Posts by John Smith 19

"UK testing has already begun ahead of a roll-out"

So a bit better than the roll out of smart meters to UK consumers.

But not much.

Of course there are *no* innocent people

There are merely people whose crimes we have not discovered yet.

But rest assured comrades citizens we will.

Quoi?

Been a while since I checked DM.

Must have something on it worth checking out.

The fact they are not American should give them an advantage in some areas.

"accelerated legislative procedure"

Right there is a big Red flag taht something very shifty is going on.

Data fetishists.

There everywhere.

Was the "Anarchists Cookbook" the CIA's *best* disinformation excercise ever?

Possibly.

Impressive.

Flexible and useful.

First built by SSTL, rest by Astrium (after they bought SSTL)

So later ones likely to grossly over budget and schedule.

But time will tell.

What every regime needs

A free test vehicle for it's anti aircraft missile industrial base to practice on.

A small note on Windmills

While they won't hit the 100 000 RPM+ of an enrichment centrifuge they can still store a fair bit of kinetic energy.

Back in the day the IBM test team were reputed to have found a pattern of start/stops that got a mainframe tape drive (reel to reel) hopping about the floor.

You wouldn't want it to start raining turbine blades (even small ones), would you.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

Companies chasing organizations for revenue.

What next?

Seriously I think at some point a bunch of users are going to be bitten hard by all those unreadable old proprietary file formats that their current version can't read (why bother with such support ?) and naturally the only thing you didn't archive was a copy of the program, along with all the passwords for the password locked files.

But surely no one would be that stupid?

And let's not forget Labors interst in cradle-to-grave surveillance with the NIR.

Tracking your every move for your safety.

Right.

I'm wondering if there's an argument for forcing single term administrations, so only stuff that all major parties agree on continues through multiple terms and the rest thrashes, like an OS trying to run too many jobs.

So is this a Cray style vertical cylinder or more a tank on its side?

Enquiring minds....

And as long as THE PATRIOT Act stays in force

You can bet that situation will never improve.

Wow. $8Bn down the toilet and HP don't pay a $

Impressive.

You have to wonder what has persuaded the Judge of the validity of HP's arguments.

That structures is something like 10 layers thick and *very* tough.

Keep in mind by deforming (slightly) on impact it absorbs some of that kinetic energy rather than letting it penetrate.

Such modules can change the whole basis for things like L2 habitats in Lunar orbit, Mars moon exploration or Mars missions in general.

You get a lot more volume for mass than with a solid wall design.

Wot. 100 psts in and *nothing* from our favorite apologist for mass interception?

Someone on the naughty step again?

Drugs *can* be re patented for use in differenct conditions.

But the thing holding this back is not technical it's economic.

The drug mfg/regulatory eco system rewards safety and novelty not cheapness.

With predictable consequences.

Add's a whole meaning to the phrase "back orifice" compliant

Time to be gone.

Adobe : We don't pay our *staff* to find bugs in our code

WTF would we pay anyone anyone else to do so either.

And a 66 megapixel camera

Quite a bit more than the average camera phone.

Seriously this is a terrific achievement

This piece of idiocy should be hilarious

Although not for the account holders.

Runways have other uses

Like delivering the payloads and support equipment to the site.

Near term you're talking about sounding rockets, allowing UK universities to do what German and other Continental universities can do and give their students hands on experience of sending a paylod to space. Sounding rockets could let students do a launch as an end-of-course project.

The other near term option is for Virgin Galactics sub orbital space ride, as possibly XCOR's Lynx.

REL's Skylon is the big one of course.

Note that once it's know that the backdoor *exists*

Various groups will never stop looking for their access protocols and how to access it.

The point is it's guaranteed to be there.

How does this not end badly?

Who to believe?

Released documents of agencies concerned or company whose share price will go down the toilet if public trust in them is shattered.

Decisions, decisions.

Actually Buffet went further

Roughly "If I'd a time machine and a rifle I''d go back to Kill Devil Hill and shoot it down."

Although I think he was more thinking of all the airline operators that had gone down the pan over the years and taken billions of share holders dosh with them.

It might be effective.

Trouble is that would drop investment bank profits down to "absurd" from "obscene"

And you can bet no management wants that.

"in order to effectively tackle Islamic terrorism"

I'd think anyone who's seen "Bitter Lake" will be thinking.

1) Get Saudia Arabia to stop funding the indoctrination of Wahhabism in foreign schools.

2) Get Saudia Arabia to stop exporting these nut jobs abroad and handle their own s**t.

3) Call up the CO of 617 Sqdr and tell him there's a bunch of dams that need demolishing.

If most of the 9/11/01 bombers were from Saudi Arabia, where should the states of the world be focusing their attention?

The figure from the paper is 3-6.5 GPa of tensile strength.

Which I think is getting closer to "space elevator" grade materials.