the late vilerat would disagree with you as would the HMGC signals guys who got killed in turkey

She was supposed to be an Engineer in charge of a science mission

no what about wormhole X Tream

where is "here" the USA and UK have similar laws all descending from the "masters and servants act its related to you day job that is the key

if the contract doesn't say anything the custom and practice rules or "game over man game over"

yep Uk is similar to the USA same employment law roots

depends on the area if your day job is rnd in electronics and you invent a new method for manufacturing a compoant there Isnot a cat in hells chance in alglo saxon legal systems of say that its not "related" to your employment - as opposed to say you wrote a billboard hit they wouldn't own any of the rights to that.

Indeed a classic pre ww1 Liberal is quite different to an "American" liberal - closer to the orangebook liberals who are a block in the current UK liberal party

anyone though it was a good idea to make some one receiving a call pay needs sacking from the FCC

IBM I believe where the developers of th8 inch floppy the gradaddy of the 3.5 I can still remember the distinctive *Granch* sound of the old hard sectored display writers

I suspect there is an entire private infrastructure used just for government BB's

remember government computing has a lot more security issues than say Sony does especially the president ad his advisors security - at least they haven't employed a female version of Steve Bong http://www.theregister.co.uk/A...

and around 60k is the base salary for a Tube driver

for developers in London id want £400 -£500 perday maybe £350 if I was in desperate need of a job

could do with turning down the cutesy hyperbole meanwhile over in the real world its reckoned that the traditional pstn with be dead and gone in ten years replaced by 100% ip