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Oneiros posted:automatically scuttles the ship when it gets within three miles of a competing shipyard lol someone in europe did that with train cars. put gps units in them that lock up the engine if they detect they're in a third party repair site
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SixteenShells posted:lol someone in europe did that with train cars. put gps units in them that lock up the engine if they detect they're in a third party repair site https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/ quote:Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them How dare they break the sacred DRM. That's sacrilege. (clutches Google Pixel in lieu of holy cross) It's partially paywalled and I'm not going to but this is what I can copy paste: quote:They did DRM to a train. DancingShade has issued a correction as of 05:19 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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SixteenShells posted:lol someone in europe did that with train cars. put gps units in them that lock up the engine if they detect they're in a third party repair site DancingShade posted:https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/ 
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Frosted Flake posted:Remember when they accidentally revealed there are backdoors in the stingers they gave Ukraine in March 2022? Lmfao wait what
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Slavvy posted:Lmfao wait what I remember them being geofenced, I don't remember if there were other ways to disable them.
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yellowcar posted:i know it smell cozy in there
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Officer Sandvich posted:I remember them being geofenced, I don't remember if there were other ways to disable them. Same. Wouldn't surprise me to learn there is also code for "fare thee well operator" if you tried to lock on to certain transponders with one. But the batteries will probably expire long before we know about that thus rendering them into nothing more than future IEDs. Hewlett Packard ink strikes again.
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It started when Ukraine bragged about being able to double their effective range by modifying the software, and the story went around the NAFO idiots with the framing of "this war is already paying dividends they found ways to help us upgrade our rockets" and it turned out it meant they figured out how to disable the geofence
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In a way the EU is lucky the most Ukraine did to delibately escalate was use an air defence missile to kill a couple Polish farmers and (fail to) blame Russia. If they did the same thing with atacams on an EU military base and tried blaming Russia that would have been an interesting day. I don't think it would have worked but by golly it would have been fascinating to watch unfold.
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DancingShade posted:https://www.404media.co/polish-hackers-repaired-trains-the-manufacturer-artificially-bricked-now-the-train-company-is-threatening-them/ in any sane economic system doing poo poo like this should result in an immediate government takeover of the train manufacturer and everybody in a senior position getting an express ticket to the gulag
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Cerebral Bore posted:in any sane economic system doing poo poo like this should result in an immediate government takeover of the train manufacturer and everybody in a senior position getting an express ticket to the gulag Sounds like some fictional crazy world where governments rule corporations, not our current one where its the other way around.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtCdXlJYKgQ Are the USAF able to maintain culinary operational readiness? Do they still have the capability to keep their personnel fed during various scenarios?
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Oneiros posted:automatically scuttles the ship when it gets within three miles of a competing shipyard There was a recent Newag train scandal in Poland where hackers hired to unlock DRM'd trains found exactly that. I believe it was only found in one or two trains but those were programmed to softlock with geolocation data of a rival maintenance workshop lol https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains Junkozeyne has issued a correction as of 15:50 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Jon Pod Van Damm posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtCdXlJYKgQ It’s all been contacted out. I was listening to an interview with an artilleryman from the 82nd whose battery was reroled to convoy escort in Iraq. After one of their gun trucks was hit by an IED they popped open one of the sea cans in the convoy to see what it was all for, and he said it was full of boxes for Taco Bell and Burger King destined for one of the major bases around Baghdad.
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DancingShade posted:In a way the EU is lucky the most Ukraine did to delibately escalate was use an air defence missile to kill a couple Polish farmers and (fail to) blame Russia. While I'd never underestimate the bloodthirst of the US and European ruling classes, at the same time I don't think they want any part of direct war with Russia given how the current conflict has progressed. I don't think there's anything Ukraine could do that would convince them to go in directly. That includes the most insane options like blowing up nuclear power plants and blaming Russia.
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love to almost die escorting the Burger King
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:love to almost die escorting the Burger King
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Frosted Flake posted:It’s all been contacted out. The US army has largely moved away from small organic teams of 4-6 cooks per company over to field feeding companies that get parceled out and assigned on an as needed basis to combat and support elements about 5 years ago. This consists of active duty as well as reserve uniformed field feeding units. Combat units miss having their own designated cooks they could know and control directly, but it was less efficient/flexible to have cooks assigned to a unit in garrison or on an all MRE meal cycle and every plus up of large field/combat cooking being a negotiated deal of loaning out cooks to those in need. Can’t speak for armed forces like Canada etc.
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:love to almost die escorting the Burger King It is the 19th century. I am getting killed by mountain tribesmen in Afghanistan in service of The King. It is the 21st century. I am getting killed by mountain tribesmen in Afghanistan in service of The King.
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Owlbear Camus posted:It is the 19th century. I am getting killed by mountain tribesmen in Afghanistan in service of The King. 
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Tactically inserting a beefy five layer, for the troops
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Laying down your life to secure delivery of fourthmeal
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Samwise shouldn't even know what potatoes are. The LotR cycle was intended to be a faux mythology for prehistoric Europe, while potatoes are a New World crop. He should be lauding turnips or something. I mean, it's just Peter Jackson putting a little bit of levity in and giving the movies some real soul, but still.
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Owlbear Camus posted:It is the 19th century. I am getting killed by mountain tribesmen in Afghanistan in service of The King.
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The LotR movies also prominently feature corn, tomatoes, and tobacco. Also, like Middle Earth used to have a couple of big lamps instead of the sun and moon so the geography has been rearranged at various points.
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It's funny that Warhammer Fantasy is more committed to the parallel and so has the not-Americas populated by lizardmen. LotR was content to say that the Columbian Exchange had already taken place or never been required.
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Owlbear Camus posted:It is the 19th century. I am getting killed by mountain tribesmen in Afghanistan in service of The King. when you're wounded and left on afghanistan's plains and the burger king convoy is all that remains just roll to your whopper and blow out your veins and go to your god like a soldier
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Bar Crow posted:The LotR movies also prominently feature corn, tomatoes, and tobacco. Also, like Middle Earth used to have a couple of big lamps instead of the sun and moon so the geography has been rearranged at various points. sure, and the Valar did... something to make Numenor fall and cut off access to Valinor. But all those events happened far in the distant past before the events of the books and movies. I can't recall any big rearrangements of the globe between that period and known history.
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the elves took all the potatoes and tobacco with them when they hosed off to elfland
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:love to almost die escorting the Burger King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRVfBkcWYk
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Hatebag posted:the elves took all the potatoes and tobacco with them when they hosed off to elfland typical loving elves
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Europeans probably just wiped out all these crops on their continent through mismanagement like they did to silphium.
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Bar Crow posted:Europeans probably just wiped out all these crops on their continent through mismanagement like they did to silphium. 
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Cerebral Bore posted:when you're wounded and left on afghanistan's plains
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Frosted Flake posted:It's funny that Warhammer Fantasy is more committed to the parallel and so has the not-Americas populated by lizardmen. LotR was content to say that the Columbian Exchange had already taken place or never been required. It already happened, the big island kingdom that had a globe-spanning empire that fell apart due to 'lesser men' polluting their bloodlines would have done it.
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Frosted Flake posted:It’s all been contacted out. The US military marches on its fast food...
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Imagine a global spanning empire collapsing because the leaders obey whoever gives them trinkets.
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Ted Wassanasong posted:The US military marches on its fast food... That's why they're so fast. bradleys needed to be able to keep up with abrams because, as the abrams has a turbine engine, it can be fueled directly from used fryer grease from the mobile burger kings
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