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Comment: Re:running only on an OpenVMS, which runs (Score 1) 614

by JosKarith (#43665551) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software?
I get horrified by the number of times I come across "magic black boxes" (usually Unix) that are an integral part of some financial system but literally nobody knows what they do or how they do it cos' all the support staff have been laid off over the years without anyone being trained in the obsolete POS...

Comment: Re:Cops too. (Score 1) 409

by JosKarith (#43091015) Attached to: The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz
And the list of occasions when someone has involved the police to correct a wrong done to them, only to find the jackboots of the PD crashing down on them because it's easier than tracking tha actual criminal just keeps growing. I thank Glub that I live in a country where they don't regularly hand out a tool whose only purpose is to kill other human beings to any no-thumbs whose greatest qualification is being able to tie their own jackboots...

Comment: Re:We have the same... (Score 1) 689

by JosKarith (#42748173) Attached to: Does US Owe the World an Education At Its Expense?
In my first year of Aero Engineering we had an Electronics lecturer whose Scots accent was so thick we could barely understand him and his handwriting was totally illegible. Our entire class has to have their exams re-examined by someone else and in the end our marks had to be doubled to achieve something approximating a reasonable grade curve. And yet he was still teaching the next year...

Comment: Re:Simple: (Score 1) 550

by JosKarith (#42645333) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Do I Get My Spouse To Start Gaming With Me?
Borderlands 2 is so much more fun co-op than single player - my wife and I played B1 seperately but decided to go through B2 together. Sh likes the close-in Siren, I snipe as teh Assassin. The nearest we get to arguments is, entertainingly, in the driving sections where she doesn't appreciate my habit of using the shortest route possible no matter what that involves driving over/off...

Comment: Re:Germany... (Score 5, Insightful) 278

by JosKarith (#42358213) Attached to: UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless
When I was unemployed there were so many companies using New Deal to get basically slave labour. Such delights as a 26-week "training course" that involved 35 hours a week of night shifts for £10 a week on top of your JSA... to qualify to be a forecourt attendant... Basically the company getting someone to do the graveyard shifts for a pittance who couldn't afford to quit or they'd be reported for non-compliance and lose ALL their benefits.

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