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  1. Re:It was part of his job on Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    no but if you worked for a tool company and invented a new screwdriver they would own it.

  2. Re:It was part of his job on Tech Site Sues Ex-Employee, Claiming Rights To His Twitter Account · · Score: 1

    and if its related to your job but done out side of work time they own it too

  3. Re:Access to a Computer on Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black Tech Entrepreneurs? · · Score: 1

    um posibly not - there's much much more emphasis on education in India (Dr, Lawyer and engineer) - and I suspect that a break down of SV engineers from the subcontinent by caste and religion might be interesting reading. And in India there are quotas/affirmative action for the Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Castes which is not the case in the USA and the UK.

  4. Re:No. on Is There an Institutional Bias Against Black Tech Entrepreneurs? · · Score: 1

    There are studies in the UK the the cohort that performs the worst is lower class white kids ( who also have a distinct anti nerd bias)

  5. Re:yes sir! on With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately I have had this tendency confirmed by my CCNA lecturer who also did training for the MOD - to much reliance on hierarchy in a lot of cases doesn't help when you get into the "well it depends" sort of answers - strange OSPF and STP behaviors being a couple of examples.

  6. Re:Big data in a small world? on IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru · · Score: 1

    big publishers have a lot of documents - which is what my 20% project is at RBI is based on

  7. Re:Novices and Experts? on IT's Next Hot Job: Hadoop Guru · · Score: 1

    woo 3 years so long LN Risk of the arms of our parent has been working with big data for over a decade - hmm must put that on my CV :-)

  8. Re:Cooling out. on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 1

    in Germany they also split you out into the different types of schools (Hauptschule, Realschule or Gymnasium )

  9. Re:Problem solving ablilty tops his entire list. on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    well you need to solve real world problems not rote learned CS simple problems

  10. Re:Google Example on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 1

    well if the first thing they say is ""the oldest person in the group" Id be inclined to comment well maybe for my 20% time I could mentor your hr director in you know actually doing his job :-) (oh and name drop Vint who back in my Dialcom days was I suppose the top technical boss in the company oh and our UK written system beat their POS hands down)

  11. Re:Cheers For Engineers !!!1 +4, Informative on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 1

    Engineers vs Scientists - an Engineer is a Scientist with thumbs (but the technician really knows whats going on ) - I started in RnD as a Research assistant

  12. Re:germany (facepalm at slashdot) on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 1

    yes Shes a scientist not an Engineer - Maggie Thatcher was a chemist as well.

  13. Yasser Arafat on Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post · · Score: 1

    was a civil engineer by training.

  14. Re:Poor Technology on Can Open Hardware Transform the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    yes just prior to doing my fist www project in 1994 - I worked on a traditional client server using oracle to install our application we had to physically go on site and install 16 different floppy disks - took 2 of us 2 days to install 6 machines.
    I remember commenting to my Boss after the end of the www project about how the it could save huge amounts of money in deployment.

  15. Re:Programmer != Engineer, idiot. on Career Advice: Don't Call Yourself a Programmer · · Score: 1

    no no - the only thing you should allow the architect to do is chose the paint color's.

  16. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    yes going against people who skin and disembowel prisoners alive - yes I think thats in over your heads

  17. Re:Have the drug cartels met their match? on Anonymous Takes On a Mexican Drug Cartel · · Score: 1

    Yes you need to checkout some of the sites for people working in COIN and small wars - the zetas are tame compared to the Templars think chaos cult from Warhammer and then some.

  18. Re:Your tax dollars at work on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    um the USA's grid right (rolls on floor laughing) - hint 1st word countries don't have brown outs in major cites in normal operation. I doubt the uk grid could handle say 50% of cars being put on charge each evening with out huge investment and flooding large parts of wales Scotland for stored hydro power.

  19. Re:Same type of stuff needs to be done with IT wor on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 1

    you know that the traditional apprenticeships are 4/5 years (first year spent filing and making the tea)

  20. Re:A bit thin-skinned... on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 1

    Really hydrogen fuel cells have a lot of advantages - we have a network of petrol stations which could be converted - and at the levels of power required to recharge electric cars in a relatively quick time your going to have a lot more horrific accidents.

  21. Re:Your tax dollars at work on High Court Rules In Favor of Top Gear Over Tesla Remarks · · Score: 2

    and if a lot of houses put there cars on charge over night its going to do terrible things to the national grid.

  22. Re:No, not "gnarly" on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 1

    And from my dim a distant mech eng technical course its much easier to cast (using Victorian era sand casting) a circle than a square shape..

  23. Re:Same type of stuff needs to be done with IT wor on Gnarly Programming Challenges Help Recruit Coders · · Score: 1

    Cant see the average tech company committing to a 4/5 year apprenticeship program.

  24. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Bell labs was funded by a Monopoly provider.

  25. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    Its not to late to come back I am sure the nicer bits could join Canada or Rejoin the UK (as you all love Liz II so much)

    I will now run and Hide :-)