Obviously, we can't predict the future of conflict, but I can't help but think that the biggest danger that is faced by the United States comes from small groups of individuals using terrorist tactics in protest at US Foreign Policy
The attack on the USS Cole in Aden, on 12th October 2000, is a typical example. A small speedboat loaded with explosives was navigated to a position against the destroyer's hull and exploded, 17 sailors were killed. A friend of mine was a medical orderly on a Royal Navy anti-submarine cruiser which rendered assistance and described it as a scene of devastation.
A rail-gun is a formidable weapon, but its only really of use for attacking a rival navy, or a military establishment on a coastal shore. No nation nowadays has that sort of power. The USSR's navy is largely laid up in shipyards and few ships are still serviceable. China has a warm-water navy and has shown little interest in Ocean-going ships for over a millennium. N.Korea, Libya, Iran aren't naval powers in any real sense at all.
Which leads me to the conclusion that the USA sees Britain or France as the biggest threat to its current security! A rail-gun won't defend against a zodiac full of nitrate explosive, or a saboteur with a limpet mine.
It seems to be thinking grounded in the 1980s when the *enemy* had Aircraft-carriers, destroyers, cruisers and subs. That just doesn't seem to be the case now
Bet someone's said this in shorter form now and I get modded redundant;-p
Three people made the same joke in the same minute. This sucks. I am no longer original. Ahh sod it, I'm going streaking. Nobody else can have thought of that....
To this end the Germans disassembled a light bomber, brought it to the arctic in a sub...put it together and tried to hit a munitions facility north of Minneapolis.
Wake me up when you can burn it to DVD with reasonable quality to watch on a TV. I wouldnt expect it to make a clone of a genuine DVD - that would be a real incentive to piracy - but if it was at a resolution at least as high as a broadcast TV version I'd accept that.
A PDA needs a PDA operating system, not a desktop/server OS. It also needs 24+hr battery life. That things small, but its still a laptop, meaning it'll go flat in less than a full working day.. and will cost twice as much as the too-expensive HP Jornada HPCs !
To appeal to me a PDA has to have support for at least VGA width, and a keyboard. I just don't want to have to write in calligraphy on the screen.
Only the Psions - now deceased as a range - and the expensive HP Jornadas have this sort of design. IMO we need more. Preferably with modems built in and an ability to sync with a Mac!
"Get your online next-day tea supplies here"
"How to understand Americans - get the guidebook!"
"Sizzling Shots of the Queen - Join today!"
It all gets rather too much at times.
More seriously, I'd say in the UK we have more trouble with semi-legitimate opt-out marketing than pure spam, almost all of which seems to come from the USA (yes, re earlier story, particularly Comcast and the baby-Bells)
There are so many sites in UK cyberspace geared towards getting email addresses for "free newsletters", and any club or association seems to want to send emails with a bare minimum of content and masses of advertising added. This I see as an attempt to legitimise spam, rather than mass-mailing, people are paying asociations and clubs to sell their products for them. Affiliate programs suck, and so many firms have been founded to do just this in the UK.
How many times must I tell them? I already have enough Tea.
Much is now made of local wireless networks and data terminals being used by army units to share targeting and strategic information.
I wonder how well a wireless computer works when sealed within a highly polarised electronic cage? None too well, I suspect.
Unless you mean all armoured assault vehicles share targeting information and fire many small projectiles instead of one big one?
Good grief, that would be deadly. Hope the army don't think of it.
We're geeks, right? We're the sorcerers of the modern-day world. Without us, nothing happens and no-one works.
The RIAA can try this all they like, but if they succeed in getting the restrictions they want, we'll break them, we'll show others how to break them and we'll pirate the content out over the web just to make sure they learn that if they fuck with us they'll get hurt.
There's a lesson pending for the RIAA, and its this. Our rights as consumers are not up for renegotiation, and we don't want our rights to be protected (enforced) by expensive and unreliable DRM. RIAA, you can accept this, or you can pay up for the technology only to see us painlessely circumvent it. We will not be governed by you. That's not the way it works
The product we're shipping now, the C5P has a top speed of 1.4 to 1.5MHz, today, but the sweet spot is 1GHz. We have a fanless version at 1GHz. We also sell all the way down to 533 or even 400MHz, for low-power applications.
Hope no potential buyers are put off by this - it must be sweet in a laptop, where power conservation is critical. That said, do VIA have a chipset to take advantage of the head start given them by the processor?
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Obviously, we can't predict the future of conflict, but I can't help but think that the biggest danger that is faced by the United States comes from small groups of individuals using terrorist tactics in protest at US Foreign Policy
;-p
The attack on the USS Cole in Aden, on 12th October 2000, is a typical example. A small speedboat loaded with explosives was navigated to a position against the destroyer's hull and exploded, 17 sailors were killed. A friend of mine was a medical orderly on a Royal Navy anti-submarine cruiser which rendered assistance and described it as a scene of devastation.
A rail-gun is a formidable weapon, but its only really of use for attacking a rival navy, or a military establishment on a coastal shore. No nation nowadays has that sort of power. The USSR's navy is largely laid up in shipyards and few ships are still serviceable. China has a warm-water navy and has shown little interest in Ocean-going ships for over a millennium. N.Korea, Libya, Iran aren't naval powers in any real sense at all.
Which leads me to the conclusion that the USA sees Britain or France as the biggest threat to its current security! A rail-gun won't defend against a zodiac full of nitrate explosive, or a saboteur with a limpet mine.
It seems to be thinking grounded in the 1980s when the *enemy* had Aircraft-carriers, destroyers, cruisers and subs. That just doesn't seem to be the case now
Bet someone's said this in shorter form now and I get modded redundant
So we're porting to wine instead of whining for ports?
Being metallic, you could deter the cat by running a high frequency AC current through the wallpaper.
Oh Noes!
Three people made the same joke in the same minute. This sucks. I am no longer original. Ahh sod it, I'm going streaking. Nobody else can have thought of that....
We hear a lot about the need for tinfoil hats - it looks like that problem just got a modern-day solution.
Bet it kills mobile phones too, though.
This is our new name We hope that you will like it Even though it sucks
Or just be a subscription service. Lets face it, if you were going to pay for business IM.. who else but google?
.. would be Google Messenger.
Use Gmail address as a login ID, use it to capture the business IM and email market
To this end the Germans disassembled a light bomber, brought it to the arctic in a sub...put it together and tried to hit a munitions facility north of Minneapolis.
Link, anyone? Google can't find this...
What good is a bike pump in a vacuum?
I often have fun kicking itinerant evangelists off my property but it would be superb entertainment in orbit
Watch them swell up and pop!
Europe launch for Apple's iTunes
Wake me up when you can burn it to DVD with reasonable quality to watch on a TV. I wouldnt expect it to make a clone of a genuine DVD - that would be a real incentive to piracy - but if it was at a resolution at least as high as a broadcast TV version I'd accept that.
Right format, wrong interior
A PDA needs a PDA operating system, not a desktop/server OS. It also needs 24+hr battery life. That things small, but its still a laptop, meaning it'll go flat in less than a full working day.. and will cost twice as much as the too-expensive HP Jornada HPCs !
Didn't you say just yesterday that you'd had enough of /., and Michael in particular, and were cancelling your subscription?
Or was that just another bit of sh*t-stirring?. Yeah Mod me down, GNAA mods, my karma's at heights you can't even conceive of and I meta-mod daily.
To appeal to me a PDA has to have support for at least VGA width, and a keyboard. I just don't want to have to write in calligraphy on the screen.
Only the Psions - now deceased as a range - and the expensive HP Jornadas have this sort of design. IMO we need more. Preferably with modems built in and an ability to sync with a Mac!
yeah, I used MAILsweeper to ban any email carrying the word T3a
"Get your online next-day tea supplies here"
"How to understand Americans - get the guidebook!"
"Sizzling Shots of the Queen - Join today!"
It all gets rather too much at times.
More seriously, I'd say in the UK we have more trouble with semi-legitimate opt-out marketing than pure spam, almost all of which seems to come from the USA (yes, re earlier story, particularly Comcast and the baby-Bells)
There are so many sites in UK cyberspace geared towards getting email addresses for "free newsletters", and any club or association seems to want to send emails with a bare minimum of content and masses of advertising added. This I see as an attempt to legitimise spam, rather than mass-mailing, people are paying asociations and clubs to sell their products for them. Affiliate programs suck, and so many firms have been founded to do just this in the UK.
How many times must I tell them? I already have enough Tea.
"as dense as metal, can be vaporized easily but is still a poor conductor"
Granite. There's no technical reason I can imagine that would stop you using a stone warhead on a rocket.
Much is now made of local wireless networks and data terminals being used by army units to share targeting and strategic information.
I wonder how well a wireless computer works when sealed within a highly polarised electronic cage? None too well, I suspect.
Peer-to-Peer artillery is never gonna catch on
Unless you mean all armoured assault vehicles share targeting information and fire many small projectiles instead of one big one?
Good grief, that would be deadly. Hope the army don't think of it.
We're geeks, right? We're the sorcerers of the modern-day world. Without us, nothing happens and no-one works.
The RIAA can try this all they like, but if they succeed in getting the restrictions they want, we'll break them, we'll show others how to break them and we'll pirate the content out over the web just to make sure they learn that if they fuck with us they'll get hurt.
There's a lesson pending for the RIAA, and its this. Our rights as consumers are not up for renegotiation, and we don't want our rights to be protected (enforced) by expensive and unreliable DRM. RIAA, you can accept this, or you can pay up for the technology only to see us painlessely circumvent it. We will not be governed by you. That's not the way it works
..Thought Linux didn't have driver support for their chips...
The product we're shipping now, the C5P has a top speed of 1.4 to 1.5MHz, today, but the sweet spot is 1GHz. We have a fanless version at 1GHz. We also sell all the way down to 533 or even 400MHz, for low-power applications.
Hope no potential buyers are put off by this - it must be sweet in a laptop, where power conservation is critical. That said, do VIA have a chipset to take advantage of the head start given them by the processor?
Got to love Firesomething
If they outsource it to India it could be FireSomeone !