Leoedin - Slashdot User

Comment Re:You say: "Defense"... (Score 5, Informative) 548

by Leoedin on Thursday June 12, 2008 @04:49AM (#23760849) Attached to: Pentagon Wants Kill Switch For Planes

Not correct. The jeep they used was filled with propane canisters, petrol and nails. The Ammonium Nitrate acts as an oxidiser, and these guys didn't have it. Propane canisters are designed to not explode. The Glasgow terrorists clearly thought that if they just lit a fire under one of them it would explode (playing too much GTA methinks). They didn't even attempt to make proper explosive with an oxidiser.

Bookmark Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm (theregister.co.uk)

by andyh3930 on Monday May 19, 2008 @07:53AM

Google To Be Sued in UK For Trademark-Linked Ads 235

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 04, 2008 @05:01AM from the some-people-are-idiots dept.

nuke-alwin writes "Channel 4 news in the UK is reporting that Google will be sued by Lastminute.com for the way it sells advertising. Adverts from competitors will now be displayed when searching for some trademarks. Google says consumers will benefit. Some trademarks become so familiar that all similar products are known by the trademark name: Coke and Hoover, for example. I think searching for these kinds of words should allow competitors to advertise their similar products."

Nevada Governor to Bill Fossett Widow For Search 447

Posted by timothy on Thursday May 01, 2008 @05:10PM from the don't-forget-to-tip-your-searcher dept.

sonchat writes with news that Nevada's "Gov. Jim Gibbons intends to bill the widow of missing multimillionaire adventurer Steve Fossett for $687,000 the state spent in searching for the famed aviator last fall, a spokesman said." Though in some places charging for the cost of a search effort is routine, apparently in Nevada it is not.

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