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lostboys67
9y ago
Nope the largest class of security problems are caused by the Users
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A system designed to bully a mainly conscript army doesn't really work in the work place :-) This approach also doesn't work in modern professional armies note that from the beginning SF Troops (starting with the SAS) are very in
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From an outsiders view its the extremely devolved nature of the USA that causes a lot of problems. In a more centrally managed country eg France or the UK if there's a major SNAFU like this quite often the tabloids go on rampage and s
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9y ago
$180 is only part of the cost of the exam! its < £25 in the uk for an eye exam
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When I worked in London near London bridge years ago one of the reasons we had two datacentres (with a whopping 10Mbs link) was they where worried about the Thames flooding our building - that was before the barrier was finished.
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You could say it serves them right (rich people) for building in a flood plain - it's normally the newer less nice areas that get flooded in the UK - as in the past they where considered to risky
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9y ago
Most modern HPC clusters use Infiniband and the more exotic Ethernet types - having done courses on classic structured Ethernet setups seeing some of the challenges building HPC clusters are fascinating.
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But theirs more than one way to do it :-) and from my dads experience chartered status is more about who you know not what. And in the USA in particular what point are BAR exams when you get people with ZERO experience of law appointed to s
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Slide rules Log tables and later on steam tables that takes me back I was probably in one of the last cohorts that used slide rules at school
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Interesting as a dyslexic I was lucky enough to have a 1:1 tutor provided as well as a typewriter for some of my junior school years (late 60's in UK) This was well before dyslexia was a mainstream issue in schools - needles to say thi
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Ah true most of our projects where separate
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9y ago
Could you not use the anti stalker laws ?
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Why not have a notebook per project which is how we used to do it at my first company
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Yes if only they had been obsessed with internal religious divisions and fighting the Persians (ignoring the new threat from the west). Not to mention the forth crusade!!
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Because you can get in early and cash out at a huge return with lower capital gains tax - to reward you for taking the risk) Even boring big companies in the UK have returned 400% over 5 years with some of their share scheme's - a succ
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9y ago
Germany has tithe taxes that supports churches
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9y ago
Is this counting "black" systems or not :-) ie those run by TLA's defence etc and never avowed
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there's normally at least 1 level below a written warning which is quite a serious thing
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This is a car production line where "engineering" language is the norm.
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Yes if your reporting factually the incident it does seem odd to bowderise in this way. And for those of you who haven't worked on the factory floor the behaviour there differs a lot from the nice and fluffy offices most of us are use
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doesn't work when like when I worked for BT in the UK where in systems engineering (67k head count division) there where only 18 or so promotions from level 1 engineer to level 2 engineer every 18 months or so. you might have a lot o
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Yes and as an ex branch secretary in the UK (head of a union branch) something looked off about this it was a good case why was not the UAW doing this.
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yes that's my understanding of how partnerships work unless VC funds are not "partnerships" in the way a law firm is
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Actually the royal free is one of the leading hospitals in the UK for transplants - as this 80+ guy was the oldest patient they had performed this op on.
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Quite they are all being snapped up by miners
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You mean aside from tarring all Muslims or all Saudis as the same as ISIS (a millennial cult) and Norway isn't as pure as you might think - Scandinavia kept on with eugenics long after the rest of the world recoiled in horror
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That's interesting I sit corrected but who decides what to use as the inflation measure ?
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the Follow up Maia is quite different in tone definatly X rated
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Yes I always wished that I had had a chance to play that - Mouse Guard is a more modern RPG with similar theams
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I found wind in the willows less hard going than Duncton Wood: - though my fist exposure was to the stage play in London. Toad Of Toad Hall was a UK Christmas institution with the actor playing Mole (Richard Goolden) having done so since th
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