* Posts by Tombola

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Ongoing game of Galileo chicken goes up a notch as the UK talks refunds

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We've shot our own feet

I would guess that the contracts & agreements that bind the Galileo project were set up with the European Court of Justice as the final arbiter in case of dispute.

Since cutting the UK's ties with the ECJ & rejecting its rulings was/is fundamental to the Brexit process, it is difficult to see how the UK can stay in the consortium. Any request by UK to stay implies a ridiculous contradiction, "We want to stay in your Club but reject its rules!"

It isn't that the EU is being difficult - we've done this to ourselves,

BA's 'global IT system failure' was due to 'power surge'

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Very Old IT Person

Yes, I'm v old! When I joined an IT Dept. there still was a rusting Deuce in its stores, waiting to be sold for its metal value that included the mercury in its primitive memory. So I've come thru' it all & now in retirement. The aspect that I can't understand is that in over 200 observations, none come from any folks that really know what has happended & whta is going on.

Is it the outsourcing or, what?, to Tata. What is Tata running?

Is it badly designed & implemented resilience vis-a-vis power supply?

Or whatever?

Over 200 "guessers" have been at it but no inside knowledge that can explain. Readers must include some employees who could say what really is happening. The official statement that its a a power outage suggests that somebody hasn't thrown enough logs into the silly upgraded Drax power station.

It has to be much more complictated & therefore much more worthwhile knowing about. So let's have no more rabbitting about whether Linux would have saved them & some inside facts, please!

Death haunts government petitions site

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There is a solution

Simple really; rally support for the petition that asks Parliament to ignore e-petitions.

VOTE EARLY - VOTE OFTEN

UK police crime map website: Who's the victim here?

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It's statiscally nonsense..

The data isn't normalised for the number of people in a particular street.

Specific example:

Thousands maybe even tens of thousands of generally well behaved rugby supporters will descend on Mill Lane in Cardiff tonight before and after the Wales/England match. "Chip Alley" as its known. Lots of take-aways and pubs around there.

Of the thousands a few, a very few, (because it's a rugby crowd not a vicious football crowd), may have their collars felt for exuberant behaviour.

The snag is that this ridiculous site reports Mill Lane as the most crime laden street in Wales, when its generally good natured and fun!

What do Condemns really think they are doing. What be the reaction if Mill Lane was shut down>