@Dominion
As a rough guess I would suggest that unless you plan to stay there another 20 years you go for the final salary pension.
You pension is (for most people) there for a LONG time.
Posts by tony2heads
1140 posts • joined 1 Apr 2010
Ex-EDS bod at DXC Technologies? Sign up to new pension scheme - or else...
Oracle 'systematically denies' its sales reps their commissions, forces them to work to pay off 'debts', court told
Oracle is clearly run by Darth Vader
"I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further"
Icon: Oracle management
75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2
Heroes
I suspect that - like Jack Nissenthal - a lot of the real heroes who made a difference in WW2 hardly got a mention (never mind a medal)
Russia's answer to Buckminster Fuller has a buttload of CGI and he's not afraid to use it
balance on the median
That makes no sense at all.
What you should go for would be a personal ekranoplan
Petition calls for Adobe Flash to survive as open source zombie
Crims snatch 5.5 million social security numbers from Kansas govt box
"Kansas has no data breach notification laws"
What century do they live in? From some of their education I would guess the 14th (obviously before the Renaissance)
systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
What is this – some kind of flashy, 3-bit consumer SSD? Eh, Seagate?
Re: Endurance v reliability
As Dr Tyrell says to Roy Batty: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long
Watson AI panned, 5¼ years of sales decline ... Does IBM now stand for Inferior Biz Model?
Re: Eat this, Dorothy Dietrich
I really think that a CEO's pay should be directly connected to growth in income of the firm.
If it grows 10% the pay should grow 10%, and if it drops 10% their pay should drop 10%.
And if they drive it to bankruptcy - NO PAY.
As the meerkats say - simples.
UK.gov embraces Oracle's cloud: Pragmatism or defeatism?
Good news: Samsung's Tizen no longer worst code ever. Bad news: It's still pretty awful
What Would Linus Say!
They need a leader like Linus Torvalds who will take no crap code, and will let then know it VERY LOUD
Is this a hotdog? What it takes for an AI to answer that might surprise you
As Rene Magritte might say
It is just a 2-D representation of the obnoxious foodstuff
On the couch with an AI robo-doc asking me personal questions
While USA is distracted by its President's antics, China is busy breaking another fusion record
@bombastic
As you seem to have some knowledge: why have the polywell designs I have seen on based on a cube, rather than on a dodecahedron or an icosahedron?
Tape lives! The tape archive bit bucket is becoming bottomless
Don't bother with the 'compressed'
A lot of stuff for long-term (i.e. tape) storage would be compressed before it go to the tape drive
German e-gov protocol carries ancient vulns
is this only in the Java version?
There are other implementations of the OSCI-Transport library (.NET and maybe others)
Are they vulnerable too?
Former GDS head Mike Bracken quits Co-op
HMS Windows XP: Britain's newest warship running Swiss Cheese OS
@Ben1892
It could have been worse: it could have been Vista
Icon: all hands to the pumps - you may need it
What? What? Which? Former broadband minister Ed Vaizey dismisses report
SpaceX nails two launches and barge landings in one weekend
Men charged with theft of free newspapers
1 per user
Would it have been OK if they had taken the string from the bundles and tipped them into a wheelbarrow?
I suspect that the real story was that they were trying to censor something in the paper.
PLATO mission to find alien life is given the thumbs up
Debian 9 feels like home with security upgrades and a flaming vulpine warming your toes
firefox
It a nickname for the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) not a burning fox. It is related to the raccoon
Conservative manifesto disappears offline – then mysteriously reappears
fossils?
more like Coelacanths. They were long thought to be extinct, but still lurk in dark places
White House sicko sent down for 20 years after sexting underage girls
Surely he should know the old phrase
“Welcome to the internet, where the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.”
As a defence he should claim that he knew it was not a 14 year old girl, but a cop.
Dell BIOS update borks PCs
So to get zero stars
Wipe out the entire human race and turn planet earth to a blackened cinder?
Bloke charged under UK terror law for refusing to cough up passwords
Unpaid tech contractor: 'I have to support my family. I have no money for medicines'
New Icon please
I suggest this before, but I want a 'Scumbag Corporation' icon (perhaps the Scumbag Steve hat)
How would you pronounce 'Cyxtera'?
Mastercard launches card that replaces PIN with fingerprint sensor
Problem
How about thieves making fingerprints from photos of your hand or any item you have touched when making a purchase?
Back to the future: Honda's new electric car can go an incredible 80 miles!
80 miles
That would be aiming at the little old lady going to the shops.
Considering the age distribution in the Japanese population, that might be a viable market.
Broadband providers almost double prices after deals end
Customer satisfaction is our highest priority… OK, maybe second-highest… or third...
I remember this one; what ever were they trying to get me to do?
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1521634984
Varnish cache server
I had a small pot of varnish in the shed, but could not find the cache server anywhere on the board.
Device spend will rise 2% to $600bn in 2017, say techno-seers
Wet, wild Mars stripped off by hot young star, left barren and red faced
Re: iron-nickel core
Doesn't have to be iron-nickel to get a magnetic field.
The huge magnetosphere of Jupiter (about 20,000 times stronger than earth's) is probably generated from liquid metallic hydrogen (under the high pressure in the core)
Robo-AI jobs doomsday may, er... not actually happen, say boffins
Microsoft wants screaming Windows fans, not just users
Wrong picture
If I think of screaming windows users, the image I get is like the picture by Edvard Munch
Trump's America looks like a lousy launchpad, so can you dig Darwin?
Why not Equador
As far as launch sites go, why not Ecuador:
- on the equator
- plenty of high ground (=less air to go through)
- has petrochemical industry
- US $ as currency
also note: Chimborazo is the furthest point on the earth's surface from the centre of the earth (not Everest , because of the equatorial bulge)
I've Been Moved: IBMers in same division slapped with 2nd redundo scheme in 2 months
Operation Baccarat
Sounding more like Russian Roulette for IBMers. If you were spared the first time, there is the next chamber ready
DNA-bothering eggheads brew beer you were literally born to like
Good news, everyone! Two pints a day keep heart problems at bay
I believe this has been known for a while
A reading from 1 Timothy 5 verse 23:
"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thy frequent infirmities."
Microsoft loves Linux so much, its OneDrive web app runs like a dog on Windows OS rivals
TRAPPIST-1's planets are quiet. Quiet as the grave, in fact
Re: Ahah! Not so fast Mr Scientist
Yes indeed, I can think of several fools who "know" that climate change is a conspiracy.
That 'Trump lawyers threaten teen over kitten website' yarn is Fakey Fakey McFake Fakeface
@Oengus
but how will my wife play bridge online?
By the way:
has anyone thought of setting up a website selling TRUMPery TRUMPets from TRUMPington?
Softcat purrs as customers buy early to dodge Microsoft hikes
@AC
I have heard of people resurrecting old dumped computers with some versions of linux
Google borks its Drive Windows app – after pushing out unfinished buggy version to public
This ONE easy cloud trick is in DANGER. Why?
Road accident nuisance callers fined £270,000 for being absolute sh*tbags
Scumbag corporation
I suggested that EL Reg institute a prize every year for outstanding scumabaggery ; These guys should be in there with a real chance.
Suggested prizes:
- Scumbag Steve hat.
- sieve for leakiest website
- tin of insecticide spray for buggiest software
- piece of string for insecurity in software. However, if Adobe is the winner, I believe straw would be more appropriate for strengthening mud-based constructions.
