Comment Re: The Earth may have moved into Theia's orbit (Score 1) 20
It would have been quite spectacular to watch the collision.
Comment Re: Marketing (Score 1) 113
When they discover that their files can't be recovered when there's a problem with their account then they'll learn what bitlocker is.
Comment Re: Windows is Doomed (Score 1) 113
Because Microsoft will just allow Windows access from a thin client to an Azure (or what it will be called then) server that provides your personal Windows instance that you'll pay $563/month for in currency of today, miss one payment and you'll lose all your data.
Comment Re: Look and feel (Score 1) 113
That's more a Broadcom issue than a Linux issue.
Comment Re: Look and feel (Score 1) 113
On my case it's older Logitech equipment that's quirky.
Comment Re: I'm one of them (Score 1) 113
Then it's 2026... it's always next year.
Comment Re: Marketing (Score 1) 113
Zorin has been featured here on Slashdot a few times before, and this initiated my interest.
The strong UI resemblance to Windows would make the change smooth for people used to Windows, and this is important since I plan to transit my 80+ year old parents to Linux by using Zorin from them having been on Windows 7 so far.
Comment Re: The universe is middle aged (Score 2) 30
Dark Energy is to explain an observed effect, so it might be that our perspective is insufficient.
Comment Re: Marketing (Score 4, Interesting) 113
I think that the best marketing comes from Microsoft rendering older fully functional hardware unusable and with the overreach by adding ads, requiring M$ account and forcing bitlocker just tipped the scale.
Zorin is based on Ubuntu too, and that means that if it works there it works with Zorin too.
Comment Re: I'm one of them (Score 4, Informative) 113
I saw that it existed and I wanted to try it and it was a good Windows substitute.
Comment I'm one of them (Score 3, Insightful) 113
And it's on a USB stick, and I have installed it on multiple machines already.
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 104
You haven't worked for a large corporation.
Submission + - Putin's most feared missile downed with a song (telegraph.co.uk)
fahrbot-bot writes: The Telegraph is reporting that Ukraine forces are jamming signals for Russia's ‘invincible’ Kinzhal hyper-sonic missile with a song satirizing Russian propaganda.
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Night Watch, the group operating the technology, claims to have brought down 19 Kinzhal missiles – described by Putin as “invincible” – in the past two weeks.
The team told technology website 404 Media that it is using a song and a redirection order to knock the “next-generation” missiles, which carry a 480kg payload and cost around £7.7m each, out of the sky.
Kinzhals and other guided munitions rely on the GLONASS system – Russia’s GPS-style navigation network using satellites – to find their targets. Night Watch developed its own “Lima” jamming system that replaces the missiles’ satellite navigation signals with the Ukrainian song “Our Father is Bandera”.
When the song begins, the Lima system feeds the incoming missiles a false navigation signal, tricking them into believing that they are flying over Lima, in Peru, so that they attempt to change their trajectory. Traveling at a speed of more than 4,000 miles per hour, however, the missiles become destabilized by the abrupt and unexpected change of course.
Night Watch said they developed the system after discovering that the Kinzhals used a controlled reception pattern antenna (CRPA), an antiquated type of technology for resisting, jamming and spoofing. The team told 404: “They had the same type of receivers as old Soviet missiles used to have.
“The airframe cannot withstand the excessive stress and the missile naturally fails. When the Kinzhal tried to quickly change navigation, the fuselage of this missile was unable to handle the speed and, yeah, it was just cut into two parts. The biggest advantage of those missiles, speed, was used against them.”
Comment Re: Paywalled (Score 1) 19
And I read RPG as rocket propelled grenades first.
Comment Re:Good products (Score 1) 104
I see that you haven't worked with/against corporate purchasing decision.
If a corporation buys 5 it doesn't matter, but when they purchase 5000 it matters.
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