Posts by Potemkine

What is the price of your conscience?

It seems Mr. Dabbs' one is more expensive that the ones of much of his colleagues...

Material things are overstated anyway.

Foolproof is not enough

It should be at least idiotproof.

I've got a plan!

Always got one, if not several ones!

Let's make a big, heavy concrete shield, but make it on the Moon, where all materials are available, even water it seems. On the plus side, this shield would be easier to send in space from the Moon.

Space agencies, you're welcome ^^

"Outsourcing is a practice used by different companies to reduce costs by transferring portions of work to outside suppliers rather than completing it internally."

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"the Daily Mail fingered a contractor from CBRE Global Workplace Solutions"

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"Outsourcing not to blame"

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WTF!?!

You Sir sounds like a left leaning anarchist!

Bravo! ^^

This article reminds me of an old movie, Colossus: The Forbin Project

Trumpy the clown

You thought GW Bush was the worst possible president ever? Never underestimate the stupidity of right wingers, leaving in an alternative world where facts don't matter and reality is what Faux News, Breibart and al. say it is.

Trumpy marks a new low in US politics. Such a level of irresponsibility will be hard to beat.

Conservatives and Face-de-bouc

Conservatives are right to target Facebook's users: those ones are more prone to emotive reactions than using reason to make their choice. The less the voters think, the better for the conservatives.

"British general elections are won and lost in small numbers of marginal constituencies, roughly equivalent to US swing states"

How democratic!

'Aha moment'

Sounds norwegian ^^

We told you for years

This is not a bug, this is a feature ^^

In your face, dumbass

And it has nothing to do with lay off of hundreds of IT staff, of course... BA gets what it deserves.

For Mr Cruz, 'redundancy' means firing people, not doubling critical systems to avoid two major failures in a couple of months.

For the older ones

Do you remember the time when you had actually to walk to the TV set to change the program to one of the three available channels? In those time it was much more physical to have ADD!

It's not corruption...

... it's called 'lobbying'

Just kidding, it's corruption indeed.

Please someone forward that article to Mr. Dabbs

I'm sure he will be able to make a good use of it ^^

What about redundancy?

If the service is so critical, why one connection down break everything?

CD audio are a scam

First, they were sold as being reliable when a scratch on them make them unusable.

Second, when they replaced vinyls, they were sold 30 to 50% more expensive, when they are much less costly to make

Finally, as Mr. Dabbs mentioned, their cases are as solid as my faith in Mr Trump being an honest and decent guy.

Fuck the music industry and thank you MP3 for hitting it hard.

Lock him out, lock him out!

Yes, the one everybody is thinking about

The best advice...

... to avoid clicking on bad links: use this!

IMNSHO

Nobody working in IT should have a Facebook account. Having such an account is a proof that one is not fit to manage information and IT security.

"Pillock"

Thank you Mr. Dabbs, I learn new words each week reading your chronicles ^^

Admit it, you’ll do anything to avoid being left alone at home.

On the contrary! I'm one of those, I would rather drink that pint of kool aid rather than going shopping! .. I guess anyone doesn't have a "cave bear" side as developed as I have.

GSA

The demo I saw of the Google Search Appliance were impressive, but the price was sadly way to high for a SME

Corruption

Claiming that private companies are more efficient than public sector by design is utter BS.

Also, is there any big IT services company which does not abuse its workforce and customers? All the ones I know fit in the "bastards!' category.

Woops

May the one who never forget a ticket in the bug database cast the first stone

First, how is it possible that a recorded delivery being lost?

Second, when Police is fined in UK, who does pay really in the end? Wouldn't that be the taxpayer anyway?

Third, if there is no other sanction than a collective fine, how one can expect that individual responsibilities are fully assumed?

"I am diabetic and no money for medicines"

In a civilized country such a thing should never happen . The most basic human right is the right to live, healthcare have to be accessible for all.