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  1. Re:Reflected gravitational waves can be useful on Reflected Gravitational Waves · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can reflect it, you can make a curved "mirror" to concentrate it to a single point in space.
    If you can concentrate it, you can amplify it.
    And if you can amplify it, then maybe you could weaponise it

    Fixed with the more likely path.

  2. WTF on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    I work for a defence contractor and would assume that this info is probably classed as a secret rather than restricted. If so then why the hell was this on an internet connected network? If its only classed as restricted then while it might 'seem' to be of importance its probably not that critical...

    IE its all very well knowing that Marine one has X fitted; the real skill is how the hell you counter X.

  3. Re:The GeoCities of China? on The Chinese (Web Servers) Are Coming · · Score: 1

    X-Cache: MISS from rainny.qq.com
    Via: 1.0 rainny.qq.com:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE5)
    Connection: close

        So, I'd guess there basing that analysis on the Via or X-Cache lines (or both)

    From the X-Cache line you can find the server name but not the server type...
    From the via line you can find the server which in this example is squid... nothing to do with QZHTTP.

    Using qzone.qq.com you get:-

    HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
    Server: qhttpd
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html
    Content-Length: 235

  4. Re:The Japanese have a solution! on Satellites Collide In Orbit · · Score: 1

    And god knows how much junk the US, EU, China have created. This one might be Russia's but the next one...

  5. Re:Its causing my system to crash on Google Earth 5.0 Silently Changes Update Policy · · Score: 1

    The only other "google app" I run is Picasa, which I don't think uses the Google Updater.

    Yet...

  6. So what? on Miscalculation Invalidates LHC Safety Assurances · · Score: 1

    So what if its wrong... we're still going to end up dead one way or another... personally in around, say 50 or 60 years or so for a reasonable stab in the dark or as an entire species I'd give us another couple of centuries if that before someone goes 'wouldn't it be cool if we tried this'.

    Even if we survive at some point either the sun is going to go pop or the galaxy is going to crash into another one (and boy, I'd hate to see the insurance paperwork for that claim let alone tried to decide blame and whether the milky way is a right off or could be repaired).

    My vote is even if there is a chance which isn't as slim as first thought we should still go for it.

    (And totally off-topic aren't the odds of winning the UK ((49^48^47^46^45^44^43) to 1) lottery somewhere in the same order of magnitude as the original odds?)

  7. Hm, VMS? on 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent · · Score: 1

    Doesn't VMS predate their prior art by a few years? And VMS had lots of the features they claim as part of their patent (and a few more besides)...

  8. Re:Large Hadron Collider on Scientists Find Hole In Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 3, Funny

    Compared to some of the worst case scenarios from certain sections of the media and assorted doom-mongers it was a little glitch. A big glitch would have gone something like:

    Scientist 1: What's that strange glow...

    Scientist 2: I don't know but its getting bigger...

    Diety of choice: Whoops. There goes Eath, time to build another but I'll fit a circuit breaker this time...

  9. Re:How do you mean they can't get lower? on RIAA Sues 19-Year-Old Transplant Patient · · Score: 1

    Careful now or you'll wake up with the head of an artist in your bed...

  10. WTF (Where not what) has my CTRL-TAB gone... on Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Adds Private Browsing · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Using Firefox 3.0.3 CTRL-TAB does exactly what I want, it moves from one tab to the next... so what improvements needed to be made to the UI?

    Please stop 'improving' things for the sake of it.

  11. Re:Amen with the crashed systems. on Nmap Network Scanning · · Score: 1

    Good, its not just me who wondered WTF the point of that rant was...

  12. Bloggers are not all journalists on Online Reporters Now the Journalists Most Often Jailed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Calling someone a journalist just because they write a blog does not make them a journalist...

  13. Re:Craplympics on IT Cutbacks For 2012 London Olympics · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nope - he's right first time (Assuming he meant something produced by male bovines).

  14. Simple solution... on Real Name For Open Source Development? · · Score: 1

    Just submit all patches as anonymous coward... then those pesky lawyers will have fun trying to find out just exactly which AC posted the code...

  15. I'll stick to books on On the Economics of the Kindle · · Score: 1

    I'll stick to books - they have one really big advantage - they are not electronic and give my eyes a rest from a bloody screen - I work on computers all day and spend a fair bit of my spare time in front of one at home - so I like to read to unwind before bed.

  16. Err... on Toyota Demands Removal of Fan Wallpapers · · Score: 1

    So Toyota want to file takedown notices but won't file 'proper' DMCA takedown notices without billing the site owner for the work required to produce the DMCA takedown notice?

    Right.... obviously Toyota believe you *can* have your cake and eat it.

  17. Re:Cool! on French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they need to go after the evil people who produce the silcon used in chips, no wait - add the mining companies who mine the metals used, the oil companies for the oils used to make plastics, for producing the stuff in the first place for us to find it and (ab)use it.

  18. Am I the only one... on Plasma Plants Vaporize Trash While Creating Energy · · Score: 1

    Who read the plants in the title as being large green things with leaves etc ;)

    I really need to ensure that prior to reading anything on /. I consume atleast 1, preferably, 2 large strong coffees.

  19. Re:Don't worry guys! on U-Turn On UK ID Cards · · Score: 1

    The fact that the idiots will find a way to leave a copy of atleast 1m people's biometric and other details on train or on a usb stick left lying around in a public place....

  20. Re:Wow smart scientists... on How To Cloak Objects At a Distance · · Score: 1

    It's still a prototype though since it breaks easily,

    What do you mean prototype? that sounds almost ready for serious use - just look at most tanks ;)

  21. Simple fix... on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    alias emacs = "vim"

  22. Re:Can There Be a Knot that Cannot Be Tied or Unti on Major Advances In Knot Theory · · Score: 1

    Just open a draw containing various cables that has been left for a few months - none of them knotted when you put them in but you can bet when you take them out they'll be more knotted than a knotty thing

  23. slashvertisment on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Released · · Score: 1

    If this had been any other OS other than Linux this would have been tagged as a slashvert...

    And stop with the sodding story tag on stories - kind of redundant

  24. Re:And the rest of us... on ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    I'm failing to see why people would find this so objectionable...

    Where is it set in stone that there shall be just net info com edu org mil gov as TLD's and forever more shall this list remain fixed?
     

  25. Hindsight on The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' · · Score: 1

    Is wonderful thing and always 20/20.

    Back in the day when IPv4 was conceived I doubt any of the designers envisaged the internet growing into the behemoth it has become, SMTP and other technologies where/are fine when used correctly - the main thing the originators of those technologies are guilty of is underestimating the ability of humans to take a good thing and screw it up for the rest of us.