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  1. Re:Terms of Service violation on NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters · · Score: 1

    I am sure Bing will love that

  2. Or ban them for having any visas for a year or so - if you abuse the system you should forfeit your privileges just as a number of "colleges" have been in the UK

  3. Re:Winter Storm Atlas on A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? · · Score: 1

    You only had 2 hours fuel? of did the bad weather mean you could not have more tankered in. The standard for telecoms was 48 hours without power - from my 1948 era handbook of telecommunications.

  4. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    A conspiracy theorist might think that the Gruniad is doing this so they can back away from supporting the new press charter - they have some rather unpleasant people who originally supported the hacking in the "public interest"

  5. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    Yes every one knows that Sgt Wilson was the really competent one in Walmington-on-Sea home guard - I see Ken Clark in this role Borris gets to be Pvt Pike.(with the firing pin on the tommy gun removed just in case)
    For non Uk people "lah di dah" is a reference to a famous uk sitcom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dad's_Army though using that term is a bit of an own goal a bit like Duncan Smith 's " quiet man" quote

  6. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    So reporting your house moves to the police in Germany (which has mandatory ID cards) doesn't worry you

  7. Re:And how is this any different... on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Actulay in the private sector Unions are quite keen on employee share holders.

  8. Re:News For Nerds on A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network · · Score: 1

    Marx and Engels did not goto University in the States

  9. Re:envy on Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet · · Score: 1

    Not so hot if the police arrest you they are not hot on what you and i would consider basic human rights

  10. Re:France, the last survivor of the new economy on France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon · · Score: 2

    They claimed that Danone (a yogurt manufacturer ) was critical national infrastructure to stop a take over :-)

  11. Re:Flamebait on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    yes i program just by touching two wires together to create binary code instead of using an IDE - a DAW is the musical equivalent of an IDE

  12. Re:Flamebait on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    Compared to Live or the other DAW platforms Audacity is very limited compared to actual dedicated audio editors like Sonys forge even more so - fo ra limited use like and voice podcasts its ok but still a lot of work eg removing mains hum is 10 seconds in Live but using audacity not sure how long that would take.

  13. Re:Creative and restricting yourself? on Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? · · Score: 1

    Not if your serious about music with the way Apple has been going with its emphasis on consumer ios

  14. Re:Problem? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    probably the sort of ambassador who gets his post as a jollie in return for campaign contributions - I am sure that some turn a blind eye if they have plausible deniability they dont like it though.

  15. Re:Addicted to surveillance on UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ · · Score: 1

    You want to tell that to one of my ex coworkers to his face whose father was killed by the IRA ?

  16. National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) on Ask Slashdot: Developer Responsibility When Apps Might Risk Lives? · · Score: 2

    I. Fundamental Canons Engineers, in the fulfillment of their professional duties, shall:

    Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public.
    Perform services only in areas of their competence.
    Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner.
    Act for each employer or client as faithful agents or trustees.
    Avoid deceptive acts.
    Conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, and lawfully so as to enhance the honor, reputation, and usefulness of the profession. http://www.onlineethics.org/Resources/ethcodes/EnglishCodes/9972.aspx

  17. Re:Problem? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    No professional diplomats run a mile from anything to do with the "dirty business of spying" to protect their diplomatic status - read any history of any of the major western spy agencies and there is a lot of push back from the diplomats against spies.

  18. Re:Problem? on EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US · · Score: 1

    And there is an EU directive on tracking that all members are supposed to impliment

  19. Re:Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 1

    Ah must have missed that one - though no offence to Google I would trust Audi to do it right more than Google - probably forget to have the software cater for driving on the right side of the road give what i have seen of googles published code

  20. Show time on Google: Our Robot Cars Are Better Drivers Than You · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have the Google robot take on the Stig round the top gear test track.

  21. Re:I'm shocked! on UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ · · Score: 1

    In parts of the UK telecoms employees where considered "crown" employees and where targeted just as Police and prison service where and until recently telcoms employees where civil servants - Postwar GCHQ was formed partly by transfers from the GPO.

  22. Re:Addicted to surveillance on UK Telcos Went Above and Beyond To Cooperate With GCHQ · · Score: 1

    Tell that to people in the UK and you will get told to F off if your lucky 7/7 killed 52 people the UK has been dealing with bombings and terrorist incidents for well over 100 years (Anarchists, IRA, Mosad, PIRA, UDA Al Kaida and lone nutters are just some of the many examples).

    And thats not counting NI I know 6 people who worked for one of my ex employers from NI 2 of them are going through the truth and reconciliation process as they have had close relatives killed thats 33%

  23. Re:About bloody time! on Greenland Repeals Radioactive Mining Ban · · Score: 1

    oops my bad

  24. Re:About bloody time! on Greenland Repeals Radioactive Mining Ban · · Score: 1

    well beats exploiting pensioners in the EU and reneging on your debts eh :-)

  25. Re:Brin's Transparent Society on Citizen Eavesdrops On Former NSA Director Michael Hayden's Phone Call · · Score: 1

    The NSA is one of those organizations you dont stop working for and woudl have have not on oath agreed not to speak about work related matter.