Posts by Adam Wicketts

Gov boffins to carry out simulated London dirty bombing

@What relationship does this bear to a dirty bomb

when a dirty bomb goes up its going to scatter tiny little bits of radioactive shtuff in the wind,

you measure how the air flows round the streets and you know the path the radioactive material is going to take,

so they will know after a dirty bomb goes off that ground zero is a bad place to be as are streets X,Y and Z however the amount of crap down streets A,B and C is lower so rescue services /hadmat people can get in there with lower risk

Hotmail dies on both sides of the Atlantic

move to Gmail

i see a lot of comments about epople still having a hotmail live ID for some services that need it,

you know you register ANY email address as a passport address and use it right? that why i log in to msn using my gmail address

Gilligan's bomb: Is it time to panic yet?

re: The critical difference is...

agreed, they weren’t the best leaders and they mucked a few things up but your right,

this country hasn't lost its stiff upper lip, the 99.9% of us who got up and went to work and got on without lives the days after the IRA bombings and the 7th of July bombings still have it. sadly the 0.1%left are all very loud about there fear, or they have a platform from which to shout (media, government, religious 'leaders')

on another note has anyone else noticed how other bombers are described by the group, (IRA, PIRA, Basque, )or location(Birmingham bombings, Bali, uss Cole) but current attacks on the UK and USA are dates? (9/11, 7/7, )

Lite-On factory fire threatens PC monitor biz

i hope . . .

you know all the destroyed screens arnt going to be coverd by warranites or there insurance,

i hope there is the usualy crappy £25 - £50 surcharge per screen that they foist on the rest of us

Tag-a-lag: Chip implants mooted for UK prisoners

bah!

I have an implanted RFID chip already, I use it to open my door, via an RFID reader, but also I use it along with a RFID keyboard emulator dongle thingy as my password for my computer,

the range of mine is only a few cm off the skin, (they contain exactly the same tech that’s in work passes and door entry key fobs) but there are versions available that have a range of a few meters for instance the ones that are used to auto track stock as it enters and leaves warehouses (which I plan to get sometime this year in the nape of my neck)

you don't really need satellite tracking, just a bunch of long range readers around the prison, it allows you to track the inmate inside the prison, if there location is being tracked every second maybe that's how they hope to cut problems?

its going to be damn hard to get away with attacking another inmate if the guards can simply see who was around the person who was attacked at the time of the attack,

there is a 3rd type available too the has read and write capabilitys, not much good for tracking but still very very usefull

and just so you know the chips used to read write are whats stored in dogs, cats and cattle as it allows the owner of the animals to have there info stored direct to the chip, the read only versions such as mine and the long range one work by having a unique number that’s 16 digits long which it just repeats over and over as long as the reader is on it

its going to be damn hard to get away with attacking another inmate if the guards