He's lucky
He could have been attacked by the likes of Roger
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/12/10/roger-famously-ripped-kangaroo-has-died-after-lovely-long-life/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.37bdeb1bc216
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Rudely awoken about 1 o'clock in the morning being told that there was a major problem with the comms link at a remote mining site.The usual reboot scenario didn't work. OK Fine, Quickly organise my flights from sydney to perth. head down to the airport. board the flight a enjoy a 5 hour flight to perth. Then hop across to catch my flight to port hedland. about another 3 hours.
Here's the fun part, link up with a driver that was about to start his 4 day drive back to the mine site (on/off road ore train). (Couldn't get a flight, way too expansive apparently to charter a flight for a single person). After 5 days ( extra day due to corrugation of the road and bruising of my arse ). I finally arrive at the mine site at 10pm. Couldn't gain access to the comm's shed locked up by the site manager. Finally next day I gain access. I was about to start my step through on diagnostics when i noticed the power cord hadn't been set and locked properly into the Base unit.
A two week round trip because someone couldn't be bothered going through the usual fault guide.And to top it all off, the mine sites are dry sites, no booze allowed at all.
the two major ruling political parties can't come to a consensus. Everyone else is jumping to conclusions without reading the relevant proposals or even understanding the issue.
Well, Colour me fucking surprised.
Swap in any other democratic country instead of America. Substitute net Neutrality with any other pertinent issue affecting that country. The article is still relevant.
Same here. The ticket was been open for more than 5 years now. ( originally created to test the new ticket system). We leave it open and omit it from the SLA reports. We assign it in the second week, whenever a new person starts.
The range of reactions has been amazing, from WTF! to chicken little
The VR system is where they draw the line. What about all the other Military systems and subsystems that run Microsoft software, all of which contribute to increasing lethality of the armed forces.
In fact not just the American military, but every other military and para-military outfit in the world will have Microsoft software somewhere adding in the coordination, planning, analysis or logistics. All designed to increase the effectiveness of it's armed forces in the field. So where's the condemnation, the cries of outrage, where's the shouts for ethical behaviour.
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No nothing, Thought so.
Fucking Hypocrites.
I daresay that a large amount of ego entered the equation considering the trivial amount involved. Most people would shrug their shoulders over an amount less than a coffee. If you felt righteous a phone call to the tip line of your taxation office would set the hounds on the trail. More importantly the federal government will be responsible for picking up the tab if the decision went against them
Signed the dotted line in February 2015 and expected go live in the same year.
Yeah I call bullshit right there. I'm not sure if the customer pushed for that date or if the Consultancy firm suggested it. Either way that timeline should have been a big red flag to the other side .
But fucking useless
I've used word extensively for all things word processor related, including some documents running into the 100's of pages, you know chapters, references, indexes, blah, blah blah. I've used excel extensively as well. Even had to use powerpoint for the various crayon departments ( marketing and upper management ) who's attention spans are measured in fractions of seconds.
Over past 2 decades with all that usage, weird arsed requests or suggestions made by bosses and other finger painters, there has not been a feature that I have used or needed that was not in Office '97
/rant
Now get off my lawn
That the truth comes out. The state level baddies turns out to be a 15 yr old kid in the outer suburbs of Brisbane. Armed with a Dummies guide to hacking and a couple of scripts he managed to download.
Even better he socially engineered the account and passwords from the minister of communications
"Predictive Policing" is just new jargon for crime analysis. You analyse what has happened in the past, To figure out what types of crimes may occur in certain areas on certain days and times. You then organise the police in that area to be in those areas, days and times that the crimes are most likely to occur. There are no sophisticated algorithms. Very basic statistics. You find out 40% of the Break, Enter and Steal offences occur on a Saturday night between 8pm and 3am, in a certain area, you make sure the police on patrol are in that area during that time frame.
You couple this with "Community Policing". Remember the "ole days when you would see the same police officer(s) occasionally, or regularly, walking around your local area. They would know who lived in the area. If you were good they would greet you with a smile and maybe a quick chat on how you were doing. If you occasionally got into trouble. you would still get the greeting but it was followed with a warning. If you were a shitbag that didn't care about the law or the trouble you caused in the local area. They would stop you,,find out who you were with, where you were, where you are going and what you were doing. This was shared among the other officers in the local area and was built up over time. Apparently known as "Individual Risk Assessments" now days.
Combine these two and it is the most effective tactic for reducing crime in a given area. No amount of predictive modelling will ever trump it.
After 10 years in the police , on the street, as a detective and later as a crime analyst. I can personally attest, that the people who shout the loudest about the thuggery of police. Even the mere presence of them in their area or street are always the ones who cry the loudest. Demand the most immediate and brutal punishments. Blame the Police for the lack of foresight, skill or lack of action when a crime is committed against them. The hypocrisy is completely lost on them.
Here endeth my rant for the day
Child tracking watches, IoT based toys, Smart phones, tablets, xbox or Playstation.
Dear Parents,
All of these options cannot replace you putting down your smartphone, tablet, xbox or playstation. Going outside and spending time with your children. Sort of like what parents did in the olden days. If you are too lazy to even think about this, or it terrifies you, why did you have kids in the first place?
The world doesn't need a whole generation of kids that were raised without parental involvement.
@ SloppyJesse
Fully agree. Phased Migration is a major pain. Looks like they did not do enough, if any, dress rehearsals for the migration.
Been involved in 2 migrations. Both with "Immovable deadlines" the first they decided, like TSB, to cut over and deal with the crap afterwards. Big mistake, they were still counting the costs 2 years later.
The other, project managed by Tweek, with the addition of a major cocaine habit and tourettes. Upper management finally caught onto the mess about 3 months before go-live. At least in that situation they had the balls to pull the plug.
IBM notched more than 20 quarters of declining sales until it broke that duck in 2018. But even after a relatively positive run of form.
Sure it was not revenue rather than sales that reported the modest increase? Honest question.
If not, then the increase to the bottom line can be directly attributed to the 10,000's of workers they sacked over the year Not for any innovative product or system.
he'd routinely turn up between 10 & 11, scruffily dressed with rings in his eyebrows etc, shamble off home between 4 & 6. I didn't give a fuck.
I will take this type of person every single time over someone who comes dressed in suit and tie and plays "How-to-climb-the-corporate-ladder".
The best coder I ever met reminds me of "Tig" from SoS. in both looks and mannerisms.
Have to agree the CFO gets arrested ( just so happens to be the CEO's daughter ) for violating international embargoes , they along with the Chinese government claim among other things, human rights violations. Another high level Manager within the Company gets arrested for spying and they dump him like a steaming dog turd.
Coincidence? Maybe, but that's one hell of a coincidence to disregard.
All the crap we are bombarded with in the news, politics, the economy, terrorism, religion, dwindling privacy, social media and SJWs continuing campaign to silence everyone except themselves.
Along comes a little story about a little object making a little journey through our corner of the cosmos. It gives this little human a glimmer of hope for our little species when we overcome all the crap from above and dream big.