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"...real world practitioners...like...UK’s own Government Digital Service"
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I think I've heard those words before (and often repeated). In the 1970s, we were invited to believe that disc storage would soon be replaced by semiconductor magnetic devices ("bubble memory"). As ever, the existing technologies saw that further investment was now worthwhile, pressed gently on the throttle and zoomed off into the distance. Only now (40 years on) does it seem likely that "flash" memory will match the prediction.
"Patients4Data has a strong academic representation - people in this sector are careful, since their professional certification is at risk if they mess up".
To what "professional certification" do you refer? If you mean "reputation", it seems not to be enhanced by joining an organisation whose name appears intended to mislead.
Just an extension of Thatcher's "If you want to vote, we can sell your data" (knocked down in 2001 in the Robertson case as contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights) and replaced by the present confusing choice of appearing on the "edited register", thereby encouraging all but the most careful readers to make the choice they don't want to make.
@Matron What concerns the people you call "idiots" is that BT as at present can inflate OpenReach prices, thereby raising costs for ISPs, while extra cost to its own ISPs (BT Openworld etc.) is offset (and more) by the extra profits at OpenReach, with no effective competition to that division of BT, because they were handed both the trunk and local services at privatisation.
The trouble is the gap between these imaginary problems and reality. Devices often don't fail gradually in some mensurable way that suits the IoT sales scenario. Even if the compressor flashes a red light (which doesn't need IoT) to warn of a forthcoming failure, the butcher will do what we all do: he'll wait, hoping it will work until he has time to fix it, a time which will likely never come. It won't be fixed until it breaks altogether, whether that's this Christmas or next.
Perhaps, in the next update, "Windows needs to restart" could be accompanied by a warning "and won't be usable for the following 20 minutes".
Perhaps the next update, having destroyed numerous shortcut keys, could restore them, so that I don't have to do so again.
Perhaps, instead of re-assigning various file extensions to Microsoft's favourite programs, the next update could leave them as I've set them.
Perhaps the next update could refrain from deleting a program simply on the basis of a claim that it is not compatible with the new OS