Dr. Who is still on?
It became such abject wokery it was totally unwatchable a few years back and everyone we know couldn't care if it still exists.
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Normally with UK.Gov contract disclosures it hovers between 8->10 however in this case it's exploded and laying in pieces on my office floor.
What could possibly be so sensitive it needs to be redacted at all?
PS: El Reg needs to add a new icon to the library, of a bull taking a shit!
Look, I've been through redundancy 3 times here in UK in last 15 years, each after our British firms were "acquired (read: FUBAR'd) by American companies".
Each time, my separation led to 2 payoffs, and each one with the secrecy agreement was quite explicit, though I doubt enforcable on;
Not disclose the terms of the severance agreement.
Not disparage company, its officers, directors, employees, shareholders, or agents.
Not to voluntarily assist any litigation against the company and if compelled to do so, to notify company
Hard to fathom if the Muskyboy fanz will take any notice!
Clearly the staff needs to be immediately replaced with AI to make it easier to block legimitate people at their borders! The Dumbass inHuman Secrecy department is stacked with jack boot, jodphur wearing goons more intent on violating any remaining human rights in the world! So a move to deploying LLMs (AI it ain't!) will allow the DHS goon squad to troll through more innocents' data with immunity under the (d)umbrella of Keeping America Safe.
Wouldn't it be bloody amazing if 2 counties trusts shared data instead? I live in Bucks and when I've been hospitalised in Berks every time upon discharge the Berks hospital prints a tome that I have to take to my GP in Bucks so they can SCAN IT IN and add it to my patient record!! FFS we're in the 2nd decade of the 2000's and this is a fecking joke! How can they not "see" the data is astounding. Looks like we need to issue immediate eye & mental acuity tests to the NHS administators to be able to determine if they are FIT to operate the system.
Wow -- Dell UNIX, I was in the team who ported/developed/suported it for many happy years and the linked article was like a time machine. There were only a dozen of us in engineering working on Dell UNIX, which was kind-of hated by the sales 'roids who couldn't wrap their heads around UNIX.
I kind of recall the article coming out and noticed my/our 2 DNS root servers dell1.dell.com and dell2.dell.com were listed instead of our very early www.dell.com (which was despised even though it had a screenscraping script to take your service tag and look it up in our Tandem mainframes. Perhaps that's why my DNS servers took a hammering!
I've been hauled in front of execs in customer sites more times than I sadly can count due to bugs (perceived, bad use-cases or real) in software we made. In almost every instance, their purchasing agents were also in the meeting informing us if we didn't fix the defects we would be liable for significant £/$/€ penalties up to/including a total refund.
This is why I am so sickeningly apalled by ICL/Fujitsu -- they knew, they've admitted they knew, and they did nothing to fix problems! Even if the Post Office didn't hold them hostage they knew they had defects and absolutely had the wherewithall to fix them.
I absolutely want to see their Directors in jail, and the company handed a massive fine that will be paid DIRECTLY to the subpostmasters! And more of the same for the Post Office officials, for whom ICL/Fujitsu should have email archives of whom was notified and buried their heads should be jailed AND fined as well.
We live in a small area in So. Bucks and we're sick and tired of "Oh, get a 5G chip and you'll be all right" nonsense! 4G here is a joke, as are the broadband providers insane bills so we would love to get to 4/5G and dump them, but the telcos only focus on the big towns to the detriment of smaller locales.
The hell with 'lectrical storms, the unions are causing utter chaos on a scale never before seen in mankind by their greedy Marxist behaviours. Regardless of the trains being 'lectric or not, they have destroyed the trains by deliberately ruining millions of hours of human time.
The stench of despair surrounding Muskyboy never ceases to end. On one hand he demands the right to free speech to abuse, troll and inflame millions is his god-given birthright. On the other hand having inflicted billions of losses to investors he mistakenly asserts he should have the same rights without checks even though he willingly agreed to said checks.
I smell a Wumpus - turn, move or shoot?
No doubt, in time it will surface that some contractor plugged in a USB stick and the compromises started from there. How many more times do we have to say to plug the damn holes with hot glue?
That's why when I purchase a new one, it is always wiped, inspected, A/V'd and reformatted with multiple different filesystem formats.
Not a 100% cure, but certainly has worked for me.
Gosh golly gee whiz, there was a time of no WiFi anywhere and society worked perfectly well. You’d sit and have an actual conversation in a pub or restaurant unlikely to be penetrated by mobile signals and if something urgent in your life was happening you’d pop outside for a moment.
I actually avoid free WiFi and enjoy those I’m with and their company finding it sad when I see a family or group come into aforementioned venues all sitting staring at their devices!
#sadinnit
Any organisation that : "I'm no expert on HR software, but I do know that manually copying and pasting from seven different Excel sheets, all laid out in different ways, is bound to go wrong one day."
They could possibly win a settlement in a tribunal which would serve the bumpkins right for such heinous crimes in Excel!