CoPilot for your project yourself, Microsoft controls the project interface and can give all of your users an option to turn it on again and repeatedly prompt them again and again and again and again until they eventually give in and turn CoPilot on over the top of your settings.
If you plan to have children then, as your lord and master, Microsoft can assert their "Droit du seigneur" and inject CoPilot into your children's genetic material.
The possibilities are endless and daunting!
Stop Dreaming! Big busines owns the governments these days. Nothing like that will happen.
Which is largely unfortunate.It would be really good if software was mostly developed in the open and without software companies driving the process in future. We should remember that almost none of the products that we get from the big software houses are the original ones in which the invention and new ideas were done. The "East Coast Enterprise Linux Vendor", as Rocky Linux's predecessor called them, used to do a good job of this before they were bought by the company HAL was almost named after. Important versions of Linux like Scientific and now AlmaLinux have come out of that.
If they were going to switch sides, it's surprising that they would have turned on the kill switches to all the national edge routers
The routers will be under the control of a small, ultra loyal Iranian group. If IRGC units are changing sides, that's just the moment the loyalists would use a tool like this to stop things.
Thanks, I was hoping for something more specific. I've gone searching and found something e.g.
* https://www.sciencedirect.com/...
* https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...
however the general conclusion seems to be a) regeneration definitely creates PM1 particles and the amount depends very much on the mechanism (active worse) b) Whilst the DPF is more effective against larger particles, PM1 without a DPF is worse than with.
That convinces me that Diesels are bad and should be replaced with electric, especially in cities, but not that DPF is worse than no DPF.
DPF means finer soot and more CO2 emissions in exchange for burning up the large soot particles so the diesels don't look like they are polluting.
Interesting comment. I understand and am not too worried about the extra CO2, which seems a reasonable trade off given evidence that fine particulates cause serious health problems. It should just be accounted for in MPG ratings. The extra soot sounds bad, though. Do you have any links about this?
This shows the danger of forgetting ideology and politics* in your software development and more importantly purchasing. In order to safely use an open core product like VScode or RedHat using a fork is absolutely crucial but it's not enough. You need a project like Rocky Linux or VSCodium and that project needs to be seriously supported to rip out all trace of the upstream vendor. The other forks then need to fork from that fork not the original. Someone needs to care about getting full control of the software and not just getting it to "work as quickly as we can".
And also, yes, this does still affect Microsoft customers and users of MS VSCode because the developers of many open source extensions and code that they all use will also be using forks; this means that it will be easier to attack those developers and through them users of VSCode. Microsoft's Embrace/Extend strategy is putting their own customers at risk yet again.
* yes, I'm baiting a little with my choice of words, but we keep being told by certain groups that these things aren't important. Then those groups get upset when the people that were interested in ideology and politics start taking their freedom away.
If you have another carrier, they too can create a profile.
That requires an unlocked phone. If the phone is locked it will reject the eSIM from an operator that the locking operator doesn't want to allow.
That's not true at all. I've benefitted hugely from eSIMs. I travel a lot.
Just because one thing is true, doesn't mean the other thing can't be partly true. I also benefit from the eSIM for similar reasons, but the article is clearly pointing out a serious problem with them and that problem is not really just by accident. Operators long disliked the physical SIM card for a bunch of reasons and the eSIM addresses a bunch of the things mobile operators hate; inventory, techinical support of the SIMs and so on.
I'd like to know what the solution is for people who have eSIMs. It seems to me that it becomes critical to have access to the operator's support portal using a password or other token which is completely separate from the phone so that you can renew your eSIM without needing the SIM working. That can be a big problem for portals that authenticate using the SIM, so lots more care is needed by the user.
How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? 3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
