So let

me get this straight.

Your doc can send the chemist an e.copy of your medication for you to pick up, also, in the event of a medical emergency, the hospital can type your number in and see what medication(if any) you are already taking.

So what he's talking about is a system exactly like the one the out of hours service uses to send a prescription to your local chemist. coupled with an IT system that lets the GP or the hospital see what each other has prescribed to the patient.

Why not add in the ability for the GP or hospital to see patient notes and test results and we get a system rather like the one my doc and local hospital already uses to see what the patient has been treated with.

In fact, Take the plastic coated bar code tag that I've got to carry in my wallet and scan it into a NHS terminal and you get to see who I am, how much heart surgery I've had and what medication /latest test results are.

I wonder if the health minister actually knows what goes on in his department?

Having been

infected with with a cheery trojan that went on to screw up every HTML file and every .exe file in my PC in a vain attempt to preserve itself(thank gawd steam just downloaded clean copies of its game .exe files each time instead of marking me out as a hacker and banning my account) and costing me time and money to get the windows partion scrubbed, with loss of data etc etc (praise the lord for the Linux partion where all my financial stuff lives)

I can happily say the the guy who was making money out of his bot net should have his fingers cut off with a cheesegrater and have the sludge inserted in his rectum with a 12 gauge, before being welded up in a steel box then buried under 50 feet of concrete and subjected to a nuclear bomb.

If he pleaded guilty of course...... not guilty and convicted.. well I'd get downright evil on him

At least

It will remove those damned estimated readings for us folks who work for a living and cant be arsed to waste 3 days waiting for the meter guy to turn up.

But then if they actually looked at monthly consumption of power from the likes of me, they'll find its about 150-200 units per month and has been for the past 20 yrs... so why I get an estimated bill of 400 units per month every time is anyones guess.

PS can I have a nice simple tariff eg : service charge + price per unit used, and not service charge-20% if over 1000 units used+ 15% discount on the first 200 units + 5% discount if theres a Y in the month +10% extra if I go over 200 units+4% overcharge on service -5% discount if paid by direct debit via a cayman islands bank account which exempts me from VAT at 5% but involves a 6% extra direct debit charge on a monday

I'm a CNC

engineer and I'm out of a job :(

Actually thats not true, but then you go round flea bay looking in the bargin bucket CNC mills, you can pick yourself up a fairly good machine for 5k, download a CAM program from pirate bay and off you go making proper metal guns.

But then I'm a proper engineer, with years of experience in making all sorts of naughty things for the government/arms industry and those plastic things will be 1 shot only toys cunningly designed to take out the gun nut firing the thing.

This is why

I scream and shout and throw big heavy things at the managers where I work while shouting 'air gap air gap' between the internet connected stuff (3 office PCs ) and the stuff networked to the robots (2 pcs and a laptop).

Last thing we need is for the robots to go berzerk and start killing everyone.. especially when its my shift getting killed.

<<wondering where he can get a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range

So the government

will stop me watching movies of girls wearing very little apart from say bra and undies from appearing on the wi-fi cloud thing.

But will allow me to walk pasting a ****ing great poster by M&S of a girl wearing nothing but an even skimpier bra and undies......

Smells of buying off the daily wail's readership... you know the ones that believed the MMR scare stories by the daily fail and now their little darling are getting measles....

If

Any apps I get ask for phone/contact permissions, then its time for the uninstall button.

PS can someone give me a legit reason why a guitar tuner app needs your phone number and contact list anyway?

Taking a slightly different view..

I dont blame the police for doing nowt.

They just collect the evidence and pass it along to the criminal protection squad, and they the ones who say "lack of evidence"

Then theres the huge mountain of paperwork PC Plod has to fill out when he nicks someone

Then if they are really lucky it gets to court where said slimeball goes " I did'nt know it was nicked , I bought it for 50 quid of a guy in a pub"

And finally , he's been convicted of handling stolen goods and the judge goes "I'm going to be really strict with you and fine you £10 and give you 25hrs community service which you may or may not do depending how you feel in the morning" , is it any wonder PC Plod says "Cant be bothered m8"?

PS Judge appointments, the CPS, and sentencing guidelines all come from the home office where a government minister is in charge.....

They came for him

while he slept.... he protested they had the wrong man, but they had the right man and the paperwork to prove it

And why

does the first picture look like something built in Kerbal space program?

Although their space ships look somewhat better than the effort above

The idea

that the nork missiles are cack works well

right upto the point one lands on Pearl harbour

Oh and the last people to try that one came to a very sticky end......

The only way

I'll consider a M$ phone(or faceborg phone or any one of a number of phones ) is by looking at the price

All I want is a simple phone I can make phone calls with, and maybe send abusive text messages to friends/workmates, and install my homebrew metal bashing calculator apps.

The simpler and cheaper the better(with unlimited internet of course)

An 18 quid a month Sumsang S2 fills to spot nicely, when the contract is up, then its look... but thats 14 months away

The only

hope for the norks is an all out war fought to their battleplan , not ours

Which would be artillery/missile strikes on Seoul and surrounding US, ROK bases, missile strikes at US airbases in Japan and Guam, followed by a massive conventional attack on Seoul and occupation of Seoul in order to force any UN force to create another Stalingrad, followed by peace on the norks terms eg withdrawing in exchange for food aid.

Sadly the battleplan would more likely run as 3 days of nork offensive action, followed by 10 days of stalemate, then 28 days of getting the s**t kicked out of the norks as UN forces pour in, resulting dead.. about 30 000 in the south 200 000 in the north, if the norks used chemical/bio/nuke weapons, say goodbye to 5 million north koreans

including kim el fat boy who'll be dangling on a rope after the war crimes trial

Sorry but

I think Windows is a load of bollocks as well

If they split the OS into admin space and user space and denied write access to anything in admin unless logged in as admin, then windows would be a fook sight more secure.

Come on guys.. since when does a browser in user space need the ability to write (and trash) the entire system? and how long has it been going on for.... 15... 16... 18 years?

But then linux is'nt helped by the nerds in charge of it going'search the forum newbie' to anyone asking a question where my answer would always be "Write some A1 documentation linux nerd before rushing off to create <spit> gnome 3"

And I

bet the cost overruns and the fact that 10% of claiments will be using the job center's computers to do the claiming couple with the cost overruns, and the bad security cost overrun, means that the estimate for how much the complete system with cost has overrun and we end up paying £4 billion to scrap the whole lot and start again (£5 billion because that cost will overrun too).

Nearly had

me until NSFW daemon.... because I've never seen it running when I do a list of processes in my Linux boxes

Perhaps a better one would be

"Microsoft spokesman has said after the success of windows 8 , windows 9 will have a radically improved interface called touch and spell."

Which everyone would go hahahh good april fool, until m$ reveal it at the next big IT show

This is why

I always say I program industrial robots instead of my actual job description of programming metal machining centers.

Soon as you say you're a metal basher its 'I need a bit for a car/motorbike/kids cycle/door knocker etc etc etc"

Then they get all pissy because you wont break down a £150 000 machine thats costs £60/hr to run to make them a ****ing washer.

So you put them off by saying it will cost £150 for that 1 washer, with the answer you always get "they cost 10p in halfords"

Which brings out 2 answers depending how much I like them

"Ok order 25 000 and I can make them for 10p each" or....

"Why dont you just goto ****ing halfords and buy one instead of pestering me in order to save 10p"

Coat... because I'm always told to leave at the end of the conversation..

I would'nt

touch the government online benefit system with a 10 foot barge pole (thats 3 meters for our younger readers).

Why? for exactly the same reason I dont do online banking

Its not secure.

Heck I dont even like typing my credit card number into steam.

And the last thing I want is a bunch of crooks running around with my details because the government cant be arsed to pay enough for a decent website, let alone a secure one

Yay

I'm one of the three new customers last year

And the reason

Unlimited data on the contract... thats it

Very handy when you're tucked up in a hospital bed on a saturday night and you got nothing to do but watch u-tube vids because hospital has got butt fugly agency nurses in instead of the spiffing regular staff

After reading this

Article, the only word I can think of is "Bollocks"

The press should be regulated by the phrase "Public interest"

Eg Prince William and his missus sunbathing on a topless beach while having a fairly passionate snog is not a public interest story.... its a none story

However... the Prime minister and his mistress snogging on the same beach after delivering a speech to the tory loonies.. I mean party on family values = public interest.

Or how about the daily w(m)ail running a smear story on the landlord of a murder victim on the basis he had a past and looked a bit dodgey..... the fact the editor and senior staff were walking around free was because the judge did'nt have enough guts to jail the lot of them for a serious contempt of court leads to the writers point

We have enough laws on the press IF THEY ARE ENFORCED

I try bribing a policeman , I goto jail

if a Sun 'journalist' does it, its pat on the back good story well done.

And only now are people starting to be jailed for these types of offences

I suppose

I must be a hardcore gamer

Team fortress nearly evry night... occasional blasts at something else.

But the writer is correct for us old pharts.. what we lack in reaction time is made up by gameplay, knowledge and evil intent.....

Making a push for final cap? lets drop out of my hidey hole in the rafters and set everyone on fire from behind... ahh the pretty yellow flames.. they flicker and flicker and dance all day long..

Boris

<<<wondering when they'll drag him off the hospital laptap and back in his room with the crayons again

And

corporation tax/NI is changed so smbs can make more money.

In my experience my boss will gladly trouser the extra cash and not hire anyone or give them a payrise.

Mind you my boss paid me ssp only during a recent illness after working for him for 10 yrs +, and even his tight arse rivals said "what a f***ing cheapskate"

This budget is more about mid term bollocks to the lot of you from the government, and just enough to keep you from invading parliment and stringing the lot of them up from the nearest lamp post.

Next year it will be loverly with lots of giveaways in the vain hope that someone might vote for them.......... before stringing them up from the nearest lamp post

well

the sole windows geek at work has been looking around for Windows 8 stuff

He's found someone who sells a dead flesh finger on a stick, so he does'nt have to reach up to his touch screen all the time from his office chair

and I've inherited his win7 PC and he AINT getting it back!

The 1987

storm that hit southern Britain had roughly the same cause, a blocking high to the north forcing the jet stream way further south than it usually runs in mid october, driving a mass of cold air into a warm low pressure area that usually haunts these isles at that time of year.

It was only the fact that it ran through southern england at 45-50mph that saved us from even worse damage than it did

Btw Sandy was barely a cat 2 storm when it landed, katrina was a strong 3

You missed the

important question hanging on everyones lips

"Does it run the steam native client with no hassle?"

It

the same in the robot bashing industry

All us older types are getting older and older, with 12 yrs left in my case, whats to replace us.... well nobody under the age of 35 because who wants to work in a smelly old factory for min wage, no job security, and maybe after 10 yrs of picking stuff up and learning computer/programming skills you can earn below what a McD branch manager does.

Or you can poach staff from other companies.... which drives the current staff crazy when they find out the new guy is getting 1.5 times what they are for the same job

But then it does'nt matter a s**t because your job has just been outsourced to save 0.0005p per part for a company that reports 3 billion in untaxable profits per year

Its all

stupid anyway

Take Sony, DRM in the game console, part of the anti-piracy league, manufactures and sell DVD burners..........

Dump the regioning, and if you're worried about TV shows being pirated.. release them on the same day in the US and elsewhere!

Its

not the password entry the bothers me when it comes to gaining access to a website/my linux box/the robot setup parameters

Its those bloody capatas things... type in the leters you see in the box.... because you know what it looks like to

you will never in a million tries be what it actually says, then they includes capital letters that look like lower case, and numbers.. then 2 words to make things twice as hard until you finall scream in frustration and go down the road to a proper shop instead on the online version because its quicker and easier.

Then you do a search for capatas solvers and find out there are automated tools you can download that solves them instantly(and converts your machine into a spam bot/ddos bot as a bonus)