Orthodox priests are allowed to marry, so the choirboys might be a little safer than those of churches requiring celibacy.
Posts by Rich 11
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Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking
This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur
US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)
Wednesday 18th September 2019 10:09 GMT
Re: ISIS Road to Hell
"Intelligence information should protect our nation, not provide personal profit,"
Just one reason why the TLAs are careful not to fully brief the president.
I wonder if he's asked them to consider his hotel at Turnberry as a safe house yet? If he can get the air force to layover air crews there, why not the occasional spy on the run or a defector or two?
You can trust us to run a digital currency – we're Facebook: Exec begs Europe not to ban Libra
HP printer small print says kit phones home data on whatever you print – and then some
Wednesday 18th September 2019 07:27 GMT
Once they've got your arse on file your data can be sold to the Bottom Inspectors. Bend over, citizen!
UK.gov's smart meter cost-benefit analysis for 2019 goes big on cost, easy on the benefits
UK Home Office web form snafu allows you to both agree and disagree – strongly – all at once
UK Home Office primes Brexit spam cannon for a million texts reminding folk to check passports
Monday 16th September 2019 16:47 GMT
They dont exist. They have been prevented since 2017. Sources are: Dover and Calais, the horses mouths so to speak.
If that's really the case then why at the beginning of the year did the government tell business to rent warehouse space and stockpile materials they needed? Why haven't supermarkets and hospital trusts got the message even just this month? Is it because the government didn't try to tell them or is it because they did but they weren't believed?
Monday 16th September 2019 16:43 GMT
Personally I think xenophobe is a more accurate description than racist, though you can be pretty certain that a racist is going to be xenophobic as well. Just look at Farage's comments about not wanting to live next door to a family of Romanians, or his willingness to lie about Turkey joining the EU.
Literally rings our bell: Scottish eggheads snap quantum entanglement for the first time
Has outsourcing public-sector IT worked? The Institute for Government seems to think so, kinda
Monday 16th September 2019 10:35 GMT
Re: Summary != Summary on website
It finds that outsourcing waste collection, cleaning, catering and maintenance services has delivered significant savings and benefits to citizens.
Unless you are one of those citizens whose job was outsourced, in which case you were probably shunted out onto a lower wage (or later the minimum wage) and employed by a newly created company with fewer rights and protections. It took 25 years but even the Tories eventually realised this wasn't such a good thing for society, and started to argue in favour of employers paying a living wage (though one redefined to suit their purposes) rather than the minimum wage (which they'd also previously campaigned against).
MIT boffins turn black up to 11 with carbon nanotubes that absorb 99.995% of light
Just what we all needed, lactose-free 'beer' from northern hipsters – it's the Vegan Sorbet Sour
Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein
£1bn UK justice system digitisation scheme in massive delay shocker
Friday 13th September 2019 13:51 GMT
Re: RE : To deliver a system that works better for everyone and delivers savings for the taxpayer."
One comment, however vacuous, on an entirely separate subject does not negate the opinion made on the original subject. By your rules I would have to ignore your opinion that Aristotle's slow and dim-witted horse was previously doing so well.
From pen-test to penitentiary: Infosec duo cuffed after physically breaking into courthouse during IT security assessment
Friday 13th September 2019 13:15 GMT
Re: Where do you draw the line?
Surely they have the money to bail out their employees then?
Looking at the blandness of that Coalfire statement it seems fairly certain that they've already spent all their money on lawyers.
There's some arse-covering going on there, and some lawyer has persuaded them that bailing out their employees might be seen as an admission of corporate failure. They want to keep the option of claiming that the two men overstepped the mark and acted of their own accord.
Astroboffins baffled as black hole at center of Milky Way suddenly a lot hungrier than before
Friday 13th September 2019 10:05 GMT
My limited understanding...
Yes, you'd know what was happening, though someone far higher up in the gravity well wouldn't see it the same way. They'd see your ship appear apparently out of nowhere as it approached the event horizon and then watch it slow down and come to a stop. If the black hole is large enough for your ship not to be ripped apart by tidal forces you'd cross the event horizon and (in one interpretation) start falling through time rather than space, but your friend up by the Roche limit would never see your ship even contact the event horizon.
Are you who you say you are, sir? You are? That's all fine then
Friday 13th September 2019 09:40 GMT
Scripted
The staff reading from their scripts insisted that I could do this only with Mum's express permission. One of them even asked me to put her on the phone.
My brother and I had to go talk to the bank when our mum died, to sort everything out and close her accounts. The woman who met us was very kind and considerate, and she took us through it all step by step. She did inevitably fall back on reading questions from all the forms which had to be filled in, including the ones on insurance policies and pensions. Somewhere along the line she read out the wrong question, something about life insurance renewal -- the blood just drained from her face when she realised her mistake. She went so white she made Mum look positively healthy.
Cloud, internet biz will take a Yellowhammer to the head in 'worst case' no-deal Brexit
Thursday 12th September 2019 12:49 GMT
Re: But, but, Sovereignty!
Puerto Rico isn't the target in Boris Johnson's head. He would much prefer the UK (or more likely just England) to become a larger and colder version of Singapore, that petty authoritarian state which has had one-party rule since 1959. This is his form of One Nation Conservatism: one nation, one party, one... um, er...
Thursday 12th September 2019 08:08 GMT
Blitz me a kipper, skipper
you can eat stuff out of cans, Blitz Spirit and all that
Screw cans. I've already gone back to full-on 1940's powdered milk, powdered egg and powdered potato. It's the best way to provide a last line of defence for my calorific requirements when the torpedoes of Brexit start sinking our trade convoys.
Brit MPs: Our policies are crap and the political process is in tatters, but it's Twitter's fault, OK?
Watchdog: Hush-hush UK.gov blew £97m on Brexit wonks from six of the usual suspects
Thursday 12th September 2019 14:40 GMT
More of the same
The report also warned that too much of the work procured to date appears to have been focused on "thinking and shaping", rather than getting things done.
Well, of course. You can't expect those expensive consultants to do anything which might one day be measured against hard, cold facts. Far better to just write some hand-wavy waffle hedged around with probabilities and leave it to the next poor sod to try to apply some of it to reality.
Incoming... Trump! Notebook makers ramp production to avoid next tidal wave of US trade tariffs
Thursday 12th September 2019 13:30 GMT
Re: Aren't you forgetting...
I bet when Trump first discussed implementing tariffs on Chinese goods with his staff, he raised the idea that the tariff money could be put directly towards Building That Wall. I wonder how long it took them to explain to him the concept of Congress being responsible for setting budgets?
A peeling solution to pothole has split the community... Yeah, they stuck a banana tree in it
Geo-boffins drill into dino-killing asteroid crater, discover extinction involves bad smells, chilly weather, no broadband internet...
Like a grotty data addict desperately jonesing for its next fix, Google just can't stop misbehaving
Monday 9th September 2019 13:05 GMT
Re: Interesting...
the realities of work-life in the US are such that the risks of being fired, or without medical insurance for your family, or put on some IT blacklist are very real prospects for a lot of white-collar employees
And that itself is an indication of just how fucked up the Land of the Free has become.
Four-year probe finds Foxconn's Apple 11 factory 'routinely' flouts Chinese labour laws
Monday 9th September 2019 12:47 GMT
$239 a month
No wonder Donald President wants Tim Apple to repatriate manufacturing to the US. Build the onshored factory in Colorado or Nevada and he'll be able to offer the migrant children he's got locked up in the camps a way to simultaneously work off the cost of their keep and learn all they need to know about late-stage capitalism.
Handcranked HTML and JPEG japes. What could possibly go wrong?
Monday 9th September 2019 07:43 GMT
Ever indulged in some japery and found yourself on the receiving end of a stern finger-wagging when it all went just a bit too far?
Well, cripes, there was that time I made a few harmless jokes about straight bananas and humourless eurocrats in a right-wing newspaper. At first the editor just lapped it up, but then he had a crisis of conscience and called me in for a jolly old carpeting. Out in my ear, what? Never mind, I soon landed a plum job with a magazine, though after a while they didn't appreciate my stories either. No matter, thought I, I'll just use my contacts and charm my way into politics. They're a lot more tolerant of, um, nuancing one's position (horizontal or otherwise). Got fired there too. But I made it back, and now I'm finally getting all that I truly deserve.
Can you download it to me – in an envelope with a stamp?
Friday 6th September 2019 14:19 GMT
Re: Deliberately obnoxious
Sitting in a hotel room in Moscow one evening, waiting for the bar to open, I put the telly on and tried to find a news channel (I only know a few words of Russian but it might have been enough to catch the headlines on international stories). During my channel-hopping I came across an episode of Porridge, dubbed into what I think was Romanian and then subtitled in Russian. I spent a happy 20 minutes trying to work out what the Russian-via-Romanian equivalent of 'Naff off!' was.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
