Monthly Archives: February 2012

A giant statue of Kim Jong-il has been unveiled ahead of Thursday’s celebrations of the 70th anniversary of his birthday. This is the first bronze sculpture of the late North Korean leader. The 6-metre bronze statue depicts him riding a horse next to his late father, Kim Il-sung, also on horseback.

 

Look! See how happy the people are:

Oh.

Giant Kim Jong-il Statue Unveiled For His 70th Birthday (BBC)

Thanks Michael O’Riordan

CIVIL servants snooped on personal data and recklessly passed it on to unknown callers — but they kept their jobs after pleading ignorance.

The Irish Independent has learnt that almost 100 employees in the Department of Social Protection accessed and passed on highly sensitive information, or snooped on their friends, colleagues and well-known personalities.

But despite thousands of records being improperly accessed over the past seven years, not one member of staff has been sacked for their conduct. This is despite them breaching both the Data Protection Act and the department’s own internal rules.

 

Ho.

Hum.

Snooping Civil servants Who Gave Out Personal Data Keep Their Jobs (Edel Kennedy, irish Independent)

Missed interview?

 

In addition, another Irish company, AdaptiveMobile Security Ltd., which is also based in Dublin, has supplied message- filtering technology to MTN Syria, the country’s second-largest mobile operator, according to four people familiar with that system. While AdaptiveMobile executives declined to comment for this story, in interviews last year concerning the sale of its product to a mobile operator in Iran, they said its technology is for blocking spam, viruses and inappropriate content, not political repression.

 

Syria Bars Text Messages With Irish-Made Gear (Bloomberg)

Thanks Corazon
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K writes:

Driver went to grab a coffee and came out and the engine was on fire.

Update (from the original submitter via their building’s facilities management):

The man hadn’t gone in for coffee as we were initially told, the car started smoking, he stopped it to check it out then rolled it on away from an ESB substation and the entrance to a building, so tell the cyclists and perfect people to feck off.