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

    Er No a "Blacksmith" is a technician or a skilled craftsman and blacksmiths /farriers can make quiet a good living - Engineering already has a poor status vs other professions please don't make it any worse.

  2. Re:What does criminal behavior have to do with ter on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    Um only the famous 5 realy fit that archetype not sure that any of the well known US soviet agents where well off though there was a Nazi sympathizer in the US embassy in the UK just prior to ww2 who came from a fairly good background.

    Oh i don't mean Joe Kennedy :-)

  3. Re:eric schmidt is text book hubris gross arroganc on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    and his stupidity the Tory party does have an anti American wing (they blame Winston and Roosevelt for the loss of the empire) and don't forget the Uk is not like the USA the PM has a lot of power he can call up the house of commons business mangers and have a new tax avoidance bill on the order paper in a couple of days and with a 3 line whip it can be rammed through to law very quickly. And labor and teh Lib Dems wont say much and the Press are going to be having a field day monstering Google's CEO and board.

    . Hell Cameron would probably get a 5% boost in the polls the way the UK population feels about these immoral tax avoidance schemes

  4. Re:Question on Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    actually most people in the UK who are employees don't have the option of opting out of PAYE and for IT in particular they passed laws IR35 that meant that one person IT companies where employees and taxed as such.

  5. Re:If you disable the cameras... on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 1

    I think Team Tank or anyone running top of the line MBT's might disagree Abrams and Challengers are quiet hard to take out

  6. Re:Your driving I'm watching. on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 1

    well at least its not a petrol (gas) engined car as the base vehicle - the petrol fueled Sherman where not called "Tommy Cookers" by the Germans for no reason.

  7. Re:I, for one, on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 1

    er 7.62x51 is the round used in GMPG's and there are full auto versions of the FAL with bi-pods and thicker barrels designed for the squad LMG role.

  8. Re:Your driving I'm watching. on Playstation Controller Runs Syrian Rebel Tank · · Score: 1

    23MM AP rounds your aving a laugh. I doubt they have easy access to case hardened Armour plate and why no Schürzen skirts on the sides to detonate RPG's before it hits the main armour plate.

    Not that having an up armored technical with protection for the DHSKA crews makes does not make sense.

  9. Re:Revamp time on US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board · · Score: 1

    Um in there 18th century there where no parties in the modern sense - more loose factions held together by favors and in some cases bribes see Wiliam Huges book on Pitt the Younger. ,br>
    The problem with the American system (as I see it) is that its very loose federal nature acts to stop stronger parties hence the Reps getting taken over by the religious right a text book case on entryisiam similar to that planed by the hard left in the labor party in the UK.

  10. Re:Awwww on Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court · · Score: 1

    you may joke a seriously ill unemployed man and his family are getting deported from NZ as he is to much of a dead weight on society not quite so fluffy as you like to think "A British family are facing deportation from New Zealand because the father has a brain tumour, it has emerged. Paul and Sarah Crystal have lived in New Zealand for seven years with their three children, setting up and running two successful businesses. But their application for residence was rejected because Mr Crystal's tumour means he can no longer work. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2241294/British-family-facing-deportation-New-Zealand-father-brain-tumour.html

  11. Re:Just remove it from Google's DB on German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts · · Score: 1

    Its the traffic from news stories blended into the main SERPS that people want to be a Google news publisher

  12. Re:Just remove it from Google's DB on German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts · · Score: 1

    Or other eu publishers will launch German language sites to take the place of the departed German ones - my employer has just launched a German language version of new scientist for example

  13. Re:Hammer on Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    no its in case there is a rip in the space time continuum and you have to repair the universe.

    Gaffa is like the force because it has a light side and a dark side and it binds the universe together.

  14. Re:Miscellaneous suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Server Room Toolbox? · · Score: 1

    yep maplins do a cheap ethernet tester which i got when i was doing my ccna and id make sure you have some fuses, electicians tape and a role of gaffa tape

  15. Re:Yeah, but Tulsa on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    trouble is you don't want 100% 20 year olds straight out of Uni the Security Service and SIS used to prefer to recruit older people who had more of a track record - and you can make more of a measured judgement.

  16. Re:Good ol' USSA on Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma · · Score: 1

    err SC checks are quite different to those you have to pass for TS which is what you would need to work for the CIA or NSA

  17. Re:Sounds like a great idea on 'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch · · Score: 1

    I am sure lance Cpl Jones would agree "They don't like it up 'em! Captain Mainwaring " :-) though h i am only here as my Dad wasn't in his parents house when the Luftwaffe bombed it (they use to live next to the biggest spitfire plant in the Uk)

  18. I though Omnishambles on GIF Becomes Word of the Year 2012 · · Score: 1

    was the word of the year.

  19. Re:I'm confused on US Justice Dept. Sues eBay For Anti-Competitive Hiring Practices · · Score: 1

    not enforceable I think your mean

  20. Re:Job Performance on CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair · · Score: 1

    no once he was open about it within the agency and trying to black mail the head of the CIA is insanely risky if your lucky you get an in camera trial if not you get a Red stop.
    and an investigation into hacking of the head of CIA how the fuck does this get into the public domain it should be TS eyes only an dteh FBI FFS this is the organization that had hover as a director its the last organization that should do subversion investigations

  21. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    you don't "select" a hospital in the NHS system you go to your local one or to a specialized one in your trust's area eg i have gone to cambridge for bone density and to Lister to see the nephrologist.

  22. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    the NHS isn't the same model as single payer are you thinking of the German style model

  23. Re:Shameful behaviour on Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling · · Score: 1

    and make apple use comic sans for the apology :-)

  24. Re:Please, just stop... on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    well Sabotage is part of the espionage bag the KGB had an entire department (Line F) who's job was sabotage and fifth colum type actions when the balloon went up. - They are still finding KGB arms caches in Europe today

  25. Re:More like dividing and conquering on Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" · · Score: 1

    er FSB officers don't look like soldiers and I suspect that CIA cyber operators don't look like D Boys either