An eye for an eye - It doesnt have to be like this.

June is coming, May will soon be over.

Well, well the biggest own goal of the election campaign. The Tory manifesto, launched in Halifax, by PM May on 18 May has revealed, with its attack on the elderly and school children, that they are still the Nasty Party. There were many ironies about, what was for the Conservative party, Wobbly Thursday, not the least of which was the pathetic image of an entire cabinet of ministers, who were filed in and out again into Bleak Hall looking like silenced Trappist monks, gloomily watching on whilst the head girl passed sentence on them.
 To pile irony on irony this team of Brexiteers were transported through a hostile and jeering mob of Halifax Town supporters on what the number plate revealed, was the campaign bus used by the Remainers during last July's EU referendum. As Harold Wilson once said, "A week is a long time in politics".

Laura Kuenssberg and the BBC guilty of impartiality and inaccurate reporting.

 In January 2017 the BBC Trust ruled that a report in November 2015 by Kuenssberg broke the broadcaster’s impartiality and accuracy guidelines. A viewer had complained about her item, which featured an interview with Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC News at Six which was edited to give the incorrect impression that Corbyn disagreed with the use of firearms by police in incidents such as that month's terrorist attacks in Paris. His purported answer to a question as broadcast in the report was in fact his reply to a different (unbroadcast) question, not specifically about that terrorist attack. The BBC Trust said that the inaccuracy was "compounded" when Kuenssberg went on to state that Corbyn's message "couldn't be more different" to that of the prime minister Theresa May, who was about to publish anti-terrorism proposals. The Trust said that accuracy was particularly important when dealing "with a critical question at a time of extreme national concern". Information courtesy of Wikipedia.

 Despite this the lady, who emanates from the British ruling classes, is amazingly fronting up the BBC's political news coverage of the general election. So far she continues with her bias and inaccurate reporting of the Labour Party's campaign and surprise, surprise has been given the task of following Theresa May (the one that let immigration triple during her tenure at the Home Office) around the country. So far she has not asked the PM a difficult question (that duty, so far, been left to a disabled lady who confronted May over her loss of benefits in Abingdon marketplace). Instead immediately following the PM's undisturbed air time Kuenssberg is seen in a vox pop situation where she seems to find almost exclusively voters who are parroting May's views.

 Oh for a Robin Day or a Paxo, in his prime, who would not have been content to give the PM a free ticket, but instead would be grilling and torching the robotic Ice Maiden. Staged appearances and two word slogans suffice for her but when exposed to the general public she shows her lack of empathy and sympathy towards real human beings. 

Stop ransomware - jump out of Microsoft's Windows

 There is one sure way to prevent a cyber attack and that is throw away your Windows machine. The latest wave of ransomware attacks has only affected WINDOWS 10 and other recent WINDOWS versions. I have been in computing, for my sins, since 1974 way before Bill Gates was on the scene. In those days apart from gaming machines like the Commodore 64, and an admirarable BBC machine and some early Clive Sinclair efforts, essentially the home computer was not around.

That all changed when in 1985 Microsoft and Gates produced OS/2 for IBM and went on to market WINDOWS, which by the early 1990s occupied over 90% of the personal computer market.

 It faced no serious competition until the niche but highly original Apple Mac was introduced and began being bought as a top end PC by some dedicated and loyal users in 1998. The Apple company had also been around since the 1970s but had suffered financial woes in its early days under its founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Apple unlike Microsoft also marketed the machines, as well as the software. There was another vital difference. The Apple machines were secure but the WINDOWS software was vulnerable to hacking so users were encouraged to buy anti-virus software to protect their machines. But WINDOWS was deeply flawed and hackers were able to exploit its vulnerability and still do so. Virtual defenestration will fix it.

 For home users this meant constant patches to fix the security holes, as they were exploited by hackers and the additional burden of having to buy anti-virus software. But in parallel to this the internet had exploded and big companies and organisations began ditching their big mainframe computers for networks of PCs. The genie was out of the box and as a result those juicy and cash  laden organisations were at the mercy of the hacker. Not only the professional experts in government and black industries but also to anyone at home, including young kids, who got a buzz from violating the supposed sanctuaries of our data held by organisations such as the big banks, commerce, government and industry.

 The common denominator in all of these attacks has been WINDOWS. Not only the most successful operating system ever but also the most insecure. Those in government and the fat IT chief executives who bought it by the shipload must take responsibility for failing to defend us from these attacks. Mrs. May and Presidents Trump and Putin have failed in their first responsibility-the security and defence of their nations.