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I'm afraid the average internet user is incapable of grasping the concept of "Cybersecurity".
I'm only aware of it because I'm swimming in it at work all the time. WAF, IDS, etc. Endless patching.
I see people bring laptops to the library or church to do a presentation and I see them click close on security update notifications from everything. Their OS, Java, Web Browser, you name it. They're totally clueless.
Buy a well known Antivirus, but not McAfee. I'm sure it protects you as well as others, but I find it a huge resource hog. You can use Kaspersky, if you don't mind the Kremlin having your data. Not a big deal for most people.
Keep things updated. Especially your Operating System and Web Browser.
Don't use an Admin account on your PC for regular daily use, keep that one a regular user and use "Run As Admin" when needed.
When asked to fill out verification questions for Banking or password recovery and you plan on actually trying to answer the question, don't pick questions that can change as time passes like "What is your Favorite Movie?". Keep to things that are specific to a time and place that can no longer change.
Buy an external Hard Drive (usually from Western Digital like a MyBook) and back-up your data to it once a month. Don't keep it attached to your system. Attach it, do backups, then disconnect it. You can let it run over-night. That way if you do get one of those crypto virus, you only lost data since your last backup less than a month ago.
I second keeping your computers and software fully updated. It's also worthwhile to check on firmware updates for your hardware (like routers etc.) once a year or so.
I prefer using a password manager, and using it to generate/remember unique, strong passwords for everything. It is very convenient, and also helps encourage you to change passwords if they've been compromised or are just getting old as well.
Enable two-factor authentication for the password manager and as many other accounts which allow you to.
If you are concerned about passive tracking online: VPN services and browser extensions can help, but using Tor (and changing your online behavior appropriately) is another free solution.
Ensure your computers are encrypted at rest (drive encryption), and use file encryption tools (like VeraCrypt) if you want to further compartmentalize sensitive information.
How do I tell the OS not to create/use the pagefile/swapfile or hibernate anymore and where are those files located so I can wipe them?
I operate from just a couple of simple principles.
Nothing is ever 100% private, even if it only exists in your mind. You can be made to give it up.
Windows 10 is not my favorite (a view seemed to be shared by many others), but at least it is being actively maintained by Microsoft (as compared to something like Windows XP), meaning you should be getting security updates etc., for better or worse. I briefly upgraded to Win10 from Win7 before I bought a new SSD and went to Ubuntu (16.04 then, 18.04 now) with no dual-boot at all.
As far as swap space encryption, it may depend on how your drive(s) are partitioned. I believe the typical Windows partitioning scheme has a boot, recovery, and "everything else" partition - meaning that your swap space will be in the same partition as the Windows OS, your user data, etc. If you encrypt that partition, then everything should be encrypted at rest. If you have a separate partition for swap usage however, you may have to make sure that gets encrypted as well.
VeraCrypt and Bitlocker will both do Windows pre-boot authentication - if you already have one or the other, just use that. I like VeraCrypt just because it is a little more flexible for use with other OSes, container encryption, etc.
I had a theory a while back that posited something like: "Anything that is secured with the intention of future legitimate access, can also be accessed illegitimately." That is to say, the only way that you could ensure 100% security of some information is to ensure nobody will ever be able to retrieve said information (including people who you want to) - essentially: destroy it. It isn't entirely practical to operate that way most of the time though, so we have to settle for at least making ourselves as hard a target as practicable.
After looking a few things up, I will be keeping those files for beter performance.
If you really want better performance under Windows 10, throw memory at it. Windows always does better with more memory. After that my next step would be a fast SSD, as fast as your system can handle, and put the OS on it. If your system has an M.2 connection, use it. Mine has two and I have a drive in each of them. I recently had to transfer 60+ gigs of music files between them. They transferred so fast I couldn't see it on the screen so I tried doing it again and found they had in fact transferred.
OS & all programs are updated. I am getting ready to log out of everything and make a full backup. Secondary backups have already been made. I will be using Bitlocker to encrypt my drives.
I am in the process of ordering a couple of new drives for backing up the SO's and my own laptops. The last set of backup media is getting old, and one of them I just disassembled because the SATA controller had died. Also ordering an external SATA to USB setup, because I'm pretty confident that the HDD of broken one is still just fine.
A link to a list of 10 million passwords. If your password is on it you may want to change it.
If any of mine are on there I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I use the same simple password for sites that I really don't see any need for high security on because gaining access to my account there can in no way hurt me. Like my account on Bed, Bath & Beyond that contains no payment information, just what pillows I'm currently considering. Someone wants to log in as me and buy me one with their own payment info, go right ahead. Sites where my account security actually matters each get a unique password (and wherever possible require two-factor authorization) that changes at random intervals.
Update on how current technology can be used to detect hidden design changes to PCBs, deviating from design specifications: https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/co ... in-seconds.
Notably, the technology doesn't yet appear to be in widespread use, probably because it requires a significant monetary investment (and more importantly also a time investment, in a sector where time-to-market and rapid flexibility are paramount), and because some organizations haven't seen the threat as a considerable risk yet.
So MPMalloy is having a bit of an issue with his computer and asked me to ask y'all in here if he runs Acronis Boot loader from his BIOS if that'd fix his lockout issue.
Not quite sure what the extent of his issue is, but he asked me to post in here to see if that might solve his problem. All else fails, he might have to take his computer to a repair place to have it fixed.
This is information worth remembering as well.
I've donated a handful of computers in the past, after running Secure Erase on their hard-drives, following the instructions on this page: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase. You can use a Live Linux USB on the same computer for this purpose, because the OS cannot be mounted on the hard drive that you are erasing. The instructions are not exactly for the faint of heart, but if you follow them carefully, you should be able to do it yourself.
Secure Erase has been studied to be capable of forensically erasing your data (unrecoverable, even by advanced techniques), and most HDDs and SSDs will implement it correctly. Physically destroying the device is another option, but I prefer to not waste it if only the data can be just as assuredly destroyed. Of course, some workplaces have rules about physical destruction of drives etc. prior to disposal, that is just my personal preference.
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...Or is 12_Gauge_Chimp trying to spear phish MPM? There was an internal spear phishing test campaign at my workplace lately, and I was one of only ~1/5th of targets who correctly identified and reported the e-mail.
MP's a friend of mine and he's just having issues with his computer. I got a text from his this morning saying he deleted several programs off his computer and that he was locked out as a result.
I wonder if he accidentally deleted a program that was necessary to run his computer ?
Unfortunately, I don't know of much assistance I could render from a distance, but I do recall him having recently encrypted his drive using Bitlocker (if this is the same computer we're talking about)? Is it related to not being able to access the encrypted partition, or something else? The encryption does make it more difficult to fix some issues, but you can try to run a live OS from a USB (like a live Ubuntu version) to have a poke around from a higher-level perspective. Unfortunately, you wouldn't be able to access any of the encrypted portion of the disk without the decryption keys - although that is also kind of the point.


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This morning we boarded our time machine again, to visit yet another epoch. On Saturday we visited 1-50 AD at Herod's castle, and then leaped forward 1,100 years to arrive at Karak castle. On Sunday we zipped back to 400 BC to survey the Nabatean civilization at Petra. We really cranked up the time machine this morning, traveling back over 11,000 years to visit the oldest known collective dwelling site on the face of the earth, at Bada in southern Jordan.
Jericho is generally regarded as the oldest city on Earth, and Damascus is seen as the world's oldest continuously inhabited city. The ruins at Bada, which we visited this morning, pre-date Jericho by more than 5,000 years. Bada was not a city in the strict sense of the term, since it had no wall encircling it, and no defined territorial boundaries. The ruins at Bada definitely reflect a collective dwelling site, however, and is our earliest indicator of man's transition from a mobile, hunting-oriented species to an agrarian, settled society.
And not fifteen feet from the ruins of this 11,000 year old collection of dwellings is a large Bedouin tent. Children play around the tent, and try to sell us trinkets and stones from the area. A woman inside the tent brews tea. Life for these Bedouins, as we observe them at this prehistoric site, has probably not changed significantly for almost 3,000 years. Ancient history living side by side with pre-history, in defiance of everything we believe about "progress" in the West.
From Bada we again join the King's Highway for the journey to Wadi Rum and Aqaba. On the road we observe an endless procession of heavy trucks heading north out of Aqaba. Our guide tells us that, during the 1980's, when Jordan had very close ties with Iraq, the Iraqi government financed and helped to construct major portions of the King's Highway in the south of Jordan. Since Iraq lacks access to the sea, the overland route from Aqaba to Baghdad is the quickest way to move supplies from the Gulf to the Iraqi capital. Recognizing that the Romans also helped in the construction of the King's Highway over 2,000 years ago, and understanding that a major motivating force for that ancient project was the rapid movement of the Roman legions, one might speculate that Iraq may have had more than commerce in mind in financing this modern version of the same project. Other wars have been fought to obtain access to the sea. Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1991 had that as one of its objectives. The politics of this region are a conundrum.
Wadi Rum is the desert landscape made famous by Colonel T.E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia (Lawrence of Jordan just doesn't have the same cachet, besides which Jordan didn't exist as a political entity at the time). We board 4-wheel drive vehicles at the Visitors Center (Toyota trucks with bench seating for three along each side of the truck). Sailing through the desert, we observe mountains of sandstone and granite rising precipitously from the flat ocean of sand all around us. Some of the peaks top 5,000 feet. Inexplicably, a tree appears here and there in the vast expanse of sand, surviving against all odds in this unrelenting dry heat.
And so, too, do the Bedouins. Again we encounter this tribe of nomadic people, although in this locale they have created a small village of conventional dwellings, which they inhabit intermittently. Roaring over a small rise in the sand, we come upon a goat hair tent, not twenty yards from the track (calling it a road is way too generous) we follow. Arriving at our destination in the desert, a small ravine in one of the mountains that hold ancient rock carvings, we encounter a Bedouin at the entrance to the ravine, selling carved camels and other trinkets. The Bedouin knack for commerce rivals that of their Nabatean brothers.
Brushing off the sand, we board our motor coach for the ride to Aqaba, a drive of about 45 minutes from Wadi Rum. Culture shock awaits us, as we arrive in a modern city with major thoroughfares, way too much traffic, and fast food restaurants in abundance (McDonald's, Quiznos). After dinner we take a short stroll to a showing of The Jordan Experience, a multimedia production highlighting all things Jordan (including most of the sites we have visited, which is a great reinforcing experience). Can you name three movies that have been filmed in Jordan? Two of the three are very well known.
We end our evening with a visit to the ice cream parlor at the Movenpick Hotel, a Swiss luxury hotel chain about which Drew has been tantalizing us for the past four days. Over ice cream we have a round table discussion (actually three round tables) about our experiences so far, about politics both Jordanian and American, and about everything else that a group of seventeen Westerners who have been traveling together for seven days has on their minds. A great end to the evening, but it ends too soon. Perhaps we will pick up where we left off tomorrow night, in the spa hotel at the Dead Sea.
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Romarna fylldes av avsky när motpåven Christoforus intog påvestolen med våld, kastade honom i fängelse, och bjöd Sergius att ta hans plats. Sergius förklarade genast Formosus vigningar ogiltiga, men ryktet att han skulle ha tagit livet av två företrädare, om den utomäktenskapliga relationen med Marozia, och om att han skulle ha fått en son med henne som senare blev påven Johannes XI, tillbakavisas av Catholic Encyclopedia med argumentet att samtida omdömen från respekterade personer om honom inte stämmer med denna bild; andra källor tar dessa uppgifter för sanna, antingen sammantagna eller några av dem.

Sergius beskyddade ärkebiskop Johannes av Ravenna mot greven av Istrien och bekräftade flera etableringar av biskopssäten i England. Eftersom han bestred vad katoliker menar vara felslut inom grekisk-ortodoxa kyrkan, ströks hans namn från diptykerna i Konstantinopel, men han var klok nog att godkänna kejsar Leo VI:s fjärde äktenskap.

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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Cybersecurity and innovation will take center stage at the Penn State Outreach and Online Education Appreciation Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Nittany Lion Inn. Penn State Outreach and Online Education will honor four distinguished guests with the Dubin Pioneer Award, Fischer Award of Distinction, and Penn State World Campus Outstanding Alumni Awards.
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Twelve-year-old Alice lives in the outback mining town of Mount Magnet. One morning, she is struck down with acute appendicitis. To make things worse, the nearest hospital is hundreds of kilometres away and Alice's appendix could rupture at any moment. An urgent call is made to the Royal Flying Doctor Service and a plane is despatched. But as a massive storm approaches, the pressure is on for the RFDS to get to Alice and transport her to the hospital before it hits.
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Press – Monday April 18, 2016. A local online blog has been found abandoned, starving and alone, left to die by its layabout disreputable owner. Said blog, Angst Anarchy, had been found abandoned by its owner Victoria Sawyer well over a week ago. Sawyer is now wanted for questioning by local authorities with charges of Blogicide and Blogslaughter pending.
The blog, when found by authorities, had been left to languish for more than a month. Suffering from the inattention of its owner, it had not seen any loving care or attention, nor even a word written upon its pages, a post published, or a draft post edited. The blog, when found mumbling and crying, was mute and unable to speak for itself, starving for attention, its pages unkempt featuring old dates, no likes and less traffic than the worst pages on the web.
Sawyer was shortly thereafter taken away in chains. She is now being held at AOL prison, a sorry, dilapidated and unfrequented place in the lonely back alleys of the interwebs, on 1 Million dollars cash bail. A hearing will be held this week to determine Sawyer's future as a blogger. At this current junction, it's not looking good for Sawyer's future prospects as owner of Angst Anarchy. Well wishers of Sawyer, may leave a comment on this post in the hopes that this sad sorry blogger will rally herself and attempt to post more regularly in the coming weeks. If she's lucky, Sawyer may be remanded to DOS Penitentiary for the Criminally Insane by the Interwebs State and allowed to prove herself. Probation may follow if Sawyer is found to have good behavior. All in all, it will take Sawyer some time to crawl back from this state of affairs into the good graces of Bloggerdom.
I'd like to know who told the authorities? Did the blog police come and cart you away or were you visited by BSS (Blog Social Services)? I could see if you buried your blog alive in the backyard with some of your lost and broken dreams, or left it in the hot car with the windows not rolled down, but for taking a short break! That's crazy! If you ever get in this pickle again, please contact me and I'll give you some really bad legal advice to get you out of blog jail.
Thanks for the offer of rescue! I was tossed in solitary a few weeks ago. Bad behavior and still haven't been blogging enough for the "authorities." I think there's a snitch out there, otherwise I'm not sure who called the authorities on me. It's true, I didn't do any of those horrific crimes, but they still nabbed me. Falsely accused? Possibly not, I am guilty. Serial neglect. Bummer.


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Using Business Analytics : A case of mharidukaan.com
Arvind Bodhankar, the Corporate Head of HSE at TATA Motors Ltd. breaks down a case study about mharidukaan.com; wherein he discusses why it failed to be a market success despite making huge promotions expenses.
Volume 2 Issue 1 June 2018 : By Arvind Bodhankar
Data Analytics is defined as deriving the actionable insights from the given data by churning the data through various Statistical, Graphical or Pictorial Techniques. The data so given if pertains to a business entity, the term Business analytics is used similarly the data if relates with Marketing, it would be termed as Marketing Analytics and so on. The term data analytics differs from data analysis in the fashion that the later relates with just the tabulation and representation of the raw collected data, while analytics deals with the clean data set to derive insights for business related problems. Here is the case discussing, how the use of consumer analytics helped mharidukaan.com to precisely figure out the reasons for mharidukaan.com not becoming the first-choice online business house in Vidarbha region over conventional stores despite making huge promotional expenses. In fact, this case study can stand as an eye opener for all the online e-commerce sites for not becoming the preferred sites for shopping and not getting an upper edge over traditional mom & pop shops
Mharidukaan.com, a venture started by two young female friends Ms. Sheetal Agrawal and Ms.Shital Surana (names changed), after having done their MBA from a reputed B-School in India. The venture was of online shopping complex, head quartered at Nagpur, which used to virtually market everything in fashion clothes, footwear, grocery items and personal care products, in the year June - 2014 with an initial investment of 30.60 Lacs. Their business model was to reach out to every individual in central India initially for their every requirement. They duo hired summer interns from various MBA institute from central India and gave them a task of bringing in the associations from the dealers/manufacturers for their shop. The dealers were offered a good mark up and guaranteed business. But the only condition was put in front of the dealers/manufacturers, the goods which were manufactured/sold to mharidukaan.com will not be sold through open market with the same price and same brand name so as to maintain the exclusivity for mharidukaan.com. The charges for inward & outward freight and packaging were to be borned by the mharidukaan.com. The shop was operating on three days inventory back up. For inward & outward freight services, they had tied up with a local courier service provider who can deliver the goods to any destination in central India maximum within 2 hours to 12 hours depending on the geographical destination of the buyer. Everything started off well. The concept was initially new in the year 2013-14.
Promotional budget/sales for last three years.
The duo expected a monthly lift of Rs. About 10 Lacs initially from the seventh month of inception of their business. They planned for a promotion budget of Rs. 3.00 Lacs per annum for next three years, with no expectation of any sizable return for first three years. From 2018 onwards, they expected a net return on investment of 30%. The actual sales figures of mharidukaan.com for first three years are given here.
Problem analysis
The duo observed that despite a good & quality product range, timely service delivery and sizeable promotional budget, the sales were not picking up. The average monthly sales were 1.46 Lacs, 1.53 Lacs and 1.56 Lacs for the years 2015, 2016 and 2017 respectively. The actual growth rate declined from 5.26 % in 2015-16 to 2.56 % in 2016-17. This was an alarming signal for the management.
Buyers were still attracted towards the conventional mom & pop stores for shopping. The online shopping has not yet taken shape. To understand the real reason behind why online shopping has not become popular rather first choice shopping destination for Indian consumers compared to conventional stores, they assigned this project to some of the interns. The project was titled as "Study of factors responsible for online shopping not being the preferred mode of shopping in non-metro cities in India." The study was conducted in February-March 2018 in Nagpur. The respondents were from all around the central India.
The interns along with the promoters decided to conduct an exploratory survey and the data so obtained was to be analyzed to arrive at actionable insights, which can help the promoters to improve the performance of the firm. The level of accuracy was decided to be 95% i.e. level of error was 5%. At 95% accuracy level, the number of samples were selected, which were done on all age groups, all areas and of both the genders.
For collecting and tabulating the responses five-point Likert's scale was designed. The Data was collected on eight attributes such as trustworthiness, easy exchange, latest & multiple varieties, ease in operations, rural consumers, leisure experience and payment safety were identified which can make or break the e-commerce business.
The following table shows the summary of responses from all the responses and its interpretation.
Amongst all 't' values of attributes_ Trust Worthiness (0.09291 ), Easy Exchange (0.23561) , Smart Phone Proficiency of Rural and age old consumers (-9.985845) and Safety of Payment Gateways (1.1416912) are < 1.645 which is the standard t value. And which was acting as negative attributes which probably prohibited the success of e-commerce sites, so is true for mharidukaan.com.
Hence, it can be concluded from the analytics that mharidukaan.com should develop the strategies to improve trust worthiness of the site. They should simplify the exchange/replacement procedure, they should educate the old age/rural buyers about using such sites through smart phones and should adopt the reliable payment gateways.
Arvind Bodhankar is Corporate Head- Health Safety Environment & Sustainability at Tata Motors Ltd. He is a certified Independent director with core skills on Sustainability & HSE. He is having 28 years of proven track record and wealth of diverse experience in the area of Petrochemicals, Fertilizers, Steel, Cement, Shipping, Glass, Food/FMCG/Pharma and Automobile industry. He is a lead Assessor for ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001 & internal auditor for ISO 9001 & TS16949 and a certified Green belt for Six sigma. Certified TQM trainer, TPM champion, Energy Auditor....
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Chambers would like to extend their congratulations to Richard Harwood QC, who was awarded an OBE in the New Year's honours list in recognition of his services to Planning & Environment Law Decision-making.
Richard said: "It was a very nice surprise. It is pleasant to be recognised for some of the things that I have done. The support of colleagues in Chambers has been of great assistance."
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Something doesn't make sense in the story. By the end, Wiley and Annie were prepared to go off to California after already making the commitment to work off their father's debt to Ben. Sam claimed he was always innocent, but no one bothered to confront him with Ben Cartwright to whom he owed money. And the whole story just ended that way without tying up the ends, despite the fact that we can appreciate that Ben wouldn't care if they didn't work off the debt.
Dagburnit wrote: Something doesn't make sense in the story. By the end, Wiley and Annie were prepared to go off to California after already making the commitment to work off their father's debt to Ben.
That was before their father showed up alive and all that other stuff happened. I got the impression after that scene in VC, all bets were off and they were not going to continue to try to repay Ben.
Dagburnit wrote: Sam claimed he was always innocent, but no one bothered to confront him with Ben Cartwright to whom he owed money.
Sam claimed he was innocent of some, not of everything. He went on to say that since he was a known thief, he was the easy target to be blamed for all theft.
I watched this episode today having never seen it before. Here's my thoughts.
The episode revolves around a brother and sister coming to the Ponderosa to pay off a debt to Ben Cartwright. Their father had robbed Ben and they wanted to work on the Ponderosa until that debt was paid off, which was going to take a year.
First thought was, Huh? So now Ben has to pay room and board for you and sissy for a year. A houseguest for a year? We see the sister got her own room, I don't know about the brother. Maybe he was staying in the bunkhouse with the rest of the workers but that wasn't shown. All in all, I thought it wasn't a good idea.
But worse than that, the opening line to Ben from them was "Does the name Kane mean anything you"? Ben scratches his head Next Joe and Hoss look at each other nodding "no" too. Then they say Sam Kane and suddenly Ben remembers being robbed by Sam Kane and now he knows who they are. Did they all black out that Kane guy who almost killed their brother Adam a year or so ago? And that name escapes them? All of them?
Next thought about "The Dept". I can only imagine the millions of Adam fans that were on the fence in the mid 1960s as to whether or not to return to Bonanza. I know Pernell left before the prior season ended and the Adam character was going with him. Last few episodes of S6 were written in the same time frame without time to think how to go about writing episodes without brother Adam, so it made sense that it just continued as normal.
I think they would want to continue that theory going into a new season. The difference is they had an entire summer to rethink the opening episode and make sure it was good. Good because they would have to appeal to the Adam fans to keep them in. Are they kidding me? The Debt was a nothing episode and they had so much time to prepare and think out which episode to start off the new season without Adam and this is what they chose? Nothing happens here. So much nothing that I can't think of what to discuss in this topic. So here's some random thoughts.
The scene where Joe was teaching Annie how to read. It was warm and touching and funny at the same time. I would have laughed out loud had I not seen this almost exact scene played on I love Lucy, which was filmed 10 years prior.
OK, back to some random scenes that I liked until I didn't like them.
The first time Annie saw her father in the jail cell and called to him. His face when he saw her was (to me) genuine love.
It didn't make sense that he would leave her out there (at the end) not knowing if she'd ever be found or not. Plus, no horse, no water, no nothing. Good thing Little Joe showed up when he did, eh?
There's something else I liked about this episode. The guest stars.
Tommy Sands ~ Did you know that he was married to Nancy Sinatra?
Brook Bundy - A very young Brook Bundy. She went on to be in countless TV shows in the 1970s/1980s. I don't think I've ever seen her hair so blonde, but I was always a fan of hers.
Ford Rainy - He was in everything, LOL, including 9 Bonanza episodes. He lived to a ripe old age of 96 and worked, starring in The King of Queens until 2 years before his death. Amazing!
But all in all, it may have been an OK show somewhere mid season, but for those looking forward to the new Bonanza ... it was a flop.
Sam Kane [ there's that name again!] was very selfish having his daughter help break him out of jail, then taking her up in the mountains and then leaving her there. I can still remember Tommy Sands as a singer from the late 50's so I'm really showing my age! His acting was good as a sometimes rude and over-protective brother. I love the scene of Joe teaching Annie to shoot a gun with her eyes closed!
January - This is my biggest complaint about this episode!
You what? You don't remember that whole thing with Adam (speaking of Adam - where is he?), the desert, the near death experience, the psychological trauma on the entire family, etc.? I didn't buy it either. I still can't figure out if using the wicked surname was an incredible oversight on the part of the Season 7 script writer or if the entire comment about Kane was intentional. Neither approach made sense to me. Us Adam girls were quite sensitive about the fact that the oldest brother was somehow MISSING from the opening credits. It all looked like one big blooper to me.
Joe was also right about both of the Kane men. Neither one of them deserved Annie in their lives. The ending of the episode left us assuming changes would be made for the good in everyone's life. Yet, overall - kind of a dud episode as I didn't develop a true interest in the new characters that was strong enough to replace my interest in the Cartwright family. I wanted to know more about the Cartwrights. There were several unanswered questions for us traumatized Season 7 folks. But so it began - life without Adam.
Sharry wrote: However, Wiley was so intense one hundred per cent of the time that I found him hard to watch or listen to.
yes, I agree there. He was intense from the beginning and never let up. Joe should have realized his intenseness the moment they met. I don't think I would have trusted to bring him home to the ranch with that attitude he had.
and wasn't it weird when in the beginning he insisted on getting Joe's horse for him? I would have thought this guy was up to no good. I would have been wrong, but that's what I would have thought.
Yes, the horse fetching thing was odd from the get go. Was it part of the 'debt' restructuring? I'm sure Joe looked entirely capable of retrieving his own horse. Also, I thought Hoss made a very clear and important point that Wiley was not responsible for his father's debts. Wiley should have accepted his advice much sooner.


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Can India build a military strong enough to deter China?
Until the spring of 2020, China and India took elaborate precautions to avoid tensions along the shared northern border where they had fought a war almost six decades earlier.
Soldiers along the Line of Actual Control, as India and China call the disputed border between the Indian territory of Ladakh and China's Tibet and Xinjiang provinces, would typically patrol unarmed, sometimes leaving cigarette packets or other local-language litter in the buffer zone to signal to the other side that they had been there.
When patrols from the Indian Armed Forces and People's Liberation Army physically met, they would display banners warning the other side that they had encroached on their national territory, and ordering them to retreat.
But in April and May 2020, Chinese troops broke this status quo when they cut off some of the Indians' traditional patrol routes in eastern Ladakh. Shouted arguments and fistfights escalated into soldiers attacking one another with clubs and stones. By the end of the clashes, 20 Indian soldiers and four Chinese soldiers were reported dead.
Chinese and Indian troops clash at the Line of Actual Control in the Galwan Valley, in the Himalayas, in 2020 © CCTV/AFP/Getty Images
Today the border is quiet, but the clashes are still reverberating in New Delhi and analysts say future clashes between the world's two most populous countries cannot be ruled out.
The Galwan incident acted as a wake-up call to India's military and civilian establishment about the risk of future, broader confrontation with China and its well-equipped armed forces — and the need to counter it. India also banned dozens of Chinese mobile apps, part of a drive to bolster its defences in a rivalry Narendra Modi's government believes is being fought on the technological front too.
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"It was a shock to the Indian side," says Deependra Hooda, who headed the Indian Army's Northern Command in 2014-16, noting that the last fatal clashes in the border area had been in 1975. "There has definitely been a rethink — not only a rethink, but a realignment of forces, with priority given to the northern front."
After the Galwan clashes, India redeployed six army divisions from its northern front along the border with its traditional foe Pakistan to northern Ladakh.
German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, left, tours the Chandni Chowk market area of New Delhi last week. During her visit, she addressed India-China military concerns © Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Bipin Rawat, then India's chief of staff, last year described China as India's biggest security threat, and said the Chinese were "building villages, possibly for billeting and locating their civilians or for the military in the future all along the LAC".
German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock, on a visit to Delhi last week, mentioned China "building their military infrastructure . . . along the border with India" among Berlin's concerns, suggesting either that the topic was at the top of her mind or that her hosts had briefed her on it.
"Following Galwan, China after decades was perceived by the Indian public and policymakers as a clear and present challenge," says Dhruva Jaishankar, executive director of the Observer Research Foundation America, a think-tank. "There was a wider realisation that the military power of China could not be managed by diplomatic agreements alone, and would require India to take its own military and economic steps."
India's defence spending had already increased by 50 per cent over a decade, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), from $49.6bn in 2011 to $76.6bn last year.
Over the same period, it passed Russia and the UK to become the world's third-biggest military spender — albeit far behind the US and China, which spent nearly four times as much as it did. Spending is still growing; in the government's February budget, the defence allocation was increased by almost 10 per cent.
New Delhi's priorities have been to modernise the military, but also to ensure it has sustainable military industrial capacity — part of a broader "Make in India" campaign meant to build up local manufacturing. Analysts say the war in Ukraine has brought home another key vulnerability: India's lingering reliance on Russian arms and munitions.
India has intensified the long-underway diversification of its supplies towards other countries, including France and Israel. Only months after Galwan, India signed a new defence agreement with the US. At the same time, it is pushing ahead with an "indigenisation" effort meant to build up its domestic production capacity.
Yet some analysts argue that India is still not doing or spending enough to prepare itself for possible confrontation with China. In particular, some observers warn that prime minister Modi needs to choose whether the modernisation of the Indian Armed Forces, or the indigenisation of military hardware should be the priority. Trying to do both at the same time risks leaving it exposed to China's far stronger military, they say.
"By reorienting its forces, India was able to avoid any further embarrassment or loss of territory," says Sushant Singh, senior fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. "But India has not done anything major to enhance its military strength."
Homegrown arms
India's drive to build an indigenous military industry dates back decades to its early years of independence, when it began using foreign technology to develop locally built weaponry, including a combat aircraft and a self-loading rifle.
But only public sector companies were allowed into the defence business and indigenisation stalled, leaving India as one of the world's top military importers.
The need to speed up indigenisation was sharpened by the 2020 Galwan clashes. To galvanise its defence production, in August 2020 India began introducing staggered import bans on hundreds of military hardware components, now ranging from springs to surveillance equipment and patrol boats. Some of the bans have taken effect almost immediately and others will do so as late as 2032.
"There is an understanding in New Delhi that being dependent on other powers is not conducive to strategic autonomy," says Anit Mukherjee, a former Indian Army major and associate professor at Singapore's S Rajaratnam School of International Studies. "We need to make sure we have our own capabilities because it's not just the Russians: any other country supplying weapons to India might impede our foreign policy choices."
Yet the process of pivoting away from Russian arms supplies has been slow, given that Russian munitions are mostly cheaper than western alternatives, and because India needs to maintain legacy systems and weaponry dating back to Soviet days.
Eventually they might be replaced by homegrown defence production, in keeping with the "Make in India" push to onshore manufacturing by strategic industries. But that will not be quick, either. "Their Make in India campaign poses some risk," a western diplomat says. "If you try to flip the switch and say everything has to be made in India, can you do that fast enough without losing ground?"
Enter India's billionaire-owned conglomerates, which have begun moving into defence, joining public sector companies such as Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL), which makes the Tejas light combat jet, and Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos, which makes a supersonic cruise missile.
Gautam Adani, India's richest man, launched a defence and aerospace business in 2015. It is now partnering with Israel's Elbit to manufacture unmanned aircraft. Adani is also partnering with Israel Weapons Industries, best known for developing the Uzi, to produce machine guns and rifles in India.
Tata Sons' aerospace and defence division has long-running joint ventures with Lockheed Martin and Boeing, for which it makes aircraft sections. But it recently began designing and building its own aircraft and weapons system, including drones and an artillery gun.
"Frankly, we have built it up without any orders and in many cases with no government funding," says Sukaran Singh, Tata Advanced Systems' CEO, of its military technology development.
India's native capacity to build war-fighting machines now spans light combat helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, and rockets. In September Modi, at a commissioning ceremony for India's first domestically constructed aircraft carrier, INS Vikrant, in the southern port of Kochi, hailed it as a "symbol of indigenous potential", with three quarters of it made by Indian industry, according to the navy.
Yet a string of indigenously produced helicopters have crashed during training flights, with the latest accident killing five people in October. The setbacks have underscored the challenges India faces as it tries to build a military in better fighting form.
Budgetary constraints do not help. Over two-thirds of the military budget goes to salaries, pensions, and routine services for army, navy and air force personnel, with less than a third going to capital expenditure on military systems and arms.
In one effort to overhaul its cost structure, India's military in June introduced the Agnipath ("Path of Fire") scheme, under which soldiers are recruited on short-term contracts, but after their fourth year only 25 per cent of each intake is offered a full military career.
The scheme has proved unpopular, prompting protests in several Indian states and angering neighbouring Nepal, which recruits Gurkhas to the IAF under an agreement dating back to British colonial days.
Congress party leaders and workers hold placards as they shout slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a demonstration over the government's new 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme for the army, navy and air force in Amritsar in June this year © Narinder Nanu/AFP/Getty Images
Even with a more aggressive China, the argument for spending more on defence is a difficult one for Modi in particular to make.
For the prime minister's nationalist government, the choice between guns and butter is especially challenging as economic development and upliftment of India's poor is a central part of his Bharatiya Janata party's pitch to voters, and legitimacy since he took office in 2014. The Indian leader in 2016 undertook "surgical strikes" in Pakistan following a deadly attack on Indian soldiers, which has since then been used by the BJP as proof of their tough security stance.
However, China is a far stronger adversary that Indians acknowledge they would struggle to outspend, much less outfight. The calculus is complex, analysts say, as only by delivering consistently faster economic growth than China — as India currently is doing — can it afford to spend more on defence.
"In both military and civilian quarters in India, everyone is looking at Ukraine," says Angad Singh, a defence analyst. "They see the cost of war and realise, 'We can't afford it.'"
The risk of escalation
For New Delhi, the objective at least in the short term is to avoid a confrontation that will expose the gulf in capabilities between China and India.
"Modi doesn't want to get into a clash with Xi, and if there is one wild card that can upset his government and severely diminish his stature, it's the Chinese," says Manoj Joshi, a distinguished fellow at the Observer Research Foundation and author of a book on the India-China border dispute. "They are very careful with the Chinese."
Yet some analysts believe new clashes with China are likely, and not only in Ladakh. Analysts believe the risk is greatest in the far north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh, where India's troops are more thinly spread and its infrastructure less developed, and the entirety of which China considers part of Tibet and claims as its territory.
Two naval officers stand beside a MiG 29 fighter jet parked on the runway of the INS Vikrant aircraft carrier, which was commissioned by the Modi government © Arun Sankar/AFP/Getty Images
The threat is not limited to the border. Satellite photos from Beijing's port at Djibouti, about 2,000 nautical miles from Mumbai, show Chinese naval vessels docked there, suggesting that in future China could project its power in the Indian Ocean too.
India's navy is only a fraction of the size of China's, and its assets are especially in need of investment. India's first aircraft carrier, the Soviet-built INS Vikramaditya, is in maintenance. The Modi government commissioned a second, the INS Vikrant, but it is not yet ready to land navy jets, and pilots are for now conducting test flights from a base at Goa.
Underscoring the lingering risk of conflict, Beijing this month objected to this year's joint India-US military exercises in the northern state of Uttarakhand, about 100km from the Chinese border.
India's government responded that it "exercises with whomever it chooses", and would give no veto to third countries on the issue. A US official said, in reference to China's objections, that it was "none of their business".
India will hope that exchanges with its neighbour get no more aggressive than that in coming months, as analysts say the fundamental imbalance in military power between the two remains unchanged.
"The Chinese look at the US as their peer competitor," says Joshi. "That is trouble for India, since the Chinese effort and resources being deployed to take on the US will give them a capability boost that India cannot hope to match."
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Realme X50 Pro 5G Now More Affordable: New Price, Specifications
by Lingraj Sahu 09/January/2021
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Realme has officially reduced the price of its first 5G Realme X50 Pro smartphone. With a new price, this smartphone is available for sale on the company's official website and Flipkart. It has a 90Hz refresh rate and powerful battery in addition to 5G.
After 2G, 3G, and 4G, the craze of 5G smartphones in the market is increasing. Although 5G support is present in premium range smartphones, soon 5G smartphones will knock in the market at a lower price. If you want to buy a 5G smartphone, then you are not able to buy it due to a low budget, then notably the price of Realme X50 Pro 5G has been cut directly by Rs 10,000. This is a good opportunity to buy this smartphone because now users can buy it at a cheaper price and take it home.
Realme X50 Pro 5G is the first 5G smartphone not only of the company but also of India and in this way it is also very popular among users. The company's CEO Madhav Seth has announced the reduction in the price of this smartphone on his Twitter account. It has also clarified that Realme X50 Pro 5G is available for sale with the new price on the company's official website and e-commerce site Flipkart.
New price of Realme X50 Pro 5G
The price of Realme X50 Pro 5G has been cut by Rs 10,000. After which its 8GB + 128GB storage model can be purchased for Rs 31,999. While its original price is Rs 41,999. At the same time, users will now be able to buy a 12GB + 256GB storage model for only Rs. 37,999 instead of Rs. 47,999. This smartphone is available in Mos Green and Rust Red color options.
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