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  1. Re:A lot of cybersecurity contractors on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    I know in the UK I looked at some big data contractor roles and for a full year you would be earning 40% more the Prime Minister

  2. Re:And how many do they need? on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    FBI cyberguys are provably more on the contra espionage / secret side /CNI protection

  3. I think it is required

  4. Mi5 tested lie detectors back in 50's the 35% plus false positive rate got that that idea was dropped

  5. Re:A lot of cybersecurity contractors on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    the same is true of all technical civil service roles both in the Uk and USA

  6. Re:Transitive security [Re:And how many do they ne on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    "our system is only as secure as the weakest point in the connection."

    Ah Users you mean

  7. Re:RAND totally misses it on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    Quite I had a Graduate say "oh 3db isn't that much" :-)

  8. Re:RAND totally misses it on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    wont get an interesting job at a List X firm then - I know of major tech companies where for some projects lead devs have to have DV (TS) Clearance

  9. Re:RAND totally misses it on RAND Study: Looser Civil Service Rules Would Ease Cybersecurity Shortage · · Score: 1

    SIS (Mi6) at Bletchy park did ok with a bunch of autodidacts in ww2 in fact they taught the NSA most of what they know

  10. Re:Bu the wasn't fired on Mozilla CEO Firestorm Likely Violated California Law · · Score: 1

    er if you make your self unable to work "which he did" you have frustrated the contract - if this law site was correct the AFICO woudl be regularly taking employers to court and winning for sacking union members who try and organize.

  11. Re:Over generalisation, much ? on German Wikipedia Has Problems With Paid Editing — and Threats of Violence · · Score: 1

    Err have you seen the politics having a riot on may day is normal in Germany - instead of say in the USA and UK being seen as an aberration

  12. Re:German wikipedia on German Wikipedia Has Problems With Paid Editing — and Threats of Violence · · Score: 1

    I had some German student revert an edit I made about the second largest carnival in the UK (second only to notting hill) - I was on the council committee that organized the dam thing and was in charge on one of the events that had 1000 participants and over 200k spectators - I just gave up with wikipedia after that.

  13. Re:Correlation is not causation. on How the Internet Is Taking Away America's Religion · · Score: 1

    And the Uk saw on its TV screens the bombings and shootings in the troubles in NI for decades which has segregated schools Its why a lot of people think "faith" schools are a very bad idea.

  14. The ECB are looking for on Mystery MLB Team Moves To Supercomputing For Their Moneyball Analysis · · Score: 1

    A boffin to explain how these blinkly light things work and if they can run hadoop on the item of searing white hot technology (a LEO III) they have in the basement. In the hope that it can stop the English Cricket Team losing to the Dutch!

  15. Re:Should void warranty on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    You can i believe turn a stock Audi A6 into almost an Audi RS6 by changing the ECU

  16. Re:Don't bother. on The Problem With Congress's Scientific Illiterates · · Score: 1

    You need a system more akin to PMQ's in the UK Stupid or incompetent polticins who are not on top of their brief get ripped to pieces by the opposition - rather than handing out lucrative jollies on committees by age It would weed out blatantly stupid people Dan Quale and Sarah Palin very early on

    As George Galloway did to one rather dumb congress man a while back - and he is not even considered a brilliant speaker

  17. Re:Greatest, but maybe not the most damaging on Book Review: How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy · · Score: 1

    The local indian princes used the french and British as mercs in their local wars - and as often happens the foreign mercs took over.

  18. Re:We don't know who the greatest spy was. on Book Review: How I Discovered World War II's Greatest Spy · · Score: 1

    Kim Philby and the other members of the famous 5

  19. Re:50%+ cheaper not to use the cloud on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 2

    Better off renting/leasing your own dedicated servers in a colo AWS is designed to nickle and dime you unless you really really know what your doing and have the right use case.

  20. Re:This article is awful on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: -1

    If you have problems with reading comprehension I suggest you try some adult education classes :-)

  21. Re:Read the summary a couple times on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    Tabloids are written down to a 12/13 reading age - headlines are another art in them selves eg the "GOTCHA" one for the Belgrano sinking. This is obviously written in a "gonzo" style which assumes much higher reading age /IQ

  22. Re:Are programmers really this naive? on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1

    In a lot of cases yes sad to say programmers are very naive did they not talk to SAG before signing any contract

  23. Re:no kidding on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That is whey people in the industry refer to them as "frankenshows" assembling a monster out of spare parts.

  24. Re:Helium on The Highest-Flying Wind Turbine · · Score: 1

    Well as its doesn't carry any passengers there should not be a huge problem - though NIBYS can be strange. People complained about fuel cell powered buses in London and quoted the Hindenburg as an example of why the buses where not safe.

  25. Re:Well actually he's pretty solidly anti-gun too. on Anti-Game-Violence Legislator Arrested, Faces Gun Trafficking Charges · · Score: 1

    Same thing happened before in the 20''s/30's with prohibition they even coined a term for it "Bootleggers and Baptists"