BBC ‘Buried Savile Sex Abuse Claims To Save Its Reputation’ (Telegraph)
4th November 2008
The Data Protection Commissioner is investigating the loss of a USB computer memory device which contained the personal details of over 800 Bank of Ireland customers. However, the bank said the customer details were stored on an unencrypted memory device, going against the bank’s policies and procedures, and that a full internal investigation is underway.
17th June 2009
A laptop computer containing bank account details of 75,000 Bord Gáis customers has been stolen in Dublin. The computer was not encrypted.
1oth February, 2012
Eircom has revealed that the personal details of 6,845 eMobile and Meteor customers and 686 Meteor staff were contained on three of its laptops that were stolen.The bank account details of 550 customers may also be at risk. Although Eircom has an encryption policy for its laptops, it is understood none of the three stolen were encrypted.
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Nama Wine Lake has combed over Nama chief Frank Daly’s speech yesterday for clues as to what is happening at the (state-owned) largest property company in the world.
Nuggets include:
(1) From March 2010 to date, NAMA has made 6,000 credit decisions. That’s an average of 60 per week or 12 per working day. And each decision is made within an average of six days.
(2) NAMA has “agreed” more than 600 developer business plans representing 95% of the Agency’s total loans, by value.
3)NAMA has approved advances to developers of nearly €1bn. Now this isn’t news but separately NAMA says that developers are expected to grant charges over €500m of unencumbered assets, and to date developers have granted charges over €221m of unencumbered assets. NAMA is not saying if these two facts are connected…Separately NAMA says that it has reversed €160m of spousal transfers.
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(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxKhUuZ0Rc
Last year, Scottish iPhone users discovered fairly quickly that Apple’s Siri voice recognition system struggles with certain regional accents, particularly Glaswegian.
This year Gavin McInnes made his own NSFW Apple Scotland commercial.
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YouTuber and ace digger operator BobcatNinja2124 does his thing with a Bobcat E50. A golfball on a beer bottle on a beer bottle – all in one take.
Bodger can’t even do this with his hands.
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Above: Sesame Street’s Big Bird, Caroll Spinney (1969 – Present); Chewbacca, Peter Mayhew (1977, 1980, 1983, 2005); ALF, Michu Meszaros (1986-1990); Barney, David Joyner (1992-2000); the original Alien xenomorph, Bolaji Badejo (1979) and KW from Where the Wild Things Are, Alice Parkinson (2009).
By Spanish illustrator Camilo Carmona.
Because – with the threat of a zombie holocaust always looming – you’re never too young to know your Spas from your Glock.
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Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — Ireland will seek to take advantage of any “arrangement” that Greece agrees with the European Central Bank on the country’s debt, as the government seeks help refinancing the bailout of the former Anglo Irish Bank Corp., Finance Minister Michael Noonan said.
“There’s a suggestion that there might be some arrangement made with the ECB,” Noonan said in an interview yesterday with Dublin-based broadcaster Today FM when questioned about Greece. “If that happens we’ll be watching it very closely and we’ll try to avail of that.”
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Irish Will Try to Make Use of Any ECB-Greek Accord, Noonan Says (Bloomberg, 9th Feb)
On Today FM two days ago, the Minister referred to the possibility of an ECB “arrangement” for Greece and said “we’ll try to avail of that as well” if such a scheme went ahead.
Asked about such remarks, Mr Noonan said people had taken liberty to quote him as saying he might seek similar arrangements for Ireland as might be made for Greece but he insisted that was not what he said or meant. “What I did say yesterday was that we were negotiating an alternative to the promissory note and we will be watching very carefully the elements of the Greek programme to see if there was flexibility in the ECB.
“But under no circumstances was I saying that we’d be looking for something that Greece may get. I was simply saying that it might give us an opportunity to advance the separate negotiations that are ongoing on the promissory note.”
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Greek deal not related to Irish case, says Noonan (Irish Times, 10th Feb)