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

    Not really just as a IC engine is not that far removed from ist 19 century forbears GM only relatively recently retired an engine designed well before ww2 that had been in use for 50 years and things like the small block Chevy v8 are fairly old engines

  2. Re:Nazi police state or tea party. on Obama Nominates Vice Admiral Michael Rogers New NSA Chief · · Score: 1

    no you had two center right parties one of which has been taken over by right wing extremists

  3. Re:Is it just me... on Obama Nominates Vice Admiral Michael Rogers New NSA Chief · · Score: 1

    It always was very very milatery (an in a by the book mandatory hairlength inspections sort of way) when compared to say GCHQ - which has a much more civil service style

  4. Re:Not going go down well on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Because the market has spoken and msoffice is the defacto standard - and any computer is expensive for the poorest on society irrespective of whether they use OO or MS office.

    \so maybe not rushing headlong into digital first and closing down non electronic means of accessing government service might be a better idea - there are more votes in keeping the village post office open

  5. Re:hero on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 1

    um no the FBI under hoover is as close as the USA has come to an extremist organisation

  6. Re:Morality is for people who are not dying on 3D Printing of Human Tissue To Spark Ethics Debate · · Score: 1

    amen I am on the kidney transplant list :-)

  7. Re:A nuanced opinion of Snow on Edward Snowden and the Death of Nuance · · Score: 0

    And snowden fits the normal type of sigint/elint worker who gets into trouble look at most of the previous cases at the NSA and GCHQ - young inexperienced milatery types seem to be the ones that leak secrets or get trapped by the KGB/FSB/GRU.

  8. Re:Not going go down well on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 1

    so it's document standard from sub par product that is not the de facto standard in use by 99.99 % of industry - good luck with that. Its not the uk' governments job to bully the population into doing what it wants or to pick national champions at the drop of a hat opr would you rather that JANET had had its way and OSI was the preferred standard for networking not if this messy = make it up as you go along - tcp/ip hippy crap :-)

  9. Re:Not going go down well on UK Government May Switch from MS Office to Open Source · · Score: 2

    And when there is a queue of constituents complaining to their mp that they cant send a document from their pc into government plus the CBI and IOD complaining about having to use a nonstandard format to work with government - which will be spun as more red tape :-)

  10. Re:First rule of passing a Lie Detector test on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 1

    Ah you mean when the UK tested the polygraph they got a unbelievable 37% fail rate on the 250 people in the sample (security service officers)

  11. Re:Once (not at band camp) on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    yep it's about getting a "chitty" which is a passport to a job not understanding the actual mathematical principals

  12. Re:and immigrants tend to buy property on The "Triple Package" Explains Why Some Cultural Groups Are More Successful · · Score: 1

    You think that will make up for not having both sides of your family being in the DAR boy you are dumb

  13. Re:Pathetic on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    well if you live in a third world country where pension funds are not legaly separate from the employer tough move to canada

  14. Re:Pathetic on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    um sorry what have you been smoking the major part of the FTSE 100 and S&P 500 stocks are owned by pension funds

  15. Re:Pathetic on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    that would be the pension funds then :-)

  16. Re:Pathetic on VC Likens Google Bus Backlash To Nazi Rampage · · Score: 1

    A more appropriate analogy would be the 19th century concept of socialism of fools where some "progressives" were antisemitic blaming the "jews" for the evils of capitalism.

    Ironically those sort of "progressives" where quite keen on sterilizing the underclass - who appear to be the very ones campaigning against buses

  17. Re:So, cue up.. on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    Massachusetts which also has a tech cluster around route 128 IBM and DEC being two examples

  18. Re:So, cue up.. on How Silicon Valley CEOs Conspired To Suppress Engineers' Wages · · Score: 1

    The guy with a $50k bill for a single night in hospital is another example,

  19. Re:Downton Abbey on Office Space: TV Documentary Looks At the Dreadful Open Office · · Score: 1

    Yes they upstairs lot in Downtown Abby are old school patrician one nation torys' - the ones that push open plan working are the doggy barrow boy tendency that infested the Tory party after Maggie came to power.

  20. Re:I like the open plan on Office Space: TV Documentary Looks At the Dreadful Open Office · · Score: 2

    Its because salary and building services come out of a different budget.

  21. Re:paranoid people shouldn't use Wifi. on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    what about your phones wifi - its geo tracking you?

  22. Re:russan prison and then what? on Analyst Calls Russian Teen Author of Target Malware · · Score: 0

    for the average geek - Death probably - Russian prisons are not fluffy places like the USA's supermax or Gitmo

  23. Re:Illegal in some countries on Mozilla Is Mapping Cell Towers and WiFi Access Points · · Score: 1

    Oh yes use up over 18% of the length of a ssid for this - I am in awe of Google's tech prowess ;-)

  24. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 1

    Well in the old days he woudl have been expected to go into the side room with a bottle of whiskey and his service revolver and do the right thing

  25. Re:Cry me a fucking river... on Man Jailed For Refusing To Reveal USB Password · · Score: 0

    And what super power allows you to manically work that out? I am sure the FBI and CIA woudl love to talk to you about how you can work out what is on an encrypted device.

    Fraud and other crimes are often used to fund terrorist groups. Where do you think the IRA got their armalites and Semtex from - not all from passing the hat in bars in Boston for sure.