Hasn't everbody been a "system analyst" since the mid 90s' anyway?
Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Permies sitting pretty as fifth of contractors see rates cut
Boffins' 5D laser-based storage tech could keep terabytes forever
Apache Foundation rushes out Arrow as 'Top-Level Project'
Europe's Earth-watching satellite streaks aloft
Cybersecurity is slowing down my business, say majority of chief execs
Voyager 1 now 20 BEEEELLION KMs from the Sun
Follow ESA's intercontinental ballistic missile launch live today
Public enemies: Azure, Amazon, Google, Oracle, OpenStack, SoftLayer will murder private IT
Tuesday 16th February 2016 21:57 GMT 
Re: Centralisation/decentralisation Insourcing/outsourcing
It's as cyclical as the adoption of the Internet. Cloud infrastructure will become better, kinks will be ironed out. The problem of the "big 3" providers will be constant though, so small-scale players may stand a chance. Alas, it will be niche same as companies doing "Everything we do is in-house, we care about security" will be niche.
Patch ASAP: Tons of Linux apps can be hijacked by evil DNS servers, man-in-the-middle miscreants
'Hobbit' heads aren't human says bone boffin
GitHub to devs: 'We ignored you but we never stopped caring'
iPhones clock-blocked and crocked by setting date to Jan 1, 1970
Send tortuous stand-up ‘nine-thirty’ meetings back to the dark ages
Sunday 14th February 2016 11:31 GMT
Re: Trendy fads
What is the 21st equivalent of PETER DRUCKER and can we have a soundbite?
(Haven't looked at the Economist since the early 21st when they had degenerated into just another outlet for war and money-printing apologetics. A weekly Soma dose...)
I like the Wikipedia article on the late Peter:
He is one of the best-known and most widely influential thinkers and writers on the subject of management theory and practice. His writings have predicted many of the major developments of the late twentieth century, including privatization and decentralization; the rise of Japan to economic world power
In reality, Japan is an economic basket case of terrifying proportions...
Sunday 14th February 2016 10:07 GMT
Re: 5.30 Friday is worse
Make a stand, refuses to go to pointless meetings and make the world a better place and your business less wasteful.
Ok Smith, you put a meeting into Office365 for that? Be sure to include IT governance boss, superboss and sideboss 1 and 2. Also the team leaders.
Me? I'm busy with time tracking (pretty useless as "priorities" change nearly faster than the time tracking quantum)
The field at the centre of the universe: Cambridge's outdoor pulsar pusher
Saturday 13th February 2016 23:56 GMT
Re: open it up to the public?
The Nobel Peace prize system has been corrupted by politicians of late & has become tainted.
Not really.
The one which is very laden is the Nobel Peace Prize (mainly due to bad decisions by the commitee) and possibly the Nobel-Inspired Prize in Economics (trick cyclists prize, more like)
For the Nobel prizes in science, it's still rather clean, though of course given that same egos of scientists reach several solar masses, politicking, grassrooting, smear campaigns, camping in front of the lobby and "it can be only me" cargo-cult creations can all be found. It's the way of humanity...
Council IT system goes berserk, packs off kids to the wrong schools
Boffins' gravitational wave detection hat trick blows open astronomy
Saturday 13th February 2016 13:39 GMT
nano- earthquake that moved the mirrors half a wave length from each other?
This is not how LIGO works (well, kinda, but there is more).
Plus, two "nano earthquakes" at the same time in different locations (whatever "nano-earthquakes" are, stop making stuff up) giving an expected signal and not flagged as error sources? I don't think so.
Thursday 11th February 2016 23:31 GMT
Re: Wow! Just Wow!
Thank God the human race has at least a few people left who are dragging us in the right evolutionary direction.
Unfortunately, there is no "right evolutionary direction", there is just local optimization in a changing landscape. It can go downhill fast, so to say. The "Whig Theory of HistoryEvolution" does not apply.
Lady luck smiled on us. Better be fast before she FROWNS again.
Thursday 11th February 2016 23:22 GMT
Re: Step 1 done
Hopefully these latest experiments will help clarify exactly what the hell gravity is and how it works.
Unfortunately the article at Quanta:
Gravitational Waves Discovered at Long Last
invites you to also read
Quantum Weirdness Now a Matter of Time
which indicates in no uncertain terms that we are very unsure what spacetime actually is. Looks like some kind of patch cabling. Or a database. Or maybe God is just using a symbolic processor and only gives out numeric results if HE absolutely must. Or this universe is filled with ghosts. Who knows!!
Thursday 11th February 2016 23:04 GMT
Re: Paper is publicly available
Recorded livestream from an unknown point in spacetime: here
The actual livestream sites now show only static. Hopefully a blackhole didn't decide to visit.
Also: BEER!
And a sad look at A. Zee's "Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell" in my library which I probably will never have the occasion to read.
Zero. Zilch. Nada. That's how much Netflix uses its own data centres now
Friday 12th February 2016 08:16 GMT
Re: Single Source
Yeah, but is it REALLY a single point of failure?
Internally the system is likely to have enough redundancy and loos coupling to survive quite a beating, possibly even downtime in several AWS centers.
Netflix also has a single point of failure "The Earth" but that fact is not really important or interesting.
Health and Safety to prosecute over squashed Harrison Ford
Thursday 11th February 2016 17:48 GMT
The response to "Throw me the hydrospanner"
Duly employed and tax-subjected Wookie personnel lets out an ululating moan, which can be translated as:
Excuse me sir, this is strictly forbidden as per regulation. I can only hand it to you in a deliberate manner using a firm two-handed grip while securely standing on a stable platform. I do not think that this here "Millenium Falcon", perilously set on a careening asteroid, which is moreover in a very irregular situation that can be summarily described as "shields are down and so is the hyperdrive" would count as "stable platform". I will also remark that nobody is wearing the required safety hats. Oh, and we have an illegal human/female passenger on board that is actively sought by law enforcement, a problem that I have wanted to bring up for some time. I expect immediate remediation of the situation.
"FOR GOD'S SAKE, WOOKIE!!"
Heart Internet in 22-hour TITSUP after data centre power stuffup
Building automation systems are so bad IBM hacked one for free
Don't touch that PDF or webpage until your Windows PC is patched
Wednesday 10th February 2016 00:37 GMT
Re: WTF??
0) Assume input validation is insufficiently locked down
1) Start Firebug
2) Find the input field with id="comment_icon_textfield" type="hidden" name="icon" value="stop"
3) Guess at the value of the old-school gates icon (inspect icon's name to do that)
4) Write script to inject name when you "POST COMMENT" (I'm too lazy to wander through the dark valley of webupskilling to do that)
5) ???
6) Amazeballs!
Indian telcos ask for details of Facebook-flaying neutrality law
Thursday 11th February 2016 12:10 GMT
Re: It can be tricky to decide
Nothing is harmless that allows people to look beyond their humble hamlet.
They might become uppity at some point in time, then you have to use artillery on them, ask the US to provide military goods for "pacification" on the cheap and suffer the morally rending feeling of having to set up torture dungeons.
It's ugly.
Are Indians too stupid to be trusted with free Internet?
Monday 8th February 2016 23:02 GMT
Re: It would be the same anywhere
The competition is killed off, effectively priced out the market, and the company behind the deal is left in a monopoly position.
This is complete horseshit. Akin to "pre-crime" it identifies the "pre-monopolist" and assumes that any new entrant to the as-yet-nonexistent market can't compete with "basic lousy free". I know of no market where that happens. Some people should get a mighty kick in the nads and be told to go back to micro economics 101, and not the one by the Marxists.
(Kudos btw for using the image adorning the 1982 edition of the Oxford University Press translation of Winfried Baumgart's "Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion 1880-1914", a book that deserves to be re-read)
Norks uses ballistic missile to launch silent 'satellite'
Monday 8th February 2016 06:47 GMT
Uh, oh. Enemy du jour detected, closing fast!
the rest of the world suspects the launches are ballistic missile tests
I would say that's called "having a firm graps of the obvious"
Note that Sputnik was evidently a "ballistic missile test" even though it had a little radio transmitter as payload.
Also, Samantha Powers bleeding publicly for a peaceful world again and calling for "acts"? How are Libya and Syria coming, then?
Celeb gossip site TMZ was pushing malware at innocent surfers
Thirty Meter Telescope needs to revisit earthly fine print
Monday 8th February 2016 04:18 GMT 
Won't be a "sacred site" in 2 million years or so anymore
a sacred site in Hawaii
Code for "time to switch off our brains and pretend we care because of the loud people who pretend to be able to detect sacredness".
Well, ok then.
Does sacredness of a site diminish if you plant a telescope there after construction has finished? It seems that a long discussion evening for the Society of Jesus is required to answer that question.
Windows 10 will now automatically download and install on PCs
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