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  1. soory ??? on Is Apple Turning Into the Next "Evil Empire"? · · Score: 1

    realy you don't understand the point hes making between Catholic and Protestant? maybe it only works for those brought up in Europe or the States i think his analogy is a realy good one.

  2. Re:Email should cost one penny per message on Germany Builds Encrypted, Identity-Confirmed Email · · Score: 1

    yep i used to work for telecom gold (dialcom) on the billing side (I wrote the core of the x.400 billing system) and you don't want to go back to that era 20p a mail plus tiered data charges on top of that.

  3. back to the 80's on Germany Builds Encrypted, Identity-Confirmed Email · · Score: 1

    sounds like DBP has manged to looby for a return to the 70's and 80's with the ptt running the countrys email system

  4. Re:Of course graduates lack what IT managers want on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 1

    um you do know what a dick you look here - I worked for the worlds leading RnD organization in fluids and other things our boss was the president of the Mechanical engineers - we where across the road from one of Europs top 5 Business schools which we all looked down on them as the special needs kids. Dam fucking right we looked down them for good reason we all thought that we would not trust them with maintaining any car we owned - trust me if you had seen them you would have agreed.

  5. Re:Of course graduates lack what IT managers want on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 1

    Actualy as some one who started out in mech eng. Its technician, technician engineer then engineer. The difference is you are on the professional track. 'auto mechanic ' is just a trade there's no where to go is there? F1 and race cars don't count as they take graduate entrants You may not consider IT a profession but as its overwhelming graduate entry and has the other attributes of a profession 'non directed hours and so on a lot of people do. Though given my experience with Joomla sites it might have been better if those involved had stayed working at mc Donalds

  6. Re:Of course graduates lack what IT managers want on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 1

    this is a very poor analogy IT is not a trade like 'auto mechanic' its a profession. And having come into IT via a vocational route I and all the other students on my mech eng BTEC course regarded the auto mechanics with horror we seriously doubted if more than 50% of the could open the box containing a new component at the right end. and in no way would a 'auto mechanic' know anything about upholstery. and the average programmer isn't going to know that much about Cisco ok I do having done the cisco academy CCNA and the Wireless equivalent but i was the UK's OSI X.400 thirdline support for BT back in the day - I am a very atypical programmer. so pop quiz from memory whats the process for recoving a bricked 2600 ? or whats the default serial port settings ?

  7. Re:Of course graduates lack what IT managers want on IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if you need "I need folks who are able to hit the ground running" you don't hire new graduates you hire old hands who have a few years of experience. This is just the old whining of companies not wanting to pay for training.

  8. PIC ? on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    PIC Microcontrollers have been around much long and probably have a lot more than 100k units shipped

  9. Re:IPv6 Mess on If You Think You Can Ignore IPv6, Think Again · · Score: 1

    they weren't thinking

  10. well not many use on Do Tools Ever 'Die?' · · Score: 1

    stone hand axes any more

  11. Re:They once were on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    no in the UK you have to do you your BS then do CPD for a number of years and then you are an engineer - oh and you need to know the right people as well :-)

  12. Re:They once were on America Losing Its Edge In Innovation · · Score: 1

    yes but professions have you know "chartered status" photography is a trade. how the frack did this comment get marked insightful? probably by some one who thinks Stephen fry is a geek!

  13. Re:TFS/TFA misleading; not about govt. employees on US Supreme Court Says NASA Background Checks OK · · Score: 2

    so its essentially the same clearance if your in the army or work for a defense contractor

  14. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    curses :-)

    oh course I should have used a Hollerith format for my comment

  15. Re:Keep up or shut up on Should Younger Developers Be Paid More? · · Score: 1

    wanabet on that as a "real Programmer can write FORTRAN in any language :-)

  16. huh on Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set New App Store's Prices · · Score: 1

    would Amazon not have to buy the app just like say walmart buys HDTV's to sell from a wholesaler.

  17. Re:Access password with no ACLs ? on Vodafone Customer Database Breached · · Score: 1

    well from experience working for BT Mobile phone companies don't attract the best techies - surprised that after the news of the world phone hacking that voda hadn't tightened up on security.

  18. ok so this is how it goes on Google Wins Injunction Against Agency Using Microsoft Cloud · · Score: 1

    senior government guy "you know getting hacked by the Chinese secret service isn't exactly going to do your bid any favors, apart from giving Matt Cutts old work colleagues at the NSA a good laugh".

    Google should have smiled and taken their lumps like a grown up - you don't see BP share holders or all the British pensioners whose pensions have major BP share holdings suing the US Government over the way Obama and others bullied BP when it was an American subcontractors fault.

  19. Re:$15,0000,000 on Zimbabwe Gov't Websites Hit By Pro-WikiLeaks DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    they would have glassed the Ruhr industrial heartland - that is what the Manhattan project was aiming at.

  20. dump primarys go OMOV on Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries · · Score: 1

    both parties moving to OMOV (one member one vote) along uk lines would be better - you could even do it on a state by state basis then make the decision at the convention.

  21. Renaut SUV on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 1

    wow I sit corrected - not that I have ever seen one in the flesh maybe this is Renauts Dacia Sandero :-)

    Looks like its been pulled from the UK due to poor sales. If it takes off in france I can see the regs being written to exclude it.

    I also suspect that if this tax targets vehicles used by french farmers that this idea will be dropped quickly.

  22. Re:Weather Alert on Paris To Test Banning SUVs In the City · · Score: 0

    and Renaut doesnt realy make a SUV which is why i suspect they are targeting them

  23. Re:can we have a moratorium on ip v6 scare stories on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    yeh they botched the migration they probably just assumed it would happen like the ITU and the PTT's thought that X.400/OSI would replace this rubbishy SMTP TCP/IP

  24. Re:can we have a moratorium on ip v6 scare stories on After IPv4, How Will the Internet Function? · · Score: 1

    they have been saying this for years I remember when I had a key role in the uk's OSI infrastructure 20 years ago they where saying this back then.

    what needs to happen is reconsideration of the whole ipv6 standard - they never considered how to migrate from 4 to 6.

  25. Re:Putin and freedom !!?? on Putin Orders Russian Move To GNU/Linux · · Score: 2

    Uncle Borris from the FSB comes round and pulls your fingernails out with rusty pliers