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  1. Re:Tesla need to stop being such girls on Tesla Motors Loses Appeal Against BBC's Top Gear · · Score: 1

    I know i so wanted a fiesta after that (and I don't drive!) though they didn't show the door Gunner pack option to mount a GIMPY :-)

    Oh thats a M240 for out American cousins.

  2. Re:Meta: pretentiousness in the title on Chinese IT Ministry Looks Askance At Google's Control of Android · · Score: 1

    yes could we not have a Bayesian filter so that these articles written in tabloid-ease "looks askance, frowns upon etc" don't get onto the front page - if your a professional you are supposed to trade up to a "proper" broadsheet paper tacky titles devalue the site.

  3. Re:Nothing will ever make them happy on Controversy Over Violet Blue's Harm Reduction Talk · · Score: 1

    and at a Conference I was at in Liverpool a pimp pulled a knife on one of the attendees unfortunately the delegate I knew who was x 2Parra and is a member of "THEM" (aka the territorial SAS) wasn't in the room. And then there was the time at another conference the entire mixed religion delegation from NI walked into a Unionist Bar by acident - as they said everyones name changed to Billy or Wilhelmina for the afternoon.

  4. Let me guess on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Lead scientist is Walter Bishop ;-)

  5. Buy a TV on Ask Slashdot: IPTV Service In the UK? · · Score: 1

    Most decent modern TVs have a freeview tuner built and iplayer (for the BBC) plus there are Freeview boxes that act as DVR's

  6. Duncan Sandys called on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    he's suing over his ip in the1957 defense white paper (you know back when the UK had a real aviation industry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957_Defence_White_Paper.

  7. Not sure that on Why Working Remotely Needs To Make a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Piecework at home is NOT the way id like to see the IT industry going.

    And its an unfortunate truth that tightly integrated and collocated teams have much higher productivity.

  8. Re:Also, no Windows computers allowed in my house. on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 2

    or one Mac Pro :-)

  9. Re:Obvious question on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    or as a component in a HPC cluster

  10. Re:"Uses an X86 Processor" on Sony Announces the PS4 · · Score: 1

    8 Cores is not low end

  11. Re:No kidding on Security Firm Mandiant Says China's Army Runs Hacking Group APT1 · · Score: 1

    US - but you the one that got caught now pay the price (just like our two cia guys caught bang to rights that you imprisoned for 20 years back in the 50's)

  12. Re:charge trains?? on Wirelessly Charged Buses Being Tested Next Year · · Score: 1

    um you know Trains use a lot of power In the United Kingdom, the maximum current that can be drawn by a train is 6,800 A at 750 V good luck with batteries that can deliver that sort of power to run a full size (8 or 12 car) commuter train for any sensible distance.

  13. Re:Wrong Premise, Approach from a Different Angle on Do Patent Laws Really Protect Small Inventors? · · Score: 1

    um you would be shocked how low property taxes for say a £10-20 mill mansion in London are much much lower than the USA in Chelsea the max council tax is £2151 for any house over £320,000

  14. Re:Of course it protects the small investor on Do Patent Laws Really Protect Small Inventors? · · Score: 1

    are you not sure the default in the USA is that your employer owns stuff "related" to your employment and it would be hard for an employee to have the cash to fight a claim from an employer.

  15. Re:Justice on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 1

    except in the work place where employers can fire all of a group if they can prove that one committed a workplace theft but cant prove who did it

  16. Fail wrong scale on Amazon Sells Out Predator Drone Toy After Mocking Reviews · · Score: 1

    real geeks would want it in 20mm or 28mm scale so it would fit with the rest of our models - and you Airifix re issue those Operation Herrick sets in 172 stat oh and some models of the tasty Jackals and Coyotes would be nice.

  17. Re:Except we don't have a unitary government on The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States · · Score: 1

    Yes i have worked on a site aimed at the US HR market there are 52 states plus federal employment laws all similar but slightly different imagine the additional wasted cost that a medium or large company has to shoulder to cater for this huge expansion of red tape. where as the UK has one set of employment laws (ignoring the special case of NI where there are slightly different laws to cater for the "traditions" )

  18. Re:Stress on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    As opposed to the crews of the B52's that carpet bombed large chunks of Asia? - a targeted strike is far less likely to have collateral damage - like my dad getting bombed out during ww2 as that side of the family lived a few miles from the biggest spitfire plant in the UK - luckily he wasn't at home then other wise I would not be here :-)

  19. Re:Schadenfreude on Brazilians Can Now Buy an "iPhone" Loaded With Android · · Score: 1

    What a company favors a local over foreigners thats not universal justice that is poujadism you could almost think it was France or China :-)

  20. and Yvonne hunni you do know that a big uk jobs site ( brand leader) got Panda'd by google Two weeks ago for far less than what you are doing here your risking destroying slash dots value here.

  21. Re:Primary Problem? on Xbox Originator: "Stupid, Stupid Xbox!!" · · Score: 1

    But they play causal games on mobile and not fully immersive games ala Halo or ME3 and at least the new interface isn't the POS that was the original blade one - a couple of years ago I interviewed at the agency that was responsible for that monstrosity. It was the single most incompetent interview I have ever had (worthy of a submission to the daily WTF) the guy interviewing me had zero idea about the digital marketing space (I suspect he might have had difficulty switching his pc on) and was wearing a ratty T shirt that I would not wear to do the gardening in!

  22. Re:"Individual a big ask?" No. on Raytheon's Riot Program Mines Social Network Data For Intelligence Agencies · · Score: 1

    yes but that is done by human officers working on suspects and not a ML/AI system analyzing a huge data set to pick out an individual - you could pick out candidates for humans to have a deeper look i can buy that but predicting individuals by its self (short of a singularity) i find a bit hard to believe

  23. which is what happens when councils outsourced stuff in the UK what an in house person could have changed in say 2 weeks at low cost would take months cost far more and be far more likely to require one or more corrections when it doesn't work as required

  24. Re:Both! on Estonian Schools To Teach Computer-Based Math · · Score: 1

    multiplication and division is Arithmetic and not Mathematics

  25. do they mean on Raytheon's Riot Program Mines Social Network Data For Intelligence Agencies · · Score: 2

    people singular or people en mass? Calculating statistically what a group might do might work but an individual that is a big ask)