What we need is a plane that has one wing at low speeds and then two wings at ... OMGTHE X-WING FIGHTER!!!
Posts by Reptar
20 publicly visible posts • joined 3 Jan 2008
Supersonic silent biplane COMING SOON ...ish
Texting worse for drivers than drink or drugs
Google's IP anonymization fails to anonymize
'Why not try nude female midgets?' says Microsoft Adcenter
Surveillance Teddy nabs granny-bag robber
Be afraid...
Should'nt this be tagged under Rise Of The Machines?
First the Robobears will be bluetoothing data to the police (for convenience you understand), then they'll be given arrest powers (as part of the governments on going value enhancement measures) then they'll be suited up and given engage / destroy subroutines (to address the governments concern over terrorism).
Next thing you know you've got a furry paw pressing your face into the dirt and a lascannon on the back of your head.
Please ignore the net neutrality sideshow haunting Comcast's BitTorrent bust
Just wondering...
..what impact, if any, this might have on UK... given the recent excitement about cracking down on illegal file sharers.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/25/filesharing_mou/
It's pretty clear that sharing copyrighted files is illegal, but how can the ISPs ever know? And if I have a right, given in the terms of my contract, to use a file sharing application how can the ISPs legally stop me using it?
This was my first thought when I read about Virgin and the like sending out letters. How do you know I'm not distributing my own files, or any files that are publically and legally available?
MPs lambast BBFC over Batman
I for one...
I for one have not seen this film. Do not think for one minute that it will prevent me from putting my concerns into writing. My senior advisers have told me this film contains scenes of violence and peril and not 2 hours of bunnies licking their hind quarters. As an MP I have a knack for spotting things that are bad and then saying that they are bad and then saying that it would be good if they were good instead of bad. However, as an MP I often have difficulty separating reality from fiction.
You would be right in thinking I am agast. I am agast.
In the coming days I will be spearheading a joint select committee hearing into whether films should have an onscreen warning. Our draft measure is to have "Does not contain little fluffy bunnies" occupying no less than 75% of the picture for the duration of the screening.
I am counting on you and your readers for support. Please, let's not have another Godzilla.
MP Robert Huffington-George MP B.Sc
Toddle-on-the-Weed
Berks.
It's official: The Home Office is listening
Inquirer celebrates spammer murder-suicide
Now you've gone down in my estimation
Meh. I don't really like this kind of clean hands journalism. It's the kind of tabloid stuff that gives us "Jordan calls Posh scrawny cow" (psuedo quotes). Brilliant! Y'see the printing media didn't say it, Jordan did! But we get to print all the juicy details. Whoopeedoo! And you can be disgusted at the same time! Yey!
Same thing here.
If you've got some spat with some other rag, keep it to yourself eh?
Microsoft crowbars Live Search into Facebook
US Air Force may allow killbots to be flown by non-pilots
DARPA plans soldier-tagging system for US troops
Flash! Thunder!
I imagine the system would be a hitech version of the method used by WWII troops to locate and identify each other. The enquirer would call out "Flash!" the receiver would answer "Thunder!" Only by knowing the code word "Flash" can you pursuade the receiver to Identify themselves. Only by knowing the reply code word "Thunder" can you convince the enquirer that you are genuine. The enquirer, who is not afraid to give away his position, initiates contact.
This version would probably do the same, the electronic recievers would only respond with their ID when a broadcast coded message is detected.
This means that troops would not be giving their position away (unless of course the opposition had cracked the key)
US sees first airliner flight with laser defences
Pope apologises for Apple's MobileMe sins
Nike pulls Air Stab trainers
Fact Check
"With the current gun and knife epidemic that is sweeping our country we would expect retailers to be taking a more sensitive approach to promoting products to a young and impressionable market.”
Actually, there aren't any statistics for knife crime that show such a trend, since police only started recording "knife crime" last year. And today was the first time such figures have been released.
"Because this is the first time we have such data this says nothing about the trend in such crime," said the Home Office's Scientific Advisor Paul Wiles.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKL1754092020080717
Baptist church in assault rifle giveaway
Rabbit murderer stalks Ruhr Valley
Mommy wow! I can speculate too!
".. the perpetrator might be using net satellite images to pinpoint hutches."
He might also be using GPS to get himself to the target. And he might also be using a 3G iPhone to communicate with accomplices. And he might be taking pictures of his victims with a 16 bazillion megapixel camera and uploading them to a central server using a publicly available file sharer. With his wireless broadband. Pretty easy this weak speculation eh?