Posts by ChrisElvidge 203 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Aug 2011
I thought that Brexit would give the NHS nearly this every week.
Why are we giving it to essentially American companies?
I wonder what Palantir and KPMG get out of this, over and above the fee
Would it not be better to spend this amount on new, or refurbish, buildings and more staff to return the NHS to a working, at the point of patient contact, service as it was set up to be, and fix the data system afterwards?
How many EPOS systems does the country need?
Why can't the PO ask ASDA or Tesco (or someone else in retail) for help building one?
I'm fairly sure most retailers will have got the bugs out of their own systems by now.
On another tack, what exactly does the Post Office do that couldn't be done better by the PO sub-postmasters themselves, perhaps arranged into a system like Nisa.
So Microsoft have already decided that if one person in the Windowverse wants to keep running W10, it will cost $61. Hence revenue to MS = $61. So now they've already done the relevant work!
If another million (for e.g.) people suddenly decide to take them up on the offer, that's a profit of $61M for doing no more work. As usual it's a fix.
It was introduced to "solve" a non-existant "problem" - i.e. to stop personation voting.
In fact, personation was not, and is not, seen as a problem by the Electoral Commission. All requiring a PhotoID to vote does is put yet another brake on the general population's voting rights.
In Europe, generally, auto gearbox is optional extra - i.e. costs more.
In USA, generally, manual box is optional extra - i.e. costs more.
Auto gearboxes these days are not the power hogs they used to be and are arguably more efficient in that they change gear in the "ideal" rev range.
"When asked for comment today, Amazon directed us to a previous statement from its general counsel, David Zapolsky, who said in December the FTC was misrepresenting its practices and would harm shoppers and shops with this legal battle."
Lawyers only say what their clients tell and/or allow them to say.
See: Lawyers for the Post Office "lied" in court, lawyers for Michelle Mone "lied" to the press and government etc. on their clients say so.
"The Register's Gen Z expert – your correspondent's young adult daughter – said TikTok needs Universal's big artists because users will be disgruntled if they can't access established stars' tunes on the platform."
Yes, possibly, but will they be disgruntled with TikTok for not having the music - and migrate to a platform that does - or with Universal - and not buy/listen to Universal's artistes?
I was on the jury of a trial some time ago. The prosecution entered some emails into evidence "proving" communication at some "time of day". I had to point out to the judge that the times on the emails were PDT not, as they were alleging, GMT. The defence barrister had not picked up on this, either.
What I can't get over is that Horizon was just (if I understand correctly) a centralised/distributed accounting and stock control system. Accounting rules - double entry bookkeeping - have not changed appreciably in the last century. Most/all supermarkets seem to have cracked the "difficulties" with accounting/stock control systems. Why were there such difficulties with programming Horizon? Are Fujitsu really that bad at programming?
Simply hoovering (TM) all (or most of) the information on the Internet will surely include a lot of stuff that is simply wrong (see stackexchange/stackoverflow) or outright lies (e.g. truth social, facebook). How does this information get filtered out of the training data? Or doesn't it?
I don't understand why the cost should be per PC. Obviously if MS have to keep security updates going for a group of users, those updates could be rolled out universally for everyone at no real extra cost.
If US/EU/$country government needs security patches, they could pay and then the patches can be made available to everyone. After all, "government's money" is ours really.
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