In other news today...
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Further, there is some suggestion that all of this is a political stunt for the sitting president trying to look hard on terrorism during the election season. If that really is the case, India would have no real incentive to escalate to a full on conventional war and risk that escalating even further into a nuclear one.
That strikes me as a definite half plus ungood situation.
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@Dragoon
I dunno, based on the documentary Wag the Dog, it's definitely possibly likely that India could be chasing an actual war
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Yes, it does. But in the context of two countries who have had at least a contention standoff for 70+ years, multitudes of conflicts and several declared wars during that time. I would venture that the risk of a nuclear escalation is rather low.
Further, there is some suggestion that all of this is a political stunt for the sitting president trying to look hard on terrorism during the election season. If that really is the case, India would have no real incentive to escalate to a full on conventional war and risk that escalating even further into a nuclear one.
"Speaking at a foreign ministers meeting between Russia, India, and China in Wuzhen, China, on Wednesday, Swaraj said Tuesday's strike was "not a military operation" but "a preemptive strike against the terrorist infrastructure of Jaish-e-Mohammed." "
Everyone knows that a preemptive strike is not a military operation.
(As an aside of historical interest, "Swaraj" means "self-rule" and refers to the Indian struggle for independence from the British.)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Further, there is some suggestion that all of this is a political stunt for the sitting president trying to look hard on terrorism during the election season. If that really is the case, India would have no real incentive to escalate to a full on conventional war and risk that escalating even further into a nuclear one.
That strikes me as a definite half plus ungood situation.
On the bright side, Pakistan might do the rest of the world a good turn by wiping out the cities in which our favorite offshore devs work.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
I would venture that the risk of a nuclear escalation is rather low.
Particularly if the war doesn't change where the effective border is very much. If one side gets trounced, the temptation to nuke will go up; I suspect that the greatest danger would be a major defeat for Pakistan, for whom this is a much bigger deal than for India. I mean, yes, India wants to have Kashmir very much as does Pakistan, but losing it would be more of a political problem inside Pakistan than India; India would be more likely to think in terms of conventional rearming and having another fight in a few years, whereas for Pakistan it'd be a more existential crisis and so more likely to trigger extreme measures.
It's a mess, and the politics in each of the belligerents is unlikely to make anything less messy soon.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
But their only remaining non-phone OS EOLs in 2020.
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
That strikes me as a definite half plus ungood situation.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Yeah, I saw after I posted that the article specified that they apparently caught the attacker formatting the backups.
If they had proper backup strategies this wouldn't be possible.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
If your backups are online media then they aren't backups. I've heard more than one story now about ransomware formatting 'backups'. You'd think people would know better.
I'm in charge of backups for my company, so they're physically air-gapped when not actually being written to, and we have three distinct sets (daily, weekly, monthly).This is unnecessary in most cases, and a strategy that usually leads to issues. People don't bring them online. People forget. People just shirk responsibilities. Etc.
Any backup that requires physical intervention in order to run is one that will be the first thing to not be done when work gets busy. It happens all the time.
@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
We had a cryptomalware infestation and it did write to absolutely everything it possibly could, took just 4 hours or so to repave everything from the previous night's backups.
This is what you need to prevent. It can be done without air-gapping the media. At its simplest you can setup the backup operation to be a pull procedure instead of push with no network sharing of the backup destination at all.
Better is to have software that handles the backup operation and has no capability of destroying the data inside of the retention period. This, if it is a backup appliance, can also prevent data destruction by malicious internal actors.
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@dkf I've also noticed something fairly interesting about the people of the two nations when having worked with them. Pakistanis seem pretty laid back about the conflict, and thinks of the Indians as decent folk that they can get along with, it's just the government that is pushing the conflict, whereas all the Indians I've worked with to a man have very negative views of the pakistani people, sounding as if they regard them as an inferior race.
This may of course just be due to the small sample size I have, but it's been consistent.
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@Polygeekery That's double dipping!
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I always wondered why you shouldn't.
This was not the point of the article, but I found this phrase quite interesting as a sign of how much society has changed:
"...United States, especially as the cremation rate was greater than 50 percent in 2017."
50 years ago, hardly anyone in the U.S. was cremated, though it was the standard in India and Buddhist countries.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
This was not the point of the article
I immediately wondered what the heck a
dotatate
was as I've never come across that before.Turns out it's this ridiculous contraption:
The radioactive substance gets captured by the chelator at the top left and the rest likes binding to a certain receptor. Neat way to get radiation to go exactly where you want.
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I'm...flabbergasted by this one, assuming it's actually true. Really? Really?
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@Benjamin-Hall They've been mandatory on trucks for ages. My suspicion is that they've never gone there for cars mainly because speeding tickets are so lucrative. With the war on CO₂ emissions not going as easily as many would hope, mandating them for cars is an obvious move.
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The speed limiters, which go by the euphemism Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA), use GPS data and possibly traffic sign recognition to determine a road’s speed limit and then limit engine power to match that speed. While it’s possible to just press harder on the accelerator and go faster, if the car exceeds the speed limit for several seconds, an audible warning signal will sound, along with a visual warning displayed until speed is reduced to the legal limit.
Just remove the muffler and you won't hear it
The new regulations also mandate data loggers, plus driver assist features like lane warnings and autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian and cyclist detection. It’s not clear if the data loggers would have any privacy protections.
I put my money on NO
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I put my money on NO
Yeah, because that would be so compatible with GDPR.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
@jinpa said in In other news today...:
This was not the point of the article
I immediately wondered what the heck a
dotatate
was as I've never come across that before.Turns out it's this ridiculous contraption:
The radioactive substance gets captured by the chelator at the top left and the rest likes binding to a certain receptor. Neat way to get radiation to go exactly where you want.
*blinks\
Goddamnit .
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I put my money on NO
Yeah, because that would be so compatible with GDPR.
It's a car not a website. It probably doesn't comply with banana curvature laws either, but they're not relevant.
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@Benjamin-Hall Rest assured, the collective whining from Germans will make that DOA. Fretting about speed limits is to Germans what the 2nd amendment is to Americans.
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@hungrier GDPR isn't about websites. It's about processing personal data.
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@PleegWat It's a car not a person
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat It's a car not a person
A website is also not a person.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yeah, because that would be so compatible with GDPR.
By driving this car, you agree to make your driving data available to law enforcement.
Click "I agree" to start your car.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yeah, because that would be so compatible with GDPR.
By driving this car, you agree to make your driving data available to
law enforcementanyone who can write a simple SQL injection attack or use a script.
Click "I agree" to start your car.FTFR
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Yeah, because that would be so compatible with GDPR.
By driving this car, you agree to make your driving data available to law enforcement.
Click "I agree" to start your car.Nope, won't work that way.
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The easy way out would be to just ban Europeans from driving cars
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The easy way out would be to just ban Europeans from driving cars
Well, the same could be said for the US and guns.
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@Rhywden Doesn't apply, you don't need any personal information to buy a gun in the US
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@Rhywden Can't take guns on a plane either. Thanks a lot GDPR
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Can't take guns on a plane either. Thanks a lot GDPR
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From the article
TSC would like even more stringent regulations, like making the ISA more difficult to override or defeat. As is usual when nannies like to control people, they say it’s for their own good. A banner image at the ETSC website says, “The EU saved my life,” and after the committee vote, the ETSC congratulated itself with the #LastNightTheEUSavedMyLife hashtag.
ETSC says the devices will reduce the number of collisions by 30 percent and save 25,000 lives. That figure is actually over the next 15 years, but telling millions of European motorists that their freedom will be restricted to theoretically save about 1,700 people a year probably wouldn’t sound as convincing.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Ban all cars and save even more lives
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If you're travelling to Europe, paint your gun yellow. Whenever the European authorities ask about it, say it's an angular banana that complies to European regulation.
Story checks out
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@TimeBandit Yeah, the liberty to speed is such an important one!
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@hungrier Come on, the banana one is old. Maybe try one with an Orange?
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
If you're travelling to Europe, paint your gun yellow. Whenever the European authorities ask about it, say it's an angular banana that complies to European regulation.
Story checks out
You could at least call it a toy gun.
Unless you're going to the Netherlands. Anything that could be mistaken for a gun if you were to paint it black and squint is an illegal weapon.
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@Rhywden I'm not an expert on the relevant regulation, but I don't think gun shaped oranges would be compliant. It might work for other weapons, though
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Yeah, the liberty to speed is such an important one!
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
I realise that as an European, you're glad to have your government protect you from yourself by removing your rights.
I'm not
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Yeah, the liberty to speed is such an important one!
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Wouldn't matter, you'd still be stuck queueing for hours regardless.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
Well you'd got a police escort as soon as one caught you speeding!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
You never had an emergency and needed to bring someone to the hospital ASAP and couldn't wait for the
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed. The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
Well you'd got a police escort as soon as one caught you speeding!
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I guess that explains why my brothers went into programming and I'm just a lowly systems admin... I can't work without music
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
Has been held in court to not be a reason to speed.
I don't care if it's not a good reason, I'll pay the ticket if I get caught.
The only legal way to speed, other than in an emergency vehicle, is under police escort.
I don't need a legal reason to speed, I do it anyway
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