Ahh, yeah ok, not too surprising I guess. Thanks

Did anyone ever find out what “Nicole” etc actually wanted ? I just blocked and immediately reported spam, but tbh never actually ask what flavour of scam “she” was up to

Was installed below the waterline - not specified whether it was divers or submarine drones in info so far made available. All the Russian current protections were apparently air and sea not submarine - other than nets (which were clearly ineffective).

Edit more info than in the above article can be found here

https://united24media.com/latest-news/ukraine-hits-crimean-bridge-for-the-third-time-this-time-underwater-8841

It’s an entire german state cutting off 800k p.a of MS revenue. That’s not piecemeal is it ?

Schleswig Holstein (sp?) are doing so, ditto Copenhagen and Aarhaus (DK) and I believe France are looking into it

I’m shocked ! Shocked I tell you ! Ok, not that shocked

<sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.

If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.

On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

But you do you. I’m not your Dad

So here comes alkaline rain to replace the acid rain we got rid of 40 years ago. Genius idea. Not

Yep still exist.

No more security patches. That should be dead to you if you don’t want to host thousands of parasitic bots & malwares

And this is a very positive thing for Australia and Canada. The closer the ties the better, both countries have a huge amount in common culturally and economically. Oz NZ & Canada are very much brothers and we should support each other.

I am very positive about the steps towards closer alliance that are being taken by NATO-1 since the Tangerine Palpatine took office.

Japan, a tiny country, easily conquered China in the 1930s.

Japan, a country of 80million in 1931invaded a weak China (circa 300m) which was at the tail end of it’s century of humiliation in which it had been beaten multiple times in wars against the European super powers of Britain, and then France, followed by defeat against Japan in 1895 (in which they ceded Korea - a nation of then 25m plusTaiwan (formosa) 8m).

The 1931 invasion of Manchuria sliced another 50m out of their population and was the launch pad for their ww2 empire.

Your characterisation of it as a tiny island against a massive foe was inaccurate for that time, but it is also not an equivalent for now.

Japan in early 20th C was a medium to large nation on the rise and industrialising. China was then a high population but low industry and poorly developed and poorly managed country which had been under attack from all sides for decades from multiple powerful nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_colonial_empire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_of_humiliation

It is utterly specious to compare the modern heavily industrialised China of the 21st century to the China that was invaded in 1937 by Japan.

The US & China are the two largest economies and the two largest militaries. The US is currently far stronger but the Russian Manchurian candidate in the White House is busily tearing that advantage down.

Under estimate them at your peril. If the democracies of Asia come together they can indeed defeat China if necessary, but don’t make the WW1 mistake of “all over by christmas” it will be a long and bitter war.

ASEAN has previously made it clear they don’t want Australia as a “convenor” or leader of anything in SEA. Maybe that’s changed in the last few years since China started getting aggressive but if so I’ve seen nothing to indicate it.

Australia needs to be a stalwart ally, but SEA and the South China Sea needs to be lead by Japan, Korea, Phillipines, Vietnam and SEA by Indonesia, Thailand ,Singapore& Phillipines.

This has been made VERY VERY clear. They view our involvement as an extension of imperialism and don’t want it.

Australia has always supported our allies militarily, and we will continue to do so, but we also don’t want to be where we’re not wanted.

America once wanted to be world police now they don’t, that leaves a vacuum in SEA but we’re not the ones to pick up that mantle

While Australia punches above its weight, a nation of 30m cannot easily go toe to toe with a nation of 1billion.

If the alliances in Asia break down the same way NATO is being destroyed then Australia is better off playing nice in waters it definitely only has a indirect stake in, even if it rankles.

Timor Strait, sure. South China Sea…only if all the others with an interest there are aligned and want us there (Korea, Vietnam, Phillipines, Japan etc)

It wasn’t just money, it was also rigging the election

Yep. Monied tech bros from the bay area & etc was always the target demographic. It was never expected to sell to actual workers.

Unfortunately it seems the overlap between nazis and tech bros wasn’t as high as he thought

This.

I’ve used the same login email having moved between 3 countries in each of the regional sites as well as US (.com) and ordered from 6 other different countries outside where I resided.

Just login to .co.uk with the .com login details and you’ll be fine. Note however not all UK vendors will ship overseas.

2 more votes yet plus approval by constitutional committee according to the article

“The abolition is expected to go through the upper house, France’s Senate, but it still needs to be approved in a broader bill in the lower house in June and will have to be approved by France’s Constitutional Council, which is not guaranteed.”

I’m sorry you seem to have misunderstood a “think of the children” gambit for an intention to actually protect children.

This is just authoritarian people tracking pretending to be about kids, child safety has nothing to do with it.

Have a look behind the curtain as to who is pushing this

Only one of the two sides needs a port open so I’m sure your seeding is contributing