
FFS
So where's Apple getting their cut from? Will they charge by the launch or by the megatonne?
Prime Minister David Cameron has denied that he will be getting a personalised iPad app for firing Trident missiles styled after his beloved Angry Birds game. Cameron loves to rock the fondleslab so much that he has often mentioned how he likes to sit back at Number 10, playing Angry Birds or watching TV shows like The Killing …
and we wonder why we hate politicians.
We have a knob spunking 20K on a personal app because he can't be arse to use prebuilt ones, browser book marks and email.
Then with have an asshole shitting out pointless questions about "will there be a iNuke App."
and here we are the pussys, getting shafted by the dick and being to close to be shit on by the assholes
(Credits to Team America)
FFS are you F serious??? You're complaining about 20k for an app that can collate important indicators sourced from multiple information sources and have them neatly presented at the touch of a button? Have you any idea how much money government typically spunks on IT? Or how much full-scale BI solutions cost? Or even how much it would cost to have a staffer trawl the available information and present it in a neat dossier?
£20k is an absolute bargain, even if it doesn't include a big red button
Shurely , an iNukeUK app vetted by Apple's app-police would NOT be allowed to Nuke the US of A ?
It would probably have recommendations like Iran , North Korea , and probably still Russia and China in it's top 10 targets.
I'm guessing if Cameron selected the US of A to be nuked, it'd go in to HAL mode and say "Sorry I can't do that for you Dave" , just before alerting Apple's chums in the Pentagon to do a strike on the UK.
Given the length of time to develop any govermental project, it is strongly rumoured that he will be getting his CE 2.0 launcher device sometime before christmas.
But seriously though, the chap lives in a house that does not even have a door-bell, so I hardly think he will be surfing the cutting edge.
"It's already been reported that Cameron is getting a government-overseeing app for the iPad, although other ministers may be able to use this as well. That app, costing a mere £20,000, will put the latest NHS, crime and unemployment figures at his fingertips, allow him to read Civil Service docs on the slab and, of course, pull in real-time data from Google and Twitter."
Is there anything there that a web-browser, PDF reader, and word processing software can't already do? No.
Is there any need at all for a politician to be using a touchscreen tablet-form computer when a (cheaper) laptop will do the job better? No. Unless, of course, politicians are such retards that a proper grown-up laptop is too hard for them. Ah...
£20k for an application which needs to display information culled from various (almost certainly non-comptible) sources is bugger all.
It will need to be:
Project managed
Specified
Written
Tested
Bug Fixed
Have any middleware infrastructure built
Have agreements from the datasources put in place
Go through change management processes
etc.
etc.
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Filtering all those information sources for significance is something that just about every stakeholder in government (any government) would like to do. It sounds like just determining who gets to do that would cost more than 20,000 pounds.
Here in the States, our upper-level politicians (the President, etc) have very limited-circulation (classified) "newspapers" like the "National Intelligence Daily," edited by people directly responsible to senior staff, in which hot topics are dealt with by undersecretaries or others with direct responsibility for specific governmental issues. There's some indication that the US Government is moving toward a "wiki" article approach in which articles impacting government policy issues are maintained online, contrarian opinions on issues can be presented and identified as such, and articles on any particular issue can be updated with a change log showing what previous copies of the document said.
However, as in WIkipedia itself, the potential for mis-editing a wiki either unintentionally or on purpose to change the text of a policy wiki (the reasons for doing this being obvious) is great unless moderation to changes is applied, which could itself be a source of institutional bias.
It seems very unlikely to me that a twenty-thousand pound IT project is likely to address all the issues I've raised or others unique to Her Majesty's Government. (I speak as someone who worked in IT in Great Britain briefly and knows what 20,000 pounds will buy in terms of IT consultant time).
...the headline and lead-in imply that Cameron was asked about and denied that an iPad app was developed or under development to handle nuclear command and control. The reader has to read all the way to the end of the article to find out the question didn't touch on nuclear C3I at all.
I know that a lot of these articles are semi-humorous, and I appreciate the humor, most times. This goes past humor to flirt with propaganda and/or incompetence in journalism.