badgerx16

Sorry I don't - I'd just sit back and watch the fallout from the leak; all the confusion caused by additional security measures put in place due to the 'threat', all the panicked media stories, all the false alarms, will be doing my job for me. Maximum impact for minimum risk. And when I did decide to take my place in Paradise with the multitude of virgins, I would ensure I took 'true' infidels with me - I think that multitude would be far greater had I taken out, for instance, a US General, rather than a Danish lab technician.

I understand the point you are making perfectly, I just reject the premise on which it is founded.

But are there any companies with 'tenuous' links to the US that would not have been known as such were it not for this document ? I would suspect not, therefore it's a non-story.

The most powerful native British land mammal. ( Either that or we are grey haired, short sighted, irritable, tunnel dwellers ).

Even with one of these, who is going to target an insulin production facility in Denmark in order to target the US ? Go for off duty military personnel in Germany, or anything else more obviously identifiable with the States. By the definition of the full list, just about every economic or industrial site in the western world is of importance to the US, and therefore 'at risk'. It's far too general, and the response is predictably alarmist.

Thank f()ck for that

parking

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.