That would only hold if it was just on this story. So what is your excuse for following me around on the other story then? Is your life truly that empty and pathetic?
Defence Signals Directorate = Spooks in a short description. http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/who-is-the-mysterious-signals-directorate-tasked-with-investigating-the-census-fail/news-story/4d9def0f4ab2eac4269aae196c464f36
BTW weren't you claiming to work for an Australian Coal mine
Resource exploration including coal - something that requires a shitload of computing power. Why the fuck are you following me around? What is your problem and why and you using me as your scratching post today?
If you had read the post I replied to before posting you wouldn't have written something that sounds so idiotic. What I wrote obviously had nothing at all to do with "a government run university paid for with tax dollars and guaranteed loans exporting jobs" but only to do with the post I replied to.
So I was wrong about the wrestling, looks like I was misled by a thing I read way back when Rumsfled was fucking up the armed forces the first time. The AC said Rumsfeld was better than all of us here academically. Some people here have a long list of published papers and doctorates - the AC is an idiot and a total loser.
OK then - jargon and not slang. I was not aware that it was technical jargon derived from popular culture instead of slang derived from popular culture, and all I have to tell me that is your word (but I do believe you).
Either way is a barrier to communication when used to communicate with people who are not familiar with that jargon or slang unless the definition is conveyed early in the communication.
Indeed - the "libertarian" mindset of "I've got mine - fuck you" is strong here. Maybe I'd be one of those fucked up people too if I didn't work in manufacturing before IT.
Along with the factor of "Oh network traffic from India is just fine, let that all pass right on through".
Did you hear about the Australian online census failure?
One of the long string of fuckups as a consequence of going for a bargain basement IBM service was that the computer was administered from China and logs were sent to the US for performance analysis. Of course they didn't tell their customer this. The system crumbled under the load of millions of people logging in at once (due to the advertising of "census night" instead of any time over a few weeks, which is how estimated load had been calculated), IBM were not answering the calls at night so the spooks were called in to see if that site hired by the government was being hacked. The spooks found a bit of traffic from China (the system administrators at work on other virtual machines on the same host - discount plan remember) and a continuous stream of data going to the USA (performance logging). GeoIP blocking was put in place which locked the sysadmins out, the thing fell over completely under the load and the final consequence was the site being down for well over a week. Officials went on TV saying it was hacked by Chinese and US hackers but that was bullshit, they had just fucked up and didn't put a system in place that could cope with the load.
The point? Currently the situation is network traffic from China, from people working from home, is seen to be fine in a lot of cases let alone traffic from India. Those massive attack vectors are already there and that's part of the reason we are neck deep in a malware swamp. Adding to it is of course as stupid as you suggest.
its done because the current team has become too set in its ways and pissed off one too many administrator.
That's typically the bullshit excuse used to implement a fad read about in Forbes and outsource to a bunch feeding off that fad. If it really is the case that the management thinks the current team is too set in its ways then either whoever leads or manages the team is given instructions to change or is replaced by someone who will implement changes. A radical move just because "one too many administrator is pissed off" is a sign of poor management and that administrator is doomed to be very frequently pissed off.
I'm not speaking from ignorance, I've been part of a team that came in after the "new broom" went through a few times because a contracting company I worked for did that kind of stuff. It's wasteful and expensive and typically could be done with just a few key staff along with nearly all of the old bunch instead of a group of expensive contractors. Why pay hundreds per hour for something the original bunch could be doing while the contractors are doing the new stuff? After I'd changed a few systems, added some more and devised new workflows the bunch that was brought in to keep things running after the "cleanout" may as well have been the old bunch as far as their qualifications and capabilities went. All they really needed were some contractors to come in for a couple of months to set up what was missing and show them how to use it.
Fuck - a United States where people who push shit like that are running the place. It makes Rumsfeld look like an intellectual in comparison. Maybe it's time to start learning Mandarin.
giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses and the ability to vote
Just like the old days when your grandpa came over, only he wouldn't have been called illegal unless he was Chinese. California can't stop them and the Feds are not even trying so why not accept reality instead of fucking about. Those cut-price illegal workers the Republicans love to have babysitting their kids need to drive to do their below minimum wage work so they are allowed licences no matter who is Governor of the state. Decades of government constipation on the issue has just resulted in millions of quasi-citizens who have neither been turned back or made citizens. It's been going on for so long that they are citizens in all but name, plus California used to be part of Mexico FFS so what the fuck is the problem?
I think it is fine for a government funded employment agency to discriminate against whoever they like for whatever reason they like
Even when they are being paid to not discriminate. I take the slime thing back - you are a festering pile of shit and I am very fortunate that I have never met you in person.
Selfishness is not a political philosophy you prick.
Yes, yes, I know, and pasties are little bits hiding things on strippers that people pay to see even though they don't even strip and not just the dictionary definition of it being a flaky pastry snack. Of course it's slang. Just because you guys don't speak English doesn't mean that people who do can pick up on your movie derived slang automatically.
Going on about being a victim, or about wanting to save the world, or about anything else not because you actually care about the thing itself, but because it shows what a victim/noble person/whatever you are.
Thank you.
With all the "alt-right gays", "SJW" and "men's rights" weirdness I'm having trouble keeping track of the slang that is creeping in. I can't even recall hearing of "gaslighting" before August last year even if it does come from an old movie.
I think I did have someone try shit like that on me with a long series of lies that looked like some stupid sort of trap. I ended up saying to people "X has told me this but there may be a mistake, could you please confirm it" and then even doing it right in front of the liar, asking the person next to him if what he said was really true. Eventually the lies stopped. That annoying shit happens in a lot of workplaces with idiots that want to play dominance games instead of getting stuff done.
Please try again in English instead of in waffling time-wasting evasion. The contract was for job matching for all applicants. They took the money but never offered job information to Catholics, Jews and other people they didn't like. Do you consider that breach of contract acceptable or not?
Superior engineer? Bad assumption. Given the context they probably are not a real engineer anyway just someone that HR calls that due to time served. Even if they are a real professional engineer then presumably so is the poster so it's peers not the massive gulf implied. If you know your shit you probably know that subset of information at around the same level or possibly better. Stupid alpha male office politics shit happens and there is no point trying to blame someone at the rough end of it. They were good enough to get the job so the stupid "what have I done to piss off someone more skilled" is just a ridiculous kick at a soft target.
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It's the thread topic. Please try to keep up instead of senselessly spamming every post with my name on it Pogo.
It's too late to play the victim after you have advocated making victims out of other people.
So I've picked up a petty bully who wants to spam me into silence.
Do you do balloon animals too Pogo?
Tell me then. What do I think it does say in your opinion?
How is the an intelligence agency not an intelligence agency?
That would only hold if it was just on this story. So what is your excuse for following me around on the other story then?
Is your life truly that empty and pathetic?
Defence Signals Directorate = Spooks in a short description.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/hacking/who-is-the-mysterious-signals-directorate-tasked-with-investigating-the-census-fail/news-story/4d9def0f4ab2eac4269aae196c464f36
WTF is your problem and why are you following me around? Just take your meds and leave me alone.
Resource exploration including coal - something that requires a shitload of computing power.
Why the fuck are you following me around? What is your problem and why and you using me as your scratching post today?
Why the fuck are you posting irrelevant shit on all my recent posts on different topics?
If you had read the post I replied to before posting you wouldn't have written something that sounds so idiotic.
What I wrote obviously had nothing at all to do with "a government run university paid for with tax dollars and guaranteed loans exporting jobs" but only to do with the post I replied to.
So I was wrong about the wrestling, looks like I was misled by a thing I read way back when Rumsfled was fucking up the armed forces the first time. The AC said Rumsfeld was better than all of us here academically. Some people here have a long list of published papers and doctorates - the AC is an idiot and a total loser.
OK then - jargon and not slang.
I was not aware that it was technical jargon derived from popular culture instead of slang derived from popular culture, and all I have to tell me that is your word (but I do believe you).
Either way is a barrier to communication when used to communicate with people who are not familiar with that jargon or slang unless the definition is conveyed early in the communication.
So ignore it. It's a throwaway line about things changing over time and nothing more.
A wrestling scholarship - you lose.
Indeed - the "libertarian" mindset of "I've got mine - fuck you" is strong here.
Maybe I'd be one of those fucked up people too if I didn't work in manufacturing before IT.
Did you hear about the Australian online census failure?
One of the long string of fuckups as a consequence of going for a bargain basement IBM service was that the computer was administered from China and logs were sent to the US for performance analysis. Of course they didn't tell their customer this.
The system crumbled under the load of millions of people logging in at once (due to the advertising of "census night" instead of any time over a few weeks, which is how estimated load had been calculated), IBM were not answering the calls at night so the spooks were called in to see if that site hired by the government was being hacked. The spooks found a bit of traffic from China (the system administrators at work on other virtual machines on the same host - discount plan remember) and a continuous stream of data going to the USA (performance logging). GeoIP blocking was put in place which locked the sysadmins out, the thing fell over completely under the load and the final consequence was the site being down for well over a week. Officials went on TV saying it was hacked by Chinese and US hackers but that was bullshit, they had just fucked up and didn't put a system in place that could cope with the load.
The point? Currently the situation is network traffic from China, from people working from home, is seen to be fine in a lot of cases let alone traffic from India.
Those massive attack vectors are already there and that's part of the reason we are neck deep in a malware swamp.
Adding to it is of course as stupid as you suggest.
That's typically the bullshit excuse used to implement a fad read about in Forbes and outsource to a bunch feeding off that fad.
If it really is the case that the management thinks the current team is too set in its ways then either whoever leads or manages the team is given instructions to change or is replaced by someone who will implement changes.
A radical move just because "one too many administrator is pissed off" is a sign of poor management and that administrator is doomed to be very frequently pissed off.
I'm not speaking from ignorance, I've been part of a team that came in after the "new broom" went through a few times because a contracting company I worked for did that kind of stuff. It's wasteful and expensive and typically could be done with just a few key staff along with nearly all of the old bunch instead of a group of expensive contractors. Why pay hundreds per hour for something the original bunch could be doing while the contractors are doing the new stuff? After I'd changed a few systems, added some more and devised new workflows the bunch that was brought in to keep things running after the "cleanout" may as well have been the old bunch as far as their qualifications and capabilities went. All they really needed were some contractors to come in for a couple of months to set up what was missing and show them how to use it.
If you think a team is crap you get a new coach.
Fuck - a United States where people who push shit like that are running the place. It makes Rumsfeld look like an intellectual in comparison.
Maybe it's time to start learning Mandarin.
Just like the old days when your grandpa came over, only he wouldn't have been called illegal unless he was Chinese.
California can't stop them and the Feds are not even trying so why not accept reality instead of fucking about. Those cut-price illegal workers the Republicans love to have babysitting their kids need to drive to do their below minimum wage work so they are allowed licences no matter who is Governor of the state. Decades of government constipation on the issue has just resulted in millions of quasi-citizens who have neither been turned back or made citizens. It's been going on for so long that they are citizens in all but name, plus California used to be part of Mexico FFS so what the fuck is the problem?
Even when they are being paid to not discriminate. I take the slime thing back - you are a festering pile of shit and I am very fortunate that I have never met you in person.
Selfishness is not a political philosophy you prick.
That's what I thought. You are slime.
Yes, yes, I know, and pasties are little bits hiding things on strippers that people pay to see even though they don't even strip and not just the dictionary definition of it being a flaky pastry snack.
Of course it's slang. Just because you guys don't speak English doesn't mean that people who do can pick up on your movie derived slang automatically.
Thank you.
With all the "alt-right gays", "SJW" and "men's rights" weirdness I'm having trouble keeping track of the slang that is creeping in. I can't even recall hearing of "gaslighting" before August last year even if it does come from an old movie.
I think I did have someone try shit like that on me with a long series of lies that looked like some stupid sort of trap. I ended up saying to people "X has told me this but there may be a mistake, could you please confirm it" and then even doing it right in front of the liar, asking the person next to him if what he said was really true. Eventually the lies stopped. That annoying shit happens in a lot of workplaces with idiots that want to play dominance games instead of getting stuff done.
Please try again in English instead of in waffling time-wasting evasion.
The contract was for job matching for all applicants. They took the money but never offered job information to Catholics, Jews and other people they didn't like.
Do you consider that breach of contract acceptable or not?
Superior engineer? Bad assumption. Given the context they probably are not a real engineer anyway just someone that HR calls that due to time served. Even if they are a real professional engineer then presumably so is the poster so it's peers not the massive gulf implied. If you know your shit you probably know that subset of information at around the same level or possibly better.
Stupid alpha male office politics shit happens and there is no point trying to blame someone at the rough end of it. They were good enough to get the job so the stupid "what have I done to piss off someone more skilled" is just a ridiculous kick at a soft target.