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US: BAE 'could have' pirated our secret Stealth 3.0 tech sauce

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anonymong

Ah. It's been a while since you've carped on about this, I was wondering when it would come up again.

Accepted you have great military experience and doubtless an enviable network of contacts. I admire many articles you write. But have you ever actually done any military tech development and engineering? Different game entirely to paddling around the 'Med in those dinky little minesweepers with a G&T on the bridge, I'm afraid.

The Americans seem to be going through one of their periodic protectionist fevers at the moment. There are some politicos on Capitol Hill around who would just love to kick BAE in the nuts, hence the report you base your article on.

If the Americans who mattered (ie the ones inside the JSF project controlling the security) got the first suspicion that leaks like this were occurring, even to good old trusted 'blighty', there are very drastic and automatic procedures that would come into place to sort things out. I think we can all be very sure of that. Security in these projects is audited by the government agencies, not the contractors.

And RE your remarks on Taranis and the price differential: so it's stealth. But what kind? Is it better or worse than the US version? You don't put forward any kind of evidence or metrics to suggest it is comparable to 'stealth 3.0', and the unfair thing is you know the relevant spokespeople are gagged by official secrecy and will never be able to say anyway. So another idle non sequitur which will be forgotten.

Get an internship on a high-tech Defence engineering team before you comment on this stuff.

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Orange dismantles Bristol Tower of Doom

fred

muppet.

Pete, you muppet:

"Try taking a quality navigating compass to work; if it's a question of realising the amount of various forms of electromagnetic radiation we're exposed to, introduce your compass to the office photocopier (along with the smell of toner!); the kettle; your PC screen; the CCTV monitors, all manner of stuff. Also, isn't radiation used for the treatment of cancer? Discuss.

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Your pocket compass would be affected my NEAR FIELDS, not RADIATED ENERGY. ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION IS NOT THE SAME AS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD.

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fred

Trick of Stats

tower block in Staple Hill, Bristol is statistically much more likely to concentrate a demographic displaying a 'heavy-tailed' distribution of people who are old, poor, fat, lacking in exercise, lacking in education, are smokers, or who are likely at some point in their lives to have worked in some of the more dangerous factories in Bristol at a time when health and safety/dangerous substances exposure controls simply didn't exist. These are all huge risk factors for cancer. It shouldn't be a suprise that these clusters occur, they were known about well before the mobile 'phone revolution.

Add into the mix the fact the residents of said tower blocks will quite probably be unemployed or retired, and of the surly, snotty, weasel-eyed stock that has a latent mistrust of any large commercial concern, they will probably be much more willing to really make a noise.

How many telco cancer clusters do you hear reported around masts sited in nice, well behaved villages in the 'shires with a village pond and pretty thatched cottages?

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