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  1. Re:Why not a PDP 11? on Rebuilding the PDP-8 With a Raspberry Pi · · Score: 1

    I remember helping to install one of those RX01 dual floppys took two of us to lift it - those little PDP 03/s where built like a brick out house

  2. utill Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    Some one like amazon ties to go to far and the feds/supreames step in

  3. Re:Good Luck on Amazon Requires Non-Compete Agreements.. For Warehouse Workers · · Score: 1

    That's is a trade secrets law

  4. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Happened in the Uk one town's conservative council (Scarborough) ended up getting black listed by the political party's and Trade unions over something similar something like 70-80% of the towns big hotels went bust due to the loss of conventions.

  5. you mean a show on A Bechdel Test For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    that realistically shows computer use and yes NCIS I am looking at you :-)

  6. Re:PHP is fine on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1

    I looked at the first PHP for my employer at the time my summary was a language for those who couldn't hack Perl

  7. Re:Missing the point on Data Research Reveals When Taking a Yellow Cab Is Cheaper Than an Uber · · Score: 1

    So is that so much of a problem to carry cash for a cab? or any other low value transaction?

  8. Re:I call bullshit ... on White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS · · Score: -1

    Yes I don't recall any major "break"s that where caused by MITM or other ssl attacks. So this either

    1 some MacBook and MBA or SPAD type jumping the band waggon
    2 the FSB has being doing "some naughty shit" and they want to block that route with out being to obvious

    My Money is on no 1

  9. Re:Can't add, Illiterate on Prison Program Aims To Turn Criminals Into Coders · · Score: 1

    I think you mean dyslexic a shocking number of inmates have dyslexia

  10. Re:The real trick on Secret Service Testing Drones, and How to Disrupt Them · · Score: 1

    The IRA apparently experimented with RC planes but in the end decided dumb mortars fired from a parked van where a better bet - almost got the PM a few years ago. I am surprised that AQ hasn't tried to copy the IRA or maybe that's due to the lack of quality recruits

  11. Re:Not sure what they're looking at? on Ultralight Convertibles Approaching Desktop Performance · · Score: 1

    yep a mobile i5 is not going to beat an i7 or a xenon

  12. Re:Yes. What do you lose? But talk to lawyer first on Ask Slashdot: Should I Let My Kids Become American Citizens? · · Score: 1

    Borris Johnson got dinged for tax by the IRS on selling his late mothers house - this is like say Hillary Clinton or Job Bush getting a tax demand from the inland revenue

  13. Re:Thieves looking to steal metal? lolwut? on Vandalism In Arizona Shuts Down Internet and Phone Service · · Score: 1

    One way of stealing is hook up a pickup truck and try and pull long lengths of copper wire out of the conduits

  14. Re:I can help ... on West Point and Marines Launch Open Cyber Conflict Journal · · Score: 1

    Circuit Switched forever and some where Vint Cerf is crying and rocking backwards and forwards :-)

  15. Re:why is this even a thing??? on West Point and Marines Launch Open Cyber Conflict Journal · · Score: 1

    yeh right you do know that in order to develop stuxnet they had to build a compete copy of one of those cascades only 3 or 4 nation states have that level of sophistication

  16. Re:Prrof that web devs are not real devs on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    Speak for your self I certainly did that back in 2000 developing paperless direct debit.

  17. Re:PErhaps learn to write next? on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    The OP is from India you can tell by the use of MNC - unfortunately for him/her India has a problem inherited from the empire of valuing paper certifications over almost everything the so called "chitty" problem also Horrific employment laws

  18. Re:There is no engineering. on Ask Slashdot: Are General Engineering Skills Undervalued In Web Development? · · Score: 1

    Or produced engines of war Like Leonardo da Vinchi

  19. Tax Re:Physics violation on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Lack of collecting taxes I think you mean

  20. Re:Wait... what? on UK Sets Up Internet-Savvy Army Unit · · Score: 1

    the late vilerat would disagree with you as would the HMGC signals guys who got killed in turkey

  21. Re:Hos is the US any better? on Japanese Nobel Laureate Blasts His Country's Treatment of Inventors · · Score: 1

    where is "here" the USA and UK have similar laws all descending from the "masters and servants act its related to you day job that is the key

  22. Re:Hos is the US any better? on Japanese Nobel Laureate Blasts His Country's Treatment of Inventors · · Score: 1

    if the contract doesn't say anything the custom and practice rules or "game over man game over"

  23. Re:Poor delusional old man on Japanese Nobel Laureate Blasts His Country's Treatment of Inventors · · Score: 1

    yep Uk is similar to the USA same employment law roots

  24. Re:Poor delusional old man on Japanese Nobel Laureate Blasts His Country's Treatment of Inventors · · Score: 1

    depends on the area if your day job is rnd in electronics and you invent a new method for manufacturing a compoant there Isnot a cat in hells chance in alglo saxon legal systems of say that its not "related" to your employment - as opposed to say you wrote a billboard hit they wouldn't own any of the rights to that.

  25. Re:Attention Americans on Winston Churchill's Scientists · · Score: 2

    Indeed a classic pre ww1 Liberal is quite different to an "American" liberal - closer to the orangebook liberals who are a block in the current UK liberal party