Comment: Q: What would you do with ... (Score 1) 143
Q. What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser?
A: Fit it to the head of the worlds largest shark
A: Fit it to the head of the worlds largest shark
Comment: Re:Erdogan? All powerful? (Score 1) 104
As far as I'm aware the difference is that elections in Turkey are reasonably free and fair. In Iran you have to be an approved person to stand for election, and with Mugabe election fixing and intimidation appears to have been rife.
Comment: Erdogan? All powerful? (Score 2) 104
The last I heard was that he was Prime Minister of a party fairly elected in elections which were probably fairer than those of the US.
Also his policies have not been without opposition as the riots last year have shown.
Comment: Re:The numbers (Score 1) 139
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maroberts
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Attached to: Google's Motorola Adventure: Stinging Defeat, Or Semi-Victory?
You're not wrong, but what often happens is that new patents are acquired by the company as they research their golden goose further.
The original patents may have expired, but Motorola almost certainly had a library of patents covering years of research and improvements in the field.
Comment: Because of Android (Score 1) 281
..it can be argued that Linux is gamings #1 platform already
Comment: This has happened before (Score 5, Insightful) 273
...and normally appears to be the Government trying to force Microsoft to discount its licensed to the UK Government or invest in the latest boondoggle.
Comment: Re:Rhubarb (Score 1) 131
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maroberts
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Attached to: Metal-Free 'Rhubarb' Battery Could Store Renewable Grid Energy
...and Custard!
Comment: Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 323
GPS is quite good nowadays so navigation shouldn't be a problem at any altitude. A large drone would not have a big radar cross section if made of the right materials, which don't have to be super advanced. I suspect making the body out of something like Kevlar and shrouding the engine would go a long way to making an effective drugs drone. The main problem would be landing it, probably best achieved by manual control at the far end.
Comment: Re:Solution (Score 1) 323
I think we should have all drugs legal, controlled and taxed, so that they can be part of the real economy instead of the black economy, as well as making problems such as addition a medical issue instead of a criminal one (to an extent)
Comment: Re:Hmmm (Score 1) 323
Why not use drones?
I would guess the size of the drugs packages they have in mind would dwarf the capacity of anything but a proper Predator drone to carry.
Comment: Drill Baby Drill! (Score 1) 323
Was this what Palin had in mind, one wonders? :-)
Comment: This one time, in Band Camp (Score 1) 894
I wonder if he's gettin' kinda antsy?
Comment: Point of no return (Score 1) 303
I'm not sure, but I think if they've actually dispatched the goods at the agreed price, then the companies have no legal redress. If they find the error before dispatch, then they're perfectly entitled to correct the problem.
Comment: Re:Um, no. (Score 1) 235
Apple owes taxes in the EU as it set up bases of operations in the EU, Ireland in particular as did Google. No one wants to put money back into the US as repatriating money would cause it to get taxed a shitload.
Comment: Re:Audi have been doing this for years (Score 1) 521
As somebody else mentioned, the Land Rover has been going for about 70 years and was mainly made out of aluminium because Rover wanted more steel to produce their cars. Producing a vehicle for foreign markets was one way to get a bigger allowance of steel. They weren't that keen on selling Rovers abroad at the time, but producing an aluminium vehicle for sale abroad meant they could use the steel allowance on their Rovers...
Whereas what they probably should have done is looked at making more of their Rovers out of aluminium