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  1. Re:Not this again. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Obscure would being able to whistle the carrier tone to get a connection on a long run to the exchange (central office)

  2. Re:Beards and suspenders. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 2

    My first language at 14 was a year of CECIL a simplified Assembly language before they let us move onto Basic - and I was in the lower streamed class !!!!!

  3. Re:Nerd Blackface on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    Indeed it's also about "performing" the stereotype for non insiders - originally slaves satirising the whites as I seem to recall

  4. Re:Nerd Blackface on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    Perception is everything as Lord levenson said about the Stephan Lawrence case - by your argument you could abuse the Irish or the Jews or Mormon's but they are better off than the blacks so its not discrimination

  5. Re:Nerd Blackface on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    compared to a legacy with room temperature was going to law school and getting a job at a white shoe law firm - nerds/techies are like in the famous 60's sketch with the final punch line being "i know my place" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  6. Re:It's not that much on Big Bang Actors To Earn $1M Per Episode · · Score: 1

    But Tubbs had the cooler outfits Just :-)

  7. Re: Terrible idea on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Wuss I prefer the old days when you could just sent mail to me at c=uk cn=firstname - kids today cant parse a x.400 address to save their lives. And yes I did have root on the UK's ADMD -)

  8. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    except when it's the traditional media your rights suddenly disappear

  9. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    So anyone told Rupert Murdoch that yet?

  10. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    Yes but the politicians are "frit" of the media moguls who are the ones that behave badly.

  11. Re:Who didn't see this coming? on How Google Handles 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests · · Score: 1

    Given that some country's supreme courts have expressed doubts maybe not - the problem with the EU is there is no revising chamber that sorts out the bugs in laws before they become law.

    The other problem is that each EU member implements these laws as they see fit so you can get widely differing implementation of laws in different countries.

  12. Re:Summmary seems very one sided on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 1

    yes its probably more cost-effective to make more crude rockets than to try and engage in a tech arms race with Israel - there also the q how tech savvy is the average Hamas fighter and would it make sense to risk those you do have at the front line when you can get any activist to carry a few rockets and fire them off via a command wire.

  13. Re:Simple. on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    To be honest for ano n profit the worst they might be ding is being naughty with donations - unless its a front for really naughty people in that case talk to you countries security service.

  14. Re:partly as a result, work culture is also haphaz on If You're Always Working, You're Never Working Well · · Score: 1

    Testify Brother (or Sister) Not handling Action Points properly is another problem for a lot of people

  15. Re:Excellent! on HP Gives OpenVMS New Life and Path To X86 Port · · Score: 1

    Operation Oversight will be down on this like ton of bricks

  16. Re:Trust on "ExamSoft" Bar Exam Software Fails Law Grads · · Score: 1

    Quite so the exams for the state bar exam should have more security than a CCIE hell my piddling Security+ exam was locked down tighter

  17. Re:And no one will go to jail on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 0

    When your not under oath presumably

  18. Re:When will we... on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 1

    Now now congressman aren't lying all of the time

  19. Re:Trust on "ExamSoft" Bar Exam Software Fails Law Grads · · Score: 1

    But when you take a relatively less important exam such as a ccna you are not allowed to do it on your own equipment even more so for the CCIE.

  20. Re: Tag, you're it! on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Err no the laws of war go back a long way the first actual trial for what would be considered war crimes was in the 1340's and in ww2 the British did court martial a navy captain for killing helpless sailors - Winston wanted him hung as an example.

  21. Re:And it'll keep happening, again and again... on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Mosad tends to deter people who mess with them with Direct Action or as the MI6 Official history puts it "Bumping Off"

  22. Re:And it'll keep happening, again and again... on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    Really have you ever worked for such a company typically you cant even get inside the main buildings for an interview and have you pass at least SC clearance and probably DV (TS Clearance) . And I suspect that that MOSSAD will have standards and enforce them - do you want to tell a real world version of Ziva (NCIS) that you messed up and cut corners with security.

  23. Re: Tag, you're it! on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    which is a war crime.

  24. Re:Tag, you're it! on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1

    The PRC doesn't bother with the iron fist in a velvet glove its just the iron fist.

  25. Depends on the network design for high security networks yes it is common to have sensitive machines on a physically separate network with firewalls between.