Wouldn’t be the first time US authorities have allowed harmful products onto the market, knowingly so. Oxy was FDA approved, despite evidence it was highly addictive. Someone will follow the money trail eventually, corruption and blind eye and all that.
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Large corporates with public-facing web sites can have one.
How is it OK for things not to work for literally days at a time?
Yesterday I tried to log into a hotel chain to book a room at the member’s rate. But login is broken - “try again later”. WTF? You’re down in prod.
I know I’ll come across as all “eeeh, back in my day” but the internal systems I worked on were actively monitored and should something go wrong klaxons went off and the beakers immediately be running around with their hands in the air.
It’s still broken today and the rate has gone up.
I just don’t get the attitude.
After that I had to tangle with a banking website where a particular feature has been broken for weeks. Still broken.
Punch in the cock.
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Also the crooks at Thames Water can have one.
This year’s bill has come in and it’s effectively gone up 37%.
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Seconded. As I am officially single (Yvonne has her own flat) and I can’t have a water meter I am currently going through the process of Thames Water trying to fit a water meter. When they fail I then can get put on an Assessed household charge as a single person. Downstairs neighbour recently did the same and made about £120 saving per year.
You have to go through the process though and can’t get without an attempt at fitting a meter. Worth considering for those single members without a water meter.
Yes.
How come it’s got so bad the government is having to ask questions ?
I’ve worked in IT for financial services for many years. The amount of end of life shite they still run is beyond belief. So much of it is hanging together with string and sticky tape. It’s not as if they don’t have the cash, they just refuse to spend and sweat the assets. Pulling the wool over auditors eyes is standard business practice and fully encouraged from the top down. Staff have mostly been offshored to cheaper locations and there are very few people left who understand how it all hangs together and can actually troubleshoot a problem.
One of the UKs biggest only had one guy who could actually read a packet capture, he retired so they used to bring him in on a consultancy basis when ever the shit really hit the fan.
The only thing that surprises me is that they don’t have more outages.
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Maybe it’s time to convert to gold sovereigns in a sock under the mattress …
I confess I would have guessed that the problem was the opposite - over-enthusiastic ‘upgraders’ trying to extend capability without paying due care and attention, rather than just leaving something that works alone.
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Meanwhile they just ladle our cash into their pockets
Oh you have those dickheads as well but in the main they are only allowed to touch the front end stuff. The back end shit that does the actual banking work is still running on 40 year old mainframe tech probably written in cobol. It has upgraded processors and memory but the architecture is still the same.
Worse still, those were written by useless twats like me - 40,000 lines at a time… True story.
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Years ago I used to do trading systems and we provided private wire circuits for banks etc.
We had a guy going to install a router for a new circuit at Barclays in canary wharf. While mounting the router in the cab he (accidentally and didn’t realise) knocked a power cable out of this rather shitty old IBM server and within 10mins there were lots of people running around like headless chickens.
Turns out that old netfinity server was running the equities market trading platform for them.
I was on site for a meeting and went with them to the data centre where the engineer was being escorted out by two security guards. The Barclays IT bods were going batshit crazy until I asked some rather simple questions
Why is something so critical only using a single power supply?
Why was the power cable not secured in place with a retaining clip or why didn’t they use a locking IEC?
Over the years I’ve done lots of work for trading/banks etc and having seen their processes and data centres there’s certain banks I will not go near with my own money:
Barclays
Halifax
Lloyds
Tesco (post RBS)
AA
The vast majority of outages are changes that have gone wrong and it was shocking how badly Barclays ran their change processes, regression testing was an alien concept to them.
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Is this a case of weapon’s grade ineptness, or just one of those things where the costs of doing it badly are still less than the costs of doing it properly, and the expenditures are factored in?
99.9% cost, banks like to ‘sweat the asset’ as the capex comes out of the retail sector profits which have a much slimmer margin than the trading/business side of things.
So yep the cost of compensating lowly retail customers for fuck ups is much less than implementing new systems.
Why the fucking fuck did I post the above fucking link?
Because knuckle dragging racist cunts.
Thankfully the Minicab Driver closed the doors before a more ‘detailed’ exchange could take place.
The knuckle dragger wanted to get a cheap lift home. Probably.
I looked at it when it asked me what direction I was going.
I was then threatened with violence because it could do with another license. To go back to jail?
I then politely suggested it shouldn’t engage in this type of conversation…
It was at this point I was advised to “…go back home…” and “…get back on that fucking boat…”
Disappointingly, it didn’t call me a cunt.
Anyway it threatened me with violence whilst walking away.
Minicab Driver stopped me from pursuing matters as the guy wasn’t worth it.
This gentlemen is why I am fucking off…
Windmilling CP to all cunts like that bloke.
Waterways in IWA Kent & East Sussex Branch - The Inland Waterways Association.
I am very pissed, but your post made absolutely no fucking sense to me whatsoever.
In other words, WHAT?
Farage fanboi got pissed; tried to get a lift in a minicab I had boarded; I refused; Farage fanboi got upset and suggested I get a boat back home.
In a town where there’s no navigable river to get home.
I’m sorry you had that experience, what a twat.
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No-one should have to endure such behaviour, sorry you did.
For what little it’s worth, he made an absolute clown of himself in front of witnesses, and having been forced to back-down and fuck off will have been feeling utterly humiliated ever since. Rightly so. Failure will have been a common theme in his “life”, the pencil-dicked, no-neck piece-of-shit.
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He was pissed, probably doesn’t even remember it,.
What is wrong with people ? Modern day UK = I despair