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Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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Putin's approval rating in Russia has only increased since the war in Ukraine started. Also, Russian weaponry has only improved since the fall of the USSR. I'm not sure why you're arguing that Russia cannot do what they are currently doing.

How do you square approval being stronger with russians fleeing the country?

The ones who don't approve, leave. The ones who remain, approve. Perfectly consistent :-)

Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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> So what does my anecdata tell us? Nothing. You are surely right there, but having played with a ton of kids from all nationalities as well (football, handball, whatever) this episode still stood out for me, because it was much more brutal than anything else I had experienced out of tournaments and "serious" games. The game in question here was not even a hotel tournament, it was just a "hey, wanna play a round"-kin…

Should I judge all individuals by the country they come from? Within your own country, have you met people who are great and others who are not? Even within your own school or workplace? Although governments that run countries would have you believe there is such a thing as a country - this is merely a fiction that is commonly believed. There are no countries, just beliefs. There are no collectives either - that too…

Oi. Let us enjoy some anecdotes.

We all know that pretty much all of us here have nothing to really add to the discussion, so we might as well have some fun.

Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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How long is the western world willing to leave Ukraine in ruins until Russia agrees to pay for the reparations? They seem equally likely to pay the reparations as Mexico is to pay for a wall.

We could confiscate all the Russian assets. That’s some 300 billion dollars there.

A trillion dollars of Russian assets have already been frozen by the US alone. Across the whole world, there will be plenty of funds if only a fraction ends up getting confiscated.

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Reality shatters your point really quickly, it's even mentioned in the lecture (suggesting you didn't watch it): Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy in the past 600+ years, otherwise it's always been an autocracy.

> Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy in the past 600+ years, otherwise it's always been an autocracy. To pin this on the Russian people is ludicrous. I think Russia has been consistently dealt a bad hand when it comes to leadership. And interference from the "west" has also been a negative influence in modern times. Consider Lenin[1] and western economic advice that led to the looting of the Russian sta…

Governments tend to reflect and represent the worst out of given population. That's why Swiss won't in foreseeable future have any dictator like Putin, and that's why Russians will never have anybody who will bring Russia into real prosperity that will actually benefit common citizens.

The endless complaints about 'the others' completely mitigates the facts that its Russians who stole from Russia and made it into crap place it is now. You want a simple proof? Check nationalities of all the oligarchs, all the politicians at power.

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>will cost the west $1tn in aid to rebuild Why the west? Sanctions against Russia should stay on place until they agree to pay for the reparations.

How long is the western world willing to leave Ukraine in ruins until Russia agrees to pay for the reparations? They seem equally likely to pay the reparations as Mexico is to pay for a wall.

Offer Ukraine bursaries and low-interest loans.

Then over time take money from Russia as possible. Plus all the frozen assets.

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They do this so more countries like Finland would join NATO. There is really no other reason.

My question is how come Finland, with their history with Russia, isn't already in NATO ?

A long time ago, Finland adopted a policy to not upset Russia. Note that Finland had a lot of trade with Russia and a complex relationship with Sweden.

Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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Putin's approval rating in Russia has only increased since the war in Ukraine started. Also, Russian weaponry has only improved since the fall of the USSR. I'm not sure why you're arguing that Russia cannot do what they are currently doing.

How do you square approval being stronger with russians fleeing the country?

Some may support the war in principle but hypocritically don't want to be conscripted.

Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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Not sure what you imply.

I think he is implying that a 0.05% typo rate is a sign of ulterior motives or incompetence. Apparently.

Typing on mobile as a non native English speaker my typo rate is probably higher than that.

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> Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel I can't take this talk seriously. it's just a bunch of history bits used to explain and reinforce stereotypes about Russians. "Russians like strong leaders" because Russia was once invaded by mongols who also had strong leaders. Russians always think the leader is infallible because he gets his power from God. Then almost in the next sentence he says Russians hat…

Reality shatters your point really quickly, it's even mentioned in the lecture (suggesting you didn't watch it): Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy in the past 600+ years, otherwise it's always been an autocracy.

Russians have literally had 8 years of democracy

What are you talking about? There have never been any democracy in Russia.

Re: Finnish govt agency warns of unusual aircraft GPS interference

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Which is why the GP mentioned encoding the timestamp and mentioned data packages (ergo package based one-directional communication). If by same signal you mean looking similar, but not containing the same data, then the problem is already solved. If you mean containing the same data, then there is no problem.

This requires a precise internal clock that is always correct. If that clock drifts or is reset because the battery dies, GPS receiver would stop working.

Wouldn't it suffice to have a rather imprecise time + counter in the GPS message? So if multiple messages arrives the one with the largest count is kept.

I wonder if the problem lies in a different aspect of needing to authenticate messages quickly enough and thus requiring more processing power.

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