Posts by Anders Halling

80hd forgot the best part

Redstone circuitry! You can make processors in there!

I only bought the game last week and I'm hopelessly hooked. So far my only redstone creation is a blinking clock circuit "lighthouse" on top of the glass tower on my base but the possibillities are endless. And water! You can make elaborate water systems with the flowing water mechanics, I have the output items from my monster trap automatically delivered though a waterfall into my workroom right next to my crafting bench. Next step is to wire up a pressure plate to a torch to alert me when there's an item waiting for pickup. Or maybe a note-block for an audible alert.

My underwater glass house eagerly awaits more underwater content.

ssssssSSSSSSS BOOM!

Um.

Most detonators I've seen are cased in a thin shell of aluminium.

I do not want aluminium shrapnel to emit from my pockets tyvm.

You need some bad luck to be killed by a detonator alone, but the injuries can be unpleasant nonetheless.

There was an incident in the Nowergian corps of engineers 10 years ago or so where a demolitions instructor had been careless and rigged a small lump of HMX with an electric detonator and carried it in his pocket "for the next demonstration". And then the 200 watt HF radio in the car behind him started transmitting. He lost his leg.

Grenade obviously.

RMBK

What, you mean positive void coefficient isn't a good idea after all?

Combined with a worm custom made to mess with coolant pumps...

*shudder*

Gah

I have a building for sale, but you'll have to rip out all the elevators, AC, automatic window blinds etc. because the licence to use the operating software is non-transferable.. Yeah, I can see that stand up in court...

Look to Denmark

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absalon_class_command_and_support_ship

Multi-role flex-ship, 2 helos, can fit mission specific weapon loadouts, self-defence AA capability (ESSM).

Fit for troops, ASUW, what have you. This can do anything a bog-standard frigate can for one third of the cost with less survivabilty should it be hit. But I would much rather have 3 of these than one "standard" frigate.

To the AC with the EVE refencence:

All gank, no tank. ;)

Big fish

According to the newspapers here they knew the driver, and knew approximately when the car would pass, but the driver did not know what they had planned.

Also they waited for 2 hours or something. In drysuits. In the summer. Glad I didn't have to be near when they took those suits off.

@BlueGreen

So it's not total conversion of mass to energy via matter/antimatter, but a fusion burn of a stellar core of several solar masses in, and I quote, "a few seconds".

Most reasuring.

@ Parax

Cydonia without Psionics? Brave man.

Sectoid Leader with high Psi skill.

@Rob

Ah, but who says we are?

Umm..

All this hysteria over a primary key?

Thats what this number is innit?

The unique identifier allowing the nice immigration official to query a database and get back a result set of passport holders name, date of birth, place of birth, picture and fingerprint.

If these results don't match with the person presenting the fake passport with the stolen RFID identifier, well the guy carrying it will be arrested. There will be a mismatch between the passport database and the person presenting the passport, warranting further checks.

I agree that being able to skim these identifiers while the passport is in the owners pocket is making things unnessecarily easy for the bad guys, but this is just one step on the way to being able to fake a passport, not the whole solution. They also need a way to insert false data into the database, or a way to take the database down. I presume that when the online system is down there will only be a checksum verification of the identifier in the passport.

@Adam Foxton

>And lets just hope there's not some afroed student sat there in a modified diving suit with a >wormhole back to california when we get there...

What? you don't want wormholes? The Commonwealth sounds neat to me.

There is some justice left in the world

Thankfully.

Illegal for a reason.

Hmm.

The ability to route other peoples data through your own equipment and perchance keep a copy for yourself.

Wonder why this is illegal...

@Yorkshirepudding

Such a tight circle? 400-600 km diameter?

But RE DARPA-money.. couldn't this be used in reverse to _create_ or strengthen a hurricane if you fly the other way? I'm assuming the jets will fly retrograde to the hurricanes rotation to snuff it out.

Supersonic black helicopter...

Patrol craft

What about smaller ships with high speed and decent endurance?

Something like the Swedish Visby-class Corvettes (~40 crew, 40+ knots) or Norwegian Skjold-class patrol boats (~20 crew, 60 knots (Surface Effect)).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_class_corvette

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skjold_class_patrol_boat

The Skjold has been described by a US Coast Guard Captain as "The best smuggler hunter I've ever seen". 60 knots and stealth will surprise the bad guys. (Yes, yes, the small speedboats of the pirates don't carry radar so it's irrelevant, but I assume some of the motherships carry commercial radar...)

The Visby-class even has helicopter capabilties and must surely be one of the smallest warships to have this.

@john

>Surely the rationale for the microwave weapons is that people run away if they get hit by it. But if you're on a speedboat, you can't get away unless you're the driver. And even then, it'd be pretty trivial to put a metal mesh in front of your windscreen and so shield yourself! Just like in a microwave oven, it's pretty easy to see through.

>Altogether, that sounds to me like a recipe for cooking any folk on the deck of the speedboat, as well as any innocent sailors encroaching on the ship who simply don't understand what's happening to them.

But if the speedboat just keeps coming despite the ray then you could make a good case for it to have displayed hostile intent and _then_ you could switch those CIWS (Close-In Weapon Stations) from standby to auto...

Useful to filter out the false positive idiot sightseers. And belive me, there are those stupid enough to make a high-speed approach on a warship in a narrow strait 'just for lulz'. Seen it myself. Although the escorting patrolboat with a very visible .50 cal. on the bow tried to intercept, the small speedboat evaded with ease and kept playing.. Good candidate for this 'piss off-ray'.

As the article states it's nice to have some more steps on the ladder of escalation than a loud-hailer and a .50 cal, so I'm all for it on naval vessels.