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New security for water supplies in Devon and Cornwall

Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 14:46 by John Sinteur in category: Security

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Bill Tupman, an expert on counter-terrorism from Exeter University, told BBC News: “The problem is trying to predict the mind of the al-Qaeda planner; there are so many things they might do.

“And it is also necessary to reassure the public that we are trying to outguess the al-Qaeda planner and we are in the process of protecting them from any threat.”

No, idiot, you need to convince the public to refuse to be terrorized.

Oh wait, that would make your job obsolete, right? Well, that explains your statements…


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  1. 8:46AM Sitting at my desk on the 98th floor I see a plane coming right for the building. 1 World Trade Center – September 11, 2001.

  2. Sky Lightening, there’s a difference between reasonable steps to guard against terrorist threats and encouraging ordinary people to a, Live in fear, every day which does the terrorists’ job for them. and b, to surrender our civil liberties.

Because if there’s one thing they desperately need in Haiti, its…

Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 13:43 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ

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  1. They make a good, washable, lightweight (low airfreight cost) mattress for people who might suddenly take a fancy to sleeping outdoors, say.

  2. Michael beat me to it. You’re being a bit dense here, John.

  3. Good find!

  4. Even though the other comments are very cogent, the sign is still a hoot!

How to categorize with the Dewy Decimeow system

Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 11:33 by John Sinteur in category: Great Picture


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  1. Aren’t cats just adorable?

  2. I think JS is just an old softie when it comes to the kittehs… I would like to see how the cats get into the 3rd thru the 7th baskets (from the bottom) – there would have to be some pretty heroic leaping and twisting – not to mention the casual disdain for the effort that would certainly be displayed after doing so.

Adobe apologizes for festering Flash crash bug

Posted on February 9th, 2010 at 6:40 by John Sinteur in category: Software

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An Adobe product manager has apologized for allowing a potentially serious bug in Flash Player to remain unfixed for more than 16 months.

The admission, by Emmy Huang, product manager for Flash, came a week after Apple CEO Steve Jobs lambasted Adobe engineers as “lazy” and said when Macs crash, “more often than not it’s because of Flash.” Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch struck back, insisting that at Adobe, “we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.”

The crash bug at issue in Huang’s blog post published over the weekend was reported in September 2008, but it has yet to be excised from release versions of Flash. She said a beta version of Flash scheduled for official release later this year has fixed the problem.

Pity the world has to rub your face in it before you admit it, Adobe.


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