mjwalshe

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by mjwalshe 15y ago
But its ignoring standard practice at even low security places for example the fences at BT Labs (Uk's Bell Labs) where about 50% higher and curved inwards (to keep intruders inside. Though one visiting US telco guy said of BT Labs "Fuck Me
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
This is the same naive view that "gentlemen do not read each others mail" that post WW1 led to US crypto being sidelined. Maybe if the USA hand not been so isolationist and put more into crypto Perl Harbour would have been very different.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes there was an online chalenge lookig for recruits to GCHQ (the UK NSA equivelent) and the starting pay was £25k which given the skils required fro that sort of job is very poor pay.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
As oposed to working for Goldman Sachs? Google probably is a bigger threat to an indvidulals privacy than the NSA So you would be quite happy that All American Terrroists are safer than forign Actors?
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
well given the pics of the DC that google released I do not think they take physical security that seriously. The fences where low and only a single fence they did not cut back the woods next to the fence and they did not take the simple s
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
They did in the 1920's the first ever car bomb (a horse drawn cart) was used against the NY stock exchange. I belive you can still see the shrapnel scars on the buildings facade.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes anyone who says that "email isn't a messaging protocol" has probably been smoking to many of those funny Jazz cigarettes.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Certainly breaks a number of UK employment laws and is Gross misconduct.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes seeing cool planes was a big bonus working on campus at Cranfield University - One time another company there had a IX Spit that they where rebuilding it was refueled about 50 yards from my office we all went out and watched as it put o
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
You obviously have never seen the work of a truly talented carpenter the work the wood shop turned out at my first job was stunning. Some of the models (for hydrodynamic research) they produced in teak and other hardwoods where works of art
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
You may all ready have a job and they do tend to get a bit upset if you take a week off to work for another company.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes and ironically the First NT Ship was built in the UK at Cardington - I rember seeing it and its predecessors from airship industrys flying over bedfordshire. Quite a shock to see one of the Airship Industry Airships parked at Cranfield
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
The cynic in me thinks that the site was cheap to buy because of the tradedgy - and Hes trying to pull a fast one.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Or for example an oil company that wanted to remove images from searches like "piper alpha" or "Bophal" I am sure Dow would love to have those images removed.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
John Lewis and BAXI both gave the company to the employees when the founders retired. And most coops will if they can pay divi to their shareholders.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Sad is when you see the maitaince bills for your Ferrari :-)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes it is if you lose a laptop on a train or in a taxi your fucked - chrome still exposes passwords en clair FS amateur night or what. Of course unless you want to play the oldest trick in the book the "lost despatches trick" (see operation
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And unfortunetly there is just as much "corporate politics" in Germany as elsewhere - might be expresed diferently and via different routes.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
But amazon doesnt make stuff like RS and Farnells do
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Why pension is deferred pay and companys get a tax break on their contributions as well as you.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Well as some one once told me "In some bits of America its still a bit like that" And in Chicago its "a Lot Like that" What I think (and ime not going to be popular here) the USA needs is to totaly reorganise local govement far to may thing
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Precisely you have to be able to reproduce the experiment with out using the first ones code
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
erm as an ex technical programmer and research assistant for a world leading rnd organization not sure I buy this for all experiments - an experiment needs to be reproducible yes but… Most science is based on physical observation of the e
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Having been at at some of the business shows where the BBC look for contestants - we even had the stand next to them one year. They pick the contestants in terms whos the most loopy /and or will make the best TV. And watching the live versi
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
realy my sony takes < 3 seconds
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes you woudl have though that this is not exactly rocket science. Or have a mechanical switch to isolate the batery coudl this be conected to the Parking Brake. Jermy Clarkson must be pissing himself laughing over this
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Its not the first time the ITU have been sniffing around this for decades.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
The way that "the intrawebs works" NOW you mean looks like this is a power grab from the ITU - who still seam to be smarting over the fact the TCP/IP won over OSI. And historically inter country charging was a major source of revenue for sm
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Its London Fashion Week which is why that story got a lead - and Stela Macartney frocks are way out of the "middle england " price bracket. Why do you think it strange that a rare example of the UK actually making stuff is featured?
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
quite I remember stumbling on a text interface to the www on ITU's gopher server. I remember thinking what cool idea they have implmeted Bushs memex but a text mode vt100 emulation isn't a terribly good interface. This must have been 92 or

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