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  1. Re:OMG, John is that you? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is nothing to prove as everyone already knows it. The trick is getting senior management to stop ignoring it but that might be tricky as they are probably as incompetent anyway.

  2. Re:Our Children's Children's Children Will Save Us on Decommissioning San Onofre Nuclear Plant May Take Decades · · Score: 2

    Yes but why the hell did we make so many fission reactors when we could have made LFTRS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor Cleaner, Cheaper, Safer and can be safely decommissioned in a couple of years rather than the best part of a century.

  3. Sin, Repent & Do Petenance on The Amish Are Getting Fracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can't they sue the pants off of these guys and then repent afterwards?

  4. Re:I always thought... on One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? · · Score: 0

    But what do we do in 20 years when the IPv6 address space starts to run out? Think I'm kidding? I can remember when people thought they'd never fill a 20mb because it was so huge!

  5. Re:Nice concept on EU Countries Closer To Mandatory Minimum Sentence Cap For Hacking · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can we impose the same minimum cap on sentencing for banking god knows they do far more damage in a day than hackers will in their entire careers.

  6. Bearing in mind on Pondering the Future of a Re-Org'd Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Bearing in mind the IT Market is constantly shifting if they carry on the way they have then they are pinning their hopes on Intel/AMD bringing out the next range of processors at 30Ghz. Its not likely to happen. They never capitalised properly on the mobile space although they have a long history with Mobile Phone OS's. No doubt whatever they do they'll keep up their long history of pissing on the hand that feeds them :(

  7. Needs a button for pictures of cute kittens & lol cats

  8. Re:A 90 Day Erection on Chinese Firm Approved To Raise World's Tallest Building In 90 Days · · Score: 1

    You're a hard, hard man

    A bit stiff if you ask my :D

  9. Re:It's Thursday, must be Bitcoin time! on Fake Mt. Gox Pages Aim To Infect Bitcoin Users · · Score: 2

    Bitcoin is starting to go mainstream if the Phishers are spoofing it

  10. Re:LMGTFY on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wow what a nothing issue. It's not accurate because it's tied to the machine I view it from??? Then it's the fault of the end user. The BBC have taken the correct approach to this issue they've decided we're too stupid to have a clock!! The scary thing is I suspect that in general they are correct.

  11. Spam on Microsoft Attempts to Woo Students With 'Crowdsourced' Laptops · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So it's a 10% discount for spamming your contact list

  12. Re:fuck you on American Targeted By Digital Spy Tool Sold To Foreign Governments · · Score: 1

    Do let me know how you'd like your Darwin Award Nomination Phrased :)

  13. Re:At Last! on Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer On Way To Chess World Record · · Score: 1

    I saw this and thought is this news? Hackers were caught (Well spotted if not incarcerated) using bot nets to generate bitcoins last year. And one of the principle bitcoin engines is written in Java script just so you can add it to your website. News What News?

  14. Re:I tell them I feel the same way! on Why Your Users Hate Agile · · Score: 2

    Speaking as an Agilista. Just because you're doing Agile doesn't mean the project won't fail it just means you spot it going south earlier and thus save money by pulling the plug before you do six months additional work. Of course even in Agile you can have bad management which can make a project fail.

  15. Re:What are they trying to achieve? on UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites · · Score: 2

    Just as long as they don't install download cameras on the internet :)

  16. Is it Real? on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 0

    Or is it just another Photoshop? Also what's the object in the middle at the top?

  17. Re: sales figures? on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Hmm try desk/laptop sales slump as processors fail to go perceptibly faster so too do sales of Desktop OS. This isn't a re-run of Vista; Vista was a pig.

  18. Re:No problem here on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1, Insightful
    My only gripe with W8 is the Metro interface is flat you can't have a tile for one application and then have all the tiles for it's other components underneath. Other than that it goes like stink. I believe the low sales have more to do with desktop/laptop sales plummeting.

    Go on troll away see if I care

  19. He is clearly more than that or the media would not feel the need to smear him like this.

    If you think they are that bad just wait till the people who posted his bail wade in :D

  20. Re:GIVE APPLE THE NEEDLE !! on Apple E-book Price-Fixing Trial Begins · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah In Jobs we trust :)

  21. Re:May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls on With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength · · Score: 4, Funny

    So this research that they claim that the whaling is for would appear to be market research???

  22. On a ZX Spectrum on How Did You Learn How To Program? · · Score: 1

    I got a ZX Spectrum when I was 13 this was when having a home computer was a relatively new idea. So I taught myself on there, then on the shite commodores (Vic 20 and the Pet with the built in casset tape drive) they had in school (I was better at it than the maths teach who taught computer studies though he always beat me at calculus :D). Then I got some actual work experience (Dbase II on a Dec laptop circa 1985) then I went to college and learnt some more (Cobol etc) and I'm going to stop now because this is starting to read like Mien Camp :-/

  23. Re:Recruiter Commision on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 1

    Obviously I've worked for some far shabbier employers than you :D

  24. Re:Recruiter Commision on $30,000 For a Developer Referral? · · Score: 2

    Yep certainly had the Agencies cut taken off my agreed salary for three months before (I did complain). No mention of what Language/ALM they work with. Given that I know hundreds of Devs (Some of whom already live in commuting distance) it would be nice to know what skills they are looking for.

  25. Re:Oh another one on Mozilla Teams Up With Foxconn; Tablet On the Way? · · Score: 1

    Hmm currently using 1/2 a gig on my box :(