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7 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jul 2007

Teen sacked for 'boring' job Facebook comment

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Dangerous

IANAL, but the company appears to have disregarded the Employment Act (2002) and this sort of action is liable to land them in all sorts of hot water. The company should have followed Statutory Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedures.

Whilst with less than 12 months continuous service she would not normally be able to bring an unfair dismissal case to the EAT there are certain "automatically unfair" dismissals. Also, if she were able to prove discrimination she would be exempt from the 12 month requirement.

I'm not making any comment as to whether she falls into either of those two categories, merely that if she did she would have a case.

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Firefox 3 makes up world record to set world record

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@Sim

If you don't like any aspect of open software you are free to fork it and beg/hire developers to make the changes you want. If you feel that strongly about it I suggest you put your money where your mouth is.

Of course the same freedom is not afforded to users of proprietary software.

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Gumshoes fined for debt collection pretexting blag

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BT

Why aren't BT being fined and ordered to rout out this sort of behaviour amongst their employees?

BT was custodian of these individual's data and it was BT who failed by allowing said data to fall into the wrong hands. This is just another example of BT's lack of respect for their customers personal information.

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Google slightly less open than Interpol

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Contact google not difficult?

O rly?

Yes, there's a page with 'Contact Us' at the top but there is no general way to actually contact them save from the Address and Phone number (both of which are mentioned in the report).

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Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64

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Hacked the Apache source

Well firstly you can do it with mod_headers no need to go near the Apache source.

And secondly, if you were a long time reader of El Reg you would know this is exactly the kind of article they are known for. And that's why we love them :)

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Oric was another 8-bit

The Oric was another 6502 based home computer, though it looked like a grey Spectrum with flimsy keys and doorstop type case.

I myself started with a VIC-20. Now that was a real computer. If you can't do it in 3.5K then it's not worth doing :p

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Brit fumes over Wikipedia, lava lamps

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Brit fumes over Wikipedia, lava lamps

If you contribute to Wikipedia you are essentially submitting your article to a journal that is editted purely by London cab drivers - who know nothing but have an opinion on everything.

Why is it that most "experts" have long since given up on WP? The reason is the key to having your content stay on the site. It is not whether it's well written, factually accurate and interesting but rather whether the author knows how to "play the game" of Wikipedia - a game that has rules that make Mornington Crescent seem perfectly logical.

Really the whole project should be renamed "World of Wikipedia - The Book Burning Crusade". As a Masively Multiplayer Online Game it would break revenue records given the number of people that are currently hooked.

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