* Posts by Brad Murray

3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jun 2007

Pentagon's raygun-packing 747 to visit DC

Brad Murray

Loitering around

I think the idea is that launch detection is performed by aircraft like this anyway, so strapping a laser on one that can kill (and energy levels needed for a kill on a pressurised cylinder of liquid oxygen and other volatiles are fairly low) at the same range as the detection kit works is not a bad bet.

I suspect the viability of the project is somewhere between the optimism of the designers and the pessimism of the sceptical though largely uninformed commenters here.

Post Office loses Amazon contract

Brad Murray

Ridiculous

It would be a catastrophe of free-ish market capitalism if a right to collective bargaining was to be threatened by the risk of untimely delivery of a children's book.

Paris Hilton dragged back into court

Brad Murray

3000 feet is going to work out fine

That's 3000 feet from the transceiver that communicates with her bracelet/anklet/whatever -- not 3000 feet from her home. I'd venture to guess that means she can't completely tour her own home let alone leave it.