GoalKeeper;

The system's reaction time to a Mach 2 sea-skimming missile such as the Russian SS-N-22 Sunburn from automatic detection to kill is reported to be 5.5 seconds with the firing synchronized to start the engagement at a range of 1,500 m and ending with a kill at 300 m.[2]

The SS-N-22 (russian version) has a 2.6 ft diameter, while the railgun `pellet` appear to be a few inches only, thus being much harder to hit. Also, final speed of the railgun pellet should still be much higher than mach 2. And at the range-speed combo they are talking of, the trajectory should be relatively flat. I'd bet against the goalkeeper.

Actually, last I looked at it it was in 2009, and the only reason they would provide me for the paid service shortcomings were the numerous trees in the path of the signal, which at that point were covered in snow much higher than the pointing direction. I would say that in the ground direction it was pointing to, the trees were at most 15 feet in the horizontal direction and 25 feet higher than the antenna installation.

Which means it`s perfectly aligned toward the trees! YAY!

The bayonet mount of my camera does not need to protude out of it. And neither did it, but having it protuding out of the body is certainly not an improvement, nor really innovative :)

Snow in trees was problematic too. It`s like permanent rain. I live in the middle of a forest and I even took the extra work of bringing electricity, cable and phone through ground entrances, so I wasn`t about to cut trees for my satellite, which I wasn`t using that much at my previous location. And heating trees wasn`t a part of the solution :)

The gear came as a free goodie with a television purchase years before, with free to air access and 3 years of free subscription to a service. I`ve used the service a bit, but the FTA wasn`t worth investing in a bigger or better dish and I didn`t want a large ugly one somewhere either.

Oh well, that was for me. At this time, I get all I want from my internet connection and rented blurays at 1$ a pop in those auto-dispensers.

In case that`s no prank; depending on where you live, the required operations to obtain the feed might be illegal. Where I live, there`s 3 months of summers where trees block a lot of the signal and rain just cut it, and 6 WINTER MONTHS (sorry had to vent about this weekend extra feet of snow) where the antenna won`t pickup anything because of the snow. So yeah, we didn`t use that much before just selling all of it back.

Our library even allow us to rent virtual book and virtual dvds; were we get to download the book or dvd immediatly, and we return it when we don`t need it anymore or it`s done automatically after a week, doing exactly what netflix isn't doing and the user is complaining about. Personnaly, I'm using only the books so far since the offering is mostly french and I favor watching a movie in it`s original language, and french books are what`s harder to find with other means. Still, it`s a great way to get the latest movies (and books) for my kids :)

I don't have troubles with my usual boots; only the winter one's which span 5.75 inch in front.

Why do you think I'm AMERICAN. Beside, WTF is an American ?

Toyota flooring cover were sticking the pedals down when pushed down hard by the user. That's quite different, in this case he took his feet off and the car didn't start accelerating as if there was no tomorrow.

I also have size 13 winter boots. I've drove many brands and many models of cars, and since winter last a while around here, I've done so with those winter boots. In most of the cars, I am always touching the brake pedal when pressing the gaz. We learn to be very cautious at all times; in his blog you can clearly see the wide brake pedal that might not be so far from the gaz but you know what, you can move your feet much more to the left without problems.

Most of the issue with large boots is actually slowing down when you intended to speed up, not the reverse! He clearly failed at it...

Oh well, the issue on my side at this time is not having a tesla :) At least he got that right!

You should stop playing with it then!

You downloaded it once. Download it again. Perhaps you`ll even have a faster internet connection by then, so you will be able to download a larger sized version in higher quality in the same small amount of time.

It appears he now spams slashdot ..

I though the same, but he must have been refered to those VM on VPNs which you only get to see the remote rendering of, in which case this is totally valid :)