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  1. Forget about Technology on Oxford City Council Mandates CCTV Cameras In Taxies by 2015 · · Score: 1

    Forget the technology angle. Be it a lace curtain, or a telephone or the Internet or a camera in the back of the taxi. This is British nature. They used to be really important in the world and controlled lots of dark skinned (and a couple of white skinned) races. Now that is all gone. There is nobody to boss around or control, colonial governors jobs go to Americans these days. So their neurosis grows.... They must manage and control something, so they do it to themselves. It's a nation of shopkeepers, curtain twitchers, and middle management. It will always be shit. Unless you have the money to buy space and privacy. The end.

  2. Re:The Cloud, obviously. on Which OSS Clustered Filesystem Should I Use? · · Score: 1

    Wait a minute. I'm a manager, and I've been reading a lot of case studies and watching a lot of webcasts about The Cloud. Based on all of this glorious marketing literature, I, as a manager, have absolutely no reason to doubt the safety of any data put in The Cloud.

    The case studies all use words like "secure", "MD5", "RSS feeds" and "encryption" to describe the security of The Cloud. I don't know about you, but that sounds damn secure to me! Some Clouds even use SSL and HTTP. That's rock solid in my book.

    And don't forget that you have to use Web Services to access The Cloud. Nothing is more secure than SOA and Web Services, with the exception of perhaps SaaS. But I think that Cloud Services 2.0 will combine the tiers into an MVC-compliant stack that uses SaaS to increase the security and partitioning of the data.

    My main concern isn't with the security of The Cloud, but rather with getting my Indian team to learn all about it so we can deploy some first-generation The Cloud applications and Web Services to provide the ultimate platform upon which we can layer our business intelligence and reporting, because there are still a few verticals that we need to leverage before we can move to The Cloud 2.0.

    Bullshit bingo!! Bingo!!

  3. Do like Linux... on Are Power Users Too Cool For Ubuntu Unity? · · Score: 1

    XFCE, or Awesome - if you're feeling particularly adventurous..

  4. Re:What if I don't mind? on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 2

    I think you really bought the maltodextrin to cut drugs, dealer. Especially with your nerdy background, perhaps you're somehow involved in the manufacture of controlled substances, whoever heard of 'edible oil sands'. Lock m' up.

  5. Re:OCZ on OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD · · Score: 1

    Supposedly the fixed one BSOD bug a few days ago. That wouldn't be with this controller anyway, but their record isn't spotless. Then again, Intel managed a SSD blemish too so... you're seeing an industry moving at breakneck speed, just make sure yours isn't on the line.

    Using OCZ 8 months now. I tend not to get BSOD's on Linux anyhow.