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flying_monkies ,

The 77th Infrantry Division would be the counterpoint to "older conscripts are harder to train and can't keep up".

flying_monkies ,

It ain’t that easy to shoot down stealth aircraft.

Hell, it's not easy to shoot down non-stealth aircraft

The pilot evaded all six missiles while not being able to deploy any chaff/flare countermeasures.

flying_monkies ,

There's oil there, Alaska isn't going anywhere.

flying_monkies ,

Would explain why the Air Force used PS3s, can't be behind the tech curve!

flying_monkies ,

Using zone minder with reolink cameras. I've been happy with it so far.

flying_monkies ,

Replacement for X server

flying_monkies ,

So, a cock fight?

flying_monkies ,

One hit wonder.

flying_monkies ,

Alaska has entered the chat

flying_monkies ,

Probably the fact that, even if you define the account as Admin in windows, you still need to select "Windows sudo" (run as Administrator) before it actually elevates privilege.

flying_monkies ,

No, it's not.

What you're talking about is UAC flipping out because you double clicked on something and it want's admin privilege (the GUI equivalent of what bioemerl talked about).

I'm talking about exactly what bioemerl was: You open cmd window, try to run a command and it bitches that you need admin rights, as an admin. So, you have to go back, search for cmd, then select the option: Run as administrator.

flying_monkies ,

If you remember to do it after getting pissed off enough at it, sure 😀

Nine Days After Wrecking 21 Russian Helicopters, Ukraine’s M39 Missiles Are Dealing The Same Damage To Russian Air-Defenses (www.forbes.com)

The Ukrainian army might not have very many M39 missiles. The ones it has, it’s using carefully—firing them at the most valuable targets that also are most vulnerable to the American-made munitions....

flying_monkies ,

What he said. When the Patriot system started killing Khinzels, it was hit by debris. Russian trolls on the internet immediately claimed a "dead Patriot" for what turned out to be like an hours work when they realized the system was behaving oddly...

That being said, if they really did kill an S400, I guess that means it wasn't an S400 that allegedly shot down a HIMARS rocket the other day.

flying_monkies ,

Incognito mode
Don't log in

Youtube works fine in that mode with ad blockers. If you want to be logged in, uBlock typically updates within an hour or two of any google change. This message has the github link with info

flying_monkies ,

Depends on how you count "size". US Navy is 4th in ship count, 1st in tonnage at 3.5m tons.

Russia is second at 800,000 tons

China is third at 700,000 tons

Japan is fourth at 400,000 tons

flying_monkies ,

Don't think that value includes "items in the ship" (like aircraft) as part of the weight. This article seems to lay out what some of the differences are. Seems to boil down to "not evey Navy counts every canoe that they own".

I suppose a few trillion dollars per year will do that though

Yep, American Un-Healthcare at its finest 😁

White House says Iran 'actively facilitating' some attacks on US military bases (www.reuters.com)

The White House on Monday said Iran was in some cases “actively facilitating” rocket and drone attacks by Iranian-backed proxy groups on U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria, and President Biden has directed the Department of Defense to brace for more and respond appropriately....

flying_monkies ,

Please show me where any country is "shitting themselves over Russia" after the master stroke in self destruction Russia has displayed in Ukraine?

flying_monkies , (edited )

How did they justify this statement? A press release from Putin.

Effectively, yes.

The consortium just linked to the original story from Indian Punchline (the author's personal blog) where the author quoted the statement from a TASS article.

If we wrapped Robert Parry's corpse with copper wire and surrounded his casket with magnets, we could probably power a small city with the electricity from him turning over in his grave at how far Consortium News has fallen in publishing articles like this.

flying_monkies ,

Most of SSD already has good encryption methods

Unless you purchase a SED-non FIPS or FIPS SSD, no, they don't

and an easy way to safely wipe data without re-writing each byte.

ATA Secure Erase is a god send for SSD.

flying_monkies ,

SSDs, unless you buy a specifically encryption supported drive, are not encrypted. If it doesn't indicate SED, SED non-FIPS or a FIPS certification level, the drive doesn't have an encryption circuit.

flying_monkies ,

No, they don't.

flying_monkies ,

It sounds like the article is an update to the age old performance issue discussions between hardware and software RAID solutions.

If you use a software solution for anything where there's a dedicated hardware solution, the software solution is always slower due to CPU overhead.

Article recommendation boils down to: If you're going to use encryption, and you want your full disk speed, use a hardware encryption solution. In their test their hardware supported OPAL.

flying_monkies , (edited )

If you set up hardware encryption, be sure to change the master password and set the security level to maximum.

Be aware, this password is different than the Physical Secure ID (PSID) printed on the front of the disk. PSIDs are used when the release to reset command doesn't work, typically due to key issues, and the drive gets "locked".

You use the PSID to run a revert to factory defaults command, unlocking the drive. Since this triggers the drive to release its' key, the drive is considered "cryptographically erased" when you do this.

If you revert the drive, data on it is unrecoverable.

If you're going to revert a drive, I suggest using a QR Code reader to get the PSID off the drive. Some venders are sadists with the font they choose making it so much fun to figure out if it's a 1, l i I I O or 0...

flying_monkies ,

You're correct, it was the truck

flying_monkies ,

It went from Columbus to Georgia, think the redline is to show the level of stupid. Shipping history, since he was kind enough to provide the USPS tracking number in his screenshot:

flying_monkies ,

or Guam.

flying_monkies ,

The B52s that started Gulf War came from Louisiana. They flew nonstop to the Middle East then returned to their base in the U.S. 35 hours of flight time with no stopovers...

Guam to Korea is a short stroll.

flying_monkies ,

his company has a long long history of treating employees like shit.

Can confirm, it's a shitty place to work. They try to cover up the crap with their yearly Tell Dell survey. Basically ask how you feel about the company, then proceed to shit on the local managers if you make any comments negative to corporate management or the "culture" they try to portray.

My local manager and the layer above them are about the only people I have any respect for.

flying_monkies ,

Two million rounds of 7.62x39, as of last year, from ammo manufacturers
not sure how much of it was in this latest US military donation

flying_monkies ,

Not talking artillery here. Talking small arms ammo. I'm pretty sure Russia doesnt come close to producing 2m artillery rounds per year. Saw an article the other day about them running out of artillary barrels. If they couldn't manufacture enough barrels to keep up with shooting, I doubt their general manufacturing capacity.

Outside of that, that's two million non-NATO small arms rounds being donated by the private sector. Pretty sure the government would send M4s and SAWs with 5.56.

flying_monkies ,

I'm sure they say they are. I'll still doubt their capability

flying_monkies ,

You have to wonder if Putin's ass is jealous of the shit his mouth spews.

flying_monkies , (edited )

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

The complaint about armor (tanks) being destroyed seems odd. Last report I saw had them losing five of the 70 Leopards and a single Challenger so far.

I wonder if the complaint is directed at the amount of maintenance/depot work that needs to be done to keep them running. That would kind of make sense. Countries that donated them have significantly more of them than donated, so cycling them through depot repair would barely be a cause for concern.

flying_monkies ,

Yeah, that's what I wasn't following. MBTs are going to need repairs, no matter how heavily armored, when you run them over a minefield, hit them with anti tank missles or drones. APVs aren't designed to survive that, just to keep the occupants alive from something that would have turned them into a thick red mist.

flying_monkies ,

7% of just the one type... Not of all tanks. That being said, I get where you're coming from. 14 Challengers, 31 Abrams... Guess it's going to boil down to if the countries can/will replace the losses.

flying_monkies ,

Russians and their fan-bois need to chest beat over whatever they can find at this point.

flying_monkies ,

So, if the US provided a HIMARS cluster munition that dropped MREs and a note saying "there's more food if you surrender" they could wrap this thing up in a week to 10 days?

flying_monkies ,

Guess it depends on the definition of "lasts". With Iraq, Coalition forces rolled through the third largest military in under two months.

Germany need 35 days to take Poland and six weeks for Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in WWII.

Russia figured they were on par with other modern militaries for their special smoothbrain operation. Why wouldn't it be fast? 🙄

flying_monkies ,

(“game-changing” western equipment that doesn’t change the outcome of the conflict)

You're actually right, they won't change the outcome.

It'll just make the Ukrainian victory quicker than it would have been without the equipment.

flying_monkies ,

Repeating fantasies over and over doesn’t make them materialize,

You really need to feel this in what's left of your soul

Ukraine can’t win a war of attrition against Russia.

And yet, they are. If the Russian command had any sense, they'd roll back to their side of the border.

flying_monkies ,

there are no other choices

There are all sorts of choices.

Russia could come to their senses and leave.

Russia could continue wasting their resources until they have to accept unconditional surrender.

Russia or an ally could go even more pants on head stupid than they already are and do something that triggers a NATO Article 5 response.

flying_monkies ,

Don't recall anyone saying it would be a few weeks. Don't doubt some people said it would only be a few weeks, just don't remember it.

From the start of the invasion, it was two months one week and three days to topple the Taliban government.

Unfortunately, then next 19 years were apparently a waste since the regime that replaced the Taliban didn't actually want to fight for themselves.

flying_monkies ,

Non-paywalled article

Schumer in talks with McConnell as shutdown fears grow: ‘We may now have to go first’ (www.cnn.com)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told CNN that his chamber might have to take matters in its own hands and push through a must-pass bill to fund the government amid deep divisions in the House and a looming shutdown by next weekend....

flying_monkies ,

As of late, he seems very good at that

flying_monkies ,

US Govt: I want a plane that no one can find
Lockheed Martin delivers
US Govt: Wait, I didn't mean me!

flying_monkies ,

None at all. On the plus side, the last time someone went that pants-on-head stupid and put mines where they shouldn't, it was a very short war.

flying_monkies ,

So, the take away is Russia is so shitty they'll fight to get out of it?

flying_monkies ,

How the actual fuck do their brains work.

They don't. Krokodil is a hell of a drug

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