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That's why you always know where the nearest fire extinguisher is
They are all currently locked away in the H&S dept because we don't have an official document specifying if the test date is month/day/year or day/month/year so the test label is invalid so the extinguisher can't be used.
You forgot:
4, Form committee to agree a document transfer requirement that meets health-data-2000 principles and ISO-FOO and health data standard BAR and Eu standard WIBBLE
5, Get quote from approved suppliers
6, Discover only Crapita is willing to tender - consider shooting self
7, Wait 5-10 years for solution to be delivered
8, Consider just emailing the document - consider what would happen to you, your team, your hospital if the Daily Mail find out.
9, Fax it
That was the success of the "Broken Window" policy in New York where they would ruthlessly hunt down every minor white collar crime. By prosecuting every minor expenses claim fraud and dodgy tax return they were able to make Wall St totally law abiding and avoid any larger damage from any much bigger crimes.
Imagine if instead they had concentrated solely on panhandlers and shooting people selling out of state cigs.
Some real engineers* still use FORTRAN too. I have to use a "FORTRAN-like" language for some thermal modelling every now and then, but I'd far rather be using Python.
Everyone uses python - but I hoped el'reg readers would recognise
It's obviously not beyond the resources of an Apple or Samsung to design their own RISC cpu.
The real clever stuff comes in the process design which, at least on the higher end parts, you need to do yourself.
With opensource compilers the tool chain and so the experienced developers are there for you.
I always assumed it was that if you were an Apple or Samsung the royalties to ARM dropped to teh point where they were just less than creating your own architecture
But if these are Canadian Racoons then a small wall with a polite "keep out" notice would be enough
Canadians do sometimes accidentally invade America and have to be dealt with by force.
"Physical access beats all"
Orange book security standards allowed you assume physical security
Windows NT claimed to meet C2 level security, except for the network susbsystem.
So the machine was perfectly secure, so long as it wasn't networked and you could control physical access !
Not actually that silly, C2 required you to log certain actions in a secure manner. One other manufacturer we tested did log these events, but provided no way of viewing them. The Orange book just said they had to be logged, it didn't mention retrieval.
John Pertwee's biography recounts a story of being asked if he spoke French when in the army. He was from an old French family in the channel islands and spoke it like a native - but of course kept quite.
He later met the fellow officer who had said yes - and had been posted as military liaison on Tahiti for years
Is this a red smelly fish on both sides?
The [prime minister as a good ex-home secretary froths at the mouth at the idea of a court that can over rule her and so hates the ECJ.
The various "we can't agree a technical standard on X because that would require the ECJ as the ultimate authority" stories seem to confuse having the ECJ as the ultimate authority on standards in Europe and it having authority over you.
I work on the left-pond, we sell medical devices in europe and presumably the ECJ are the ultimate court on matters of CE marking and medical device classification - but it doesn't mean our current great leader has surrendered to Brussels.
I recently flew into London on Saudi Airlines. Since we weren't shot down I assume SA have some sort of agreement to fly into Europe - presumably ruled by the ECJ - but I don't think the Saudi regime accepts the ECJ as the ultimate authority over their domestic human rights
For systems where an accident would leave people looking into the resulting crater you normally have NC - so that any wiring break will trigger the alarm.
One place I worked had a continually sounding alarm, a bell every 2 seconds so that you knew the alarm was working. If the alarm stopped - you ran
it's commonplace to fire the company and give the contract to a new one.
Who quite often end up hiring the same security guard
Certainly my experience in firing cleaning companies for not actually cleaning anything - you end up with a new company that employs the same cleaner
That's the common sense that was applied at Chernobyl.
More accurately the common sense that was applied for Piper Alpha
Turn off the automatic sea water fire pumps because divers might be injured - health and safety you know
Have other rigs feed masses of high pressure gas into the blazing rig because they hadn't been ordered by senior management in Houston to stop production - you never want to stop production
BM found that Boomers were the least likely to understand IBM’s business strategy,
We have a business strategy?
Of course how else do you think the business is planned?
The business is planned? - I thought the plan was to fire everyone competent, alienate customers and drive the company into the ground?
He found out the grand strategy!
(A newer Garmin said I had done 24,000 miles in about twenty minutes between Impington and Dry Drayton.)
< nasel anorak voice of man in pub> what you did was take the wormhole at the back of Fenstanton, go through the galactic center and turn right at the spiral arm - it cuts out the whole junction at nether wallop. Alternately you can take the stargate at the little side road off the 3rd turning at the Fen Drayton roundabout
promote her to a position which requires the trust of the community?
He was a slightly brown person that came out of a council tower block and went on public transport.
She was promoted by a community that isn't remotely brown, would never dream of visiting a council tower block (except after it burned down) and thinks everyone on public transport should be shot as a matter of hygiene
If you think about it logically
The current system has 98% false positive rate, Charles De Menezes was falsely identified.
So if we set it the system to hunt down and kill Charles De Menezes, he would have a 2% chance of escaping - which was better than he got.
Well my team and I really concerned ourselves fundamentally with a statistical analysis of violence as a whole in tandem with and related to a psycho-chemical and broadly speaking a behavioral analysis of over a thousand individuals and we've come to the inevitable conclusion that the one course of action
that the authorities must take is
to cut off their goolies facial recognition carpet bombing
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