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This topical ad featuring the Chancellor from data back-up specialists www.TotalRecallUK.net made Guido laugh out loud. They do of course have an obligatory Facebook "Help Track Down the Missing Benefits Disks" site as well.
Guido was not paid for this extra plug.
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Darling and Brown both lied to the House:
Nov. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. government department at the heart of a probe into how tax officials lost personal data and bank details on 25 million people said the computer system would have alerted senior staff that the information was being downloaded.
``It would normally come out in a printout and be passed to a senior manager,'' Patrick O'Brien, a spokesman for Revenue and Customs, said in an interview. ``You would know about it. It would immediately raise an alarm.''
The comments lend weight to claims yesterday by the opposition Conservatives that senior officials at Revenue and Customs had authorized the release of the data. Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, who called the data loss ``catastrophic,'' said it was the result of a junior member of staff breaking the rules.
they both lied about the NRock loan being secured as well. there is a subordinated loan which counts at the bottom of the heap and CANNOT be secured
Ed Testes for Chancellor. He is our only hope. A forward thinking dynamic 'judge me by results' type of man. He is our only hope.
Anyone else reckon HMRC will be spending a bit of time going through Total Recall's accounts?
If the government wants to firm up their story why don't they produce the 23-year-old 'lowly official' to admit to the world that he worked without supervision, that he dumped the data onto a disc without authorisation and that he sent it by post to save a few quid. He should at the very least be invited to appear before the Public Accounts Committee.
I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that the afore-mentioned 23 year old junior official has, while been wracked with guilt over his actions, gone for a long walk in the woods with some of his mum’s co-proxamol…
BROWN also lied yesterday with regards to the last 10 years being the lowest inflationin any decade.
I have found 84 ten year periods since 1830 that are lower.
Also the average annual inflation over the last 177years is lower than the last 10 years
2.58203% versus 2.637%
"Guido is more profitable than the Guardian"
Do you think your offering is in anyway comparable to the Guardian's? It's like me selling the Big Issue for the day and saying I'm more profitable than the Guardian. It's a meaningless comparison.
But since you did make the comparison... would be so bold as to tell us how much your adverts do make? And are you including the time you spend working (and at what hourly rate) on the blog in your calculations?
The comparison made was profitability.
No.
Guido would be even more profitable if he had the Grauniad's monopoly on non job adverts for the public sector.
What adverts?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Sorry Guido...
Anyway, this business about not spending money to remove the offending data before posting is a bit weird. How much are EDS charging for a single line of SQL that would take about 5 seconds to write (assuming someone has the rights to run it, which it appears they did)?
Is EDS value for money?
Anonymous said...
"BROWN also lied yesterday with regards to the last 10 years being the lowest inflationin any decade."
I suppose he meant RELEVANT decade, i.e. within living memory.
can't imagine what you're talking about
"How much are EDS charging for a single line of SQL that would take about 5 seconds to write "
You'd be surprised.
People read guido, the guardian is a fools rag and a rest home for polly fuckwit toynbee so no comparison realy one is a source of breaking news and comment the other is the guardian.
"The comparison made was profitability."
Ah, ok... but you understand why that's meaningless comparison?
"No"
Was that a "No" to the question of you calculating your own time and costs when working out your profitability? I would say a man of your unmistakable talents and high profile could command a decent whack for your musings and scoops on the open market, so if you're still making a profit even after calculating what your own efforts are worth, I take my hat off to you.
And another thing, as there are clearly more people reading GF than the gruniad, surely public sector jobs should be advertised on GF !
I can see Stanislav advising the good folk of Slough how to claim maximum benefits.
i see the govt used Mclarens departure to sneak out details of foot+mouth outbreak, introduction of HIPs and the list of special advisors working in govt (costing 5 million apparently)
anonymous 5:19 PM
I think you've made your point ad nauseum now John - so be good boy, tuck your shirt and your vital statistics safely into your underpants and fuck off back into retirement you boring grey cunt.
This advert in the SUN also caused me some amusement
Its juxtaposition with the article on the loss of 25 million records by HMCR is striking.
I loved this ad So relevant and so good.
But the rant I went into on my blog this morning was the best swearblogging entry to date...
Now I really am pissed off and will produce my best prose and swearing
does anyone know a good consumer offsite backup service?
Darling lied to the House when he claimed that he delayed his announcemet because senior bankers asked him to.
Senior bankers have denied asking him anything of the sort.
They also say they haven't been asked by the government to "monitor" peoples bank accounts (a gargantuan task) Another claim made in Parliament by Darling on Tuesday.
He has been caught lying bare-faced and must be sacked before he carries out his threat to resign.
holistic lesbian self-defence coordinator and ethnic minority cultural adminsitrator 5:28pm
Are you a Public Servant? Or do you need a degree to do that?
anonymous 5:02PM
He should at the very least be invited to appear before the Public Accounts Committee.
Oh fuck really! Along with Prime Cunt Brown and the Darling Cruds of HMRC, he had better come round here first and get these ten Albanians out of my house who're claiming to be me...my wife Nora...my 3 kids... Grannny...Grandad...Aunty Doris...the mother-in-law...and they've got all the papers to prove it too!
And as if that wasn't bad enough, now the buggers at the benefit office are threatening to prosecute me for attempted fraud. I feel like a foreigner in my own shite-arse of a country!
Anon. 4:42 & al., yes, Darling is toast, according to this Telegraph article.
Oh no-Brown is toast.
I ran a story LAST WEEK on the HMRC and it leads right up to Mr Brown:
http://bbc-biased.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-bbc-b-is-bringing-you-news-first-on.html
http://bbc-biased.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-this-mafia-needs-to-go.html
Snouts in the trough,off shore companies, cost cutting,the Lyons Review-and my sources say it is going to get worse.
Still most of the great and the good have nothing to worry about if the headchoppers have their personal data.....
There's a lot of child benefit fraud around.
This security breach could lead to international fraudsters emptying their relatives' bank accounts (and even their own) by mistake.
Pity we'll never know.
``It would normally come out in a printout and be passed to a senior manager,''
Well, that might have been normal 20 years ago, but now said manager will be on maternity leave or on an ethnic mentoring course or on holiday, or just having a duvet month. Not at their bloody desk, that's for sure.
A fucking Zip file haha ohh a password protected zip file scary eh! a fuckin 2 yr old with a speak and spell could break that.The icon must impress them looks secure.
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DES, I see the OCD isn't getting any better. Still, your spelling has improved so at least one of the medications is working....
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