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  1. Re:And in these games... on US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training · · Score: 1

    Old news, MI5 have been doing this for ages. if I told you any more details then someone would have to pay you a visit and reason with you just to make sure you would not pass the information on.

  2. Re:A good plane on F-117A Stealth Fighter Retired · · Score: 1

    A few more words about the F-177A http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-117.htm and the F-22 http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-22.htm both good planes with differing jobs.

  3. Re:This is my fault... on The End of Non-Widescreen Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Sorry guys, ever since I started putting my homemade porn online, wide screens have become necessary. You know, you don't have to show the entire sheep. I'd rather not see mutton dressed up as lamb but YMMV.
  4. Re:Interesting idea for older notebooks on Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation · · Score: 1

    A few others are giving it a try http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=489152&cid=22763856 and not only on older kit.

  5. Re:And why is this bad? on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Some advocate stealing Wi-Fi links http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/01/securitymatters_0110 but only with the knowledge of the owner and besides the chances of being caught by the RIAA if a guest downloads something they should not is after all rather small.

  6. Re:It's Not Gonna Matter on For CS Majors, How Important Is the "Where?" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wouild suggest a liberal arts college and hope that you come out the other end as a Renaissance humanist polymath something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Battista_Alberti

  7. Re:Compulsory T-Shirt on What Are Must-Sees For Open Day At the LHC? · · Score: 2, Funny

    I collided with the largest hardon and poked my eye out.

  8. List of Liechtenstein tax evaders offered to UK on Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Britain turned down the chance to recoup £100m (133m) in unpaid taxes from UK residents with bank accounts in Liechtenstein at least two years ago because revenue officials refused to pay a whistleblower a tiny fraction of that sum. The informant turned instead to Germany's secret service, selling a list of at least 750 wealthy Germans with money stashed away in Liechtenstein. This has sparked Berlin's biggest crackdown on tax evaders and triggered a diplomatic row with the principality. . . Read more via the FT. http://search.ft.com/ftArticle?queryText=lichtenstine+secret+service+tax&y=0&aje=true&x=0&id=080225000064&ct=0&nclick_check=1

  9. Re:What good is it? on Comcast Kicks Tires On 100-Gig Optical Links · · Score: 1

    But what good is this 100 gigs if you can only pay for it but not use it?

    ~Dan If your ISP then uses traffic shaping to manage you downloading via this big fat fast pipe?
  10. Re:Plan B on NASA Running Out of Plutonium · · Score: 1

    What about North Korea? After all they have some knocking around http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/nuke-plutonium.htm and a swap for food is always a good idea when trading with North Korea and it will help arms control.

  11. Re:Pneumatic Telegraph on Underground Freight Networks · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Post Office Underground Railway, London First pneumatic then electrically powered. In 1853, a small vacuum tube about 225 yards (200 metres) long was built to deliver letters inside a Post Office building. The system, now known as a Lamson Tube, became very popular, and in 1859 the Pneumatic Despatch Company was formed to build a larger subterranean line between the Post Office buildings. A test-line 450 yards (411 metres) long was built near Battersea, and the Post Office approved it. Read all about it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3826019

  12. Re:Did you see that? on EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    I feel that those in power have just started to notice that a growing proportion of their voters are not too fond of Microsoft and as elections within the EU happen quite often then a hard line taken against any and all Microsoft infractions may well help them to gain some kudos in the eyes of their voters.

  13. Re:people still use freebsd? on What's New In FreeBSD 7.0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If is good enough for Barack Obama (Democrat) - FreeBSD, Apache by pair Networks http://www.douglaskarr.com/2007/06/23/2008-elections-by-server/ then it is good enough for me!

  14. More information on Military Grounds Stealth Bomber Fleet · · Score: 2, Informative
  15. Re:thevapowaretagisincorrect on Submersible Glider Powered By Thermal Changes · · Score: 1, Informative
  16. Re:Before the flamewars start on No Closed Video Drivers For Next Ubuntu Release · · Score: 0

    A short note from Mark Shuttleworth on this topic http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/95

  17. Re:Little bit disingenuous on New Rocket Engine Successfully Tested · · Score: 0

    Some seem to think that a methane fueled plane http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/air craft/aurora.htm does indeed exist and has been zooming around for a while.

  18. Re:I have a Vision on Sun To Unveil Project Blackbox · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If you think about what happened when Katrina struck these black boxes might have helped both local and federal authorites if they had them, had plans to use them and they indeed worked as advertised; other problems came to light http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002715.html in the areas of systems speaking to systems and a severe lack of bandwidth that might have not allowed the box/boxes to function as expected.

  19. Re:TFA: Don't be a robot, use one! on Mapping Interior Spaces With Robots And GIS · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The Air Force Research Laboratory may well be already using robots to map out underground enclosures http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,71 779-0.html some more information and ideas discussed by David Hambling via http://www.defensetech.org/archives/002775.html

  20. Re:Someone from the UK on Six Bomb Blasts Around Central London · · Score: 0

    Living as I have done in London for most of my life I can cast my mind back to the period from the early 1970s right through to the 1990s and throughout that time terror attacks by way of bombs were a fact of life - not a big fact but never the less a fact of life. It is my view that often friends and family members who live some way away from London are rather more worried about a bombing than those who tend to use London Transport most days as a matter of course.

    After spending a short time watching a few news reports I am rather impressed and pleased by both the way that the London disaster plan seems to have been implemented and in the calm and controlled way all those caught up in this attack are conducting them selves. I do so hope that the press refrain from lurid speculation as to body counts and the like as although it may make for good headlines it also spreads fear an unease at a time when both do more harm than good.

    I know that this may sound flippant to some members but in a city with a population the size of London you have iirc more chance of winning the lottery than suffering from a terrorist attack.

  21. Re:I yell REALLY loud. on How Do You Make International Calls? · · Score: 0

    I can confirm this as it also works for me in Canada.

  22. Re:Athlon 64 versions as well on Mini PC Grows Up? Shuttle XPC Reviewed · · Score: 0

    This may be better http://eu.shuttle.com/xpc.htm#xpc than the US site.

  23. What a proxy state on North Korea Opens Official Website · · Score: 0

    I hope visitors are using firefox and a proxy to keep themselves safe during their visit north of the 49th.

  24. Re:Stamp of totalitarianism on How The Government Spies On Your Internet Use · · Score: 0

    "In other words, the Patriot act is being used to stifle dissent against the act itself." Hmm . . . recursive legistation . . now just couple this with retrospective implementation and we are stuffed. But how will we know we are stuffed?

  25. Re:Now on Fedora Core Doesn't Like to Dual Boot? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Is the Dual Boot problem now on the other foot?