Posts by but what do I know?

Child-devouring pothole will never hurt a BMW driver again

Wow

"a pencil-necked desk jockey"

Don't the majority of your readers sit at desks?

Why ChatGPT should be considered a malevolent AI – and be destroyed

Why?

I founded a startup in 2018 ........ I eventually left that company over my concerns of the use of AI.

Why leave? You could have shut the company down or used AI "to do good"

WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage

Why

I'm not a network engineer, so can someone explain why the change of ip address of a LIVE system would ever be necessary?

Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away

COBOL

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

less politicians (MEPs anyway)

Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late

Re: each drunken idiot's immediate head

On the flip side, if you wanted to replace an old system "Y2K concerns" helped stack the business case in your favour.

Intel applies hobnailed boot to countries where its men and women workers aren't paid the same

Re: Sure

How much of that 25 years experience is still relevant? A senior developer with 7 years experience should be performing at a level that will not be surpassed by somebody whose only difference is more years experience. It's IT not rocket science.

UK.gov to roll out voter ID trials in 2019 local elections

Barcodes

- the most expensive option - and totally unnecessary as the human holding the scanner can read the voter card (unless this is a precursor to a fully automated voting/citizen management system?)