Posts by macjules 3426 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2014
My street in West London has overhead wires for BT lines. Luckily they were discontinued over 20 years ago but BT just can not be bothered to remove them. Every year we make yet another complaint and every year we get an earnest response about removal of the lines.
I suspect they are waiting for the overhead lines to become a listed national heritage item.
It is known as 'chutzpah', or the quality of audacity, either for good or for bad.
The outsourcer went on to assure investors of its strong £450m cash position liquidity and said it was able to service its debts.
Unfortunately just not the ones involving the word "payroll"
An exercise in sheer cynicism. Lewis takes a 25% cut in pay but then claims back 80% from the taxpayer.
Capita knows all about how to exploit the poor taxpayer in the UK while shedding crocodile tears. Expect next to hear that Lewis has "volunteered" all his staff to work as cleaners in the worst-hit hospitals - saves redundancy payments.
1 OCD wife known to run through the house with Dettol air fresheners in both hands
2 cats with a penchant for spending all day licking their bottoms and then licking you (and then laughing about it no doubt).
3 children bored as hell who have all been set online tasks such as working out how to reprogramme and secure all the IoT devices in the household, including the bloody Samsung fridge that never tells you when the the ice is ready.
4 dogs in various states of sleep, testicle licking, begging treats off children.
I have double self-isolated myself into my garden office, complete with sound proofing, well stocked sanitising internal alcohol treatmentment (aka Chateau Lafitte) and full control of the main router. Doom Eternal never looked so good The joys of working from home.
This is not AI. We are dealing with real, low down, bottom-of-the-line genuine human stupidity at it's very worst (or best, depending upon your view). I have seen people filling baskets with 20+ large bottles of olive oil "cos its Italian innit, you never know". Never mind that they probably exist on a diet of baked beans on toast and JustEat.
In the UK we are panic buying loo rolls while in the USA and South Africa they are panic buying automatic weapons. Says it all really.
What about the rest of us who have to put up with maniac scooter drivers who cut through on your nearside just as you are turning left.
Also, why do they all have L plates on their scooters - do Deliveroo etc not have some policy to ensure that they have passed the driving and theory tests for scooters?
I shall be retailing 2 sheets of toilet tissue at £1 per pack, each enclosed in a plastic bag with an infographic on how to remove from the bag and wipe the affected areas. Obviously it will be necessary to farm the production out to China, so please expect a 3 week delivery of each packet, even if you do have Amazon Prime.
Wonko the Sane would be proud.
Another famous (caveat: if true) case was where a particular hospital ward in the UK had a much higher than average rate of patients failing to respond to resuscitation measures. As it turned out someone was pulling the plug out so that they could clean and polish the floors.
Nope, last thing on Earth will be millions of computers all displaying "Windows has an important update. Would you like to install this now or later tonight?"
The last person alive will be Tim Cook desperately trying to persuade the cockroaches that buying the iPhone 12 Pro with 10 cameras is a good thing.
The House of Commons committee, made up of MPs, wants to find out for itself whether or not Huawei poses a threat to national security, something that nobody has ever raised before and which is bound to uncover lots of new and original insights.
MPs: Can you keep a secret?
Huawei: Yes
MPs: The contract's yours. Now, about those nuclear power stations ...
Getting sick to death of what I am supposed to call everyone. My DevOps team now calls themselves DevSecOps and this morning proudly announced they were adding NoOps and GitOps and I suppose they will add MLOps.
Soon it might be RedOps .. short for Redundant Operators.
So let's see: security of processing (Article 32 GDPR), (data processing principles (Article 5 GDPR) and can probably throw in lawfulness of processing (Article 6 GDPR). Those 3 put together place Virgin Media in the higher fine bracket, i.e. £20m or 4% of global annual turnover.
Paris: since we lack a schadenfreude icon ...
1) Apple Magsafe1 to Magsafe2 adaptor for when you find Apple Displays in the office that have Magsafe 1.
2) Just about every bloody adaptor for USB-C and Mac, including the Thunderbolt to USB-C (ref 1 above) and not forgetting the £70 Apple HDMI plus USB-2 plus USB-C Power input connector
3) One of those weird HDMI cables that has one side blocked so that it only fits certain Dell or Lenovo screens.
And the best bit is in those "shared" workspaces where you unplug all the Lenovo adaptors to plug them into the Mac ones and then forget to plug them back into the right places.
I recently had to work for a company near Hoxton where I kept calling the agency to say "It's not a company it's a restaurant" to which they responded "It just looks like a restaurant, its a shared workspace unit with a restaurant at the front, go in and check". Upon entering the restaurant I was asked "Working or eating?"
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