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  1. Re: Redefine hunting. on Drone-Assisted Hunting To Be Illegal In Alaska · · Score: 1

    err wouldn't the shock take the animal down modern compound bows with hunting heads hit very hard

  2. Re:is it illegal? on Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Cartel Went Beyond a Few Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    and you have to be PAID for these reasonable restrictions and no just having the job is not payment enough

  3. Re:Do the crime, do the time on Silicon Valley Anti-Poaching Cartel Went Beyond a Few Tech Firms · · Score: 1

    or apply the "not a fit and proper person" test to the C level execs ie you are bared for say 10 years or for life from ever being a director of a company.

  4. Re:Personal Liberty! on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that most of the leaks from GCHQ and the NSA have been from young and naive low level entrants from a millatery background.

  5. Re:all of IT needs an union on Startup Employees As an Organized Labor Group · · Score: 2

    M&P (managerial and professional) unions dont work that way :-)

  6. Re:Apple? on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    you still get that with Open office just as much with MS office - cant legislate for humans stupidity. And in that case what abotu the time wasted on Gmails shite UA when compared to a real MUA like outlook. gmail in some ways has worse usability when compared to the 70's era cli mail systems like say telecom Gold/Dialcom

  7. Re:Apple? on Why Buy Microsoft Milk When the Google Cow Is Free? · · Score: 1

    And is my non techie co worker said one that isn't crap - the cost of office per year is trivial compare to the cost of employing some one.

  8. Re:The original article on Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Yeah this hes a poor immigrant whose English isn't very good does not wash.

  9. Re:Evidence? on Dorian Nakamoto Officially Denies That He Created Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    and the quote from him that admitted he (since retracted) was involved in the past - woudl you believe a politician who did such and abrupt about face.

  10. Re:Watch out on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 1

    if attackers where targeting China it woudl be them that I woudl be worried about

  11. The solution to the forests is on Drones Used To Smuggle Drugs Into Prison · · Score: 1

    Cut them down for 500m or so from the walls this is sop for a secure site you dont let trees grow right up to the fracking walls - its Canada for Christs sakes dont they have a glut of lumber jacks

  12. Re:Excessive fine, but rewards the 'hacker' how? on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 1

    And I woudl not be surprised in the Security Service have not got him on file now as there are worries about ultra anti abortionists coming over from the USA to here

  13. Re:Low hanging fruit... on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 1

    Unlikely Charitys get a lot of slack in the UK there are no overzelous elected prosecutors trying to get headlines to further his political career. Charitys are notorious for bad hr issues.

  14. Re:hmmm on BPAS Appeals £200,000 Fine Over Hacked Website · · Score: 2

    Unfortunately charitys in the UK collectively need this wakeup call - I worked on a few charity projects and we where certain that at least one of our clients -one of the Huge uk charities - was completely ignoring some of the rules on handling bank and CC details.

    Its hard but the charity needs to merge with another in the field and start taking its computer security seriously.

  15. Re:Data Scientists are this bubble's Web Masters on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Funny how this simple "webmaster" job seems so flipping hard. I have just started a new gig at an agency and after only 3 days I have looked at two major companies websites and found such major howlers that I wonder how there development/webmasters can mange to walk and chew gum at the same time.

  16. Re:Calling yourself a 'scientist' w/out a doctorat on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    You know that in astronomy several amateurs have made major discoverys? And a Scientist is just an engineer who lacks thumbs :-)

  17. Re:It's data, and it's a science, so... on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    In what country in both the USA and the UK (The main English speaking country's) its not illegal to call your self an engineer if you don't have a Ceng or pE

  18. Re:Computer Scientists in lab coats on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    Actually not the reason people where lab coats is to stop thier clothes getting dirty/ruined by chemicals etc also there is a status thing going on as blue collar workers will probably be in overalls a white coat marks you out as a "professional" why do you think Abby wears a lab coat in NCIS - part of its is to mark her out as senior.

  19. Re:Job titles on 'Data Science' Is Dead · · Score: 1

    And its been around for ages i was hired onto a BT billing dev team as a devops guy as I was a SYSAD on primes I was the insurance policy in case the actual operators wouldn't play nice :-)

  20. Re:Let me get this straight: on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    Oh dear employing to many COBOL programmers and MBA's :-)

  21. Re:A tale of two standards on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    a lot of American renters seem to have this sense of entitlement - id love to live in central London but i cant afford it so i commute i dont go smashing windows in knights-bridge and have Boris Johnson wring his hands on my behalf

  22. Re:Let me get this straight: on Google Funds San Francisco Bus Rides For Poor · · Score: 1

    And it has a wider social benefit in taking cars off the road reducing congestion and pollution - if i where Google id be tempted to offer interest free loans an tell people go down the ford dealer and get your self a mustang super snake and if your an engineer and dont appreciate some nice automotive muscle we we shouldn't have employed you hears for performance improvement plan.

  23. Salt is similar on Whole Foods: America's Temple of Pseudoscience · · Score: 1

    i was talking to a member of the renal team in my home town and she wryly commented that the low salt idea has been well marked - the trouble is all these low salt foods replace salt with other chemicals which are worse :-)

  24. poorly paid when compared to on Will Peggy the Programmer Be the New Rosie the Riveter? · · Score: 1

    a lawyer or medical professional for the same experience

  25. mm ok on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    so what property do you demolish to build these new offices - not going to be popular if Google demolishes a load of affordable housing in NYC or SF. Interesting that in London Google is building new offices round the back of St Pancras which was a sketchy area until recently