Posts by IainWR

A few reasons why cops didn't immediately shoot down London Gatwick airport drone menace

I don't see anyone, including the author of the article who is a pretty fair rifle shot himself, explaining just how difficult it is to hit a small object moving unpredictably in three dimensions using a hand-held optically-sighted unguided weapon - at night.

Re: It's not like they can triangulate the signals!

This is a new use of the word "easily". What does it mean?

Windows XP? Pfff! Parts of the Royal Navy are running Win ME

Re: No excuse

Superglue?

Fighter pilot shot down laptops with a flick of his copper-plated wrist

Re: "ejection tie from Martin-Baker"

To any one who needs to know - it does. If you don't need to know, you won't be making purchasing decisions on M-B products anytome soon.

Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware'd Google Smart TVs

Sorry, may I have that again in English?

Trial date set for Brit police 'copter coppers over spying-on-doggers claims

Ooh -police misbehave slightly, maybe. Problem??

Hacker dishes advanced phishing kit to hook clever staff in 10 mins

WTF?

Forgive me, I'm just a dumb guy with two difficult degrees that are only marginally connected to IT. Isn't this whole thing conspiracy to commit a crime? Which leads to the question why the NZ police haven't arrested the lot of them? And if you want a more philosophical approach, should we be considering the great World Wide Web as something akin to a nation, in which case this is an act of war and deserves to be treated accordingly?

Please. What is it that I'm missing?