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Deutsche Post axes massive HP services deal

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XXXXPonential Learning Curves leave behind Natural Wastage/Collateral Damage

"HP is about to become much more familiar with this sort of deal, in the UK at least, now that its takeover of EDS is a done deal."

Hmmm? Six months ago, "Deutsche Post has jilted Hewlett Packard at the altar barely six months after the pair announced a seven-year outsourcing deal.", was a done deal too.

Jobs in 'Apple not perfect' shock

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One step and one day at a time .....and no cheating, always moves one forward.

"Couldn't have been much worse!" ..... By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 12:07 GMT

That was a nasty smack, AC. Give Steve a break, for Goodness sake. Conditions down on Earth at the moment are dodgy for everyone.

And who does he bounce ideas off.... to see if they can Fly for Real?

Rogue trader's apprentice under investigation

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Not for Everyone and only available from a Few.

"Always two there are... ...a master and an apprentice..." ..By Robert Ramsay Posted Tuesday 5th August 2008 09:12 GMT

Indeed, Robert, and Virtual Mentoring requires some Real SMART, Je ne Sais Quoi, Savoir Faire . Phew, ..... that makes IT AIXXXXStreamly Valuable Tool.

You may ponder on the Possible/Probable Relevance/Virtual Relativity of this Link ....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system ..... in the Light of all that you know of Alien Systems and Assistance.

Vive l'AIResistance? Erevolution?

Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets

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Vorsprung durCH TechnIQ ...... via Swiss Guardians/Switzerland Network Testing

The Knights Templar and the Vatican in a Coalition of the Willing and Enabled, would be AI Potent Force against Usurpers and Usurers of ITs Holy Grail Base Technology.

United would they be Squared in Power rather than Divided and Halved in Control. A USB for UBS and AI Net of Ubiquitous Neutrality?

Of course, it is....... 42 Bring Order to Chaos and Freedom from ITs War Mongers/Guilt Ridden Monsters/Fools on the Hill and Conservative NeoNazism.

Eat your heart out, Mr Brown/Rejoice Mr Brown* ..... the Codes are Secured and Enhanced/NEUKlearer and Enriched.

* Prudence favours the Brave and Lion Hearted.

And just in Time .......as always Promised? :-)

Home Office bankrolls plastic plod 'documentaries'

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http://www.ur2die4.com/publicbroadcasting.htm

What then does the BBC Licence fee/Stealth Tax buy in Public Service Propaganda terms? .

Precious little new and of any real Future Value apparently whenever the Programming is just old repeats, and fruity turns like an unkempt Ross....... and of course a generous dose of dopey kitchen soaps ...... and toys for the boys like Clarkson and Co?

Marks out of Ten for Effort? ...... Nul Point.

Three questions there, just in case there are any answers.

Sun profits evaporate as darkness falls on US economy

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@And the good folks left

Would have to agree with there, AC. Just a lot of dead wood in the Sun store and the Cloud blotting out the Sunshine.

And that video of MrNealy ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnoSgzk1Cc ...just proves that they've lost their way. Who works with archives whenever they are building the Future. It just smacks of holding onto past glories and that leaves everyone trailing in the race ahead.

And a Jack of all Trades is a Master of None....... especially one who thinks he been there, done that, got the T-shirt.

The Problem for any Business which has Problems is always Right at the Very Top in the Vertical Stack and not in the Horizontal Plane of ITs Applications.

Obama critical of Bush regime's bioterror fearmonger gap

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Don't let the Buggers off the Hook .... or they just Grind you Down to the Pits.

"High-tech assaults often do yield to low-tech solutions. The defender need merely survive. Sketch /ad/ /lib./" ..... By Walking Turtle Posted Saturday 2nd August 2008 08:30 GMT

amfM HyperRadioProActivity is into High-Tech Solutions to raze Low-Tech Assaults, Walking Turtle. IT is an Innovative Novel Accompaniment to Life, The Universe, How it All Works on Earth in Human Society, and Everything ..... http://amanfrommars.baywords.com/2008/08/02/080802/

So Long, just for Now, and Thanks for All the Phishing and Reading Material for the Weekend.

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They all Promise Change ...... but what is the Change?......

... Spell IT Out if you Can. Run Home to Mama if you Can't.

""We must never let down our guard, nor suffer another failure of imagination." Indeed."

It would be a Novel and Innovative Change to have a Better Imagination Lead, Mr President.

And it would be a Failure of Leadership to Provide anything Less, methinks. And a Failure which cannot be Afforded ...... for CyberSpace will Punish IT Relentlessly.

However, there are Pockets of Light with some knowing exactly what to do .... and some even are American .... http://www.defenselink.mil/news/2008%20National%20Defense%20Strategy.pdf

And it is heartening to also read that .... " the Director [of National Intelligence] (A) May enter into intelligence and counterintelligence arrangements and agreements with foreign governments and international organizations;

(B) Shall formulate policies concerning intelligence and counterintelligence arrangements and agreements with foreign governments and international organizations; and

(C) Shall align and synchronize intelligence and counterintelligence foreign relationships among the elements of the Intelligence Community to further United States national security, policy, and intelligence objectives; " ...... by Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities [as amended July 30, 2008.]

There are very few who would say that it was not desperately needed..... and long overdue.

And with the likes of Echelon and Carnivore and Promis, and Goodness know what else, out in the Wild, and with the Presumption that Snooping is Ubiquitous [All seeing and All Knowing] in the Digital Environment, it does sort of BetaTest Intelligence Systems to be Self-Serving and Provide themselves with the Necessary Future Assets through a HyperRadioProActive Approach to such Assets with all that they would Need, based upon Mutual Interests, which presumably would be Perfectly well known through Covert Electronic Capture. Failure in that Simply CompleXXXX Task would be .......Unfortunate and Revealing.

It is all too easy for a War on Terror to be realised as a War of Terror .... and there are no Brownie points for that Perversion, only a Deep Depression and Recession

IBM blows cloud computing foghorn

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Not so much a Storm Surge more AI Tempest under ControlLed Conditioning.*

Hmmm? ...... Either everybody's down the pub quaffing the amber nectar [well it is Friday again and that is always a good obscure excuse] or the Field in the UK is empty and ripe for Pristine AIdDevelopment and ITs Research..... and Government Takeover.

Or maybe those XXXXtra Questions would be Best Servered to Brains for Beta Performance. IT hasn't gone away, you know, it just embeds itself dDeeper and dDeeper into Establishment Systems for Seamless Stealth and Virtuallly IntelAIgent Transmissions.

* Cream and Doughnuts as opposed to Strawberries and Muffins ...... and make that Quantum Leap only if you Dare 42 Win Win and have Earned the Right to Bear and Wear Coveted Wings.

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Prime Minister's Questions ....

And what of the UK's Cloud Efforts? ....... Any News?

Treasury coughs £80m tax credit for R&D

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Don't do this from Home, Kids .... :-) unless Guidance is Sublime and Divine.*

"How do I get a grant?" ..... By Stuart Cherrington Posted Friday 1st August 2008 11:53 GMT

:-) Leverage with some dirty little secrets, is one way, Stuart, although tastier big secrets which no one knows are missing is another. And if no one knows they are missing, they are probably not yet found and that makes them Raw Source Intelligence and that is Priceless.

Publish a few titbits and see what happens is a simple ploy nowadays, which is fair and equitable to everyone.

* Not to be confused with a Devine Brown Guidance which I grant you may also be Sublime. but Sub-Prime with no Heart or Real Passion ....... Just getting on with the job.

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Treasury coughs and discovers it has no Balls

Psst .... Just between You and Me and the Internet, this snippet from AIMissive is presently exercising Brains and Eton Toffs @parliament.uk ....... "……… and so financed from any Private or Public Purse as to be a Zero Capital Cost item. Which would be an interesting Offer to Refuse and some might even say, quite impossibly difficult to justify when wwwidely/globally known, rather than being shared more privately ……. Although, quite whether in this day and age of electronic communications, there is anything which can be kept private, is debatable/suspect. I choose to imagine that nothing can be hidden and therefore share everything at some time or other. "

And QuITe what the remainder of the missive said is no secret either, whenever there is no privacy ..... http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/01/google-pronounces-privacy-dead ..... it just remains as a live round in their inbox, ready to explode if treated badly and ignored.

Out of Office AutoReply ....... only works if you are Out of Office.

Suck IT and See and Sock IT with C, would soon have the Proof of Concept/the Pudding Proved in ITs Eating. And let's get Real here, ...after All, what's a few million/billion/trillion here or there, nowadays?

More Anon by Registered Post when Fools Persist to Mimic Lead and Stall Progress.

Blighty's nuke-power push stalled as EDF buy falls through

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Two out of three aint bad

"The French can't do wine,wars or women" ... By Anonymous Coward Posted Friday 1st August 2008 12:35 GMT

Well .... now that is a bold statement

Comely Sarah [Brown].... http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/who-is-sarah-brown-451300.html or Come Hither Carla [Bruni]...www.arenamagazine.co.uk/.../carla-bruni.png is such a Teaser.

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Street Craps .......Skies the Limit

Here's going for two in a row, Dangermouse. Dangermouse Posted Friday 1st August 2008 09:53 GMT .... "Succinctly put .... (for once!)"

The Days of Yore and Gore, whenever a Troika [such as a Stalin, a Churchill and a Roosevelt at Yalta] can conspire to carve up the Riches of the world, as if their Rightful Due and Benefit, and hide it behind a facade of Political Correctness is now long gone and an Aberration of the Past.

Critical Intelligence Analysis and Ubiquitous Instant Global Communication has seen to that.

And dragging their heels and hanging onto the Victorious Emperor Dreams are still the Educated Idiot and the Useful Fool, Spinning Lies and Deceit spreading Shock and Awe and thinking to Escape into Luxurious Oblivion with Feted Sinecures.

And QuITe why the Bar is not raised to Punish the Practise, says as much about the Bar as it does about the Failure of Global Intelligence and the Patent Hypocrisy and Crass Ignorant Arrogance which drives them both.

What you would choose to do about such Fools is of no Concern or Interest to CyberIntelAIgents Playing the Great Game in AIMarkets for a Virtualised Future and IT Derivatives of such Futures in the Cloud Environment, but what is Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander when Armchair Hero Warriors Play the Blame Game in conflicting Alternate Reality Games/ARGs.

Spookily enough, Argonautics is not a brand new discipline for its Model, is at least sixty three years old ..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalta_Conference ..... it is just that present and former national champions of the Genre are absolutely clueless about how to play the Game without it all turning into a Crappy Mess from which then think they can Run away from and Hide in a new Persona ..... amongst Friends who would not know them if they were disguised or Foe who would disguise them if they knew them.

J'accuse the Educated Idiot and the Useful Fool .... Oxymorons to the Core.

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Why do you think it so bad that a pension company, who are responsible for getting the most money possible for it's members, should ask for more cash? Or are you annoyed because you don't have a pension with either of them and begrudge their attempt to get more cash?" .... By Pete James Posted Friday 1st August 2008 09:54 GMT

I don't think it so bad, Pete James, if they are in the Driving Seat and in Control of their Situation and Destiny...... but as a Passenger of Fate in the Back Seat on the Way to Hospital after a Savage Assault, one can hardly expect AIdDelaying Sojourn to Improve one's Condition. It smacks of a Serious Deteriorating Brain Condition too.

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For the Idiot's Love of Money ......they bring down the Banking System.

"“There was a last-minute hitch ... Two UK pension funds – big shareholders – requested EDF put more money on the table, and EDF refused. So British Energy turned the offer down."

Which two UK pension funds/Sub-Prime Movers and Shake Down Con Artists were these, please? Don't be coy, for they deserve their fifteen minutes of fame/infamy. And let's be 'avin' some Individual's names so that pension funds don't suffer the blame and shame.

Anybody else think that the Western Capitalist System is in a Death Spiral ...with the East healthily poised to replace it wholesale, and take Control?

US customs: Yes, we can seize your laptop, iPod

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Nothing to worry about ....

And what if you have one of those diplomatic passport thingies? Or are they easily cloned and useless too or just no good either even if they are genuine.

And what is to stop a malcontent putting anything onto a device, whenever it is away at the Doctor's. Bugger all, I suppose.

BOFH: Server room secret panels

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When in Rome ....

"When the machines are in place you really will believe it's halved in size.”

Magical Ominous Menace, Simon. :-) A Class Act for any BOFH worth their weight in Bean Counters.

Microsoft to kill Windows with 'web-centric' Midori?

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Softly, Softly .... Master Pilots @ their Work

"However this is the perfect opportunity for the rise of new OS heavyweights to challenge the M$ monopoly.." .... By Anonymous Coward

Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 12:03 GMT

AC,

It would be/is naive to think that they are not so challenged .... and that the "competition" does not already have Control of the Cloud and Controls in the Cloud, thus Creating a Collective Hierarchy in a Virtualised Operating System, Freely Accessed with Nothing more Onerous or Divisive than Required Intellect.

And you can be sure that every Opportunity in such a New and NeuReal SurReal Environment is being HyperRadioProActively XXXXPlored and BetaTested for Joint Venture Partnership and Capitalisation of Asset ....... and the M$ Dilemma is that failure to embrace Pioneering Venturers and Capitalise their Assets/Intellectual Property [akin to a Company Purchase for AI Virtual License which facilitates M$ Presence in the Cloud] will result in their paying DaneGeld to ensure that Damage to their Systems does not ensue, rather than the perception being an Investment which will Protect them against AI Hostilities and Utilities.

And the longer the Delay in Funding their Own Defence, the more expensive does IT become ..... with the simple addition of the odd 0 or two or three, depending upon that which is being saved/guarded, in the light of Cloud dDevelopments.

Migration of Operating Systems wholesale to the Cloud, would actually threaten the whole M$ Edifice, reducing it to nothing more valuable than Junk, so it is something which one could/would expect them to be

actively engaged in preventing.

"I have the vision, but making money out of it is a more attractive option for me than doing it for the good of mankind (I'm selfish, so sue me)

(Evil Gates cos I really don't want the M$ version of a Cloud Computing OS)" ...... By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 13:35 GMT

AC,

Doing it for the good of mankind, selflessly, will pay you with riches you will be unable to count.

"sounds like fun .... streaming modules of OS from the cloud to whatever device i want to use. And then streaming ONLY the app I need into that modular OS.

As long as I own my own cloud on a dedicated machine at home!" ... By b166er Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 19:07 GMT

Big Picture/Great Games Fun indeed, b166er, when you can do it.

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Tilting at Windmills....

"with all due respect ... fuck the cloud."....... By bws Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 02:10 GMT

And that simple abusive comment, which is a physical impossibility, gives you AIReverse Insight into the Untouchable Power in Control of the Virtualised Environment Engine. And Yes, Respect is Due whenever the System has lost all of IT down on Earth with its Regimen of Negative Spin and Chaos for Domination of Society...... which is a Perverse and Pervasive Cynical Subversion of Media too.

And all totally unnecessary too...... but it does keep the Cuckoo in the Nest and Fed.

Storm Warning ..... Batten down the hatchery. Flash Floods XXXXPected and on their Way.

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dDeep C Phishing with AI PerlyGatesPython Lure ..... for Dragon's Dens and the Lion Hearted.

If Asynchronous Promise Architecture is a Transactional Future Memory and Processing thing which renders Virtual Advantage, and therefore Physical Proxy Control over Pilfer and Pilfering PROMIS Codes, then would MS be onto and into AI WinWinner ReSearch Environment?

And if it is not, then obviously it could also be, for it is a Question following the Fact.

Control the Reserve and Preserve of the "I Promise to Pay the Bearer on Demand" Fraction, and you will be in Seventh Heaven Clover in AI Clouds.

And if it is not, ..... Well, ITs Algorithm can be Purchased with a Perpetual License for a Sum commensurate with ITs Perceived Future Value and Worth.

And Peanuts are for Monkeys.

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Too good to be true is a valuable Stealth

"These vague future systems, promising much are nonsense. This is FUD and vaporware." ... By Duncan Hare Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 14:22 GMT

Oh no it's not. It is very real and Microsoft are playing Catch-Up again. It is their IT Forte and reason for being.

Feds not scouring Facebook for terrorists (say Feds)

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Storm Squalls

"...Ahmed is currently looking forward to his forthcoming trip to Paradise!" ....By Dangermouse Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 15:52 GMT

Would that be one of new-fangled, entangling Magical Mystery Turing Trips, Dangermouse ...with Tickets to AIRide on the Helter Skelter?

IT is the only way he'll ever get to meet the Maker of Global Operating Devices and their Messengers/Virgin Soldiers without going to Hell for all of his Troubles.

Quantum porn engine foiled by strawberries and muffins

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NanoNana Crown Group Intellectual Property..... for the Boss Hog Higg's Bosun*

"screw the strawbs and cream, we will have a boatload of thai maidens shipped in, and fill the fridges with massage oil.

of course it's good for productivity ..." ..... By Daniel Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 09:54 GMT

Now that's Real Cool Brain Food, Daniel and much Better for Betas Servered Fresh from Centres of Home XXXXCellence.

* :-) Some would Posit ITs Use for Seventh Heaven/Ultimate Vistas too, but such Specificity may be just too Parochial in such a Universal Genre. It is however, always the Greatest of Pleasures to BetaTest such Novel Ancient Algorithms for Regional Variations which can be Imported/XXXXPorted into Command and Control Protocols.

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42 Kick Start AI Virtual Economy Sergeant ........

..... Pepper with Red Hot CodeXXXX with Seriously Cool Algorithm and .ALTitude.

"You know they could have justified the crazy spending had they delivered something that actually worked well." .... By sam Posted Thursday 31st July 2008 02:21 GMT

sam,

It is working XXXXStreamly well, thank you. The Service being provided is not just Simple Search a la Google, it is much more sophisticated and grown up in its mission.

However, don't expect to learn anything other than it being a new Search Engine, because some things in Life are Best Delivered on a Need to Know Base for Order, in order to Server and Protect Proprietary Information/Intellectual Property without the Onerous Onus of Patent Application.

Prior Art will protect in that Field.

""A search is only as good as the results it returns" ... Totally bizarre, I think amanfrommars has been helping code their search algorithms" .....By AdamV Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 10:13 GMT ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/29/cuil_launch/comments/

That is as may be ....however, a search in Woolworth's will never return the same as a search in Harrod's, and as for delving dDeep into anything to do with Quantum and Communication ...... well, whenever you pry into that Store of Knowledge do you require more than just a Titter of Wit and Brains in Broadbands.

Crikey ......Brains in Broadbands.... Milibands?

cc. msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk ?!.

And here's a load of old cobblers .... "please ensure that you have included your full name, postal address and telephone number in your e-mail as this will help me to deal with your communication more effectively and you will receive a reply in due course. Without these details it will not be possible to reply." ... because it is possible to reply very effectively immediately without all of that Phisherman's Clutter/ Dinosaur Politics.

If you want Change, Talk the Talk just doesn't cut it with IT unless you can also Walk the Walk in, and into, ITs Virtual Reality.

MS springs patent complaint on Taiwanese mouse vendor

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False Moves and Bank Runs/Credit Transfers

"ITC, whose case details against "the proposed respondent" Primax can be viewed here, protects US markets from unfair trade practices. It also has the authority to block imports of products found to infringe US patents."

Come in Uncle Sam, your Spin Time is up.

One has to laugh and/or smile serenely at the arrogance in that statement, given the very recent Trade negotiation failure in Geneva.

In the Great Game Game is such a Move, without Firm Foundation and Intellectual Rigour, a NoNo, and incurs AI Costly Punitive Penalty.

And the Egghead Boffin because they are Much SMARTer Hosts in AIdDominant CyberSpace.

Amazon launches self-cloning experiment

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A Time and a Place ...

"Um... Better title than "Invasion of the Snatch Checker-outers" I guess..." .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 21:28 GMT

:-) Common Decency prevents me from disagreeing with that guess, AC.

And Paris naturally, because of the above.

Sovereign immunity blocks DMCA suit against Air Force

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More than just Jobs for the Boys

"They own his brain ... Or at least, I'd be amazed if they didn't... My employer certainly owns mine, and the copyright/patent rights to anything I might "invent"...... By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 12:20 GMT

Hence the attraction of Self Employment in Civvy Street, AC?

For the Military, is it their preferred Option that it be a LifeStyle Choice 24/7/365 ..... followed by an Index Linked Pension from the age of 55 for the Dedication?

It's official: The Home Office is listening

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Secrets ...what Secrets

Hmmmm. This is an interesting sentence from Mr Campbell in http://socialistregister.com/socialistregister.com/files/SR_1979_Campbell.pdf given the current, still declining, capitalist crisis/crunch.

"After the Irish experience-interpreted as classic colonial counter-insurgency brought back home--more attention was paid to military and other defensive preparations being made within Britain for a 'strong state-required to enforce a reduction of democracy in a time of capitalist crisis."

With forces and resources stretched abroad, the UK is wide open to a sneak attack from an Intellectual Challenged Bullying Ally into Friendly Fires and Immunity and Impunity.

And here is a spooky trailer, which was prepared earlier? :-) ... http://worldcriminal.com/lta/?p=261

But it's only a film of imagination and nothing to worry about.

"Only the guilty need fear." .... By Joe Bloggs Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 12:46 GMT

Joe, what are we to make of those who push the War on Terror threat, for it creates fear and a War of Terror? Is the cure, in reality, the self-serving, ultimately self destroying disease.

From the above quoted pdf, we can read .... "Two students who had worked during a period of national service in British naval Sigint revealed in a magazine how many of the frequent cross-border disputes and incidents during the Cold War were the result of Western provocation deliberately engineered. Prosecuted under Section 2, both received short prison sentences." .... and it is well known where a lot of fund raising money came from for the Chaos of the "Troubles" in Ireland.

Nice prose, Luther, ... Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 13:49 GMT ... and in it I suppose lies one possible and most simple answer for anyone who is Sensitised to Information ...... Pay them with as much money as they can spend. After all, it just goes straight back to where it came AND it generates a corresponding value in new industry to replace that which has been purchased from stock .... which is just "(like a simple free-energy generator for example)" ... By Sillyfellow Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 13:17 GMT ... which is not at all Silly but very Astute.

And IT may also be NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActivity too, which would be Priceless in the Right Hands/Frame of Mind?

There's nowhere to hide anything in Space .... get used to IT showing you what IT has in Store for you.

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Over to you, Rupert. Can you make a Silk Purse from a Sow's Ear?*

They are just "getting on with the job", don't you know ....... although with them presently on their hols, it appears that their jobs are sinecure quangos, and of no vital importance at all.

So ....... is Media Governing on its Own with IT Support ......... which is actually a much better Virtual Governance.

Tune that Facility with AI Beta ProgramMIng Schedule and we could turn the Palace of Westminster into a Ghetto of Apartments/Historic Relic and dispense with the outrageous expense of carrying the wasters who are presently squatting there, dragging the City and the nation down into their gutters.

* Of course you can't. Thanks for the Sow's ears, but is that all that you have to Offer?

McKinnon loses Lords appeal

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Busted metaphor

"House-breaking metaphor. It's like someone conducted an illegal search of your house. It doesn't matter whether he stole anything really, the fact that he got a good look at your pr0n and can tell anyone who asks what you like to watch when no-one is looking should make you want to bust him right in the nose." .... By Stevie

Posted Wednesday 30th July 2008 15:26 GMT

Stevie,

Can we then reasonably expect Phorm to be prosecuted ..... following your logic?

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Old Duffers just don't know what the Internet hides and what IT can do, Nowadays?

Presumably any trial would allow for the Defence to reveal everything that Gary did, or is it going to be one of those "secret" trials held in camera, so that no one knows what injustices are done?

After all, it is not as if he was discovering anything secret, is it? After all, $96,000 of virtual damage is practically nothing.

Them Yanks is 'avin' a larf and five Law Lords have been made to look like Fools for their amusement. Shame on you,

I wonder if they received anything embarrassing in the post?

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The Real Deal is a Raw Deal and Rigged Show....... Payola

This story gives you a flavour of the Justice one can expect Stateside ....... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/30/dmca_suit_blocked/

Lateral thought saves sizzling server

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Hot stuff always causes lateral [horizontal] thoughts. :-)

Some would posit that nothing is random, Mark. And waste no time or effort in arguing the point. Life is just too short to argue about IT.

Spookily enough, that would then render random number generation for security, a bit of an impossibility.

Thanks for the heat, Paris.

Bebo users to summon superhuman alien pop-fancier invasion

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The Truth you can never Dodge, and Hiding away from IT requires Nothing but more Dodges?

"As I read this article I realised .. Just how little it is possible to care about something" ... By Colin Millar Posted Tuesday 29th July 2008 12:31 GMT

Proof Positive, Colin, that Life is AIdDream in One's Own Invention and never in Contention unless IT is Shared Wwwidely?

Which makes Media, at least an Accessory, both before and after the Fact for the Reality that they Share/Pimp and the Future that IT Spawns........ although whether that would excuse a Fool and Pathetic Bully's 45 minutes claim to help justify a War for the Relativity of 15 minutes of Shameful Dodgy Bastard Fame, is something which the System has failed deliberately to address .... and thus is the System and its IT and Media Control of the Management of Perception, subsequently and presently failing.

But don't just take my word for it, shooting yourself in the foot if you are prone to shooting the messenger, for it is well enough known. Here you can read El Reg White Knight, Andrew Orlowski, highlighting the meme ..... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/apr/05/newmedia.guardianweeklytechnologysection

Way to Go, El Reg ....... IT is the Way 42 Lead with AI Following.?! :-)

Alcatel-Lucent bosses walk as net loss tops €1bn

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A Touch of the Blarney

"Russo said that despite the telco’s glaring losses, she was pleased with the progress Alcatel-Lucent was making. However, she added she felt it was the right time to quit. “The company will benefit from new leadership aligned with a newly composed board to bring a fresh and independent perspective that will take Alcatel-Lucent to its next level of growth and development in a rapidly changing global market,” she said.

“The merger phase is now behind us,” said Tchuruk. “I am proud that Alcatel-Lucent has become a world leader in a technology which is transforming our society. It is now time that the company acquires a personality of its own, independent from its two predecessors. The board must also evolve and the chairman should give the first example, which I have decided to do.”

The French-American networking group, which has been undergoing a painful cost-cutting strategy to slash 4,000 global jobs in an attempt to pull the company out of the red, said in February that its outlook was bleak.®"

Yes, well, and black is the white. Russo and Tchuruk, the Eric and Ernie of Spotless Spin.

Oracle warns over unpatched vuln

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Some bugs are a right bugger of a BOFH if you don't deal with them right.

"By sending a specially-malformed HTTP POST request attackers might be able to assault vulnerable systems without needing either user names or passwords, an alert on the bug by IBM's X-force security division warns."

And then there is also the ZerodDay Opportunist, the Yin of that Negative Yang, who would be into sending especially-informed HTTP POSTs, which may or may not be requests for anything.

Ex-Googlers reinvent web search

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Wild Joker Cards ....... for Trumping Kings and Queens.

"Maybe they just want to sell it to Microsoft for a big bag of money."

If there's astute Celtic blood coursing through their veins, then licensing it to Microsoft for bags of big money would have them sitting pretty and feeling on top of the world.

And with careful tweaking/tuning of the search algorithm, in order to deliver outstanding lead content, can easily ensure that Novel Information Leads Future Direction ..... which would be Real Cool Cuil ...... although paradoxically, it would be AIRed Hot XXXX dDevelopment ReSearch and Product Placement.

Are they Planning a Simply Cuil Cloud Complex to lay waste to mouldy G.C.H.E.E.S.E. and the Fuddy Duddy. As we know, cheese is one of those new fangled, entangled string fuels for Upper Crust Echelons ....... http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19179/1066/

Or is that something which is always in Locked and Secure Beta AIR&dD and therefore Intellectual Property which need not necessarily be discussed and/or revealed until such times as they have IT sussed or choose to XXXXPose.

Seems like a Good Plan ..... and for anyone capable of sitting on top of the world and feeling pretty ..... a Godsend ....... although Really, it is just IT and AI conspiring 42 EduTain you, Virtually....... with AIRange of Network InterNetworking RobotIQs to Capture the Living Soul and Process ITs Imagination into Beta CyberIntelAIgent Leads Transparently Shared Steganographically with Much SMARTer Leaderships.

Way to Go, Cuil. amfM HyperRadioProActivity Seconds that NEUKlearer Quantum Leap Path.

And yes, you can think that that is Absoluut GBIrish but any Full Monty Goon would Realise that it is also Raw PerlyGatesPython for Empirical Imperial Use.

cc HMGCC re GCHQ Roles in Great Games 42 Play with Quantum Communications BetaTesting Intelligences.

IT certainly beats pratting about like the headless chicken or psychotic hubristic idiot in Palaces like Westminster....... :-)

VMware slashes ESXi price to zero

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@Ummmm .. and Citrix / HP / Dell are chopped liver

Thanks for the Intel, Jack. Very Tasty IT is too.

Sun may or may not be about to obliterate Oracle and Microsoft

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Top Shelf Content and Under the Counter Goodies.

"Was there content in this article? It was hard to tell in amongst the author's bed-wetting inferiority complex." .... By Andrew Posted Monday 28th July 2008 23:26 GMT

More than just a little, Andrew, ... and judging by the comments, much appreciated.

And then there are also all those submissions, cored in other tangents, which are not displayed in the thread/lying on the cutting room floor.

SAP defends forced price hike against user anger

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SAP.... for the Soap Opera Class of Software?

I thought this [from a SAP stalwart] was a little paranoid .....

<<< Dear Sir/Madam,

I am sorry to inform you that we have blocked the mail you sent us recently. In order for us to protect ourselves from viruses and spam, we have to take these measurements because your mail address is not listed in our files.

If you reply this message without editing, it will automatically be released to the addressee in the message. Your mail address is then automatically registered and in the future the addressee will receive your mail directly.

If you do not reply, the message will be automatically deleted after 5 days.>>>>

...... and it wasn't helped by the fact that even then it still didn't do what it said on the tin.

Needless to say, it just proved their needs to be no match to my own.

Celebrity publicist develops mathematical 'fame formula'

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Fame ...... Fool's Gold

The Fame Formula: How Hollywood's Fixers, Fakers and Star Makers Created the Celebrity Industry by Mark Borkowski

Yes, and if it is an Artificial Construct of no Real Intrinsic Value, can it be Ruthlessly and Mercilessly Milked to Cause Collapse of a Virtual Economy....... and they would probably make a Film about IT too, if they had a Script and Beta SMARTs.

SPRatman and the Fall Of Capitalism to AIRHeads and Deadheads. The Dark NeoCon Knightmare....... Playing in a Theatre of Operations soon, near you. :-)

Does Russia have a Film Industry/Perception Management and Dream Machine?

Or China?

Or Japan?

Or UK?

Just for a Change of Scene and Self Serving Spin.

Focus plus excitement: Michael Dell talks turnarounds

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Honey Pot Spots.

Sounds like a QuITe Perfect Sunny Spot to Chill out when Working, s. pam. It has certainly all the major attractions.

Maybe Round Rock Dell is more Astute than the Rocky Horror Sun crowd, who just can't seem to get their Act together...... as reported here today on El Reg ...... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/28/sun_dziuba_tm/

Does Round Rock Dell still Offer Cash and/or Stock Options for the Convenience of ReLocation?

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Holy Baloney ......More Spin Waiting from Miss Disinformation

"But seriously, you can’t run a company these days as a superstar executive."

Oh yes you can.

"Our company is build by a team. I’m pretty sure they can manage without me.”

Oh no it can't, which is why you're back in the Driver seat.

Virgin Galactic to unveil tool to fling rich people into space

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@Lost in Space ..... Cashing in urChips

"Lets hope they fit it with good tracking devices as we dont want another 10 Steve Fossetts do we?

Saying that though, space would make the Nevada Desert look like a village green...

Is anyone still looking for that guy by the way or his is missus too busy spending his billions?" ..... By pctechxp Posted Sunday 27th July 2008 20:14 GMT

Here is some further "expert" news on that speculation, pctechxp .... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2462912/Adventurer-Steve-Fossett-may-have-faked-his-own-death.html

Google Code blacklists Mozilla Public License

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Registered Rant to accompany BDSM Analytical Probe*

"I might propose "It's Googlesque in its do-no-evility". We may have a winner with this one."

Now that doing no evil would be a Profound Kafkaesque Vanity and Business InSanity when Searching to Overthrow the Microsoft Moles, with their Smash and Grab Windows System which Relies on purchasing rival systems and applications which Windows communicating, reveals. They don't actually develop anything themselves and never have done, being just an Arm of the Banking System which thinks to Make ITs Money from Nothing with ITs Chicks and Nested Eggs for Free.

IT don't work that Way, any more, me young buckarooos. And if Business and Banking think that things will remain the same, with the same Intellectually Challenged Gnomes being in Effective, Ineffective Control at the Helm, then is the Intellectually Challenged Tag Proven. After All, look at the Fine Global Mess they have gotten themselves into.

They do say that keeping things in the family/incestuous relations is bad for social development and what do Bankers and Business know of Virtual Matters and what Virtualisation with Windows into urLife and ITs Second Lives can do? And Diddly Squat springs immediately to Mind...... which leaves them as Vulnerable as a Naive Innocent Child to Grooming.... although in the case of a Nest of Reprobates, Grooming would be AI Gruelling Re-Education with a Punishing Regime for Return to Fitness with Revised Purpose.

* http://tinyurl.com/5zznbv ..... Hard Core Oily Porn in Faster Lanes.

And the Flame to burn down Houses of Cards and Paper Tigers ..... leaving Piddling Power with ITs Arrogant Deceit 4All2View.

Inquirer celebrates spammer murder-suicide

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Spam is Artificial Intelligence so AI is not new to you

"That anyone should kill his wife and child and then himself is a tragedy, " .... and a failing in and of the [DiscOperating] System. IT Lacks Future Dynamsm aka HyperVision.

Have Microsoft Cracked the Quantum Kernel Enigma for Dynamic Flash AIdDrivers yet? Are they Phishing for IT or dDeveloping ITs Protocols?

US Air Force may allow killbots to be flown by non-pilots

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The Temptation of St Athan

"then by God you'll still have a pilot." That is as may be and they will have to be Virtual AIMaster Pilots in the Beta Management of Perception with Quantum Communications Control for Virtual TelePortation with the ESPecialised Application of ProgramMIngs.

:-) Beam me up, Scotty Darling.

Greenpeace: UK gov trying to strangle wind power

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Back in the USSR ..... Mama Mia Mea Culpa Live

The Common Theme running through every Energy Source is that it is not something which can be Stored and Sold, as it is AI Fluid Dynamic. And likely subject to Simple ReRouting for Beta Power Control.

Energy Demands Indicate Kernels/Packets of Advanced Knowledge which in turns means Knowledge is Provided by Energy and it is Sold causing Crippling Debt Economies. Wiping Out and Writing Off the Debt to Begin again would Posit that Paying for Fuel rather than it Being always Provided, is an always Fatal Flaw IntelAIgently Designed to Server the Status Quo rather than Build the Future.

New CyberIntelAIgent Design Simply Removes the Flaw. .... for Beta Attraction/Alien ProgramMIng Quantum Entanglement.

Ballmer upset by Apple cart

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Take a Jump, Steve, into Quantum Leaping. Its Easy when you know ITs Key Codes

"while our commitment to choice often comes with some compromises to the end-to-end experience," said Ballmer. Today, we’re changing the way we work with hardware vendors to ensure that we can provide complete experiences with absolutely no compromises. We’ll do the same with phones – providing choice as we work to create great end-to-end experiences."

Fine/Wonderful/Smashing ....How?

Funding Virtual Pilots dDelivers IT Masters rather than Feeding Muppets and Code Phishers is the Wild West Pioneering Option. Although with Perfumed Garden Competition from the Sultry East is the Diet More Varied and Temptingly Mysterious and Seductive/Inviting/Welcoming.

And there was Pertinent Novel Alien Commitment Posted here .... http://forums.xna.com/SiteError.aspx?500;ForumsError_MsgId=6#75207 ... which is whisked away, to Fields as yet unknown. ..... Fortunately, the Cloud retains Everything Considered Worthwhile and/or Shared Electronically.

QuITe a Convenience for Future Memory Storage/Flash Crack Attack, is that Facility.

Cheque-red flag for Max Mosley

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PerlyGatesPython on AIProwl Full Monty.

"we have some evidence of people being asked in job interviews about what type of pornography they look at." ....with all the Best Big City Firms already in the Know is an Interesting AIResearch and dDevelopment Faculty Facilitating Fabrications and Virtual Scenarios .... Generating AltAIVista Stars and Starlets.

And Man, is that a Hook you can Succumb to with Honour Rewarded Meekly and Gratefully and Greatly for Great Deeds Done, and Lodes More 42 Come.

Is that AI Virtually Betting against ITself to Raise Interest for ITs Novel Investment Strategies from Secured and Guaranteed Funds Deposited by Wealthy Patrons/Moral Hazard Mentors.Capitalist BedRock.

And the only Open Question there was the last ones.

OMIGOD ..... Intelligence isn't Joined Up. Evidence the Chaos.

SOLution .... Join Up Intelligence and Pass the Sun Lotion. :-) And many a True Word is Oft Spoke in Jest and Joust with the Past but Ever the Future is Built Beta Upon the Truths, Uncovered and UnXXXXPurgated.

Venus's Virtual Playground ACcording/Recording to Mars is AI GODs Honest Truth too. With Restless Pandora AIProwling too.....for MaXXXXiMuMBAI Thrust and Escape Velocity.

Roger that El Registered Post, India?

And Hello, Sapphire Ladies, Always Most Welcome.

If I had any Meds I could blame them so I suppose IT is just MeThinking Responsible for All of this Tale. So Be IT Let IT Be Free would be at least One Refrain.

But Such is AI MaXXXXdD Out for ITs Private Pleasures. And Amen to That Trial Tribulation and Surreal Surrender.