Posts by George

Good idea but...

...from this government who knows who will get the training.

I don't want to right them off a chance to do something decent but its the government/prison service I don't trust.

I'm not against Vista or for it but...

I wish people would read up on stuff.

Its User Account Control, just turn it off and no more questions but then again what else would you moan about on the forums eh?

Nice one Pete

Its just your kind of "out there" theories which mean we put ourselves at risk because the government is hesitant to buy new stuff.

I don't know whether you have noticed but not all the countries in the world are our friends, some of them have boats. Therefore without a Navy then we would be defenceless.

And I like the way you say the last 60 years, what about the Falklands War, defending British soil for people who wanted to remain British not Argentinian. That was 25 odd years ago.

And of course we should have all been Russian by now because they are using such old attack methods like boats, silly people and during the Cold War (1945 - 1980s) they were not interested in our country.*

This statement may contain sarcasm.

I like the way its assumed...

that nobody has thought up a defence (yes, 'merkins it is spelt using c!) for this. Which of course there is, it may not be published or talked about or even known by me and you but there will be a plan.

Don't forget that not so long ago the US Air Force was tasked with defence of cyberspace "in the air, space and cyberspace" (or something like that) goes the slogan.

My coat is the one with the CAT-6 cable on it!

6! 6 companies?!

You gotta love bureaucracy.

I mean I am not a know all on the subject but surely it doesn't need 6 companies to develop when the state of Florida already has one identical system up and running?

Mines the one with tags on it...id card, passport, Tfl fob, I'm a collector!

Its not the Heathrow thing that bothers me...

...its that these people do no good for an industry trying to shed its geekiness.

I mean he is over 9 years old and wearing a Transformers t-shirt, now I know why companies invented uniforms!

Did anyone read the article??

Its going to be used as a BACKUP.

Rant over.

Surprising...

It's pretty surprising that a system designed to distribute messages cannot be read at any point by anyone.

Its no wonder when its down its down for so long...they have no idea whats going on on their network. They can't even send a test message because they can't see the content!

And to think that no third party would be able to read the messages is a little naive.

Bill because even he is more open than this!

@ Richard Read

I hadn't even thought of that and bravo, what a good point.

As for living possession free..great for idealists but I would love to see some people from poorer countries turn down things that would make their lives easier/better like kettles, toasters, and the like!

I agree with almost all of it...

...except the Type45 comments (though I do agree they are way, way overpriced!), I don't agree that the carrier can effectively defend itself as a carrier in the USN sense also has a small fleet to operate.

The job of the carrier is force projection so therefore it is tailored that way, and so will be tailored that way, therefore to avoid compromsing that a ship has been built for defence of the carrier AND any other ships within a sizeable radius. Looking at the ageing fleet we have and very low anti-air defence capabilities something had to be done, the Type45 is the answer but at the wrong cost!

And also once again, relying on the tech of other countries is not the question here but picking the best of what is out there. Not forgetting that mighty US is looking beyond its shores for technologies and best practice (the JSF F35) will be partially built by BAE Systems in the UK. And the point of the Eurofighter is not relying on other countries to achieve the goal but joining together to make a better product, something which seems to have worked (ignoring the huge cost factors).

Jolly Roger...for it seems the pirates still rule the seas!

Warranty?

Not being funny but every other machine on the planet comes with a warranty, and costing the £10m quoted I would these have too. By the description given by the Sun I would have thought we could ask for some warranty service plus expenses, anyone care to put a price on the SBS service offered and the RAF Harrier service?

And the Watchkeeper program should go the way of some of our other unsuccessful Euro projects. Yes some do work, Eurofighter and MBDA kit but most over priced under-specced. We could even do a "it was a nice idea at the time" and put in a museum. Shows how much faith people have in the project when BAE Systems are already testing another possible contender for service, TARANIS with full MoD.

What a waste of time...

Why waste important peoples time applying for these injunctions in this day and internet age? Plus everyones seen it now.

Mines the coat next to Mosley's he'll be along in a minute to pick his up!

I agree 100% Lewis

This is absolute tripe and hype.

I'm sure if I really wanted to (but I don't!) arm myself to the teeth with stuff bought off Ebay and the like and camp out in the forest with MREs for months but why?

And thats where the money should be spent? Why do people want to attack Americans, British and Europeans? I mean we all know really but what motivates these people (especially home grown ones)?

They might as well just have added the subtitle "I don't trust/understand IT and the Internet so it must DANGEROUS!"

Fire? We are all going to hell in a handcart!

There is a lesson for company and its IT here..

Stop blaming IT for everything ever!

Mines the one with "Bad Day" on it.

Hurrah! The end is (hopefully!) near!

I agree with most people the way DSG run their business is near criminal, over priced and ill informed advice. Wrong label pricing, poor displays and 'internet price' scams.

I can see why they have got away with it for so long, think about the layman. You want a PC and where is guaranteed to sell the PC World, its all in the name.

They all die in the end with their last century attitude, look at Trend, Time and Byte.

Paris because she is better than The Tech Guys any day!

OK I'll answer a couple of the @s

So here goes:

@ Brian Morrison, sorry I meant untold as in it was lots of people but I don't know the figure. I guess the implication was lost in written words. And what I was doing is pointing that considering the countries involved were as a country are likely to be a much bigger target due to our actions.

@ Anonymous Coward, ETA have a different goal, different tactics and require a different approach and possibly be resolved in a political manner. That is why they are different, I used the term "lesser crimes" because that was the language used in both the El Reg article and report.

@ Steve, yes that would be true. Whether they had knowingly prevented attack or not it had not happened before so they were more successful.

Heart, because a I love a big debate.

Top cop: e-crime is the new drugs

And also not forgetting:

"Getting headlines is the new work"

CVF doesn't need any other fixed wing aircraft...

Helicopters can land and take-off.

F-35 can land and take-off, has swing role capabilities, has an excellent over-the-horizion radar.

CVF has an escort of Type 45 with its PAAMs and SAMPSON radar will adequately defend the ship against air attacks.

Why does everyone look back at the Falklands to point flaws in MoD thinking, there are flaws but their strategic thinking is often pretty good considering the restraints they are held in, the execution is often their biggest flaw.

Because Bill's Windows for warships will do the job at half the cost.

Thats because Ben...

CSI isn't actually real. I don't what we're like in real life.

Anyway who cares about justice in the US...all the cops have guns, you don't need forensics!

The skull? Need I say?

Thats laughable...I actually laughed.

They used balloons to spy in WW1!

Oh yeah and you won't get many points for hitting a target that big.

Mines the one with sheepskin collar...tally ho!

Urgh childish.

And as the anonymous coward above says it really is the wrong audience.

It really smacks of a start-up company, let alone one that ignored the channel sellers for however many years and then all of a sudden wants a piece of the pie.

Paris...any publicity is good publicity i suppose.

I agree with Kevin...

sometimes the "evil" MS just keep going as they are going and the competition falls apart by entrenching themselves further in a 'specialist' or 'expert' product with a price tag to suit.

Netscape was good and definitley my first introduction but by IE 4 the inerface had lost out and just stayed that way a bit too long.

From the people who brought you the Patriot Act...

whats the point of all this encryption when dullards are just sending it out to anyone that looks vaguely right.

And does Patriot Act stop this? Of course not and to think this is found by accident not some high level secret investigation. They are sending it out to anyone who looks familiar in adressing terms.

The weak point in any security is the user.

Flame? We're all going to hell in a handcart thats why!

"We are all in trouble"

No only you and the other "top end" over priced manufacturers who use James Bond et al to sell products which lost their value for money long ago.

Nobody can justify that price for laptops anymore, no matter how good looking they are.

Paris? Because she can afford it...all.

Unless I see a video...

its not true.

Its like all these wonderful concept cars.

@ Joe K

I like Apple's style too, its fantastic they can bring out the best product in the industry and then apparently just a couple of months later bring out one just a little bit better!

16GB is no good if you can't take decent (nee industry standard) pictures or have 3G. C'mon there is so many better products out there.

Stop because people need to stop and think about what they are buyin.

Classic....

And we all know its bull. None of know how they work but we know that they do work, I have alot of faith that they have it in hand.

Flame...because its all about firewalls silly!

Spleen:

I have submitted you name for the song...they love it!

I say good on them...

Western scientists are all too caught up with how important they are and how their prediction on global warming is the most important.

There will be far more interest in this than any recent space project, guaranteed.

I always love the way...

Mac users say "it was originally designed to be more secure" and how is that exactly? No one has yet been able to tell me in detail how the OSX OS is anyway more capable through coding to deal with any of the modern threat.

I doubt several thousand professional hackers, malware writers and clever kids with no friencds who will make a determined effort to break OSX on a weekly basis will be stopped by the original coding made over a decade ago. And neither would any OS.

It may seem more secure but don't rest on your laurels please.

So I suppose no one else has ever made this mistake...

with a normal SatNav? Put in the wrong village no? I thought not because its all perfect eh?

I think you'll find that the name/place system they are using is on the delivery trucks not the tanks themselves...since they don't actually drive the tanks between bases.

Still much better to jump on the bandwagon against all things military/British/purchasing.

Oh dear, egg on face.

Having said that they were doing their job, I think though until it was fully investigated the US should having kept it on the lowdown.

As for electronic intelligence gathering, the VHF channel is unsecured and the 'ship to ship' US comms are always live so could be hacked any time (in theory of course). I doubt this was the reason but you can't rule anything out.