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Sorry to rain on your parade, but DD was not standing for a safe seat. He was standing in a winnable seat, but it was no way safe, his performance was okay but not outstanding. As things stand, he should move up the list to a better seat on the council at the next elections if one should become available.
He is still trying to pretend to be an upstanding member of the community on FB, though he did have a pop at Chris Evans this morning. Only to be corrected by Dave Auld's wife. 
veni bibi saltavi
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I'm sure he claimed it would be a safe seat as a reward when he stood for the unwinnable one the previous time.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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He did indeed claim that, but he also claimed Ian Botham was dead so, you know.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Perhaps if we stop doing the WSO CCC he may come back.
I'm thinking that he's thinking "my work there is done" <evil laugh=""> DD 
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you forgot the
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Yes you are right I did*.
*the post didn't format as I intended
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thats okay, my work is done here!
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I wonder how many CP members were standing for election in some capacity in the last elections in the UK.
I wonder how many have stood, or even are currently serving in elected office elsewhere in the world.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I think his candidacy was doomed as soon as he skipped the photo op with Wand Erection. 
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As per that hack that has been reported to have occurred for all US government employees information, how in the hell could they have been so open to such an act? I have done 3rd level support for ADP and Ceridian while at RIM and those systems were majorly locked down. This is completely baffling as to the fact that there was no encryption or obfuscation considering this information was outward facing.
http://www.dailydot.com/politics/opm-hack-house-hearing/[^]
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Remember, we're talking about the government.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I keep thinking about that famous quote from Armageddon -- "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
Government security? Yeah, right. That fits in the same block of oxymorons as military intelligence.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Coder (Hired) wrote: Remember, we're talking about the government.
I was going to say the same thing. 
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Yes, but it's the most powerful government in the world, one that can (fbofw) project its power around the world and (again, fbofw) kill insurgents from afar in hostile countries like Pakistan, Libya, etc.
It boggles the mind.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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The good news is that it's probably less incompetent than the governments that are its adversaries. So we have been reading their records for years.
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...and a government that wants backdoors into all encrypted systems on top of that.
Not only are they clueless, their advisors are also clueless.
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dandy72 wrote: ...and a government that wants backdoors into all encrypted systems on top of that
Maybe they decided to provide such backdoors on their own systems.. to set an example for the rest of the business community 
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Information is meant to be free.
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Unless it's on Azure, then it costs an arm and a leg.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Most of the time it will be the responsibility of the IT directors or managers.
It's not uncommon for people in these positions to have little to no real knowledge about security or IT for that matter.
Many of them may simply be on a career course to find their way to the 'top' and are not particularly interested in the actual work they do.
What can happen is that the IT technicians(people like you and me) make it quite clear what the risks are however they are not always listened to, after all why would a person who is on their way to the 'top' defer to some pipsqueak developer who knows nothing of the world of business(satire intended).
I would be willing to bet that the technical people were up in arms about the security risks and were simply not listened to.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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On average it seems to me that Gov't IT is about 5-10 years behind current practice, depending on the Department.
An interesting tidbit I heard on NPR about the hack in question, is that it occurred a few days after the government shutdown. When the entire 300+ person IT department was sitting at home.
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I have seen others write something similar to what you say.
However given how poor security and practise is in much of the private sector it does make me wonder how terrible the 5-10 year differences in practise are.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Simple. Lowest bid.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: attackers could potentially decrypt data if they found the keys
Well quite. How have locksmiths got away with it for so long? No more keys! No more keys!
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you'll always find someone willing to scotch tape the keys to the door knob....
they're the same people that you can ask them to go ask their manager for the new bladeless scissors
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