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  1. Re:Why is Alibaba selling IPO in USA? on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 1

    even pro investors specialising in this area avoid the main Chinese exchange and prefer HK based shares.

  2. Re:US investors don't own Alibaba the retailer ... on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 2

    Yep both HK and London took one look at the corporate structure and said not on our exchange - if this goes pear shaped it could trigger major trouble for Google and other tech companies with "dodgy" share classes that allow a minority of outsiders to take the piss with supposedly a public company.

  3. Re:Business on Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Becoming a Complacent Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    trouble is all these js heavy single page apps and things like angular don't work very well for Google

  4. Re:Business on Ask Slashdot: How To Avoid Becoming a Complacent Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    Actually some of us where doing Agile back in the mid 90's - it was called RAD or DSDM

    BT built a system to manage its SMDS network using a hybrid water fall design phase plus a 12 week dev sprint with I think two intermediate prototypes that we let the users play with - we even sourced the sever and took enough kit to build a network on site in case hey had forgotten to provide one :-)

  5. Re:The over-65's swung it for No on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    Actually the SNP was originally quite sectarian - some thing glossed over in the obits of one of the founders obit. And a mate of mine born and brought up on red Clydeside (member of the cp and on the employers black list for union organising) commented that unfortuety there is a nasty anti english side to the scots that doesn't always show.

  6. Re:The over-65's swung it for No on Scotland Votes No To Independence · · Score: 1

    normally polls are a sample of 1k or 3k - they do try an make sure its a representative one

  7. Re:Don't get a liberal arts degree on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    Remind me again what % of the skull and bones and the Buller are doing STEM degrees.

  8. Re:Don't get a liberal arts degree on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    USA is not the only country with university in the word you know

  9. Re:Don't get a liberal arts degree on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    Yep the top university's in the UK do this - you would be shooting your self in the foot ignoring candidates from Oxford or Cambridge

  10. Re:Gee I do not know. on Ask Slashdot: Any Place For Liberal Arts Degrees In Tech? · · Score: 1

    Nope publishers prefer a eng Lit degree(first's) from Oxbridge as they are prepared to work for a pittance supported by family money - at lest they have a job and are not waitressing like a lot of other eng lit grads

  11. Re:Great one more fail on High School Student Builds Gun That Unlocks With Your Fingerprint · · Score: 1

    Quite Problems with GPS batteries led to a number of blue on blue accidents in both Iraq and Afghanistan

  12. Ms tax is trivial compared to other costs on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    The cost of office per year compared to the cost of employing a single employee is tiny even more so if they are a civil servant with a juicy pension entitlement - when I was in charge of the tech at a small 10 person company I reckoned it cost us less than £50 a year per person for office and xp

  13. Re:What's in the EU water? on City of Turin To Switch From Windows To Linux and Save 6M Euros · · Score: 1

    well there is a element of anti americanism in European states and given the recession to a non technical person it might seam simple to save money in this way where as its not that simple.

  14. Re:By Country on China's Island Factory · · Score: 1

    err you know how close airs support only works when you have planes nearby - ah these cheap dumb missiles are torpedo boats redux that where supposed to make dreadnaughts obsolete back pre ww1.

  15. Re:By Country on China's Island Factory · · Score: 1

    force projection and carriers are the strike arm of any real navy these days

  16. Re:Assuming there is a difference... on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    mm so dual 18 core xeons 64 GB to 96GB primary memory and 24-48 Tb of spinning disk I think not

  17. Oh yes there Are on Is It Time To Split Linux Distros In Two? · · Score: 1

    you wont find virtualisation in any big HPC or Hadoop cluster - its fast xenon's tons of ram and more or less DASD plus possibly a lot of pro graphics cards used as compute models and that not counting the radically different networking designs/tech used in clusters

  18. Sorry that's how civil law works if a director of a company Is deemed not fit and proper by the regulators that's it. break securities laws and you can be bared for a period or even life - the company's have admitted the breach of the anti trust law already.

  19. Re:Tech workers should get nothing. on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 1

    MM do you really want old school Industrial relations could make hitting key deployment dates interesting sorry boss my rsi is playing up something chronic oh what that a fat brown envelope in my lunch box I suddenly feel much better :-)

    I have a mate who now works in HR for a FSTE 100 company who used to work in heavy industry and he commented even the tea boy got a grand bung - this was when the average salary was around 2k.

  20. If you lose a civil case you can end up losing your job for example I know of an accountant who got convicted of fare dodging and was sacked because the employer could no longer trust them with money an non accountant might have got away with a final written warning.

  21. Re:Let's do some math on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 1

    The FCC and Financial regulators can ban you for life from working in that industry as can the AMA strike off a Doctor for malpractice

  22. Officers of companies are liable just remove there ability to sit on a board of a company - then the share holders go of sorry Eric you are banned from being a board member you have made your self unemployable hers your statutory redundancy and thanks for all your work - oh and those un vested stock options we will have those back thank you

  23. no surly h1b's are handed out on merit

  24. Re:Punitive Damages? on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 1

    Your forgetting that lawyers have a pre entry closed shop and look after themselves first

  25. Re:Punitive Damages? on Silicon Valley Fights Order To Pay Bigger Settlement In Tech Talent Hiring Case · · Score: 1

    The hr and ceo's directors of the company's to be named as "not fit and proper persons" to be board members of company's - ie they are legally disbarred from holding any senior position for say 10 years. Also the HR directors should be expelled from the HR professional body.