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Comment This can't be true! (Score 1) 132

Companies asking for FB (or whatever) credentials? As a part of job interview? I surely hope this is NOT standard behavior but rather something blown out of proportion. If somebody would ask me for my personal access data to ANYTHING, I'd consider it a bad joke and lough politely. Man, at some times it sucks to be European, but articles like this are a nice wake-up call, showing fellow humans in other parts of the world have to fight even larger idiocy. :-(

Comment Re:Where Are Today's Hobbyists? (Score 1) 612

Since some time, I've been into remotely controlled planes. Started out by buying one, with a cheapo (but very "thinkering friendly") Turnigy 9X TX. Since then I'm building my own planes - MUCH to tinker with, the possibilities are infinite: shapes, materials, attaching gadgets, learning flight techniques, ... not to talk about the entire world of possibilities that opens up once you start designing your own planes. Maybe worth a try. :)

Comment Re:Yeah can't figure the appeal of the Sinclair (Score 1) 645

Well, not THIS Spectrum owner (yes, I actually still own one... bought from eBay a year or two ago for sentimental reasons) :-) I never knew much about Ataris (were they not basically a gaming machines, with cartridges to stick in? How do you pirate THAT? :-) ), but Apple or Commodore were never an option for me not only because of the price, but also because of the CPU. Z80 assembly runs circles around 6502 (or was it 6510?)! And being a hacker that I am, assembly was important to me even at the young age of 16. :-) And as far as C64 goes... we had 50/50 distribution of Spectrum and C64 among computer owners in our class. Oh boy, what religious wars THAT were!!! :-) Turned out eventually that we ALL had equal amounts of fun and frustration with our machines (C64 tape loader speed anyone? :-) ), and also that we ALL learned A LOT about computers using that inexpensive and charming hardware. Pitty computers are so complicated these days. I wonder where to start teaching my kids from...

Comment Re:Simpsons did it... (Score 1) 391

I wasn't sure whether you were joking or not, but it was fun anyway. :-)

BTW, it's one thing to parse it wrong on /., as you did, but an entirely different thing to actually COME to Austria, as a tourist, and then - with no joking - ask where all the kangaroos happen to be. I always thought such tourist would belong to a kind of an urban legend until I got a summer job as a front desk manager in a small hotel in Vienna. Boy, were I in for a surprise!!! :-)

Have a nice day mate, and no hard feelings. I like you US guys, especially since you installed your new president (actually, since you removed the old one, ok).

Comment Re:But what if slow black holes collide? (Score 1) 314

Oh, great, thank you very much for planting this disgusting picture in my head where it will probably remain for the weeks to come! Gotta go over to redtube or youporn or redporn or puretna to get my brain washed with better pictures.

Now that I previewed this post, I'm a bit ashamed of my it...

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