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Comment Failure of urban planning (Score 1) 177

And lack of political will on the part of the administration. Metropolitan areas all over the world have to deal with the Urban population and its transport need. Some manage very well with public transport systems, bicycle lanes, and suitable road fees for private vehicles. Some just pile on parking fees and hope for miracle

Comment Scam scam scamception (Score 1) 28

From the country of dubious ethics and quality and billions of fake knockoffs, a product come screaming of scam (NFT). With numerous scam buzzword attached and screaming loudly with Hollywood level of marketing, it is scamception the laptop.

Comment I hope they do not repeat the story of Air India (Score 1) 18

Air India founded by TATA in the 1930s, taken over by the Indian government, becoming a loss making enterprise under them, then having to be sold but not finding any buyers in 2018, and then finally bought by TATA during in 2021. Now I know that they only got some stock in the company and are not a majority stakeholder, but I wonder if we will be reading a success story many years later, or resign ourselves to the saying history repeats itself.

Comment What a coincedence! (Score 0) 408

I uninstalled Firefox after the latest update and went back to firefox 88. Then I used policies.json to disable update nag. Then I went on reddit/firefox to complain/inform what and why I did this. I guess I am not in the minority who has been angered by the last series of changes in Firefox. I feel like they are sabotaging Firefox brand name.
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Submission + - Keeping a Cellphone system going in a war (aljazeera.net)

dogsbreath writes: An Al Jazeera article provides fascinating insight about how engineers for one of the Libyan cell providers in the rebel held East have kept the system going in the middle of a civil insurrection. Administering a now free cellular system in a war zone brings new meaning to the term BOFH as the engineers deal with bandwidth hogs and prioritize international traffic.

A technical decision to keep a copy of the user database (the HLR) in Benghazi was crucial to keeping peoples phones on line. There are reasons besides earthquakes and Tsunamis to keep your data backed up in geographically diverse locations.

The report expands and corrects the WSJ article covered on slashdot before.

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