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  1. Re:what if... on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    yeh I worked for one of the top 5 consulting engineers in the world and we had one of our bridges fall off its supports :-) I helped prove it was the contractor (aka the navvies) that messed up not our design.

  2. Re:Guarantee on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    And deliberately doing work that needs to be redone might be a way of getting extra overtime - there is a lot of "Spanish" practices in construction.

  3. Re:Guarantee on Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Fix Bugs They Cause On Their Own Time? · · Score: 1

    I suspect that Bizzeh comes from a country with very dodgy labor laws - maybe the one with bonds and reliving letter/chitty :-)

  4. Re:A few things on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    I always tip in cash so that its harder for the employer to rip of the workers.

  5. Re:It's about time. on Death Hovers Politely For Americans' Swipe-and-Sign Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    err there is a very strong paranoid element in American politics that is rabidly against central banks

  6. Re:Yes on Can Commercial Storage Services Handle the NSA's Metadata? · · Score: 1

    yes the problem came from using contractors to do the NSA's job in the first place in stead of full time DV cleared staff

  7. Several Gigabytes the horror the horror on Comparing Cloud-Based Image Services For Developers · · Score: 1

    call me back when you get up to the several peta bytes stage

  8. Re:Stunning. on Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials · · Score: 1

    yes might have caught Hanssen and Walker a lot quicker

  9. doesn't seem to like installing on ESXI 5.1 though

  10. Re:Bunch of Nathan Barleys on Non-Coders As the Face of the Learn-to-Code Movements · · Score: 1

    I think you'd want some one who could set up cvs or other source control system from scratch and not just blindly use some purty precaned solution - hmm should I get my good Friend D to suggest to Ed that I could be a useful member of this quango :-)

  11. Re:Stunning. on Snowden Used Software Scraper, Say NSA Officials · · Score: 1

    I woudl have thought that the NSA with all its budget would have systems to audit what goes on.

  12. Re:Different countries, different laws on Finnish Police Board Wants Justification For Wikipedia's Fundraising Campaign · · Score: 1

    PIRA I think you mean (you know the Marxist hard left ones) and shush there are American politicians who woudl be embarrassed :-)

  13. Re:Scholarships, you mean on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    the UK used to have industry training Levys which helped pay for apprentice training - Mrs Thatcher abolished them

  14. Re:Wrong on Layoffs At Now-Private Dell May Hit Over 15,000 Staffers · · Score: 1

    But they could have done that as a public company just as easily as a private one

  15. Re:Wrong on Layoffs At Now-Private Dell May Hit Over 15,000 Staffers · · Score: 1

    And probably asset strip it and load up the company with dodgy debt and other financial instruments so it can be flogged to some dozy fund mangers in a few years see the Debenhams group for an example of how this scam works

  16. Re:GIves and then takes away in the same breath. on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    " engineering can be done from anywhere" oh so do you have full service and a large garage full of machine tools and other very expensive gear ? engineering is more than doing some crappy fart app for the iPhone

  17. Re:Scholarships, you mean on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    Its the UK - companies want some one else to pay for their training its been the same for the last 100 years.

  18. Re:No, Salaries on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    Apparently the no 2 engineer at martelsham (aka the UK's bell labs) wife was asked what her husband did and when she said hes an engineer - the comment was thats nice dear what sort of cars does he work on :-(

  19. Re:No, Salaries on James Dyson: We Should Pay Students To Study Engineering · · Score: 1

    not in the UK other professions eg lawyers and doctors earn far far more than an "engineer" does at the same level of experience

  20. Re:why do we need generic top level domains anyway on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    they are not the global tlds are above the country codes

  21. Re:why do we need generic top level domains anyway on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    Not outside of America - you must be channeling Team America world police :-)

  22. Re:For all the USA haters on Slashdot on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    ICANT holds its meetings in ought of the way places in the third world to stop effective oversight :-(

  23. Re:Just saying... on First New Generic Top Level Domains Opening · · Score: 1

    And i suspect Paul McCartney and the owners of the rights to apple music might disagree :-)

  24. Re:Classified on In an Age of Cyber War, Where Are the Cyber Weapons? · · Score: 1

    the U2, and Blackbird maybe

  25. Re:Generalizing much? on Meet the Electric Porsche From 1898 · · Score: 1

    That is what they used to about steam and electic cars before they worked the bugs out of of petrol engines