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Comment: Re: What the fuck is a GPA? (Score 4, Funny) 441

by afc_wimbledon (#42688631) Attached to: My cumulative GPA, thus far:

calling them human is a bit much, there's at least a few billion bug people and then you have the indians (dot not feather) who are at best going to kindly ask you please sir to do their homework for them on stackoverflow.

Don't come to the UK (or many other civilised countries) because I think you've just committed a criminal offence here (under the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006). Then again I'm guessing you don't get out of your trailer park often.

Comment: Re:Missing option (Score 1) 267

by afc_wimbledon (#41658297) Attached to: What Is Your Favorite Halloween Treat?
Hear, hear. Also I suspect "Alcohol" would be the desired treat of choice of most of the "children" roaming the streets here. Hope it rains, Bah Humbug, bloody Yank import *, etc.

* Yes it is, regardless of what Wikipedia says. Trick or treating was vanishingly rare or unknown over here before Buffy and the other high school programmes popularised it (and High School Proms, gawd help us).

Comment: Negative tax bills.... (Score 2) 394

by afc_wimbledon (#39658839) Attached to: My most recent tax bill was ...
Can and do happen is in the UK, and other countries with schemes simimar to the UK's PAYE, where you pay a pre-assessed amount directly from your salary. As it's pre-assessed, and circumstances change, there may be an adjustment, either a bill or a repayment, at the end of the year. For most peoiple this is zero or small. The instance of these "end of year surprises" *should* reduce in the UK from next year, when RTI (Ral Time Information - sort of PAYE on steroids) is intrduced.

Comment: 1989... (Score 1) 92

by afc_wimbledon (#39262861) Attached to: 20th Anniversary of Michelangelo Virus Scare
In 1989 there was an earlier Malware scare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(trojan_horse) claiming to come from "PC Cyborg Corporation" and demanding money. I worked for a company called Cyborg Systems that made payroll software for IBM Mainframes and the like. PC Plod turned up, wondering if we were branching out...

Comment: Re:mirage (Score 3, Insightful) 272

by afc_wimbledon (#38792595) Attached to: Russian Scientist Claims Signs of Life Spotted On Venus

Slashdot eats degree symbols, even if encoded as HTML entities. Alas we cannot poke fun at people for that particular typographical wandering.

Neither the SI temperature unit (K) nor the most common (C) require a pesky degree symbol. As the internets is supposed to be worldwide and modern, perhaps chosing one of those units might have been more appropriate?

Comment: Re:Singularity (Score 1) 202

by afc_wimbledon (#38235972) Attached to: Ice Cream Sandwich Ported To X86


You missed out the next step. The lawyers & marketing bods get involved, realise they are losing money, and split the hardware and software up into discrete items again, that they can sell to you individually. Rinse, and repeat.
