C1sc0cat

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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
As an ex telco guy all I can say is "amateurs" :-)
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Dialcom (Telecom Gold) in the UK was pretty close to 100% Almost survived the big storm of 87 - unfortunately the modems where on the UPS. We built an entire new DC and had Tottenham Court Road dug up in case the Thames flooded. In fact an
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
The Problems with the TSB in the Uk come to mind and NatWest /RBS had a similar SNAFU a few years back.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Bill Gates is an Example here he came from a very well of family.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
NO Assuming you don't want to go dark on them Ask so when does consultation begin (call your union rep if your a member) and make sure you all get an enhanced pay off Start looking for a new job - experience in fighting a big attack li
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
What you didn't have fun decoding OSI protocols :-) I was a bit of a wuss and had to use x.409 dumps, my boss could look at the raw data packets and debug problems.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
I first saw it on usenet way back in the 90's and I am sure its much older than that
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
More Romulans if you have seen Picard - though I do get slight father ted vibe
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Most of the fun in Paranioa is backstabbing the other players. There an AP of paranoia with Felica Day as a play that woman is scary good.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
As some one who started in the Three little book days. Original 70's DnD started as players vs a killer dungeon built by the DM Aka Gary Gygax Ironically it was those of us who crossed over from traditional wargames who where more into
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Possibly the underground is used by a wider range of classes. I bumped into John Bercow (Speaker) last year getting off the tube at Westminster not sure senior Politicians ride the subway to work.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Ordnance, I though that got privatised as we can no loger design our own pistol or a rifle :-)
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
But US maps are not as good as the Ordinance survey ones in the UK
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Presumably musicians/composers using purely electronic tools such as abletron live have no problem asserting copyright already.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Or in the UK if your parents have not set up their wills properly, potentially land your kids with a large tax bill they have to pay now!
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
That reminds me of Allison (a super uptight soccer mom) in Orphan Black - But Alison had worked out how to find a supplier.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
The entire concept of version control is something that whooshes by them 50,00ft I was talking about having documents in source control vitally important when you may have ,multiple teams in several countries
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Depends I have seen young supposedly "digital natives" use lesser tools like the google tools and create a complete Charlie Foxtrots Normally they have zero idea about professional project work the concept of a version controlled
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
They have had the capability for decades back at my first job on campus at Cranfield University (which has its own airport) BAE where doing tests of this lading passenger jets on wet and slippery runways for example
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
I suspect that most are transferees, big companies can do that back when I worked for British Telecom they moved 800 people onto middleware projects for example.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Very loosely for example I was reviewing a well known uk job site just spending a couple of hours to check the site out And I diagnosed a serious problem and got a fix actioned - the problem had cost them > 500,000 k in less than a week.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Its now a lot cheaper in the 1980's than when I worked at the worlds leading hydrodynamics orgs. I briefly looked at using neural nets to analyse data from an experiment - analysing the efficacy of toilet bowl designs. The entry level
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Ah the cookie cutter rubbish commercial radio stations. And the GMG is no friend to the BBC and has been know to run hit pieces
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Nah we always wanted an improvement over dial up - I recall seeing the write up of the trial Martelsham (aka UK Bell Labs) did with adsl. The tone of the article was "F^$k me it works"
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
You are repeating News Internationals talking points here a lot of the pressure on the BBC also comes from Rupert Murdoch
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
As a recipient of a transplanted kidney in the UK I have to say for this is what the Fuck! No Apologies for the profanity there
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
It was also to punish the NUM (Miners Union)
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Still think Sarges truck in Agents of Shield looked cooler.
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Reminds me of in the 1980's of running a big map reduce based system from home on the biggest super mini cluster in the UK Set up the text only portable terminal in the hall of my parents house next to the phone line kick off the run a
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by C1sc0cat 7y ago
Dominic Cummings in the UK for example

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