Posts by John G Imrie

Re: "very poor information security practice"

A government who repeatedly leave huge quantities of sensitive information on trains, taxis, park benches, public bins?

Well yes, they've had a lot of practice and know what they are talking about :-)

Re: brought to you by the same people who want a "porn filter"

citation needed?

I'm can't quite reconcile gorillas going round threatening people and high technology which can hoover up internet traffic and replay later it for closer inspection and storing belonging to the same organisation.

This is possibly because they don't.

In the original article they where described as 'Whitehall types' that turned up at the Guardian. Now it has been reviled that our glorious leader sent the head of the Home Civil Service around. I've not heard that any GCHQ Spooks where present.

Re: Only the KGB?

Should we conclude that TPTB are happier for the KGB than the Guardian to have its secrets?

Yes. The KGB wont let the rest of the Russian population know what's in the documents.

Re: No I don't think that

Actually I've done both but I remembered that from the film and it seamed appropriate.

Re: Usual crap

You missed one

4) Change the start of the reporting period

But you met the ones who escaped

I.E. The intelligent ones

Re: amounted to "just' $853m

You've missed the point. This loss will be written off against tax somewhere in Europe reducing MS's taxable income to 0

Dam it.

You mean when I sign up for the hard core porn they are going to think I use face book.

Sod that for a game of soldiers.

Re: I like how they state .....

the killers of schoolgirls April Jones and Tia Sharp had accessed legal pornography before moving on to images of child abuse.'

They also breathed in Oxygen while killing the girls. We should ban Oxygen.

Re: We are innocent

And we know where all your skeletons are buried

Re: Where's the *KABOOM* ..?

I always wondered who put the Vogons up to it, now I know. It was Marvin the Martian.

Re: Good

So now can they reduce the noise of the Met's helicopter when it circles somewhere above my house for half-an-hour at three in the morning?

No those are deliberately noisy as its a well know fact that terrorists hate the sound of western helicopters and will run out of their hiding places to shake their fists at them, making it easier to detain them.

PS if you don't know a terrorist in you area, then its you!!!

They don't need to offshore

Just move the head office to Delaware.

Re: outrageous

But it is the business of government to help to protect those with less than perfect critical facilities from being taken in by scam artists who are trying to lighten their wallets.

Then we should ban the National Lottery.

Re: Below is a transcript from a speech made in Pyongyang Yesterday.

Do you write for Private Eye?

Re: Not worried

SCO tried this in Germany several years ago. The German court said put up or shut up. SCO failed to do either and was promptly shot down.

See http://heupel.com/eclectic/2003/09/04/sco-must-pay-for-violating-german-court-order/

When I was a lad ...

all this was firmament as far as the eye could see, not that we 'ad eyes in them days o'course.

points in someone else's direction

I thought that was taking care of the evidence

Well, maybe it is made from people...

I think it's made from incredulous crowd source.

Virtual Money

like the £ or the $ or the €. It's all Virtual and most of it exists as numbers in a computer

Re: The most important lesson

Unless you are under the age of criminal consent about 8 I think which suggests that only youngsters should report illegal porn.

Re: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

I was thinking more along the lines of 'A Fall of Moon Dust'

The Jermy Clarkson test.

Travels abroad, check. (must have passport)

Drives a motor vehicle on the public road, check (must have driving licence)

Has bank account, check. (lost money when published bank details)

Pretentious git likely to buy iThing, check.

I want the results listed in terms of popularity

What happens when you search for Hoovers in the USA? Do you get a list of vacuum cleaners or people. If Google knows that you have been searching for the history of cleaning products in the USA it can take an educated guess as to which set of results are advantageous to you. If you don't like it you can turn off the personalised search results.