I suspect this was part of a move to gain inside financial information to allow certain well connected investors in Saudi Arabia to put themselves in a good position for the future.

There is a positive side. The grooming gangs will need to find alternative employment.

Australia, despite its immense size, has the vast majority of its population concentrated in large coastal cities. An EV works quite happily in that environment as you are not travelling large distances. Go outside the cities though and chargers are rare especially in areas like WA where long distance journeys have to be very carefully planned - the only exception might be Perth to Margaret River which is such a popular trip chargers have been installed along the route and are well used.

Are you kidding me? Do you have any idea how much that would cost? Supermarkets are a low margin business

That only works if you control and install the radio infrastructure e.g. line of sight back to your office or a repeater. If you have supermarkets everywhere it gets a lot harder. You can get a GSM connection etc but you will then be running IPV4 somewhere.

A modern supermarket is already full of networking kit and cabling for POS, security etc etc. so it would make sense for your freezers to run across that but obviously with appropriate security controls as it is infrastructure.

>>First, they are refrigerators. They do not need to be connected to the internet and should not be, period. You want to remotely manage them? Use anything but the internet.

How else? I was selling tiny portable modems so integrators and companies to connect to supermarket fridges in 1990 in the UK. You could use a GSM backhaul which is very common in some areas as you don't need a wired internet connection but it still traverses the internet or carrier network somewhere.

Even electronic utility metering will at some point go across a carriers network and probably an internet backbone somewhere to get to the control systems.

Come on it's been done this way since the 1990s. If a Fridge dies, you lose the product in them - full loss. It makes sense to monitor it.

The same happens in hospitals with the Fridges and Freezers - all monitored remotely with alarms etc. You would be surprised how many there are in a hospital that have nothing to do with food.

I was selling tiny portable models to supermarket and fridge/freezer companies in 1990 so they could report their temps and status back home and be controlled remotely. If one breaks you instantly lose a lot of product and therefore money.

Another useful article that links to a paywall FFS

You completely missed the point of my post. I know exactly who Tesco are I have shares in them.

I can only imagine how much money that migration cost them.

My previous employer moved over also in about 6 months but with a much smaller footprint. We took one look at the new licencing costs and said "no we are out".

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].