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  1. Re:Only banned during last hours before polls on Facebook/Twitter Banned In Thailand For Election · · Score: 1

    actually you can campaign in the UK on election day - the parties will do whats referred to in polictical jargon as "knocking up" ie trying to make sure your supporters get out and vote and the parties do one last push for photo ops before the candidates go back to the constituancies.

    Thats why you get asked for your number by the watchers from the parties at the door - the numbers are fed back to the constituency office and checked against your list of supporters.

  2. Re:Apprenticeships on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    realy i was looking at the spec to set up a HPCC cluster last week - I reckoned 600+ cores in a single rack - that's not going to be cheap :-)

  3. Re:This happens NOWHERE ELSE on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    very common in the UK especially in the media

  4. Re:Why is some random guy's blog on Slashdot? on Calling BS On Unpaid Internships · · Score: 1

    well for some high value/status jobs getting an internship is the route in - and effectively you need a rich family to support you.

  5. Re:Other "fake" geeks. on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    so?

    I was talking about how any presenter should be doing it and I have just written a draft on how to maximize the value from rich media for a major publishing house.

  6. Re:Other "fake" geeks. on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    no because that how all journalists/presenters work especially in rich media your building your brand.

  7. Re:When I think of the prototypical geek on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    actually 14th century black smithing is probably 95% of black smithing today.

  8. Re:Are we assuming on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    why not bettany hughes is a history geek

  9. Re:Intelligence on Are Fake Geeks Dooming Real Ones? · · Score: 1

    I can remember reading just suddenly clicking at about 5

  10. Re:Let me guess.. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    but with my UK "approved person" hat on id say do skype for all they are worth

  11. Re:...opaque language is the norm. on If You're Working For Stock, Read the Fine Print · · Score: 1

    there is also custom in practice that vested means vested.
    ,br> reading between the lines something very strange went on and skype has form in screwing people who do business with it

  12. Re:Bit of rethinking the system too please. on E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? · · Score: 1

    government by referendum (which is what you are suggesting) is why CA is in such a mess

  13. Re:Semi-Electronic voting on E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? · · Score: 1

    "Open ballots are good enough for the first 100 years "

    That is like arguing that the Uk should still have rotten boroughs or university graduates have two votes.

    I seem to recall a historical account of voting in the USA open ballots there was huge intimidation and you used to have to carry a gun/brasknuckles when you went out to vote.

  14. Re:Semi-Electronic voting on E-Voting Reform In an Out Year? · · Score: 1

    yeh it happens a bit in the UK granny farming in old peoples homes - and there have been instances where the heads of families from more patriarchal cultures have voted for other family members.

  15. Re:So what? on UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told · · Score: 1

    yep its the same as the previous case with Gary McKinnon - getting diagnosed after the fact.

  16. Re:A couple of issues on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    well its more who you know than what you know - which was my Fathers view about going down the Chartered status route (in the UK) - though of the work I am doing on HPCC could be useful - though exactly what the BCS does for the profession is open to debate.

  17. Re:You underestimate the value on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    I doubt that some one with a mathematics or physics degree from Cambridge or Oxford would agree with you.

  18. Re:Motivation on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 1

    indeed there is a bridge in the middle east that only works because I pointed out the Engineer had used the wrong formula when defining the shape - I had to develop a program to draw the section of the complex curved supports (so that the draftsman could put in the rebar supports)

  19. Re:I can't read Dutch... on Dutch Legislature Accidentally Votes For Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    then the chair needs sacking/impeaching or the business manger for the labor party - this is gross incompetence and shows contempt for the people and the dutch parliament.

  20. Re:I can't read Dutch... on Dutch Legislature Accidentally Votes For Internet Filtering · · Score: 1

    Actually that's how it works read Citrine or any of the other authorities - parliamentary based systems have had dif's as you put it before computers where ever built.Having said that it depends on how business is managed and governments can try and pull fast ones.
    last week I was at a meeting where on of the candidates for the last speakers election in the UK commented about how union conferences where much better at democracy as the government can quickly put business up at short notice.

  21. Re:First TLD to go? on ICANN Domain Expansion Could Increase Phishing · · Score: 1

    actually it is nearly $200k to apply not counting the cost of the application and the cost to run a robust infrastructure - from experience with .coop they will mandate multiple redundant servers in 4 continents probably.

  22. Re:And now who would trust Silverlake on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    didn't some one tell them be nice to people on the way up - they are going to be on so many peoples shit list

  23. Re:Corporate Sleeze on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    quite that is why all those mega employment law suits are brought by very very well paid bankers (they can afford to hire Cheri Blair or some uber high flying employment lawyer) doubt the average VC and the HR director in question would enjoyed getting flayed by an expert.

  24. Re:Fired? on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    yep they do BT's redundancy terms where well known for being gold plated

  25. Re:Fired? on Skype Execs Purged On Eve of MS Takeover · · Score: 1

    No they don't Fired, Resignation and laid off have very distinct meanings in employment law - do you have no idea how the employer employee relationship works?