* Posts by Alan Firminger

508 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Aug 2008

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BAE mounts the Last Charge of the Light Cavalry

Alan Firminger

Be realistic

Discussion ignores the infantryman's guided weapon, such as the TOW . I am sure they have advanced a lot since the last but two Israeli war. Nevertheless it is odd that we never hear of them, it is all RPGs.

Anything concetrated on the ground is vulnerable from the air and from the ground.

The only way forward is by dispersed infantry carrying rockets and guns.

Tanks seem to have no role except to show force when occupying a city. Remind me, what happened in Basra ?

Whitehall mulls new police leak investigations

Alan Firminger

123

1 The independant advisor was sacked because he gave honest independant advice.

2 The comparison between horse riding and ecstasy may well have been statistically true and valid within the context, but that was not why he was fired.

3 And where is the BBC support of the goverment ? I saw a news interview that was sympathetic with the professor.

Rogue trader calls for smarter regulation to avert disaster

Alan Firminger

Lesson

Nick Leeson has taught us that electronic money is secure, meaning that a bank cannot arbitrarily create it. The BCCI crash confirmed that. But you have to watch them.

Anti-filesharing laws revive crypto fears for spooks

Alan Firminger

error

But we know from a recent trial that terrorists don't use encription. They write things like : Lia is ready for her baby in June.

And that is a far more secret way to communicate.

Magpies hold funerals for fallen feathered friends

Alan Firminger

solitary

Magpies are solitary. Except for mating adults attack other magpies.

When there is a group of magpies that is a family.

So was the deceased a family member or a stranger ?

UK cops to be kitted out with smartphones

Alan Firminger

Eye am a Camera

Someone should think of the effect of the built in cameras. I suggest this will be beneficial. The interesting case in court will be when there is a description of scene and no picture - So why not ?

Ricoh GR Digital III compact camera

Alan Firminger

But what about shutter delay

The digital camera industry and its commentators are in denial. Compared to film cameras digital cameras are excellent in all respects except the time between final depression of the button and exposure. We want to take pictures of the ball as it is kicked, the child as it smiles and lots of other ephemeral images. This is easy to measure, so please tell us

Acer US prunes Aspire One mini laptop prices

Alan Firminger

Faulty goods

I got one today. My prime purpose is to learn about Gnu Linux , this is the first lesson.

The keyboard driver is configured incorrectly.

Five characters appear from the wrong keys : \ from # , # from £ and Euro from Alt Gr 5 ; @ and " are swapped.

Six characters ar marked and don't appear at all : £ & * ( ) and the broken | .

So far I can find no easy way to rectify this, there is no directly accessible keyboard nationality setting.

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