Harking back to the days when the BBC used wildly alarmist, and often badly Photoshopped...

Oct 20, 2009 16:45

...pictures to illustrate "Techie-scare" news stories, I love Silicon Republic's office extraterrestrial:



The accompanying story, perhaps unsurprisingly, doesn't quite live up to a literal interpretation of some alien menace lurking near your desk, but nevertheless:

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/14187/cio/email-is-most-common-method-employees-use-to-steal-data

Edit: Cheers to E for pointing out the common visual motif...



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Bonus item: Oh, f*ck off, Mandy...

'Lord Mandelson says he expects students to adopt a more consumer-led approach to their university education. Speaking at a CBI higher education summit in London, Lord Mandelson said students should be encouraged to be more "picky, choosy and demanding".'

More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8316658.stm

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