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  1. Re:I wish we could *find* grads for my work.. on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    Since graduating with a CS degree in 2009 I've risen rapidly in a middle-sized (~60-80 employees) company through the pay-grades to lead my department. I don't know my 8 times table.

  2. If you can bank online on Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting? · · Score: 2

    You can vote online. Direct democracy!

  3. Re:Staying Relevant on On The BBC 2.0 · · Score: 1

    I never go a week without seeing a new article about how bias the BBC is. I read about 4 different newspapers every day though. Maybe it's because you read The Mirror..

    BBC Bias is certainly a very talked about issue.

    6 million sites can't be wrong!

  4. will this allow me to play .avi's on Improve Your iPod with Rockbox · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Going travelling soon, got the camera connector to allow me to transport photos from my camera to the ipod, but on video the ipod falls very short; requiring me to get access to a computer to convert it so that I may watch it on the ipod.

    This reason alone has made me wish I bought the Zen.

    Rockbox seems to have lots of support for audio (though not much use when I use solely mp3) but doesn't mention video.

  5. Re:This is like the constitution on EU Software Patent Argument to Reopen? · · Score: 1

    This is true.. but where else is there to go, Canada?

  6. This is like the constitution on EU Software Patent Argument to Reopen? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The EU will continue to bring up the issue of software patents again and again until it's finally put through. We can say no 100 times but say yes once and it's done.

    It's the same with the constitution, they'll continue to try and put it through for the next decade, the population will say no again and again, until they say yes, and then it's done.

    This is how the EU does things.

    It's also why I'm moving to Australia in 3 months. It's a joke.

  7. Re:Wouldn't that be... on UK Cold War Era Nuclear War Plans Revealed · · Score: 1

    Atleast British beer contains alcohol!

  8. Surely.. on Wikipedia's Accuracy Compared to Britannica · · Score: 1

    It should be about quality rather than quantity?

    I don't care how long the text is I just want accurate information, which is the entire reason people use encyclopedias!

  9. Re:The arrogance! on Music Industry 'trying to hijack EU data laws' · · Score: 1

    I so wish you had been my Business Studies teacher in school. Seriously.

  10. Re:An angel, c'est moi. on Chinese Bloggers vs. The BBC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I would say that the BBC's remit is to be the voice of the British people

    Then I guess FoxNews is the voice of the American people?

    The BBC's remit is to be the EARS of the British people, not the voice, dumbass.

  11. Please on Chinese Bloggers vs. The BBC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Please BBC, stop highlighting our plight for freedom on the internet."

    Hmmm I wonder who could possibly be behind this...

  12. Re:I can't complain. on Search Engine Results Relatively Fair · · Score: 1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 260,000 for hooters wing tour. (0.09 seconds

  13. Re:Note to Google on Google Offers Free WiFi for Mountain View, CA · · Score: 1

    Yeah right.

    Ireland only just got carrier pigeons, as if you have any use for WiFi.

  14. Re:Ubuntu Linux... on Dapper Drake Hits Ubuntu Servers · · Score: 1

    Or is real Debian too stupid for regular people to run?

    You mean, "are regular people too stupid to run real Debian"?

  15. Re:Thanks Tim! on Could the Web Not be Invented Today? · · Score: 1

    Tim started work on the WWW in 1980.

  16. Thanks Tim! on Could the Web Not be Invented Today? · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's completely down to Tim Berners Lee that the internet is a free and open as it currently is. Preceding the Linux or the GNU, he was a real hacker creating something that he couldn't have known would change the world. He did it without profit in mind and as such it's been allowed to flourish.

    Sure, the military may have created the fundamentals, but Tim was the first to put them to good use :P

  17. Re:Clarification on Commission Suggests UK Should End Astronaut Ban · · Score: 1

    I believe one of NASA's most experienced astronaut (forget his name) is British.

  18. Nothing new on 20th Anniversary of Windows · · Score: 2, Insightful

    When Windows first shipped, 20 years ago this month, it was considered nothing more than a slow operating environment that had arrived late to the party, well behind the industry leaders

    So, nothing has changed then!

  19. If this is true on P2P Users More Likely to Cheat, Shoplift · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why wouldn't they just walk into a record shop and steal the CD?

    Oh yeah, this article is BS..

  20. Re:Propaganda on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 1

    Look, I understand someone such as yourself may be too stupid to understand the issues deeper at the heart of 99% of the British population, but don't spread misinformation.

    Anti-immigration, deny the holocaust, fascists and bigots.

    You do realize, the BNP, has multiple black members, right?

    You do realize that would be the equivalent of Jewish Nazis, right? You do realize you're a dumbass, right?

  21. Re:Screw the license restriction on BBC Opens TV Archive to Remixers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You're the reason companies stop doing nice things.

  22. Re:Poker Poker Everywhere... on Online Gambling Running Out of Steam · · Score: 3, Informative

    Online poker has so many advantages over live play that I couldn't even name them all. Fact is, poker has been around for a long time, it became popular on the web for a REASON (many of them). As for TV stealing the show, Poker on TV and Poker on the `Net can thank eachother for everything they have right now.

  23. Re:I for one welcome our new corporate overlords on Microsoft Sues EU · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    europe has a powerfull yet "sane" government

    Wow, I just don't know where to start. It might be easier to just shoot you and be done with it.

  24. from the we-have-seen-this-before dept. on Google Losing Ground in China? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and no doubt we're going to see it again in a couple days.

  25. Re:Guise? on Lockheed Martin Hardware to Protect NYC Transit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The usual ignorance.

    The cameras in London enabled them to identity who the suicide bombers were. If a suicide bomber jumped on a train on the underground in NYC, and blew himself up, we couldn't even figure out who did it!

    The images captured in the London attacks meant the police could find out who they were, where they lived, who they had contact with, where they had travelled, etc etc etc.

    The failed July 21st attacks meant the police could track them down, and arrest them!

    You can't even comprehend the amount of intelligence that may have now been attained with the arrests of these terrorists.

    However, you seem happy enough to let terrorists try and try again, without knowing who is behind attacks, until they're successful.