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DIY Cruise Missile Grounded

Posted by michael on from the shot-down-in-a-blaze-of-glory dept.

PSaltyDS writes "The DIY Cruise Missile project from New Zealand has been previously covered on /., but the BBC now reports that Bruce Simpson has been forced to shutdown by his government. His project web site says 'The New Zealand government has moved aggressively to shut down this project -- and by using quite unscrupulous methods which appear to be in breach of the law.'"

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  1. must not say it... must not say fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woah, I've never seen this part empty

  2. Eh? by schild · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm quite sorry but this is in no way news for nerds, or stuff that matters. Fark.com has better filtering than this. /schild

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  3. Well, we now know by jonbryce · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    there are two things a cruise missile can't defend against.

    1. The tax man
    2. A slashdotting

  4. bah by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I wonder if someone has sick livestock should they be held liable should anthrax start forming on it right? Sure it's not along the same lines, FYI I didn't bother RTFA since I have no time right now however, if this was a project for scientifical purposes and there was no danger (meaning explosives but simply a missile), any government should take a look at the shit going on in University labs across the world and get a grip. On the other hand though, if it was for 'hey look at me and my cruise missile' purposes then I'd side with any gov. What would happen if say the inventor got drunk and launched it say into a hospital or school? Even without any explosives it is still a dangerous thing to have around.

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  5. Trying a troll here .... by Adam_Trask · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Apparently ...
    Slashdot requires you to wait 20 seconds between hitting 'reply' and submitting a comment.
    It's been 18 seconds since you hit 'reply'!
     Jeez!!

  6. Re:Darn! by PReDiToR · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Being here a long time obviously makes you unfunny.

    I for one welcome our new unfunny overlords.

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  7. Re:Darn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How is this redundant when it's the first post to state what the C stands for? Why is another post further down marked +2 Informative for saying the same thing?

  8. Re:Open source military hardware? by Shardis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Simple, he doesn't include the controller software. He says so in at least a few different places...