* Posts by Jim Whitaker

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Some English hospitals doubt Palantir's utility: We'd 'lose functionality rather than gain it'

Jim Whitaker
Pint

Just get it done.

I do hope that the Government has guts enough to force this through and ignore all the "ours is better" complaints. The point is not that Littleton on Ouse Trust does it better, it is that one system overall, for everyone, does it better. Of course good elements of individual enterprises will be incorporated in due course.

70-knot winds so far blamed for yacht disaster that killed Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch

Jim Whitaker
FAIL

Design failures?

If you actually read the MAIB interim report (hampered by the Italian police investigation habits, as usual) you will probably have identified key facts relating to stability and stability knowledge which are more significant than wind strength.

Google goes cold on Europe: Stops making smart thermostats for continental conditions

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Not the only one.

My Siemens Central heating controller (MiGenie) had its internet connection and hence remote control removed last year. Only nine years after installation. Annoying but I did take up their offer of a decent discount on the replacement. I guess that is a win for them but I did value the remote control more than I thought I would when I originally chose that system.

Staff at UK's massive health service still have interoperability issues with electronic records

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Re: Brownfield

Not so. I changed address a few years ago and told the practice. (Note: I had not moved one inch but just got the postcode changed to something which reflected the position on the ground. Deliveries now find the house.) Letters (!) started to come out with the correct address but I noticed that the prescription paperwork still had the old address. Luckily I checked a few things because the old postcode was sufficiently close to the practice to make be eligible for the practice dispensing service to be available. The new postcode (about 1/2 mile away) would have taken me out of that, very convenient, service. (Restrictive practice from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society which the Government is too spineless to set aside.)

So naturally I have not pointed out that error.

When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance

Jim Whitaker
Coat

Missing p

As it stands, your headline is missing a p. Or are you taking the p?

Tech trainer taught a course on software he'd never used and didn't own

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Re: been on many courses where the trainer has no answers

The version I heard ends:

"Those who can't teach, teach teachers to teach."

The NHS security culture problem is a crisis years in the making

Jim Whitaker
Mushroom

Deluded

"that the country's NHS, beloved by all, revered around the world, and one of few shining jewels in the UK's otherwise splotchy crown, " I'm not sure what delusional state the author lives in, but this part of the article is nonsense.

Altnets told to stop digging and start stuffing fiber through abandoned pipes

Jim Whitaker
Holmes

Foreign intervention

"the back country roads" Which country is this man from?

AI pothole patrol to snap flaws in Britain's crumbling roads

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Re: AI?

Well said sir.

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog

Jim Whitaker
FAIL

Of course this will work. What could possibly go wrong.

Former NSA cyberspy's not-so-secret hobby: Hacking Christmas lights

Jim Whitaker
Black Helicopters

The neighbour from hell. At least for a few days.

SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch

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Re: Huge progress?

"fictitious", I think.

Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software

Jim Whitaker
Holmes

Restitution?

I wonder if the journal would (re-) publish the article if the authors paid for a licence for the software in question?

Skyscraper-high sewage plume erupts in Moscow

Jim Whitaker
Trollface

Don't let United Utilities see this or they will be jealous!

NHS drops another billion on tech in the hope of finally going digital

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Facepalm

Re: Place your bets...

I was once involved with an NHS project to put a mobile tablet into service for a domiciliary activity. The project was floundering a bit and when I pushed for an answer, it became apparent that "Ask them what they want, then give them what they need" was the essential problem. Because, of course, they asked a number of different people "what they wanted" and of course they got as many different answers as people and those answers were sometimes incompatible; indeed diametrically opposed. I moved on before the project came to a conclusion!

Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

Jim Whitaker
Devil

King Log or King Stork?

If they fund it, they own it. Do you really want that? Be careful what you wish for.

Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

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Genies and bottles

Just how do you think this genie is going to be put back in the bottle? I feel sorry for astronomers but the rest of us are likely to see only benefits.

Jim Whitaker

Increased expectations

Maybe but other factors will come into play, principally (I would argue) increasing expectations. An example from my own experience. Last week I was out on an event which takes place in the depths of rural, forested areas. Mobile phone coverage, including any data, is nil. For the first time, the reporting point were were co-located with, had a Starlink terminal positioned alongside. Logging in to the wi-fi that setup gave us phone and data coverage about as good as sitting at home with fibre to the premises. Now I am, mentally at least, going to judge any event by whether it has set up the same level of connectivity.

Feds urge 3D printing industry to end DIY machine guns

Jim Whitaker
Happy

Re: Dubious Conversions

And my experience with this problem was a .22 target pistol. Fortunately good range discipline prevented any damage. And the armourer said: " yes , it does that sometimes"!

Jim Whitaker
FAIL

A simple remedy

Of course that will work.

31.5M invoices, contracts, patient consent forms, and more exposed to the internet

Jim Whitaker
Happy

I'm guessing this is in America somewhere?

Body of IT tycoon Mike Lynch recovered after superyacht sinks

Jim Whitaker

Sad loss of a man who was both important and successful. Poignant that this was a celebration and his daughter died with him leaving wife/mother behind.

Plane tracker app FlightAware admits user data exposed for years

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WTF?

They can't **need** an SSN since I don't have one (British) but do have a subscription. Why are they storing passwords? And I had no mention of an Equifax subscription in the email.

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Jim Whitaker

Google search and Chrome work pretty well for me. Just leave them alone. Other search engines do not work as well for me. By all means do what was done to IE and don't allow Google search/Chrome to be the default browser at point of sale.

Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

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Re: "tone deaf marketing"

As much as 50%? You are very generous. I always heard "98% of advertising spend is wasted, the trick is to find that 2%."

UK Royal Mint mining PCBs for precious metals in e-waste recovery effort

Jim Whitaker

Re: Nothing happens quickly

Generally I agree, but we have sent a few thugs to prison quite quickly over the last few days.

Europe's largest council could face £12M manual audit bill after Oracle project disaster

Jim Whitaker
Mushroom

Re: how different can councils be

You suggest this against a background where our brand-new, sparkly government is spouting lots of nonsense about further devolution of powers to English regions. Given how well that is working in Scotland and Wales, I can really see that being a good thing. - NOT.

HP to discontinue online-only e-series LaserJet amid user gripes

Jim Whitaker
Flame

I've got a 20+ year old HP Laserjet. Works just fine and toner appears to be available on EBay at very sensible prices. B&W so missing out on any colour printing. I've always thought that inkjet printing on an occasional basis was the swift route to frustration and hate. Don't know what I will do when this printer dies. :-(

Row erupts over data sharing function in UK doctor software

Jim Whitaker
Facepalm

The BMA>

"prestigious" - Really? It's a trade union and one allowed to get away with murder, IMHO.

UK and US cops band together to tackle Qilin's ransomware shakedowns

Jim Whitaker
Black Helicopters

Not really the sort of problem best dealt with by conventional police. SIS and CIA much better suited to this problem.

Julian Assange to go free in guilty plea deal with US

Jim Whitaker
Go

Nasty piece of work; good riddance.

Since joining NATO, Sweden claims Russia has been borking Nordic satellites

Jim Whitaker
Mushroom

Better to find out now when counter measures can be developed than on the outbreak of something more acute.

Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects

Jim Whitaker
Facepalm

"One standout statistic was that projects with clear requirements documented before development started were 97 percent more likely to succeed." That's such a surprise.

UK law gives green light to self-driving cars from 2026

Jim Whitaker

Re: UK self driving car

No, that's not level 4.

Jim Whitaker

The article above says: ". . . the act does have a few tricks up its sleeve, notably making it clear that liability for a vehicle will not lie with the driver when it is in self-driving mode.

The UK's Department for Transport said: "Companies will have ongoing obligations to keep their vehicles safe and ensure that they continue to drive in accordance with British laws."

So no liability for occupier, "driver" or owner.

Uncle Sam to inject $50M into auto-patcher for hospital IT

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Re: How is this going to work then?

"Who comes up with these stupid ideas?" I would know them as "Government".

UK public voice fear over security in NHS data systems

Jim Whitaker

Re: fair and open competition

But there was for the FDP.

Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names

Jim Whitaker

Sounds like a simple data type choice error. Change that and improve data entry validation. Bingo. (Oh and then find and sack the idiots who took the casual route instead.)

Razer made to pay $1.2M over 'N95' face mask that wasn't

Jim Whitaker
Coat

"and some people might have thought it cool" And the same people deserve to be fooled.

Vernor Vinge, first author to describe cyberspace and 'The Singularity,' dies at 79

Jim Whitaker

Re: Fire Upon the Deep - spoilers

Now that description is wrong by several dozen orders of magnitude.

Britain enters period of mourning as Greggs unable to process payments

Jim Whitaker
Thumb Down

Greggs not posh enough for the author then?

The whole tone of this piece was a bit whiney. You may feel yourselves a bit above Greggs but nobody asked you to flaunt your (presumed) superiority.

Climate change means beer made from sewer water, says North Carolina brewery

Jim Whitaker

Or now.

Jim Whitaker

Re: "Climate change means beer made from sewer water"

That's the Australian model, isn't it?

Boeing paper trail goes cold over door plug blowout

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Thumb Up

Real information and professional insight

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World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

Jim Whitaker
Devil

Shrug.

NASA's satellite pit stop project runs out of gas

Jim Whitaker
Go

New approach needed

Now give the task to SpaceX.

Dumping us into ad tier of Prime Video when we paid for ad-free is 'unfair' – lawsuit

Jim Whitaker

Re: They'll reap what they sow

"Didn't watch "Good Omens" until it came out on (discounted) dvd - I really liked the casting but still preferred the book."

I normally have a belief that the film version of a book is worse than the book. Worse, often much, much worse. Good Omens is, for me, an exception to that rule. Indeed I just started last night on about the third watching on Prime.

Jim Whitaker

Re: Question is...

Come on AdBlock, do your stuff!

When red flags are just office decoration: Edinburgh Uni's Oracle IT disaster

Jim Whitaker

"Oracle IT disaster". That headline must be in standing type at so many publications.

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

Jim Whitaker

Re: "poorly drilled rivet holes"

If you read many air incident reports, you will find quite a few where the CVR has been overwritten in much the same way. Far be it from me to speculate why trade unions have argued against much longer recording durations.

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