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Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 87

I did www.corky.ltd.uk since www.corky.co.uk was taken. Let it lapse as LinkedIn is better for what I want. I can always get it back whenever I want since I own "Corky and Co ltd" in the UK. .ltd.uk was a very good idea, guaranteed to be free from squatters or name clashes as it is basically a copy of the companies house register which every company goes through before it can start trading. Bit since there's no money to be made from squatting and trading there is no money to promote it and .co.uk gets the attention.

Comment I've worked with plenty of women (Score 1) 1127

> expecting a new colleague: a female one. It is guaranteed that there will be remarks, double entendres and innuendos with huge potential of getting worse.

Don't worry, most women will not subject you to any remarks, double entendres and innuendos, they will probably behave just like all the other geeks around you. Give women a chance!

Submission + - IPv6 is STILL Like Brocolli. Though 20 MIllion Facebook Users are on it now (enterprisenetworkingplanet.com)

darthcamaro writes: So how did World IPv6 Launch go? Surprisingly well according to a participants at the event. Google said that it has seen a 150% growth in IPv6 traffic, Facebook now has 27 million IPv6 users and Akamai is serving 100x more IPv6 traffic.
But it's still a 'brocolli' technology

I've said in the past that IPv6 is a 'brocolli' technology," Leslie Daigle, CTO of the Internet Society said. "I still think it is a tech everybody knows it would be good if we ate more of it but nobody wants to eat it without the cheese sauce."


Submission + - 5 Million Farmers Sue Monsanto for $7.7 Billion (readersupportednews.org)

Lorien_the_first_one writes: From the article, "aunching a lawsuit against the very company that is responsible for a farmer suicide every 30 minutes, 5 million farmers are now suing Monsanto for as much as 6.2 billion euros (around 7.7 billion US dollars). The reason? As with many other cases, such as the ones that led certain farming regions to be known as the ‘suicide belt’, Monsanto has been reportedly taxing the farmers to financial shambles with ridiculous royalty charges. The farmers state that Monsanto has been unfairly gathering exorbitant profits each year on a global scale from “renewal” seed harvests, which are crops planted using seed from the previous year’s harvest."
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Submission + - If VLC can ship a free DVD player, why can't Microsoft? (zdnet.com)

Pigskin-Referee writes: Microsoft’s decision to remove support for playing DVD movies in Windows 8 has caused some confusion. If the VLC media player can provide DVD support for free, why can’t Microsoft? For starters, Microsoft isn’t French. Microsoft announced this week that Windows 8 will not support playback of DVD movies unless you explicitly add software that supports that feature. The economic reasons for doing so are compelling (see Microsoft’s follow-up FAQ for details ), but it’s also a potentially disruptive move for some Windows enthusiasts. So it’s not surprising that some of the initial reactions have been heated and even angry. I look at the big numbers and walk through the math in a follow-up post; How much do DVD and digital media playback features really cost?

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