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  1. so just how many on Germany To End Nuclear Power By 2022 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Tsunamis and earthquakes has Germany had in lets say the last 1000 years :-)

  2. Re:The natives probably won't be getting the jobs. on Facebook May Make Tiny Town a Data Center Mecca · · Score: 1

    well a lights out DC which is what these are don't have that many employees - I did the sums and reckoned a Google one could probably have only 20 or so Full time employees plus some local minimum wage security guards.

  3. Re:Cold War on Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit · · Score: 1

    well 1812 was fought for a number of reasons the impression of the sailors was the excuse used for an expansionist policy - trying to invade Canada whilst the Brits where busy with Napoleon.

  4. Re:Law is dumb on BBC Site Uses Cookies To Inform Visitors of Anti-Cookie Law · · Score: 1

    isn't that what store loyalty cards do? track your purchases?

  5. dray hose problems on Draft Horses Used To Lay Fiber-Optic Cable · · Score: 1

    a few years ago an oldtimer in BT told me a story about an accident he investigated where a brewery dray house peed and the pee ran down into tray of solder where they guys where jointing cables - the horse pee and molten solder exploded and went all over the place.

  6. Re:Dear Paypal... on PayPal Accuses Google of Poaching Mobile Payment Trade Secrets, Personnel · · Score: 1

    you might want to look up the laws as they apply to employment its how it works

  7. Re:Is "content" really king? on EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8 · · Score: 1

    sorry are you deaf! have you not heard of James Jameson? from wikipedia "He was the uncredited bassist on most of Motown Records' hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases until 1971), and he is now regarded as one of the most influential bass players in modern music history."

    Talk about unconscious incompetence.

  8. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    well NATO had tried to goto a smaller cartridge before circa 1951 the EM-2 .280 even got the french to agree I believe but America veto'd it

  9. Re:Is "content" really king? on EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8 · · Score: 1

    so on in a million acts makes it big there are members of the funk brothers who died in poverty you know

  10. Re:FTA: on EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8 · · Score: 1

    IRON Man the LOTR Trilogy - personaly I don't find the Mike Leigh everythings grim on a council estate films not much fun even if they are cheap to make.

  11. Re:Blame FPTP on EFF Co-founder Faces Copyright Heavyweights At EG8 · · Score: 1

    no people voted against AV to kick the LibDems for joining the condem coalition

  12. Re:Following Google to Stupidity on Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go · · Score: 1

    err the Soviets and WP forces went to intermediate cartridge assault rifles long before the USA did - weather they nicked the design from the Ak47 from the StG 44 or not is the actual question

  13. Re:I'm inclined to disagree on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    that's why medical school is 7 years.

  14. Re:Is IT/CS/... not easy enough already? on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    Because employers want a degree as an entry point - Ironically I work in a consultancy role for a large internet publisher as both of the techie members of the team are self taught programmers diagnosing and proposing solutions for the other developers.

  15. Re:What a load of crap on Why You Shouldn't Panic Over Mac Malware · · Score: 1

    re multimedia pros - I had a multimedia grad say "oh 3db isn't that much" err actualy it is :-)

  16. Re:And ... There You Go on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    well yes but in the case when the employee owns the equipment you might have a harder time - which is the point i was making

  17. Re:That did not work with casinos.... on A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors · · Score: 1

    they refused to work with the official validating service. From the WSJ

    "For a decade, Google and the other search engines declined to use a verification program created in 1999 by a group representing U.S. state pharmacy regulators to weed-out rogue online drug sellers. Instead, Google used a third-party company that pharmacy regulators and others say often failed to catch illicit drug sellers."

    Shockingly politically naive.

  18. Re:That did not work with casinos.... on A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors · · Score: 1

    Have you not seen the bilion dollar case the DOJ is going after Google with for selling pharma ppc adverts.

  19. Re:Where's the weak link? on A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors · · Score: 1

    simple bank/credit card organisation gets its credit license taken away if they don't play ball - or have Sir Humphrey have a quiet word with the Banks CEO (or his wife) pointing out that if they don't play ball they wont get a K (a Knighthood) for services to industry when they retire.

  20. Re:And ... There You Go on Why IT Needs To Change for Gen Z · · Score: 1

    What happens when you unfortunately have to investigate an an employee for some serious offense and when you ask oh we need to investigate your machine they tell you to get lost?

  21. Re:Broken society on Explosion At Foxconn Factory Kills 2, Injures 16 · · Score: 1

    because heath and safety would inspect the plant to make sure dust wasn't building up - and make sure they arn't locking employees in the building which has cased fatalities before in china

  22. Re:Short Answer on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    the tax avoidance acountants would write programs to find loop holes - dear me for a writer Mr Brinn doesn't seem to have a working knowledge of human nature does he.

  23. Re:Wrong place on An IP Address For Every Light Bulb · · Score: 1

    you could even give someone susceptible to flashing lights an epileptic fit - actualy that would make a cool CSI episode (any one know if they take spec scripts)

  24. Re:Perl - the COBOL of scripting languages on Perl 5.14 Released · · Score: 1

    Quite you can see the same problem with kids that don't understand why FORTRAN is still used in a lot of high end technical programming

  25. so do the scouts sing on Volunteer 'Cyber Scouts' Censor Web In Thailand · · Score: 2

    "tomorrow belongs to me round the campfire" instead of "Kumbayah"