Posts by Evil Auditor 2627 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2009
they just wanted to be fed and regurgitate standard template policies...
There's a whole industry (sub-)segment out there catering for exactly that market. And, occasionally, I'm called in after some "consultant" left a template mess behind to bring in some workable structure (which is another market). And, probably, after me some true infosec professional is hired to get things actually done.
Sent somewhere for a futile job? Well, I'm an auditor... Anyhow, speaking of cold mountain top: unfortunately, it wasn't me but former acquaintances who had to tend to microwave transmission equipment. The (cable-bound) aerial lift to the mountain top was not running at that time and the only (feasible) option left was a helicopter flight. Just to find that something had been "misdiagnosed" and the issue was on the other side of the link.
«He knows it was a mistake to let the minion do the job unattended.»
Whether it was a mistake depends entirely on how much he disliked the minion. For minions high on the spectrum of personal dislike, giving them an improbably difficult task ("job empowerment!") and watch them fail from afar (pure, evil joy aka schadenfreude) is the way to go.
And before you jump to conclusions or worse, action, this post may contain irony.
...no one can remember anything clearly and no names will be named...
Well, at least the incompetent arseholehonourable gentleman Cummings did remember that he had abused others with worse profanity than he did MacNamara. And that, according to his three brain cells, everyone else still is an idiot.
That's also true for, e.g., drafting a report that will ultimately be sent to a client. The draft, when sent to the client, contained our comments addressed to the client and also my snarky comments about the client not meant for the client to see. While I got sweaty palms when discovering this, it didn't have any negative consequences for me. I assume, the client simply thought that I'm socially challenged (aka a bit of a prick) and delivered what I needed.
...and how we even let people pick up these kind of jobs is really criminal.
Well, these kind of job is certainly not for me either. There are, however, people out there that are perfectly fine with such a job and glad that they have it. I'd say it's rather criminal to utter such statements before going out there and starting to actually listen. This Siemens manager is not the only "Tech Boss" who believes they know how to "save the world".
Surely, I told this here once before already. It happened in early 2000s when the partner of a colleague attended an Excel training. When exchanging exercises with an other student, they would print the spreadsheet and then fax it each other. And yes, they both did have e-mail as well.
Is Tesla's restrictions on selling the vehicle within one year illegal?
That depends on the jurisdiction. IANAL but believe where I live, it might be an illegal condition. That means, you can sign it and do not need to adhere to because it wouldn't be enforceable. Tesla might still be in the right not wanting to sell you another car though. But I'm not sure if this is actually a bad thing...
Yep, been there, didn't done that (i.e. blaming the students for I was one myself). And before you know it, police is wandering the campus, interviewing* students about an alleged hack attack. What allegedly happened was a large-scale password crack. (In our alleged defence, those passwords were, allegedly, really weak. Honestly.)
*No interrogation took place as the cops themselves didn't seem to have a clue what they were supposed to investigate. Presumably, having all had "123" as their own password.
The Turbosail is not a Flettner rotor. Both need wind to work, but the Flettner rotor is a rotating cylinder that works with the Magnus effect. And Cousteau's turbosail is an aerofoil (basically a solid sail) which has assisted pressure reduction on the suction surface to increase its efficiency.
If I remember correctly, I once fully recovered (i.e. the machine recovered, I still wear emotional scars) from a "del *.*" in the C:\DOS\ directory. The memory's a bit blurry as this was deep in the 90s but it involved playing a bit a floppy DJ to get the files back from another machine.
I really don't understand how ownership of an entity and its leadership work. <- Here, fixed that for you.
On a more serious note, it's simple: if you own a stake in a company, you get something to say. Don't mix that up with political systems, being it feudalism or whatever.
Do not worry the Italians. I mean, they can be and are exaggeratedly dogmatic (aka nazi) about their food. I, on rare occasions, enjoy prosciutto cotto and pineapple on my pizza. And if ever an Italian starts an argument about my choice of pizza, I'm going to remind them on all the offerings of "wurstel pizza" in Italy. The mere idea and much more the sight of that thing makes me feel sick.
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