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Oh pedant, I thoroughly apologise for my ignorance. May my vegetables all die, my breath smell for eternity and my armpits flood with hair and engulf the earth.

Does it matter? Governments are bullies. http://www.vvsss.com/grid/xkcd-on-crypto.gif Here in the UK, we already have to hand over our keys or be chucked in jail.

As far as we know. The Russians weren't always that honest about who they blew up by accident.

If these are the problems you are trying to solve, just don't buy something with iOS on it.

That looks painful. I'd rather like to move it to an SOA and split it into logical feature partitions and use service composition and windows workflow to integrate it all. Typicall…

"Vista Security 2012". It can't touch the root certs as you need elevated privileges to do that. The entire thing hijacks the user's shell via the registry. You can log in as anoth…

Agree about Notes being as awful. I had to suffer that from '99-'02. Looked like it improved after that but you can't polish a turd as they say. I've watched SharePoint go with a s…

VS2010. Mainly the fact that the user interface is painfully slow[1] (either that or I'm unreasonably fast which is rediculous as Vim can keep up with me) and it just dies about 5 …

Fair point. I'll give you that.

Visual Studio is an awful product. It's bloated, performs badly, expensive and extremely unreliable.

Don't they run Django? Is there something we should know about?

Forget the UI. It's not important. It MUST be common user functionality both for private and corporate users. People have completely unjustified trust for these cloud-based service…

Because there are consultants. That is the only reason!

SLL certificates bring nothing other than a false peace if mind. I've seen fake antivirus software that goes to great lengths to provide verified (!) SSL encrypted pages to steal y…

I'd say that's not necessarily an advantage. Sharding is incredibly complicated to get right considering all factors such as balancing and recovery. I'd rather partition the data b…

You HAVE to buy Outlook to get the PST file out by syncing your local outlook with the Exchange Live server which is unacceptable. You can't access the data any other way.

That will end up in pain and tears for thousands of students and staff alike. My trial of Office 365 lasted 45 minutes i.e. until I realised how much pain it is to get data back ou…

The irony of this is that it's actually quite easy to build a document store on top of PostgreSQL that performs very well indeed. I tried it. I used a similar approach to the one d…

I think the rediculous thing is more that he spent that much time making a blog post because he made a mistake whilst obviously trying to do something quickly without thinking.

I think the blogger was being an idiot. You should check the authenticity of what you are downloading, not just snag it. It's like eating a kebab dropped in the street.

Interesting - thanks for the link.

Centralised DNS = bad. That's the issue.

Yes the DPA does cover you on the same basis that linked parties on a credit file can be obtained under the act.

Stored lists of related individuals are covered by the DPA 1998, just not their personal details other than their name. This is not explicit but implied by the fact that related pe…

And you believe the mind and its internal processes are capable of surviving that long even with no ageing? As with all chaotic processes, I reckon it will decay faster than our no…