Posts by Smokey Joe

Forget what the tabloids tell yers

"What hacking?

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That's not hacking."

Perzactly! And it's as simple as that.

I find it hard to believe that so many visitors to places like this don't know what McKinnon did.

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Strange how things work out in the end...

Windows was sort of forced on me when the Amiga went down the tubes.

Now Ubuntu has been sort of forced on me by Vista.

Thank you Microsoft for leading me to the light :-)

space is deep

"Surely if you want to send a viable signal over vast distances... it needs to be of a vast magnitude?"

I'd be expecting something lasting months or years rather than 5 milliseconds.

Phillips?

A phone won't ever get as close as a phillips. Not even an iPhone. Don't believe the hype!

Sweet

It's keeping the Apple/MS kettle boiling and it's good to watch:-)

But seriously, that was a decent article. The mac fanboys seem oblivious to the vey idea that Apple are playing the game they shout loudest against...

Unfortunate

Bah. MCN deserve some respect for not doing that on purpose, obviously.

It's that time of year again... I miss my bikes... all I have these days is El Reg.

Hmmm

"In order to get the laser weapon into the vicinity of possible enemy missile silos, it is to be mounted in a 747 jet, one of the few aircraft capable of lifting such bulky machinery."

I have a cunning plan... mount them on trucks!

Chaff.. sort of...

So then, why not launch a sustained volley of the artillery round of choice but only duds at first while the lasers gets tired of going through repeat charging cycles? Whatever... I don't see this being effective for too long because any determined enemy will change it's tactics. Can it spot suicide bombers, IEDs or car bombs? Now that WOULD be a marvel of technology.