Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

Excellent read

All that false bravado , or tosh , bullsh@t , fear mongering . well lying really seems second nature to the EU .

They won't bully us as long as we have a strong team up front , the absolute worse case would be Corben in power .

Don't worry Freda it's only three weeks away , you can nip in to the polling station and make your mark , oh I forgot .

Don't upset him VIC ,Fred does NOT vote or answer questions .However he would love to see Diane Abbott sorting out the countries finances :)

Corben hates capitalism and capitalists, just like Fred, notwithstanding Fred's ownership of shares in several companies that is.

George surely that's not true ,I would imagine he gives all his gains towards those migrants and the like , you know those in the camps over yonder . The ones he avoids when he goes on his hols to France .

corbyn and his puppet-master (and fred) would have the country back to the 70s where the unions ruled (to the detriment of all including their members) and many industries were nationalised


those older than some will remember docks which were a thieves paradise for the stevedores, steel works where there were strikes about who should draw chalk lines on a steel plate, and a railway system which was always being hit by strikes

that is not to say that privatisation has been a saviour of these industries ...... far from it, for there remains some pretty dire (and greedy) management albeit that there remain some pretty obstructive unions as well
however, that is no reason to re-nationalise

How much would it cost to re-nationalise?
don't worry; that is capital expenditure we are told, so borrowing the mega sums is perfectly reasonable, or so we are told
i suppose corbyn could always propose the chavez system which involves no compensation at all

One of the many benefits of privatisation was the removal of the pension liability from the public to the private sector, and whilst many private sector pensions/pensioners will disagree (rightly in many cases), bringing that cost back on the taxpayer would be economic suicide

Calls for Arsene Wenger to be investigated for match fixing after journalist's memo records him saying, 'I hope Middlesbrough can win on Sunday.'.

Cynic

That's what younger voters who didn't live in the 70's don't realise, what it was like when the unions were a law unto themselves. Liverpool held ransom to Derrick Hatton , the Winter of discontent when people couldn't bury the dead ., The three day week and the blackouts, Red Rob and Jack Dash, car and dock strikes.

ah yes; i'd forgotten about derek hatton, now transformed into a property developer

what price principles, one might ask?

Tory principles.

Perhaps he is a reformed man!

Any similarities with you?

absolutely :-)

"what price principles" was actually said to me many years ago by a very good solicitor - ie you may win the case, but is it actually worth the cost
there are quite frequent occasions when pragmatism or a commercial decision is the correct course of action

Red Fred has no principles.

The fat cat capitalist who bought all those gas,water , power and Royal Mail shares.

100% certain that mccluskey will have a union pension (and why not indeed), and that the money for that emanates from the stock markets

I have another serious concern: Teddy Bears - and other similar Blue Tooth linked toys and stuff.

Boy, 11, hacks cyber-security audience to give lesson on 'weaponisation' of toys
Reuben Paul, 11 tells conference that smart cars, fridges, lights and even teddy bears can be used to spy on or harm people

Reuben Paul showed how a teddy bear which can connect to the cloud can be hacked. An 11-year-old “cyber ninja” has stunned an audience of security experts by hacking into their Bluetooth devices to manipulate a robotic teddy bear, showing in the process how interconnected smart toys “can be weaponised”.

Reuben Paul, who is in sixth grade at school in Austin, Texas, and his teddy bear Bob wowed hundreds at a cyber-security conference in the Netherlands.

“From airplanes to automobiles, from smartphones to smart homes, anything or any toy can be part of the Internet of Things (IOT),” said the small kid pacing the huge stage at the World Forum in The Hague.

“From terminators to teddy bears, anything or any toy can be weaponised.”

To demonstrate he deployed his cuddly bear, which connects to the cloud via wifi and Bluetooth to receive and transmit messages.

Plugging into his laptop a device known as a “Raspberry Pi” – a small credit-card size computer – Reuben scanned the hall for available Bluetooth devices, and to everyone’s amazement including his own, suddenly downloaded dozens of numbers, including some of top officials.

Then using a computer language called Python he hacked into his bear via one of the numbers to turn on one of its lights and record a message from the audience.

“Most internet-connected things have a Bluetooth functionality ... I basically showed how I could connect to it, and send commands to it, by recording audio and playing the light,” he told AFP later.

“IOT home appliances, things that can be used in our everyday lives, our cars, lights refrigerators, everything like this that is connected can be used and weaponised to spy on us or harm us.”

They could be used to steal private information such as passwords, as remote surveillance to spy on kids, or employ GPS to find out where a person is, he said. More chillingly, a toy could say “meet me at this location and I will pick you up”, Reuben said.

His father, information technology expert Mano Paul, told how aged about six Reuben had revealed early IT skills.

Using a simple explanation from dad on how one smartphone game worked, Reuben then figured out it was the same kind of algorithm behind the popular video game Angry Birds.

“He has always surprised us. Every moment when we teach him something he’s usually the one who ends up teaching us,” Mano Paul told AFP.

But Paul said he been “shocked” by the vulnerabilities discovered in kids’ toys, after Reuben first hacked a toy car, before moving on to more complicated things.

“It means that my kids are playing with timebombs, that over time somebody who is bad or malicious can exploit.”

Now the family has helped Reuben, who is also the youngest American to have become a Shaolin Kung Fu black belt, to set up his CyberShaolin non-profit organisation.

Its aim is “to inform kids and adults about the dangers of cyber-insecurity”, Reuben said, adding he also wants to press home the message that manufacturers, security researchers and the government have to work together.

Reuben also has ambitious plans for the future, aiming to study cyber-security at either CalTech or MIT universities and then use his skills for good.

His a bit old for a Teddy bear ? That should worry him more.

The dad is on the make, and the son will be coming out soon.