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Northwood is a particular scary estate in the Kirby area of Liverpool - The Wolf of Kabul
IT to play no part in UK's future
CHARISMA BYPASS VICTIM Alistair Darling delivered his first budget today and gave the IT industry barely a mention.
What the Chancellor of the Exchequer (he'd be a finance minister anywhere else) did promise is that there would be more biometric technology used at Heathrow airport to cut the queues at the immigration desk.
He said: "Improving the passenger experience at the UK’s major airports, particularly Heathrow, is critical to UK competitiveness."
He added that he was inviting tenders and technology ideas for more tolls and road pricing.
But it’s not all tax tax tax. Oh, no. He plans to spend some of that dosh on 'improving the innovative capability of the public sector, including a new Public Sector Innovation Laboratory and Whitehall Innovation Hub.'
There's some kind of innovation award awaiting that sentence, Lord help us. There was no mention of making Government IT projects cheaper, more secure or less ineffectual.
The real news was that the tax on a pint of beer went up 4p and 11p was added to packet of 20 cigarettes. µ
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I work in a couple of schools. One is council run, one is private.

The council one throws money around but misses the mark (they had over 100 computers but no-one to maintain them, do security patches etc, only advice was spewed from the council "rulebook", undocumented inventory).

The private one has only just gotten round to widespread deployment beyond the admin side (i.e. into the classrooms as a teaching tool), but they just do it better in every aspect. Proper advice from a private business consultant, proper documentation and tracking, organised and effective.

Having watched the various projects being shut down (that thing with the radio telescopes), cancelled/delayed (the various NHS things), mismanaged/misplanned (ID cards) by the government on a large scale, and the same thing on a smaller scale (my own work place). I can only imagine it's going to be a long time, if ever, for the Government to handle and understand IT properly. If they keep out of it for the moment, there's less chance of them screwing it up.

It's hardly inspiring to see that the average ICT lesson consists of nothing more exciting than changing fonts in MS Word.

Unfortunately, from the Budget it looks like the UK's money is a little tight atm (unless you're already rich), so while other governments can probably be convinced to aid computer games industry as entertainment/art (much like many help out their film and art industries) it looks like UK businesses are left to struggle on or die trying (some even make a success), investment in IT (either companies or educated future workers) is severly lacking on all fronts.
how will BIO speed things up? Fingerprint reads are ok enough but fingerprints can be copied very easily by anyone who has a laser printer... its to easy.
And the IRIS scan which they currently have its MUCH slower then some person scanning your passport.

What other options are there? Fart smell? Voice after a heavy night drinking?