Posts by Zolko 1012 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2010
As for the pipeline sabotage...
I thought that the latest instructions was to say that some Ukranians did it using a sailboat, didn't you get the memo ? The "Russians blew up their own infrastructure " line has been deprecated, you should get in touch with your local correspondent for updates.
So if the 10 previous sanctions didn't work, then the 11th will be devastating to the Russian economy. Say the same people who said that if covid vaccines didn't work it was because of the unvaccinated and that we need 5th booster to finally overcome that humanity-threatening worldwide pandemic.
What about the North-Stream pipeline explosions, did the European Commission launch an independent investigation ?
You think they are dumb enough just to replicate yesterday’s technology ?
yes, that's what he thinks. That black people are too dumb to care for themselves and need the help of white people, and asian people are too dumb to invent anything remarkable that the white haven't invented before.
After successfully sanctioning our major energy and raw-material supplier, why not boycotting a major industrial supplier and good client ? And this by the famous Ursula who lost the SMS where she "negotiated " in secret billions of "vaccines " for an illness that has passed (but we still have to buy the negotiated doses for nada)
Sometimes I'm asking myself whether these people are simply dumb or completely corrupted by US interests. But in no way can I think that they really believe in what they're doing
Why doesn't the German government subsidize a German company (Infineon for example) rather than a US one ? Did they get orders from "the Big Guy" ?
After the North Stream sabotage and the German government's silence about it, Germany's vassalhood to its US overlord is becoming a real problem for the rest of Europe. Lucky for the UK to have jumped ship (so they don't have to fight over who's more submitted to their master)
Musk's fortune is largely virtual, it consists mostly of hot air highly valued by other people, also called a "speculative bubble". What Musk did was to partially exit the bubble and convert some of that virtual fortune in a real asset : a worldwide propaganda platform. The difficulty with speculative bubbles is to exit before they implode and that's what he did.
i think that's the crux of the matter: the article's author doesn't understand the difference between "value" and "price". I can very well imagine that Twitter is much more valuable for Musk now than it was 1 year ago. Those 44 000 000 000$ he paid for it were not his anyway, they weren't in his pocket, he played with other – guillible – people's money. Musk didn't loose any real money on Twitter and got a worldwide propaganda platform in exchange: seems like a good deal to me.
you have to enable third-party cookies for these sites to work
that's why I'm using 3 different browsers online, with different privacy settings. The worst offender being Chromium – in its "Ungoogled" variant though – where everything is allowed, but all history and cookies are wiped out at the end of the session ... which I only use to access some mandatory Google Docs using some fake gmail account. Real browsing is done with a real browser in strict settings. Banking is done in its own browser where nothing else is allowed.
I guess that the NSA can still go after me, but I hope I can keep the averag scum away from my computer. Icon, obviously
(2) ALL Apple phones start looking (via Bluetooth) for that tracker(3) When anyone's phone locates the tracker, the phone tells Apple Central that the tracker has been found
wait ... and what about people who don't want to be part of that network ? Does Apple and his customers automatically have the right to access your phone and its location to call Apple Central ? Said otherwise, me who doesn't have such a tracker and my GPS and Bluetooth is always off, am I part unwillingly of that network ? And If I switch GPS and Bluetooth on for other reasons, am I automatically connected to that network ?
Hubble covers some wavelengths that the JWST doesn't
yes, that's UV (below λ<400nm), and apart from Hubble there is no other telescope, JWST or Earth-based, that can observe at that wavelength. So it's Hubble or nothing in the UV. Specifically (I searched for you) it's the COS spectrograph
@lglethal :
Sorry but you're wrong ... Most of the things you listed were horribly expensive tasks
logic is not your thing, is-it ? You're admitting yourself that we can't do all the things that I listed and yet you say I'm wrong and you find excuses why it's actually good that we don't do those things anymore. Do you know the story about the fox and sour grapes ?
a fairly defenceless neighbour
you mean the one backed by the entire NATO and its military budget that is 10 times that of Russia ?
without it becoming a total farce.
Do you mean by that the latest sanctions where the EU forbids to sell toilets to Russia : https://news.yahoo.com/european-union-ban-supply-toilets-125924966.html ? A farce indeed
Yes, I could go to the Moon too, it's just that I don't want.
The US could do it now if they wanted to
How ? With what rocket, what lander, what gateway ... ? Humanity is regressing technically, and that concerns also the possibility to go to the Moon: we are not able to fly at Mach 3 anymore, we are not able to fly at Mach 2 as civilian anymore, we can't repair Hubble anymore, we can't build the 3 largest aircraft anymore ... Today, and it's also true on ElReg, "technology " means computer, and by extension online advertisement. That computers are 1/2 century old technology, and that development has halted since at least 10 years, seems to be lost on software people. Technology is now Facebook and Google, not stuff made from titanium or ceramic compound.
if 2 objects collide the overall momentum must be preserved
I think energy is preserved, not momentum. And in case of collision, some of the kinetic energy is transformed into deformation energy (of the satellite). Take the extreme case if 2 satellites collide head-on.
@Jou (Mxyzptlk) : agreed. I noted that part for example:
The scale of the Chinese cyber threat is unparalleled. They've got a bigger hacking program than every other major nation combined
In Europe we can read a variant of that:
"The scale of the US cyber military threat is unparalleled. They've got a bigger hacking program military budget than every other major nation combined "
I'd add that Biden scares me much more than Xi and Putin combined: a senile corrupt warmonger who can't ride a bike and will happily explode "allies " infrastructure during joint military exercises, and whose drugged son runs around the world leaving laptops behind makes a dangerous president for a nuclear power.
Nobody seems to have observed that the rocket reached, with the full 1st-stage, in 2 and 1/2 minutes of flight, only 38km and 2150km/h. That's less than 10% of the orbital velocity. A Soyuz, Saturn V or Ariane V do reach ~100km and 8000km/h in the same time with their 1st stage. If these numbers are true, this rocket will never go to orbit. Unless the engines were used at 1/2 thrust, which is not impossible but then it was not a real test flight.
Somehow the numbers don't add up
The WSJ quotes TSMC chairman Mark Liu as saying that some of the conditions are unacceptable, and may deter chipmakers from taking part in US efforts to bolster its domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity
to be honest, I don't understand why TSMC would build fabs in the US at all. Or anywhere outside Taiwan actually.
Because of the breathing mix, I had high narcosis from the nitrogen levels and whole body tremors from the helium
thank-you for confirming what I said. But what's your point ?
You could dive >80m on regular gas ...
no you couldn't, you just proved it yourself. A re-breather only eliminates CO2 and re-injects 02, it doesn't change the fact that N2 is toxic at those pressures. The yacht theory is technically impossible.
they first appeared on reddit first, then some 'improved' variants surfaced on telegram and twitter
I've read a lot that the documents were falsified, but if it were true it would be easy to proove: simply show the portions of the images that were altered, photoshopped. But apart from the claim that the Russian casualties cannot be as low as 17000 (as is apparently written in those documents) I haven't seen any actual images. And if there were 2 versions of the documents, the "original " and the "improved " ones, it would be even easier to prove the forgery.
Yet : nothing to see apart from some photographed charts
You could dive using rebreathers. Those are compact, allow extended depth and bottom time and commercially available.
In order to dive below 60m (some say 40m) you need special helium mixture, it can't be done with compressed air. Diving to 80m with simple compressed air is medically impossible. Which means that if you need to do it 4 times on 4 sites, you'll need huge amounts of helium tanks to refill the diver's dive tanks. Also, decompression from such depth takes very long and needs helium tanks all the way.
Also, you won't be able to do that with only 2 divers, you'd need at least 2 spare divers remaining on alert for rescue if something goes wrong.
In real-world scenario, you'd have a team of probably 6 divers in a decompression chamber for several days, staying at 80m depth pressure with helium atmosphere, and the decompression chamber would be lowered to working depth where 2 divers would exit and do the stuff, 2 were on alert for emergency, and 2 would be on observation and guidance probably with a small remote-controlled submarine. All this without being noticed by the NATO navy in the neighborhood.
group of friends hiring a yacht and scooba gear
wot ? You don't believe that you can fit helium tanks, a decompression chamber and 1.5T of military C4 explosives on board of a recreational sailing yacht ? But they had a doctor, and Biden said it's true, so it must be.
On the other hand: why is this article on El Reg at all ?
Generally I would agree, but they might face the problem that their backyard has become very crowded with many countries seeking the exit and cooperating between themselves. And having triggered the financial atomic bomb by expelling Russia from the SWIFT interbanking system, without having brought Russia to its knees by that – who is actually increasing its international commercial exchanges worldwide – has given former vassals a direction out of the US serfdom.
And I think THIS is what makes the US so furious at Russia : they didn't loose. They didn't win either, but the mere fact that they are withstanding the full power of US and NATO (EU doesn't even register) shows other countries that it's possible to stand up to the bully. And this is always a very bad omen for the bully.
An important reason for large transistor nodes are high energy particles, and that problem tends to get bigger the higher-up in the atmosphere the chip is, and the longer it has to last. So, typically military applications. Therefore, the US – tentative – embargo on small nodes for China won't have any effect on military capability. It's probably designed to keep the 5-eyes advantage in spying on everybody in the world.
I have worked for a local company in the development branch, and every year was the CEO-fest where he dispatched his wisdom. And every year we could hear the same mantra: "Despite the technical problems this product was a commercial success ". For him, problems were always technical, and success was always commercial. He didn't realize that the commercial success was because we had solved all the technical problems. Development engineers were a source of cost for him, and marketing people a source of benefit.
I left the company when I realized that.
And where do you think they should be ?
Rammstein or Langley or Pentagon. WTF would National Guard military review about the war in Ukraine ?
it's just one of the places where they reviewed information about the war.
Why, what are they going to do about it in Massachusetts ? Do you think they discuss the strategic situation about the Ukraine war in EVERY US military base ?
for said high ranked eyes to use the data
How would high ranked eyes in a National Guard airbase "use" data about the war in Ukraine ? What were they supposed to do with that ?
some ego full idiot had access to this, possibly just to be printed on paper
you mean like: "Lad, be nice and print me these top-secret documents for my strategic meeting about our war in Ukraine while I drink my coffee" ?
Yes, but the fact that this 21-year old (young) man had top-security clearance doesn't explain why he did actually have access to such top-secret documents. Are such TOP-SECRET / NOFORN documents lying around at the coffee-machine ? Was this young man participating in high-level strategic meetings ? And he even had access to such top-secret documents with a camera, for weeks. We're not talking about an opportunistic encounter, but systematically having hundreds of top-secret documents negligently lying around.
And another thing: why did an airbase in Massachusetts have printed copies of TOP-SECRET/NOFORN documents about the war in Ukraine ?
This all stinks of disinformation.
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