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  1. Re:UK needs to be run by corporations like America on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    No from a progressive pov the uk does beat the USA in a lot of ways especially in the taxation of share options - no massive tax bill on now worthless stock. Only have 1 set of employment laws instead of 52 also helps.

  2. Re:Taxation too. on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Is that including 15-20% extra for health care that's what one expat working for citi was paying (and it was just for him)

  3. Re:UK needs to be run by corporations like America on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    You do know that for company formation the UK is scored better than the USA by some Rightwing think tanks - we don't have those dodgy judges in texas helping patent trolls for one.

  4. who are yow calling a chav on Where Is Europe's Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    Birmingham was the workshop of the world and the midlands still has a lot of tech industry a large number of the f1 teams are based there

  5. coercion is the flaw on China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM · · Score: 0

    How do you stop people being kidnapped and force to withdraw the cash - obviously the standard for university research in china Is fucking abysmal. Presumably they have a way of detecting a severed head being held up to the camera or did they not fucking think

  6. Re:Good luck on China Unveils World's First Facial Recognition ATM · · Score: 2

    Are you insane giving out your pin to you bank account is the most stupid thing I have ever heard

  7. Intersting but.. on Elon Musk Establishes a Grade School · · Score: 1

    How is this different to the old apprentice at 14/5 the problem was that you spent the first year filing and making the tea

  8. Re:The trick... on Douglas Williams Pleads Guilty To Training Customers To Beat Polygraph · · Score: 1

    I believe film of in philby is still used to demonstrate this to SIS trainees

  9. Yes but those are so hedged around with restrictions and there a tiny number of those tickets

  10. Re:Work stays at work! on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 1

    think the Fuck you pay me rule applies in this case

  11. Re:Short Answer: DON'T on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 1

    Employment law basically going right back to master and servant acts that predate the Independence of the USA

  12. London to Edinburgh is around $250

  13. Re:little-known programming language on Is It Worth Learning a Little-Known Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I raise you LINQ :-)
    A super rare Unisys Language

  14. Re:honey trap on The Sun Newspaper Launches Anonymous Tor-Based WikiLeaks-Style SecureDrop · · Score: 1

    They probably trust Murdoch as much as they trusted Maxwell - which is to say not at all.

  15. Re:Damn... on Woman Behind Pakistan's First Hackathon, Sabeen Mahmud, Shot Dead · · Score: 2

    There was overt religious discrimination well after ww2 Kennedy had a lot of problems for being a catholic

  16. Re:Most american's are so blissfully ignorant on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    some probably thought they meant prince Harry

  17. Re:Boomer Redux? on Except For Millennials, Most Americans Dislike Snowden · · Score: 1

    Its never trust a hippie as the punks say

  18. Re:Sigh. on DIA Polygraph Countermeasure Case Files Leaked · · Score: 1

    Probably because Hoover liked them - a very good example of having your police force become over mighty and getting involved in areas that should be done by a stand alone agency ala MI5.

  19. Re:Are things back to normal now? on Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. · · Score: 1

    Obviously they should replace the secret service with the average small town cop - who see quiet eager to shoot people. Or may the SS are professionals and know that shooting some one with low level mental health issues isn't going to look good on the 9 o'clock news.

  20. Re:Sensors wrong on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    Well if you could persuade that Nice Mr Finch from POI to release his AI source code - it would work just fine

  21. Re:Perfect security on Planes Without Pilots · · Score: 1

    All of which have large numbers of armed guards - presumably with fairly permissive engagement rules

    Even in gun fearing Britain back in the 50's the nuke police went armed

  22. In the developed word on Court Mulls Revealing Secret Government Plan To Cut Cell Phone Service · · Score: 1

    mobile networks already have the ability to kick subs off in case of emergency and reserve the bandwidth for the emergency services - its why some Telco employees have two sims and hope to God the second sim never gets activated

  23. wil they include the tabloids on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 1

    the Daily mails website is infamous for soft porn pics of celebs

  24. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Noncompetes are very hard to enforce even where they are legal - get caught with trade secretes and it much much harder for the employee to win.

  25. Re:Gamers find Rocket Science is Hard! News at 11 on SpaceX's New Combustion Technologies · · Score: 1

    And you have to use physical models to back check you CFD simulations - My first job was at a word leading RnD organisation that did CFD as well as physical modelling of fluid flows