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  1. Re:Ain't no body got time for that on 'Google Buses' Are Bad For Cities, Says New York MTA Official · · Score: 1

    Paris is one example.

  2. Not credible on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 1

    You'd dump a deal worth billions over a few hundred bucks - man if I where on the other side I woudl see that as a sign of weakness just pony up the cost of a ticket to Spain and put it on the table - "right shall we continue or are you not serious"

  3. Re:Just buy another on Slashdot Asks: Do You Label Your Tech Gear, and If So, How? · · Score: 1

    Proper mic's get expensive quite fast.

  4. Re:Easy on Slashdot Asks: Do You Label Your Tech Gear, and If So, How? · · Score: 1

    yes that "lost iphone" caused a but-load of hurt for a number of people - at at least gawker could play there "we are journalists card" to mitigate some of the legal come back a member of joe public not so much.

  5. Re:Change on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 1

    Really do as I suggest and read up on the USA's industrial history I wont mention which tech company who double crossed a union buster who was later found dead in a motel room?

    Compered to the stealing of vested options by silver lake partners MS is small beer.

    I have worked for a company whose internal investigation team was so feared that people would resign out of fear if one of their staff was even investigated - and this department now have to follow the same or better procedures for a formal police investigation because of past misdemeanors - reed Bruce Scheniers resignation statement and see how carefully talks about one particular division.

  6. Re:Seventy years on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: -1

    I think some of the PIGS Greece in particular are not exactly happy about the reforms that Germany demanded for the bail out

  7. Re:Change on "Microsoft Killed My Pappy" · · Score: 0

    Compared to whom - if you think that Microsoft behaved badly you obviously have no idea about the industrial history of the USA - read up on Bethlehem steel for starters - And I have heard of companies contemporary with MS who did far naughtier things.

  8. Re:Old concept on All In All, Kids Just Another Brick In the Data Wall · · Score: 1

    And we got gold stars on a chart I once got two for pointing out to the maths teacher that we had already done this last year :-)

  9. Likley the cause? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 1

    if you cant demonstrate it in lab conditions it is just awlawyer speculating about stuff "M'lud I postulate it was the alien space bats wot dun it"

  10. Re:Go Amish? on Stack Overflow Could Explain Toyota Vehicles' Unintended Acceleration · · Score: 4, Funny

    typical stack overflow high rated answer - totally ignoring the question at hand

  11. Re:since when is the FBI a spy agency? on Schneier: Break Up the NSA · · Score: 1

    It does both which is a really bad idea the FBI should post Hover have had all of its security and CT work removed to a proper security service that deals with the cops at arms length and on their terms only.

  12. First rule of Cyberwarfare on S. Korea's Cyberwar Against N. Korea's Nukes · · Score: 1

    Is don't say that you are going to do it.

  13. Re:Thats a lot of national threats... ? on Government Sent 2,000+ National Security Letters To AT&T In 2013 · · Score: 1

    The USA has a population 317,558,000 I can easily believe that there are 5 or 6 possible terrorism leads per day that woudl need investigating

  14. Re:Thats a lot of national threats... ? on Government Sent 2,000+ National Security Letters To AT&T In 2013 · · Score: 2

    2000 given the size of the USA phone network is not that big - remember the network effect one suspect might trigger one for each recent contact the two boston bombers alone could easily have caused 20 or 30.

  15. Re:Wolf! on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: 1

    Mid 80's for me thats pre the move to CIDR

  16. Re:Probably the home router... on Whatever Happened To the IPv4 Address Crisis? · · Score: -1

    NO grownups who work at proper telcos dont want to completely replace an entire infrastructure because the ivory tower idiots that designed ipv6 dint consider (at all) how to migrate from ipv4 to ipv6

  17. Re:Not so simple on Under Armour/Lockheed Suit Blamed For US Skating Performance · · Score: 1

    Riders are different shapes and sizes and prefer different gearing ie they have a preferred cadence and work to that

  18. Re:Holy cow, a decent idea! on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    Or to impose a training levy on industry so that collectively they all pay which solves the problem of companies freeloading and not training new staff - companys that have an excessive amount of staff with in work benefits should also pay a higher % social security payment.

  19. Re:Lifers? on Financing College With a Tax On All Graduates · · Score: 1

    The diskworlds Victor Tugelbend solution do just enough but not enough to graduate

  20. Re:Not exactly on Germany's Renewable Plan Faces Popular Resistance · · Score: 1

    Depends as with the flooding in the UK are these important people with big houses in rich areas or poor people in rented accommodation.

  21. Re:D'oh! on NSA: Others Implicated in Making Snowden Data Leaks Possible · · Score: 1

    The lloveint cases where new hires and got found out pretty much immediately - presumably the usual suspects will be publishing how many Googlers , yahoo apple and phone company employees have accessed things they should have not.(looking up the presidents private phone number medical records etc)

    Best practice is to have phone company employees with with wide access to the systems access pass TS (DV in the UK) clearance.

  22. Re:Job interview on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    Yes but for real world experts sometimes you have to treat them a bit like Peter did Walter Bishop in fringe :-)

  23. Re:It's never happened to me on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 2

    that's why you should hire the ones who have done it at a "cisco" approved academy based at your local college - you have to pass a practical test on real hardware to get that certification.

  24. Re:It's never happened to me on Ask Slashdot: How Do You To Tell Your Client That His "Expert" Is an Idiot? · · Score: 1

    If your on the team one would presume that you are supposed to be at least competent to perform your function

  25. out of order amentment on Ohio Attempting To Stop Tesla From Selling Cars, Again · · Score: 1

    not related to original motion (in any meaningfull way) - should never have got on the order paper