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  1. Um can i mention on How the Cool Stuff At CES Will Ruin Your Life · · Score: 1

    Abby, Ziva and Director Shepard from NCIS to disprove your point none of them are particularly pink fans

  2. Re:Like standardized testing on Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? · · Score: 1

    quiet i recall when i worked on campus at CIT late 70's we had an experiment that used time lapse photography with filters and a very narrow dof to take pictures of the pattern that the droplets make from a fire suppression sprinkler we had slices though the z axis.

    I was told oh we have brought a a0 digitizer (about 3x my salary) can you hook it up to the pdp running RT11 (there where no drivers for this) and go and talk to the Lead Engineer on the project and work out how to digitize the droplets so we can get there speed and direction.

  3. Re:How has the exploit maker gone unfound? on Java Zero-Day Vulnerability Rolled Into Exploit Packs · · Score: 1

    why would they pay him or allow him to work outside their controll

  4. Re:no wonder on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    and a 9mm Pill in a few others

  5. Re:There is no murder (or other) charge yet on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    yes but he has just admitted to hacking a number government officials which sort of makes that easy.

  6. Re:Slashbloat on John McAfee Explains How He Milked Information From Belize's Elite · · Score: 1

    No its called espionage albeit of the a private venture nature - Presumably the Belizean government will be wanting him extradited ASAP.

  7. Re:You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Explain To a Coworker That He Writes Bad Code? · · Score: 1

    and quite often these "young" programmers think that OO is the one true paradime that All coders must follow - for a substantial number of problems I would suggest that OO is an extra over head that you probably don't need.

  8. Re:Good Guys With Guns? on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    Oh like they do in Germany for example its common for executives to have armed bodyguards.

  9. Re:Mommy... on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    or as we are finding in the uk don't piss of owners of newspapers as they will monster you if they don't like you or if your a curvy 15 year old girl they will publish a count down until your are "legal" to fuck.

  10. Re:Wouldn't it be better... on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    so failure of regulation the insurance industry is far more opaque than say banks are ask the insurance industry to explain how with profits funds values are calculated.

  11. Re:Wouldn't it be better... on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 2

    Another plus for the NHS or the German system - the whole point of insurance is its a pooled risk picking the pool is having your cake and eating it.

  12. Re:No matter how you twist it on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    rather dark Grey in my opinion though it depends on the eye of the beholder and the Mighty Google tends to apply the "black" term to what they see fit. But take the example of a doctor who is struck off for negligence certainly suppressing that information is not in the public good

  13. Re:Cum Laude Degree? on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    Didn't say it was me that went to Oxford - I am dyslexic techie on the team I just went a a "bog standard comp" and then day release at the local college of FE.

    Though I suspect that Oxford would have been more sympathetic to dyslexia than my high school - certainly one of my My uncles did his MA at oxford orally because his writing was so bad.

  14. Re:Wouldn't it be better... on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    Indeed some HR departments (and US ones tend to be worst culprits) have ideas above there station eg Drug tests and back ground checks for some bog standard little development job - you imagine the HR director spends his weekend dressing up as the SAS /Seal team 6/SAD and running round the woods with a paint ball gun

    This level of intrusion for job seekers is only really required/justified for a very small subset of jobs eg those with SC or TS (DV) clearance

  15. More Black Hat SEO from Uni's on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 2

    This is arguably against Googles guidelines - and I have seen some dubious link directories that appear to be run the insiders in side universitys that try and leverage the high value and trust assigned to a .edu domain.

  16. Re:Cum Laude Degree? on Colleges Help Students Fix Their Online Indiscretions · · Score: 1

    Why publishers/ad agencies often take English grads from oxbridge = we have an Oxford Alumni on our team (digital marketing for a FTSE100 company) - Bridget Jones worked in publishing and the diary has jokes about "wittgenstein"

  17. Re:What MBE stands for? on Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored · · Score: 1

    And its the plebs gong surprising would have thought an ex civil servant of his grade he should have rated higher - probably the old boys network doing the greasy engineers down again.

  18. Re:Sensationalist much? on UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless · · Score: 1

    these days they are incentivised to get people off so if you don't exactly jump through the hoops you can get JSA removed and due to a problem with my previous bankrupt employer not paying its NI payments I could not claim the even though i had a 30+ year record prior to that.

  19. Re:Morons on UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block · · Score: 1

    i think a substantial group of of DM readers are are probably Ukip or in extreme cases BNP

  20. Re:Title is misleading on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    yep you would not believe the deal our GP's got last time the contract was renegotiated.

  21. Re:Why? on First Photos and Video of Raspberry Pi Model A · · Score: 2

    The B now comes with 512

  22. Re:Unions protect jobs just fine on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Yep I know of one UK FTSE100 company where this happened within the last few years its why they currently have very strict rules about how investigations are done - all meetings have external witnesses are recorded and the investigated person gets a copy of the tape.

  23. Re:Union perspective on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Bollocks if your grossly abusing the system all the Union does is make sure that you get fired correctly and that employers don't misbehave eg beat confessions out of people.

  24. Re:Title is misleading on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    Heard of the AMA and the BMA - They also function as Unions and I know every Union in the Uk is in awe at how good a deal the GP (Family doctors) when that contract got negotiated

  25. Re:Title is misleading on Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant · · Score: 1

    you probably should not call a blacksmith a farrier :-)