* Posts by irw

4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Sep 2010

I QUIT: Mozilla's anti-gay-marriage Brendan Eich leaps out of door

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What the hell does someones personal beliefs have to do with running a company - as long as he does not inflict them on his employees or colleagues?

It seems that he had to go because it is no longer policically correct or acceptable to disagree with the homosexual /gay agenda.

With all the debate over same sex marriage, the fastest way to get abuse was to state that you disagreed. Then you get accused of being intolerant or bigoted by those who are even less tolerant of different opinions to their own

Natty Narwhal with Unity: Worst Ubuntu beta ever

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Quote of the month?

"GNOME-like bar at the top of the desktop, which looks like a GNOME bar, quacks like a GNOME bar, but is definitely not a GNOME bar."

Average Brit has three mysterious keys

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Is that all?

I recently discovered a bag containing about 250 keys in our office - and we have no idea which locks they are supposed to unlock ...

Feds want backdoors built into VoIP and email

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Skype already has a backdoor

I know that the Chinese can listen into Skype conversations, and I have also been told that the UK and US governments have access ...

Perhaps this proposed legislation will make this more legal / less illegal?