No surprise
It's no surprise that "The UK space sector lacks the strategic direction necessary for success". The whole UK government lacks the strategic direction necessary for success.
Posts by Phil O'Sophical
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UK space sector 'lacks strategic direction,' Lords warn
You'll never guess what the most common passwords are. Oh, wait, yes you will
Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope
Ministry of Defence's F-35 blunder: £57B and counting
Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
Monday 3rd November 2025 09:26 GMT 
Re: Hold your horses there, Pat
Christian faith specializes in creating fractures and factions that absolutely refuse to work with each other
It's a faith based on the idea that it cannot be proven, if there is proof then it must be false. AI will love that.
And then we'll have the Christian, Moslem and Jewish AIs all launching crusades against one another. Popcorn time.
England's local government shake-up promises to be a massive tech headache
Sunday 2nd November 2025 13:24 GMT
Re: "More than 200 existing councils are likely to be abolished"
<8>decisions will be taken by officials with zero local knowledge.<i/>
Instead of the current situation where they're taken by local officials with an axe to grind and/or a pet project to promote, you mean? Either way, the change won't be for the benefit of the local ratepayers.
Robotic lawnmower uses AI to dodge cats, toys
Actor couldn’t understand why computer didn’t work when the curtain came down
This security hole can crash billions of Chromium browsers, and Google hasn't patched it yet
Thursday 30th October 2025 11:03 GMT
Re: That's a bummer
if has swap to use
Why on earth is a user-level app like Firefox trying to handle something so low-level itself? Swap is an OS issue, an app should just ask for the memory it needs and rely on the OS to provide it as it sees fit, according to the requirements of the whole system.
Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out
Wednesday 29th October 2025 20:06 GMT
Re: I'm not planning to visit the United Hell Holes any time soon
I'm saying that the Democrats' alternative had so little credibility that people opted for a confident, arrogant demagogue because it was that or an unimpressive, almost invisible, lightweight. Trump would have stood little chance against (Bill) Clinton or Obama ar their peak.
Sadly, as others have noted, a lot of Americans, and seemingly a lot of American women, won't vote for a woman. That's a different problem, but until it can be solved the workaround is to offer a male candidate. It shouldn't be that way, but you have to play the hand you're dealt. The Democrats shot themselves in both feet by maintaining Biden as candidate for so long, and then dumping him when they had no obvious, competent, successor.
UK government on the lookout for bargain-priced CTO
Wednesday 29th October 2025 16:55 GMT
Re: depends on circumstances
Voters want public services like Denmark but taxes like Chad.
But instead we pay taxes like Denmark, and get public services like Chad. That isn't sustainable either.
What we'd like is value for what we pay, which means civil servants doing the jobs they're paid for, and doing them thoroughly and properly. Unfortunately, as witness some of the posts here, they think they're doing that even when the rest of us (those who actually have to deal with NHS management, or HMRC, know from personal experience that they're delusional.
Reform can't fix that.
No, but there's no sign that any of the other parties are capable of it either.
You have one week to opt out or become fodder for LinkedIn AI training
Frustrated consultant 'went full Hulk' and started smashing hardware
MPs urge government to stop Britain's phone theft wave through tech
New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails
Blinded by the light: Tesla fixes glaringly bright Cybertruck headlights
Friday 24th October 2025 07:07 GMT
Re: FFS...
I have those lights in my Skoda, and they do work remarkably well. As traffic appears ahead (travelling towards me or on the same direction) you can see the system cutting holes in the beam pattern. I've never been flashed yet while driving along busy roads, so they clearly work as required. I didn't order them, they came as standard, but although I expected it to be a gimmick I'm impressed by it, rather to my surprise.
The one place that they work less well is on a motorway, where the lights of oncoming vehicles are hidden by the central barrier.
The setup menu also has an option for left- or right- hand traffic, so easy to switch when abroad.
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
AI does a better job of ripping off the style of famous authors than MFA students do
Windows 11 tiptoes further into dark mode with new dialogs
UK calls up Armed Forces veterans for digital ID soft launch
Monday 20th October 2025 15:38 GMT
Re: Nasty tactic
We also need to stop dentists being setup as businesses, they should automatically be non-profits
I think you'd then find a sudden shortage of anyone wanting to be a dentist. They're professionals, pay them proper professional rates.
I typically go to the dentist in South Africa ... costs a fraction of what it costs here
To you, maybe. Your treatment probably costs the SA taxpayer a lot more.
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Hyperscalers try to beat the heat with larger racks, more air flow
Labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance
Friday 17th October 2025 15:52 GMT
Re: Does freedom of speech work both ways?
Do Covid vaccines stop transmission? No they don't - he was right
It's not quite so black and white.
In an individual, vaccination reduces the severity and duration of symptoms, and therefore reduces the probability of transmission. It isn't a binary yes/no situation.
In a group, vaccination of a large proportion of the members reduces the average level of transmission to below the level at which infection snowballs, so 10 people will infect fewer than 10 others, and over a couple of cycles transmission stops. That's how smallpox was essentially wiped out.
EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily
Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers
Techies tossed appliance that had no power cord, but turned out to power their company
Weird ideas welcome: VC fund looking to make science fiction factual
BOFH: Recover a database from five years ago? It's as easy as flicking a switch
Former UK prime minister Sunak becomes human Clippy for Microsoft, Anthropic
Client defended engineer after oil baron-turned tech support entrepreneur lied about dodgy dealings
Hacked Ford screens put anti-RTO slogan above CEO’s face
Munich Airport chaos after drone sightings spook air traffic control
UK government says digital ID won't be compulsory – honest
Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told
Thursday 2nd October 2025 08:19 GMT
Re: It won't work.
Yes of course I read the document, but I read all of it, especially the bit on p7 which clearly says "For example, in June 2016 there were 58,702 NHS staff with a recorded EU nationality, and in June 2023 there were 74,142 – an apparent rise. But to present this as the full story would be misleading because there are around 60,000 more staff for whom nationality is known now than in 2016. It is very likely that there has been an overall increase in the number of NHS staff with EU nationality since 2016, but we can’t be sure about the scale of the change, and it would be misleading to calculate an increase based solely on the two numbers above"
It's quite clear that, looking at the reliable numbers collected since 2106, the number of staff from the EU has changed very little and has always been outweighed by those from other places. Brexit in 2021 had little significant effect.
Microsoft declares bring your Copilot to work day, usurping IT authority
Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline
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