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Or else we hold our breath until we turn blue and then cough all over you?

Big threat on the "or else" bit in it?

I hope this article is not an indicator that UK Whitehall (civil servants UK united) has lost some of its IT credential numptyness - because it has not.

UK Whitehall is as numpty as it ever has been

For example: policy exists to state UK publicly funded power/department/authority cannot discuss individual cases in public yet they will persist to send personal judgements/stuff of a personal and confidential nature as open attachments to open emails

(I use 'open' not in its open software notion or open architecture notion but in the sense that to publish openly in an open environment such as unencrypted email/attachments into ipen email domain is a breach of existing policies (Yes Ombudsman Services and almost every English local authority in the land, I am thinking of you. UK numptyness in publicly funded services really is as high as ever it was if not peaking into rediculously sublime))

Have I awoken into and unto an alternative non-illuminati universe?

Have you ever noticed that when UK income taxes go down every other Guvmint tax or Guvmint duty goes up?

It's a bit like the UK Treasury needs its cash whatever the income stream is called and however contrary to Guvmint policy it becomes?

(and oh! the irony of it?)

The BBC's like that isn't it?

Or moreso: British Broadcasting is like that no?

Let's rewrite history and sell the revised form in the Malls in time for next Christmas royalties payouts?

I mean, why bother at all with accuracy and fact

Tsk, don't they just get in the way of a good story?

Poor, poor IBM - how once great was it?

And now it wants, seeks and hopes to push something that is a quantum leap ahead of Outlook?

I mean, what email tool is not a quantum leap ahead of Outlook?

It seems the Beeb has only the highest regard for and of itself no?

£11 per month will give us:

BBC 1, 2, 3, 4 and a part time Cbeeby or two

on tv

Sky £30 per month will give us all of the Beebs plus a heck of a lot more.

I think the Beeb is using power generator tactics to overprice its product and if the subscription model goes ahead pray tell how I can listen to BBC Radio York in, say, Cornwall?

For BBC tv I think a £1 per channel per month seems reasonable if not a bit on the high side

I think what all this observation and collation of data means is that the eavesdropping services have good sales people making a jolly good sales pitch to politicians who tend to know very little and become easily impressed with the consequences of decisions made especially when presented by equally brilliant level 2 sales people (contract managers?)?

The quanta were aware of a nomenclature scheme based on 26 letter alphabet and thought they would play a joke on the researchers no?

But shoorli asymmetry cannot be disproved until a stream of matter travels through a field of antimatter?

Nice work if you can get it?

Maybe the senior and mid management worried about ongoing funding crisis in US decided to go all out on "fear of the unknown" to bag some more hours and many more dollars?

No?

Thay are like that in Hull aren't they?

I mean eyes too close together and all that sort of stuff no?

Puh-lease

Please don't confuse British Army with MOD.

Where one is heroic, astute, brave, courageous and has tenacity existing over many years the other probably gets nose bleeds at the thought of a paper cut getting stuff from the printer (there) to the shelf (0ver there) without tripping up over the wire (there) and don't get me started on the delays on the tube dah-lingk no?

Warriors v wimps

body bags v claim forms

integrity unto de-ath v mincing escapist apologies

no?

Well done dude!

It don't matter if one is super rich (see pain mail above) or super poor.

You seemed to have grasped an important consequence of being alive and being mortal.

Is there any chance you (meaning Mr G this time) might be able to come over to dear old blighty and sort out some of the issues we have here?

Please be aware that some of our snobs are really quite influential and sort of important.

Background research: any Blackadder series you can get a hold of.

Each individual series is based on fact and the overall impression of all is quite a good reflection of life in UK.

If you (meaning Mr G) feel up to it please get here soonest (our poor need you more than their political representatives and "pubic" servants (sorry typo meant "public" bit can't really tell the diffrence now)) but fully understand if your diary shows fully booked for the next few years (I had a diary that did that in Windows too)

Oi Slap: Slap!!

Q: What is wrong with a fumbling moron using IT KIT?

Email answers to yourself

Ah, good - here are the Germans.

IoT (I prefer IoM as it is Internet of Means, Internet of Methods and dwells well with Isle of Man (brrm, brrm, brrm BMW and all that)

Now things are looking very positive with US influence and economy under a cloud (no not that cloud) the Germanic creativity on these things might just put Europe on the map again?

See, it's sort of funny in the sense that ARM has a nice ecosystem where it designs stuff for others to fan, mod, assemble and use.

The model is totally different to intel's

Why would a soon-to-be third world nation require any of these types of armaments?

Have warlike nations not learned that the UK can be bought?

And that is a heck of a lot cheaper in lives and cash no?

Bit of a shame really - the next boss should be obvious for charm, vigour, enthusiasm and charismatic leadership?

(I don't know if that puts me out or in)

Yeh but No but Yeh No

Am I right in thinking 286, 386, 486, 586, ... type computers were/are really office based bits of equipment hoisted n foisted upon an unwary public seeking a bit more than their Amiga (or alternative computer barring Archimedes/BBC Micro ?) might do?

Further enhanced by plug n play and associated insecurity issues?

Wait!

Maybe!

Could ARM and 'nix n Android do peripherals as well but this time from the home based oerspective ?

If not, why not?

(Answers by email please to your own email address)

I despair about an apparent decline in masculinity

why oh why

Why has such excellence of wisdom, wit and practical pragmatic brilliance been allowed to fester into and unto criminality?

The Google's business plan?

Just in case googles business plan fails it has lots of data on individuals and maybe it can say something like:

Dear person

We are google.

We hold lots of data about you.

We are not making as much profit as once we did.

Therefore we will return to you all data we hold on you for a payment of X.

For a payment of X plus Y we will return your data to you AND destroy our copies of that data (subject to USA law and NSA subversions)

Metro to Me-troll ?

Apple knows what it should do (just in case it forgets): innovate and aim for a broad market share <as opposed to innovate and aim for a miniscule market share> no?

I can't imagine the math being too much of an issue really.

However the initial assumptions used to set up the mathematical model might be worthy of challenge?

You haf to take, how you say, the long view on this one to see the big picture.

Humans will not need to drive cars and make messes of things - you will have softwares to do this for you.

The upside is you will at the same time dispense with any need for insurance companies - seemplz yes?

Here in the UK a great deal of time, energy and resource is spent in maintaining social order.

Maybe the Cameron feature is just a front to manage far more in years to come?

The UK ain't daft

You see, by making posthumous pardons the UK avoids having to pay costs or damages.

For example, were Mr Turing alive today imagine the brouhaha today and in coming weeks?

Dear RSA

Please deny all claims that this Agency paid RSA a sum of money.

The claim is that NSA paid RSA 10 million USD and we both know it was far more considerable than that.

This will give your denials a plausability that strengthens and empowers RSA anticipated denials.

We at NSA never ever underestimate the power of plausible deniability and look forward to plausible denial as a matter of urgency.

Yours sincerely

NSA

Did one have haircuts to match the synths?

Ahhh Vienna ?

On the other hand I did get an R19 (I think it was) ex-military mobile comms radio from some surplus kit place - it was solid metal and weighed quite a bit.

Stage managed problem ...

with stage managed solution?

Maybe it is my personal weakness but this looks too much like a google buys ARM solution followed a year or two later by intel beats ARM in new business rollout for google.

Assuming the above is mistaken won has to wonder about MS & intel vs Apple & XXX vs ARM & google ...and ponder?

(Sell Apple/ MS / intel shares and buy ARM and google?)

Agreed with most other posters: it is a ruse to promote hardware sales.

Plus, of course, we need to recognise fact that any inflationary measures on the economy merely return extra tax revenues to the UK Treasury and it is worth avoiding for that reason alone?

Heroes?

So the NSA is heroic and full of heroes and acting in our best interest?

Positively now

Then we and he did not know what to do or where to go. However we are sentient beings and learn from our mistakes.

So where should the next inventor go (bearing in mind that the more people or organisations in the loop the less secure the new idea becomes)?

It seems reasonable with me.

If big blue wants business parties that want to remain shadowy the least its business managers should do is to ensure shareholder interest is not compromised?

Dear el Reg

OKAY

Re: google Analytics ?

What worries me a bit is not so much the technology but the impact on human society, humanism and human interaction spurred on by some of the (usually destructive) psychologies of the watched by the watchers by commanding authorities.

What and where these new dynamics take humanity is adventurous and where will it go in 2 or 3 generations (hunan ones not technological ones)?