He's just admitted that rabid cost-cutting measures were responsible for the outage, and said cost-cutting measures were his fault, it just wasn't outsourcing that was to blame.
Either BA didn't update mission-critical infrastructure that is long past its expiry date, or they ignored the needs of mission-critical infrastructure (which includes having well-trained operators who know what to do when 'things get out of sync'. So it is still his *&^% fault.
I was the opposite. Fresh out of college, I ran the numbers and realized I wouldn't have or make enough to retire, but I knew it was important I try to put some savings aside. So I did.
35, same results but bought a condo that appreciated nicely, and sold that a decade ago. Found the FIRE community via Garth Turner about 6 years ago, and have made significant inroads on saving for retirement.
Now, I've run the numbers and the magic retirement age is 61. I just don't believe I'll live past 57.
There are home-based cable-internet boxes in the US that have built-in wifi that anyone with an account can connect to. All LG or any other manufacturer has to do is come to some sort of arrangement with the internet companies to allow their devices access to their internet boxes, and your security is by-passed.
And so is your privacy. 10 years from now local governments will be utilizing data to determine if you have the right appliance and if it needs upgrading. "Hey, John Doe at 7 Maple Lane has a fridge that isn't up to current energy-saver specs. Send them the letter detailing the deadline to replace their current fridge and what the fine is."
Tracking YOUR downloading is not the site's point. The site is attempting to bait you into sending an email to a friend. Your friend trusts you and clicks the link, and bam, your friend is now infected with God knows what.
Y'know what's really ironic? Trump is actually colluding with Putin and the Ruskies, but the NSA and the rest of US Intelligence haven't been able to find and/or prove it.
Russia's response to Obama's persona non grata move is one giant red flag, as was the article about one of Trump's servers connecting 24/7 to a Russian bank server.
But the DNC hack? That was a DNC insider phishing a freakin' password. Not that I don't believe the Russians didn't have full access to DNC emails, US Intelligence just can't prove it.
Senior IT guy sounds like a guy who has saved his pennies all of this life and is in a position of FIRE (Financial Independance Retire Early) or has a F U Fund, knows he has mad skills and can get another job easily, and doesn't care what Carnival and India thinks.
Fraking over your employees is not being socially responsible. Bonuses are part of your compensation. You stop paying bonuses, it's the same as inflicting a pay cut.
And the language of the memo indicates management has no respect for their workers. Management didn't refuse to pay bonuses because times were hard, management didn't pay their people because they don't like their people.
Any company that does this, while still paying their executives their bonuses, is to be avoided at all costs. It won't be long before they start justifying pay cuts, working unpaid overtime, etc etc. Anyone working at Alphabet now knows they have to get the hell out. And Alphabet will have one hell of time trying to hire anyone, except for any desperate-for-the-experience newbies.
Social responsibility is giving your employees the option of donating their bonus, and letting the employee have the tax write off. Instead, management turned a $30 million expense into a $15 milliion expense via tax write offs - and that's only if they actually donated the items. Sharks as nasty as Alphabet's management will have no moral qualms about saying they made the donation and then not donating a damn thing.
Maybe it takes time for the damage to heal. But a lack of stimulation to the nerves over that same time means brain doesn't re-discover the healed areas? The BMI is taking and using brain patterns, and as a result the brain is being made to re-discover and use the healed areas?
Why would you physically pry it open? Hack it instead. Turn off the cameras. Turn off the microphone. Have a set recording playing so mother thinks everything is find, and on Monday morning, whoever works at the building will find the place looted.
*Except one of the first things that'll come on the market is a dongle so you can plug your nice expensive Senheiser's or Bose's or whatever into the USB3 port.*
And they'll code up software that turns off the audio stream until the dongle is unplugged. I know a lot of audio is now drm-free, but that will change very quickly. I trust the studios about as far as I can toss them.
This is why I'll be purchasing a iPhone SE and tucking it aside until my current iPhone 4 dies. At least I'll have a damn phone that isn't one of Huxley's wet dreams. I already have a laptop tucked aside for this purpose.
I tape the cameras on cell phone and laptop. Have done so for years. It helped me retrieve one cell phone that I'd lost - "what does your cell look like?"
Dude, I do indeed work in the 'grown-up world' and the only way you can secure a computer is to bury it in the back yard. No, scratch that, the only way to secure a computer is to set it on fire and then bury it in the back yard. I don't do ANYTHING on the damn thing that I wouldn't want broadcast on the 5pm news.
The work is done on a work laptop, and work secures that damn thing to whatever specs they like.
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Which is why I'm using this as an excuse to get out of jury duty (if I ever get asked).
"My Lord, if that man is innocent, why are we all here? If the cops believe he's guilty, that's good enough for me."
Yeah, but destination country would be China. I hardly think China would arrest her for violating her bail in Canada.
And I hope she runs. The US did this to harm Chinese/Canadian relations.
So if I hook the phone up to the car stereo via a usb cable, or to the Windows laptop via a usb cable, I'd be outta luck?
This means I'd have to get an Android phone next. Who thought up this idiocy?
So certain are you, with black and white, it cannot be done.
If tptb can do this with colour printers, it can be done with black and white.
And yet, if you laid your janitorial staff off you'd up to your neck in filth and garbage in no time at all.
Management who don't rise through the ranks typically have absolutely no respect for the work that 'the ranks' perform.
Special check-in baggage fee for laptops-only?
He's just admitted that rabid cost-cutting measures were responsible for the outage, and said cost-cutting measures were his fault, it just wasn't outsourcing that was to blame.
Either BA didn't update mission-critical infrastructure that is long past its expiry date, or they ignored the needs of mission-critical infrastructure (which includes having well-trained operators who know what to do when 'things get out of sync'. So it is still his *&^% fault.
I was the opposite. Fresh out of college, I ran the numbers and realized I wouldn't have or make enough to retire, but I knew it was important I try to put some savings aside. So I did.
35, same results but bought a condo that appreciated nicely, and sold that a decade ago. Found the FIRE community via Garth Turner about 6 years ago, and have made significant inroads on saving for retirement.
Now, I've run the numbers and the magic retirement age is 61. I just don't believe I'll live past 57.
*Who knows, maybe they'll do it right*
Laughs. I have a better chance of picking the correct lottery numbers for the next draw.
There are home-based cable-internet boxes in the US that have built-in wifi that anyone with an account can connect to. All LG or any other manufacturer has to do is come to some sort of arrangement with the internet companies to allow their devices access to their internet boxes, and your security is by-passed.
And so is your privacy. 10 years from now local governments will be utilizing data to determine if you have the right appliance and if it needs upgrading. "Hey, John Doe at 7 Maple Lane has a fridge that isn't up to current energy-saver specs. Send them the letter detailing the deadline to replace their current fridge and what the fine is."
Tracking YOUR downloading is not the site's point. The site is attempting to bait you into sending an email to a friend. Your friend trusts you and clicks the link, and bam, your friend is now infected with God knows what.
Y'know what's really ironic? Trump is actually colluding with Putin and the Ruskies, but the NSA and the rest of US Intelligence haven't been able to find and/or prove it.
Russia's response to Obama's persona non grata move is one giant red flag, as was the article about one of Trump's servers connecting 24/7 to a Russian bank server.
But the DNC hack? That was a DNC insider phishing a freakin' password. Not that I don't believe the Russians didn't have full access to DNC emails, US Intelligence just can't prove it.
By requesting a service fee that pretty much equals buying a new TV
Senior IT guy sounds like a guy who has saved his pennies all of this life and is in a position of FIRE (Financial Independance Retire Early) or has a F U Fund, knows he has mad skills and can get another job easily, and doesn't care what Carnival and India thinks.
He also knows that he who dares, wins.
How did you find out the fix, and how long did it take you to find the fix?
Best geeky gift for kids? Time to play, have fun. Less tech toys that are meant to 'train them for tomorrow'.
Fraking over your employees is not being socially responsible. Bonuses are part of your compensation. You stop paying bonuses, it's the same as inflicting a pay cut.
And the language of the memo indicates management has no respect for their workers. Management didn't refuse to pay bonuses because times were hard, management didn't pay their people because they don't like their people.
Any company that does this, while still paying their executives their bonuses, is to be avoided at all costs. It won't be long before they start justifying pay cuts, working unpaid overtime, etc etc. Anyone working at Alphabet now knows they have to get the hell out. And Alphabet will have one hell of time trying to hire anyone, except for any desperate-for-the-experience newbies.
Social responsibility is giving your employees the option of donating their bonus, and letting the employee have the tax write off. Instead, management turned a $30 million expense into a $15 milliion expense via tax write offs - and that's only if they actually donated the items. Sharks as nasty as Alphabet's management will have no moral qualms about saying they made the donation and then not donating a damn thing.
Maybe it takes time for the damage to heal. But a lack of stimulation to the nerves over that same time means brain doesn't re-discover the healed areas? The BMI is taking and using brain patterns, and as a result the brain is being made to re-discover and use the healed areas?
Teeth pressed tightly together.
Why would you physically pry it open? Hack it instead. Turn off the cameras. Turn off the microphone. Have a set recording playing so mother thinks everything is find, and on Monday morning, whoever works at the building will find the place looted.
*Except one of the first things that'll come on the market is a dongle so you can plug your nice expensive Senheiser's or Bose's or whatever into the USB3 port.*
And they'll code up software that turns off the audio stream until the dongle is unplugged. I know a lot of audio is now drm-free, but that will change very quickly. I trust the studios about as far as I can toss them.
This is why I'll be purchasing a iPhone SE and tucking it aside until my current iPhone 4 dies. At least I'll have a damn phone that isn't one of Huxley's wet dreams. I already have a laptop tucked aside for this purpose.
I tape the cameras on cell phone and laptop. Have done so for years. It helped me retrieve one cell phone that I'd lost - "what does your cell look like?"
"It has blue painters tape over both cameras."
"Yeah, someone turned it in."
EMI released a trojan on their CDs that frakked up the sound drivers on PCs. It happened to me. My crime? I bought one of Leahy's frakking CDs.
I never made that mistake again. No more Leahy purchaes, no more EMI purchases.
Dude, I do indeed work in the 'grown-up world' and the only way you can secure a computer is to bury it in the back yard. No, scratch that, the only way to secure a computer is to set it on fire and then bury it in the back yard. I don't do ANYTHING on the damn thing that I wouldn't want broadcast on the 5pm news.
The work is done on a work laptop, and work secures that damn thing to whatever specs they like.