It's like rain on your wedding day.

What you are describing is the Jevons paradox

FWIW I work for the NHS. The Labour governement indeed poured billions into the health service during their term but it was almost totally squandered on failed IT projects, an army of midde-managers, non-jobs and grossly overpaid execs.Very little of it was invested in actual patient care.

I do believe the Tories are genuinely trying to fix it, my problem with them is that they're doing their usual carpet-bombing approach instead of carefully targetting the gross inefficiencies that are blighting the NHS.

I used to work in a UK lab that tested drinking water and I can confirm that the quality of tap water usually far exceeds that of bottled water. Bottled water is unlikely to make you ill, but if you are drinking it for some perceived health benefit then you're wasting your time and money.

Bottled water is one of the biggest rip-offs of modern times and is unecessary given that all European countries have to comply with strict EU water quality regulations. Not to mention its cost and the damage it does to the environment.

No, he's always been a publicity whore type.

If I had a choice of what cancer I would have it would be thyroid. It's one of the most treatable cancers with an over 90% survival rate, the 10% fatalities usually affecting those who have sought treatment far too late.

Agreed that the contractor is primarily responsible, and should be punished.

However the NHS has a secondary (vicarious) liability and should also be punished for inadequate supervision of its contractors.

FWIW I used to work for an NHS IT dept. The destruction/wiping of hard disks was tasked to the in-house team. Unlike contractors they're not motivated to take shortcuts for financial gain.

Look up Vicarious Liability, it's a tenet of Common Law.

Too many MBAs believe that when you outsource, you are offloading responsibility. 'It was the contractor's fault, your honour' will not wash in any court of law.

By that logic the deoxyribonucleic acid in every bacterium should kill them off before they get a chance to multiply.

Oh, and H. Pylori would like a word with you.

That was exactly my thoughts when I first saw the headline. A top-end core i7 can manage a mere 20 Mhashs/s, while a GPU can do 2000 MH/s. The professional miners have moved on from GPUs to custom ASICs that can churn out as much 50GH/s.

The only way the malware purveyors are going to get anything of value out of this is if they get lucky and infect a number of high-end gaming rigs.

Just look at the number of Half-Life games they churn out. I haven't even finished HL6 and HL7 is coming out next week!

How could you be so dumb, everyone knows the monitor used to sit on the hard drive.