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Comment Pay Rise (Score 1) 159

Great, now all the staff that work for companies that aren't contracting and are still making nice big profits thank you very much, now they can give them a proper pay rise that makes up for when they shafted them with 0% pay rises because of the 'recession'.

If you accepted a 0% pay rise then you're a mug and the directors who gave themselves another 10% are laughing at you.

Comment Network Neutrality (Score 1) 301

A better solution would be to have a clause for non-personal uses as in you can't use large amounts of bandwidth for business / charity / organisation etc uses.

And to stop this 'unlimited bandwidth' BS, make the limit something that is relevant to quality of service, such as a limit related to contention ratio, measured at peak times.

Comment Re:Ok, sure... (Score 0) 164

It's not the same, dolly the sheep had shortened lifespan. The cloning is not perfect and no-where as good as nature does it

Cloned animals should not be allowed back in to the general population until either the scientific method is fixed and perfected / or the long term effects are fully understood. To do otherwise could be disastrous and it could take decades to see the disaster unfold.

Comment Future (Score 1) 115

Toaster of 2113:

Takes 2 minutes to boot, has 16 Yottabytes of memory and 2 Xenabytes of permanent storage.

After you put your toast in it, it rejects it on the basis that you've had too much white bread this week and the company doesn't want to be held liable for serving you more unhealthy food. ...After putting some brown bread in the toaster, the toaster plays an ad for some other food you can't eat whilst analyzing the DNA of the bread and checking that the seeds that made the bread were correctly licensed from Monsanto.

Comment Re:This is why... (Score 2) 243

Actually, this is why you should have trained judges doing legal work and not some biased person that a politically motivated quango choose to head the tribunal.

"Section 144 establishes the Mediation Service. It is currently run by the Department of Labour with the mediators being employees of the Department." from Wikipedia, it couldn't be much worse.

Comment Backup (Score 1) 147

Storage is sorted as far as I'm concered, I'm pretty happy with the size of micro-SD cards, HDDs etc.

But backup has a long way to go, I'd love to see some kind of open distributed File system where you offer up say 1tb to get .5tb of peer space where you're data gets encrypted locally before being stored across a fault tolerant distributed file system, with other people using the same software and no middle men, so no NSA snooping etc.

Comment Hmmm (Score 1) 634

'What we're in the process of doing â" not fast enough â" is reducing our system administrators by about 90 percent,'

Why risk keeping 10% of them, too dangerous, fire them all.

Comment Re:cognitive science (Score 1) 418

Whilst there may be some people who can somehow do something that humans can't particularly do well - concentrate on two things at once, the point is that most people can't concentrate on two things at once. Most of the time whilst cruising a motorway, this wouldn't matter, but in the hustle and bustle of city roads, phone use is dangerous for some if not most people, and you can't legislate for a subset of people arbitrarily.

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