The BBC takes the British government to task for its idiotic decisions involving technology. Not fearful of electricity's witchery, the U.K.'s authorities are in fact too ready to spend huge sums of money on any ridiculous new idea that comes along.
This time round, we have the NHS's latest database disaster de l'anneé; 10-year RFID passports equipped with chips only guaranteed to work for 2 years (already hacked!); and Britain's proposed ID card system, a looming disaster-to-be.
Now, being British, I'm intimately familiar with such unleavened incompetence. In fact, Her Majesty's Government specializes in bungling wherever technology intersects with the bureacracy of decision-making. I'm not singling them out — every country has its own different, but no less magical, flavor of stupidity — but it all reflects an officious arrogance unique to the English civil servant. Efficient as this is at wasting money, it would be better to replace it with a formal, self-assessed Fiasco Tax, so as to fully institutionalize the disbursement of funds to questionable vendors.
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