'Analysing' Bond plots is like explaining a joke.

If you have to do it you've missed the point.

Funny

The UK government. It's sponsoring a center to advise other governments on IT security. The UK government. Advising anyone on IT security.

It is to laugh.

My conspiracy theory......

....overrides your conspiracy theory because I say it does and because I conducted an 'internet poll'.

That's why I'm a psychologist and you're not.

Crazy indeed

I think people who line up to buy any phone on the day it's released are........... well, they think differently from me.

Having said that, I think people who, over the course of a year, spend so much time and energy to piss and moan about one technology company and its products are equally......... different thinkers and they should all be treated in the same asylum.

The film has served its purpose

The film itself is a dreadful, childish p.o.s. that nobody in their right mind would waste time watching. So I did.

It is a cheap provocation designed (which is much too grand a word for this crap) to create fury among the more excitable parts of the muslim world. Whether the makers of the movie (and remember that 'Pastor' Terry Jones - he of the televised Koran burning was a backer of this 'movie') had a more complex motive in mind than simply to stir up trouble in the Muslim world is hard to say. (I doubt it. Terry Jones doesn't strike me as a complex kind of person.)

So rant about the ignorance of Muslims if you like. Rattle on about freedom of speech until you're hoarse. But think on this: This nasty little film was meant to cause trouble and the kind of trouble it caused resulted in the death of four Americans.

I wonder how 'Pastor' Terry Jones feels about that as he lies down to sleep at night.

Wow!

I must not read Lewis Page enough. This is the first time I've ever seen an entire article that's a troll.

Some basics

' Round Rock, which is part of the Texan progressive reservation of Austin'

Hippies are not allowed in Round Rock just as people from Round Rock have to bathe multiple times after visiting Austin. Round Rock people are people obsessed with ticky-tacky little boxes to keep their stuff in and SUVs. Austin people are, by and large, unemployed musicians with some vague idea of what a hippie used to be.

Surprised?

No surprise that, A) when governments want to cut costs the bureaucrats cut what they don't understand and, B) that auditors will point out a lack of controls which leads to project failures.

One small problem is that, now we're paying Nicola Sturgeon to be Minister For Independence instead of doing an actual government job, there'll be even less money to do what the auditors suggest.

Everybody's an idiot.............

.....if an El Reg commenter disagrees with them.

Do those who deride the interviewed juror know much about the jury selection process in the US?

I see an opportunity for El Reg

Every hopelessly addicted fanboi and every frothing-at-the-mouth Apple hater obviously need regular beatings to restore a sense of normality.

An El Reg bootcamp opportunity?

Never mind radio interference

I want everyone on the flight to stow their i-things, mobes, assorted compters AND books.

If, on taking off or landing, the plane suffers a Whoops! moment, the last thing I want is several hundred projectiles ricocheting around the cabin.

Well boo ****ing hoo

Apple won a jury decision in a trial in America and all the haters are a-weepin' and a-wailin' and a gnashin' of their teeth.

In the grand scheme of things, what does it matter?

Where do you put the luggage?

The post is required, and must contain letters.

Too little imagination

IN a time when Britain is crying out for meaningful infrastructure projects to stimulate the economy, there's an opportunity for the government to invest in a national fibre infrastructure which it could then lease space on to various private entities.

Unfortunately that would take courage, imagination and commitment. Things that our politicians do not even understand, never mind possess.

"The pork sheet will be electrically stimulated in the bioreactor chamber"

I can hear, now, the cries of, "It's aliiiive! It's aliiive! Bwahahaha!"

Don't kid yerself

The yanks are looking for oil.

My question is

How do they separate the salt from the seawater? Giant vats of boiling water aboard?

Well done Austin!

It was a bit of a coup when you got the original plant. Getting this investment is a testament to the good works the people have done there.

Really?

"another smartphone vendor is about to get clearance"

Did the rumour say who? Or, given the other vendors' attempts at security, why?

Fortunately, there were two excellent responders

Translation: There were two people who agree with us.

Not the only weakness

Many companies rely on technology to protect their assets - and completely or almost completely ignore the process and the people surrounding that technology.

Password sharing is rife in some companies.

Too many companies do not educate employees on security policies ("Oh, they're out on the 'net somewhere. You should go read 'em".)

Too many companies do not employ sanctions for breaching policy.

Too many companies do not employ SIEM tools or the processes to make good use of them.

Too many employees walk away from terminals that they're logged in through

Too many employees talk too much, in public places, about their companies' security weaknesses

And on, and on, and on.

A tool is only a tool. Having a tool does not mean you're doing a good job.

This cannot be good news

See title

No insults to offer

but the more I learn about various religions, the more I smile.

Thanks, folks, for the entertainment.

I think TSA is wonderful

and I tell them so each time I go through an airport.

Due to my sad life the feel-up I get in airports is about the only sign of affection I receive nowadays. Problem only arises when I ask for a phone number.

"moral"?

What on earth is "moral" about taxes? The government demanding money with menaces?

And who are politicians to lecture anyone about morality - fake or not?

Do any of the Apple haters

actually own the networks and the companies that they're determined to "protect" from Apple kit?

If not then, in my experience, they'll allow Apple kit if they're told to do so.

Enough of this "computing as an end in itself". Computing power is a utility and the real world expects to be able to plug into it and get what they want from it. Techies get paid for figuring out how to make that work, that is all.

Where I grew up

ketchup was for people with ideas above their station. Brown sauce was for the masses and who cared where it was made.

"Sky has no theological objection to wholesale supply"

WTF?

"A team of inspectors consisting of Samsung personnel from Korea headquarters will be dispatched to Huizhou, China on 9 August."

You have until then to hide the kids.

No argument

When compared to the amount of money to be made from speculation, the amount of money to be made from retail banking is miniscule.

Of course bankers appear to have a hard time figuring into that calculation the amount of money that can be lost from speculation - et, voila, we have our present crisis.

Back to the first line: This is why banks will invest in systems to aid in their specualtion but not in retail banking systems.

Jean Luc Picard

FTW

Is it only in Georgia

that people didn't know cats are predators?

And is it only in the western world that people are horrified by that fact?