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Living Room / Re: Another Internet Cafe Death
« on: February 07, 2012, 10:53 AM »
Asia is not big on tipping. After all you're supposed to do your job and be nice to customers, that's not something which deserves a tip.

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Developer's Corner / Bjarne talks about C++11
« on: February 05, 2012, 06:28 PM »
I'm biased because I'm a huge C++ fan, but I hope everyone out there can agree that this is an excellent talk and well worth watching no matter what language you code in.

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Day 1 Keynote - Bjarne Stroustrup: C++11 Style

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Living Room / Re: Who needs SOPA? Website accused of defamation is closed by judge
« on: February 02, 2012, 07:06 PM »
Next step will be engineering a gradual reduction leading to the eventual end of open platform PC manufacturing. Afterwards, all there will be left are walled-garden devices licensed, monitored, and controlled by government friendly corporations.
-40hz (February 02, 2012, 10:50 AM)

Damn... It just occurred to me... These people are BRILLIANT~! Seriously. They're making Einstein look like a mentally challenged version of Chris Dodd. Errr... well, for what that's worth anyways. Smart bacteria? Whatever...
-Renegade (February 02, 2012, 12:35 AM)

Wow, if you genuinely think these comments are related to the article, then you people lost all grip with reality.......................

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Living Room / Re: Google Ends Privacy
« on: January 29, 2012, 10:16 AM »
Ah yes. Once again the "blame the victim" mindset reveals itself. And not for the first time. 

Ok  i guess if somebody is so stupid as to speak their mind in private, they obviously "deserve" whatever happens by way of payback. Any rational and even slightly moral adult couldn't help but reach any other judgement. :-\
-40hz (January 28, 2012, 11:57 PM)

I said deserve to get caught, I didn't say people deserve any and all consequences thereafter. For example complaining about your employer to your friend over "private" email doesn't justify them firing you.

But relying on the likes of Google or Facebook to help keep you safe is plain naive. It's laws and regulations that have to step in and prevent such things being used against you, which in in Ireland at least they do. An employer would face unfair dismissal cases if they sacked you over something like that.

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Living Room / Re: Google Ends Privacy
« on: January 28, 2012, 11:02 PM »
Can you say: criticize your employer or the government and later face repercussions - and then wonder how they knew? Especially since you only did so in an email sent to your best friend?
-40hz (January 28, 2012, 03:00 PM)

That's slightly conspiracy-ish. But at the same time, anyone having potentially damaging conversations over someone else's network pretty much deserves to be caught IMHO.

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