* Posts by Lex 2

5 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009

Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you

Lex 2
Boffin

But...

Not that I'm trying to say Star Trek was real or resolved this issue in any way, but didn't the star ship have navigational deflectors to create a field around the ship which kept things like hydrogen away from the ship itself whilst it was traveling through space? Effectively putting it in some kind of 'happy bubble' for travel. It was a big enough thing in the show that when the navigational deflector was down they couldn't travel.

"The navigational deflector (also called the deflector dish, the deflector array or the nav deflector) is a component of many starships, and is used to deflect space debris, asteroids, microscopic particles and other objects that might collide with the ship. At warp speed the deflector is virtually indispensable for most starships as even the most minute particle can cause serious damage to a ship when it is traveling at superluminal velocities."

Potentially Star Trek still covers it's behind, as hydrogren still falls into the category of "....even the most minute particle...."

UK BitTorrent admin acquitted on fraud charge

Lex 2
Pirate

Register - Could you please pass on a message

World -> BPI (in fact *PI)

Absolutely no member of the public (at least none I have ever met) like you, the work you are doing, or have any respect for your organisation.

Even Stephen Fry is his latest podcast has listed his dislike to the *PI actions.

China plans space station for the 2020s, eyes Moon trip

Lex 2
Welcome

ISS

Why not just add their 3 person capability to the INTERNATIONAL space station. I know they can have their own space station completely under their own control and manageable by just them, but the ISS already has a lot of things that they would not then have to worry about replication on their space station. Not to mention the massive international gesture the Chinese working with the rest of the world would have. it's a shame really. It would be nice to have a space station where different nations truely come together as one and look into space as a combined effort of mankind than of a particular nation of man kind.

Masked passwords must go

Lex 2
FAIL

What a load of tripe

I cannot disagree with these idiots strongly enough. On top of 'shoulder surfing' all you would need was some virus or something with screen grabbing capability now, whenever it sees a password box and the enter key is pressed.

Perhaps these guys were once 'security gurus' but it would appear a little time at the top and the thin air has got to their heads. I seriously hope no one out there listens to them and thinks "Yeah...well, they must know what they are talking about"!

I'm glad to see so many people having the same obvious and sensible reaction against this junk. I hope the register follows these people up with calls and mention how many people think they are idiots.

I think the anonymous poster of "No no no and again no", commenting on inconsistency of websites that require a capital letter and a number and a symbol character in the password (or any variable combination [inc none] of those rules, cause the most problems. This commenter has a good point in that mark, and consistency should be considered for this area.

People just not that into Blu-ray

Lex 2
Stop

Pricey

I own a bluray player (in the form of a PS3). And I have bought a couple of bluray movies, but only a very small number, purely because (in my case) of the prices. You have DVD sales of good movies all the time, bringing prices down even as far as £5 (£2 if you want a particuarly old movie), where as very few blurays are ever less than £10-15. And I'm just not willing to replace the things I already own for that kind of cost. I'm even hesitant about getting new movies at that kind of cost.

Sort out the prices and you might find people start buying. With things the way there are at the moment, people are a bit more frugal anyway, since money isnt abundant still.