* Posts by BebopWeBop

2863 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2015

UK enters almost-lockdown: Brits urged to keep calm and carry on – as long as it doesn't involve leaving the house

BebopWeBop

Re: What about the airports?

Well we have good weather for 'gardening leave', and living in the Scottish countryside, miles from the nearest town, I can get my 10 mile walk or 30 mile cycle in without seeing, let alone being in danger of coming even within 10m of anyone else. On my own as well as my partner is with the NHS in Glasgow - poor girl and staying in the her flat there.

BebopWeBop

Re: Johnson explains things terribly, about as bad as Trump

I would not go that far - he has prevaricated and blustered with the odd off-colour joke (Last gasp effort to get more ventilators built) but at the same time I will follow HMRC and scientific advice. No need to make political points.

BebopWeBop

Re: "One form of exercise a day"

I refer you to the Imperial College paper on modelling the effects of suppression.

https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk:8443/bitstream/10044/1/77482/5/Imperial%20College%20COVID19%20NPI%20modelling%2016-03-2020.pdf

BebopWeBop
Happy

Re: "One form of exercise a day"

(And don't make me come over!)

Capita CEO and CFO take 'voluntary' pay cut of 25% amid coronavirus outbreak

BebopWeBop

I expect

They will make the most of the salaries, or at least 80% of them to a limit being met by the taxpayer (after all a number of their workers can not be present (even if it makes little difference), and then as work drops off post opening up, they will so sackeroony mad.

BebopWeBop

Re: "a 'voluntary' pay cut of 25 per cent"

Trebles all round if I know Crapita

First impressions count when the world is taken by surprise by an exciting new (macro) virus

BebopWeBop

Re: Warnings ignored?

Yes, one of my partner's University colleagues who is particularly accident-prone around IT gave rise to the saying "Ruma (her name) has it and the rest of us don't'

It's time to track people's smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin

BebopWeBop

Re: Maybe

For much of the population not even underestimated. Friday night and I got a 'going to the pub - come and join us' message, followed on Saturday by an acquaintance asking me whether I could collect him from the local golf club (I assume he had been drinking and had to abandon his vehicle), and this is in Scotland, where very clear messages had been broadcast on Thursday and Friday.

Apollo astronaut Al Worden – once named most isolated human being of all time – dies aged 88

BebopWeBop

Re: I suppose...

I am sure he would enjoy a little solitude after being cooped up with three others for what will have been a stressful period of time.

Thought you'd go online to buy better laptop for home working? Too bad, UK. So did everyone. Laptops, monitors and WLANs fly off shelves

BebopWeBop

Re: The end result

Will they need any soon?

BebopWeBop

Re: I Hate This Panic Buying!

Well, at least you could drive it back.

BebopWeBop
Happy

Re: far more consistent than English is...

One assume you were doing that before the current issues

Oh-so-generous ransomware crooks vow to hold back from health organisations during COVID-19 crisis

BebopWeBop
Joke

Re: Look at the super markets.

Time to get appropriately medieval on their arse

BebopWeBop

Re: Look at the super markets.

I don't think that most people are that cunning.

NASA to launch 247 petabytes of data into AWS – but forgot about eye-watering cloudy egress costs before lift-off

BebopWeBop
Thumb Up

Re: What if the Cloud also catches Corona?

Ahh - a better and more educated class of pedant here

BebopWeBop

Re: Just wondering

Yes, frequently white fluffy and inherently cuddly.

BebopWeBop
Devil

So a decent accountant might have (been of) value after all

IBM puts 1,248 frontline techies at risk of redundo, warns of data centre closures

BebopWeBop

Re: Relevent?

She lands on the gold rather than being given a parachute made of it.

BebopWeBop

Re: Redundancy

Ditto. I left HP when the redundancy payments were extremely good, I feel smug now as we all moved on and did a startup with the proceeds, but I feel sorry for people now being 'let go'.

BebopWeBop

Re: Semantics

I would add another choice - innovate with products/services that the market wants at the right price.

BebopWeBop

They have already deep sixed older experienced workers.

BebopWeBop

Well having been seconded to parts of the home office and then the foreign office, I met a number of people who were *very* much in touch.

Tencent is now bigger than Cisco and Lenovo – and predicts this virus thingy will help it get bigger still

BebopWeBop

Re: "Such tools, execs said, should find wider markets in the future"

Would installing and using such an app for anything other than entertainment be a prime indicator?

Eight-core 3.8 GHz CPU. 12 TFLOPS GPU. 1TB NVME SSD. 16GB RAM. Not a half-decent workstation, it's the new Xbox

BebopWeBop

Re: "eliminate loading times between levels"

I generally prefer the cockup rather than conspiracy explanation.

BT's Wi-Fi Disc ads banned because there's no evidence the things work

BebopWeBop
Mushroom

Re: thinking the discs were battery-powered instead of needing a mains electrical connection.

Could be exciting.

UK government puts IR35 tax reforms on hold for a year in wake of coronavirus crisis

BebopWeBop

Re: most of the fee-paying Public Schools outside state control are already closed.

Canny business people - they will still be charging a 'holding fee'

Data surge as more Brits work from home? Not as hard on the network as their nightly Netflix binges, claims BT

BebopWeBop

Re: Herd immunity

Those Lords will be quaking in their armchairs.

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

BebopWeBop

Re: A city in flight!

Appalling pun of the day, but have an upvote.

Health workers are top of phishers' target lists thanks to data value

BebopWeBop

Re: Why do nurses need external email?

There are many reasons, not very many of them good. But I suspect the most compelling for administrators who want the systems to be used is "because it is easy".

BebopWeBop

A simple intelligence filter.

BebopWeBop

You might scoff, but before Christmas, I was on a regular visit to a relative who is in an NHS facility, and I listened with some amusement to care workers discussing Johnson et al - "well he is going to deliver 50,000 more nurses and 20,0000 more police, so I support him'. People do believe them and many of them vote.

Supply, demand and a scary mountain of debt: The challenges facing IT as COVID-19 grips the global economy

BebopWeBop

Re: Just wait 2 weeks

One of the Pankhursts was a founding member of the union of British Fascists and eugenics were popular amongst many at the time (come to think of it, today as well).

BebopWeBop

Re: Virgin

Cheaper to buy them when they go bankrupt.

BebopWeBop

Re: The NEUKlearer Option ..... in Derivative AI Futures Markets in Support of Quantum Leaping

Much longer given the classic joke about bank debts - £500 your problem, £50,000,000 the banks.

BebopWeBop
Trollface

Re: Well, at least i now understand why supermarkets have no loo roll...

A menu option for gender choice?

BebopWeBop

The leader of the free world dumbly in denial over the basic scientific facts of the worst public health crisis in a generation? possibly better written as 'The leader of the free world'? But given he can not even be trusted to be consistent on what he had for breakfast, anything else is just wasted hope.

If you're looking for a textbook example of an IT hype cycle, let spin be your guide

BebopWeBop
Headmaster

working in a good basic commercial research organisation

introduced me to the joys of mresistors, atomic resolution storage and MEMS amongst other things - 15+ years on only the latter is something we deploy - but hey, where there is hope there frequently funding and new toy opportunities.

Not exactly the kind of housekeeping you want when it means the hotel's server uptime is scrubbed clean

BebopWeBop

Re: The cleaner did it.

That's the excuse I use anyway.

Broken lab equipment led boffins to solve a 58-year-old physics problem by mistake

BebopWeBop

Re: No good enough!

You can definitely cook and eat the first two?

BebopWeBop

Re: I just loved "the nuclear charge is slightly potato-shaped"

Given the names applied in much nuclear physics, I am sure it could catch on.

BebopWeBop
Thumb Up

Science is littered with 'accidental' findings (see penicillin)

Fresh virus misery for Illinois: Public health agency taken down by... web ransomware. Great timing, scumbags

BebopWeBop

Re: Special Hell

My son, (a research student at Manc Uni medical department) has a fine T-Shirt amongst others, Homeopathy, doing fuck all since 1796

BT CEO tests positive for coronavirus, goes into self-isolation after meeting fellow bosses from Vodafone UK, Three, O2 plus govt officials

BebopWeBop

Don't worry about the pub, we'll hold the Bloody Mary for you

US prez Donald Trump declares America closed to those flying in from Schengen zone over coronavirus woes

BebopWeBop

Re: Green card holders and the immediate family of US citizens get a pass.

Guns don't kill people. Guns kill viruses.

IBM's outgoing boss Rometty awarded $20m+ in 2019 for growing revenue 0.1%

BebopWeBop

Re: Adding insult to injury

Please define "Best person for the job".....

'Up to 300' UK heads to roll at Brit IT services firm Allvotec, with 200 jobs offshored to Bulgaria in cost-cutting drive

BebopWeBop

Oh we will whimper. And then move overseas.

Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive

BebopWeBop

Re: Crapita

Correction. It is not just the MPs

BebopWeBop

Re: The actual question is

You forget the bit about employing lots of ex-civil servants, cabinet ministers and MPs.

BebopWeBop

Where there is shit, there is Crapita.