Posts by Mister_C

Army says farewell to UK's 'bugger-off' airbag drone

TV commercial

Will the army also be "retireing" that commercial featuring video gaming squaddies overflying a foot patrol then?

Mines the one that isn't camouflaged

MoD loses 11,000 ID cards

Fine fine fine

IIRC, the fine imposed on serving members of the forces for loosing their own ID card is equivalent to two days pay.

Pity the pension prospects of whichever lowly civil servant finally gets landed with the blame

Equifax asks customer to email debit card photocopies

Phonejacker

"we operate a very secure system -

you tell me your credit card details

and I don't tell anybody else"

I got cold called by a "third party company" offering a service on behalf of a store card I own. Would I like to give them all my personal details so they could give me a trial of their ID theft protection service?

Neither they or the call desk for the store card seemed to understand why I thought the idea a little dodgy.

Man cuffed over Jamie Oliver email threat

A moment's sympathy

Poor Lewis Page.

A bomb-disposal career dealing with crappy bombers while others got the guts-or-glory stuff.

Now as a journo he getto report on the not-too-good ramraiding terrorists while Leister files copy on the new threat.

My sympathies

MrC