Mike Long

Thanks, Reg!!!

Thanks, Reg!!!

Encog, did you know KFC on Twitter follows only eleven people?.

These are the five Spice Girls, and six random guys called Herb.

Also Happy St George’s Day – patron saint of England. He died on this day (apparently). His great and notable  achievement was to slay the dragon that was troubling the villages, and rescue the princess.

Thanks, Reg!!

It’s déja vu all over again!

Uh oh…Unseen is in pendantic grumpy mood today. Watch out!!!

Everything is motivated by incentives, with economics being a massive incentive. Democracy doesn’t come about without something else driving it. The standard narrative that, oh no, British overlords bad, pioneering founders good…voila…democracy is childish. It came because the founders had everything to gain politically and economically by…[Read more]

To be honest, I don’t particularly find the British at the beginning of the American revolution overly bad in comparison to nearly all other revolutions that happened. You will note that Canada, Australia and New Zealand all peacefully became independent without violent turmoil, with a smooth transition to democracy. Also, America was hardly the…[Read more]

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Insurance is getting almost impossible to buy, for cyber cover. Lloyd’s of London, Munich Re and others have now excluded ‘state sponsored terrorism’ attacks from their cover. Which means it actually matters who the attackers are. You won’t know if your insurance will kick in, until this has been determined.  If it can be determined at all.

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When a cyber attack occurs, the attacker could be an individual or a state. In the case of individuals, a ransom is demanded. Most of the time the ransom is paid. The payment is almost always in Bitcoin. It’s probably what keeps cryptocurrency alive 😂

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