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NHS orgs not keen on UK gov's mega-intranet

Hmm - pondering a technicality?

I may be mistaken but ... any business transacted under DoH funding under banner headline of NHS has data that are belonging to the NHS.

A contractor (say a GP surgery) conducting business for and on behalf of NHS records data for and on behalf of NHS - the data are belonging to NHS. No?

So any organisation/contractor doing DoH funded work under NHS banner cannot massage, mine or manipulate such data without express permission of NHS and patient. (There are four parties to the arrangement: patient, contractor, NHS & DoH - it could be argued that NHS data are belonging to DoH).

An aside: woeful laments about why UK registered social landlords are all publicly funded inspired. BBC observed no great level of private registered social landlords here as in US or Europe.

My take: no wonder the way UK Treasury & Whitehall in particular sequester mega-millions from rents received with both central and local governments taking huge bites from rents received depending upon whim, fad or thin wallet syndrome. Private RSLs are likely to stay away in droves.

Agree with post #1 but ...

... the term NHS organisations might be misleading.

Maybe "NHS organisations and NHS contractors or subcontractors" gives better insight into the muddled world that makes up healthcare UK.

Besides, on basis that UK healthcare professionals (upper echelons) tend to earn double or more that nearest UK competitor countries I hope NHS is scrapped to be replaced with Healthcare UK or something with a better name. Similarly so for traunch of bureaucrats that seem to follow public money.

Basis: any organisation of contractor receiving payments from Department of Health will need to a priori conduct those parts of its DoH business on PSN (otherwise they lose the contract and payments from DoH).

Extension: any organisation or contractual arrangement depending on public monies will have to a priori ensure full compliance with a suitable PSN before contract is honoured, upheld & payments made?

Second thoughts about "J.Random Civil-Servant's" - they tend to be numpties and with present uncertainties in public sector are about as rabidly vicious as a pet rabbit with myxie (I can't spell myximatosis)

Future wars will be over water not fuel, warns Intel sage

and by extension?

To most natural resources such as food, (organic food even moreso), natural fuels, rare minerals especially those used in large scale industries...

Probably proteins going very expensive and carbohydrates going very inexpensive with associated healthcare costs rocketing.

We will really need those secure methods for sure.

Stallman: Jobs exerted 'malign influence' on computing

Tsk! Who's a silly Richard now?

Oh yeh dood!

Didn't he see that promotional video El Reg kindly provided of a circa 1980's NeXT computer doing all manners of wonderful stuff.

And do do that stuff safely needs a safe or safer environment n'est pas?

Pay Jobs due respect - by crushing the empire he created

Uh-huh baby? Or: how not to over analyse?

Ahem <clears throat> sometimes analysis turns into overanalysis.

Clearly what is happening is that Apple is riding the crest of a wave.

Whatever it creates captures the public interest and we may even try to analyse what these are and how they work. But treating observables like they were a science does not automatically confer scientific status on the observables.

Marketing after all is an art and not a science.

BBC One and bureaucracy spared in Auntie cuts

New schedules are the core

The previous 7-day schedules will be replaced by a new 3-day schedule running like this:

Tuesday

Tuesday

Tuesday

Tuesday

Tuesday

Saturday

Sunday

BBC program schedulers and planners commissioned research at great expense that suggested a 3-day schedule covering a 7-day period should never start on a Monday as it may aggravate a sizable portion of viewing public.

Repeats of Tuesday programs are likely to be broadcast of Saturday and Sunday.

Furious HP staff stage protest over job cuts

Oops - forgot to add...

And while people in one half of the world starve unto death people in other parts gorge unto death?

What do we make of it all?

Destroy mortgage repayment potential = well, we don't need no steenkeen mortgage anyway?

Whatever happened to:

A man/woman with an adult wage will earn sufficient to keep himself/herself with their dependents reasonably well fed in reasonable accommodation wearing reasonable clothing/kit going on a reasonable holiday at least once a year and own a reasonable car?

Otherwise: what did the bankers do to a common and worldwide work ethic?

Something more apocryphal?

Maybe, just maybe capitalism is about to undergo one of its greatest tests?

What might emerge after this huge non-recession?

And what might the intervening poverty years between the start of non-recession and start of non-recovery what seeds might be sown along lines of:

hey! we don't need this wage slave stuff anyway. I work less, get paid less, have more time with family and it is great!

Is there a fundamentalist somewhere positing the demise of western capitalism as an observable event of omnipotent being intervention? (possibly urged on by intervention of - well, you know?)?

This Dianamania is a slur on Jobs

Simple mistakes really

As title.

If a person is relatively unknown maybe there is a high probability for that person's "passing away" to be relatively under reported?

If a person is relatively well known maybe there is a high probability for that person's "passing away" to be relatively well reported?

If a person is relatively over known maybe there is a high probability for that person's "passing away" to be relatively over reported?

I do lament the passing away of Mr Jobs - the world is a sadder place without him.

Android's scariest nightmare: resurgently sexy Microsoft

Puh-leez!

A google engineer and Microsoft engineer arguing about who or what is the most sexy?

Too much to embrace there dood!

Schoolteachers can't teach our kids to code, say engineers

Eeee-hee-hee!

I wonder if UK further ed courses in web site design have moved on from HTML 1?

Microsoft staff savage Ballmer at company confab

Usual TAK?

2nd CEO of a successful startup enterprise usually brings it to the brink no?

Apple victorious: Courts deny hackintosher's final plea

who is bankrolling Psystar?

Man who blasted five million text spams gets wrist slap

maybe he belongs to the same Lodge as the judge?

DfE probed over Gmail use for official business

the secretary's minder might be miffed

as title

butt shoorley hoshifer?

Surely anyone can make a mistake even if it was a mere communications oversight?

Our illustrious civil servants may be miffed that they cannot access gmail or see the politico's (sorry bout the postrophe) correspondence?

Wilder things like DWP costing nigh on £3 billion, fire service hosing millions seem far more important n'est pas?

Interim conclusion: storm in a tea cup, servants to ensure that all ministerial and politico correspondence to be left secure and unread by civil servants unless a request per inscident has been made in triplicate within 7 days of the 'hot' email being received and requested.

(No forensics puh-leez that is for the police no?)

Stallman: Android evil, Apple and Microsoft worse

Hmm

Strange with a dash of vested interest?

Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning

Nothing new here. Move along now. Vit!

A computer operating system with a security issue is news?

Microsoft faces fresh antitrust probes in Ireland and Spain

You want us to leave?

Okay - we will leave.

Is that what you want?

psst: would you like some increased tax euros instead?

How to go from the IT dept to being a rogue trader

I say, Hollywood beckons?

The scene:

Terminator style opening shots of post apocalyptic mayhem and carnage....

... was it war?

... was it alien(s) invasion?

... did superman decide to take his cape home?

... no, merely the results of economic carnage impacting on western lifestyles.

ps: no need to worry about traders going overseas (China, Russia, Korea and India will probably fill the vacuum easily?)

Impolite applause abounds

Brilliant article - (the story was not too bad either) ad should be incorporated in expanded form into BBC's present running of Grossman's Life and Fate.

But! I think prospective rogue traders also need advice about how to make their bonuses increase and how to salt those bonuses away from boss, company security, tax man and police (both pre- and post-crime)/

ps:

does this mean the end of capitalism?

Now Windows 8 goes into the ring to face Apple's iOS

It's in the maths?

1st CEO takes company from startup to mega-corp

+

2nd CEO steps in while organisation is in a mega-corp rollover wave

= an exercise in humility is needed

(?)

Tablets?

Hardware is/was fine

+

Software is/was fine

+

marketing

= dodgy sales

Conclude: marketing (and that usually means price) was in dreamland and failed to pick up on new product in new ecology with the winner having high quality status selling stuff everso newly on (for them) a stack it high sell it cheap basis.

In short: they (the new alternative tablet punters that is) got the price too wrong and the product sales expectation far too high.

iRobot Roomba 780 automated vacuum cleaner

Sorry

Zoomba with a Roomba?

Or

Roomba with a Zoomba?

Apple's new Lion beta bakes in iCloud

@TonyJ

I too pondered the whys and wherefores before trying a Mac in 2006.

The transition from XP to Mac OS was a bit choppy for me taking about 18 months+ (XP had, is and still will be around for a long time No?)

I think one factor for Mac adorationists is trust even to the point of being forgiving if things go wrong because there is a trusting expectation that it will be put right eventually.

Another is marketing.

PC: hardware overhype/over abundance; software similarly so?

Mac: hypes the hardware in terms of what it allows you to do and how that integrates with the operating system and goes for a device wide integration that (usually) makes for easier working methods = you get to the stuff you want easier.

The above are personal views - many other people;s views will differ and I don't mean this post o contribute to PC-Mac-Nix flamewars although a good (mature?) professional debate/discussion will do no harm to either/any party.

(I half expect Mac OS, iMac, .... kit range to be dropped in favour of iOS ways of doing things though)

HP shelves plans to offshore DWP support roles

I feel sorry for Part 2

The trouble or rather one of the troubles with TUPE from gobmint employee to respected -brand employee means that a tranche of employees in the recipient organisation tend to have rights and privileges over and above those already employed under a more direct route?

I feel sorry for ...

... the likes of HP, Fujitsu, ... and any other well-established companies with good brand awareness out there.

This TUPE stuff from UK civil servant (government employee) to HP, Fujitsu, ... employee really does more harm to the recipient company

MPs blast dole-office-online plans

2.7 £billion?

IT it with suitable support for non-IT or poorly IT literate then Off shore it.

2.7 billion?

I thought gobmint contracts were supposed to be competitive?

French officials: 'Don't worry about fatal nuclear explosion'

Eh?

On the other hand, the pro-nuclear promotion campaign seems to be going far too well to be healthy (must be money in it somewhere?)

Ten years after the Twin Towers: What's the Reg angle?

My take on BBC & Sky coverage of Sunday's ceremony:

BBC: 0

Sky: 9

(marks out of 10)

The Beeb's commentards (a bit like El Reg's?) just don't know when to be quiet and thrustfully place over aspired analytical analyses somewhere personal to the commentard where the sun is hardly ever likely to shine.

Sky on the other hand let people's voices be heard in a way that made the ceremony meaningful rather than a Beeb platform to promote one's ... (I think that is about the gist of it)

British warming to NUKES after Fukushima meltdown

Uh-huh dood?

Quote

The word "meltdown" no longer has that mythical resonance in the popular imagination that it did in the 1970s

Unquote

It sort of depends if it is in your own backyard or not I think.

Now if a nuclear reactor went into meltdown in Kent or close by to London maybe, just maybe the poll responses would be different?

On the other hand it is easy to be pishy-wishy about nuclear reactors melting down when they are a global diameter or half a globe away n'est pas?

Fujitsu strike to hit back-office across UK.gov

Offshore it!

Put the business offshore due to importance of the data and stuff being processed!

Google brings out new programming language

Might one suggest GoGo from the google at the GoTo by Go?

Brit tech brings in-stream ads to Canadian TV webcast

Bespoke ads (video ads in an ad break) coming to a downloader near you?

Fingers crossed they never, ever get to an iPhone :-]

Parliament has no time for 100,000+ signature e-petitions

Whoah there boy! Just a minute?

Does this mean that elected members chosen from and by the public to serve the public now officially do not (and never, ever did have) time to listen to grievances of the public?

Why! Anyone would think that all MPs have to do is to rubber stamp and endorse all that the civil service needs them to do.

(Hmmm - now there's a thing! )?

Apollo 17 Moon landing: Shock revelations

I saw Elvis.

I saw John.

But no Jimi or Janis?

Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]

Boohoo!

(Or was it Hooray!) ?

China sprouts another Android fork

Optional

Give China another 10 years and will there be desktop OS, Server OS, Tablet OS, even newer devices OS from them?