Posts by Yet Another Anonymous coward 26162 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Dec 2009
Sadly the Fairey Swordfish would fall of the DOGE 'Enola gay' filter.
Suggestions for a suitably testosterone laden name for the old stringbag?
The DJT that declared the entire US navy would be replaced by a single big beautiful bomb-magnet battleship?
That would be bigger and better and more covered in white gold paint than any other white gold elephant ever built by a crazed dictator who eventually ended up shooting himself in his own bunker
>He also claims that nobody knows how they work
Except steam catapults are rather rough on your very expensive aircraft so you need special heavier expensive naval versions.
They are slower to cycle and they struggle to launch aircraft of very different weights and can't launch light UAVs at all
They need a lot of plumbing and pipework, which needs a lot of skilled maintenance and Hegseth saw a film where all plumbers are Italian and spend all their time jumping from platforms, and he disapproves of moustaches.
Really catapults are totally unnecessary. The US navy should follow the Royal navy and return to tried and tested systems. The Fairy Swordfish has an exemplary record against enemy battleships, (2nd only to the Japanese Kate), and required little more than a headwind and a flask of tea to take off.
>But with Donald Trump in charge
I though the Fox News host was in charge of the military?
The one who insists that only manly men with no body hair can be in uniform, and they need more testosterone to make them more manly and they need to be shirtless to show off their manly tattoos and do push-ups for him to demonstrate how many they are.
>I'd guess that the Chinese could knock out equivalent chips to these older/slower Nvidia parts by the million
The Nvidia Jetson Orin is made in China, except for a small number that are made in the USA to meet 889NDAA if you need to put them in US military kit
>You're aware that Russia has air supremacy over the totality of Ukraine
Except for not being able to fly planes over it without them getting shot down.
If you are counting ballistic missiles as air superiority then SpaceX has air superiority over Russia
>Poland has effectively blocked the transit of Ukrainian agricultural products across its territory
No it hasn't. It has blocked the sale of Ukrainian (ie non-Eu) grain inside Poland. The Eu being a socialist workers paradise heavily protects its own peasant farmers.
>If you rely solely on Western propaganda outfits for your news
whois news.by
Owner:
The Operational and Analytical Center under Aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus
Must be a southern thing. Oop North the pie charts are just a picture of a single pie.
The type of pie shows you how the work is going.
From proper Balti pie (everything is great) through Pork Pie (bit worrying) to Tinned Fray Bentos dog food platter (project has gone to shit)
All through the adventures in Afghanistan (Operation Land War in Asia2 - this time it's different) the hyper-dynamic data-driven internet-connected US DoD demanded weekly reports on the action.
These were analysed at a Monday morning meeting by the top brass in the Pentagon.
Obviously they needed time to read them and weren't going to work weekends so needed the reports on the Friday before.
So their aids needed them on Thursday to print them out and distribute them
So Army HQ needed them on Wednesday to collate and classify and reformat them
So theatre command needed the reports on Tuesday to collate and classify and reformat them before sending them to Army HQ
So individual company command needed the reports on Monday to remove all the profanities and add spelling and grammer
So the actual junior offices would write up a bunch of weekly reports in advance and randomly submit one every Monday, faithfully describing what they had achieved in the upcoming week.
>Yeah. At one point we were the vendor of choice.
Rather the problem with having an empire.
You need weapons to subdue the locals, but it's considered sub-optimal to also sell your weapons to the people you are conquering. Hence they tend to buy weapons from other people, who then build up their own defense business - until they start invading people.
So you either decide to have big enough wars against everybody, so you are your own best customer - and then go bankrupt
Or maintain strict neutrality and sell weapons to both side.
Just putting the name "Delta" in a SSID would be copyright wouldn't it ?
Obviously a Delta login page with Delta logos etc that stole credentials would be very naughty (trademark and FCC) but there's only a supposition that they 'could' do this.
I suspect some twat bought a Wifi Pineapple at DEFCON and decided that they were going to be a L33T HaXOR. The sort of things we did on our first bulletin board then grew out of when we discovered Soldering Irons/C compilers/Girls (delete as appropriate)
Did they really, or did somebody announce that to the media to get publicity for a DEFCON talk ?
It seems a lot of effort when you could get a lot more people's IDs with a lot less risk by doing the same in the airport.
Just broadcast "XYZ airline first-class lounge free wifi" and everyone will connect, if they need wifi or not, just to scam something from XYZ airline
That's the only bit that's a Federal crime.
If broadcasting a WIFI SID is a crime, half the airport is blaring out "Bob's iPhone" because they don't know how to turn off hotspot.
Even "Delta Superfast wifi" might not even be a copyright violation if "Delta" isn't a registered trademark for internet services.
There are 2 different AI-enabled problems.
People who want to have code in Linux (for the fame, glory, money, girls, etc). This used to involve having several years of C experience, learning a lot about the Kernel and the moderation culture by which time you give up or decide your module to flash "Happy Birthday" in Morse on the keyboard LED once a year is probably not what the world really needs. Now you simply ask AI to write the code and submit it for you while. Multiply this by 1000s of people who have just heard about AI and Linux.
People who have found a genuine bug (whether by AI or accident) and get an AI to write a "fix" which works but touches 1000s of source files in ways nobody understands and would require Greg Kroah-Hartman to spend a year checking.
> I hate to have to say it but AI may be the solution there.
Probably true. Or require submitters to defeat an Emperor Penguin in hand-flipper combat as the ultimate CAPTCHA
Could be a good use for AI
I know not to roll my own logging library because concurrency is complicated.
So I include some massive standard logger ultimately derived from some Java lib with 20 years of crud added. Later discover it has a remote access 'feature' with a well known default password. Or it installed sendmail as a dependency
Or I ask Claude to write a simple logger with the ability to only write to a local file. It gets all the locking and singleton boilerplate correct and doesn't add a mailserver
No the radioactivity is dangerous and will have (statistically) killed 1000s, it's just compared to the millions that will suffer due to climate change and global warming it's irrelevant
The number of people killed by terrorist attacks on aircraft are much less than the number affected by their CO2 emissions. It's just one causes governments to make you take your shoes off and go through your holiday photos on your phone and the other lets government deny it and blame girls called Greta
