The importance of backups

cannot be emphasised enough and Mr McAfee shows how its done with great style.

What?

"The chairman admitted that contact details of security staff were left visible but they were people who took "all necessary precautions to protect their personal safety". "

Really? most of the "security" you see in supermarkets are hardly former elite special forces are they?

And what about the partners, children etc of those staff, does little Timmy at primary school take all necessary precautions after his parent is exposed?

Its fuckwitts like this which give those of us who take data security seriously a bad name, as for the approval of his website, what a joke.

We really need a Terry Fuckwitt icon for people with this guys unique skillset..

With this

and the MET office panic meeting to work out why we are not all boiling in our own juices really does highlight is that scientific understanding of climate is still extremely low.

What is becomming clear is that the IPCC might as well pull its predictions out of the arse of a magic elephant given the complete lack of accuracy to date.

If the report is correct

and the staff requested encryption and this was denied then whoever denied it should be fired and the ICO fine should be taken from the pension pot, only when the individuals who fail in this appalling manner are held to account will others take notice.

Until the fines are met by the people responsible and not the tax payer they will have no effect.

It smacks of a criminal level of negligence but stuff all will happen to the muppets responsible.

I wonder if the young mother who be a big fan

When she comes home to find her husband giving the slim fit nanny the good news?

Clearly devout catholics

practicing an extreme form of the withdrawl method.

Where exactly is the warming happening?

A global average rise of 2 degrees by 2100 is fairly meaningless.

Here in the UK its unseasonaly cold, wet and grim, in Europe its snowing in the mountains and the overall melt is delayed.

This all flies in the face of the doom merchants predictions that we will boil in our own juices unless we build windmills.

Global averages are meaningless what we need are more precise local estimates.

I for one

Look forward to the banning of UK Feminista and Wimmins Aid as extremist man hating groups.

Some of them are also muslims..........

The part I dont understand

Is why the BBC coughed up when they did not name anyone and it was ITV that named the various parties?

As for Bercow, I guess if she hadnt used the innocent face and simply asked why he was trending it would be a different outcome, the innuendo was pretty clear in what she said.

shock horror

More plant food in atmosphere leads to more plant growth which puts plant food back into soil.

perhaps the current levels of Co 2 at 400 ppm might improve crop yields and help feed the starving.

And they can eat lizards as well. ......

We should be thankful

The data wasnt prepared at UEA's department of bistromaths otherwise it would have been 101% and not 97%.

You have to wonder what the 3% who published papers in support of AGW now believe!

When did Apple patent "being better than Apple"?

Thanks to my work I have both a Galaxy S4 and an iPhone5.

Its not even close the S4 is light years ahead of the iPhone5 unless being better than Apple has been patented!

Paris, even she knows when to stop

I suspect

That once you deploy the rectal daisy cutter the UN will take an interest. Whatever you do don't discover oil as the Americans love a mix of wmd and oil.

Slightly confused

So telling someone to make a browser less clunky, more user friendly and simple is in some way the intellectual property of Opera?

UX simplification is exactly what it says on the tin, if as a UX person you are a fan of simplification then ultimately all the work in one area (browsers) will distil down to the same basic end result, a simple way to manage web browsing.

To qualify for damages you have to wonder what damage has actually been done given that opera has a market share of 2 odd percent and seems to be going nowhere in the overall grand scheme of things.

If Mozilla have used the ideas they are claiming have been infringed then how come Opera are not suing them? Or is it simply easier to go after the individual than it would be to go after someone with significantly more market share?

WTF

"The chief executive was confused as to why more companies were not embarking on a social network strategy for their connected products. "If I'm on Facebook, why is my car not my friend?" he said.*"

That would be because its a machine and doesnt yet have the capability to tell you its having a crap day in a status update, or that its having a relationship with a parking meter!

This kind of thing is pretty common

In both the UK and Australia there is a legal term called a "Calderbank offer" which very basically means you make an offer, and if its not accepted and ultimately the court award is lower then costs are apportioned from the date of the offer to the party which continued the fight.

The problem with this arises when the party, despite the legal advice to take the offer opts to continue and then in victory finds the award is much lower.

All legal cases are ultimately a bit of a lottery, even more so when the damages are speculative, and as is the case here, her case clearly had legs but those legs where not long enough.

It could have been worse, had she lost the bill would be even bigger.

Paris as she makes bad decisions and gets shafted all the time

So

Last March I was cycling into and out of work in shorts and a short sleeve top on my mountain bike in dry, warm conditions.

Today, six weeks later than last year was the first ride into work in shorts with a reasonably dry route (its all off road)

In short, year on year we see climate variation but anyone who claims this is "warming" is talking bollocks.

If we want to lessen our impact on the planet we need to live a simpler life, use less fossil fuels, own less shiny gadgets etc etc. The only problem with this is that despite all the bleating of the tree hugging, sandal wearing liberals they are not going to give up all that modern consumer lifestyles can deliver.

The French went Nuclear and Hydro and electricity is dirt cheap compared to the prices we pay in the UK its an example we should follow.

We dont really need more research to know that pollution in general is bad for the planet and that we need to reduce it but we need to take significant action and not keep arsing around with expensive and ultimately pointless renewables like wind.

Ronery

I thought a Norkoshop was a place to purchase ladies undergarments.........

Horses for courses

Public cloud may well be a great way to develop, test and grow a fledgling product but the grim reality in the world of SaaS or any other business criticial application or data storage is that you live or die by your ability to deliver the service/app/data and the only way you can have a hope of making that happen is with your own kit managed by your own people.

Business critical applications with e commerce or critical data have to be reliable and leaving that in the hands of a third party in the hope they will do it properly is a risk I would not take.

Equally, any business critical data should be under your own control and not in the hands of a third party who has no real concern if you are ok as by its very nature public cloud is volume business, pile it high, sell it cheap and hope the majority are happy.

Pongmasters Ball Brixton Academy

Early hours I was wandering past the speaker stack as one of the many bands kicked off and then I was lying on the floor, literally floored by the bass.

I was struggling toi hear properly for a couple of days afterwards.

office 265

Its getting better then.......

The elephant in the room

Is that "hacked off" have managed to completely divert from the core underlying problem that we have a corrupt police force which point blank refused to do anything until forced to do so.

The real criminals in this sorry saga are the Metropolitan Police and the press workers who actually broke existing laws with impunity knowing they where unlikely to be prosecuted.

What "hacked off" have done is divert completely from that issue and have succeeded in damaging the free press in a way a government could never do alone, whilst at the same time nothing gets done about the underlying corruption of a police force aside from a few token arrests.

Creating bad law to cover up failings in another area of law will never work but the whole political debate was a sham from the start, the government can blame the Hacked off brigade when this comes back to bite but the reality is the government has been desperate to control the press for a long time and Hugh and his mates have provided the perfect trojan horse to achieve this.

This is a classic problem with windmills.

As windfarms are the political plat du jour it is important to feed the paymasters with "research" on how wonderful they are.

Politicians dont like nuclear purely becuase it is politically unacceptable so wind has been deemed the way forward, despite the fact even the most cursory examination of wind power shows its never going to be the answer as it has a huge environmental and operational cost.

Research which puts a more realistic slant on the likely costs or benefits of wind power are always going to be unwelcome as its the equivelant of telling someone the new baby they have is ugly as sin, you might think it, but you are not allowed to say it.

We need accurate representations of what the varying ways of generating electricity can genuinely do so we can plan properly and use appropriately. Overblown estimates simply end up costing more and delivering less.

Sunday Morning Favourite

Take one large ceramic tea pot

Boil kettle and half fill, warm and discard

Refill and boil kettle

Add 2 English Breakfast tea bags and 1 roobois/red bush

Pour water from a reasonable height

Stand for three minutes with a cosy on the pot.

Serve with milk to taste

So thats

£10K to run the data centre for a week and £950K to keep the administrators steering the ship!

Seems odd they cannot get someone to take over that aspect of the business as it clearly has customers.

"the internet of Things"?

WTF is the internet of things?

Makes no difference

The agenda has been set by the guilt ridden tree huggers consuming idevices and prius' like they are going out of fashion.

Far too many vested interests troughing at the CO2 payments made by the mere mortals who want to drive a car or heat a home for any realistic change to be made in the lemming like charge to fund pointless windmills and other feelgood stuff that wont make the blindest bit of difference.

We need to address the use of hydrocarbons which are not limitless and are polluting but the only way with current technology to do that and to maintain our rampant need for energy is to go nuclear.

Of course as the researchers are from an oil producing country they will immediately be discredited by the bonkers warmists as being in the pocket of the oil industry etc etc. ad infinitum

It doesnt matter how much good science comes out showing the doom and gloom of the corrupt and vested interests from the green warmist groups is bollocks as they will continue to maintain the gravy train that is hurtling out of control.