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  1. Re:In My Opinion, One Horrible Analogy on US, China Face Mutually Assured Destruction In Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    well don't forget that the US and UK have a big lead in submersible tech "oh dear mr Ambassador from a bad actor" looks like some unfortunate fisherman has trawled through your countries fiber links

  2. Re:That democracy doesn't work. on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    I don't know of a country where the constitution is actually followed as law instead of guideline.

    Most countries do the UK is a rarity in not having a formal constitution

  3. Re:That democracy doesn't work. on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    Consequentials :-) A law that said "only those born in Finland have the right to stay?" this would violate EU and the Finnish Constitution it would be deemed invalid.

  4. probaly NOT Want was Re:WANT!!! on Open Ministry Crowdsources Laws In Finland · · Score: 1

    As some one who has done a fair bit of work on business committee (standing orders) of organizations having looked at the petitions on the 90% of them were very badly drafted to the point of being not valid.

    For those of you not familiar with parliamentary procedure the SOC is the elected body normally separate from the executive that rules on what motions are valid and where the go on the order paper.

    Unfortunately as an ex MP (one those who stood for speaker last time) said the government has a lot more ways of manipulating the order paper - the petitions site was one of those blue sky ideas suggested by inexperienced members of the government (probably some SPAD).

    As California shows government by referendum is a very bad idea - its subject to capture by strident single issue groups with fabulously wealthy backers.

  5. Re:Fund some partially Apple owned startups . . . on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 2

    err the shareholders own the company and I am sure that as a share holder id rather a decent dividend that some doomed attempt to piss my monney up the wall competing in the TV market where the margins are razor thin

  6. Re:Dividends? Ridiculous. on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Complete bollocks dividends are the major part of the return from any portfolio of securitys - this is investing 101 its also real money you cant fake dividends via dodgy accounting practices.

  7. Re:Another fly on the wall heard from on Apple Has Too Much Money · · Score: 2

    And ignoring sensible dividends and going hell for leather for growth is what did for the likes of Enron.

  8. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    Why would you want to do that you would have much less incentive to invest in equities - which is going to hurt everyones pensions and savings.

  9. Re:GTFO ASAP on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    But perfectly legal in many places.

  10. Re:Ask EFF or ACLU on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    You might want to check with your lecturer that covers employment law and its not a non compete in this case more theft of trade secrets I would imagine - I doubt the EFF or the ACLU is going to be into reforming employment law.

  11. Re:Sounds weird to me. on Dealing With an Overly-Restrictive Intellectual Property Policy? · · Score: 1

    Absolutely it can be legal it depends on the jurisdiction and how close the stuff you do in your own time is to your day job eg if you do embedded design at work but develop an nosql system in your spare time you might be OK.

    Certainly both US and UK employment law has similar roots so unfortunately employees get the short end of the stick here. IANAL but I am an "approved" person as defined in UK Law and I have had this discussion with some one who is now in a senior HR role in a FTSE 100 Tech company.

  12. Re:Not Necessarily Dead on Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You! · · Score: 1

    They might be referencing an infamous Nedelin catastrophe where around 120+ people where killed when a rocket blew up on the pad

  13. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    If Public opinion turns like it did with the bonus's in the UK it could get very nasty - all its takes is OWS or UNCUT to start calling it out and a few politicians to jump on a bandwagon on the evil foreign pirates(they would pick a foreign borne CEO to start with) screwing over our brave boys and seniors by avoiding paying tax for the VA or medicaid.

    Sv 1$ salarys could see a very big backlash and some poujadist type laws being enacted quickly

  14. Re:Office space glut! on All-IP Network Produces $100B Real Estate Windfall · · Score: 1

    and Central offices/ Exchanges aren't your normal office blocks in design so its not just a simple switch from one use to another.

  15. Re:What? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    if you believe that i have some shares to sell you in London Bridge

  16. Re:And we care because? on Facebook Details Executive Salaries, Bonuses · · Score: 1

    Compared to what say that dodgy tax dodging geezer Redknap will get if he gest the England manager job its quite reasonable.- as hes on £3m-a-year contract with a mid ranking premier team at the moment.

  17. Re:TOP SECRET clearance at PIXAR? on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    Thats the strange thing some Presidential talking shop I can understand releasing some paper work but TS clearance that's serious shitand given some of the damming statements about his personality how in hell did he ever get TS.

  18. Re:Breaking news on FBI File Notes Steve Jobs' Reality Distortion Field · · Score: 1

    and if you read it TS clearance for his time at pixar

  19. If this leads to on Text Message Brands Quebec Man a Terror Suspect · · Score: 1

    Companies abandoning Dilbertesque mission statements then i think its on balance a win - not for the unfortunate Mr Allami but on balance a win

  20. Re:french military victories on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    Buy a Harrier jump jet :-)

  21. Re:french military victories on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    Indeed the main problem that the French and the British had was that Belgium didn't allow the French and British armys to take up positions on the Belgian border prior to a German attack - and if the French had used there (very good) tanks properly like De Gaul wanted them to the result would have been very different.

  22. Re:Many versus Awesome on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    the Sherman wasn't called "Tommy Cooker" for nothing - and there was resistance particularly in the US army to building real MBT's to be the main focus of an armored thrust - the USA refused to take any Firefly's (the up gunned Sherman variants ) when offered by the Uk.

  23. Re:Questionable usefulness on Ask Slashdot: Wireless Proximity Detection? · · Score: 1

    Yes from experience working on large scale mixing experiments at BHR group we used to use a brand new set of batteries to power the sensors (mounted on the rotating elements) for each run - as the materials for a run cost £20,000 (at the time about 1/2 the cost of a house

  24. Re:Expensive RSS feed on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    Yeh well doing sentiment analysis and very large scale data mining is a non trivial task its not just some hacked together in 5 mins python script that combines a few rss feeds.

  25. Re:Made For TV? on FBI Building App To Scrape Social Media · · Score: 1

    Somehow I doubt that its like the Grid in Spooks (MI5 as its called in the US) Just like working at Cheyenne Mountain is nothing like Stargate