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APKWS used in Ukraine with Vampire (Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment) system mounted on tracks. no planes required
>The Israeli Iron Dome can intercept subsonic cruise missiles and costs about $100k an interception.
prices quoted on Israeli news in past few years are typically around $20k to $40k. $100k was initial pricing before mass production. Obviously it can shoot down shaheds as well
Israel also fielded Iron Beam late last year. It has 10km distance and $2 per shot price (this is even if you use PG&E electricity)
the rest is what companies need and pay money for. vpn is door opener
vpn its just small part of what zscaler does. its a bunch of security related products
most of hybrid cars don't have spares. my wife's mini countryman didn't have spare (had runflats instead).
there is a trend to put instead of spare inflation kit + sealant. costs savings and such
Yes. I know. And at this point for enterprise there is no reason to use MLS based solution for messaging. Or for software company to develop MLS based solution. Because it's just too complex for no obvious gain in security. Most of the enterprises/regulated industries/.govs simply do not need it. You can make much easier solutions.
It's still nice for security in personal instant messaging.
if i correctly understand what you are trying to say, then yes but no. None of the proper "enterprise" messaging systems will expose this kind of low level information. Moreover, enterprise messaging system will actively hide some of the information that is present in order to implement all the proper enterprise functionality.
How do you think otherwise "Wire offers a surveillance service for administrators to track and record messages for specific users " in order to "protect your organization from legal proceedings, such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests".
As I wrote above, you can torture protocol. Wire did it: "Additionally, Wire offers a surveillance service for administrators to track and record messages for specific users who require monitoring, helping you protect your organization from legal proceedings, such as litigation, government investigations, or Freedom of Information Act requests.". But it stops to be E2EE. It somewhat "okay" when it's self hosted. It's less okay when it's SaaS.
I didn't say that there is a better alternative. It's just... point of MLS is to build end-to-end secure messaging. Taking whatever party in the middle that deals with actual delivery out of "equation". For enterprise messaging it's very nice to have but must to have its history, searches and data exports ( for various legal needs, etc). MLS doesn't deal with this well. If at all. (unless it was recently changed)
Interoperability between different messaging system (is this what mimi is about ?) it's nice, but from perspective of enterprises it's not a must (for example ms lync or skype supported xmpp federation, but i never saw it enabled.). Because of security in various aspects. For example trust between servers of different organizations. Allowing accessing "some" external users "some" internal chats. Possibility of information leaking through those chats or in case that whatever access rules for external users were incorrectly defined.
So yes, MLS/MIMI could be nice for instant messaging, but it seems not too suitable for enterprise messaging.
it doesn't have things that are required for a proper "enterprise" messaging. so you need to hack around it. multi-device users were fun. chats with no active users that somebody joins to - more fun. state synchronization between multiple servers that host same chat - very exciting. during all those exercises you start to take little by little from mls. so even while it's preserved in the core, stuff that is added around, makes it "less".
to be fair, i wasn't the one that was doing implementation, i was only reviewing it. it was done by in-house crypto team. so maybe something was lost between rfc to implementation to explanations to me about how it works/supposed to work. yet, mls function is secrecy and not enterprises.
company where i work implemented mls for very large groups (potentially tens of thousands of users) that can span across multiple servers in different geographies. won't recommend it.
"It looks like someone else might be trying to access your Google Account. For your protection, you can’t sign in right now." Been like this for past year or so, on every login attempt.
Good that I never actually used gmail for my real email. Only for some random junk
kirin/asahi for me only good when it's going together with yakitori. and bottle of sake.
longboard/trumers are kinda ok but they are somewhat not right . anchor steam bears for me and for my wife have better taste (we come from lager/pilsner dominating countries)
i have problem with with going into stores and getting not ipa and not beer flavored sparking water. (lets put heineken/stella/etc imports aside)
no lager there. i just want nicely balanced lagers and pilsners. not "summer hoppy pilsner". not "italian pilsner". not "whatever coast lager".
but I guess i am asking for too much
the thing about anchor (and i don't mean only steam, but also lager, pilsner and liberty ale) it's that I can hop into safeway or liquor store on the corner and it will be there. cold and nicely balanced.
new craft breweries are nice for when you go out, etc. or live near by. but it doesn't replace something you can buy on the go .
new bottles are dishwasher safe
>True, but those linesets introduce other downsides. They can't be cut to length, so you often have to have unsightly loops of extra line set somewhere, and the loops can potentially trap the oils that mix with the refrigerant to lubricate the compressor.
well, i run my through crawlspace. had only a small extra loop. in crawlspace.
>They're also much more expensive,
per unit - yes. but... if you doing to diy mini-split not with precharged lineste, you need vacuum, refrigerant and probably license to buy it. it raises cost and make it viable if you plant to install multiple units (have coworkers that did it).
if you want to get it professionally install, than in addition to ~$1.4k for 2ton unit you look into $6k-$8k for labor. Those were prices year ago for install in garage with 240v line connected to 40amp breaker available at install location.
>Not to mention, installing them without an EPA 608 certification is technically illegal.
technically, i guess much of the work done by home owners must be done by certified professionals and get approvals and inspections.
i am thinking to replace one of the hvacs with ducted mr.cool. just curious, what was the needed duct work ?
there are diy systems with threaded connectors, pre-vacuumed units and linesets filled with refrigerants.
There is actually good reason to bump up capacity by half a ton to ton, unless currently installed unit was sized recently. The reason for this it's that design temperatures jumped up, sometime in a big way in a recent ashray published design conditions (and many companies don't even know that this is the case and use those from 10 years ago or more).
And even the published numbers tend to be off and they usually use one specific weather station in a region that may or may not have same weather as you.
When I replaced hvac a couple of years ago, I retained company to make manual j calcuation as none of hvac contractors were willing to do it. I provided it with design temperatures that I calculated after scrapping data from a bunch of private weather stations in few miles radius
it doesn't translate. there is a thing called "manual j" calculation, that take into consideration size of house, orientation, insulation, number of rooms. windows in each room, type of windows, appliances, a bunch of other parameters and then how many people live in house. topped of with required temperature inside during winter/summer and outside temperature during winter/summer.
after this you get unit sizing
it's possible to use zone system with ducted hvac. extra layer of fun.
mr. cool has it's own smart thermostats/apps. you can use it also with nest/ecobee.
with regards to air quality, usually this kind of stuff better managed by dedicated systems.
no mention of motorola e1000 (it was good phone with good feature set but motherboard died on me 3 time) or motorola atrix, which was first phone with dock that you could hook up screen/etc to and run ubuntu desktop from
they consider Ukrainians not to be a real nation/ethnicity but mislead/confused russians. Hence they don't deserve their own state and should be re-educated to be a proper russians
and what exactly is shady about Amdocs ?
>I feel like a router is best served by a purpose-built OS, that is heavily focused on that task, and restricts the execution of arbitrary software, for obvious reasons
well, in this case, unless something changed recently this is definitely not openwrt
i am using plain debian for past 20 years or so for my routers/gateways. i tried for a while openwrt on ubiquity whatever router, but it felt kind of "wrong".
It's possible to install more panels, but in many cases it's harder to get coverage of more than 50-70 % of the roof due to it's geometry/multi-slopeness/vents/etc.