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Comment World of Tanks anyone? (Score 1) 669

It's free, it's fun and it requires little more than a few minutes for each battle.
That means that I can play for 10 minutes or one hour, all depending on my free time.
I've been playing on average half an hour every day for the past year and I'm now on the tier VIII vehicles, still a long road for the top tanks in the game, but that's the beauty of it, you can go at your own pace.

Comment Could not replicate (as many others can't) (Score 0) 135

I'm using IOS 7.0 (11A465) on a iPhone 4S.
I've tried to do the hack for half an hour and the phone will never bypass the lock.
There was also a rumor about taking a picture then sharing it thus accessing your contacts, but then again that is not true. The phone will not allow you to share or send a picture until it's lock has been removed.
People are getting this truly out of proportion, why do they care so much about the locking ability of a phone?
If I was a thief and I really wanted your data/phone, I would just start breaking your fingers until you gave it all.
If you are truly the paranoid kind, why do you keep a smartphone in the first place?

Comment We just let it slip away, simple. (Score 1) 304

Most of our projects are irrealistic, so after a roll of preventive measures we just gave up...

Measures attempted:

New priority levels - We moved from 3 priority levels to 5. Everybody kept using the highest available...
Re-Evaluation of requests by an independent team - Time lost in the team = time lost in delivery...
Mandatory rule book for project requests, namely better designed requests - Administration kept ignoring the rules and we could do nothing about it...

And the list goes on.
EU

Submission + - Spanish Extremadura Moving 40,000 Desktops to Linu (europa.eu)

jrepin writes: "The administration of Spain’s autonomous region of Extremadura is moving to a complete open source desktop, confirms the region's CIO, Teodomiro Cayetano López. The IT department started a project to install the Debian distribution on all 40,000 desktop PCs. "The project is really advanced and we hope to start the deployment the next spring, finishing it in December." The project makes it Europe's second largest open source desktop migration, between the French Gendarmerie (90,000 desktops) and the German city of Munich (14,000 desktops)."
The Courts

Submission + - High Court Rules In Favor Of Top Gear Over Tesla S (dailytech.com)

esocid writes: In 2008, BBC's "Top Gear" aired an episode featuring the Tesla Roadster. One of the show's car reviewers, Jeremy Clarkson, gave a less-than-flattering analysis of the vehicle, sparking a legal case with the automaker that doesn't seem to be working out in Tesla's favor.
Now, it looks as though Tesla is losing this battle after a full-day hearing yesterday at the high court in London. "In my judgment, the words complained of are wholly incapable of conveying any meaning at all to the effect that the claimant [Tesla] misled anyone," said Tugendhat. "This is because there is a contrast between the style of driving and the nature of the track as compared with the conditions on a public road [...] are so great that no reasonable person could understand that the performance on the [Top Gear] track is capable of a direct comparison with a public road." The hearing now continues on Tesla's claim that "Top Gear" made five other false accusations about the Roadster. Tugendhat has postponed judgment on Tesla's malicious falsehood claim, and is expected to deliver a verdict in the coming weeks.

Comment All of the above and more (Score 1) 314

If I'm at my computer I'll create a txt file and save it to the desktop so I'll check it later (visible).
If I'm at home I'll write it down on the first piece of paper I can find.
If I'm with my wife she will hand me a proper piece of paper which she has tons of to keep notes.
If I'm on the street I'll just write a note on the phone.
If I'm on a random computer I just fire up GMail and write a draft or use google docs.
If I'm on a meeting I write things in my designated blank book (which people at meetings think its professional)
If I'm on a date with a hot girl I'll let her scribble her phone number on my body... :D

Comment Wife is a teacher (Score 1) 310

And so she prints lots of stuff on it, be it exercises for the kids or whatsoever.
Her school as printing facilities, but the people there are clueless, so she prints the originals at home and then just asks for copies.
The only things I ever print at home are vouchers for stuff bought online (planet tickets, hotel reservations, etc).

Comment Job Change FTW (Score 1) 247

Truly, job change has been the pivotal point in my career. Every time I change company (willingly) I get a promotion and a pay rise, only exception was when I delivered my resignation and my current company made me a generous counter-offer to keep me (I stayed). If I hadn't delivered my resignation I would still be doing the same thing for the same salary, few companies that I know promote inside people, most prefer to pick an outsider... :(

Comment Got a mail with new VPN passwords after I left (Score 1) 218

Before leaving my company, I implemented a forward rule on my mail account so I would get any new mails untill the account was closed. I had lots of contacts and there is always someone who isn't aware that we left, that way I could warn anyone who mailed me.
To my complete surprise, 3 months after leaving I received a user and password for the VPN network which allowed me to log in to the corporate network and do whatever I pleased.
Why, you ask? Well they hired someone with the same name as me (first and last) and instead of deleting my account and creating a new one, they just reset the password and gave him my old account.
If I hadn't warned the IT Staff at my old company to remove the forward rule, I would still have access to everything...
Science

Immaculate Conception In a Boa Constrictor 478

crudmonkey writes "Researchers have discovered a biological shocker: female boa constrictors are capable of giving birth asexually. But the surprise doesn't end there. The study in Biology Letters found that boa babies produced through this asexual reproduction — also known as parthenogenesis — sport a chromosomal oddity that researchers thought was impossible in reptiles. While researchers admit that the female in the study may have been a genetic freak, they say the findings should press researchers to re-think reptile reproduction. Virgin birth among reptiles, especially primitive ones like boas, they argue may be far commoner than ever expected."

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