Posts by PirateSlayer

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What you do in the privacy of your home with your equipment and your wires and your data and your websites is your business.

Universities often have facilities for hackers to practice their skills...doing it in public is like pissing in someones private swimming pool because you can and is therefore wrong.

If what you call "social engineering" keeps prepubecent teenagers out of my inbox (and dismal mid twenties/early thirties vouyers), all the better!

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Because then they can't externalise the cost onto the banks!

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But not all discrimination is :D

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In the same way that ID cards would have prevented 9/11!

Newsflash

Apparently not everyone carries this object around in a crib with three wise men tailing behind.

It's a phone...not a ming vase. Chucking it around is par for the course. I would personally want mine encased in rubber with a film of stuff over it so it doesn't get scratched. This seems like a ploy.

This is a bit of a...

The appeaser who thinks that writing code to cook books is the same as using Excel was probably one of those who said "why not prosecute google" when those filthy Pirate Bay thieving cretins were up in court. Intent!

Response.

I don't see why they would require an address history in this whopper of a database. Surely they only neeed your MAIN residence (like with driving liceneses)...my god the politicians will have to exempt themself ASAP.

I guess you COULD have multiple profile shots, but your retina, finger prints and DNA are not going to change...unless you visit Ukraine or eat a lot of North Sea fishies. Also I would question the need for out of date information being on the system...if the objective is to identify you, they should only ever need the most recent of everything...address included! As for the other identifiers, I guess this could be farmed out to another table (Person ID, ID ID, ID Number)...this might be getting silly.

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Degrees have always be awarded for what some call "vocational subjects". Politicans (and perhaps you) are very confused about what all current universities have ever offered. For example, former polytechnics have never offered degrees in being a car mechanic, hair dresser, etc and the commentards at the BBC (who apparently never went to University or a polytechnic and have chips on their shoulders) constantly waffle on about the sanctity of degrees. People have ALWAYS earned degrees at these institutions for subjects like engineering and sciences. Where do you draw the line between vocational biology and academic biology? When does engineering and computer science stop being a vocation and start being academic?

FE colleages need to deal (and DO deal!) with what the Tories and Labour think is 'vocational' stuff (like hair dressing, cooking, car mechanics, joining, plastering), and the universities need to deal with the rest - the stuff that mixes vocational and academic achievement. Oh, and the government has been slashing funding to FE colleges for decades.

As for the recruitment sector, I would rather ask the scum under my left toenail for it's assessment of the UK education sector. They are worse than conveyencers...and that says more than being worse than estate agents.

Where?

Where does it say that these kids lied about their age?

I only read that they were hired...not that they had lied.

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...stinking pirate.

Why not take the moral highground like the guy above and buy a game and THEN steal it. That way your incredulousness at Ubisoft will be justified and you can't be accused of being a thieving pirate.

Bit vitriolic!

I think you're missing the point of a lot of commentards feelings.

I couldn't give a rats arse about Google or MS...all I want to carry out are pathetic searches for Megan Fox and Angelina Jolie. The search engine which returns the results I want (normally Google) is the one I use...simple! Bing is a pile of excrement. I have no axe to grind with MS.

Hardware?

Really?

What about Microsoft Surface? Numerous Microsoft gaming peripherals...?

As I recall, Apple is just a software company that shells up Intel technology in hideously 80s/90s cream plastic and charges far more than its worth.

It's a bit like an X-Box really...another piece of Microsoft Hardware!

Light saving bulbs

As if anything other than those awful, yellow, dull, lifeless depressingly dim bulbs (with a moronic three pin socket) will be available in a couple of years.