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2005-04-12 Iraq-Jordan
Introducing the 'Matrix' laptop-triggered landmine
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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-04-12 11:28:05 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 How does Landmine Survivors Network feel about insurgent IEDs? Are they planning to lobby Zarqawi about them?
Posted by Mike  2005-04-12 12:05:02 PM||   2005-04-12 12:05:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "It seems obvious that these remote-control anti-personnel mines, however carefully monitored, will present new dangers to innocent Iraqi civilians for years to come."

US minefields are carefully mapped and either use self-destructing mines that "expire" or command-detonated mines like these. While I have sympathy for the victims of third-world "insurgency" minefields -- more terrorist act than military fortification -- I think their advocates need to stop and think for a while.

Or, hell, they should just shut up and focus their efforts on the real problems instead of constantly drumming up cash by sliming the US.
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-04-12 12:09:39 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-04-12 12:09:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The US Army will by June deploy in Iraq its "Matrix" system of remotely-detonated landmines, despite widespread concerns about the technology.

God forbid they save Americans.
Posted by badanov  2005-04-12 12:17:23 PM|| [http://www.rkka.org]  2005-04-12 12:17:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 It's a marketing problem. Just call them steel fun-ball launchers.
Posted by A Democratic Party consultant 2005-04-12 12:32:43 PM||   2005-04-12 12:32:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 2 people = 'widespread concern'. Gotta love that new math.
Posted by Raj 2005-04-12 1:05:19 PM||   2005-04-12 1:05:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Most of the Staff of the Register are socialist hacks. Their coverage of IT is good to great and they are the home of the BOFH. Coverage of anything else mostly sucks. I have not doubt Lester belongs to some anti mine group or some other group affiliated with them.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-12 1:23:30 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-04-12 1:23:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 BOFH?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2005-04-12 1:44:33 PM||   2005-04-12 1:44:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Bastard Operator From Hell - The greatest computer humor series ever. Goes back to the mid 90s. Here's the link.

Imagine a user hating IT/server administrator merged with a drunken serial killer. :)

The Register BOFH only goes back to 2001 or so, but stories back to around ~95 are out on the net.

SPoD is right about the Register's staff, though. Good IT coverage but "Socialist hacks" is a polite way of putting it regarding everything else.
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2005-04-12 2:26:22 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2005-04-12 2:26:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Imagine a user hating IT/server administrator merged with a drunken serial killer.

There's another kind?
Posted by Robert Crawford  2005-04-12 2:41:26 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-04-12 2:41:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 "..Or that we’re putting a 19-year-old soldier in the position of pushing a button when a blip shows up on a computer screen."

The insinuation here being that a 19-year-old serviceman is some sort of dunce. Yeah, real friendly types, these Human Rights Watch dipsh^H^H^H^H^H people...
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-04-12 2:49:44 PM||   2005-04-12 2:49:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 And excuse for a few techie images.

On Topic is techie_trak...

Otherwise:
project
okay
lovegeek
bluescreen
forbidden1
PHP with attitude
get_string (SNSFW)
geek goddess (NSFW)
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 2:58:14 PM||   2005-04-12 2:58:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Lol. A typo in every link. Note the comma, instead of dot, after www. change it and voila! The joys, and dangers, of cut & paste. GIGO!
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 3:03:25 PM||   2005-04-12 3:03:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 And even that won't work, since I employ a sinister technique to keep other sites from ripping off and linking directly to images I post on RB. Sigh. Screw it.
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 3:04:55 PM||   2005-04-12 3:04:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 " a non-lethal rubber-ball-delivering alternative."Talk about a way to ruin a party.
Posted by raptor 2005-04-12 3:43:59 PM||   2005-04-12 3:43:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 .com, screw it? That is ll you have to say after all that enticement?!

Fix it! Please... I want my dose of geek goddess (NSFW). ;-)
Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-12 3:49:35 PM||   2005-04-12 3:49:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 It Is Forbidden....
Posted by Frank G  2005-04-12 4:08:25 PM||   2005-04-12 4:08:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 In your best Yoda: Shamed me, you did, yes... ;-)

On Topic is techie_trak...

Otherwise:
project
okay
lovegeek
bluescreen
forbidden1
PHP with attitude
get_string (SNSFW)
A man's remote (SNSFW)
sexy server
Techzone (SNSFW)
Japan, heh
All 5 toes
geek goddess (NSFW)
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 4:20:15 PM||   2005-04-12 4:20:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Uh, my eyes feel yucky .com!
Posted by Huputch Omesh6419 2005-04-12 4:40:47 PM||   2005-04-12 4:40:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Huh, HO?
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 4:41:59 PM||   2005-04-12 4:41:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Com - nice stuff. Do you have the Software Project timeline with the "Then a miracle occurs" box?

Always a good one...
Posted by Doc8404 2005-04-12 4:46:52 PM||   2005-04-12 4:46:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Whoa!

(had to be said....)
Posted by Neo 2005-04-12 4:52:58 PM||   2005-04-12 4:52:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Doc - Hmmm, nope, don't think so. This is the only other "project" thingy I have:

Evolution of a Project
1. Wild Enthusiasm
2. Uncritical Acceptance
3. Dawning Comprehension
4. Rejected Disillusionment
5. Search for the Guilty
6. Punishment of the Innocent
7. Promotion of the Non-Participants

Can you provide the Magic, heh?
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 4:54:08 PM||   2005-04-12 4:54:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Found one version of it!!
Posted by Doc8404 2005-04-12 5:05:04 PM||   2005-04-12 5:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Lol - I know that one, heh - I have a few by that cartoonist along the same line... he's got a real knack for hitting the raw nerve in research, lol!

Here's one you may not have seen - but I'm sure you'll appreciate...
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 5:13:44 PM||   2005-04-12 5:13:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Here are more of those fine Harris cartoons:
inflation
life_of_assistants
PC_physics
perspective_5
perspective_6
secular_religion
secular_religion2
secular_religion3
simple_men
sneaky
suicide

I think that's all of his I have, lol!
Posted by .com 2005-04-12 5:28:38 PM||   2005-04-12 5:28:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Is there one of Dr. E looking at the heel for instructions?

and...

since I employ a sinister technique to keep other sites from ripping off and linking directly to images I post on RB

all I wanna do is browse.... :)
Posted by Shipman 2005-04-12 5:58:10 PM||   2005-04-12 5:58:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#27 BOHF
A bit late but Acronym Finder has 3 meanings

Bastard Operator From Hell
Beautiful Operatress from Heaven
Bitch Operator from Hell
Posted by SwissTex 2005-04-12 7:15:47 PM||   2005-04-12 7:15:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#28 You will have to believe me if you never worked at a terminal tied to a mainframe. Bastard Operator Form Hell is the only correct answer.
Posted by Sock Puppet 0’ Doom 2005-04-12 9:47:00 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com]  2005-04-12 9:47:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#29 Original BOFH = Burned Out F'ing Hippie
Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-12 9:50:56 PM||   2005-04-12 9:50:56 PM|| Front Page Top

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