Cite that law that killed CRTs, or fuck off. I think it was the free market - which you probably worship - flat panels got good enough and cheap enough that there wasn't enough demand for people to keep the high-end CRTs in stock.

Another syslog server costs peanuts, just has to be a bunch of disk with only port 514/udp listening. Shit, I use to run an internal CA which was more secure than these guys, because it was air-gapped. I know that doesn't scale, but we weren't charging people for certs, just doing it for internal use.

Mod parent funny. I live in the UK.

First they came for people who paraphrased Niemöller to make silly arguments on the Internet
And I did not speak out
Because frankly they had it coming

You meant they told the Nazis to STFU - they didn't take them away, as the original subjects that Niemöller was talking about.

You are a dick; in future please try googling for something before spouting off. Even the UK has a petaflop for weather. http://www.zdnet.com/met-office-buys-ibm-petaflop-supercomputer-3039457156/

Obxkcd: http://xkcd.com/326/

We haven't had a socialist government for as long as I've been alive. No, New Labour does NOT qualify as socialist; they were pretty much the same free-market capitalists we've had since '79.

I have to install a lot of stuff as part of my job. I really try to untick all the stupid search engine/browser bar boxes, but every now and then IE is searching using Bing again rather than Google. I probably forgot to untick something, but it still pisses me off, and IMHO, it's still unfair leveraging by MS.

And some MS (I assume?) installs keep sneakily reverting me to fucking Bing. The offence is not having a monopoly - it's abusing it, ie. leveraging your other crap onto people's desktops by virtue of having dominance in the OS arena.
If you had read the fucking article, you would have seen that MS admits the breach anyway: "The company acknowledged its mistake in July, saying it was now distributing software with the browser option and also offered to extend the compliance period for an additional 15 months."

Only in this case the US government (NSA) is saying they want a new one... and Schneier is saying he doesn't think one is strictly necessary at this point.

Yes, this was a university, not a standard corporate. If you do have a single build for servers and a single build for workstations everything does get so much easier - this just doesn't fit a Uni model, because of a) necessity of people doing weird stuff and b) internal politics :)

This is utter bollocks. I used to run a large network and if you know there is a critical patch coming, you can plan for it. If you don't, and it gets released haphazardly (OOB), you're just fucked. There is no good way to get it on 200 servers and 2000 desktops in under 48 hours without causing major problems.
Nice offhand remark about Google leaking MS zero days. Got anything to back that up?
tl;dr - utter rubbish. Yes, I work in the field too and have done for over 10 years.

No, but I know where it is.

I think this is because they are an amalgamation of (literally?) every cable company in the UK. What can I say? I get the advertised speed in general, and good uptime - but it does seem to vary a lot with area from what I hear. (I'm in Bristol)