Posts by Marcus Aurelius

Gadgets are only good

If she lets you play with her as she plays with the gadgets

No small crowbar

But it seems that it will be a really small Cthulhu which emerges ....

@Dave15

I wasn't sure whether you were for or against, but the comment shows they were a small number of custom developed aircraft, for which maintenance costs would be huge.

I'm surprised they didn't simply use an Airbus or similar. Someone has mentioned that they're built near tolerance limits, but this is a fallacy; they're built to hold several hundred people and their luggage, so carrying a small crew of 10 and some electronics (even several tons of electronics) will probably be a weight reduction. You wouldn't even have to put a glass cockpit and redesigned engines and wings on them, because the ones they come with would be perfectly adequate, and Line Replacable Units would be available for the most part in any BA/Virgin service depot if really needed.

Paris, because getting her going is almost as expensive as a Nimrod.

Thankyou

I thought it was just mine

I'm sure

The 8-14,000 people killed in the US by handguns would agree with you - not. Not to mention the 60,000 injuries.

(The UK annual total for all murders per year is about 800)

Wot no memory expansion?

I have 14GB of MP3s on my phone before I get started on the other things I use it for,

s/Lewis Page/Andrew Orlowski/g

'nuff said

War with your major trading partner

May be bad for business but that doesn't stop war happening. cf France v Germany, rounds 1,2,3....

.Outdoor camera

I'm willing to bet that your camera is in a weatherproof casing, and being on all the time, is able to keep the ambient temp in that shell to substantially above -15C.....

Copper does rust

Copper does rust, at any rate it oxidizes which is how you get rust from iron (rust is iron oxide). The main difference is that copper oxides protect the underlying real copper whereas surface rust does not significantly protect any underlying iron.

Copper is also vulnerable to being 'eroded' by thievery...

If Courtney Love wrote about me like that

I simply tweet to all whether you can regard anything that crazy b*tch says is true (IMHO, allegedly etc)

Solution

Have an outer ceremonial guard and an inner by any means necessary, no questions asked guard.

I would suggest

That the Motorola Defy would be a good starting point. (Short term waterproof, strong glass etc....) and Motorola is a US(ish) company

Whether the phones get regularly broken is probably not a major issue, provided replacements are readily available.

Its perhaps about time the Army moved from horrendous expense developing unbreakable bits of kit that are obsolete by the time they get to the soldier, to accepting that things break and go for cheap with lots of spares.

Not sure what you mean

In Gallipoli, the allied forces lost ships to mines, not guns, the Germans won the 1917 Moonzund encounter against coastal artillery (and Russian vessels). Normandy landing relied on a huge naval bombardment (granted with air support). I'm not sure what you're trying to imply with Kerch as it was heavy losses to both sides. Toulon had its coastal artillery taken out by naval bombardment.

Its actually a trade off. Coastal artillery has to hit a moving target, whilst the naval artillery has stabilisation issues against a static target. Most of the latter are handled perfectly adequately by computers nowadays....

They can't be spartan

There are only 4, not 300

40 to 50 bucks??

I shall have to start exporting there immediately!

Business Traffic

All the users are effectively demanding their own personal lorry to their home, and so the ISPs should be charging the users an appropriate level to meet their demands. Unless the user makes a request to Google, Youtube et al, there would be no traffic on the road.

Google and many other major providers already have their own network for their personal heavy lorries and they pay for it accordingly, so its not realistic to ask them to pay for providing what the user of that ISP has requested they deliver

Access to finance

Access to finance is not a valid reason to deny bail; for example, Archer had truckloads of finance and was granted bail, ditto Nasir currently. Similarly Assange cannot be regarded as posing a significant risk of tampering with witnesses (its difficult to tamper with witnesses in Sweden when you're in London). All in all I'm a bit surprised by the refusal to grant bail given that there is a presumption in favour of it.

Maybe a real lawyer can clarify if he thought the DJ was right or not....

UK

Evidence obtained by unlawful means is not necessarily thrown out; the court simply has to take into account how the evidence was obtained and whether it prevents a fair trial

Data

With everything from Android, VP8 codecs, Chromium, Python, etc, I think Google will win hands down over Red Hat in terms of Open Source volume, even discounting projects that they host instead of actively participate in.

Geoff Crammond

I have fond memories of REVS for the BBC micro....

Lift

I seem to recall that lift is also generated by the fuselage itself in most aircraft designs; obviously not as much as the wings, but maybe enough to make these calculations more complex than first assumed.

Domain value

The thing is that this domain, if properly set up, would be top (or close to it) of the heap on any Google search for sex related material or products. As a huge proportion of internet searches are for such items, the value of this domain should theoretically be immense. I am surprised that it has not been converted to a huge money opportunity, as the range of activities that could be hung off it cover everything from porn to toys,magazines etc to dating.

Even under current law

If said trucker admits the actual act to any "officer of the court" which means solicitor, barrister or anyone else, then the barrister is obliged to disclose those facts.

Its the barristers job to present the information he has been provided in the best possible light i.e translate the "they wuz asking for it" bit into "its all their fault and my client is blameless for doing what needed to be done"

On the subject of Margaret Thatcher

Normally El Reg articles are subjected to a lot of analysis, some critical, but mostly reasoned in the comments.

However on this subject, it seems that a lot of El Reg readers respond in the same knee jerk way as a Jeremy Kyle audience/mob when "those all important DNA tests" are revealed; they leave their brains and critical faculties at the door.

Never in the field of human history has the downvote button been subjected to so much misuse.....