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  1. Re:The Deal on 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' Delayed By Seven Months (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    I find your lack of release date disturbing

  2. Re:Tomorrow in The Guardian on Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Lots of possible causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... none are certain.

  3. Funny on Big Brother Is Coming To UK Universities (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2
    After working on implementing new systems in a leading UK University all I can say is good luck trying to achieve this and can I be a fly on the wall for the first five years of "Go Live" being postponed because nobody can agree what colour the logo should be.

    Basically the chances of this being implemented are zero

  4. Re:Tomorrow in The Guardian on Overfishing Responsible For Declining Fish Population (theguardian.com) · · Score: 0
    Lets see the last mini ice age culminated roughly 200 years ago (See the Great Frost Fairs) and are on a cycle somewhere between 800 and 1000 years. So if we call the Ice Age Winter and the warm period summer we are currently at about the end of February. So what the hell do you expect global temperatures to for the next few hundred years?

    I'm not saying that we're not contributing to the effect just that we're not the only ones as this all part of a natural cycle

  5. Re:No you don't on Ask Slashdot: Good Introductory SW Engineering Projects? (HS Level) · · Score: 1

    Get them to write a Bayesian twat filter for slashdot they'll never look back :)

  6. Re:*May* owe $8 billion on Apple May Owe $8 Billion To the EU After Tax Ruling (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it varies from state to state certainly corporations here in the UK have made deals to pay just a fraction of what they owe

  7. Re:What about the "hot pole" theory? on Comets Can't Explain Weird 'Alien Megastructure' Star After All (newscientist.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice point but how does that explain the increased dimming over a century

  8. Re:How to deal on The Best Ways To Simplify Your Code? (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Adopt Definition of Done that includes code quality and test coverage

    Police it like the Stazzi

    No more technical debt

  9. Re:10.5 years with out os updates? on Can Your Hardware Top 18 Years and Ten Months? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I miss Novell why the hell did they ditch netware it was by far the most stable network of it's day.

  10. Re:Criminals running out of fresh ideas? on "DDoS-For-Bitcoin" Blackmailers Arrested (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    What extortion is was a new idea for these wankers? Criminals like Hollywood have simply been rehashing old ideas for a very long time!

  11. Re: How very Republucan... on Netflix Decides To Crack Down On VPN Users (netflix.com) · · Score: 1

    I doubt if the content providers particularly care as long as they get paid. I suspect it's more the governments in certain regions want to censer what content their citizens can see.

  12. Re:Beware of BlackBerry shills on Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll take your Blackberry Internet Shills and I'll raise you Apple Internet Shills

  13. Re:Military grade on Police Say They Can Crack BlackBerry PGP Encrypted Email (sophos.com) · · Score: 1

    Military grade just means it won't change for 30 years or so. :)

    Actually Military Grade means they went for the lowest tender

  14. Re:Easy Fix on NY Bill Would Force Decryption of Smartphones On Demand (onthewire.io) · · Score: 1

    Sell the phones without OS's on them then let people install what they want on them. PrivateOS http://www.androidcentral.com/... looks like a good place to start.

  15. Netflix doesn't care if people outside the Approved Content Zone are watching (and paying). They only have to pretend to care, to appease the other corporations they're licensing media from.

    And the governments of countries they operate in

  16. Re:Unbiased source? on BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You are aware the current DG is a Director of HSBC, a Tory party doner and a personal friend of David Cameron. I don't trust the BBC to tell me the time anymore

  17. Re:Stay grounded? on Scientists Struggle To Stay Grounded After Possible Gravitational Wave Signal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So there's this rumor and the article neither confirms or denies it. What's the point of the article

  18. Re:Security is only as strong as its weakest door on French Conservatives Push Law To Ban Strong Encryption (dailydot.com) · · Score: 1

    Up until 1999 encryption was illegal in France. Looks like they are stepping backwards

  19. Re:Watch the new videos on David Bowie Dies At Age 69 (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Queen Bitch!

  20. Re:silly premise on Hackers and Heroes: A Tale of Tech Communities In Two Countries (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow Germany has political parties for script kiddies??

  21. Re:I can't work out what this would achieve. on North Korea Expands Retaliatory Loudspeaker Propaganda (yonhapnews.co.kr) · · Score: 1

    Ozzy Osborn's suing both sides for patent infringment

  22. Re:Complete bumkum on Planetary Resources Reveals Out-of-This-World 3D Printing (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. A much more sensible idea would be using the waste products from asteroid mining to 3D print space habitats and refining propellants to send back the valuable ores and run the operation

  23. I think most of the planet would support sending Trump into space.

    What and risk interstellar war?

  24. Re:This was _outlawed_ in the USA? on Federal Law Now Says Kids Can Walk To School Alone (fastcoexist.com) · · Score: 1

    I think this is more to do with protecting parents from the fuckwittery (Every occupation has it's fuckwits, however, some can let fuckwits get people arrested for no good reason) of social workers.

  25. Re:Colin Grazier, Francis Fasson, Tommy Brown on WW2 Hero Who Captured Enigma For Allies Has Died (express.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Technically they'd have been ineligible for VC on two counts Not being in the face of the enemy and the action being done single handedly.