Possibly, but in that instance you're instantly collecting a percentage of an amount that you may not have otherwise had
Posts by MatthewSt
655 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2013
Techie exposed giant tax grab, maybe made government change the rules
Windows 95 testing almost stalled due to cash register overflow

Re: Could've been a requirement
An engineer might, but the article states that a manager went...!
Having said that, with it being a round number I wouldn't be surprised if it only went up to 9999.99 before not having the digits to display anything else, so stopped working in some way or another.
User demanded a ‘wireless’ computer and was outraged when its battery died
Field support chap got married – which took down a mainframe
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
Odd homage to '2001: A Space Odyssey' sees 'Blue Danube' waltz beamed at Voyager 1
Admin brought his drill to work, destroyed disks and crashed a datacenter
Windows 11 market share stalls ahead of Windows 10 cutoff
Best pricing model for AI? Work in progress, says Salesforce
Microsoft is opening Windows Update to third-party apps

Re: an interesting shift!
I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing... We're an ISV and we currently use the store to distribute apps because it takes care of automatic updates (including targeted rings) for us. I'm saying that if we could opt in for our app to auto update through Windows then we wouldn't need to take a dependency on the store.
In other words... we're the third party app that wants to come bork your system!
TeleMessage security SNAFU worsens as 60 government staffers exposed
Automatic UK-to-US English converter produced amazing mistakes by the vanload
Dilettante dev wrote rubbish, left no logs, and had no idea why his app wasn't working
NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs
British govt agents step in as Harrods becomes third mega retailer under cyberattack
Open Document Format turns 20, but Microsoft Office still reigns supreme
When Microsoft made the Windows as a Service pivot
£136M government grant saves troubled Post Office from suboptimal IT

Re: Another idea
The other points are still valid. You think the banks will be happy with each of the 11,000 branches having its own processes and software to reconcile £1bn+ per month of deposits and withdrawals?
https://corporate.postoffice.co.uk/cash-tracker/what-is-the-post-office-cash-tracker/our-latest-tracker/
Signalgate lessons learned: If creating a culture of security is the goal, America is screwed

Re: Who is to blame?
Unless that technology is provided for them.
You have a government provided secure device, configured with the approved messaging systems, pre-configured internal contacts for other staff members' approved devices, and you don't let other apps be installed on them.
The only thing your users need to do is to not use personal devices. Considering how much noise was made about emails a few years back, I would say that they're all quite up to speed with what's a government system and what's a personal system...
DARPA to 'radically' rev up mathematics research. Yes, with AI
Pidgin is back, so let's talk about why a local chat client matters
When disaster strikes, proper preparation prevents poor performance
AI running out of juice despite Microsoft's hard squeezing
Microsoft will kill Remote Desktop soon, insists you'll love replacement
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players
Up to $75M needed to fix up rural hospital cybersecurity as ransomware gangs keep scratching at the door
Apple drags UK government to court over 'backdoor' order

Re: Put up or shut up
Being technically illiterate isn't the problem, it's not listening to people who are. We shouldn't expect our MPs to know everything, but they should have enough critical thinking to understand legitimate expert opinion.
The problem with this specific scenario is that security and accessibility are greyscale rather than black and white.
On the opposite ends of the spectrum you have E2EE and not. In between that you can have a secondary key for decryption (the problem is how you protect that) or N secondary keys, of which you need M to do the decryption (improves the protection because now you'd need to compromise multiple keys) but then you can't call those E2EE encrypted.
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Re: Are we the baddies?
What about upgrades? If you buy a copy of Firefox then will you pay for an upgrade next month when the next release comes out? Or maybe a purchase price gets you a year of upgrades.
Either way, not accepting the subscription model means not accepting the benefits of continuous improvements
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
Microsoft Azure faceplants in Norway, taking government services with it
UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Re: costs mushroom from £2.6 million to around £40 million
The problem is that Oracle can implement what has been asked for, but it turns out the requirements were wrong, or have evolved, so you can either walk away from the contract and not get much of a refund, or you can pay the adjustment fees