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  1. Great Deal of Success on What Developers Can Learn From Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Success in the same way the Mafia can be considered a success.

  2. Re:Simpler explanation on Science and Math Enrollments Reach New High In UK · · Score: 1

    The scheme ended in December as part of austerity measures.

    If a job seeker is getting interviews they are doing, sucessfully, what is expected of them. It is plainly stupid to block them getting a job, stop needing benefit and start paying tax to save a few tens of quid on a travel expenses.

  3. Re:Simpler explanation on Science and Math Enrollments Reach New High In UK · · Score: 1

    "Job Seekers" used to be entitled to a rail warrant under the Travel to Interview Scheme. This was closed to cut costs, which is rather counter-productive.

  4. WTF is a 'Feature Phone' on Nokia Spinning Featurephones as Smartphones · · Score: 2

    And who gets to define what is and is not a Smart Phone; the consumers that's who, this is just iPhone fanbozi attempt to remain the cool kids on the block by denigration the competition.

  5. Chino & Shirt on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 1

    I left Jeans and T-shirts behind as I grew older rather than climbed the Career ladder and mostly wear Chinos and open knecked cotton shirt. It seems to me that you are in a position to set a dress code. The rule I use is that the dress should be situationally appropriate, I expect people to be smart for meeting with clients, but that doesn;t mean a suit. A clean ironed Polo Shirt and Chinos is smarter than a tatty old Rayon Lounge Suit.

  6. Re:How long until Google notices? on Interview With Mozilla's Ryan Merkley: Tracking the Trackers · · Score: 0

    The problem is the number of "drive-by" cookies and scripts you can get hit with.

  7. Waste their time on Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is therefore a good tactic, perhaps when we get these we should make a response, to lower their average rate of return.

  8. Poor quality results on Google Tweaks Algorithm As Concern Over Bing Grows · · Score: 2

    I find the quality of results from Bing is still very poor and dominated by link farms, a problem Google seems increasing avoiding.

  9. Very poor; caught out during by first exchange. on Rosette Wins Loebner Prize 2011 · · Score: 1

    Rosette: Good morning. My name is Rosette. What is your name?
    You: Pardon
    Rosette: Nice to meet you, pardon.
    You: My name is not Pardon
    Rosette: Nice to meet you, not Pardon. May I call you not?

  10. When does a Ponzi collapse ? on Value of Bitcoin "Crashes" · · Score: 0

    Ponzi schemes require a continuous flow of new investors, when they dry up or existing investors try to cash-out faster than new money it will collapse because there are no legitimate earnings.

  11. Panoptes on Renaming the Very Large Array · · Score: 2

    After the giant watchman in Greek mythology that kept a constant watch with his 100 eyes only closing a few at a time.
     

  12. Re:Facebook is a business on Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret · · Score: 1

    Facebook is incorporated in the Republic of Ireland which is a signature party to the EU data protection directive. Facebook have no choice, subject data access is EU law.

  13. Flouting data protection laws on Facebook: Your Personal Data is a Trade Secret · · Score: 1

    In the European Union personal data is protected by the Data Protection Directive, principle 6 which provides a legally guaranteed "access to private personal data" held by any third party.

  14. Re:Technology "blamed"? on Technology Blamed For Helping UK Rioters · · Score: 1

    The 'blame' for pointing the finger is Mike Butcher editor of TechCrunch.

    We were amongst the first to identify the BlackBerry mobile handset and its unique, private Blackberry Messaging service (BBM) as a method whereby rioters and looters, many of them teenagers, broadcast and swapped information in a way that effectively crowd-sourced the riots.

  15. Subtle clue in video on Mysterious Object Found In Seabed · · Score: 1

    [i]Ocean Explorer [b]off course[/b][/i] (sic)...

  16. Re:old news on UK Hacker Ryan Cleary Has Asperger's Syndrome, Court Told · · Score: 1

    The defence is that the diagnosis would fail the "cruel and unusual punishment test" element of "extradition". Which is intended to prevent extradition to counties that allow capital punishment or torture.

  17. Re:The real news on EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec · · Score: 1

    It was Microsoft that turned down Dust514,

    CCP say it was because Microsoft would not let them link Dust to the persistent universe of EVE.

    Conspiracy theorist say that is is because a persistent universe makes Dust a Halo killer.

  18. Re:I would just like to take this opportunity to s on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 1

    You realize Assange isn't an EU citizen? Hint: He's Australian.

    Irrelevant in the EU, the ECHR protects Human Rights not citizen's rights. As the judge said he has just much legal protection in Sweden as he does in the UK.

  19. Gamers comments on Smithsonian To Feature Video Game History · · Score: 2

    The comments section is littered with pretty scathing opinions about the choices.

  20. Morals ... on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 1

    "We would like to offer you a job -- were it not for the fact that your morals are clearly not compatible with ours or our customers."

    Are these the same moral that allow Lush to charge premium prices for what is essential home made soap.

  21. That would be steam powered on Royal Navy Website Hacked, Passwords Revealed · · Score: 1

    Moderate this funny not informative.

  22. Beyond Irony on US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists · · Score: 1

    What is far beyond irony is the number of people in this thread proliferating propaganda for the other side.

  23. Re:Operation Mass Appeal on US Military Explored Hiring Bloggers As Propagandists · · Score: 1

    Mainstream Media is quite capable of printing flimsy government accusations as fact without the intervention of the Secret Service.

    Substitute anti war protesters for government and it's still blatantly obvious.

  24. Ruby all Hype no substance on What Programming Languages Should You Learn Next? · · Score: 1

    The Ruby syntax tree needs an LL(k) parser. This tighly couples the parser to the lexical analyser which makes any it deeply flawed, buggy and unreliable. Add into the mix that ruby is really a dynamic scripting language and you find an explaination for it's unreliablility.

    Dr. Dermot Hogan agrees, he said To my mind, the Ruby parser and syntax is fundamentally flawed.

    That's why there are not grand scalable performant systems written in Ruby.

    James Gosling said of Ruby it ... just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.

    He was proven right by Derek Sivers said after spending two years trying to rewrite a website in Ruby with Jeremy Kemper that it was Like trying to turn a train into a boat. It's do-able with a lot of glue. But it's damn hard. And certainly makes you ask why you're really doing this. In the end he abandoned Ruby and rewote the system in PHP in 2 Months.

    If you want to do Dynamic programming, don't be taken in by the hype; learn Python, Smalltalk or the second choice language Schema.

  25. Effects real people as well on 7 Ways to Be Mistaken for a Spammer · · Score: 1

    I have little sympathy with companies sending marketing email getting branded as junk emailers they are sending Unsolicited bulk or bulk email.

    This effects real people as well. Getting blacklisted is a way of life for me online because of my name. Yes Spamer really is my surname/family name. If you have any doubts try searching for me on uk directory enquires / electoral role

    Its gotten me accused of being of being a joe-job for trying to do my job as the postmaster for a domain.

    Its gotten my email addresses blacklisted, it's gotten me blocked from creating accounts on web-sites including utube and my local newspaper.

    Professionals should start call junk email Unsolicited bulk or bulk email instead of using slang.