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Comment: Re:Interesting technology (Score 1) 601

by BeerCat (#39988765) Attached to: Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic

Sounds more to me like Microsoft and the media companies are being scammed.

Yep. And by a Russian company with "Pirate" in their name.

Forgive me for what I'm about to type, but: "LOL!"

LOL indeed.

Sounds like a classic Trojan Horse attack (on MSFT and the RIAA / MPAA). They want so much for it to be true, that they have been blinded to the source of this "solution"

Comment: Re:Using CCTV (Score 2) 202

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/photo_galleries/4252721.stm

Olympics 2012 bid: London visit

Picture 5:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40841000/jpg/_40841379_oly_tunnell300.jpg

Day two: The team pass through the tunnel that will link Kings Cross and Stratford when the Channel Tunnel link is complete

Comment: Using CCTV (Score 5, Interesting) 202

using CCTV to change traffic lights (apart from showing just how widespread the coverage in London is) is almost minor compared to some of the other bid stunts - they took the motorcade through the (at that time, not yet opened) railway tunnels from St Pancras to Stratford, as if to demonstrate how easy it was to get to the Olympic site - provided you didn't see any of that "get in the way" stuff. Like the city...

Comment: Re:It's about damn time (Score 1) 1051

by BeerCat (#39895425) Attached to: Rand Paul Has a Quick Fix For TSA: Pull the Plug

The 9/11 strategy will never work again due to 1. Fortified cockpit doors 2. Most importantly, hostile passengers. The best you will get now is to blow up an airplane with a bomb and not use it as missle. There a million other vectors that a terrorist could use to kill about 300 people, not sure why air travel should be made such a pain for that. It's just a risk we have to manage. Also, if you figure in the fact that people are less likely to travel due to the invasive procedures at airports, the TSA has undoubtedly caused more deaths indirectly than the 9/11 hijackers.

Tell that to those who set insurance rates - the fact that they reckon the existence of TSA is "low risk" compared with not having it, then the TSA will stay.
But since insurers use "real" insurance to prop up the "fake" MBS type money market madness, then they will keep racking up the premiums to pay for the banksters.

Comment: Re:That's odd (Score 1) 455

by BeerCat (#39333611) Attached to: USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage

Right, so your theory is that they stuffed a brand new building full of explosives to save a bit of time when it came to demolition in fifty years? And no one ever mentioned it, even after the events of 9/11?

  It doesn't appear to violate any of the laws of physics, and at least there are no time-travelling Nazis involved, so I suppose it's not impossible.

Possible - yes
Probable - humankind has made some truly dumb decisions made over the years, but in this case on balance, probably not

Comment: Re:That's odd (Score 1) 455

by BeerCat (#39319865) Attached to: USS Enterprise Takes Its Final Voyage

Thinking about it ( I know, it's probably only feeding some "there must be a consipracy" troll, but I'll press on), in addition to your points, by the 1970s was the first time that skyscrapers were replacing skyscrapers, rather than replacing old, low-rise buildings. So, what if someone thought "wow, these things are really hard to demolish. Since we know this building will be replaced in - call it 50 years - why don't we build in the holes ready to take the demolition charges?" at which point someone then countered with "but why don't we save some effort, and put the charges in now, so we don't have to waste time partially dismantling it to load up the pre-drilled holes with explosive? I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Aircraft crashing into it? Not an issue - a B-25 crashed into the Empire State Building, and it's still standing!" (of course it wasn't built to a budget, and to a new design by a bankrupt city)

In other words, if (and I stress that it is a big, big, "if") someone had thought along those lines, it would be another triumph of stupidity over conspiracy.

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