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  1. If the conviction is considered "spent" according to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (with amendments since) then, with some exceptions for defined job positions / responsibilities, it is as if the crime never happened. It serves to eliminate the discrimination you yourself display, namely the "once a felon, always a felon" holier than thou asshole attitude.

    Note that journalists cannot write about previous convictions if they are considered spent by law as that is illegal and they can be also be privately sued (and have been) for defamation of character. So Google cannot claim the "we're journalists" defence anyway.

  2. Re:Um... jurisdiction? on SpaceX Can't Broadcast Earth Images Because of a Murky License (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Never heard of Radio Christine...

  3. Re:Good way to lower engagement. on Twitter Will Break Third-Party Clients in June (apps-of-a-feather.com) · · Score: 1

    As a third party app user, I use it because the official app is crap, the website gives me shit I don't want, no matter how many times I say I don't want it, fucks up the timelines and generally makes it awkward to actually see what I'm interested in. And that's just the desktop site. The mobile site is even worse.

    Yeah, yeah, it's free so I'm the product. Whatever. The main issue is that Twitter can't or won't make their own offering better and are having yet another hissy fit towards those that do.

    I have never enabled the push notifications as I don't have a need for them. I do utilise the streaming though.

  4. Re:Um... jurisdiction? on SpaceX Can't Broadcast Earth Images Because of a Murky License (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I propose the motion that the next SpaceX stage to be launched is called "Caroline"

  5. I'll text her instead. The number is still 867-5309, right?

  6. Yes, it certainly helped. However, a two year lead time seems awfully short. I'm thinking there have been plans afoot for some time in order to be ready by 2020 and jumping on the recent Intel woes is just capitalising on that. Much better to say "we've got a new line coming out in 2 years" than "due to recent events, we're going back in-house and we'll be ready in 2 years" because no one would believe the latter.

  7. Re:Does it detect clickbait? on Meet the Interstitium, the Largest Organ We Never Knew We Had (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    She does 10 things to earn that money. You won't believe #6!

  8. Re:The star was not visible to naked-eye observers on A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, Early Humans Likely Saw It (space.com) · · Score: 1

    It's magnetically active so could have flared enough to be visible.

  9. Re:Doesn't want to be connected on Mark Zuckerberg AWOL From Facebook's Data Leak Damage Control Session (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    That's going to go well if a lawyer goes to the Parliamentary Committee instead of him as requested.

  10. Hmm. I went the long way round.

  11. Quite. Just yesterday I was reading about 10 dimensional space and string theory. How I got there from Disney's multi layer camera used for animation is anyone's guess.

  12. Re:why would someone attack Github? on GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Attacks don't have to be successful in order to be informative. Now, thanks to the VP of Akamai, it is better known what Prolexic can ostensibly handle. This doesn't mean that GitHub is about to get hit by a 6Tb/s DDoS to check as there's no need, plus if it was successful Akamai would just up the capacity to some greater unknown number.

    What it does mean is that a likely amount to DDoS anyone, even when they are protected by Prolexic, can be used as a baseline. As most won't have that high level of protection, the odds of success are much higher.

  13. Re: Same song, different verse.. on YouTube Hiring For Some Positions Excluded White and Asian Men, Lawsuit Says (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "Programmers are too expensive"

    Someone who specialises in something is going to cost more than some replaceable clone in a call center on minimum wage.

    Consultant doctors cost more than an F1 does, yet there doesn't seem to be the same hand-wringing from those holding the purse strings about it.

    Perhaps, instead of falling into the same lazy "programming is just typing and they still live with their parents, why should they get more money?" bullshit mindset, there should be a recognition that hiring a specialist means you have to have the budget to afford specialist rates rather than bitching about a cost the perception of which is affected by prejudice.

  14. Re:Whatâ(TM)s in a name on 'Java EE' Has Been Renamed 'Jakarta EE' (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 1

    They were going to go with "Dumpster Fire" but the responses from the focus group weren't favourable.

  15. Someone watched the Horror Channel on Scientists Say Space Aliens Could Hack Our Planet (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    They Live was on last night...

  16. Re:First Post ! on FCC To Officially Rescind Net Neutrality Rules On Thursday (reuters.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    That's a Beowulf cluster of hot grits, you insensitive clod!

  17. What's weird about Faster Pussycat... ? Thelma and Louise probably wouldn't have happened if not for that flick.

  18. Re:And they prove it on Salon Magazine Mines Monero On Your Computer If You Use an Ad Blocker (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    How much of a hit did your credit rating take by escalating this to a collection agency for not continuing to buy something you didn't want?

  19. Re:The fourth paragraph on Google Trains AI To Write Wikipedia Articles (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    This was about fooing your fizz, not fizzing your foo. Doing the latter results in the unintentional bar side effect and you'll need to baz it back and start again.

  20. Re:Get a new name on FBI, CIA, and NSA: Don't Use Huawei Phones (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nokia is a Finnish company. But do keep going about how Oriental companies are worse than Chevrolet, Exxon and Altira for having "stupid names".

  21. Re:Forgive my ignorance on The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched (space.com) · · Score: 1

    "Other atomic clocks accuracy..."

    My Swatch clock goes up to 999.

  22. Re:Forgive my ignorance on The Next Falcon Heavy Will Carry the Most Powerful Atomic Clock Ever Launched (space.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Other atomic clocks accuracy only goes up to 10. This one goes to 11. It's 1 accurater.

  23. Re:Stable API on The Insane Amount of Backward Compatibility in Google Maps (tnhh.net) · · Score: 1

    The static API uses PNGs. So rather than it being backward compatibility, it is a low bandwidth non-interactive variant of the product for when you don't need all the bells and whistles.

  24. Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!

    Use Google Translate if necessary.

  25. Who's to blame? on Scammers Use Download Bombs To Freeze Chrome Browsers on Shady Sites (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    An immediate concern is why a method with a Microsoft specific vendor prefix is implemented and targetable in Chrome in the first place.

    TFA doesn't mention anything about IE/Edge being affected. If it is that would be understandable. They might not have checked, but there is also no reference to any other OS than Windows. Does that mean that msSaveOrOpenBlob is only implemented on the Windows version of Chrome and if so, why?