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  1. Re:Wrong on Company Accidentally Fires Entire Staff Via Email · · Score: 1

    except it wasn't a firing email, it was the normal "As you're leaving us today, remember to hand in your company property, don't tell others about our secret stuff and good luck with the future" kind of admin email for someone who was leaving of their own choice - it just got sent to the entire company making it look like a firing when it was just a normal "dude, you're leaving, here's a final checklist" email

  2. Re:Innovation in a country with socialized medicin on UK Surgeons Are the First To Operate In 3D · · Score: 4, Insightful

    because socialised medicine actually works?. We;ve been doing it for decades in the UK. OK it's not perfect, sometimes you have to wait a while for non-urgent procedures but we're always guaranteed no matter what our social/economic standing, and the drug companies are not in cahoots with the insurance guys and hospitals to inflate the price of everything, so we don't have to pay $100 for a $0.10 pill.

  3. Re:Blazing fast LTE speeds on After Complaints, AT&T Solidifies, Increases Data Limit · · Score: 1

    50000 / 100 = 50.

    I guess you failed math? You're an order of magnitude off.

  4. Re:so all of a sudden Google is now infringing on Google Privacy Policy Could Violate EU Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    where's the third party? Google operate all of the services that the new consolidated privacy policy applies to.

  5. Re:Pre-School? on Children Used To Steal Parents' Data · · Score: 2

    Because it's the 21st century? We're no longer in the dark ages dude. My kids weer using computers at 3 and 4 20 years ago. It's nothing new. Computer literacy is just as important as reading, writing and math and the sooner the kids start, the better.

  6. Re:To the Bone! on GNOME 3: Beauty To the Bone? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    the < and > mathematical operators would disagree with you.

    In what math or programming text book do you read "x < 6" as "x fewer than 6" rather than "x less than 6" ?

  7. Re:Walled garden on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 Developer Preview · · Score: 1

    s/Microsoft/Apple/g

    FTFY

  8. Re:This says it all... on Has Cleverbot Passed the Turing Test? · · Score: 5, Funny

    "not too impressed"

    On the other hand....

    me: Do you know Java?
    bot: I Know JavaScript
    me: But that isn't java.
    bot: What did you ask.
    me: asked if you knew Java
    bot: I know many jokes.
    me: Java is not a joke.
    bot: Yes, it is.

  9. Re:Build a game in front of them on How Do You Explain Software Development To 2nd Graders? · · Score: 1

    But won't the Birds get Angry about being shot out of a catapult towards pigs?

  10. Re:I wonder what Jodrell Bank make of this on UK To Get Whitespace Radio · · Score: 3, Informative

    no, they're reusing the old analog tv broadcast frequencies which are in the process of being decommissioned for TV broadcasting. No new frequencies are involved.

  11. Re:More Apple-specific connectors? on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    No YOU didn't read the article. Again I Quote FTA:

    " CURRENT JACKS WILL FIT THE NEW PORT DESIGN but since the port is cut in half and exposed to one side of the device shell, a traditional connector would simply drop out: Apple proposes a magnetic interface that would keep a thin audio connector in place"

  12. Re:I'm confused on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 4, Informative

    RTFA much?

    You;re the one that's wrong.
    " Current jacks will fit the new port design, but since the port is cut in half and exposed to one side of the device shell, a traditional connector would simply drop out: Apple proposes a magnetic interface that would keep a thin audio connector in place"

  13. Re:Check his palms for what? on Anti-Piracy Lawyers Accuse Blind Man of Downloading Films · · Score: 1

    what has referring pubic hair, the correct term for it, got to do with any indication of age?

  14. Re:Paid customer services are a pain on World of Warcraft Finally Loses Subscribers · · Score: 0

    you dont need to buy anothe rcopy of the game to transfer characters. You can have many characters across several servers on the same account, and do a paid transfer across faction or to another server without buying a whole new license

  15. narrow minded nonsense on The Post-Idea World · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Max Planck was told in 1874 when looking for a university course "it is hardly worth entering physics anymore because there is nothing important left to discover”

    This was long before the days of the atomic model, quantum mechanics, radiation, wave-particle duality etc. All that good stuff that brought us all our shiny electronics and the internet,.

    The same is still true - the more we know the more we realise that there's a lot more we still don;t know. Just in the last week I've read about gravity dipoles in qyuantum vacuum fluctuations, and discovery of very dark planets to name but two (ok the latter is a discovery rather than an idea, but we'll now need to work on explaining it, which may lead to new tech., or it may not). It just takes a very very long time for these esoteric ideas to turn into actual useful every day stuff.

  16. Re:And the sad part is... on Driver Using Two Cell Phones Gets Year-Long Driving Ban · · Score: 1

    And if one of those "few innocent bystanders who die" was your kid or your partner, would you still say there doesn't need to be a law?

    ahh... I thought so...

  17. Re:Wow on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1

    What utter rubbish. Just think for 2 minutes.

    Firstly... "Once one buys it, they have precisely no rights to dictate how the product is used"
    So if you buy a hunting rifle, it's perfectly ok for you to go and kill citizens on the streets? Or buy a car and drink a bottle of whiskey and go out for a drive? The "I own it I can do what I want with it" attitude is bullshit.

    Secondly ". Now, you're paying for a chip that could have been sold at the higher clock speed" But you paid the price for the lower speed, not the higher speed.

    The difference is that Intel are making ONE version instead of several, you pay for the performance you want. It's irrelevant if the chip CAN go faster, if you wanted/could afford the faster chip you would buy it. Manufacturing one version that can run at several speeds and is sold at different price points is no different to ylu that consumer than manufacturing several versions that can only run at one specific speed. You are stll getting exactly the performance you paid for - perhaps at an even cheaper price as the manufacturer gets the benefit of reduced prooduction costs.

    Later if you decide the chip is too slow you can just pay an upgrade fee and have the better chip, ehich would be cheaper than replacing the chip.

    You actually win ion this deal as upgrade cosst are cheaper. The manufacturer also wins due to cheaper p[roduction costs.

  18. Re:China? on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 2

    "Who is the youngest MP?

    The youngest MP is Pamela Nash, Labour MP for Airdrie and Shotts, aged 26.
    What is the average age of an MP?
    - http://www.parliament.uk/about/faqs/house-of-commons-faqs/members-faq-page2/
    Following the general election of 2010, the average age of an MP was 50."

    Hardly "old" 70 on is "old" 50 is middle aged and 26 is barely out of nappies.

  19. Re:supposedly obsolete tech on PC Designer Says PC "Going the Way of the Vacuum Tube" · · Score: 2

    "And PC's are in the same sort of categories - few people have a desktop PC nowadays"

    Nonsense.

    As I sit here at work I see hundreds of desktop pcs. At home I have a gaming pc as do my three kids. my wife does have a netbook but she only reads blogs and watches the news. I do also have an iPad and an iPhone bit it's still gonna be a long long time before I give up my desktop pc. Most of my friends are the same.

    "vacuum tubes...I've never used one, don't own one " Yes you have, and yes you do.., "I have only CRT " google for what a CRT is.

  20. How does this voodoo work? on Microsoft Demonstrates Practical Homomorphic Computing · · Score: 0

    So let's get this straight... You take a bunch of encrypted numbers, never ever decrypt them but somehow still add them together to get the right encrypted answer.

    WTF???

    No details in TFA but HOW does this voodoo work?

  21. Re:How do they tell? on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    whoa, that's rather bitter.

    I commute 20 miles each way on the train and work right in the city centre. Guess what, no wi-fi anywhere from me stepping out my door at home to arriving back again. The train service is a branch line, so no wifi there. OK, there's free wifi for the 2 minutes I'm transiting the train station in the city but other than that.. nada.

    At home, why pay for two phone services when I can get unlimited texts and near unlimited free calls on my iPhone plan. More and more people are ditching their landlines in favour of the cell phone plan, or even skype.

    so yeah, the smartphone is becoming ubiquitous but to say people should stop using it because the towers can't cope is ridiculous, They need to build more and bigger towers. They can afford it with the money they rake in from users. (e.g. Roaming charges, though getting better, are ridiculous)

    Stop being so bitter

  22. Re:I hope you don't mind on India Wants To Monitor Twitter, Facebook · · Score: 1

    So I can't check in with a full bladder now?

  23. Re:Another non-exploit on Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits · · Score: 1

    >And you're wrong - there are provably secure operating systems.

    Citation please?

  24. Re:Another non-exploit on Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits · · Score: 1

    "I think it's feasible to think that there may come a day when security gets tight enough"

    Umm the intertubes is a couple of decades old now and we're still no nearer to this. Your own example counteracts your argument

    So... call me, I'll be waiting... (oh and there's another small problem - you can't prove that a system is unexploitable)

  25. Re:Seriously? on Ripping CDs Set To Be Legalized In UK · · Score: 2

    Step out you door, head towards a shopping mall. Within you may find something like an entertainment store (HMV/Virgin in the UK) who still continue to stock and sell a surprisingly large amount of these "CDs" containing what some would call "music"