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Followed by a bunch of ads for CORPORATE SLOGAN's car hire partners
I stopped flying United because it became like a giant game of "Simon Says". - Do you want fly the friendly skies sugar in your fly the friendly skies coffee?
How many cables must they have cut in different locations across the capital to defeat the state of the art enterprise grade, strategic, redundant and reliable fibre backbone that British Telecom operate?
Surely a company that is so mighty that it is the only one considered to bid for most government projects wouldn't have a system that lost service becuase of a single break at one location?
Balanced against that is the chance of anyone bothering to read it - so just as effectively "lost"
Having information like the census data online means it can be data mined to research patterns of immigration, social mobility etc etc. Having it on 1000s of microfilms in different places is more secure but means the data will almost certainly never be accessed or used.
If it was their money - yes
Since any extra cost is just more budget that the taxpayer is spending on the war on everything - no
Do you want to be the chief of police who spent less on chasing terrorists than the next city?
Really? The one for the C18 seems perfectly clear
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Anywhere in that it says; unless the records are digital, in which case help yourself ?
Did you have the 3 standing next to the unmanned internet-digital-e-passport cyber gates?
One telling you to go to the empty one (thanks), one telling to just wait a minute while they reboot them and one telling you to try again when it fails to read your passport.
How they mananged to do this without also having a couple of managers supervising them is a miracle
Some ability to do sums without having to count on your fingers may be useful.
It used to be said the most dangerous thing in the army was a 2nd lieutenant with a compass.
It's now probably a 2nd lieutenant with a GPS attempting to call in an airstrike at a grid position not equal to the one they are currently occupying.
Don't see why this should be a problem for data-protection laws when it works so well for other consumer protection.
There is no 'race to the bottom' across the eu to offer the lowest standard for drug or aviation safety - so I can get my new treatment approved in stereotypical corrupt eu country and then customers in the UK are unable to complain.
> this is *not* a backdoor for the underpaid IT contractor to get in.
If you believe that I have a bridge, a Dixon's extended warranty and an HP storage solution to sell you.
Dave's mates in the city (who write the policies for him) are not concerned that ARM can't hire the best chip designers from MIT or Stanford.
Probably irrelevent if your targets are Afghan tribesmen.
Their command and control system never really integrated with their anti ballistic missile submarine capability.
The navy is feeling distinctly left out in the choice of landlocked deserts as the theatre-du-jour for spreading democracy
America switching to first to file doesn't change prior art invalidating a patent.
It means that you don't patent something, invest in manufacturing, build a market and then have an IBM come along and say, we thought of that years ago but didn't do anything about it - now you have proved a market we will file our patent and take it from you.
Now they need to show that they published their idea and you could have known abut it and benefitted from it and in thw worst case can invalidate your patent not have it re-assigned to them.
Originally first to invent was needed in America because it took weeks to get a letter to Washington, but it became a way of big companies with lots of lawyers to sidestep the patent system.
Or another way of looking at it.
Developer A said "let there be a language where statement A does B, statement C does D etc"
Developer A happened to then implement that in code, Separately developer B implemented the same thing in different code.
If developer A is allowed to claim that all implementations of their language are copyright then Dennis Richie is going to be very rich - and Oracle are going to have a real problem finding a C compiler to build their database product.
It's easy to keep a secret if the only person you need to share it with is you.
So Microsoft can make a perfectly secure system where you have the keys, you encrypt it, they store and you decrypt it. That's great if the only use of the cloud is as a great big disk drive in the sky.
As soon as you need somebody else to process it then you need to share keys and unless you trust them you are screwed - whatever the technology, especially if you know the NSA is looking over their shoulder
> Euro-centric data centers are a damned good idea …
But a good thing for the JCB business.
Every data center won't just have an extra connection to the NSA (assuming they are US owned, or want to do business int he US) but they will also have an extra connection to all 28 countries. In those countries where the military, government and secret services don't trust each there will be multiple connections.
I'm picturing 50 or 60 different groups of shady dark-glasses wearing spooks all trying to install their own secret taps while not being noticed by the other lots. Would make a great Ealing comedy.
But a superinjunction is before anything is reported.
So I shag a sheep - I hear that el Reg is going to run this story so I get an injunction against anyone mentioning it.
The court has to tell the press about the injunction and tell them not to mention the injunction. Fine if that is just calling Murdoch and the Guardian - but how does the court tell 20Million Twitter and facebook members not to publish anything about me and the sheep without mentioning me or floppsy?
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