Posts by Fatman

Re: @gerdesj : Amen!

I gave him one in your name.

RE: I, for one, welcome our new robot mall-cop overlords...

Not me!!!!

And nor do I welcome their meatbag brothers.

I was assisting an electrician who was doing some re-wiring of a mall store, when we decided to eat lunch in. He was in his company uniform shirt, while I was wearing only a sweaty T shirt. The mall cop walked over to us and told me that "homeless people are not welcome", and that if I didn't leave, he would call the police and have me removed. I ignored him, and he did call the cops. We also called our boss, who arrived only to find me in the back seat of a patrol car.

He (our boss) went straight to the mall management and bitched like hell. They told the cops to let me go. The mall cop tried to apologize (one could see that he really didn't want to do it), as the apology was 'half hearted'. I told the mall management that the only apology that meant anything was one which included the immediate termination of the mall cop. They refused, and we went back to work, finishing the job for the store tenant.

The last I have heard of this mall was it was being torn down because of age, and a slow loss of tenants. I wonder why the tenants left?

Re: Hans Blix joke doesn't make much sense?

<quote>The FTC actually carries a big stick when it chooses: they dinged Google for $22.5M a few years back. They can also order companies to repay consumers. But here instead they chose to say sternly "don't repeat this fraud" [so go find a new one?].</quote>

Which IS part of the problem - NO PUNISHMENT for those who engaged in this odious behavior.

Would it be nice if the head of Marketing were taken out, whipped, drawn and quartered, and castrated to serve as a deterrent to other Marketeers in the future???

Re: Considering her ownership stake

<quote>Whilst as an equity holder the investors should accept a lot of risks, the idea of allowing this snake oil outfit to trade in a secondary equity market was always nonsense, and simply a way for the VCs (who undoubtedly knew the company was worthless) to cash out at the expense of less well informed investors.</quote>

As I have said before:

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Also, how else do you think VCs (Vulture Capitalists) expect to;

1) make any money

2) get out of bad investments???

Simple: Find some easily mislead $ucker.

Nothing more than typical Wall Street behavior: sell $ucker$ Gold plated shit.

If you haven't seen it, the Wolf of Wall Street is an interesting flick. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0993846/ )

Re: There is a known syndrome here in the US

You are on the right road, but have the 'terminology' wrong.

The proper expression is:

PIG,

much like their feral cousins.

RE: damaging BT fiber

<quote>Do you want lots of companies damaging the BT cable in the duct that your broadband runs over?</quote>

Well that would depend upon whether or not the third party has exclusive use of a duct (or sub-duct).

BT can not be that incompetent (although some would vociferously DISAGREE here) in allowing a third party to pull cable in the same duct (or sub-duct) as an existing BT cable.

Re: landing at an angle that denied its solar panels vital sunlight

<quote>A very long mission failed to perform as expected under conditions where a couple of RTGs would be perfectly happy and chug on for years. Loss to science seems to vastly outweigh the slight risk of launching a few chunks of well protected Plutonium..</quote>

You can blame the ANTI-NUKE CROWD for that one.

I remember all of the noise they made over a previous launch (the Saturn probe Cassini), trying every legal trick to stop it. They failed, and it went up.

Mocking or pointed criticism?

<quote>Those businesses might have a vigorous debate internally, but showing any of that debate to the world is considering leaking confidential info considered "airing the dirty laundry".</quote>

FTFY!

Most organizations do not like their internal politics aired in public, and get very defensive when it happens. One must wonder if this employee was a 'sacrificial lamb' brought out to finally draw the wolf (the """incompetent""" C suite executive) from its lair.

Perhaps, in this case, the door was slammed violently shut as the CEO exited. (i.e. Higher ups pointing toward the door, and making sure it closed behind him.)

Re: I kinda feel sorry for ...

and gets lined up against the wall of the Kremlin, and shot.

Scarce IPv4 addresses.

I had a similar situation at a former employer. We needed only 3 IP addresses, and they gave us 8. Crazy, huh!

BUT, if you remember your basic networking with subnets....

a block of 4 contiguous IP addresses represents a net mask of /30.

a block of 8 contiguous IP addresses represents a /29.

a block of 16 contiguous IP addresses represents a /28.

and so forth.

And when you deal with subnets...

an all bits zero after the net mask is the network address,

all bits one is the broadcast address,

and everything else in-between are available for assignment.

Thus the wasteage.

Re: He is not going to be popular in prison

<quote>Next to the soap in the shower.</quote>

No, I have thought it was a different position. (Use your imagination, if I get too explicit, the mods will ban me.)

Re: Patient? What patient?

<quote>experience insufficient pain when it all goes wrong...</quote>

Vic,

Any ideas on how that could be fixed??? (perhaps BOFH style?)

Re: A very dim Congress critter

This one struck me:

<quote>Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

- Notebook, 1868</quote>

IMHO, Cornyn has drunk heavily from the cask of stupidity.

Re: A piddling little fine?

<quote>You can't throw a corporation in jail when it breaks the law. You can only increase it's CoDB.</quote>

I think that there is one way you could - seize its assets, and SHUT IT DOWN, wiping out the stockholders' investment.

A bit draconian, but it might work.

(A side note, as a Linux user, I would love for this to happen to a certain global software monopoly.)

Re: I thought?

<quote>You should also be making an offer sufficient that the various shadow IT/colleague/backup accounts they know won't be used to fuck you, and that when you call them in six months to find something critical they'll answer the phone.</quote>

I am of two minds on that quote, so let's dissect them.

1) This section (in italics) I am in full agreement with. Have the departing employee advise/provide the information needed to effect transfer of responsibilities.

2) This section (in bold), I do not agree with IF I am the 'released' employee. Once YOU (the employer) decide that you do not want/need/desire to continue to employ me, I NO LONGER HAVE ANY LOYALTY TO YOU!!!! You are on your own. This is MY PROTECTION from manglement attempting to foist blame on me for things that occur after I have left. If YOUR INCOMPETENCE has gotten things fucked up, then YOU deal with it.

Good Bye MEANS GOOD-BYE!!!!

Re: Confused (again)

<quote>I'm not sure what, but as data sovereignty becomes increasingly important, I'm sure M$/Google/Faceache/Apple/someone has some data they need to store in the EU but which they want to be able to access/process/analyse from the Americas.</quote>

That may be well and good, but, I bet that if the USofA really wants that data, they will find some excuse to send in the marines.

Two star general (to a lieutenant): "Lieutenant, that data center supports terrism, you are ordered to capture it."

PFL (Pimply Faced Lieutenant): "Sir, yes, sir!!!!" (Forgetting that he is about to invade a sovereign country.)