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  1. Re:Force Field? on Mysterious 'Forcefield' Tested on US Tanks · · Score: 1

    I'm reading this and thinking that you've got just 2 tanks equipped with this system. Some dude fires an rpg at tank no.1, this reactive system then attacks the threat to counter it so tank no.2 goes "oh shit! taking fire" and reacts and then destroys the first tanks attempt to disable the attack.... if you had a column of like, *lots* of tanks all you have to do is fire 1 rpg and you end up with a very messy ending.

  2. Re:Right, get a woman to comment on engineering. on Farewell To The Concorde · · Score: 1

    I think you want to read this...
    http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/FactShe ets/FS-06 2-DFRC.html

  3. Re:all we need now is the dark side of the moon pi on Cold War Satellite Pics Declassified · · Score: 1

    Of course the earth has a dark side, you know when its very dark outside? thats when your side of the earth is on the dark side of the earth.Of course you could be one of these flat earth people too.

  4. Re:OGG! on UT2003 Demo Ready · · Score: 1

    well you have shown how much of a f***head you are, if you follow the link to fredans homepage you will see he is in Sweden and looking at his name gives a good indication that maybe english is not his first language.

  5. Wow you can now run HP/UX on Sparc!!! on Linux on Laptops Manufacturer Report Card · · Score: 1

    well thats what the article claims! load of crap article.

    Oh and if you want to see naturetechs offerings it is not http://www.naturetech.com/ with their hippy food offerings it is http://www.naturetech.com.tw/

    Oh well another day in crap /. article linksland.

  6. Debian is not just a Linux Distro on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmmm, lots of people are missing the other part of Debian being kernel independant, there is already a port to a BSD kernel in progress and also you can install it with GNU/HURD if you want.

  7. Re:Debian rocks on The Importance of Being Debian · · Score: 2, Informative

    abower@dylan:~$ apt-cache search aspell | wc -l
    14
    abower@dylan:~$ apt-cache search ispell | wc -l
    44

    hmmm, yeah only dictionaries for over 21 major languages for ispell.

  8. Re:uk eff? on Alan Cox Attacks the European DMCA · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk and
    http://uk.eurorights.org/ are good places to get started

  9. Re:not that much to get them to put back into wine on Transgaming Bringing Windows Games to Linux(?) · · Score: 1

    nah but the point is you get them to put the code out once, if it is crap you stop supporting them.

    You only need to see the code once, when you have that luxury you can choose if you want to carry on paying or not (or if its worth is)

  10. Re:slashdotted already?? on Transgaming Bringing Windows Games to Linux(?) · · Score: 1

    Still working for me.

  11. not that much to get them to put back into wine on Transgaming Bringing Windows Games to Linux(?) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    basically they want $100,000 and then they will put all of their code back into wine.

    20,000 people $5 each, not that much of a problem to me.

    If everyone is going to get upset by this then I suggest you write something else and GPL it.

  12. Re:Encryption? on Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Enigma Machine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, use the enigma system to encrypt your credit card details and post them as a reply to this message.

    Then we will see if it is still a valid encryption method :-)

    /me thinks symmetric cyphers which do not encode a letter as itself ever should be easy prey for any modern computer

  13. Sun's and stuff on Largest Sun Spot In Nine Years Now Viewable · · Score: 1

    I spent most of the week looking directly at an Ultra5 and a Sparcstation thing and I'm not blind. Normally I would use telnet to get a virtual console, but this week I cracked and had to look directly at the cream case. Not blind yet 8-)

  14. UK HISS replacement, similar no? on Electronic Medical Records Software for Unix? · · Score: 1

    How people went open source in the UK http://www.spence-n.demon.co.uk/wcnn.htm