The SLC should be scrapped. It's an inefficient, over-bureaucratic behemoth that offers negative value-for-money for the tax payer and for the country as a whole.
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Workday gets £9.8m deal for second chunk of UK's Student Loans Company project
Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis
When forgetting to set a password for root is the least of your woes
How to get banned from social media without posting a thing
Friday 28th January 2022 14:10 GMT 
I once got a wide mouth soda bottle stuck on my face. I made the mistake of covering the whole of the hole and as the liquid dropped out and down my throat it created a vacuum which sucked my lips into the neck. It took my mother about four minutes to get a finger down the side and break the seal, by which time I had begun bruising.
Friday 28th January 2022 14:05 GMT
Re: Social media, the least social thing ever invented by the human race!
What? People from Suffolk can't take a walk in Kent?
Well, OK, there ARE occasions in recent history where questions might have been asked... but he could be from Suffolk and just happened to live within 5 miles of Folkstone and was taking some exercise. The OP did say 'local'.
Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info
Behold! The first line of defence for 25% of the US nuclear stockpile: Dolphins
Tuesday 25th January 2022 17:31 GMT
Re: umm and the
I have a long association (a whole career in fact) with the vertebrate visual system, particularly colour.
It didn't start with SeaQuest for me, though. What got me hooked was one particular colour... that of money (my boss as he ended up being was paying about 50% more than others in the field - I later learned why - you needed a particularly strong mental constitution to deal with his BS. He allegedly had the highest staff turnover in the whole institution. I am quite fond of him even so... an utter genius, insightful, funny, intellectual to the nth degree. It's the temper that did it for most people... why are so many geniuses so, so angry? I hear Hawking was a superlative asshole.)
Burning plasma signals step forward in race for nuclear fusion as researchers get bigger capsule for their 192-laser experiment
Thursday 27th January 2022 13:11 GMT
Re: ... demonstrating self-heating plasma ...
Those are the components of a purposeful construction... and indicators of science funding in the UK. Not that UK scientists should automatically get all the money they want - they do their best work when it's funded by what they can find down the back of the sofa in the coffee lounge.
At 9 for every 100 workers, robots are rife in Singapore – so we decided to visit them
Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations
It's more than 20 years since Steps topped the charts. It could be less than that for STEP's first fusion energy
Regulations and compliance are 'a curate's egg' for digital transformation, say IT pros in finance, telecoms and public sector
Thursday 27th January 2022 11:35 GMT
As I was just saying to a technical sales person this morning...
in relation to their discussion around POCs... you don't get buy-in until you have a good POC, and if you have a good POC, good enough that it shows your product/solution is a must-have, then what you really want is to NOT have to spend 6 to 12 months on paperwork and regulatory frameworks etc etc before adoption and then having to rebuild your thingamabob from the ground up etc etc, because this is how temporary solutions become permanent. You want your POC to be scaleable / transferrable to the working system rapidly, seamlessly and with the various diagrams, requirements, service models etc understood and defined instead of playing pass the ball between vendor, user, IT-requirements/regulations team.
Robot vacuum cleaner employed by Brit budget hotel chain Travelodge flees
Machine needs more Learning: Google Drive dings single-character files for copyright infringement
Throw away your Ethernet cables* because MediaTek says Wi-Fi 7 will replace them
Wednesday 26th January 2022 11:03 GMT
Re: You can pry the ethernet cable out of my cold dead hands!
At one place I worked they were clearing out a room and in there was a large, grey, government surplus style metal cabinet. Inside were several racks made out of the strongest fecking square section hollow steel bars I've ever seen - very simple arrangement, front bar, back bar and joined at the far ends by crossmembers.
I said to keep that one, and I then laid all the cables over the front bar with the end level with the next bar down, laid over the gap to the back bar then back out over the next front bar going down. It was a perfect size so that most cable lengths resulted in both connectors being at the front of the cabinet next to each other. Anything longer or shorter could be accommodated using some of the spare racks. The steel was just the right roughness that the cables never slipped sideways but could be pushed to the side if needed. The edges of the steel bars were also rounded, not sharp. It took every single cable from the half-dozen mixed boxes we had. I spent a whole day filling it up, with mains at the top, printer, VGA, coaxial, serial, scsi, other weirdness in the middle and networking of various flavours at the bottom, with space on the floor for a few plastic baskets for gender-benders and other convertors and adaptors.
The cabinet must have been entropy proof. It worked beautifully for many years. Cables en masse can get VERY heavy, and these thick bars were rock solid. You could find the specific cable someone wanted in moments.
I later discovered when a former employee paid a visit that it was the cabinet they used to hang the Linotype magnetic tape cassettes in. We didn't have any of the tapes left, but apparently they weighed an absolute tonne, and there was a whole library of different typefaces, one family to a cassette. Hence the incredible strength of the cabinet!
Seems bizarre now that the entire library that was held by this bespoke metal box could easily fit ten times over on something the size of a grain of wheat now.
Tuesday 25th January 2022 17:43 GMT
Re: You can pry the ethernet cable out of my cold dead hands!
Oh how often I shook my head when, during lockdown, so many colleagues had extensions built or conservatories added or garden rooms constructed and these structures were then lined with that foil-coated Kingspan insulation board.
"But the WiFi worked fine before..."
Yes, BEFORE you built a Faraday cage and before you then grounded that cage with copper central heating and water pipes that were punched through it. Did you ask your builder to leave a little bit of duct space there for the subsequent wiring that you'd need to do?
'Please download in Microsoft Excel': Meet the tech set to monitor IT performance across central UK government
Tuesday 25th January 2022 16:41 GMT
Re: Ideal for data
The time and effort you need to go to to produce this "well-crafted workbook" is likely to be approaching the time and effort needed to do it properly in the first place. In doing it properly you end up with something that's easier to understand, maintain, evolve and is going to be much more flexible and standards compliant.
IPv6 is built to be better, but that's not the route to success
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
