badgerx16

Your recognising it is even more of a rarity

How on earth did the 9/11 attackers work out what might be 'critical' if they didn't have access to this information ? Who would think that the White House and the Pentagon might be important components of the US military-industrial complex. Some clues to "critical" installations, ( by this cable's definition ): Does it have bl00dy great dish antennae ? Is it a friggin' great pylon carrying high tension cables ? Does it say US Navy on the side / deck / nameplate, etc ? Is it a factory manufacturing weapons components ? Is it a nuclear power station ? etc, etc They're hardly secret installations, I can see one of them from my house ! ( Well from the sea wall 100 yards away ).

Having posted 3 'favourites' I saw 2 films yesterday that come close - 'Apollo 13' and 'The Lion in Winter'.

I though it was just a standard form of introduction for a member of the Government.

riddle

( bull's ) nose

Did you do an update of MWB before scanning your PC ? It should sort it : http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-internet-security-2010

Hijackthis from Trend Micro :http://www.majorgeeks.com/Trend_Micro_HijackThis_d5554.html

Papadopoulos

Regan

Lurk(io)

Maybe we needed Storrie & Redknapp on the team ? Not enough padding in the bid submission envelope.

How did we come 4th out of 4 when 2 of the others were Spain/Portugal and Belgium/Holland ?

How much dedicated memory is there on the graphics card ? Playing graphics intensive games these days you would probably need to look at a minimum 1Gb on the card. If there isn't enough, the game will start to hog the PC's system memory, and that slows things down, particularly if you end up with memory swapping on and off the disc cache.

Looking out of my office window the sun is shining, the sky is absolutely clear, and the roads and pavements are ice free. It's really grim up north ( west ). ( Now, if that's not tempting fate I don't know what is )

If he wasn't authorised to copy the data to a USB stick, he shouldn't have been able to - the technology is quite simple and widely available, we use it at work. If he was authorised to copy it away, it should have been logged and monitored,- such a download should have flagged up an immediate warning. Again, we do this so how come the US military don't appear to ?

If it is so important, you put systems in place that prevent data extraction; you can lock out USB or other exchangeable media, you set 'read-only' attributes, you inhibit 'copy & paste' functionality, etc. In this way as many people as you want can read the data, but you can sure as hell ensure that the whole database is not simply downloaded and carried out in some PFC's pocket.

The dual core has a much better CPU rating, http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php, but remember that overall PC performance can depend on all the major internal components; mobo BUS, memory, HDD, optical drive, and even cooling efficiency.

If the US intelligence information is so damned important and secret, how come two and a half MILLION people could access the system, and why was it so easy to extract it ?

The point is that you state that the reasons you quote would be the 'claimed' justification. What is necessary is independently verified evidence, as was so abjectly missing from the Iraq cassus belli. Without this, the probability is that such a war would be started purely at the prompting of the Saudis, and a fig leaf cover story constructed to hide this.

Given the situation regarding Iraqi WMD's, I would tend to the latter with some justification. I just don't trust US foreign policy.

I assume that the charges against him are a resurrection of the ones the Swedish authorities dropped in August as having no foundation ? And personally, if the US does decide to attack Iran, I would prefer to know the real reason for it, rather than whatever trumped up 'dodgy dossier' fairy story gets released to the western media and swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the Daily Heil & Torygraph.

nuclear

This is the same Winston Churchill who was a LIBERAL MP from 1906 to 1922 ?

You know f()ck all about the public sector, much the same as every other subject. As I stated earlier in this thread, I pity you.