Posts by cantankerous swineherd

national savings used to work perfectly well with paper and pen at the post office.

billions of GBP later all they've done is degraded the service.

a Dutch company has to get permission from the Americans to sell stuff to China? how have they managed that?

not sure why you're getting sniffy about this, looks to be way cheaper than fannying about with oracle / sap / whatever.

this one will run and run

so the auditor sells himself as the expert but hasn't got any answers.

councillors would be well advised to walk away from this and let the government fuck it up instead.

if you owe the bank 2 billion, the bank has the problem, not you.

there is nothing, but nothing, wrong in calling out bullshitters in the strongest possible terms.

they should be shunned and reviled.

matey f***s off to a lucrative seat on the board of directors I'll be bound.

soldering? hats off to you guys I can't even do assembly.

this is bollocks, anpr doesn't have a legal basis either, it's not prohibited so it's allowed. no frenchies here, by god.

don't get me wrong, I dislike anpr and faecal recognition alike, but the law isn't your friend on this issue.

I've got half a dozen 3.5 floppy installation disks for windows. version unspecified, but the label says for DOS systems.

open to offers.

am I alone in detecting a correlation between "new SAP system" and "complete waste of public money"?

furthermore, is it conceivable that there is a causal connection between these two events?

if so, why would a public body spaff money up the wall unless they had some other motive?

fwiw evidence in the trial was that the arq logs were worm, but the management information system could be mucked about with at will

so if they slow walk this as per SOP and (in the highly unlikely event) are found to be in contempt, who does the jail time?

much the same as US / UK then

NHS England said no company involved in the FDP would be able to access health and care data without the explicit permission of the NHS. All data within the platform is under the control of the NHS and will only be used for direct care and planning.

It will not be used to access data for research purposes and GP data will not feed into the national version of the software platform.

- this is a pack of lies only a child would believe.

There are no plans to flow this data nationally

- we haven't got round to planning this yet and we don't want a fuss about it, but that's what we'll do.

the British library keep passport scans? are they in a foreign country?

a billion quid for a resilient storage system that can't be hacked by any criminal anywhere in the world looks like the bargain of the century.

the NHS (and others too numerous to mention) spend far too much time and money fucking about with computers when they should be getting on with the day job.

from the linked gov.uk article

As the National Data Guardian, I want to help the NHS avoid any further setbacks on the path to progress

progress meaning handing the entire population's health data over to anyone who can monetise it. she's compromised.

competition, we've heard of it.

have to laugh at the idea of all the elderly and vulnerable customers making pilgrimages to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Manchester, and London to hear the word of the lord

the decaying empire attempts to stop the tide coming in.

find a job where you don't have to put up with this nonsense. it won't pay much though, your choice.

now arrest the Muppet concerned

safe to assume that matey doesn't know very much about the system.

nothing to hide, nothing to fear.

seems to me that imposter syndrome is a valid response, since secure computing is an impossible goal, certainly so far as the internet is concerned.

this is identity cards by the backdoor.

the transputer: reloaded

following the mechanical bullshitters instructions on making dangerous stuff? I'll pass on that thanks, but there are always contenders for Darwin award I suppose.