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Comment Good (Score 5, Interesting) 244

While I'm not a fan of Mr. Assange (quite the opposite really), I find the way he has been treated by our government absolutely deplorable. Especially when you consider how people like David Hicks (trained with terrorists) and Shappele Corby (convicted drug smuggler) have had the government behind them trying to get them home.

Comment Pretty much nope. (Score 1) 348

Anything in the initial design should be such as amount of storage space and video outputs (as it has to support many even with the most basic version). Beyond that no. The beauty of consoles is that it is a fixed hardware platform. Even the lack of hard drive in the original basic Xbox 360 was a disaster in my opinion (and caused troubles with dashboard upgrades later in the cycle for those units).

Comment My last time on jury duty (Score 2) 218

I think the system we have here in Australia works well (no idea how it works in the US). Phones allowed in the courthouse, but not in the courtroom. When I was on a jury a couple of years ago, we had to put our phones in a box before going on to the jury. Once we left the courtroom, we could pick up our phones and use them like normal. Not even from the smartphone side, but a jury shouldn't have any distractions like that while listening to a trial.

Comment Re:And I thought my bug was bad (Score 1) 168

Not much really (had to buy the company donuts as punishment), but policies were changed to not allow changing our production network without going through proper channels. We had a similar database thing too where somebody accidentally removed all historical data for a project that was about to be rolled out, and due to the size, the techs had decided not to back it up. Yeah, policies are much better these days - major issues like this don't happen any more.

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