Posts by Uncle Tooke

Cheaper than terminals everywhere?

Did anyone also notice on /Today/ that Jacqui Smith said the systems couldn't be attacked by hackers because the (two) systems wouldn't be on line. (One system, she tried to tell us, for the ID and a separate one for the data.)

This "not on line" thing makes me feel a lot safer. All accesses would have to be requested on paper - each accompanied by an inky fingerprint/eyeball of course - by post or motorcycle courier, runner with forked stick, Group 4 etc, then typed into the single teletype, the responses printed the same way and sent back to the requester. Cheaper than having terminals everywhere, no?

A taste of culture

Thanks Verity for a great read. It's best heard with the voices in the head. I particularly liked that one-liner "Ianto Jones. I've got a Cyberlady in my wardrobe." Noone could be more plaintive.

Aah ... if only I'd had a voice like R Burton, I could have done voice-overs for /Horizon/, with or without the science.

Read it again tomorrow, it's that good!