Re: Er, he was trying to hack them?

My Bank gave me their local number because their 0845 wasn't part of my BT inclusive plan; I got charged for every call I made to them.

I will stop banking with you was a pretty good motivator for them to give me the local number.

Re: Amazing

What you need to do is educated everyone to a level, then subsides University courses that produce graduates in a needed fields.

i.e. take medicine or engineering and the course is free - take media studies, sport science or drama charge £15k a year. Then when you have enough engineers and doctors start raising the fees. But the chances are you'll never have enough doctors an engineers; the rich will still send their kids to University to do History and modern art but we wont be subsiding muppet's who are just putting off working in a call center for another 3-4 years so they can piss it up.

Re: Oops

that was part of the test! honest.

Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical companies are the best example - to make the first pill/tablet could cost £100 of millions, every pill/tablet made after that cost less than 1p

Re: Uh-oh

I wont buy popcorn, I would start being really nice to mice and start making friends with dolphins.

Re: Uh-oh

Or it was one of the test builds from the guys on Magrathea

Re: [BOO-HISS]

Are Martian snow angles the same as Earth snow angles>?

Re: Too true

"I've started lying about my profession"

When I tell people I work in IT security they think I'm a security guard who watches CCTV and has a florescent yellow coat. Having to explain that I'm not a security guard and I do data governance, risk, control and threat mitigation is a long and strenuous conversation that normally end with "Ah, that sounds interesting"

It’s got to the point now that when asked I just say "I work with computers" but as soon as you say that you get the never ending friends of family and Joe from the hair dressers asking will you have a look at my PC, Laptop, WIFI router, mobile..........

IT has to be the only professions where people think you can help them out for free!

You wouldn't ask your builder friend to build you a wall for free or your sister's accountant husband to do your books for free. It just royally pisses me off to the point that all I say now is “You do know my daily rate is £500, right?"

Re: Oh why, oh why, oh why

Maybe that's what IT outsourcing should be called - The Dracula of IT - "We come to suck up all your money.... I mean blood"

Re: Just a thought ....

Make sure to get the polarity right are you'll be fishing an empty lake

Re: Well, as a fatty...

BMI is a silly measurement to base health from - It is however a good general indicator of good health.

But doesn't take into account muscle mass an other things. i.e.

Fat guy 15 stone 5"9 BMI 40+

Body builder 19 stone 5"9 BMI 50+

Paris because her BMI is -1

Re: Open networks

more fun to be had if next door is hot female - can you say 50C and bikini's

Re: Is it walking or moving?

"If you need half a supermarket trolley to hold you up, you are moving and not walking?"

I believe the correct term, used mainly by the old is "Walking Aid"

.....?

Doesn't "blowing things apart" go against the whole Swiss neutral stance on everything war like?

iplayer is the defact'o standard for catch up TV and a dare say gives a perfect frame work for "pay for" online streaming.

Re: It's not the court...

What does a sarcastic comment x another sarcastic comment = ?

Re: Independence Day and War of the Worlds

Mars Attacks opening scene with the burning cow is just the best opening ever for a film.

The only opening better would be if the film titanic started with the ship sinking.

I want a half troll icon

Re: What the f*ck does this have to do with the IT industry

"99% of Hollywood movies are crap"

fixed that for you.

Re: Where do I sign up

SAMBA

Normal Guy's first thoughts after hearing the word - 'Gyrating female assets and colorful grass skirts and dancing"

Tech Guy first thought - "Why does my TV only support DLNA when my NAS only does SMB and FTP!"

Yep, he said "BALL!, KICK!, GOAL!" repetitively until they gave him a banana and a tire on a rope to swing from.

Re: Impossible to answer interview questions

You need to be more abstract than that.

For (N)number of Pianos there is X number that will require tuning at any time, where Y = the number of piano tuners required to satisfy demand for pianos needing tuning.

So, as long as there are pianos to be tuned there will always be enough tuners to tune them :{)

I would write some formula, but cant be bothered.

Re: Gun ownership.

Its always the same -

- "I need a gun to protect my self because x,y,z might have a gun"

- "Russia have a really big bomb see we need a bigger bomb to stop them using their bomb"

If no one had guns you wouldn't need guns to protect against guns - Yes the UK has strict laws on guns so knife crime is really high - but no knife/golf club/ bat welding nut job has ever gone into a school or street and killed 10-100s of people. You can also run away from some one with a bat or knife not so much with a gun.

So tell me, what country is safer, the one where almost everyone can freely own a gun or the one where a tinny % can and are heavily controlled. If the USA had a gun amnesty type thing and had similar laws to the UK - violent crime deaths would drop by 90% over night.

Re: DONT LET THE BASTARD DRIVE

CAPS and down votes are your badge of honor. I salute you