Second Papal tweet:
Now I iz really down wit da kidz LOL OMG ROFL, Benedictus XVI #pimp_ma_pope
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..is a good idea:
In one London hospital with a system of mine, I was called back after about six years because a power surge had killed the PC, and when it came back up the database was corrupt.
The PC had a tape drive, and the tape in that drive was the original one I had left there all those years ago. Checking the logs, the customer had not run a single backup since my first site visit. They lost all their data.
"Where data is of a more sensitive nature then we impose stronger security measures and platforms according to the risk profile. Information security is of the up most importance to LOCOG and we are confident that our data is held securely with the stringent security procedures we have in place."
..means they've just worked out how to password-protect an Excel file?
But seriously, what do you expect from a bunch of sportsmen and adminstrators without a single techie? Pity them, for they know not what they do.
..that all Cameron knows about "cybercrime" is that it's a Bad Thing? And Obama's unlikely to be much better.
But, hey, they're both politicians, and it makes them feel good to talk about something neither of them understands but will give good headlines, rather than leave it to people who know about the subject.
It depends what the 100% baseline is: if your employer expects an 8-hour day, are you giving him (/her) 110% if you work an extra 48 minutes?
Even better, if you can start working expected to do sod all, then "giving 1000%" becomes not only possible, but really rather easy.
Next time someone says they want someone to "give 110%", ask them "of what?"
He was in charge of a company that charged exorbitant numbers of millions for advice on how IT projects should be done - MPs followed that advice (because people charging thousands per day *must* know what they're talking about, mustn't they?), that advice generally meant that his company (or ones rather like it) were given further millions of pounds to "manage" huge projects that they really weren't up to handling the complexity.. rather than reduce complexity or scope, they simply charged even more.
And now he comes and says it was all the Labour Govt's fault for wanting the sexy sounding things that his company pushed for. If they'd been the experts that they claimed to be, we'd not have seen the expensive debacles.
CoI declaration: I wrote to my MP a few years ago on precisely this topic, with a load of suggestions as to how the specific project of which I had knowledge could have been done more quickly, far more cheaply (and actually have worked).
15-disc box-set? Shurely there should be 20:
Three Films on Blu-ray under the sky
Seven for the special features on the DVD
Nine for the Director's Cut (don't ask why)
One for the index of what's on the other nineteen
In the Limited Extended Edition where the Shadows lie.
One Set contains them all, In one Set you'll queue them,
One Set you'll bring them all and in the darkness view them
In the Limited Extended Edition where the Shadows lie.
..it will be quite a long time before the people who created the link farms work out how to finagle Google's new algorithm.
I get really pissed off when I find stuff that I've written showing up on screen-scraped pages of "related" content (especially when that theoretically related content is explicitly pornographic - has been a little embarrassing on one or two occasions)
>The myth that MMR causes autism will disapear
>only when it is widely realised that jabs sometimes
>cause a fever and that fever can modulate autistic
>spectrum symptoms.
..and/or people realize that the incidence of autism in the unvaccinated population is no lower than in those who have been vaccinated, as has been shown in study after study..
It's a sad commentary on "science" journalism that one person's anecdote seems to weigh heavier with the press than a systemic study covering millions. Similarly depressing that people like Jenny McCarthy who have such a high profile are so very unwilling to rethink their positions when presented with (what is now utterly overwhelming) evidence that they're wrong.
Thanks for those pubmed/Einstein college links
"Jenny McCarthy's Generation Rescue"???
An organization set up to champion disproven research by a fraudulent investigator, that continues to ignore the torrents evidence that has proven beyond any doubt whatsoever that McCarthy is completely and utterly wrong.. maintaining a stance that is positively harmful to health (especially children's health) worldwide.
Pfft.. if they knew which charity they were paying for their stay at the Playboy mansion, they deserve *everything* they got, and more.
"Instead of killing the projects, Kundra and his team are trying to figure out how to make projects more bite-sized, manageable, and accountable.
"Each of these projects can be scoped in smaller chunks," Vivek told the Journal. "We've overcomplicated how we buy technology in the federal government.""
Best of luck to them.. the tendency to go for huge, monolithic and ridiculously complicated systems has been a feature of government IT projects on this side of the pond, too. We could do with a similar sort of review here.
There's this all-knowing, all-powerful God who knows what we're thinking and has the almighty puissance to snuff out any or all of us or drown the entire world with a snap of his celestial fingers...
..yet for some reason needs protection from people saying nasty things about him. The poor wee soul.
Why isn't there a "bashes head on wall" icon?
..a suggestion I sent to my MP (Paul Goodman, a Tory) in '07.
The idea that instead of running one huge monolithic monster of a system, places like surgeries and hospitals which have (working) systems already running ought to be able to use their existing suppliers to add data I/O to a defined spec, meaning the only central system is a simple (if fairly large-scale) data collator, and distributed systems are a lot more robust, anyway.
> "I do not think it means what you think it means..."
You beat me to it...
Here's something wot I wrote earlier - as part of a general anti-mobile-using-driver rant:
One more modern habit that has got me so perplexed
These blokes who think it's safe to drive while they're composing texts
At least, I say they think it's safe, they got a ****ing gall
From where I'm ****ing standing, they don't ****ing think at all