By Andy McCue
Published: Tuesday 31 May 2005
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IT Developer
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£18bn eh?
Sounds like some computer-consultant is going to get very, very rich.
I might event put in a tender myself...
Let's see, 60m residents in the UK, so 60m rows in a database - could almost fit it in a Access .mdb file!
I don't know where these people make up their figures. But that is irrelevant. The schem will be a complete waste of taxpayers' money unless the Governament can *absolutely* guarantee that NONE of these will ever happen:
1. Cards will be stolen
2. Cards will be forged
3. Criminals will tell lies
4. Terrorist will tell lies
Maybe they should get Tesco Clubcard to run it. Wo...
Neil Postlethwaite
Don't know about Tesco. I have applied twice for a...
Alfred Reading
Forget the implementation cost, it's totally irrel...
Anonymous
The UK is a beta site for all large IT projects. W...
Anonymous
£18bn eh?
Sounds like some computer-consultant ...
Anonymous
cheaper to tatoo a number on everyones right forea...
bill o'keefe
"Let's assume this takes 3 hours of police time." ...
Anonymous
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