Posts by doublerot13

Re: There's a gem of a good idea in there...

100% agree - a search engine for "what I have seen on my screen" would be amazing. More so now with dynamic content on web pages, and a billion different communication mechanisms.

Re: Rogue HR Employee

Rogue HR employee? Probably the head of HR. HR departments exist to do follow the direction the CEO tells them, and treat their human resources accordingly.

Weird how people still think they're a force for good. "I'm going to HR" is laughable.

Re: Good old fat fingers Friday

> Google is still making highly technical configuration changes on Friday before everyone goes home.

Jeez, yeah, this used to drive me nuts when I was still a dev. Let's release critical changes when everyone in our location is scattering for the weekend (especially when they know a release is happening), the rest of the world has already gone home, and at least 50% of people will soon be drunk...

Re: Year end insanity

The only difference between a tech salesperson and someone selling houses, or used cars on a lot, is at some point in the past a butterfly on the other side of the world happened to flap its wings at the right time. I work with them... I'm mates with a few.... but they're simpletons. And the joke is they think they are "business" experts.

Thing is though.... it's not their fault. It's the idiot employers thinking this sh*t works, and setting "targets" that the whole sales org instantly works out a way to game. If anyone - including us techs - are rewarded for behaving in a certain way, we do it.

Re: Oof

You're kidding??? Hugh Grant is consistently brilliant, and seems like a great laugh in real life too.

You're just jealous because he dated Liz Hurley :D

lol, yeah, he has a very bright future in corporate management

Re: Thin pagan religion

As a fat pagan I'm absolutely offended.

If I was woke I'd be fat shamed and furious.

Re: BASIC

He must have typed a program in from a magazine and forgot to save it before it crashed.

Re: "working towards finding an optimal capital structure"

> Isn't business speak wonderful ?

I'd love the have the time - and ability - to study business speak.

- "we have changed our mind" looks appalling and indecisive.

- "we have pivoted" means the same, but looks dynamic and actually decisive.

The effect of a few different words is amazing.

I'm thinking of when I used to have hair like them. Hair like anyone really..

Re: Many of us older commentards here

> Personally, I'd love it if a hacker got into say... the Pentagon and wiped every windows system in the place

I'm amazed this hasn't happened. People have already got into other peoples' azure accounts and read / changed data, but the whole industry studiously ignores it.

Maybe the economic benefit of MS to the United States is so great, the US security services proactively defend and assist them, I don't know.

Re: Advisor

I did a job about 10 years ago that left me with tons of free time as jobs and scripts ran. Felt like I read the whole internet.

But I went through a period of reading about air crashes and the causes, and the above post about "equality" and freedom of speech in the cabin is bang on correct. I think Korea had (emphasis on "had") the worst record due to their respectful, hierarchical society, and Qantas had the best as the Aussie's weren't afraid to say "what the #### are you doing?"

Re: I predict...

Why the downvote? This happens all the time. Move closer to the sales side of IT if you don't think it's true.

Private software / servers is kinda like security through obscurity - both work amazingly, right up to the moment they fail.

You're also denying the security auditing and updates of open source.

Re: Why not have cloud.gov.uk ?

> The first part is just a list of products or services, they all have to run on something,

No, that's where you're wrong, they're "serverless" :D

Re: "The Coalition for Fair Software [..] backed by Google and AWS"

...not as morally bad as bundling sub-standard Teams to grab marketshare from Slack, which is far superior. No one chooses Teams, it's just bundled for free.

Re: don't mess with the man...

Oooooh, let me think... has a bank ever failed and would have lost everything without government bailouts (er, yes), or other banks scrambling to steady the ship before it happened to them (couple of months ago right?)???

Also... crypto is the Wild West, we all know that. Anyone who's not a fool has their own wallet. But banks have very undeserved public trust. What would happen if everyone - very reasonably - asked their bank for their money back? The banks would be blown out of the water.

Re: FCTLOT

It's been a long time since I set foot in a bank, but analysts were generally the dumbest people in the building. Or absolutely hot.. Go figure.

Re: I may have the most evil story

Ok, it's 10pm at night here. I wasn't going to have a beer but I'm going to open one right now in your honour. Respect!

Re: All search engines, now appear to be crap.

True eh.... Google is barely usable now with all its Sponsored (read: Ads) listings. Don't know how they took something so good and made it into something so lame.

Re: The irony..

^ smartest, most accurate post I've seen for a while.

I think us humans are predisposed to believe someone (and now something) that appears convincing, like all the blaggers we work with. The howlers that ML creates are amazing but the danger is so many people believe them.

Re: GPT?

Yeah, the telecom / switching network co that managed to go bust during the .com boom :D

Every level of management was incompetent, and the workforce thought they were still in the 70s. A Great British success story....

Re: I like the watch

^100% agree with you

Re: weak password

> So, what was the password?

London1

> Expecting a computer science graduate to have taken cybersecurity courses is like expecting a maths graduate to have taken book-keeping courses.

So what do they actually do over the three years then??? :D

Re: This far down in the comments

Wow, I remember preview simply blowing me away. I was absolutely staggered.

Re: "Burnout"

@elsergiovolador I think you've "triggered" them :D

I know exactly what you mean... big corps - even frigging Microsoft - have learned how to make a huge profit from it

Re: Ripping off corporations?

Had one charge US $65,000 to sign a Java applet once. That was actually one of their lesser scams.

Re: The glory days of UK IT

I'm sure I remember reading this is why the R-PI was manufactured abroad... importing a complete made-in-Asia unit incurred no tax, importing parts (memory, processor...) to manufacture in the UK incurred tax.

And again, if my foggy memory is correct, the government shat itself at this high profile reveal and changed things.

Re: I still have the real thing

I feel your pain.. I did the same when moving house. Threw away my BBC Model B and... my vinyl collection. Kill me.

> I think MS Windows peaked with W2000 tbh.

100%!! And XP sucked until at least its second service pack.

I remember taking a job in 2005 and they still used Win2000 - I was delighted.

Re: disgraceful on many levels...

> When you have a recidivist offender who's determined to carry on by any means possible, preventative detention is about the only viable sentence

So we apply "lock em up for life" to all crimes now?

> These aren't victimless crimes and a good chunk of the money involved ends up in the hands of either organised crime or terrorist organisations

Personally, I think crimes against a person that impact / ruin the rest of their lives are a touch more serious than taking an early peek at a product the developer wants to hype up as much as possible - and should have the in-house skills to block.

OMG you said "terrorism", I take it all back.