Posts by Little Mouse

Re: Thats that f88ked then

How? By being contractually obliged to reach certain KPIs/SLAs.

And if they should accidentally exceed those minimum contracted targets, they'll reduce the amount of resource invested to bring them back down again, thus ensuring maximum profits for shareholders.

If you want to be the best fighting force in the world, don't get Capita to train you. If you're happy being in the top 82% of the best, 74% of the time, then Capita is the way to go.

Re: Who says crime doesn't pay?

Re *sigh*:

He does still have the small issue of a "20-year jail sentence" to deal with though.

And deserves every minute if it too, by the sound of things.

Re: Inside joke?

Not a rude one, but the name of the first IT dept I ever worked for was RECIT.

They eventually added an "E" onto the end, but the damage was already done.

Local authorities have a pretty stringent tendering process that is intended to make everything fair and legal and above board, but in reality favours companies such as Capita who can invest considerable effort into ensuring their tender ticks ALL of the required boxes on paper, whilst still being complete bollocks.

Re: liquid?

I'm also no expert, but Shirley changing the state from liquid to solid means fundamentally altering its underlying physical structure.

Would that be significant?

Re: Wouldn't it be a red flag to them

And if it did, where would you set the bar?

If I was in charge, I'd probably have upped the trigger threshold to the max back in 2016 whilst celebrities were dropping like flies, and then forgotten to turn it down again afterwards.

Probably.

Re: Send for Jodie Foster

Heh - I'd rather send Sean Bean.

Re: BBC

BBC is my first port of call for news, but you definitely need to keep an open mind with stories concerning:

War (If we're in the middle of one)

National emergency (ditto - Covid)

News stories that are just a thinly-veiled advert for a documentary that's on later this evening.

Climate change (Back when the politics seemed to matter more than the science, anyway.)

Re: Live that everyday

Yep -Thats exactly what the Risk Register is for. "The Business" can then choose to deal with the risks that have been flagged however it likes.

Re: @KittenHuffer

And presumably we could filter out background "noise" in the samples, and hence get more reliable results, by chopping down and comparing more and more trees.

Quick! To the rainforests!

Re: Cheese

And let's not forget the brotherly love and five hundred years of democracy and peace.

Outsourcing can work if your only intention is to offload the burden of doing a task onto a 3rd party, not the expense.

How often does that actually happen though?

Re: Strayhorn and Ellington

Hopefully they weren't thinking of "A-Train" from The Boys.

Moves so fast that anything/anyone unfortunate enough to get in the way gets completely obliterated.

Re: I agree it seems like very light punishment

It's possible, I agree, but bullshitting about his past can only work for so long before biting him in the backside. The truth is out there for anyone curious enough to look.

If he wants to lie his way back into IT then he'd be best off as a jobbing contractor. Lord knows, we've all known a few that were downright dishonest about their technical abilities. They get found out, they just move on.

I suspect he'd need to be honest about his past for his career to have any real longevity. And even then his job applications will still only make the reject pile in the majority of cases.

People can change and can learn from their mistakes, and there will even be employers who are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, especially given his (relative) youth, but he's going have to graft hard and long before he wins back any significant trust, if ever.

Re: Targeting Hospitals?

If the vector is email, then it's very believable that an attacker would target domain names of companies (in this case, hospitals) that a) have lots to lose, and b) have access to big-figures money.

USA medical institutions = $$$. Random individuals, much less so.

Plus, they're far less likely to be blocked by spam filters if they minimise the amount of spam they send out. You can't do that effectively if your attack isn't targeted.

Re: A little too far

"on a daily basis I feel their anger"

Feeling angry is reasonable, and perfectly legal.

Their sustained & malicious response though, was neither of these things.

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"LD" (although I forget which arguments)

Primos - FTW!

Re: 16 knots - are they mad?

An hour since my last post - and I can't shake ('n'Vac?) the image of Arnie & Yul hoovering the living room in drag, Queen-style.

Just thought I'd share that with you.

Re: I've been fired ...

He should have said / He should have started out.

And yet the actual answer showed the honest character of the man.

Re: WTF is wrong with you british people?

It's almost as if there's a secret plan to educate children & democratise technology.

Quick, get the pitchforks!