Good, can we now have sense from Ofcom to force Sky and I note certain freeview channels to do the same.

is required (ala UK/EU) and of course a Data protection commission with real teeth (ie unlike the current UK situation).

So that's personal data sorted from a policy and law requirement. Now to get to the issue if greater security. - involves constant testing/pen testing/patching and machine sure a decent ISO27001/2 standards are used, which means the application AND the backend infrastructure.

All you can you can is mitigate risks, not completely remove them.

Clouds don't make this any better worse, just mean you have to be more careful as to how you define security, check/audit and continue the process with vendors of your choice, just like any sub-contract be it manufacuring widgets, off-shoring call-centres and so on. You'll still need a large percentage of man-hours to manage the relationship which alot of people don't take into account!

just plain old bad driving, you could make the yellow (amber) light last 2 minutes and you'd still get people trying for a darwin award when the light goes to red.

the lights green, whats going to happen to it... its will at some stage turn to a red light, it's not rocket science. If you drive with no anticipation towards a green light this is plan ole bad driving - end of.

not in the UK I live in.

usual story from the USA ;-)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/mop_on_the_spirit_at_last/

I live just a few miles north of Oxford and whats more worrying to most is the fact that the camera will also record audio which seems to be a major shift in whats going to be held and who is will be accessible by.

Student discussions is one thing, but if conversations containing commercial or political (local or national) nature is being recorded inadvertantly and help who can get at this stuff - newpapers won't need to 'hack' voicemails anymore just give the taxi drivers a few quid!

I hope along with the cameras there are BIG signs reminding you that you are being recorded for video AND audio.

or use several AWS instances ;-)

surely we should bne thinking about time to be usuable once logged in? We all know Windows doesn't start alot of things till after user login (first used in NT4), so this is what we should be measuring, not how quick it gets to login screen. Reading the article they COULD be using this test but it's not clear.

Also things like with WIndows you NEED some sort of anti-virus installed as well so again not that real world, but looking encouraging and we'll see how many of the extra features not yet implemented impact this.

yup we need more detail on the Comp Sciences split - Computer Studies, IT, Business computing, Computer games != Computer Science
I know several Computer Studies courses you can pass without getting anywhere near writing code or understand programming at all.

From what I can see this data include Computer Studies and Computer Science, These are diff degrees in the UK. You can quite easily get a Comp Studies (esp from a ex-poly) without touching a line of code and just know how to drive Photoshop. dreamweaver etc.

The data needs more detail to split out a proper Comp Sci degree from the Studies degrees

One small step ahead of the kit readily available the UK police for a while now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8549875.stm

Of course we've got decent Data Protection Legislation and one dat we'll get a DPC with teeth to enforce them !

yup I meant SSL V3 - thanks for the correction.

Still horrendous that many of the UK gvmt are still on IE6, usually as they have so many stupid apps written that break if up don't use IE6. yes IE7 or 8 break the apps as well cos the devs used so many IE6 specifics.

Still using alot of IE6 even pre SP1 so SSL v2 doesn't work and they are wanting to use more and more 'cloud' solutions in their IT strategy #fail

Oh dear we seem to have broke Google, ah well back to work then ;-)