Posts by Richard Devenport 2 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2008
"In a separate anti-trust case in January this year, the Commission accused Microsoft of stifling competition by bundling its Internet Explorer web browser with the Windows operating system."
Assuming one has a version of Windows without a web browser installed, how precisely does one find a web browser to install? It's not like you can actually download a better browser without having one to access its web site in the first place.
To be fair, the Walham switching station is owned by National Grid, and if it had gone down due to flooding taking out the HV or LV equipment, it wouldn't be just GCHQ going off the air - it'd take out large parts of Gloucestershire. It's NGET (a private company), not the government, that are responsible for keeping the UK electricity transmission system running.
In addition, that station is on a key link between South Wales and the rest of the UK, and between the North and London. The worst case scenario at the time was losing South Wales entirely (Aberthaw was on outage to fit equipment to comply with an EU Directive), and putting London at risk of brownouts.
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