That entire article reads more like a press release with FUD than anything with any facts.

Which chip?
Which manufacturer?
Which US customer?

No facts and LOTS of claims. It's pure FUD.

(Not that this might not be a real concern. But the first step is getting past the FUD and marketing materials and getting to the real facts.)

The British are a lazy people, so it shouldn't be too difficult.

We're so lazy, our smoke alarms come with a snooze button.

Jokes aside, it's called Minimum Effort Efficiency.

Since when did filing litigation require evidence?

They used to be meaningful

When?[citation needed]

Listing it on a CV is foreign to me. This may be a culture gap thing but I've never seen an interview process that has required me to condense my life into 2 pages. Heck most of the jobs I've seen have been the opposite, a multi-section application with lots of "In 250 words or less explain ...." bits. I don't think they actually read my CV for my current job.

But as for why we care that you lead a video game guild? We wouldn't. What we do care about is that you actually have an interest outside of work. People who make their work their life (dull and boring people) interact in a very similar manner to those who don't like what they do. People who pursue active interests outside of work typically seem to be better at forming personal relationships in the workplace, which if you work in a place full of bureaucracy can be more important than technical ability in some ways.

Host countries like my own.

We've been watching the torch being bussed around the country via the BBC's live stream. I don't know about other countries, but ours have flashing 30mph signs that only flash when you're going above the speed limit. We've been counting...

I'm not doing so well at the game. I've only counted them speeding twice.

The laws don't apply to those in charge.

Corrupted.

And the fact that you eat "beef" and "veal" instead of Cu and Cealf is an artifact of the French conquest of England. Not sure what any of this has got to do with the military threat any country or group of people poses to another in modern times, though. "Skirt" is an artifact of the Scandinavian people invading England -- better watch out for those Norwegians, I hear they're still on a spree of rape and pillaging through Central Europe!

MS Word + MS Outlook.

Some of us type posts in above apps, spellcheck, copy and paste. Because, you know, we shouldn't be doing the Slashdot thing at work on IE7 with no spellchecker installed.

It works the other way too.

I joined a famous car company in 1991. I was one of 50 apprentices. 4 were female.

Each year, 50 new apprentices were taken on. 4 were female.

I stayed 8 years.

How many females from those apprentaships were left on the shop floor when I left?

Zero. The work was too dirty for them, the management wanted them in the offices, where I eventually landed, and none of them took a shine to the work.

Over 30 females got promotions out of 400 people. I was one of the few men who made it up to the clean offices.

Cold wind in Portugal.

Come to Spain. Sit with us. Speak English all week. Eat English all week. Drink English all week.

South of Spain: It's England with better weather (not today or yesterday or the day before - gee it's hot here. We also have better beaches in England.).