Just a thought...
"Assets and IT equipment relating to the National Identity Register require disposal/destruction"
Can we also apply that to the cretins who proposed/supported the scheme?
I'll happily oversee their secure disposal/destruction,
Posts by Ted Treen
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Death of ID card scheme left £6.5m of kit going begging
Walmart falls in with Washington's war on terror
Thursday 9th December 2010 13:15 GMT
hello again?
It doesn't stop there:- it's also to keep us in a perpetual state of fear, so we know our only chance of survival is to trust in our saviours, the governing classes.
Absolutely no different than parents who use the threat of the imaginary bogeyman to make toddlers behave.
Except most parents are probably brighter than the collective intelligence of almost any government.
And one day, (hope I'm here to see it) sufficient of us will be sufficiently pissed off at being treated as toddlers that we'll collectively do something about it.
People's Republic says it will purge self of illicit software
The Mac that saved Apple (and Steve Jobs)
Monday 29th November 2010 11:26 GMT
General fail all round (Logic, courage etc...)
THE POSITIVES
Yes, I have used Macs for many years.
Yes I personally prefer the Mac's OS to other offerings.
Yes I have sufficient confidence to add my name to comments.
THE NEGATIVES
No I don't care what anyone else uses/has used/will use.
No I don't find the spittle-laden invective of your tribe either informative or entertaining.
No I don't see that being a Mega-Corporation is automatically intrinsically evil.
No I don't see anything wrong in preferring reasoned discourse to adolescent sophistry.
No I don't expect that the above described preference is likely to be satisfied.
Monday 29th November 2010 10:10 GMT
More BallmerJugend stuff...
"It might have give a little push to consumer enthusiasm"
That's crap - & you know it. (If you don't, then you shouldn't be commenting on matters of which you're unaware, or which you don't understand).
"if it hadn't been around another machine would have served just as well..."
More craperoonie!
Your praise for the T40 suggests you would rave over a Ford Edsel, whilst dismissing a Jaguar E type or a Ferrarri 250 GTO as insignificant toys.
Pure sophistry (or absolute bollocks, in the vernacular).
If you have such a crystal-clear sharp perspective on the IT world, might we assume that you're CEO of a company worth vastly more than Apple, and you're one of the world's most influential IT industry movers?
Wikileaks exposes Clinton's cyberspy wish-list
Supremes to hear Microsoft's Word appeal
Poor IT contributes to DWP errors
Oz bank meltdown due to file corruption cock-up
Apple throws a wobbly over Steve Jobs dolly
Monday 29th November 2010 10:01 GMT
Reality check
If "utterly pointless" are the first words past your lips at every Apple release, then I concur that your comments are utterly pointless.
Apple's progress & growth over the last 10-12 years can not be explained away in terms of "baubles" - good job they don't rely on the oh-so-erudite proclamations from NB in deciding their development, sales & marketing strategies, isn't it?
Having said that, I can see why Apple might be upset regarding the unauthorised use of the Apple logo, but as the doll itself is not in any way derogatory, I feel the outraged response of Apple to this is a little crazy.
Almost as crazy as those who would part with fifty-odd smackeroonies for the aforementioned.
Fifty-odd smackeroonies buys more RAM, or a 1TB HD, or a reasonable external drive for backup....
Yes, I love and use Macs:- but I'm a pragmatist
Pirate Bay verdict: Three operators lose appeal
Friday 26th November 2010 14:20 GMT
WTF?
A £4 million fine??
Why are courts all over the world treating copyright infringement as more serious than mass rape, mass murder, or violent revolution?
If violent revolution is attracting much lighter penalties - and also offering the possibility of success, perhaps it's an option worth considering...
App maker asks $600 for BlackBerry bling
Unarmed Royal Navy T45 destroyer breaks down mid-Atlantic
MP wants age verification for net smut
Wednesday 24th November 2010 15:19 GMT 
My biggest concern
is that so many porn sites (or even would be porn sites) are portals for the ungodly malware producers.
Whilst you & I would (probably) be suspicious of the "New super-duper codec" that needs installing, 13yr-old Billy would be thinking with his 'nads not hs grey matter, so would be very likely to hit the download button. Sure, you could threaten him with amputation if he dares to add anything on, and he SHOULD be using a non-admin account.
But with Joe Public, "Should" is very rarely "is".
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VAT fraudster gets 9 years for refusing £40m bill
Windows malware dominates Mac malware detection chart
Friday 19th November 2010 12:48 GMT
Really?
They're going to become R-E-A-L-L-Y rich through selling a product for £0.00 or €0.00, or $0.00 (delete according to preferred currency).
Yeah, my Macs have been free from the fruits-of-the-ungodly for 11 or 12 years - last "nasty" was the Autostart 9805 worm back in the late nineties, in pre-OSX days.
I STILL run AV though - if only to catch "Windows" nasties, so I don't pass anything on to my poor benighted acquaintances.
They've enough grief without my adding to it, poor blighters!
GSMA opens the way for Apple SIM
Thursday 18th November 2010 14:09 GMT 
FUD, supposition & rumour
stated as fact.
"Not that Apple is a member of the new Task Force which will be defining the standard for software SIMs, but the hand of Steve Jobs is clearly visible..."
In the author's (overworked) imagination perhaps.
Or is paranoia about a machiavellian über-puppet-meister the new standard?
US may disable all in-car mobile phones
iPhone users are sad and mentally unfocused
Friday 12th November 2010 14:43 GMT
Curiouser & curiouser...
My nephew loves his iPhone. He's a Windows network administrator.
I'm still perfectly happy with my Samsung Pixon M8800. I'm a graphic designer and a Mac techie - even a fanboy.
Neither of us are sad or unfocused, mentally or otherwise.
This is nothing more than a "quiet day page-filler".
Twitter joke martyr loses appeal
Frenchman cuffed for naughty lip-slip email to MEP
Apple MacBook Pro 17in Core i7 BTO notebook
Friday 5th November 2010 11:36 GMT
Mac fans?
The holier than thou attitude to which you allude is generally merely a reaction to the execrable diatribes of invective aimed at them (which we can imagine is spittle-flecked) from a certain section of Windows lovers.
And for what?
It's usually a case of resentment that we can easily achieve things where they're having to jump through hoops and demonstrate their über-geeky superiority by battling the machine & its OS before they can successfully carry out similar actions.
To hell with that - I just prefer to get on and do what I want to do...
Friday 5th November 2010 11:34 GMT
@Wyrdness
"8 times faster for the same price? You're talking out of your arse."
My sentiments exactly. But almost without exception, the "Look at me! I'm too cool to like Apple" brigade are long on wishful thinking sophistry and short on reason.
If Jobs & Ives found a cure for Aids, Ebola virus, brought peace to the Middle East and ended African famine, you can bet your last penny these people would still be spewing out spittle-laden invective...
Friday 5th November 2010 09:44 GMT
"Maximize" button...
...drives me mad on Windows by filling the whole goddamn screen, when all I want is to fit to the doc contained therein:- I STILL have to manually resize so I can see other docs, or have two in view to copy & paste between...
It's just a case of which is most familiar to you and hence seems the norm.
Dumb, it ain't!
Zuckerberg: the iPad 'is not mobile'
DDoS attacks take out Asian nation
Spending cuts force police IT merger
Wednesday 3rd November 2010 15:37 GMT
If...
They could merge senior officers (halve the number of taxpayer-provided Mercs immediately), merge "performance monitoring" staff, merge "diversity" trainers then they just might realise how many unwarranted & unnecessary non-plod personnel they have.
Save money by cutting waste & profligacy:- not by cutting staff who actually do something.
Strange, blobaceous 'alien pod' lifeform found in Virginian lake
No wonder CompSci grads are unemployed
Tuesday 2nd November 2010 17:09 GMT
Seemples
"We used to have an education system that was the envy of the world. Where did it all go wrong?"
Politicians, politicians and politicians.
Most British are uninterested in politics (and who can blame them) so the ones we have are basically the lowest common denominator elected by those who don't understand and don't care.
So we're well on our way to hell in a handcart.
Unless sufficient remember that rebellion is the right of every citizen - and sometimes a moral duty.
PayPal hardware failure fingered for worldwide outage
Monday 1st November 2010 13:46 GMT 
Well,
backup contingency plans can only be properly tested if they're stress-tested. i.e. in the event of the contingency occurring for which they're designed.
If they're found wanting, then think again.
See multitudinous outages experienced by virtually every bank, every ATM network, every POS system etc. in recent times.
We live in a world reliant on complex real-time systems.
We also live in a world where shit happens.
It is no sin to make a mistake: it IS a sin to repeat the same mistake...
Paris? - just 'cause I mentioned sinning...
App Store II: Steve Jobs sucks Mac's soul
Monday 1st November 2010 13:43 GMT
If...
...you're using Photoshop on a non-Apple platform, and are happy with it, then why TF should you be concerned about its availability on the Mac.
Yup, I use CS5 on my Mac Pro.
Nope, I couldn't care less that it's also available on other platforms.
Your attitude is so much like the Honecker approach - stop VWs coming in so they'll have to have Trabants.
And you call someone else "Big Brother"? - oh, the irony!
Monday 1st November 2010 12:59 GMT
Piffle.
I've never (in over 30 years' IT work) seen an EULA which certifies anything as "Bug-free" - effectively or otherwise.
For anyone to do that the app would have to be exhaustively tested on every conceivable permutation of hardware, with every conceivable permutation of configuration & set-up, with every conceivable permutation of concurrent software and in every conceivable permutation of circumstances.
In every conceivable permutation of the foregoing.
75-year software gestation periods, anyone?
Monday 1st November 2010 12:58 GMT
Well said Dave93
A concise and accurate appraisal. The world appears to be full of Chicken Lickens screaming that the sky is falling, and they appear to equate opening an App store with a total monopoly/control over what you can buy for your Mac.
Can you only buy a Mac from an Apple Store?...........er, no.
Can you only add iTunes purchases to an iPod..........er, no.
Can we expect this irrational hatred of
Apple & Steve Jobs to abate, and be
replaced with reasoned discourse?............................er, probably not.
Monday 1st November 2010 12:56 GMT
There is no disadvantage:-
Same old same old...
Just another chapter in the "Let's equate anything Apple does with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the coming of the Antichrist and the end of civilisation as we know it" saga.
Same stuff was spewed out at the opening of the first Apple Store:- the imminent demise of the Mac distribution channel, the immininent collapse of Mac sales, the immediate end of non-Apple Mac software, - ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
It's all getting rather predictable and rather tedious...
Monday 1st November 2010 12:56 GMT
What, me panic?
If Steam usage plummets, that would be a commercial choice of Mac users - and nothing to do with Apple. Preventing Apple opening an App store to protect Steam's revenue stream can also be rightly construed as monopolistic.
Apple's Apple Stores aren't viewed as monopolistic because you can buy your Mac from wherever you like.
Ditto Mac software.
Only if you're restricted to the App store alone, could it be viewed as anything like monopolistec.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
