There are lots of clowns here who think because they run a few VMs at home they are experts.

Companies know they are getting bent over. VMWare know it

To migrate off though costs you $X in Labour and Y in people hours. And that is before you factor in any business disruption. Now multiply those numbers when you have hundreds of thousands of VMs. And all that assumes every transition goes quickly with 100% success and nothing breaks.

Even at less than a hundred VMs it took a minimum of 6 months to do with full time consultants doing the work and trying to weave it into normal business operations - we were lucky in that a lot could be done at weekends.

Your spittle flecked Musk rage makes you oblivious to the fact you cannot fire anyone on the spot in Europe.

The obvious questions is: what happened to Ariane ? They last launched 3 years ago and won't have another vehicle until the 2030s.

Reusable launch is the goal but they are years behind SpaceX

European launch vehicles are basically a pork barrel project for the French Aerospace industry which in itself in reality another arm of the French Government.

Can someone explain how anything in this article is relevant to Slashdot? There is no technology angle at all to it.

All we have is the usual posting of articles from the Guardian

I call a bit of bullshit on this.

PAS systems are centralised and do not use shared accounts for auditing purposes as you need to know who accessed it and who updated it.

I think it is just one doctor who was pissed that computer could not print which is more an issue with configuration/setup than lack of resources.

Printer management and consumables are an absolutely huge cost so in most hospitals there is an active plan to reduce their use which is often met with resistance as many in healthcare are absolutely welded onto paper records, memos etc. as that is the way they have always done it.

Replacement management systems is very, very expensive especially once you add on the huge layers of management and decision making required to procure one. A lot of other systems are linked or unique to something else so cannot just be ripped out and replaced or the vendor just does not have an upgrade path. Any Health IT project anywhere in the world is going to be an absolute bastard to implement [the worst is when it touches anything involved with Medical Staff as they are the most intransigent and self-centred group in the entire organisation].

Written by a 19 year old activist who has zero clue

"driveways or garages". What if you live in an apartment or street parking ?

People buy petrol on their way to and from somewhere they are going.

There is so much bullshit in this

I remember when Slashdot had proper editors and not fuckwits

He SAYS he is suing but has not and will not.

The UK is not the US where everyone throws lawsuits around.

No litigation funder will touch it as the reward isn't there [if he wins the council lets him dig but there is not money in that alone].

Plus UK Courts take very dim views of speculative and frivolous legal action plus he would need to prove he has the means to pay the Councils costs which would be considerable if he loses.

This prick has been at it for years and needs to get on with life.

My daughter has just bought a house and all of the contracts are 100% electronic - no paper is signed anywhere.

I cannot recall the last time I saw anyone look at the signature on a card in Australia. I just looked at mine and most of them it's completely worn off anyway.

I have not signed a CC receipt for anything in years. The only time I can recall handing my card to anyone rather than just tapping the machine was for a very upmarket hotel and they still did it in front of me.

The prosecuting authority for this was the Post Office themselves as they brought Private Prosecutions because the rules of evidence favour them and basically it was assumed in law computers cannot be wrong and the Post Office were busy claiming in court that nothing was wrong. If the cases were prosecuted by the Crown under Fraud and other laws there is severe doubt that many of them would have resulted in a conviction.

There is zero doubt that people in the Post Office and Fujitsu need to go to jail for this but the likely outcome is one or people including an IT specialist who vouched in court repeatedly that all was good despite him knowing that was incorrrect will be prosecuted for perjury. It will not be any of the bosses

Repeated Prime Ministers have kicked this can down the road despite it being obvious to blind freddie 10 years ago something was fundamentally wrong with the whole matter.

The Inquiry cannot prosecute anyone but it can refer evidence to the Criminal Prosecution Service. There are a couple of people already including one IT guy who are more than likely going to end up in court.

Are you 12 ? I lived through the 70s pre-Thatcher and shit doesn't even begin to describe it. Constant strikes, power cuts, rampant inflation and a busted economy.

If Thatcher was so bad why was she constantly re-elected by the working class ?

People saw their lives being ruined and wanted someone who would sort it out.

If you want 25 years its going to cost a hell of a lot more than $100k