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Yeah, there are still a few places getting information out e.g. Guardian live blog (where it sounds as though the police are joining the protestors)

(you're still a dick  )

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Another security flaw in IE

[Jaspersharpe]

Does anyone still use IE? 

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Does anyone still use IE? 

The whole of the NHS 

Worse still, its often IE6 and even worse than that they develop their websites to work with this browser which is one of the least compliant with the W3C standards. 

[Jaspersharpe]

I realise it might be a daft question but...........why?

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I realise it might be a daft question but...........why?

'Cause they're run/managed by fucking retards who don't have a clue.

[Jaspersharpe]

Thought that might be the case. It's like that classic tweet by Eric Pickles that spawned loads of pisstakes about upgrading to Windows 95 etc:

http://twitter.com/EricPickles/status/20959330537

Showing just how IT savvy the government isn't.

 

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Sony playing cat and mouse, they should just give up and learn from it as its their own fault for using crap encryption methods.

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Interesting

[Jaspersharpe]

Oh, just piss off Rupert:

http://wireman.tumblr.com/post/3079369799/yesterdays-news-tomorrow

[Jaspersharpe]

Showing just how IT savvy the government isn't.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/04/government-it-contracts-information-commissioner-office

 

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Showing just how IT savvy the government isn't.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/04/government-it-contracts-information-commissioner-office

 

They just shouldn't out source things.

Where I work the databases (db's) are designed/managed by a University spin-off company, which sounds great but in reality is a fucking ballache because if any of the db's are found to be lacking money has to be found to pay them to implement the lacking feature.  Would be far more sensible to employ someone in-house to work on and design databases (which is what is done in some of the larger gene mapping projects which I used to be involved in).

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Showing just how IT savvy the government isn't.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/feb/04/government-it-contracts-information-commissioner-office

Read a bit more of that article and this stands out to me...

Last August Liam Maxwell at the Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead reckoned that councils could save at least £51m, and potentially up to £200m, by shifting to open source from Microsoft Office – but it would require a mandate from central government. That hasn't come.

Now thats quite a lot of money across all councils!

Take it one step further and you could do as they have in Germany and embrace open source.  66% savings is not to be sniffed it in these supposedly frugal times.

But wait, that would require someone in charge to have a fucking clue in the first place and the hordes of M$-certificate waving IT staff to learn a little bit more (not a lot, the principles are the same, they're just implemented slightly differently). 

 

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[fatdoc]

I realise it might be a daft question but...........why?

'Cause they're run/managed by fucking retards who don't have a clue.

i have to use my work PC for various NHS web based apps, which are now becoming commonplace.... procurement, prescribing & imaging... it's a nightmare.

thankfully I can get my mail forwarded out to NHS net and then onto my macbook. Groupwise email..... brings tears to me eyes

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I realise it might be a daft question but...........why?

'Cause they're run/managed by fucking retards who don't have a clue.

i have to use my work PC for various NHS web based apps, which are now becoming commonplace.... procurement, prescribing & imaging... it's a nightmare.

thankfully I can get my mail forwarded out to NHS net and then onto my macbook. Groupwise email..... brings tears to me eyes

If you want to use your macbook at work consider installing Virtualbox and then install M$-Windoze under that and you'll be able to do everything from there without having to rely on using a work computer (assuming your allowed to connect your macbook to the work network).

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Complete and utter waste of money I bet they spent a fair bit of money "developing" the app for the ipad just to be seen to be hip and on the ball. 

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Finally the penny drops

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Clever things computers the people who program computers

[Jaspersharpe]

Meh. Not news. I seem much more clever when I've got a search engine in front of me too. 

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Meh. Not news. I seem much more clever when I've got a search engine in front of me too. 

What if you could only search a subset of the billions of pages on the net?

Watson's memory is loaded with 200 million pages of data, and draws solely on this "brain", rather than searching online.

(Ok, some of those 200 million may have included Wikipedia).

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Blind 20 year old who plays video games...



Loved playing the original Oddworld : Abe's Oddysee when it first came out, great fun (and very reminiscent of Dizzy).

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Google remove Facebook contacts under Android

Its all about reciprocally sharing information that is causing this to be removed, at present its a one-way street as Facebook aren't letting their contact list be shared with anyone else.

[Jaspersharpe]

 

[Paul B]

it doesn't work properly anyway, if the contact has +44 then Android does something daft and to fix it you have to end up copying the contact and effectively remove the function of auto-updating numbers.