25th November 2007 Archive
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Top US engineer in piss-off-everybody car fuel solution
Farmers, oil barons, terrorists, Honda: All bastards
An American aerospace engineer and tech author has written a book suggesting that America - and with it the rich West - should free itself from dependence on oil, as oil money is the primary driver behind jihadi extremism. Robert Zubrin has an impressive panoply of technical credentials. His first degree was in maths and he …
Science 25 Nov 2007, 08:02
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Running queries on the HMRC database fiasco
Comment Dis-information systems management
When it comes to talking about last week's data loss by the HMRC, I was told not to use precious words outlining my feelings of rage and bafflement that a government body can be so cavalier with so much data because, presumably, we all feel the same. So I will simply note, for the record, that my gob has been totally smacked …
Security 25 Nov 2007, 08:02
