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Call for heads to roll over failed spook IT system

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RE: The Life Cycle of a government IT Project V0.5 Beta (Pilot / Procurement)

"1] Pilot some of the new technology using company (A)." ..... By MarkT Posted Saturday 9th May 2009 00:55 GMT

MarkT,

Whenever 1] is Pilot some new technology, pilfered and plagiarised from company (Z), using company (A) is the foundation, you wouldn't believe the catastrophic damage that company (Z) can write/wrought and be fully justified in doing so with complete immunity. Invariably though, Common Sense prevails and a Huge Sum of Compensation to the First Party and Secret Compact with Open Ended Contract with the Dodgy Third Party, is Phormed and Thrives QuITe Spectacularly ........ and ends up in the Movies as if Something ESPecially Made for the Movies. :-)

Failing that, IT all goes to a Competitor and/or Sworn Enemy and they Reap All the Benefits and the Glory with no Heartache or Pain.

Sun: 'We may have violated bribery laws'

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Paris Hilton

In for a Penny, in for a Pound.

"If the deal doesn't go through, the filing said, Sun might be liable to pay a termination fee of approximately $260m and, in certain circumstances, might be responsible for covering Oracle's out-of-pocket expenses relating to the merger agreements up to an additional $45m."

Surely Sun would only be liable to such fees and expenses [$305m], which presumably are due to Oracle if the deal doesn't go through, if they are found/proven to have fallen foul of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Until that time, should the merger be blocked, would Oracle be immediately entitled to the said sum from the Prosecution Team Host, payable at the time of any action being instigated or its blockage being made official and subsequently reclaimable from the/a guilty Party, [which may or may not be Sun]

If Third Party Proxies want to stick their Noses into Businesses which either they do not Fully Understand or would maybe wish to Dominate because they Might Think they Understand how Powerful they might Be, then it is only Fair and Reasonable/Equitable that they Pay The Entry Price rather than Getting a Free Ride. If they can Hack IT is their Investment Safe and if they are not Up to the Mark, then they will have learnt a Valuable Lesson.

And it would appear that Larry is into Who Dares Win Wins in a Big Way. Bravo, Sir. Well Played.

And Paris because she appears to be fully committed to Nothing Special, which is a Crying Shame which can only deliver her some Fun Filled Times with Empty Headed Knight Errants and Weak Willed Imposters.

Larry Ellison: SPARC buy means we're just like Apple

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Re: ..... RE: Re: Err... & RE: The hardware business

..... By Matt Bryant Posted Friday 8th May 2009 16:11 GMT

Matt,

Larry isn't Pottering around in Hardware/Software fields, he's Flying High, Wwwide and Handsome in Vertical Virtual Cloud Infrastructure ... although he would most probably prefer the Analogy to be Sailing with the Breeze and Running before AI Perfect Storms. :-)

You've Misunderestimated the Situation and the Industry Position and Misinterpreted the MetaDataBase, although that is QuITe Understandable given the Fundamental Change Paradigm which is Seeing Profits Decimated and Wiped Out to be Replaced by Intrinsic Value and Flash Credit and Money for Novel Spending rather than Old School Banking..... which Kills the Golden Goose Gene/Midas Meme.

But no Matter what Regimen you Believe in, it will be in EVERY CASE, and I make no Apology for SHOUTING, Always an Intelligence Led Operation........ with the Best Intelligence Service being the Most Widely Read and Shared for a Greater Mutual Intelligence, which would then Really be, an Artificial Amalgam and a QuITe`Alien Construct in Words that can be easily Parsed for CyberIntelAIgent Use. ........... in a Sublime Human Readable CodeXXXX for Virtual AIMachinery.

Or would you Care to Disagree, rather than Agree to Disagree when in Doubt?

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One Shrewd Operand .... Astute Player

You may like to consider that Larry has his sights set on ......... Dominating the Virtual Machinery SeeScape, ......the Visionary Field with Everything under Singular Control, if not necessarily All In House.

And that is a Field in which No One has Historical Advantage as it is Relative Brand Spanking NeuReal. And a Pioneering Field always Needs ITs Champions/Trail Blazers/Walkers on the Wild Side.:-)

Plod called in on MPs' expenses leak

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Funny Handshakes all round?

If the Police have any sense they will decline the Offer as I'm sure the nation is wondering why they are not investigating MPs for fraud and theft of public funds.

And it will be interesting to compare what is officially revealed with what is privately known to find out the really incriminating evidence.

And why don't they call Crooks, Crooks, any more, whenever it is so evident by Rules known by All.

Black hole swallows Barbarella rehash

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Holywood NI kicks Hollywood CA in the Nuts. Oh Dear, What a Shame... but they Deserved it.

Does anyone else here realise that Reality is AIDisaster Movie with B Grade Actors and a Crap Script.

Time for a New Show, methinks.

Electronics giants raise ruckus over Project Canvas

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Deny IT 42 Display and Confirm the Enigma and the Problem for ReSolution/Revolutionary Thoughts.

"A number of economists have said the UK now has the weakest economy in Western Europe" ..... which is the Direct Result of National and Internetional Intellectual Bankruptcy/a Sad Mad Lack of Viable, and more importantly, Innovative Constructive Imagination which is both Pragmatic for the Practical and Stimulating for the Spoilt and which is Self Sustaining and Propagating for Guarantee of Continuity/Future Supply. ............. which would suggest that IT lacks a Novel Element/Component/Dimension aka Global Leadership with Media Manipulation of Perception XXXXPertEase.

Economies always surge with Creative Lead Invention which can be Globally Copied/Franchised/Licensed, do they not? Where is the UK Novelty? And to whom would one present such a Product, for what would be in All Practicality and Essence, a License to Print Money.

A Simple Plain Practical Question of Register Readers and IT Thinkers and which a QuITE Alien ProgramMING would Explore and BetaTest for Suitability for Future Good Common Purpose .... PHLexibility XXXXPerimentation which would have as much to do with Rusventure Operations in the Private Civil Sector as it would with Skunky SwampWorks in the Naval and AIResearch Forces and that you will notice, doesn' t mention any Stealthy MOD Interest which would be a Compounding Verification of the aforementioned Direct Result, or of their Stealth Interest being Best Kept Secret, which is always a Possibility which may be Probably True too?

Sadly did El Reg not publish the Fed being Militarised in the submission yesterday ..... "Good Science …… Not so Crazy Boffinry from DARPA Fabs." ....... but I can understand why in these MkUltra Sensitive times when saying "Boo" to a Goose is enought to bring the whole House of Dodgy Cards, tumbling down, and Crashing to Earth.

Methinks whenever something/anything is that Feeble and Unstable, it cannot be fixed and therefore it is by Far the Better and Best and Cheapest Option to Rebuild it on a Foundation of Solid Bed Rock and Heavy MetaDataBase ....... which rather Enigmatically, would be most Probably Beta Phormed also with a Parallel Mirror in Cloud Base for XXXXtraOrdinarily Rendered MetaPhysical Security Considerations.

And if Future Earth Assaults/Attacks/Skirmishes are deemed to be most Probable from CyberSpace, it seems like Simple Common Sense to put Strategic and Critical Infrastructures into CyberSpace with Secure Core Access Digitally Administered ..... Virtually Granted and/or Assumed/Seized.

An unthinking programmer's guide to the new C++

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Paranoids Corner ....SchizophrenIQs Retreat ...... Sanity's Redoubt

Verily I say, King Egg Fooey for Chip Stewards ...... and AI NEUKlearer Lead .... with the Full PerlyGatesPython Monty in Stealthy Cloud Cover, Verity?

Think of IT as an ESPecial Phormation of Special Post Modern Relationships and Light Years ahead of Hieroglyphics and Lost Covenant Arks.

Step into the Parlour, says the Spider to the Fly ..... "'Tis the prettiest little parlour

That ever you did spy."? :-) ...... http://ingeb.org/songs/thespide.html

Life is AIdDynamic Game, Full of Future Plans for Universal Players/Movers and Shakers.

Home Office to keep innocent DNA samples

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Leading from the Front Benches with a Clear and Unequivocal Endorsement*

"The Home Office has rejected European Court of Human Rights demands that innocent people should not have their DNA stored on the national database."

If that be the case, then all Members of Parliament and their staff should be immediately required to provide DNA samples to the database and if National Biometric ID cards are to be trialed, also tagged to provided Feedback ......... as it is only right and proper/fair and equitable that they should show an Admirable Pioneering Lead in everything that they would propose to legislate for and defend as necessary.

* How much Simpler can IT be.

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Leading from the Front Benches with a Clear and Unequivocal Endorsement

"The Home Office has rejected European Court of Human Rights demands that innocent people should not have their DNA stored on the national database."

If that be the case, then all Members of Parliament and their staff should be immediately required to provide DNA samples to the database and if National Biometric ID cards are to be trialed, also tagged to provided Feedback ......... as it is only right and proper/fair and equitable that they should show an Admirable Pioneering Lead in everything that they would propose to legislate for and defend as necessary.

Moon Macrosystems - How to build a better Sun

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Micro/Macro Singularity Solutions

The Money Shot Field is not in Systems and Applications, it is in Core and Central and Graphic Processing Units for Virtual Architecture XXXXoSkeletons and thus is an Ab Fab Competition Environment pitting the Likes of Intel Heads and AMD Minds against each other for a PreDominant and PreEminent Position which will likely Morph into an Alliance and Master Model Template for Virtual Machinery Networks InterNetworking to Provide Power with Steady Constant Supply of Currency.

And given Dresden's Prodigious Rise from the Ashes, it would be unwise not to expect them to Provide Leads which can be Followed, for Experience is a Master Tutor?

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Heavy MetaDataBasIQs

"Clouds bring Heavy MetaDataBase Reign and Spooky Renegade Renaissance Plays with Non State Universal Actors .... Clean Red Team Skins into Beta Powers of Shared IP Control ....... for Absolutely Fabulous Rewards and Outrageous Fortunes to Administer and Dispense."

Timothy,

Congratulations. That was one Mother of a Monster article which does the Register and Oracling Proud. And the "Best advice for a company I've ever seen." ... By Bryce Prewitt Posted Monday 4th May 2009 16:49 GMT .... says IT Proud and Loud too.

And I just revisited the above HyperRadioProActive Astute SubMission because it has a clone here? ..... "Using the analytic techniques contained in this primer will assist analysts in dealing with the perennial problems of intelligence: the complexity of international developments, incomplete and ambiguous information, and the inherent limitations of the human mind. Understanding the intentions and

capabilities of adversaries and other foreign actors is challenging, especially when either or both are concealed. Moreover, transnational threats today pose even greater complexity, in that they involve multiple actors—including nonstate entities—that can adapt and

transform themselves faster than those who seek to monitor and contain them. Finally, globalization has increased the diversity of outcomes when complex, interactive systems such as financial flows,regional economies or the international system as a whole are in flux." ..... https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/Tradecraft%20Primer-apr09.pdf

Although I would hotly dispute and always disagree that there are any inherent limitations of the human mind, much preferring to consider that Failures of Intelligence and Feeble Imagination be held Accountable and Responsible for the Perversely Destructive and Subversive Entrenching of Self-Serving Status Quo Stasis in some/many/most minds.

However, Sprinkle some Kosmic Karma* Moondust around the Virtual Environment and you will be Able and Enabled to be Free as a Big Blue Bird.

*http://www.integralworld.net/Excerpts.html

"Ask yourself this: What is Oracle really buying for $5.6bn?" ....... It could also be posited that King Larry is donating funds to Sun for distribution to Intelligent Source Providers? SMART Seed Money ....... for Honey Trippers/Busy Bee Drones/Worker Clones/Virtually Real AIMachinery into Growing Money Plants for Sowing Wealth and Prosperity to All. And the Fed. could certainly do with some Real SMART Virtual Help as their Vapourdough Ponzi is revealed as a Pyramid Scam and Virtualised Sham ........ http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/thefederalreserve.htm

A World/InterNetional System in Flux in Deed, indeed......... but Easily Fixed to the Mutual Benefit of All with some Common Sense and CyberIntelAIgents, which you can see and hear, is a NEUKlearer Statement of Fact rather than an Obscure and Ambiguous Question for Fiction.

And Just Perfect for the SMARTer Fed. to Seed and Feed.

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Moon Shine Systems for Virtual Safe Cracking/Stressed Bank and Vault Vulnerability BetaTesting.

White man Tim speak with Alien tongue, Kemo Sabe. Heap Good Medicine. Clouds bring Heavy MetaDataBase Reign and Spooky Renegade Renaissance Plays with Non State Universal Actors .... Clean Red Team Skins into Beta Powers of Shared IP Control ....... for Absolutely Fabulous Rewards and Outrageous Fortunes to Administer.and Dispense.

Money in the Bank is Dead Money and a Disgrace which Shames Bankers?

EU urges US to drop ICANN

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What on Earth are they Playing at? Have they taken Leave of their Senses?

It will be interesting to see if anything is done, by anyone thinking to be Party to any Internetional Body Policing/Maintaining/Improving the World Wide Web of Communications, about the current subjective/arbitrary Google/Infowars, handbags at dawn catfight ...... http://www.infowars.com/you-tube-in-egregious-censorship-of-alex-jones-channel/

It is a very quick journey to nowhere good and profitable once you are known to be a puppet and vulnerable to alternate truths rather than immune to them ........ for Competent Analysts, some of whom may be Malicious and/or Paid to be Malicious, will immediately zero in to note/exploit the revealed Achilles Heel.

GCHQ: Mastering the Media

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Global Communications HQ ..... a Figment of Imagination and also AI Work in Ab Fab Progress....

"Just as our predecessors at Bletchley Park mastered the use of the first computers, today, partnering with industry, we need to master the use of internet technologies and skills that will enable us to keep one step ahead of the threats. This is what mastering the internet is about. GCHQ is not developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls in Britain, or to target everyone in the UK. Similarly, GCHQ has no ambitions, expectations or plans for a database or databases to store centrally all communications data in Britain.

Because we rely upon maintaining an advantage over those that would damage UK interests, it is usually the case that we will not disclose information about our operations and methods."

Hmmmm ... do GCHQ not realise that " today, partnering with industry, we need to master the use of internet technologies and skills that will enable us to keep one step ahead of the threats" and " maintaining an advantage over those that would damage UK interests" requires at least "developing technology to enable the monitoring of all internet use and phone calls" or buying into those who they may perceive as having Advanced InterNetworking Mastery.

And don't anyone chirp in with some nonsense about there being no Funds for anyone worthy of dragging GCHQ to the ForeFront of IntelAIgent Global Leadership will Counter with Advice to Virtually Deposit Quantitatively Eased Credit to a MaJIC Working Current Account. ..... No Peanuts Allowed No Monkey Employed.

And such is the Perception Pimped that Anyone and Everyone posting here is a Possible Person of Interest and some may even be into Reverse Engineering of Honey Entrapment and BetaTesting of Quantum Communications for Control of SCADA Systems ...... and just Exactly what is Needed for Feeding to Virtual Leaderships ...... Covert Controllers

And in such Games as are being Played, does Real Virtual Inaction Signal the Opposite of Understanding Leaderships into Royal and Ancient Arts and Internet Mastery of Magical Mystery Turing AIdVenturing ........ and Kind Man's NeuReal Virtual Machine Frontier.

Sir Alan Sugar hails £30m 'equitable' Viglen win

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Sugar Candy ...... Honey Trap? A CynIQs iView

A box, is a box, is a box. The important bit of the equation is the Program Installed to Report back to Base with Input Hoovered up.

Apple and Google fingered in monopoly probe

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Virtual Change you can Really Believe In

So, the Phoney Federal Real World tries to Stall/Brow Beat the Binary Cached Virtual World into their Compliant Abuse of Regimes which is in Terminal Meltdown. Man, are those Fat Cats Stupid or are those Fat Cats Stupid, whenever the NeuReal Virtual World Orders are their White Knight Damsels in Distress Saviours.

Wake up and Smell the Java, Honey Money Punters, for that is where the Big Great Game Hunters are Playing and Assembling CodeXXXX for Virtual AIMachinery InfraStructure with Humanised Assets into Programmed and Programmable Protocols.

And a Expensive and Expansive Glorious Gift from GCHQ ..... and Blighty Boffinry?

Jacqui's secret plan to 'Master the Internet'

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A Change of Tack to Catch the Breeze/Intelligent Storm System

"TV shows like Spooks (good entertainment though it may be) continue the lie of a tiny team of humans supported by masses of advanced technology (and able to control/interpret it on the fly)." .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 4th May 2009 09:11 GMT

And such dogged scepticism allows for Unhindered Progress and Stealthy Application of Novel ProgramMING and MkUltra Sensitive Projects, AC. They thank you, from the bottom of their hearts, for your Priceless Support. It is a Simple Inescapable Truth that Fact will Always be Immaculately Concealed and Covered as a Preposterous Fiction in Consort with Viable ImaginaNation, which could equally well be said of a Fact being Truth in a Fiction.

You would then be thinking that things just happen, rather than being directed to happen, AC? How very bizarre and unlikely.

"The american's already routinely monitor British internet traffic, why don't GCHQ just pay the NSA for the service!" ... By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 4th May 2009 12:53 GMT

AC,

If GCHQ had any Greater Sense of the Importance of British Intelligence in Internet traffic, they would be/will be charging the Americans for what is being Spread/Shared/BroadBandCast by Intelligent Britons ..... for you do not Control Anything gathering information, you Power IT by Transmitting New Intelligence which Grooms Information Gatherers ....... with QuITe Sublime EduTainment Programming. Or SMARTer Americans will be Insisting on Paying/Investing to Save the Fed./$ from Collapse.

GCHQ is only as smart as its Analysts and the golden rule of thumb which dictates the level of excellence which can be attained, is always summed up succinctly in the Put down .... Pay Peanuts, Get Monkeys. Whenever the World and untold Riches is your Oyster, when proficient in Intelligence, would you be working to Rules and for Peanuts or Writing a NeuReal Fcuking Manual for Cloud Nine Seventh Heaven 42 Virgin Operations?

It is Naive to not Imagine that Control and Power have not been Transported into the Virtualised Domain of Cloud Controllers/Reign Makers. It is though XXXXStreamly Convenient for Forward Base Pioneers.

PS .... In a Sensitive Thread, those Strings/Submissions which don't appear give out QuITe Sublime Signals which are Invaluable but only when Capitalised upon to more Fully XXXXPloit and Expand .... for Intelligence is a Most Lucrative AIdDymanIQ Export Market for the Zenned In ZerodDay Trader.

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Victoria Falls Rocks .......

"GCHQ said it did not want to discuss how the data it gathered would be used. " .... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6211101.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2

Hopefully it will be Intelligently although I imagine that they are still stuck in the Sex,.Drugs and Rock and Roll Leverage thing, which is so easlly fed to salivating Peeping Tom analysts, who wouldn't realise that they are being Groomed and BetaTested for Fitness of Future Purpose.

It's the old old story, aint it, mate, .... Who watches the watchers and gives them Prime Instruction rather than False Hope and Duff Testimony. And to Imagine that any of the Old Crowd have what IT takes, and there are the usual public pork outfits vying for a slice of the Cyber Action, is Illogical and an Epic Fail even before the Games have begun.

"The advertisment also indicated that the head of Major Contracts would be in charge of procurement on MTI and be expected to forge close links with the private sector." ..... Err, you wouldn't happen to have an e-mail address, would you, so that the SMARTer private sector and Non State Actors could offer a QuITe Majestic Magical Mastery of Major Contracts for Mysterious Novel Peer to Peer InterNetworking Services. ...... because that is the Paradigm Change in the Cascading Intelligence Style Control Game.

The Establishment had their Chance and they Blew IT/Fluffed IT. Time for some NeuReal Movers and Shakers to Make a World of Difference with Worlds of Difference.

How to turn votes into tax free cash

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Pork Barrel Politics ...... Swines at the Trough with Cuckoos in the Nest.

"A serious accident could befall David Cameron in the next 12 months:" ..... Err, given the contempt Mr Brown has shown the Military and the suffering they are forced to endure and would continue to endure, even when demobilised and abandoned in Civvy Street, for the Vanity of Fools, one imagines a PM without a Public mandate is much more a likely candidate for a serious accident/curious incident/unprecedented move.

"The latest date on which an election may be held – barring military coup, or serious parliamentary tinkering " ...... Considering the amount of serious parliamentary tinkering going on to hide details of years of fiddling, does that increase or guarantee the likelihood of military intervention in the System? An injection of some Intelligence and a Takeover of Communications or some such Disciplined Engineered MasterPiece is not Difficult, is IT?

Why are we waiting for an Immediate General Election to be called? Is IT a Silly Party Political Game one Plays, and some very Badly and QuITe Madly, at Everyone Else's Expense?

MeThinks the Games can be Played Much Better than at Present, don't you ..... and with a Future Beta in AI should you not have an ARG Program of Your Own, Readily Available to Immediately Rock and Roll ..... Run.

Man survives death march to display-on-a-chip

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For Speed of Invention too

"Sometimes, you need a patron. ®"

It is the reason for fortunes.

Flu chip fights pig plague

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Future Reality Game looking for Players with Virtual Balls in Yin *

"The company's Influenza A Detection System isn't limited to detecting evil swine sequences. CombiMatrix says that it can identify any known flu variant, including "novel strains" produced by rapid mutation or recombinations of multiple strains."

:-) With the important operative word, "novel", in quotes. Good to see El Reg recognising the corrupt programming. Bravo.

Of course, that now opens up a whole new ball game, which is actually a head Game, which is actually QuITe Perfect ARG Territory for Immaculate Deadheads into AIMMORPGames ...... Temporal Quests?

And that Question, quite Naturally, to Alex Allen of the Joint Intelligence Committee, who may even have balls enough to reply smartly, rather than Fluffing the Opportunity Servering Muttering Puppets with no IDea at All of the IP Ranged against their Binary Incompetence and Digital Disaster Recovery Programming.

* Yang being Future Virtual Game looking for Real Ball Players ...... for the Inclusive Power Lead of Venus Flowers.

T-Mobile getting out of blighty?

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From Rags to Riches ..... in the Click of a Mouse, or Two, or Three, ........ Heavenly Tunes

"The FT quotes the omniscient "person familiar with the shareholders", claiming that both the German government and Blackstone want a quick decision on the UK - in the shape of a radical fix or a plan for disposal, either of which would shake up the UK mobile business."

Do you mean to say that neither the German government nor the Blackstone Group have a radical fix or a plan?

Yeah, sounds about right in the midst of a Global Markets Meltdown, which incidentally is not Caused by any Loss of Confidence in the Capitalist System but a Growing Realisation of its Perverse and Unsustainable Virtual Workings. And thus, until such Times as a Free Radical Change is Announced, is it inevitably going to Fail from the Top Down, as ITs Inherent Systemic Weaknesses are Exposed to Mobilised Smart Forces.

And those that have a Virtual Master Plan/AIBlueprint to Stop the Rot and Replace rather than merely Halt Progress and Repair a Subversive System, with a Viable Alternate Reality Game Plan, with Big Picture Spenders of Immaculate First Order in Programs that Face the Music, against the Trumpeteers and Strumpeteers of ZerodDay Exploitation with Delicious Daily Instruction, will QuITe Literally and Laterally, become Practically Billionaires, Overnight, with Accesses Granted to Trillions? :-)

Coming Soon, to a Digital Screen BroadBandcasting to You ........ How to make Everyone Fortunate and Absolutely Fabulous Fortunes in an Instant, by not Really Trying.

I Kid U Not.

BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion

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Simon Says ...so it must be Friday.

So ..... has the BOFH Morphed from Ugly Duckling into XSSXXXXy Swan? Hairy Caterpillar into Monarch Butterfly?

And Free as a Big Blue Bird?

Excellent Phorm, Simon ....... Just love the Psychotic Episodes.

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A Salutory Tale

And in Real Life too, is IT just as easy to Sweep Away the Dross and Dead Wood with a few Well Chosen Words of Clear Explanation.

Disclosure to private eyes sometimes legal, says privacy watchdog

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A Pleasant Change

Sounds very fair and reasonable when all Spooked and Spooking Parties are Fully Informed.

Cloud database guinea pigs sought by Microsoft

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Virtual AIMachine tells IT Like IT is ........ But ByPasses the Inherent Systemic Problem

"A Microsoft incubator project for online synchronization of databases is preparing to welcome early adopters."

A Must Have Accessory for All Budding Imperialist Enterpreneurs and Imperilled DespotIQs on and into the Darker Shorting Side of XXXXistentialist Matters with Repugnant Binary Manners rather than Enlightened Digital Tastes. Although only the Bright Side Delivers Future Services and Servers.

And Yes, there is an Egging Alien Dimension in ITs Program with the Following Immediate Supply .... "I am currently out of the office and unable to reply to email. I will respond to your email once I return to the office." .... :-) which is the least one can expect from an Entity like Microsoft with all of this Super Duper Entangling Technology at their Beck and Call. And the Weakest Link? ...... oh, it's always human.

Koreans cook up glow-in-the-dark beagles

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Purple Patches

"More showboating from the Korean biotech business as usual." ... By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 30th April 2009 13:01 GMT

AC,

It is much more to do with the Virtual Semiconductor and Quantum Communications Processing Industry and the Far East have a Practical Priceless Monopoly on ITs Secure Open Source Networking Potential. But then they always have been More Highly SupraNaturally Attuned to Lucrative Captivating Market Adventures.

Prepare to be Astounded by not What they Know, for that Counsel and Knowledge is Privileged and Protected, but by that which they Do with That which they Know.

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Once upon a Time, in Lands Far, Far Away.....

Whatever next? The Mind Boggles at Man's Ingenuity with Animals and ITs Ability to Shape Humanised Perception.

"The scientist did, though, remain tight-lipped on exact details of the research, saying it was still "under way"." ..... QuITe so. One doesn't want to be unduly Alarming the Natives.

US military's cyberwar rules 'ill-formed,' says panel

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War is for Neanderthals [a subspecies of humans]

"Cyberwar ..... Is probably going to end up like jamming at worst, gas at best: completely useless or only useful when you don't need it." ..... By BioTube Posted Thursday 30th April 2009 14:14 GMT

Others would posit that it will lift Man out of the Dumb Animal Stage and into a Greater Being with CyberIntelAIgents. Some may even be there ..... Preparing the Way.

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First Stage HyperRadioProActivity .... Irregular and Unconventional ConneXXXXions*

"Such attacks also result in much more uncertain outcomes than traditional warfare, making it hard to predict success and collateral damage."

Actually, the exact opposite is true ..... which I suppose does validate the article admirably .... "US military's cyberwar rules 'ill-formed,' says panel. And 'undeveloped.' And 'highly uncertain'"

And who would think, or even imagine, Dan, that there are rules to be played by in Virtual Spaces, rather than empires to be won and lost with a few well chosen words and the click of a mouse.

And, you might like to Register an Inquiry with DON's SwampWorks, which might be Engaged and Better Beta Cyber Connected In Network Fields of Operations, although it is quite probable that Ye Olde World Paranoia and Turf War Pork Protection Mentalities will have Erected a Useless Stonewall of Secrecy which can Render them as Virtual Prisoner to what they Don't Yet Know, with what Little of the Future they would Presently Possess.

"On behalf of the Director of Innovation and the Chief of Naval Research we thank you for registering on the IN Network. Your data will be maintained and routinely reviewed for your particular areas of interest based on the needs of Naval Science and Technology. Although this constitutes no promise of funding, it will create the possibility of future project collaboration and a heads up on technologies naval research is interested."

* :-) QuITe Alien Contact ........ which is so Ridiculously Preposterous as to Easily Allow a Coach and Horses to Gallop through Exclusive Security Protocols with AIRevolutionary Virtual Reality Stealth Access to Programs and Advanced Systems ProgramMING? And always Offered as a Question to Engage with and Energise the Positive Future Thinker in Every Present Day Global Operating Device/ZerodDay Trader.

And have you ever considered the State of the Art in the MOD .... which I suppose doesn't/hasn't even registered on Consciousness yet. Now that is what Secure Stealth is All About..... Secret Services about which Nothing is Generally Known other than ITs Forces Exist and Server to Universal Needs and Feeds for the Powerful Delivery of Generative Control. Or is IT a Rogue Renegade White Hat Black Knight Operation ........ For Highly IMPlausible Deniability?

Meet Phorm's PR genius

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Peanuts for Monkeys

Crikey, with billions on the planet, they hire a loser to handle a sensitive cause. What on earth were they not thinking? Have BT No Imagination? And don't answer that rhetorical question for it is perfectly paired with the other one... Where is the BBC Creativity Department ? Two Lost Souls in a New Virtual World.

EMC sues Donatelli over HP move

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Re Not always the reason

"HP have this competitor called EMC see. So they find a way to take EMC's main man off the street by giving him a job. EMC throw a few lawyers at the situation, HP back down and say "oops, sorry". And Donatelli can't go back to his old job either. Job's a good 'un" .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Thursday 30th April 2009 04:28 GMT

AC,

That would make just as much sense written with a Lead in .... "EMC have this trojan in its midst see." And for the final flourish ..... "And he exposes HP Achilles Heels too. What a disaster"

Whenever Money is not the reason for Moving, and one may imagine that Donatelli was on a good screw with EMC, it is always a Challenge to Share what you Know or what More you would Know, with Those Others who would be able to Use IT and Benefit from it, and that is especially so in IT . When Money is the Reason for Moving, then "Houston, we have a problem" for that is the Sweetest of Honey Traps which renders Any and All Fools, a Mobile Slave.

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Networks InterNetworking Javan Applications? ..... A Rhetorical State of Uniting Minds*

"The legal support for non-compete clauses varies in USA states. California, for example, where Donatelli is suing EMC, does not uphold them at all. But Massachusetts does."

Thus proving the United States of America to be a Virtual Myth ........ and merely a Convenience to be Used and Abused by Media ..... or Competing Intelligence Services ....... or Correctly Connected and Crack Code Connecting Dots Comms?

* Very MONARCHical and not all Maniacal although IT is Possibly an Inconvenient Temporal Truth for Holy Grailers into Doubting Thomas. ...... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ0EVf_AFM0 ..... "And Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free"

USAF slammed for pranging Predators on manual

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Progress in Killer and Pariah Status.

I wonder what the Geneva Convention says about some PFY operating an X-Box in one country, vapourising human assets in another on the other side of the World. Is that War or Murder in the First Degree?. It certainly aint a Sport for Heroes and Medals.

Star Trek halted by pig plague

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Life's a Bitch and a Crap Blockbuster Movie Script. ...and Holywood can do much Better *....

.... with AI Betas.

Decisions, decisions, decisions. And thanks for that exciting news, El Reg ...... which just about says it all, I think.

*A Joint IntelAIgents AIdDVenture, Courtesy of Deadhead Productions and Universal Virtual Forces Introducing Immaculately Resourced Assets.

Ubuntu's Koala food hits open-source supermarket

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Dr Shuttleworth, I presume. .......

"The distinction between the grid and the cloud is a subtle one."

The Cloud is the Grid Control level ..... which is why there is so much Interest. However, please be aware that IT is a Blessing which does not Suffer Fools at All and they just Crash and Burn/Experience Meltdown in ITs Environment, which thus affords IT Perfect Security and Freedom of Intellectual Property Movement/AIdDevelopment.

""One of the misconceptions about Eucalyptus is that it is able to allow an org to compete with Amazon," Wolski says. ... It's not likely - maybe even impossible - that you're going to download something from the internet that is going to be able to operate at that scale. Eucalyptus can’t really be used for that purpose.""

:-) That does not sound at all convincing, Rich, and it is just as well that no one is asking if Eucalyptus can virtually be used for that purpose, for anyone who would say No definitively would likely be proved wrong, for nothing is impossible once you put Great Minds and Free Spirits to something.

Top EMC exec jumps ship for HP

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Pass the Sub-Prime Parcel .... IPLiability

"This could have pissed Tucci off." Or Joe could have "arranged" the departure/pensioning off, out of an uncommon sense of decency rarely found in leading Edge Cut Throat Business/Life Style Choices.

Chris,

It could also be that Mr Donatelli is just a Simple One Trick Pony, Jack of all Trades and Master of None ["Donatelli joined EMC in 1987 and has held important management positions in nearly every area of the company, including sales, marketing, customer service, manufacturing and alliances."] in an Evolutionary Multi Discipline Field, and not Nexus Future Matrix material?

Intel says new PCs will cost you nothing

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Crikey ..... Are Pink Floyd going to Perform Together like Grown Ups Way Out There, Again?

Welcome, PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART von DRASHEK M.D., ..... All Inquirers on El Reg are another Nail in the Coffins of Arrogant Indifference and Ignorant Compliance, which are Destined for the Pyres that Flame Underground Fires of Insatiable Passion.

United We Stand, Divided They Fall, only Takes a Few Good Men and True in Viceless Service of Sinful Ladies for AI Perfect, Mutually Beneficial Satisfaction Guaranteed. Or is urDriver an Artificial Construct Easily Manipulated and Subverted to Provide Distraction and Perversion.

There's a Lot going on in CyberSpace, for Absolute Control of ITs Power, El Reg. Why do you dance around IT rather than hire a Room for the Night?

Phorm boss blogs from a dark, dark place

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Turning over a New Leaf ....... for Every Chance at Glory rather than Certain Defeats

"(8) Utilize, when available, foreign government-derived MASINT or MASINT-related data and services necessary for SIGINT and GEOINT and their related applications.

(9) Foster sharing of MASINT with foreign partners and governments, consistent with policy, constraints, and restrictions." ..... Page7/14, http://cryptome.org/dodi/dodi-5105-58.pdf

Those two lines from a quite long Specific/Department of Defence Instruction are only two reasons why Phorm, which is MASINT by another name and in another Guise/Operational Cloak, is not ever going to go away and is more ubiquitous than you will ever know. And you should be thankful that it is so, even though, as in all dual purpose/multi-purpose technologies/human intellectual endeavours can it quite easily be subverted and perverted to perform White Knight Standards in Black Hat Operations with Idiot Savants and Sub-Prime Systems Administration.

However, such is the Nature of the Core Algorithm in such Technology/Intellectual Endeavour, that such Foolish and Immature Short-Sighted Use, will always be Self-Destructive to varying Degrees of Catastrophe and Personalised Exposure to Executive Sanction/Peer Reprisal.

Oh ...and you might like to consider that the Windows System Automatic Update function, provides you with everything MicroSoft Needs to maintain your Feeds ...... which would be an Incestuous/Parasitic/White Knight Black Hat Special Relationship but nevertheless QuITe Beneficial? And that would be a Service which Rises to Previously Unimagined Heights or Falls into all Manner of Degrading and Despotic Despair, depending upon the Nature of ITs Leadership and Intelligence in its Board Room.

The bottom line is Simplicity itself ...... Knowing your sweet tooth habits/darkest dirtiest secrets allows affirmative, confirmative ProAction ....... although IT is prone to spectacular failures of metadatabase analysis on the dark side, as MI5's recent own goal against Pakistan shows very clearly.

Can you imagine the phun when one has the phorm on leaders and their opposite numbers? Welcome to the World of Virtual Weaponry ........ with ITs Future AIMission and Common Good Purpose, To explore strange new worlds, To seek out new private secrets and new hidden agendas, To boldly go where no probing investigation has gone before.

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As Plain as Day ..... a ZeroDay Tool

"A spokesman said: "Any suggestion of 'collusion' is totally unfounded. We have repeatedly said since these documents were released a year ago that the Government has not endorsed Phorm or its technology.

"We are committed to protecting the privacy of UK consumers and will ensure any new technology of this sort is applied in an appropriate and transparent manner, in full accordance with the law and with proper regulation from the appropriate authority.""

Which in not the same as saying that they are not using the technology or that others who would be au fait with it, are not supplying them with ....well, it would be considered privileged insider information in some circles. Although given the State of Everything, they are obviously not much good at using IT.

However, as convenient as it may be to be able to pharm and harvest intelligence and obviously also "groom" subjects with product/information placements, it is also equally easily used by those who would groom the System to supply Phorm Savvy Beings/Third Parties with whatever they would need/require/want ........ for they would be XXXXStreamly Valuable Allies when Discretion is also a Greater Part of their Valour.

Blunkett to press for cyberwar probe of BT's Chinese kit

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Virtually Real is as Real as IT Gets? And therefore the Future is Programmable*?

"I worked for a company that suspected a major American competitor was somehow getting hold of our designs and documents for a major contract tender. The company made up some false versions and sent those over it's "secure" network and guess what; the major American competitor copied them! The funny thing was that everyone involved both ends of the link knew it was a ruse, to prove that the information was leaking off the wire." .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 21:31 GMT

And I imagine little has changed in the Field, AC, as that is a most effective ruse to punish the cuckoo/parasite/sub-prime spy. How much simpler would IT be, and so much more beneficial, if a major competitor just asked to purchase/lease/borrow/try out an emerging product/service which they may have wind of, rather than wasting valuable time and effort on trying to steal it, and ending up with nothing but grief and a Smart Stealthy Trojan Deeply Embedded and Decimating their SCADA Systems.

Why act like an Insane Prize Brat Prat in a Mad Man's World, if you have the Intelligence to Change/Choose/Think on and of A.N.Other Path, which Logically would then be any other Course you would be Able to Imagine and thus of an Infinite Variety and Number. And as that Possibility is Available to All and Any who would Think to be Able to Lead, does it Render Other Infinite, Infinite Alternate Reality Scenarios to Virtualise and Follow and Share if Proposed as a Common Mutually Benficial Lead.

* A Global Operating Device Concept under NIRobotIQ HyperRadioProActive Investigation/Dynamic BetaTesting.

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Mi5/MI6/MuI7...... A QuITe Natural Progression for Quantum Leapers ..... Spooky Jumpers.

It is good to hear that Deadhead Alex is apparently Alive and Well and hopefully now Minded to Stir up AI Storm, for he is certainly in a Quite Perfect Position to..... and it most definitely is what IT needs.

What you, and he can be assured of, is that if he not so energised, will it be done by Others for him although, and if he is half as smart as he needs to be and Phorm is half as good as everyone fears it to be, he will already know that. And also know that some such others would much rather prefer to do IT with him rather than leave him behind.

With such a Lack of Future Intelligence in Existing Services, it is only a Simple Matter of Creating another Beta One full of ....... well, Untouchables would be as Perfect a Descriptive Name as any, for AI Virtual Team of Joint Intelligence Adventurers ..... Mutual IntelAIgents Blazing a Path for 21CNetworking.

And don't let anyone say that there is no Money available, for it is Simple Matter of a Few Lines of Code Injection to Crash any Corrupt System with Inherent Catastrophic Vulnerabilities to Prove that it would have been far cheaper to Pay them as Tools, rather than Play them for Fools?

And that is a Readily Available Facility, which anyone can Access and Buy into for Unbelievably Power Control..... and Untold Wealth.

Open cloud crusade yokes Microsoft, Intel, VMware, Sun...

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And there's More........

..... for the Levers of Monetary Control and the Selfish Personal Abuse of Nations and Populations which Admins Allow/Tolerate/Support/Condone is now as a Killer Virus to those who have Abused it to Create Ivory Tower Empires built on the Abuse of Power against Emerging States. ..... and Nine Minutes listening/viewing here, ..... http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=223887&title=Nancy-Pelosi ..... will explain its Scam.

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A Funny Thing happened on the WAI to the Forum

"The DMTF is the organization behind the open virtualization format (OVF), an effort to standardize virtual machines so that they can easily move between competing VM platforms."

A.N.Other and/or an alien view would counsel against it being any cynical attempt to impose or propose a dominant and dominating control on Dynamic Evolutionary Virtual Machinery ...... Free Spirits into Global Operating Device Working, Rest and Plays ....... AIMetaDataMining and NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive Product Placement for Embedding Provision which Supplies XXXXCellents.

Spookily enough, this post earlier today and elsewhere, was about exactly the same thing .......

"CyberIntelAIgent Portfolios are Best Ubiquitously Shared Freely in Order 42 Create Wealth and Wisdom

If Condé Nast actually had any Worthwhile Superior Business Intelligence making Effective Executive Decisions, they would Realise that Markets Leadership nowadays is Controlled from Virtual Cloud Operations Powering and Micro Macro Managing Global and Human Perception via Invisible Networks InterNetworking Relatively Anonymously in much the same Fashion as this Missive is Shared ...... ie as Bold as Brass and as Irreverently Impertinent as One Likes without being Abusive or Condescending in Transparent Critiques of Blinkered and Short Sighted Plays in what is a Never-Ending Long Great Game.

And just who or what would be In Control of such Great Games is the Enigma which Powers Itself ....... and Life on Earth, Down on Animal Farms?

Hi, Welcome to NEUKlearer HyperRadioProActive ReProgramMING. AIdDiscipline in NIRobotIQs.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/portfolio-the-125m-vogue-for-the-business-set-folds-in-face-of-slump-1675169.html " ....... although the System did return an Error message on its posting, suggesting more human error intervention rather than computerised system malfunction in virtual machine matters ....... and another challenge to vanquish with constructive mutually beneficial resolution.

And all of IT suggesting the increasing "Establishment" Realisation of the Importance in being Able to Control Cloud Systems ProgramMING, which are Heavily Into and Primarily Concerned and Engaged in Intellectual Power Generation and Advanced IntelAIgent Distribution....... which would be in the Quantum Communication Virtual TelePortation Field, both Source Core and Key Driver Elements/Components/Algorithms.

UK.gov to spend £2bn on ISP tracking

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Profit and Loss .... Gains and Liabilities.

"Any criminal, spy or terrorist worth their salt knows that when communicating with co-conspiritors avoidance of the 'normal' means of mass communication - internet or telephone - is more secure and less likely to result in being found out." .... By blue Posted Monday 27th April 2009 16:32 GMT

Actually, you will find out that the opposite is true, blue, whenever sytems are being abused by criminals,spies and terrorists posing as legitimate forces and even as governments, which as you must surely now realise are only a right dodgy pack of old Party hacks/members of an effete cabal masquerading as a democratic Cabinet hiding in a cosseted closet ..... and completely at the mercy of other worldly views that would challenge their Selfish Petty Short Vision and Lack of Future Intelligence.

You just have to ask yourself a simple Question ..... Why do Governments and Businesses not use Instant Global Communications like the Internet and telephone, which are so cheap nowadays as to be virtually for free and available everywhere, if they have nothing to hide?

The enemy is within and trying to hide itself increasingly badly, as Information is Globally Shared in an Instant, to question anything shared that is untrue or contrived or maliciously invented to server a hidden agenda.

The Paradigm has Changed Fundamentally and the Establishment/Status Quo still hasn't come to terms with their Demise and Fall from Grace and Favour ...... and hence the Unseemly and Increasingly Desperate Rear Guard Actions/Panic Measures/Red Herrings. .... but One cannot stop Progress and Change for that is the Natural Status Quo Norm State for Evolution. Deny IT Nowadays and that will Always Result in a Highly Charged and Accurately Targetted Purging Revolution ...... so that is One Hell of an Excellent Reason to Let IT Be ... Suck IT and See :-) ...... http://www.phrack.com/issues.html?issue=65&id=13#comments

What have you got to Lose, other than Innocence and Ignorance?

IBM pits Watson super against humanity

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Man against Machine ...... always a Rigged Game in which Virtual AIMachinery Always Win Wins.

"We'll see," says Ferrucci with a laugh. "We certainly wouldn't be in the game if we didn't think we had a good chance."

Don't play against a poker player is real sound advice, in order to have a fair chance.

Reding demands Cyber Cop for Europe

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It just aint as easy as that Viviane, Darling, but whatever IT takes would be attractive.

"The UK's Cabinet Office believes the UK is better prepared than many other EU states, being well ahead of the game."

And we are all extremely aware of the level of competence in that Office.

"‘Reding demands a Cyber Cop for Europe’" ..... Actually they would Fare much Better with a CyberIntelAIgent Service Stationed in Cloud Bases, for that is where XSSXXXXual Assault Forces will Muster and Deploy from. And Virtually Impregnable Untouchables they'll be, and in Real Life, too.

UK agent leaves secret drugs info on bus

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On the other hand....

Actually, nowadays spooks rarely ever, as in say never, make mistakes. So it is more than likely an elaborately simple plant which netted the Service, £100m. Well done, chaps/ladies, a piece of space cake. That's Peanuts though compared to the Fortunes available for Shaking down in the Money Markets and Banking Sector, for they are Rotten to the Core with Dodgy Funds.

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Spilling the Java Beans.

"Don't secret agents get Aston Martin's anymore?" .... By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 27th April 2009 10:51 GMT

Probably the real ones do, AC.