Posts by Mister Fluffy

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots

Re: Humans Not Optional?

はい、ハッハッハハッハッハッハしました。アップロードおよびライブストリームは、当社のウェブサイトの肉生物で入手できます

Ex-MI5 boss: People ask, why didn't you follow all these people ... on your radar?

Re: A suggestion

Military Intelligence may be an oxymoron.

See Singapore WWII, or thereabouts.

Hyperloop One teases idea of 50-minute London-Edinburgh ride

Re: Um

'Platform Two; the 18:32 London to Edinburgh service will depart shortly.'

'Boarding for the 18:32 London to Edinburgh service is closing,'

'Boarding for the 18:32 London to Endinburgh service has closed.'

'Clean-up crew to Platform Two.'

Break crypto to monitor jihadis in real time? Don't be ridiculous, say experts

Re: What about privately agreed crypto between private parties?

Grace; who thinks she is going to crack your communication network.

@Doctor Syntax.

Indeed; see my comment below.

Re: What about privately agreed crypto between private parties?

You beat me to it.

Endless repetition of 'we have foiled x numbers of terrorist attacks in the past three months' is beginning to sound lame.

One of the latest sentences included conviction for the possession of 'The Anachist Cookbook'.

Have you, ever, read it?

It was published in the early 1970s; the contents are approaching something like 'Dangerous Things for Boys'.

I rest my case.

No laptop ban on Euro flights to US... yet

Re: It is because of the Mosul airport

ISIL also had access to a moderately large University with laboratories and, importantly, the staff and students.

Not keen on the switch to the ISIL syllabus?

Off to the Tigris with this one.

UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

Not when there is money to be made from 'trading' in Bitcoin.

2001

On a side-note, I was told, during an interview without coffee in 2001, that computers were the only way forward in General Practice.

Personally, I can maintain eye contact with a patient, and make far more detailed hand-written notes than is possible when sitting with a screen in front of me; I wear my watch on my right wrist in order to be able to note the time whilst writing, rather than on my left which demonstrates the time-keeping.

My concerns regarding the not infrequent network failures were pushed aside, back-up was something that might be occurring, and password sharing was common amongst staff.

Consultations recorded on computers, generally (and I've reviewed tens of thousands), cut corners, lack detail, and offer little protection to medico-legal challenge.

The grey suited spectre from the Department of Health was singularly unimpressed when I enquired about long-term work force planning given the numbers of ageing general practitioners, and the increasing number of part-time and female partners.

I left general practice shortly afterwards and undertook another, expensive, four year training programme.

Work was far more satisfying, but I still had 'managers' who were far less qualified than I was who insisted on telling me how to run my service to the point of bullying, harassment and false reporting.

The conflict within the NHS is a workforce that, typically, knows what they are doing (in a grossly underfunded service), and a management that is self-promoting, and does not listen to the concerns of their own staff.

Add in the duplicity of the government, and the conspicuous absence of the Secretary of State for Health, and you have a system teetering on the verge of collapse.

I might suggest private health insurance but you're going to get fleeced by the companies concerned.

UK.gov hiring folk to watch smutty vids? All hail our blind censors...

Mister Fluffy suggests BestGore; although never at work.