Posts by nhw

Programmer gets 8 years for theft of stock trading software

Typical barrack room lawyer

Trust me when I say the legal interpretation of 'permanently deprive' is not what you think it is.

Green Berets to get Judge Dredd computer smart-rifle

Grenade fragment velocity >> grenade velocity

CountZero: before going on about a physics fail, you might want to consider the shape of the fragment cloud of a grenade detonating in all directions at 2000 feet per second while moving forward at a few hundred feet per second. Going to look like a bit like an egg, with the 'pointy end' along the axis of travel.

Not very much like a cone, in other words.

Fail for physics fail fail.