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Do you mean like facing the prospect of WW3, they would side with Russia? I doubt that, especially if that dinosaur Putin is still in charge.

that's probably due to proximity. Both might, when oil and gas price comes down. They have a golden opportunity to buy Russian oil and gas at a discount at the moment.

the majority is very much on the side of Ukraine. About 140 countries voted in the UN against Russia. Over time, the images of the atrocities will spread and only increase the perception that the Russians acted without just cause.

You said that 2/5 or so of the world population are currently pro-Russia . How much of that is due to their dislike of the USA's politics? USA's politics can shift, so is public opinion. It won't be long before they will be confronted with the extent of destruction of Ukraine. The latter is not...

best outcome is Russia wins Crimea and Donbass and loses Putin.

I was hoping for an earlier date, there is about 10% of Mariupol left now, not long to go.

you are probably correct, but I am after a date of a negotiated settlement.

When do you think the war in Ukraine will be over?

I read somewhere that the dft knows about this Friday last week but didn't do anything about it then

that is agreed. I have not seen any case where companies firing people have been punished for lack of notification.

the notification period is added in the compensation. It's not illegal to tell people that they are fired and don't have to turn up for work, lock them out of the gates without negotiation. It's totally heartless but the bosses can do that by text or zoom call.

I think firing people is not illegal. The only negotiating point is the amount of compensation which is subjected to the employment contracts and usually higher than the legal amount which is capped at about £16,000.

I am not a security expert but I do spend a lot of time reading manuals and on the internet because of my job and I do know how buggy every version of windows has been and is. Still, don't believe that humans can write bug-free code, even in assembler.

why? I use every version of windows without any third party antivirus software, including the one I am typing on at the moment. Sure, I install anti-virus software for clients. As for privacy, the phone is the primary source of spy holes.

China will have to make up their mind in the next couple of weeks. The UN International Court of Juctice has ordered Russia to stop the war. China will have to follow the decision one way or another so I guess China may supply truck tyres but not drones or missiles.

you can configure windows privacy settings yourself to mitigate those problems.

that reminds me of the early years when IBM tried to sue Phoenix and AMI for infringing their IBM PC BIOS copyrights. Both Phoenix and AMI use clean room reverse engineering to avoid these disputes.

what is the point? in the scheme of things, the cost of the OS is so low that OSes are chosen for their features rather than low cost. So why re-invent the old Windows 2000?

any of you run VMs?

let's see how long their support will last. I'd give it a month. I was fully expecting Putin to annex Donetsk and Luhansk and somehow a track of land to link up with Crimea but not sending missiles into civilian housing blocks, not in 2022. Bush's shock and awe hitting Baghdad don't compare...