Brits are losing their memories
Sticks, not minds, that is
RESEARCH BY London-based community web site, Gumtree, shows that the memory stick has entered the Top Ten most frequently lost items.
It's got a long way to go before overtaking the mobile phone in the Number Five slot.
You might have expected mobile phones to be placed a little higher but, being a community web site, lost pets hold the Number One slot. Still, mobile handsets are one ahead of wallets but three places behind handbags.
Somewhat strangely, a Gumtree analyst, Trisha Routledge, seems to think that, since the general public is so careless, this somehow gives careless spies something of an excuse.
"Government officials have received a lot of criticism over their careless losses recently," she says. "However, this research just shows the general public aren’t exempt from losing potentially life-shattering items."
Hmm. Since when has the great unwashed taken to reading a memory stick on the train which is emblazoned with the words 'Top Secret' just to give the reader a clue?
Anyway, the INQ blames poltergeists for lost property. This particular hack is constantly losing stupid little items from the house.
How can you misplace a flannel for Heaven's sake? Got to be a poltergeist, then. µ
Comments
Where's the relation already ?
Mrs. Routledge is doing a pretty risky comparison, there.On the one hand, we have Joe Sixpack's tendancy to often lose his USB thingy containing some family snaps, a couple spreadsheets of his personal accounting, and maybe a copy of an email or two, all things he can do without and will interest nobody when said USB dongle is found again.
On the other hand we have a bona fide spy lugging around Top Secret documents, labelled as such because, at the very least, they contain knowledge which could conceivably put some political figure in a bad situation. On top of that, said spook is actually paid to guard these documents and specifically knows that losing them would possibly spell the end of his career - if not someone else's life. And if these documents fall into the wrong hands, the knowledge they contain could very well be used with devastating effect.
Truly the two situations are directly comparable. Yeah, right.
Oh well, it's a community site, right ? So its conclusions are about as valid as Slashdot.
tony's lost flannel ??
easy done when youve had a few swallies, check between ya cheeks :O)
Keys
I attach my memory stick to my keys.No... never lose my keys.