Posts by Boris the Cockroach 3427 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Mar 2008
I think it was 2-5 yrs with time served on remand and time off for good behaviour. IF convicted
Then deported to Aussie.
His big mistake was jumping bail (not a good idea) and then pissing off the embassy he was hiding in after 7 yrs....
Hopefully one day he'll come to his senses and realise just what a dumbass he actually is instead the smartass he thinks he is...
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"As a country, for various reasons, we are not very good at risk, early business growth and long term market ownership. However, we've got some very smart guys who drive real innovation and deliver engineering excellence that brings the whole world to our doorstep. That suggests that we should think carefully how we handle funding and finance."
The the problem with finance in this country is where do we get it from, its hard enough at the moment to lever a 200 000 quid loan out for the bank for a new machining cell, the fact we turn over millions, and have a site worth 20 times that does'nt matter to them or the fact we've always broken even for the past 10 yrs (dont ask about 11 yrs ago : ) ) , so where does some random innovator get some start up cash from.
As for engineering excellence and Qinetiq, a recent interview with them for a top of the line CNC/robotics programmer revealed that they wanted to pay 22K a year for the recruit. only about 8K below the market rate...
But the government want to plough on with state aid, of course the cynic in me says that they want the state to pay start up costs for the next google/intel/ARM, then privatise it in a sell off to their mates who then go on to sell it off to the USA/Japan/China/India/Venezuela for 4 times the price they paid for it 6 months previously..... but thats just the cynic in me
committed to human rights*
*except where money comes before morality**
**especially when it comes to the workers actually making our products in aforementioned regimes***
***and paying taxes in regimes that allow freedom of speech
Apple inc. would like to comment , but are too busy counting their profits before stashing them in an off shore tax haven where nobody can get at them...
victorian industrialists would feel right at home in today's Amazon,
All it needs to be complete is housing provided by Amazon for its 'fulfillment operatives'(why can I not stop hearing the voice of Cave Johnson from the game Portal 2 when I hear that phrase from amazon) tied to having a job at the company, a nice couple of company stores , and paying the workers in scrip that can only be spent in those company stores would complete the picture (although I fear I may just have given amazon execs an idea too good to pass up....)
But in all honesty, the only reason for having a job like that in an amazon warehouse is money, and that you live paycheck to paycheck.
But I guess the old saying "If you treat people well, they'll go the extra mile for you, treat people badly and they'll do exactly whats in their contract " does not really apply anymore
Why would anyone want to work for Amazon?
Its simple really, you're desperate for money, and need a job.... you dont care what sort of job, so long as it pays.
Hence people will put up with all sorts of abuse from the manglement because they need the money
After all, how many of us have wanted the PHB to be mangled by a robot/fed into the paper shredder/walked into that open lift shaft/ lent on the window after the BOFH 'fixed' it (delete as applicable)
As for treating people like crap, I found out a long time ago that you get better results with carrots rather than using a bigger stick.... because the bigger the stick, the less people will do for you...
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Yep. On the other hand I still feel the stinging lesson of a disk failure that happened the day before the dvd blanks arrived upon which the much put-off backup of said disk was to be stuck.
OH fudge.. I knew there was something I had to do friday before beer time.....
I'll agree here.... vermin media cable is rather good... in areas not built by vermin media but merely taken over by them
However they do rather let themselves down.... partly on price , but mostly by their appalling customer 'service' line
Took them ages to fix my landline, and that after spending 30 mins trying to explain to them that the problem is in the cabinet at the end of the road, since the landline was fine until their 'engineer' did some work to it and now the landline does'nt work.
They insisted the fault was in my house and that i was in for their engineer(starts laughing) to come and check the line.
Managed to get to 2nd line of support and explained to them my line went in the frame close to the cabinet door hinge and if the guy was'nt careful shutting the door, it would pull my line out and about 6 others too.
It was fixed the next day.
(oh and it really pisses me off that the guys and girls in the indian call center claim their name is 'roger' or 'carol' ... let them use their real names ffs )
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"Finally the turnaround "Major contractor buys-out fledgling researchers, adopts technology and declares THIS IS THE FUTURE" "
Shortly followed by
"All air combat craft now fly with a 100% safety record"
And
"The system became self aware at 2.37am PDT"
<<currently stocking up his bunker with 40w phased pulse plasma rifles
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"A true engineer, even though it wasn't him who fixed the computer. Every engineer, irrespective of his field, owns multiple hammers.
(mine range from one weighing less than an ounce (for initial threats to clocks and watches) to a fourteen pound lump hammer (for threatening walls and/or car parts))"
Speaking as a professional engineer, the one hammer you should not be without is the thor number 2 copper/hide mallet.
Partly because its small enough to be easily handled and large enough to give stuff a good wack, but mostly because its just the right size to throw at the rapidly departing operator who just f***ed up 6 hours of hard work ......
"Mr manager.. the engineering superviser just tried to kill me with a mallet!"
"He must like you then"
"Hows that?"
"You're still alive....."
skirted around earlier is the medical costs in the USA
You can have co-pays on your health insurance that put out of reach regular visits to your doc because you have to pay the first $500/$1000/$5000 of any treatment
So a visit to the docs gonna set you back $200... which you have to pay
Much better to search google or farcebok about your symptoms and hope the info is correct.
In that situation, as a seller of fake cures and snake oil, I'm going to buy FB ads to advertise my cure for warts (just send $10 cash to this website and we'll never deliever anything), and my FB ads pop up on the person that cant afford to goto the docs feed.
Hmm $10 for a cure or $200 for an actual doc...
And farcebok makes money on running the dishonest ad....
this comes from the same prat who thought up 'smart motorways'
The instant the lane following thing comes on, the 'driver' will instantly not pay attention to whatever is going on in front of him.. after all.. he doesn't have to
Well thats ok... we'll include an automatic speed limter so that if the speed limit changes it will change the speed of the car... and now the 'driver' has his foot flat to the floor all the time
And then said tech decides the burned down paint marking from yesterday's roadworks are the lines to follow.. on the plus side, the driver's body is still in the car, but sadly his head is imprinted in the truck the car just went under (along with the iPad the driver was watching at the time)
When I spoke to my yankside friends after the '16 election most of them (wether republickon or demoprat)were much of the opinion of "Trump is a new guy with no real ties to any previous history in washington, lets see what he does"
within 30 days, most of them were pretty much "impeach the bastard.. lets get an adult in the oval office"
And what my truely republican friends cannot believe is just how much that party has rolled over and basically died for trump. which is rather sad since they're now choosing to vote democrat now just to get rid of trump.
No sign of an update for my J7
No sign of me handing any cash over for a new one since its coming up on 3 yrs old theres no sign of the battery quitting yet..
Lets face it... your mobile is a mature product with not really that much to tell them apart performance wise, go SIM only at the end of 2 years, and wait for the battery to die
My boss never allows me in his car anymore .... not after he demanded I go with him to sort a customers problem....
"Get Boris" came the call
"Where is he? "
"Cell #6 doing some fixing"
Duely called , jumped in his car.. went to customer, had chat.. went back to work
Now the thing about warm hydraulic oil is that you dont always spot when you've been sitting in a puddle of it... however... the boss's wife soon spotted that someone dipped in oil had been sitting in the passenger seat........
I dont get to go on jollies anymore :(
It would never work.
The malware got onto the systems by dodgy email attatchment (my preference for users that click on the link/attatchment is to be burned alive infront of the rest of the staff) and we all know that despite the signs/training it will be From: Doug(best friend) " here watch this video" and the user will click on it (even after seeing my demostration 10 minutes earlier).
And i were the crims.. leave a nice little booby trap on the machines timed to go off in 12 months so I get a nice annual subscription.
Paying the danegeld means the dane will be back next year for more
dreaded walk to whatever machine is throwing a hissy fit today.....
And it can take nearly an hour to walk from the office at one end of factory to the problem (and its only 6 units )
Still.... cant beat "Computer doesn't want to send programs to the robots" call
"bet hes using the wrong setup for that robot as usual" comes my thought
Get to the location ... eventually
Well the screen is showing the correct setup(for a change) however the fact that its only hanging onto the laptop body by 1 very bent hinge is a clear hint that something is amiss
Further inspection shows further damage consistant with said laptop being dropped onto the concrete floor... and the cable is inserted in the usb slot... however the usb connector inside is nowhere near the slot... to be honest I'm surprised said laptop is actually working... and yes you guessed it
"I never dropped it.. was like that when I got it..."
Cue dragging the laptop bits to the office , managing to get a USB stick to connect, and downloading the drives data to it.. all done while swearing very loudly, then raising a ticket to replace it... to which the PHB said "well it still works" arrgrgh I need to retire
To the pub
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I certainly have access to all kinds of right wing nonsense via the internet, is yours not working?
You should try the left wing nonsense as well........ almost as batshit crazy as the right wingers..
Caught a rant about racists on one, that if you changed the word "racist" for the word "jew", it would almost read like a goebballs speach from the 1930's...
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What the hell, I'm an engineer. I can stop any time I like... can't I?
The short answer is no... 40 odd years of experience have taught me that... ever more fiendish devices for killing luckless managers/operato ... oops.... for producing widgets ever faster have proved that to me
The long answer is you can stop any time you like, but you really have to tell yourself you want to stop
E e e engineering... I can hhhandle it.. cant I?
these 'b.gates wants to inject us all with microchips spread by 5G" things (they're not theories btw) come from the internets messaging forums (bit like this one but way crazier)
These forums have 2 types of posters, first group is the smaller one, these are the ones who to be blunt, need treatment for mental illness, the second and much larger group is the trolls coming up with ever more outlandish ideas for the first group to believe
Anyway... the mind control chips are already implanted in our phones.....usually the order is "buy a new phone.. you must buy a new phone" because nothing else can explain why someone throws away a year old phone for a new one costing even more....
The problem is not crapita, but the contracts signed by the civil service to crapita.
Because there'll be a change in minister with a "wouldn't it be good if xxx was added to the system", with the civil service drawing up a new spec and handing it to crapita who then charge an arm and a leg for the varience on the contract.
And then outsourcing the work to the cheapest job shop they can find, and pocket the change.
Followed by offering the minister's wife/children/cousins a job
up my dream of IT work after job ads such as
'must have 2 yrs+ experience in C# ' ... which was a bit difficult as it had only been out 9 months(maybe they wanted to hire the guys who created it)
But the real kick in the balls was
"IT junior admin needed for the local council (basically a PFY) ideal for A level grad or someone looking to change careers" bingo lets apply
"Must be a keen learner" Yupp Open university undergrad here
"Must be know about computers" well dur
"IT qualification" well a diploma from the OU counts .. right?
"Must have 5 yrs previous experience adminning the council's IT infrastructure" YOU ****ING WHAT! well if they have 5 yrs previous , they aint gonna be a junior, and if they just got their A levels, then they started working on the councils computers aged 13......
Just a job spec written for an internal promotion/job change for a useless twonk that they had to advertise and ensure only the internal candidate got the job......
Aerospace crap to me
When we get new aerospace stuff in, its examined, inspected, process written up and 16 different forms created before we even cut any metal... and then its 100% with the inspection, check methods, dump the programs to the backing store and sign off the dump (means we know who created it all and when.... so no modifying)
Then send the parts to the customer with all the paperwork and hope it all flies through... heh flies.. get it... ok I'll quit that.
Take an aerospace part we've been making for years , its all 'meh' it looks ok... its size... send it... and the programs were changed about 3 yrs ago by someone to make it a bit quicker but we cant remember who changed it or what the change actually was....
Its the same attitude from NASA SpaceX.. new... check everything 14 times and then 15 more for luck... oh its Boeing... they know what they're doing... plus its 5 hrs from DC to Seattle.... it will be ok....
Because it is virtue signalling of the greatest degree.
To say "here I've done something by removing a word" whereas a friend in Louisiana says "The damn important thing is that we get rid of the bad cops, and retrain the rest not to kill people at the slightest inkling of not complying"
Remember that guy swatted a few years ago.... police do a no knock warrent, guy is in his hallway being shouted at by the police, goes to pull his trousers up, gets shot dead by the cops.
Or the kid with a toy gun, cops shoot him instantly... or the guy in the car "Hi, yes I have a firearm in the car, its in the glove compar"<BANGBANGBANG>
But I suppose the virtue signalling is a bit like work.. where the ones good at what they do just keep their heads down and let their work speak for them, and the one crap at their jobs need to shout loudly about how good they are in order play politics to keep their jobs
the bible is expunged of all the times the word 'Slave' is used in there, indeed in several places it seems to say that slavery is natural for some people ...
<<<wondering whether to change the signs on the robots to "idiot in charge" and "dumb moron blindly following orders".......
Woohoo I achieved something for race relations... now I can go home and do f*** all about any of the real problems...
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And if it ends up making money, HMG takes profits or can flog off it's investment at a later date.
Correction if it ends up making money , then it will be flogged off to the governments best mates from university for about 40% of the actual market value ASAP
Then instantly sold on for 100% of the actual value with best mate making a 'donation' to the tory party, and getting more government contracts/sell offs/glittery bongs as a result
Me (as well as feeds my well founded paranoia about using on-line banking)
Why cant the bank host all the scripts/data its website needs? surely thats a more secure way of doing things than what seems like downloading random scripts from some archive.
Download the scripts data to your testing servers, check them out... run the tests, shift to production.
Or am I being too simple ?
this problem.
Make it law that any battery powered e-device can have its battery changed for a new one by its owner with the minimum of tools (eg a kitchen knife and a hammer),then enshrine right to repair into law too... you paid for the device, its yours to fix/repair/modify as you see fit, and make the manufacturer have to provide parts for the device for 10 yrs after it went out of production
After all.. could you imagine a car market where you HAD to take your car to Ford for new tyres? , where you could'nt have a different exhaust fitted to the one Ford specify? and when the F150 went out of production you couldn't buy any spares for it?
Sadly google and apple will quickly bribe sorry lobby for that sorta law to be squished ASAP
Yes, but people here accused of terrorism still have the right to a fair trial, overseen by an independent judge with a 12 person jury where the evidence is heard by all parties and a defence entered for the accused.
China .. national security panel consisting of judges appointed by the cheif exec( or the central government) , extradition to the mainland if the case is thought serious with no right of appeal
Finally a section rather like the old article 58 of the USSR's criminal code that can be used to criminalise anything said or done by a protestor with penalties from 5yrs to life in jail.
Give it 5 years and Hong Kong wil be just another big chinese city
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As far as the programmers - aging, moving out of coding, retiring, dying - check, check, check, and check.
As far as the language - difficult to learn, often not taught in schools, negativity perceived - check, check, and check.
As far as the code - poor documentation, poor sample code, poor mentoring - check, check, and check.
As far as external drivers - potential panic from a date apocalypse - check.
Torvalds hit the nail on the head and 2030 might be optimistic.
To be honest , you could be describing any one of the high skill low status jobs out there in today's world.
You know.. the stuff that actually makes the world work instead of a flashy website or cool animation.
I've had my fill of concurrent and system programming and as far as I'm concerned.. you can stuff it.
So I stick with the robots who wait around endlessly because you've forgotten to put a Sync() in the program... stilll that better than the idiot who starts the robot and does'nt check to sync() with the machine and punches a robot hand through a closed door...
Maybe we could automate Linus .... a swear bot and a punching robot should do the trick
the only reason its a US/UK thing is because the stupid idiot decided to skip bail and hide in an embassy for 7 yrs(then pissed off the country owning the embassy and got kicked out)
Otherwise we would have mailed him to Sweden with a very firm 'goodbye and dont come back' message, and not given a toss about him after that.
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