Posts by Fara82Light

Brit dual nationals grounded by border digitization drive

Re: Costs

The DownVote Bots had no answer - again.

Re: So how much does it cost

You do, however, have to be British in the first place.

Re: Reasonable

There is no proof that they are British if they do not hold a British passport. On the contrary, questions might be asked why they claim to be British yet hold no British ID.

Re: Reasonable

That would be the case if they were not British.

Reasonable

It is not unreasonable to expect that someone who claims to be British would hold a British passport.

Costs

How can someone from Canada not afford a British Passport application yet can afford the air tickets tocome here?

MoD ticks shopping list as PM considers weapons budget boost

Re: Denied

Its no good getting the DownVote Bots involved. The Cabinet Office rejected the suggestion that the spending increase will be brought forward. The Trots in the government are seeing to that not happening.

Denied

The claim that an acceleration of the budget increase was planned has since been denied by the Cabinet Office.

Discord to start assuming all users are underage unless they prove otherwise

Re: Inference

Oh dear; no DownVote Bot available during school hours?

Inference

I can not see legislators accepting age inference technology.

BBC bumps telly tax to £180 as Netflix lurks with cheaper tiers

Re: Universal

... and again.

Re: Does everything have to be "monetisable"?

Yes, when the nation is living on tick.

Re: Universal

Ah, the DownVote Bot is still present.

Universal

It is hardly a universal service anymore when many choose not to consume the product. Let it stand on its own two feet by moving to a subscription-based model, and allow the BBC to offer more services beyond the UK. With the right leadership, the BBC could probably do very well from having the restrictions removed.

Microsoft probes Windows 11 boot failures tied to January security updates

Re: Bug

The downvote Bot is at it again.

Bug

Windows is the bug. It would seem quite logical for the security software to stop it from running on adevice.

Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working

The downvote Bot is at it again. :)

No. It is not realistic for even the largest local councils to be expending taxpayer funds to be proficient in every aspect of the delivery of their services. This is why councils should focus on core responsibilities while procuring systems and delivery of services from a procured list of shared services providers.

This is why councils should not be running their own systems but instead be focused on statutory matters and serving the electorate.

Perhaps so, but the complexity is present in most councils, given that they (mostly) have the same statutory duties.

Where councils and many government agencies fail on large-scale technical projects is a lack of relevant skills at all levels and stages of the project delivery.

Re: Oversight

I have no knowledge of the program other than what is available in the public domain, but based on a number of experiences across system integrations, migrations and implementations, it is the customisations that typically lead to major programme failures. In most cases, it has been bodies devising the specification without the relevant domain knowledge and experience that has built failure into such initiatives.

Re: Birmingham resident and IT professional here

A chap I knew announced that his pronoun was "Git", but that, as many would here might realise, resulted in a range of unforeseen consequences on the scale of a public sector ERP system migration!

Re: Birmingham resident and IT professional here

Is that based on the assumption that Oracle's at fault? The causes of the problems with the programme have probably not yet been made fully public.

EU considers whether there's Huawei of axing Chinese kit from networks within 3 years

Risk

The EU has ignored the warnings, but now it is having to face up to reality. There is a serious risk and it must be addressed.

Risk

The EU has ignored the warnings, but now it ishaving toffee up to reality. There is aseriousrisk and it must be addressed.

Future of UK's multibillion Ajax armored vehicle program looks shaky

Re: General Dynamics is American

Many of those with better knowledge of the requirements and of the available products have backed the Boxer, not the CV90.

That is because UK forces are asked to perform multiple roles without the commensurate funding. Specifications are therefore adjusted to "maximise" capabilities, but ultimately they make the procured kit expensive to buy and maintain.

BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI

Re: Why a TV licence?

The Capital is the agency that undertakes the enforcement, and it works at the direction of the BBC, so it is the BBC that is to blame. It is also the BBC that insists that the non-purchase of a BBC TV Licence is a criminal offence.

Re: Why a TV licence?

That would be fine if you only needed the BBC TV Licence to watch BBC live TV or use the iPlayer, but you also need it for any LIVE TV, and so it is both repressive and regressive. In addition, they have made it a criminal offence where as that is not the case if you do not pay to consume Netflix, for example.

Re: Why a TV licence?

The government is proposing to allow the BBC to be funded in part using the same commercials.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Not under the UK's state-run railways.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Exactly. You have to have a BBC TV Licence even if you do not consume BBC products.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Why do they need to be state-funded?

Re: Why a TV licence?

No they do not.

Re: British Bafflement Clusterfuck

... they are finding it hard enough to cope with the real world!

Re: Funding

That is very interesting, but I do not see the relevance to the comment I posted.

Re: The time has past...

I think if the BBC stuck to delivery and worked in conjunction with the OU, one of the trade bodies or one of the other universities, they might just be able to deliver something worthwhile, but I am not sure the topic would be delivered as successfully as the 1980s effort.

The BBC is likely to settle out of court.

Re: Big problem there, BBC

I was not referring to chatbots; I am referring to enterprise-scale systems that are in production now. I am sorry, but if you have to use offensive language to justify your claims, then your views must be flawed and of no consequence.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Utter nonsense.

Re: Why a TV licence?

If you are so befuddled, there is no point in my explaining the very basic principles involved.

Re: Why a TV licence?

The BBC is not funded through general taxation for broadcast services. Any form of funding via taxation would undermine its independence and thus the reason we do not use taxation for the purpose. There, explained for you.

Re: Why a TV licence?

It is not a tax because it is not collected by a government agency. It is a licence, such as for fishing or shooting. It is not even a duty.

The BBC TV Licence was specifically set up this way to separate the BBC from any possible claims of direct funding by the government. That has changed over the years, but the principle still stands to ensure that the BBC is independent of government funding and thus interference.

Re: Why a TV licence?

That is not true.

Re: Why a TV licence?

The BBC website is not a paid service. The BBC is free to put the website behind a paid firewall if it thinks people are "leaching" off it.

Re: Why a TV licence?

That is not true. UK citizens who consume LIVE TV are required to have a BBC TV Licence whether they consume BBC products or not.

Re: Why a TV licence?

It should NOT be a separate authority. The BBC can contract out if it so desires, but it must be clearly the responsibility of the BBC to collect income, not government agencies.

Re: Why a TV licence?

Technically, it IS The BBC TV Licence - the revenues only go to the BBC, not to any of the other channels.

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

Effort

Don't waste your effort on rewrites; just put it all in the bin.

Bugs

I think this is a bad idea. Microsoft Developers would have to work twice as hr to maintain their quota of bug introduction code!