Not a surprise at all
Coffee/tea has been powering data centers since the very first one. Or at least those who toiled on them.
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And so it begins – the absolute dumbing down and worsening of everything from media to film to advertising to politics to the written word at the dead hands of AI, stoked by venture capitalists' rabid faith that it will be some sort of productivity silver bullet.
I think "it" began some time ago. Everything.... politics, education, products... all have been dumbed down for some time. So what is "beginning"?? Enquiring minds and all thaqt.
'd guess the dealer got paid off to return it. It would very likely have been at the director's personal expense, given how you wouldn't want that pay-off showing up on the books. After all the dealer probably wasn't even VAT registered.
Probably the easiest way to take care of this. Give the director a nice "bonus" and he uses that to pay off the dealer.
These things prove that a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing. Mose of those up high think they're smarter than the rest of the staff and end up making more problems thqn they solve. I'm of the belief that board members shoiuld only have something like a fake laptop that doesn't do much except read news and play games.
A bit heavy handed of the BOFH - redolent more of a Lubyanka Square basement than his trademark gently assisted flight from the nearest window down to the carpark.
A bit heavy handed? I don't think so. Inviting them to look out the window from the top floor might be heavy but also works.
ndeed. I do wonder why someone with half a brain would think they could actually get away with it.
Hmmm... I think I just addressed my own statement.
Seems that one thing all criminals have in common is less than half their brain cells are working and they think they can get away with it.
Departments that send out the new folks to be chewed up by the bullets instead of risking it themselves. Lucky this one survived.
Ah... the "cannon fodder" method. Sometimes though, the newbie has no preconceived notions and takes a deep dive. Luck is involved both good and bad.
Namely, that it's somebody else's computer and your files aren't as valuable to them as they are to you.
Exactly. The few times I've had to use the cloud, I still kept a back up locally. Saved my self headaches and stress several times when the datacenter crashed. I guess being an old-school grump and suspicious of many things has paid off over the years.
I'll have to have a chat with my brother, he started working in HR a couple of years ago.
I've always wanted to know what's on the other side of the event horizon.
Very quietly and with low volume, tell him "you really don't want to know". Give a knowing look and wander off to the pub.
But to put a nuke in would actually say they are preparing for the potential long-term/permanent downfall of the national grid, which is only likely to happen through war...
Not just war, add terrorism, civil unrest to the poinbt of extreme violence. And given the climate change and severity and number of storms, etc. seems to be increasing. I can understand their fears about the grid. We've already seen a few attacks on the grid by those seeking to destroy it. I suspect that sea level rise is also a fear as many power plants are on the coasts are near large rivers,
Or having a massive pile of photos, random bits of paper and possibly even DVDs on the surface of their desk, and complaining they can't find anything, while the desk drawers are completely empty.
In some areas this also known as the "look busy kit, MK1". "Just look at that pile of work and you'll see I'm overworked and need a raise."
Honestly over here that are far more interested in the tasty to eat than the healthy side. I'm betting if they marketed radioactive boar meat as a cure for vaccines they couldn't kill them fast enough to keep up with the demand.
And if they could get it to glow in the dark, it would end being the perfect late night snack as no one would need to turn on a light and wake up the rest of the family.
oh... and ties.. everyone came fitted with a noose, it seems odd looking back.
Some offices said long ties needed to be clip ons instead of the tied ones. Bow ties could be eitehr. Rather archaic but the clip on was the tie of choice. Happily, many places just started ruling that "no ties" for the IT staff.
I was just out of the military and working as the maintenance guy of a large 12 story office building while going to uni clases at night. We had manufacturing jeweler on the 8th floor who was moving to a new building. They had a very large safe to store their gold, silver, jewels, etc. The move was scheduled for the evening after the building shut down.
Comes the day of the move, the movers showed up with security guards, etc., and a tech from the elevator company. He had spent the previous day inspecting and adjusting the elevator. I got tasked to operate the elevator.
The safe was pushed into the elevator, then one of the security guys got in on one side of the safe and I on the other. The beast barely fit in through the doors and as it went into place, the cabling and elevator creaked and groaned and sank about 1 inch or so. I pushed the button and door closed and we went to the basement with the elevator groaning and creaking and my finger on the emergency stop button. In the basement the elevator mech made some adjustments and then went back up to the ground floor. When the doors opened, the elevator floor and hallway floor lined up. The crew pulled the beast out and halfway out, the elevator rose up about 1 inch or so. Might have been more but I couldn't tell from where I was. Finally it was out and we got out of the elevator. A very scary ride but ended well. They got the safe moved and the elevator tech and I spent some time readjusting it. The head security guy, gave both the tech and myself $100 as a bonus. Good times.
"The thinking is that a more comprehensive data dump of government documents on the matter will push back against conspiracy theories and the perception that Uncle Sam is purposefully holding back information from the public."
I suspect the inverse would be true.... release of the info would increase the paranoia and conspiracy theories. Appropriate icon of course.
Maybe it's me, but I find most of this to be much ado about nothing. Words and their meanings change as needed by the people who use them over time. I suppose that at some point, someone will take offense at "kill-off" with regard to shutting down processes with extreme prejudice.
I do wonder sometimes what the next thing to be banned in the world will be.
Absolutely ego. The man in question (by the way, love the way the article identified the perp through a long long list of misdeeds rather then by name) is a narcissist egomaniac who believes that rules are for other people. Simply being told that he couldn't keep the documents is enough of a trigger for him to want to keep them.
Ever notice that when he's not getting his way he crosses his arms and scowls like a two-year old? Did even when meeting with NATO. Those who suck up to him get praise, like Putiin and "Little Fat Man".
is why he kept all of these files ? What advantage to him was there ?
a) it fed his ego
and
b) his presidential library which is also an ego thing.
For him to have a library he has to have all his papers from his time n office, minus anything classified.
what did he do with them, did he show them to people, did he brag about it.
Indeed he did show them to people and most of them didn't have a security clearance. Plus, there's telling how many papers he gave to his "buddy" Putin. There's a reason that Putin called him a "useful idiot".
That might be true for any enterprise that has professional admins. For most users, they just blindly install almost anything even at work on a company boxen. Hell, they click through just about averything that presents a "accept" button. I'm retired IT but get a lot of phone calls from "friends" who computers have suddently crashed or doing "strange things". I've been sending to local computer shops to get their boxes wiped and fresh OS and programs installed.
All the managers had the offices on the south of the building with a nice view. They also liked to have staff meetings in their offices on Friday afternoons. Between the after affects of a nice lunch and the sun heating the room, most of the staff would fall asleep during those meetings with manglement being outraged at those of us to drooped off to la-la-land.
With enough cream and jam, wouldn't "kill two birds with one scone" be more appropriate?
That comes under the "no violence" rule using the word "kill". So many rules...<sigh> I guess it's time to go out back, link arms, and sing "Kum ba yah" .
Too much BS in world. I think I should just try to ignore it. On the other hand, it is prime fertilizer.
It's pure politics and BS at it's worst here. Seems the far right is going after everything (except power, greed and maybe adult beverages... oh... and mistresses.) I'm not sure how this will all end up but things are a bit scary.
I'm reminded of an old curse.... "may you live in interesting times."