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  1. Re:Users reporting bugs directly on Joel Test Updated · · Score: 1

    well so the good people will go else where then :-) or alternatively use contacts inside the wire to get the pay scales - may be that's why all the good tech jobs are in the states with more liberal employment laws.

    Knowing the employers pay range does give you a slight advantage in negotiating

    Which I did see happen in BT the guy used his contacts to get the Personnel Contract pay scales and negotiated to quite near the max for that grade.

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

    they seem to come around every 4/5 weeks now its getting old

  3. Re:Users reporting bugs directly on Joel Test Updated · · Score: 1

    Well you would normally expect an indicative range at least otherwise how do they get the right level of people applying for the job.

    Not much point in going through one or more interviews when what your offering is below what they will accept - otherwise its a waste of both sides time.

  4. Re:Evaluation of what exactly? on Joel Test Updated · · Score: 1

    seriously 1->20 have you or your company not heard of span of control - army's don't use 1 NCO to 20 squadies for very good reasons.

  5. Re:Users reporting bugs directly on Joel Test Updated · · Score: 1

    >Brilliant, ask about working hours and how much money you'll be paid. You won't come across as lazy and greedy, honest.

    err that's normally one of the the things the job spec has up front and if it didn't that would be a warning in its self that the company is a poor employer.

  6. the swines on Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines · · Score: 1

    they will be after the telex machines next what will Joan at SCDP say when the Telex girls say they cant Telex that important client :-)

  7. Soory Re:Nice moral equivalence on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    Argentina! just how many thousands of people did the junta kill in that dirty war? let alone sending those half trained conscript kids to die in the Falklands whilst the elite units where pulled back to protect the dictatorship. The USA does have a lot more freedoms than some other country's Some of the more fringe political types Phelps etc would probably be in jail in the UK or the USA. Say what you like about the USA but they have never had a coup - arnaged some in other countries though :-)

  8. Re:not like other countries would do that on Venezuelan Gov't Seeks Internet Content Bill · · Score: 1

    well a lot of people even those of us on the left thought that the ghastly US ambassador to the UN was a traitor.

  9. Not heard of DEC oir PDP's have we on Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy · · Score: 1

    sorry what are you smoking DEC owned that space in the 60s and 70's with the PDP range and the VAX took over in the Mid to late 80's

  10. Re:So sad on Feds To Adopt 'Cloud First' IT Policy · · Score: 1

    mm you would have thought that the wiki-leaks fiasco would have lead to a re assessment of the eggs in one basket approach - at least for those applications requiring security which is 99% of them

  11. aw diddums did i hurt your feelings on Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers · · Score: 1
    This is Slashdot so what? I suspected that some sub would rise to the bait I think I have more chops than you to decide what the current usage of hacker is.
    • I was involved in the online scene in the 80s been involved professionally in the online biz since the early 80's.
    • I was at one point thirdline for the uks x.400 mail system
    • I once got asked by my employer to respond to alt.2600 (but bt security thought it unwise)
    • My handle is namecheck'd in a book fictionalizing the early uk online scene written by a Booker shortlist'ed author.

    What exactly have you done? Are you suggesting that we ought to have an academie francaise that rules on correct usage of technical terms? OK that would be IBM and we would be calling mother boards planars; fans AMDs and hard disks as DASD.

    Get over it the terms usage has changed.

    Ps and “hacker” is also used to indicate a poor golfer which usage predates any technical usage

  12. Re:Public WiFi on Bill Calls For Wi-Fi Base Stations In All Federal Buildings · · Score: 1

    oh cool do you or the Senators realize 1 ap will support around 10 active connections - this is the rule of thumb cisco uses for designing wifi networks - and that's standard network traffic not viop traffic which has more stringent reuirements.

    You will also have to run more lines into the building as you not going to want these access points on the internal network.

  13. Re:What the fuck is a doorway? on Doorways Sneak To Non-Default Ports of Hacked Servers · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Finished throwing ones teddy out of the pram have we? Language changes over time and has dual meanings deal with it!

  14. Re:Yes, but... on Wikipedia Pages Now On Amazon — With Product Links · · Score: 1

    still dupe content if amazon can get away with this the ill be doing the same after all if amazon can get away with it so can we eh Matt :-)

  15. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    and reading the NYT or the Guardian?

  16. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    "anyone with a facebook page can't be trusted with secrets anyway" quite funny seeing as "C" the head of SIS (MI6) was outed by one of his family making remarks on FB

  17. Re:Guilty much? on Graduate Students Being Warned Away From Leaked Cables · · Score: 1

    possibly seeing the fall out from this would make you more aware of the need for confidentially.

    They are talking about disseminating the info not reading it I do wonder if this is some low level functionary acting above his pay grade.

  18. Re:Bush was right after all on Foodtubes Proposes Underground, Physical Internet · · Score: 1

    Lol when i left school I was offered a research assistants job and had the choice of nuclear and mathematical modeling or solids transport - including capsule pipelines we had a full size test track.

    One of the guys in my physics class at school worked in solids transport and when he told be about having to crawl into the test circuit we had - to unstuck stuck loaded containers i decided to go into the math and nuke department.

    But I did miss out on driving the baby JCB/ Backhoe we had to load one of the rigs

  19. Re:iplayer on Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    i'me not a millionaire tax dodger

  20. Re:There's no need to fear Joe Lieberman on Wikileaks Booted From Amazon · · Score: 1

    but according to wikipedia hes effectively left his party by supporting the republican candidate for president why has he still got any political power why did not the dems kick him out at that point.

    This is like George Galloway and his grandstanding stunts in the UK

  21. Re:has any fortune 500 company gone Google Apps? on Microsoft Ups Online War, Says Google's 'Failing' · · Score: 1

    unfortunately for a lot of cases you are expected to give absolute guarantees - and the penaties can be heavy a senior politician was lied to by one of her staff and was fined $20,000 for breaches of employment legislation. BT had to re onshore some work as it was illegal for them to off shore it

  22. Re:iplayer on Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360 · · Score: 1

    yes some one needs to kick MS hard up the fundament over this its a shockingly bad decision.

  23. Re:iplayer on Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360 · · Score: 2

    Heretic Burn the Heretic :-)

  24. Re:iplayer on Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360 · · Score: 2

    um they do it's the dodgy non doms and the freeriders from the Chanel islands we need to tax at the same rate as the rest of us.

  25. iplayer on Microsoft Reportedly Working On TV Service For Xbox 360 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just team up with the BBC and offer iplayer, Free in UK the rest of the world can pay say £15/$20 month - then we can have full length seasons of Dr Who - whats not to like :-)