The real thing here is that this should have never reached the small claims court in first place.
When the EU legislation was ratified two years ago the Information Commissioner was given the authority to enforce it in the UK. They initially put some forms on their website. IIRC the forms wehre in pdf which you had to fill in and mail conventionally. No do not laugh, we are talking Civil Service the UK way in the days of Antonio Bliar. Even that ended up being too much for them and they took the stuff of their website. I looked at it two weeks ago and there was not even a trace.
The sickest bit is their reaction - "We are observing the development with interest". Stop observing and get to work you f*** lazy twats!!! That is what you are getting payed for. And they are entitled to fine a company on 3 orders more then what you can get in a small claims court.
Oh well... Whatever... People compare Bliar Britain with 1984. Wrong comparison. The Animal Farm is much closer to reality.
Not with Pentium 4. There is no standard OEM MB out there to carry the number of Pentium 4s to get that far. And the special ones are actually designed together with a power supply and a case.
In fact there is just a single "standard" MB I can think of to use with this beast.
It is the Assus 8 Opteron MB which has 4 CPUs on board and 4 CPUs on a daughther card. If we assume normal Opteron and throw in some video, cooling and disks in you end up having a 700W+ maximum power consumption.
If someone can think of something else to generate that much power without coming with a dedicated power supply - post it. I can't.
Not perhaps. They will. They actually intend to. They have stopped the rollout of all speedcameras. While the official version is that this is done because the general public is pissed off, the actual reason most likely is that they are no longer necessary.
How did you notice that he forgot to revoke these?
The answer is - asked a collegue to check if my RSA key is still in the authorized key list. That is besides knowing all the passords harcoded directly into code for various OSS systems which the idiot could not change anyway.
You are right, you should not access them yourself, but nothing prevents you from giving your credentials to your boss with at least two witnesses present and him doing it for you. Does the trick every time.
This is essentially the American attitude HR (though it is gaining foothold elsewhere). It is the assumption that you are a retard and going to put in peril the rest of your career doing something utterly silly during the 2 weeks notice you have left. It is best described as utterly stupid. After all if you wanted to do something you could have done it before handing your resignation. Further to that are you sure that they have revoked your access from "really" everywhere?
I had similar experience while working for an American corp. When I resigned the IT security revoked my user access from everywhere. What they forgot to revoke (and in fact could not revoke) was my root access from two thirds of the European systems. He had to be very unkindly reminded by my boss that
A) He did not do his job correctly and gave him a list of systems where he did not revoke my access. After that he formally requested risk assessment and the estimate for potential damage to the systems where they did not correctly disable my access.
B) If I actually wanted to make a dogs breakfast of my career I could have done it 100 times.
As a result I had my access reinstated for the remainder of my notice period. And the idiots lost their bonus.
Essentially it is not you who is unprofessional. It is the majority of American HR which have no idea about the level of damage an average SysAdmin can make and treat them the same as Aales. What HR does not know is that there is a long history of the industry dealing with the few that do damage. Everyone knows the cases like the Dixon's payroll triggers so noone will actually do it nowdays. Sales is a different story - they are expected by their new employer to have stolen the customer database and bring all of their contacts and accounts with them.
Seconded. If you whack a heavy metal target with a good enough e- stream it is bound to spit at least some high energy X-rays. I am not sure if you can get gamma rays on a "backyard" device, but X-rays should not be a problem.
Before going onto a witch-hunt about prices, regulation and deregulation the poster should have read the article. According to the survey the situation is worst in the countries where the government owns a significant part of the incumbent - Germany, Greece, Portugal, etc. They quite obviously point at government intervention as the primary reason for that.
Now, while I agree with some of the parts of the study, I immediately notice that it is a case of "who profits from it". It is sponsored by a the parts of the industry that have been pressing for the full privatisation of Deutche Telecom and who are having problems with the fact that Deutche has been buying the tastiest and best bits in the new EU member countries. This is seriously pissing a number of vulture capitalists including American ones and there is heavy lobbying to reign Deutche in or privatise it.
This is also the reason why Deutche is singled out as the one and only target for a scathing critical diatribe and Greece and Portugal incumbents which are the worst of all the EU telecom market are ignored.
I also disagree with the finding that UK Ofcom has some teeth. It has them only from the perspective of large players. From the perspective of small players it has made things worse over the last year and a half by allowing BT to change the wholesale pricing structure in a way which is designed to kill all small and medium players and consolidate the market into the hands of 2-3 companies.
This is the kind of regulator the authors of this study like and this is what it has been rigged for. Nothing more to see here. Move along.
QoS, priorities and ToS have been known for more then a decade. The fact is, till recently they have been used mostly in third world and beyond where the bandwidth is scarce, fiber is unheard of and you have to use something like this to achieve a competitive edge. I have used it myself as far back as late nighties. Similarly, we had customer facing web based helldesk, customer facing link statistics, customer facing web ordering system for extras and specials etc as far back as late nineties.
None of these were widely used around the civilized world till recently because it was cheaper to invest in more hardware and bandwidth to achieve similar results.
This is no longer the case.
Very few if any new fiber is layed in the ground and the router CPUs/ASICs are finally catching up for the bandwidths used in telco land. Further to this, the players are few and largely evened up so they have no choice, but to look into network intelligence as means of gaining a competitive edge. Some have already rolled it out. Many laughed at the first ones like Level3 which at the time had a rather primitive QoS system with 4 queues and 4 types of traffic. Nobody is laughing any more and network policy devices are the most looked at item in labs trials for all new roll outs.
Our QoS overlords are coming and will here to stay.
And once you have provided a MaBell telcohead with the tool expecting them not to use it is rather silly. From there on it is only a matter of how much do they use it. If they overuse it they risk getting smacked by a threat to lose their common carrier status as well as a few anticompetitive investigations. How do they consider this risk is a different matter.
Who said that adults are deaf. I am in my late thirties and I still hear all the way to 18+ KHz. I know people who are 50+ years old and can hear to 17.5KHz and higher.
I know that we are a minority, but I would much rather prefer if stores used conventional weapons like "Carmina Burana" or "Beethoven 9th" cranked to the max. Even small guns fire with Beach Boys will do. Clears louts nicely.
That is unless they break the broadcast system the next night.
This offer is available only from DELL and only in the US.
Dell is a no-buy in my "house". For many reasons starting from being very non-standard (just disassemble one for a change and see how many parts are custom) and finishing with being Texan.
This leaves me with the other usual suspects - IBM, Compaq/HP and Fujitsu/Siemens. Well, none of these sells OS-less servers at least for the UK market. None of them sells desktops or laptops without a preloaded OS either. And you do not get the discounts and the special offers on the few models available with a linux preload.
In fact, if you follow the discounted models you can get a better value for your money then from buying OS-less Dell. Sad but true.
It is a "Bliar Cronie Droid" serial number Pinokio653 speaking. They will more likely die then present you with negative news. Everything has to be spun up, presented positively and be used in an advertisement of some government policy.
People keep comparing Bliar's UK with 1984. Wrong comparison. The right comparison should be "This Perfect Day".
A classic example here is the so called cut hair murder. It is IIRC a murder case from a few years ago where the suspect deliberately left hair near the victim's body. He made a few mistakes though:
1. It was hair which usually does not have enough material for a good test unless it has been pulled out with the roots. 2. He cut it and the fact that it was cut was quite obvious under microscope.
AFAIK the police is still chewing the case and is nowhere near identifying neither the suspect nor the person whose hair was cut.
As you see it has already happened and I bet it is happening right now. In the Great Brave New World.
It has also occurred to me that it was way outside the Bradford number plate recognition pilot by that time.
Way outside.
So the BBC article about the Bradford system used to track the car is in fact what it is: a typical Bliar news management item used to sell a very unpopular system by tagging it to the grave of a woman killed in the line of duty.
Nobody questions your credentials. There are cops in IT and IT in cops.
Back on the subject of the article. The official Bliar newsmanagement slogan for the CCTV system used to track them is "Denying the criminals the use of the road network". Well, once again what exactly has been denied if they got all the way to London without any problems? As usually the propaganda lied. They had no problems to use the road and they got caught outside the coverage area of the new system. Lies, lies and again lies.
I am not misinformed. I am realistic. I live in Britain, but I have also lived elsewhere in Europe. And if the British Police has not noticed, armoured BMWs on the streets with registrations belonging to the new member states. I have noticed. So have many other people who have seen these same ones in action elsewhere.
It is only a matter of time until these push out the local criminals the way the Albanian pushed out all pimps in London. And once they are done with this the turf wars are inevitable. I have seen these turf wars first hand. I have seen the same people cleaning up with machine guns and RPG launchers. It is only a matter of time until British streets see the same.
And while I agree that Bobbies on the beat are best unarmed, it is time to start thinking about arming responce teams adequately to deal with imported crime which has brought its own guns with it.
Well... If the system was so good why the f*** did the car get all the way from Bradford to London? That is 4+ hour drive across half of the country.
What you are seeing here has nothing to do with the merits of the system. It has something to do with typical newsmanagement by Tony Bliar cronies. Similar to the one they tried on the "Good day to Burry Bad News (9/11)". They want to push this system as a replacement for speed cameras with the difference that speed will be checked every 400m, not in specific locations. Further to this you have the transport secretary which is waiting in the wings to use the same network for charging per road use.
The only problem - the road users are just a few inches short of wanting to lynch 'em both. So what do you do in this case - get good publicity. And this all this is about. And using the death of a mother with 4 kids in the line of duty for this is as appaling as it can get.
By the way who is the criminal idiot who sent two unarmed, untrained women without body armour to investigate a reported armed robbery in progress?
Even if they are shot on the moon, they still remain American movies.
There is not a single non-US movie on the list.
At least I did not get to one before the website barfed on mysql connection limit. 5th element, Solaris, Stalker, Night Watch - none of them. Even Dr Strangelove was not there.
The case here is slightly different. It is a question of money, but quite a different one.
If you look at the people who founded Skype their previous P2P ventures were started and sold when the number of freeloaders exceeded the network capacity. They waited for that moment every single time. Same with Skype, as the proportion of people with NAT and firewalls increased the quality of the network decreased. In fact some of the analysts noted this. So did many of the users. And that was the moment when Skype was sold.
Now Ebay is "saving" its venture by the only means possible - by recruiting an enormous amount of hypernodes from population that is too clueless to use a router or a firewall. An ebay is footing the bill for this seeding. Quite smart actually. And not entirely unexpected.
Well... The list is biased and severely americanized. There is not a single movie on it shot outside the US. Hello yanks? Ever heard of Solaris? Stalker? It is also missing what is for me possibly the best sci-fi movie of the 90-es. Gattaca.
We can continue, but frankly, this poll is best ignored.
I will add to that the following: It takes me 300-400% more "to satisfy" a business requirement then the average microsoft sysadmin team. There is a major difference though, it usually works on delivery day and scales to as much as I have decided to forecast it to scale. I usually forecast it for 1-2 years at least. As a comparison I see microsoft admins in other companies assuming naso-anal position to "business drivers" and delivering in a fraction of the time it takes me on a daily basis. Once again there is a major difference. It either costs 5-10 times more or breaks a month or so later and they spend a considerable amount of their time keeping it afloat from there on. Alternatively they need 3 times the budget I need.
To add to this 60%+ percent of "business requirements" disappear the moment you analyse them instead of immediately assuming a satisfactory naso-anal position.
I think that the study is correct. In a microsoft shop a "business requirement" does not tend to be analysed and verified that it is a requirement as often as in a unix shop. So many ideas that are essentially idiotic make it all the way to implementation.
Nothing new. It has been a standard feature on public transport buses for 10+ years in most European countries with the only difference that it uses propane instead of hydrogen. It is known as diesel bianco, ecodiesel and a number of other names. The idea is that mixing a bit of propane (or hydrogen) results in changing the burn parameters of a diesel so that it burns nearly 100% of its fuel (normally it is under 80%). The only country which does not have it is guess who - UK.
The blurb has nearly no meaningfull information whatsoever. The only meaningfull bit is the recommendation not to use aggressive mode.
Well... We kind'a all know this already. The weaknesses of agressive mode were all over BUGTRAQ more then 2 years ago and if you are still using it you "Get whatever Christmas you deserve".
If it is bog standard ELISA it does not actually detect HIV. It detects antibodies produced against it. So if you do not have any immune responce to HIV whatsoever you will return a negative result.
There are other tests of course which are based on amplifying DNA off the original virus RNA template. Most of these are alpha quality and they are not done as a part of the normal testing procedure.
So the obvious question here is - what tests did he undergo.
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The real thing here is that this should have never reached the small claims court in first place.
When the EU legislation was ratified two years ago the Information Commissioner was given the authority to enforce it in the UK. They initially put some forms on their website. IIRC the forms wehre in pdf which you had to fill in and mail conventionally. No do not laugh, we are talking Civil Service the UK way in the days of Antonio Bliar. Even that ended up being too much for them and they took the stuff of their website. I looked at it two weeks ago and there was not even a trace.
The sickest bit is their reaction - "We are observing the development with interest". Stop observing and get to work you f*** lazy twats!!! That is what you are getting payed for. And they are entitled to fine a company on 3 orders more then what you can get in a small claims court.
Oh well... Whatever... People compare Bliar Britain with 1984. Wrong comparison. The Animal Farm is much closer to reality.
Not with Pentium 4. There is no standard OEM MB out there to carry the number of Pentium 4s to get that far. And the special ones are actually designed together with a power supply and a case.
In fact there is just a single "standard" MB I can think of to use with this beast.
It is the Assus 8 Opteron MB which has 4 CPUs on board and 4 CPUs on a daughther card. If we assume normal Opteron and throw in some video, cooling and disks in you end up having a 700W+ maximum power consumption.
If someone can think of something else to generate that much power without coming with a dedicated power supply - post it. I can't.
Not perhaps. They will. They actually intend to. They have stopped the rollout of all speedcameras. While the official version is that this is done because the general public is pissed off, the actual reason most likely is that they are no longer necessary.
The answer is - asked a collegue to check if my RSA key is still in the authorized key list. That is besides knowing all the passords harcoded directly into code for various OSS systems which the idiot could not change anyway.
You are right, you should not access them yourself, but nothing prevents you from giving your credentials to your boss with at least two witnesses present and him doing it for you. Does the trick every time.
This is essentially the American attitude HR (though it is gaining foothold elsewhere). It is the assumption that you are a retard and going to put in peril the rest of your career doing something utterly silly during the 2 weeks notice you have left. It is best described as utterly stupid. After all if you wanted to do something you could have done it before handing your resignation. Further to that are you sure that they have revoked your access from "really" everywhere? I had similar experience while working for an American corp. When I resigned the IT security revoked my user access from everywhere. What they forgot to revoke (and in fact could not revoke) was my root access from two thirds of the European systems. He had to be very unkindly reminded by my boss that A) He did not do his job correctly and gave him a list of systems where he did not revoke my access. After that he formally requested risk assessment and the estimate for potential damage to the systems where they did not correctly disable my access. B) If I actually wanted to make a dogs breakfast of my career I could have done it 100 times. As a result I had my access reinstated for the remainder of my notice period. And the idiots lost their bonus. Essentially it is not you who is unprofessional. It is the majority of American HR which have no idea about the level of damage an average SysAdmin can make and treat them the same as Aales. What HR does not know is that there is a long history of the industry dealing with the few that do damage. Everyone knows the cases like the Dixon's payroll triggers so noone will actually do it nowdays. Sales is a different story - they are expected by their new employer to have stolen the customer database and bring all of their contacts and accounts with them.
Seconded. If you whack a heavy metal target with a good enough e- stream it is bound to spit at least some high energy X-rays. I am not sure if you can get gamma rays on a "backyard" device, but X-rays should not be a problem.
Seconded.
Before going onto a witch-hunt about prices, regulation and deregulation the poster should have read the article. According to the survey the situation is worst in the countries where the government owns a significant part of the incumbent - Germany, Greece, Portugal, etc. They quite obviously point at government intervention as the primary reason for that.
Now, while I agree with some of the parts of the study, I immediately notice that it is a case of "who profits from it". It is sponsored by a the parts of the industry that have been pressing for the full privatisation of Deutche Telecom and who are having problems with the fact that Deutche has been buying the tastiest and best bits in the new EU member countries. This is seriously pissing a number of vulture capitalists including American ones and there is heavy lobbying to reign Deutche in or privatise it.
This is also the reason why Deutche is singled out as the one and only target for a scathing critical diatribe and Greece and Portugal incumbents which are the worst of all the EU telecom market are ignored.
I also disagree with the finding that UK Ofcom has some teeth. It has them only from the perspective of large players. From the perspective of small players it has made things worse over the last year and a half by allowing BT to change the wholesale pricing structure in a way which is designed to kill all small and medium players and consolidate the market into the hands of 2-3 companies.
This is the kind of regulator the authors of this study like and this is what it has been rigged for. Nothing more to see here. Move along.
You have already welcomed them most likely.
QoS, priorities and ToS have been known for more then a decade. The fact is, till recently they have been used mostly in third world and beyond where the bandwidth is scarce, fiber is unheard of and you have to use something like this to achieve a competitive edge. I have used it myself as far back as late nighties. Similarly, we had customer facing web based helldesk, customer facing link statistics, customer facing web ordering system for extras and specials etc as far back as late nineties.
None of these were widely used around the civilized world till recently because it was cheaper to invest in more hardware and bandwidth to achieve similar results.
This is no longer the case.
Very few if any new fiber is layed in the ground and the router CPUs/ASICs are finally catching up for the bandwidths used in telco land. Further to this, the players are few and largely evened up so they have no choice, but to look into network intelligence as means of gaining a competitive edge. Some have already rolled it out. Many laughed at the first ones like Level3 which at the time had a rather primitive QoS system with 4 queues and 4 types of traffic. Nobody is laughing any more and network policy devices are the most looked at item in labs trials for all new roll outs.
Our QoS overlords are coming and will here to stay.
And once you have provided a MaBell telcohead with the tool expecting them not to use it is rather silly. From there on it is only a matter of how much do they use it. If they overuse it they risk getting smacked by a threat to lose their common carrier status as well as a few anticompetitive investigations. How do they consider this risk is a different matter.
Who said that adults are deaf. I am in my late thirties and I still hear all the way to 18+ KHz. I know people who are 50+ years old and can hear to 17.5KHz and higher.
I know that we are a minority, but I would much rather prefer if stores used conventional weapons like "Carmina Burana" or "Beethoven 9th" cranked to the max. Even small guns fire with Beach Boys will do. Clears louts nicely.
That is unless they break the broadcast system the next night.
GATACA. This says it all.
This offer is available only from DELL and only in the US.
Dell is a no-buy in my "house". For many reasons starting from being very non-standard (just disassemble one for a change and see how many parts are custom) and finishing with being Texan.
This leaves me with the other usual suspects - IBM, Compaq/HP and Fujitsu/Siemens. Well, none of these sells OS-less servers at least for the UK market. None of them sells desktops or laptops without a preloaded OS either. And you do not get the discounts and the special offers on the few models available with a linux preload.
In fact, if you follow the discounted models you can get a better value for your money then from buying OS-less Dell. Sad but true.
Neither.
It is a "Bliar Cronie Droid" serial number Pinokio653 speaking. They will more likely die then present you with negative news. Everything has to be spun up, presented positively and be used in an advertisement of some government policy.
People keep comparing Bliar's UK with 1984. Wrong comparison. The right comparison should be "This Perfect Day".
Going full steam ahead for it.
A classic example here is the so called cut hair murder. It is IIRC a murder case from a few years ago where the suspect deliberately left hair near the victim's body. He made a few mistakes though:
1. It was hair which usually does not have enough material for a good test unless it has been pulled out with the roots.
2. He cut it and the fact that it was cut was quite obvious under microscope.
AFAIK the police is still chewing the case and is nowhere near identifying neither the suspect nor the person whose hair was cut.
As you see it has already happened and I bet it is happening right now. In the Great Brave New World.
Yes it has occurred to me.
It has also occurred to me that it was way outside the Bradford number plate recognition pilot by that time.
Way outside.
So the BBC article about the Bradford system used to track the car is in fact what it is: a typical Bliar news management item used to sell a very unpopular system by tagging it to the grave of a woman killed in the line of duty.
As disgusting as it can get and then some
Nobody questions your credentials. There are cops in IT and IT in cops.
Back on the subject of the article. The official Bliar newsmanagement slogan for the CCTV system used to track them is "Denying the criminals the use of the road network". Well, once again what exactly has been denied if they got all the way to London without any problems? As usually the propaganda lied. They had no problems to use the road and they got caught outside the coverage area of the new system. Lies, lies and again lies.
I am not misinformed. I am realistic. I live in Britain, but I have also lived elsewhere in Europe. And if the British Police has not noticed, armoured BMWs on the streets with registrations belonging to the new member states. I have noticed. So have many other people who have seen these same ones in action elsewhere.
It is only a matter of time until these push out the local criminals the way the Albanian pushed out all pimps in London. And once they are done with this the turf wars are inevitable. I have seen these turf wars first hand. I have seen the same people cleaning up with machine guns and RPG launchers. It is only a matter of time until British streets see the same.
And while I agree that Bobbies on the beat are best unarmed, it is time to start thinking about arming responce teams adequately to deal with imported crime which has brought its own guns with it.
Well... If the system was so good why the f*** did the car get all the way from Bradford to London? That is 4+ hour drive across half of the country.
What you are seeing here has nothing to do with the merits of the system. It has something to do with typical newsmanagement by Tony Bliar cronies. Similar to the one they tried on the "Good day to Burry Bad News (9/11)". They want to push this system as a replacement for speed cameras with the difference that speed will be checked every 400m, not in specific locations. Further to this you have the transport secretary which is waiting in the wings to use the same network for charging per road use.
The only problem - the road users are just a few inches short of wanting to lynch 'em both. So what do you do in this case - get good publicity. And this all this is about. And using the death of a mother with 4 kids in the line of duty for this is as appaling as it can get.
By the way who is the criminal idiot who sent two unarmed, untrained women without body armour to investigate a reported armed robbery in progress?
Even if they are shot on the moon, they still remain American movies. There is not a single non-US movie on the list. At least I did not get to one before the website barfed on mysql connection limit. 5th element, Solaris, Stalker, Night Watch - none of them. Even Dr Strangelove was not there.
The case here is slightly different. It is a question of money, but quite a different one.
If you look at the people who founded Skype their previous P2P ventures were started and sold when the number of freeloaders exceeded the network capacity. They waited for that moment every single time. Same with Skype, as the proportion of people with NAT and firewalls increased the quality of the network decreased. In fact some of the analysts noted this. So did many of the users. And that was the moment when Skype was sold.
Now Ebay is "saving" its venture by the only means possible - by recruiting an enormous amount of hypernodes from population that is too clueless to use a router or a firewall. An ebay is footing the bill for this seeding. Quite smart actually. And not entirely unexpected.
Well... The list is biased and severely americanized. There is not a single movie on it shot outside the US. Hello yanks? Ever heard of Solaris? Stalker? It is also missing what is for me possibly the best sci-fi movie of the 90-es. Gattaca.
We can continue, but frankly, this poll is best ignored.
Typical "the world according to America" http://www.msxnet.org/humour/america
Seconded.
I will add to that the following: It takes me 300-400% more "to satisfy" a business requirement then the average microsoft sysadmin team. There is a major difference though, it usually works on delivery day and scales to as much as I have decided to forecast it to scale. I usually forecast it for 1-2 years at least. As a comparison I see microsoft admins in other companies assuming naso-anal position to "business drivers" and delivering in a fraction of the time it takes me on a daily basis. Once again there is a major difference. It either costs 5-10 times more or breaks a month or so later and they spend a considerable amount of their time keeping it afloat from there on. Alternatively they need 3 times the budget I need.
To add to this 60%+ percent of "business requirements" disappear the moment you analyse them instead of immediately assuming a satisfactory naso-anal position.
I think that the study is correct. In a microsoft shop a "business requirement" does not tend to be analysed and verified that it is a requirement as often as in a unix shop. So many ideas that are essentially idiotic make it all the way to implementation.
Nothing new. It has been a standard feature on public transport buses for 10+ years in most European countries with the only difference that it uses propane instead of hydrogen. It is known as diesel bianco, ecodiesel and a number of other names. The idea is that mixing a bit of propane (or hydrogen) results in changing the burn parameters of a diesel so that it burns nearly 100% of its fuel (normally it is under 80%). The only country which does not have it is guess who - UK.
The blurb has nearly no meaningfull information whatsoever. The only meaningfull bit is the recommendation not to use aggressive mode.
Well... We kind'a all know this already. The weaknesses of agressive mode were all over BUGTRAQ more then 2 years ago and if you are still using it you "Get whatever Christmas you deserve".
Well... Actually the article is a complete load of total and utter bullshit.
It compares fuel based savings versus cost of repayment which is incorrect.
You should compare versus combined depreciation + cost to run.
While the overall conclusions may end up being the same the numbers are likely to be quite different.
Well... Obvious question is "Which test?".
If it is bog standard ELISA it does not actually detect HIV. It detects antibodies produced against it. So if you do not have any immune responce to HIV whatsoever you will return a negative result.
There are other tests of course which are based on amplifying DNA off the original virus RNA template. Most of these are alpha quality and they are not done as a part of the normal testing procedure.
So the obvious question here is - what tests did he undergo.