* Posts by David Mayne

2 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2008

US Navy to test fire electric hypercannon

David Mayne
Paris Hilton

@ Graham Crocker

Yeah, but to get the slug to move from a dead stop to mach7 (2.3 Km/s as is pointed out above) in half a second you'd need a barrel 575m long.... (if I can remember my old mechanics lessons....)

I should imagine you'd need to get that down to more like 10 or 15 m as a maximum, and that's going to be a very very short pulse.... Not so easy

Why Paris? Why not :-D

Civil servants still sticking unencrypted data in the post

David Mayne
Paris Hilton

Seems a bit 1984 to me

Does anyone else think that "Misistry of Justice" is creepily Orwellian?

He had:

The Ministry of Truth - responsible for propaganda

The Ministry of Plenty - responsible for rationing

The Ministry of Love - responsible for torture.

I suggest this government sets up:

The Ministry of IT Security

The Ministry of Deep reflection and thought before introducing policy

The Ministry of Just and legal Warfare

The Ministry of affordable housing

and finally the Ministry of Honestly recorded donations...

Though I might be up for a two minute hate every day... so long as it's never aimed at Paris...