Not random enough I'm afraid - If you understand how the s/n is formatted, you can brute force the password rather easily.

It seems these guys really aren't all that smart.....never been involved in anything like this in my life but FFS....if you were, you don't advertise it.

BTC seems to have dropped quite a bit today, but IMHO it's more likely to be because Mt. Gox has 'temporarily' halted withdrawals rather than any news coming out of Russia..

http://www.coindesk.com/mt-gox...

Sadly, video is the problem with these solutions. For home use they'll share memory, cpu cycles and may even manage disk and network i/o to a point, but graphics isn't quite there yet. For enterprise use, it's sort of doable, but seriously expensive.

There's talk of some desktops running hypervisors out of the box(!) and taking direct control of the graphics card, but right now, if I wanted to do something graphics intensive, I'd stick to physical.

Virtual will just let you down - largely virtualisation solutions suck at graphics.

Nice one - if you can find any more stuff that's NSFW in there, please yell..:P

I don't really know the history here, and as it's Friday I'd rather go and get drunk than spend some time googling to check my facts on this..

At one point a Telco was stupid. They didn't spot 3G\HSDPA coming, they didn't spot Smartphones (with tethering and VOIP) and even while some techies in the company were probably jumping up and down screaming, they believed those trustworthy marketing folks and thought they could sell 'Unlimited' data for a fixed price and still turn a profit. In those early day of mobile data they probably could.

As a competitor was doing it, everyone else started selling unlimited data or they'd lose market share. At this point they should probably have checked with some regular ISPs who were starting to see just how much using the term 'Unlimited data' could kill their network.

Now, as mobile networks are creaking under the strain of everyone owning a smartphone, there's a frantic effort to change the definition of 'unlimited' to 'really very limited and we'd like some extra cash when you go over the limit'. Few will drop the term 'Unlimited' because they'll lose customers.

Personally I'm abusing my 'unlimited' data plan every chance I get. My provider has already set a (rather generous) limit in their 'fair use policy', but I suspect that'll be cut down soon..

Just my thoughts.

...around the 40000 level. I recently changed to Employee number 6 (and Techie number 1)

This cut down massively on bureaucracy (which took up a large chunk of my week) and to my surprise actually gave me a decent pay rise!

Company is doing well enough for me to not worry....which is more than I can say for my previous employer :(

Sometimes, small companies are the better move.

I guess the other 20% involves nasty spyware infections, viruses and users who will click any damn thing that flashes.

Nuke the site from orbit, rehire and rebuild - it's the only way to be sure.....

After a mere two hours of debate, this farce has passed. I sense big media funding behind this one. Neither of the two main political parties in the UK will get my vote (and I was committed to one until now). They're both as bad as each other.

If you're in the UK...it's on the BBC IPlayer.... If you're not paying for a TV license, they tend to get very annoyed though..:P

In some situations, you're wrong. A few years ago I had the pleasure of working for a small company that actually did reward my efforts. I worked out of hours for nothing just to get the job done. I didn't expect returns on that. Between unexpected bonuses and stock options (which I never thought would amount to much), I did very nicely out of that job. My point is - although larger companies tend to be as you describe, not all companies screw you over if you put in extra effort.

Based on the recent bad press that IE has had...I really doubt it'll gain anything. To be fair though the people that see this and then haven't already made a browser choice probably haven't seen many recent press releases about browsers. I'm guessing they'll go with the (probably well presented) Microsoft option..

I'm a long time lurker, and this is one one of the most informative sites I visit. Despite the odd troll, the discussions are usually thought provoking (even if the thought is NSFW). Good work guys and roll on 200k.