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  1. Re:why cloud? on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    But are your alternate Internet access links running through the same duct and so could be taken out by backhoe fade. Truly diverse routing costs a lot.

  2. Re: why cloud? on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 1

    depends what sort of steam plant it is ie how much super heat are they running having high pressure super heated steam flooding into an enclosed space is not going to be nice and if anyone is down there when it happens potentially leathal.

    Basements are never a good idea for computer facilities as the risk of flooding is higher I have had that happen to me in central London once luckily the flood was just not deep enough that the water got sucked into the fans at the base of the cabs or we would have need to replace the entire pr1me system and possibly electrocuted 100% of the ops team and myself.

  3. Re:I hope it happens. on Colorado Town Considers Drone-Hunting Licenses · · Score: 1

    well thats ok just increase taxes to pay for maned choppers /planes then

  4. Re:AC Post on Scientists Seek Biomarkers For Violence · · Score: 1

    Yes the AAAS needs to sit them both down for a talk about ethical issues what they suggest and possibly some counseling is in order

  5. Re:personal responsibility on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Well for higher rof you of course need a longbow 8-10 per minute

  6. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    and the US army still use M1911's whose design is over 100 years old.

  7. Re:Bottom line... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't call Switzerland or Germany either of those

  8. Re:Smart guns... on Hardly Anyone Is Buying 'Smart Guns' · · Score: 1

    Quite and any such system would have to work to 5 9's reliability to be at all useful and there is a difference form a gun stored in safe to one being carried.

  9. Bit odd for some one on Current Doctor Who Warns Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    who makes a living as an actor to rail against "alternate versions" of our selves after all we present differently at work with family, friends and loved ones - I do wonder if hes suffering from the same sort of angsty issues about acting that Harry H Corbet did

  10. Re:Rural Rich? Bullshit. on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    Apologies for going all Malcom Tucker but Americas a fucking huge country and rolling out mobile is not cheap either where the fuck do you think the back haul to connect the fucking cellphone towers comes from.

  11. Re:Government math on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    We are taking about America the first word country with a third world mobile network whose efforts in mobile are looked down on by the rest of the developed world?

  12. Re:The urban poor subsidized the rich for a while on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    As is comunications

  13. Re: The urban poor subsidized the rich for a while on FCC Rural Phone Subsidies Reach As High As $3,000 Per Line · · Score: 1

    if there is no difference in capital gains as opposed to income where is the incentive to invest in companies how would your employer do if it had much reduced access to capital would your job be viable?

  14. Re:MIBs on DEF CON Advises Feds Not To Attend Conference · · Score: 1

    No you just look at what color cowboy hat they are wearing surly

  15. Re:Who you gonna call? on Ask Slashdot: Node.js vs. JEE/C/C++/.NET In the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    well back in y2k days at British telecom Oracle was as much use as a chocolate teapot in a lot of cases and we paid a metric fuck ton of cash to them.

  16. take me back to on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the joys of debugging x.400 and reading a x.409 dump *NOT*

    Why is it that news Internet standards seem to want to go down the route that the OSI did -

  17. Re:What is behind the changes. on English Schools To Introduce Children To 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, Robotics · · Score: 1

    Eric mate the Uk has been "throwing" its engineering legacy away since Brunell died.

  18. Re:Oooh Goodie! on English Schools To Introduce Children To 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, Robotics · · Score: 1

    yep thats the end game for Gove the reintroduction of grammar schools kids and dumping of working class kids in dead end secondary moderns - not going to be popular when Tory voters when there average kids don't make the cut though - which is one of the reasons the Tories introduced comprehensives in the firstplace.

  19. Re:Won't work. on English Schools To Introduce Children To 3D Printers, Laser Cutters, Robotics · · Score: 1

    Back in the 70's they started us at 14 with a CECIL a cut down training language but it was Assembler we had to code it on sheets and send the code off and get it back the next week

  20. Re:29 years old on Silicon Valley In 2013 Resembles Logan's Run In 2274 · · Score: 1

    I was doing map reduce back in the early 80's :-)

  21. Re:Unions aren't for everybody. on BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World · · Score: 1

    classically there are 3 reasons why professionals join unions Rights Representation and Reassurance

  22. Re:Individual, not collective on BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World · · Score: 1

    This does not work "personal" contracts have all the power with the employers

  23. Re:Not True on BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World · · Score: 1

    Sorry BT speak M&P managerial and professional ie all the technical staff other than the "engineers" or Linemen in US terms

  24. Not True on BART Strike Provides Stark Contrast To Tech's Non-Union World · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the reasons the Unionized Uk telephone system was modernized (well ahead on the US i might add) with no labour disputes was that all the M&P grades who developed the new technology where union members.
    The CEO of one of the smaller uk telcos was even an activist in his younger days and I know that a CTO of one of the global telecoms companys was a member of my branch :-)

  25. Re:That is true of all cheap 3D Printers on Breaking Up With MakerBot · · Score: 1

    And presumably have an alarm? At my first place (on campus at CIT) we had a large experimental rig that used freon as the working fluid we had separate alarms for fire and freon release and two sets of firemans breathing gear at the lab entrance) that we had people trained in so that in the case of a leak they could go in and rescue people.