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Comment When I was a boy... (Score 1) 122

My family moved to Australia when I was very young, which meant trips back to the UK to see relatives, those flights were made on 747, back then kids were often invited up to the cockpit. I was fortunate enough to do that quite a few times, on one occasion I was instructed to push a button, and shortly after that the plane banked slightly. I have no idea what that button did, or if my pushing it caused the aircraft to bank, but I like to think it did. Quite sad kids these days don't get to experience this.

Comment Re:How do you know it won't increase tax revenue? (Score 4, Insightful) 380

Have you considered that it's not that you hate working, it's that you hate the work you do. One of the claimed benefits of UBI is that it allows people to do a job that they've wanted because it's what they enjoy but that the can't make even a living wage from it.

Comment Re:To access their network (Score 1) 137

Why would someone let your employer monitor YOUR iphone?

The employer may require it as a condition of letting you attach your device to their network. You don't have to let them monitor your phone but they don't have to let you access their network with it either.

Yup. Bring Your Own Device is just corporate new-speak for "externalizing equipment costs to our employees".

Nonsense, BYOD was brought about by employees not their employers. People wanted to bring the latest gadgets they had initially bought for personal use into the work environment because they preferred them over the often comparatively ancient equipment which had been supplied to them by their employer.

Comment Re:Email use on the decline in general (Score 2) 149

Definatly not true.

Really? The trend has been downward for a number of years for everyone below the age of 55, a much as 59% for teens. For those older than 55 there is an upward trend, but overall the trend is down. http://www.bostonglobe.com/bus... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12... http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/...

Comment Email use on the decline in general (Score 1, Interesting) 149

I think it's more because email use in general is on the decline. Facebook and other social media sites are the reason as people keep in touch with that instead of emailing. Couple that with the already entrenched services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail etc and it's little wonder there was little interest.

Comment Re:I'm just scared shitless (Score 1) 314

Isn't that because MS were selected as the sole supplier of ECUs by the FIA? Something makes me suspect the decision was made on how much the FIA were paid, rather than on the merit of Windows an an RTOS.

That's quite possibly true. I was simply pointing out that the MSFT system was being used in F1 cars and making no judgments about the merits or otherwise of the selection process or its in-practice efficacy.

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