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King Battistelli's swish penthouse office the Euro Patent Office doesn't want you to see

Re: "few Greek or Spanish or Italian unemployed"

Doesn't happen in the UK. Generally useless ex-finance ministers are forced to take menial clerical jobs in a declining industry

With Skype, Microsoft's messaging strategy looks coherent at last (almost)

Focussed

To implement a more business focused strategy they need to add some more differentiation, skype-for-business-but-using-it-from-home, skye-at-work-but-not-for-business, skype-for-idiots, skype-for-discussing-problems-with-skype

All these will have to be registered to a single Office365 account but you can't have two different ones installed on the same machine at the same time. Obviously they can't call contacts on one of the others.

Logins will prompt you if this is a microsoft personal or work email address, which one you have to click will vary on a daily basis. Any support requests will require you to have either a hotmail or outlook.com address or both, or neither.

FYI anyone who codes outside work: GitHub has a contract to stop bosses snatching it all

Re: Interesting, but..

> but one has to file a lawsuit and hope the bench warming shyster actually pays attention.

That's the difficulty with computer stuff

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A typical East Texas jury is going to understand that the company you install drywall for during the day doesn't have any claim on your carved wooden sculpture at the weekend.

But are they going to understand that your DB programming day job and weekend app writing are different? Especially when your employer has a fancy lawyer confusing them about software

Re: Interesting, but..

> I put the document in the round filing cabinet under my desk and no-one ever mentioned it again.

Generally in the UK, staying there and collecting a paycheque is a sign that you have accepted the employment contract, you have to be given a copy but you don't have to sign it

Re: For clarification

Patents are odd in that they can only be filed by inventors, not corporations. It is hardly unreasonable for the company that employed and funded the R&D to get the patent so you generally have to assign it. For some reason the assignment always includes a payment of $1 but you never seem to get it.

There is a Feynman story on him demanding payment when assigning some atomic bomb patents to the govt

Re: It's not just code or tech related IP

I had a similar clause for a certain consulatancy named after a certain oxbridge town. ie

We own everything you make outside work.

Good, I take octogenarian fetish-porn photographs on the weekends, do you have a copy of the corporate logo for me to put on them ?

They also claimed that my non-compete extended to any customers of their customers. As HR put it, we did work for Tesco, Tesco sell Sony TVs = you can't work for Sony. I would have loved to see how that stood up in court.

Startup offers $10,000 to Silicon Valley techies … who will leave Bay Area

Re: true motivations...

Or at least somewhere that a competitor across the street isn't going to offer them $20k more over lunch

Norfolk County Council sent filing cabinet filled with kids' info to a second-hand shop

Re: Recoup the cost

They could bring in outside consultants to manage the campaign

Re: Norfolk County Council...

But last time they sent a cabinet containing actual children to the scrap yard - so this is an improvement

US military's latest toy set: Record-breaking laser death star, er, truck

Re: Defensive tactic

Fly drone at 1m altitude through army base - watch as laser slices morning parade in half

Re: The future's cloudy!

Fortunately we only do enemies in deserts with clean open blue skies - no need to ever have to fight an enemy anywhere snowy. Everybody that lives anywhere snowy is a friend of the administration

National Audit Office: Brit aircraft carrier project is fine and dandy... for now

Re: Revert at soonest

I thought they outsourced it to Turkey

Why is the Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega+ project so delayed?

Re: 20 years old tech?

That's the real value of the Vega+, they protect you from the dissapointment of actually running the old speccy games - while delivering the nostalgia of an authentic "ordering zx80 from sinclair" experience.

Re: Crowdfunding is just an unsecured loan

Could be interesting if it made credit card case-law.

I donated to political party X and when elected they failed to deliver on any of their promises = I want a credit card refund

BT's Openreach to hire 1,500 engineers

Re: Will they stop sabotaging competitors lines?

But this won't affect that, they said they are hiring 1500 "engineers" not installers or maintenance technicians.

I assume the 1500 engineers will be developing new research concepts into solid products or developing new applications to better serve customers

IBM could have made almost all the voluntary redundancies it needed

Re: Best people often first to accept severance because it is easy for them to find another job &

But this is IBM so anybody good got out years ago.

Now the only ones left are the ones who don't know how to logon to their email to receive the redundancy notices.

And potentially a few that were made redundant years ago but ares til being paid because HR are also "IBM quality" staff

Re: IBM doesn't need to lose thousands of people -- just a few dozen

Or simply outsource the C suite.

I'm sure there are kids on Africa that would be willing to do the job for $1/day.

Oracle gives FCC a great big sloppy kiss: You're doing a great job axing net neutrality, privacy

Re: Scary

When Oracle supports anything you know something is going wrong.

It's like the Daily Mail, you have to assume anything they hate is good.

Germany to Facebook, Twitter: We are *this* close to fining you €50m unless you delete fake news within 24 hours

Re: Heil Merkel.

There is no reason that phone/sms should be exempt from the same rules as radio, tv ...

I demand that the Polizei monitor all phone calls for ungood speech

Re: Could be tricky

Can I demand that we delete the preceding message for its potty-mouth language ?

Linus Torvalds explains how to Pull without jerking his chain

That's not a penguin

How did the dog from nightmare before christmas slip in - Some dodgy patch ?

UK Home Office warns tech staff not to tweet negative Donald Trump posts

And if you are nice about him you too might get paid 600K for 1 day a week while still keeping your government job - that's the "code"

Can you ethically suggest a woman pursue a career in tech?

Re: The portrayal of nerds in the media....

Not to mention Fred and Wilma or Barnie and Bettie - pure propaganda by the dino-industrial complex

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

Re: @Orv

If you allow people to group together to spread the risk then you ultimately end up with the ludicrous situation of everyone together in one pool run by the government.

Re: Sometimes a quote can really make you cross-eyed.

Now all they have to do is find the bit in the bible about DNA sequencing and they can use my information

Re: Kinda misses the point

Odd that a party that doesn't believe in evolution is trying to selectively breed for being rich

Family of technician slain by factory robot sues everyone involved

Not always possible.

1, You are teaching the robot a new sequence of moves so the power needs to be on

2, You are calibrating the touch points so you need to drive the robot to those points

3, You are changing the working head and so need to be able to move the arm

In this case it seems that it wasn't the robot they were working on but one in the next station that was triggered to move an assembly.

>if one of your defendants has deep pockets you can go after them for 100% of the compensation even if they are only 1% liable, t

There was a case where a kid was hit by a car and they sued the makers of the jeans he was wearing because the driver of the car had no money. When you are on the hook for the kids medical bills it is the only way

'Password rules are bullsh*t!' Stackoverflow Jeff's rage overflows

Re: Sometimes I can't use a long password

>used as a separator in the *nix passwd file

If they are storing your password unhashed in /etc/passwd you have bigger problems

User lubed PC with butter, because pressing a button didn't work

re: Excel is perfect for graphics

Just make a sheet 1024 cells wide by 768 high, go full screen

and then set the background colour of each cell to make the picture you want

Oh my God, 911 is down. Quick, call… aaargh!

Re: 911?

US prices are normally quoted without sales tax included

Re: Why is the FCC involved ?

>but you really wouldn't find it funny if you needed the emergency services.

The proper system is that the federal govt guarantees that your 911 call goes through and an ambulance turns up - and leaves because you don't have insurance ?

Why is the FCC involved ?

Surely this is a free market differentiation, if you aren't happy with your 911 service you can simply switch suppliers to one that offers a better service.

Since it may be inconvenient to do this whilst having a heart attack you should probably install some sort of app in advance to enable a quick-switch

Royal Navy's newest ship formally named in Glasgow yard

HMS Forth < enter >

2018 < enter >

Service < enter >

Enter < enter >

Re: HMS Forth

Alternatively it could be hurridly repainted, the onyx bath taps installed and the gun removed (or not - depending on the oligarch) and sold if the next budget looks tight

President Trump-themed escort services may soon open in China

Re: @Geoffrey -- yes, well, on sober reflection --

>Bannon is using Trump, and Bannon has the more dangerous, off-the-rails political ideas

I see your Bannon and raise you a Peter Thiel

To misquote the classics: You're not billionaire, you're little people!

RadioShack bankruptcy savior to file for, you guessed it, bankruptcy

Re: ☹️

You are assuming that somebody was in charge of Tandy, and they had a business plan - I think the evidence against that is pretty comprehensive

Re: The Living Dead

The canadian part, thesource.ca, seems to live on despite selling nothing but useless in-flight magazine type electric gadgets and overpriced watch batteries

I think they must be a front for something - probably N Korea judging from the level of technology

Re: ☹️

>Used to work for Tandy in the 80s

Can I just get your name and address

Rap for chat app chaps: Snap's shares are a joke – and a crap one at that

Re: "went against the underwritten rules of Wall Street"

Simple - Lose money on every customer but make up for it in volume

Iconic Land Rover Defender may make a comeback by 2019

Re: thanks to EU regulations

Depending on how badly the test is designed/requriement is worded.

Spikes means the pedestrian would accelerate to the vehicle speed and stay there - rather than be accelerated and then bounced off so feeling double the overall force.

If you ignored the whole pierced by a spike bit - you could reduce the amount of impact felt by a pedestrian by fitting spikes

Re: Which market segment will they go for?

>the armed forces should be buying British

Or they could invade somewhere and steal theirs - they are the ARMED forces after all

Re: Needling me?

> Probably the same in Oz, they would buy them if they could get them

I think in the case of Oz, as soon as they weren't forced to buy commonwealth they were very happy to buy something cheaper and more reliable.

As the saying goes if you want to get into the outback take a Landrover - if you want to come back out again take a Landcruiser

thanks to EU regulations

Wasn't there a recent event of some relevance to this?

I welcome our new coal powered British Land Rovers

US Marines seek a few supposedly good men ... who leaked naked pics of a few good women

Re: Naked WOMEN

Well they do hang around with sailors rather a lot

In fact if you had an all volunteer army and discovered that they were all ready and happy to stick bayonets into people when told to do so - you might have more grounds for concern

Naked WOMEN

Would never happen in the Royal Marines (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4475034.stm)

>For instance, it's the only place I've been where shouting was considered polite behavior.

To be fair it's also one of the few places where you get promoted for killing people (unlike medical school or air-traffic control)

Trump, Brexit, and Cambridge Analytica – not quite the dystopia you're looking for

Re: Looking for something to blame?

>based on such traits as how one says the letter "H".

I think the Israelites can claim prior art on that one by about 30 centuries