Really? Around here it usually refers to small creatures with feathers, smaller creatures that bite and sheets of fabric tethered to a small boy with string.
All of which are objects and may or may not be identified.
Could be interesting to test the situation where you state very clearly that you're leaving the premises with this item, and as its price is X, here's $X, but if the proprieter chooses not to accept $X in payment then that's very generous and thank you for the gift.
Amex have little traction in the UK because their fees are too high. Merchants chose to eliminate Amex-only customers rather than raise prices for everybody.
Makes it fun when US colleagues come over and expect their cards to work. They're left scrabbling for another card or using that weird cash thing.
"After years in DevOps, I will happily have my code run as root or require admin rights on Windows, if it gets the job done. Security isn't something I will give a care about, ever.
I'm a nightmare for developers like this - I have the ability to spot the lack of security and the ability to halt a project until it's there.
That's not my job, and technically I don't have the authority to put the brakes on a $100m project. In practice I'm often in a position to spot this stuff, people come to me because they know I'll act, and I've yet to meet a CIO that'll say, "Nah, fuck it. Go live and damn the consequences."
Not sure where you live but in the UK good information security people are highly valued and greatly appreciated.
Maybe it's the industries I work in though - financial services and related sectors don't fuck about with information security because the information is actual money.
Someone that can articulate in simple terms the security challenges that require resolution and also propose affordable effective approaches can pretty much name their price, and will immediately be treated as an equal by senior management.
Information security is easy and impossible. That combination requires intelligent people with great soft skills, and trust me, those are not treated as outcasts anywhere.
Most cyber security 'specialists' wouldn't work for what they're actually worth.
It's an industry filled with bureaucratic idiots and pretty much everybody competent that I've met in it has a broader skillset that could get them a number of roles.
In that regard this company is doing the right thing. Find people with aptitude and get them up and running on it.
On the flipside, 90% of cyber security is people skills. Oops.
talking about what older workers tend to be like, i.e I don't actually lump all of them together
Wait? So you applied a stereotype without using stereotypes?
Seriously thou
Seriously though, learn to fucking spell.
with technology being in constant state of flux and better ways of doing things being added right into technologies and taught to students I question the idea that experience is as valuable as older workers make it out to be
That's because - you're ignoring who the fuck worked out the better ways of doing things - you're ignoring who's creating these new technologies - you're ignoring that the older people don't need to be taught this shit, if we didn't invent it we just pick it up. We're good at that, we had to learn this shit before it was taught to students and our experience means we can pick up the new stuff faster because we already have a solid base from which to build
with experience you may come up with better ways of doing things, but the technology itself isn't going to be stale and much of what you may come up with over time is probably going to be implemented trough standard and additional features to the technology that younger workers are then going to use
Wait? So devising the techniques that become the standard isn't of value, because
younger workers are then going to use thinking that it's the way it was always done or not even realizing it's being used as it's now part of the technology's standard features
I disagree. I don't want some mindless cunt that knows 'this is how you do it because it is a standard feature', I want an intelligent thinking engineer that understands why it's the standard, why it's better than the old way and when the old ways may be more appropriate to a specific task at hand.
You've basically just argued that young people are stupid and worthless. I happen to disagree with you, but nice going.
. I'm really getting tired of older, mostly white, right wing anti regulation, small govt loving folk who lecturing me on the glories of unfettered capitalism who suddenly want protection from Uncle Sam when _their_ rights are at risk.
Who are they then? I haven't seen them around here.
But keep making up people you can hate, we don't mind you having a good rant about them.
Are you shitting me? People dislike the prequels because they're shit.
Fuck, it's possible to enjoy lighty-up sword fights and blasters while also coping perfectly well with deep rich political films. The prequels sure as fuck weren't the latter and didn't deliver very well on the former.
Where the hell were the politics in some kid flitting about in a computer-game-turned-boring-as-fuck-film-chase-scene pod race? Contrived as shit.
The star wars films have never been terribly well written or exemplars of the acting profession, but they were at least fun. Until the prequels.
Every legit business traveler knows Delta is the way to go
So to test this I just randomly checked flights between two arbitrary US cities. Then another pair.
One pair, lots of direct flights, Delta nowhere near the cheapest. The other pair, all needed a change, Delta nowhere near the cheapest - and Delta's change wasn't in Atlanta.
I made sure one of the pair was on the East Coast each time.
So as a legitimate business traveller that prioritises direct flights and cost effective travel, why the fuck would I fly Delta?
Maybe you meant to say, "As a legitimate collector of Delta airmiles, irrespective of the cost to my employer"?
The person to whom I was replying was inferring that people with no money shouldn't be allowed access to public resources. That has fuck all to do with whether they abuse those resources.
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Really? Around here it usually refers to small creatures with feathers, smaller creatures that bite and sheets of fabric tethered to a small boy with string.
All of which are objects and may or may not be identified.
Yeah, but your knowledge is destroying my dreams.
I can travel FTL, and you can't stop me.
Not sure I'd describe that as 'prestigious'. Expensive, maybe even good value for some people, but not prestigious.
I can spend $10k on an exclusive hand-crafted wooden model of a dog turd, it's still not prestigious.
We dressed up and I took my daughter to a good restaurant.
So not one of the restaurants referenced anyway.
Could be interesting to test the situation where you state very clearly that you're leaving the premises with this item, and as its price is X, here's $X, but if the proprieter chooses not to accept $X in payment then that's very generous and thank you for the gift.
Ethically that's bankrupt but legally?
Amex have little traction in the UK because their fees are too high. Merchants chose to eliminate Amex-only customers rather than raise prices for everybody.
Makes it fun when US colleagues come over and expect their cards to work. They're left scrabbling for another card or using that weird cash thing.
Except one guy that uses Apple pay.
Although.. I wouldn't take a CISO job for much less than $150k (or its GBP equivalent).
All the accountability but never the required resources and a guarantee that you will at some point fail.
Good CISOs are worth every penny.
The generation raised on the BBC Micro are all senior management now.
It's the generation after that which has been let down and outsourced to India.
"After years in DevOps, I will happily have my code run as root or require admin rights on Windows, if it gets the job done. Security isn't something I will give a care about, ever.
I'm a nightmare for developers like this - I have the ability to spot the lack of security and the ability to halt a project until it's there.
That's not my job, and technically I don't have the authority to put the brakes on a $100m project. In practice I'm often in a position to spot this stuff, people come to me because they know I'll act, and I've yet to meet a CIO that'll say, "Nah, fuck it. Go live and damn the consequences."
Another reason you want to hire autists. They don't subscribe to strange, deranged ideas like national pride
That's an interesting assertion. I can provide a contradictory example, but have no idea whether it's you or me that's going against type here.
I do though agree that bribery and blackmail just aren't going to work. Not a hope in hell.
Not sure where you live but in the UK good information security people are highly valued and greatly appreciated.
Maybe it's the industries I work in though - financial services and related sectors don't fuck about with information security because the information is actual money.
Someone that can articulate in simple terms the security challenges that require resolution and also propose affordable effective approaches can pretty much name their price, and will immediately be treated as an equal by senior management.
Information security is easy and impossible. That combination requires intelligent people with great soft skills, and trust me, those are not treated as outcasts anywhere.
Most cyber security 'specialists' wouldn't work for what they're actually worth.
It's an industry filled with bureaucratic idiots and pretty much everybody competent that I've met in it has a broader skillset that could get them a number of roles.
In that regard this company is doing the right thing. Find people with aptitude and get them up and running on it.
On the flipside, 90% of cyber security is people skills. Oops.
Yeah, I think most computer nerds got in years ago or chose to stay out completely.
Some of us wish we'd got in years ago so that we could get out now :)
You seem very angry that people are identifying this bubble as a bubble, without being able to predict when it will burst.
I put my money where my mouth is - not by shorting bitcoin, but by refusing to risk my principle by investing in the first place.
If I didn't think it was a bubble I'd buy.
talking about what older workers tend to be like, i.e I don't actually lump all of them together
Wait? So you applied a stereotype without using stereotypes?
Seriously thou
Seriously though, learn to fucking spell.
with technology being in constant state of flux and better ways of doing things being added right into technologies and taught to students I question the idea that experience is as valuable as older workers make it out to be
That's because
- you're ignoring who the fuck worked out the better ways of doing things
- you're ignoring who's creating these new technologies
- you're ignoring that the older people don't need to be taught this shit, if we didn't invent it we just pick it up. We're good at that, we had to learn this shit before it was taught to students and our experience means we can pick up the new stuff faster because we already have a solid base from which to build
with experience you may come up with better ways of doing things, but the technology itself isn't going to be stale and much of what you may come up with over time is probably going to be implemented trough standard and additional features to the technology that younger workers are then going to use
Wait? So devising the techniques that become the standard isn't of value, because
younger workers are then going to use thinking that it's the way it was always done or not even realizing it's being used as it's now part of the technology's standard features
I disagree. I don't want some mindless cunt that knows 'this is how you do it because it is a standard feature', I want an intelligent thinking engineer that understands why it's the standard, why it's better than the old way and when the old ways may be more appropriate to a specific task at hand.
You've basically just argued that young people are stupid and worthless. I happen to disagree with you, but nice going.
. I'm really getting tired of older, mostly white, right wing anti regulation, small govt loving folk who lecturing me on the glories of unfettered capitalism who suddenly want protection from Uncle Sam when _their_ rights are at risk.
Who are they then? I haven't seen them around here.
But keep making up people you can hate, we don't mind you having a good rant about them.
We can't all afford to have our arses licked clean by a virgin, sorry.
Are you shitting me? People dislike the prequels because they're shit.
Fuck, it's possible to enjoy lighty-up sword fights and blasters while also coping perfectly well with deep rich political films. The prequels sure as fuck weren't the latter and didn't deliver very well on the former.
Where the hell were the politics in some kid flitting about in a computer-game-turned-boring-as-fuck-film-chase-scene pod race? Contrived as shit.
The star wars films have never been terribly well written or exemplars of the acting profession, but they were at least fun. Until the prequels.
Every legit business traveler knows Delta is the way to go
So to test this I just randomly checked flights between two arbitrary US cities. Then another pair.
One pair, lots of direct flights, Delta nowhere near the cheapest. The other pair, all needed a change, Delta nowhere near the cheapest - and Delta's change wasn't in Atlanta.
I made sure one of the pair was on the East Coast each time.
So as a legitimate business traveller that prioritises direct flights and cost effective travel, why the fuck would I fly Delta?
Maybe you meant to say, "As a legitimate collector of Delta airmiles, irrespective of the cost to my employer"?
Yeah. Ultimately resources at a national level are constrained.
However, private health cover is also available so you're at worse in the same position as the US. Hell, you can even fly to the US for treatment.
It helps if you're Irish. The accent and what appears to be a genetic cheeky charm.
Sadly we mostly already have.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk...
The person to whom I was replying was inferring that people with no money shouldn't be allowed access to public resources. That has fuck all to do with whether they abuse those resources.
Maybe you agree with them. I don't.
The direct costs of employing nurses in the NHS accounts for approx. 10% of its budget.
Bear in mind that nurses are not the best paid NHS staff and comprise only 20% of its employees.
Doctors are another 10% of the employees and cost another 10% of the budget.
So quite material - but also bear in mind that there's now a shortage of trained medical staff, so wages are likely to rise in response.
Since you ask: Yes.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
Although when you're buying for 65 million people at a time, economies of scale usually help you avoid such per-unit charges.