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more irritating news
Mar. 30th, 2007 09:08 amI should stop reading the news as it generally makes me mad. But for some stupid reason I like to stay informed.
"Just one in 40 police officers are available to respond to 999 calls in some areas, it has been revealed." Further, "the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said there were 800 officers on an afternoon shift in a command area of one unnamed force, but only 20 free for emergency response." I shouldn't be surprised at this unacceptable state of affairs, but somehow, I still am.
"Iran may delay its plan to release the only woman among 15 captured Royal Navy crew because of the UK's "incorrect attitude", an official has said." No, no, you have it all wrong. Stating that you must release them, without even demanding an apology, and complaining about one of them being paraded on television reciting from scripts under duress, is not an incorrect attitude. Flattening half of Tehran with Tornado bombers and/or dropping a company of Royal Marines and SAS in there to extract the sailors is an incorrect attitude. But this prolonged stupidity just makes the latter more likely.
"A woman who had just left her family for a man she met on the internet, died after slipping on stairs following a drinking session, an inquest has heard." Who says there's no such thing as karma?
"Hackers have stolen information from at least 45.7 million payment cards used by customers of US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx, and UK outlet TKMaxx." That's pretty bad, but it goes on to say, "We don't know what was in those files - the technology the hacker used prevents TJX from knowing, and also the fact that TJX system routinely deletes files," the spokesperson added." Which is utterly retarded; are they claiming that nobody knows what data they store, but they know when it's been copied? "The data was accessed on TJX's systems in Watford, Hertfordshire, and Massachusetts over a 16-month period from July 2005 and covers transactions made by credit and debit card dating as far back as December 2002." Hmm, that looks like at least a 2 and a half year retention period - hardly 'routinely deleted'. 'For most people, the card details stolen would no longer be relevant.' - am I the only person to have had the same card number for about a decade?
"Just one in 40 police officers are available to respond to 999 calls in some areas, it has been revealed." Further, "the report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary said there were 800 officers on an afternoon shift in a command area of one unnamed force, but only 20 free for emergency response." I shouldn't be surprised at this unacceptable state of affairs, but somehow, I still am.
"Iran may delay its plan to release the only woman among 15 captured Royal Navy crew because of the UK's "incorrect attitude", an official has said." No, no, you have it all wrong. Stating that you must release them, without even demanding an apology, and complaining about one of them being paraded on television reciting from scripts under duress, is not an incorrect attitude. Flattening half of Tehran with Tornado bombers and/or dropping a company of Royal Marines and SAS in there to extract the sailors is an incorrect attitude. But this prolonged stupidity just makes the latter more likely.
"A woman who had just left her family for a man she met on the internet, died after slipping on stairs following a drinking session, an inquest has heard." Who says there's no such thing as karma?
"Hackers have stolen information from at least 45.7 million payment cards used by customers of US retailer TJX, which owns TJ Maxx, and UK outlet TKMaxx." That's pretty bad, but it goes on to say, "We don't know what was in those files - the technology the hacker used prevents TJX from knowing, and also the fact that TJX system routinely deletes files," the spokesperson added." Which is utterly retarded; are they claiming that nobody knows what data they store, but they know when it's been copied? "The data was accessed on TJX's systems in Watford, Hertfordshire, and Massachusetts over a 16-month period from July 2005 and covers transactions made by credit and debit card dating as far back as December 2002." Hmm, that looks like at least a 2 and a half year retention period - hardly 'routinely deleted'. 'For most people, the card details stolen would no longer be relevant.' - am I the only person to have had the same card number for about a decade?
