Translation

"We are 'sticking it to the man' so to speak."

We are going to annoy 'the man' - slightly, temporarily.

Do they know

Does the NHS know that there are already electronic medical record applications in use over much of the rest of the world?

Given the amount of money wasted on aborted attempts to reinvent these applications perhaps someone should tell them.

Language

Guru?

Ninja?

Is there no English word for "someone who gets paid for knowing what he/she is doing"?

Gibberish

"to make the city more aware" - I wasn't aware (sorry) that the city is a sentient being.

"use real-time data to predict the effect of weather" - cold means trafic's going to be a mess, wet means traffic's going to be a mess, hot means traffic's going to be a mess.

Job done.

Translation

"We will be working with the PCS union to use every means to protect these vital and high-skilled jobs."

We'll persuade our members to come out on strike so we can get on the telly. They'll lose pay and still lose their jobs but, hey, we'll get on the telly.

Could have started with even simpler brains

Like politicians'.

Headline o' the day!

...despite the disgusting implication.

I await two things

1. The inevitable lawsuits from migraine sufferers

2. Smart meters driving users of this technology into bankruptcy.

Brave new world

Britain has become a society that, once upon a time, aspired to be so well-off that everyone could own spiffy, shiny machines in their homes and consume leccy to run them.

Nowadays we can still afford (well, on credit) the spiffy, shiny machines but we can't afford the leccy.

Something is fundamentally and very wrong in our country.

It's good to think

"I think there is a lot of reason to have confidence in our markets and in the integrity of how they operate,' says Ms. Mary.

Well, you're paid to think that, dear.

A survey

Hands up everyone here who's a tax lawyer or consulting tax accountant.

You do something I don't understand or agree with

So you're stupid.

Easily explained

Mark had to sell some shares to pay for the wedding,

Again?

Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

I wonder if iPads For All will teach the children how to read, write, add and subtract.

Seems our schools are having a problem doing that now.

Not unusual

As usual Senator Casey is speaking through an orifice not intended for vocals.

Mr. Saverin cannot legally avoid paying such US taxes as he owes and has stated that he will comply with US law.

Just another case of Bob never seeing a populist bandwagon he didn't want to jump on - even if it has no wheels.

Mexican migas

Substitute tortilla chips for stale bread, add eggs and do away with most of the vegetation.

Now that's drunk food.

History

When an autocracy or theocracy (and I don't care how many 'elections' Iran stages, this still applies) starts to get belligerent over the little things - like names on a foreign map - then it's time for the international community to either smile, nod and back away or to smack down hard.

History will bear this out.

A couple of thoughtish things

1. Thanks to El Reg for giving this report more publicity than the WWF's entire annual budget would allow.

2. One assumes that members of the WWF are taking their own advice by committing suicide or living entirely off weeds.

Not quite on topic

but can anyone tell me why anyone thinks FB is worth a squillion dollars?

'Brandy Palm, blogging from inside the eight-feet tall pod, declared: "This is an incredibly important issue for me personally.'

Get a life, Brandy.

Not unusual

I've seen some 'greeters' at Walmart that looked as if they'd do the same thing as the snake.

I wonder

I wonder how many of the anti-Thatcher commentards here were actually of voting age when she was Prime Minister. I also wonder how many of them would rather the NUM ruled the country (again).

Really?

"renal units do not generally send results and letters to GPs electronically"

Why not?

I was quietly amused

until I got to the "Oh yeah there were gas leaks all over the place too" bit.

So Sauropods' arse-exhalations were responsible for the increase in methane - except for where it was leaking out of the earth.

Skynet?

I don't care if Skynet gets control of Greenwich's utilities. What I fear is someone smart enough to take all of our existing surveillance systems and sell the joined up intelligence package to Whitehall.

Here's a nice, big, successful company......

Let's do all we can do bollox it up and maybe scare them into paying us some juicy bribe....... er, sorry. 'settlements'.

80% chance 'possibly"?

Hello, William Hill?

Short list

1. Only allow encryptable, remote-wipable devices to connect.

2. Push encryption and PIN requirements on every connect

3. Tell customer if device is lost so is all your personal data when we wipe it.

Translation

'A third of the time will be spent devleoping community strategy'

And the other two thirds will be spent disseminating the bullshit generated in the first third.

Safest thing

I think the safest thing for Ministers to do is to keep their mouths shut. Using Francis Maude as an excellent example, each time they open their mouths they demonstrate how little they know about the subject at hand. They should stick to the dictum, 'Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it.'

Of course the other benefit would be that I wouldn't have to listen to their drivel.

Funny how

Cerner and its main competitor EPIC are used in hundreds of hospitals in other countries, every day, without major incident. Of course where it's used successfully the hospitals also have downtime procedures that they exercise regularly (it is a computer system, after all) and nobody dies when the computer goes down and nobody gets turned away from treatment.

Of couse those hundreds of other hospitals are not part of The Best Healthcare System In The World.