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Steve Barnes, in reply to
My recollection is that Helen Clark got rid of the WINZ moniker quite early
And in good Socialist order employed thousands of people with erasers to correct the letterheads and signage. Oh how I miss Miss Helen. :-(
I have no such feeling for the commander of the Ministry of Social Dysfunction which is responsible for this Massive Storage Dislication caused by the worship of the Mighty Silver Dollar. I fear that someone May Surely Die while these Muppets Sit and Dither. -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
I have no such feeling for the commander of the Ministry of Social Dysfunction which is responsible for this Massive Storage Dislication caused by the worship of the Mighty Silver Dollar. I fear that someone May Surely Die while these Muppets Sit and Dither.
There’s also Ministry of Social Dislocation, given its ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-the-cliff approach.
It's all symptomatic of a system that combines the worst of both worlds: bureaucratic unaccountability coupled with nouveau riche greed.
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
...given its ambulance-at-the-bottom-of-the-cliff approach.
aaah! But the upside of that,
is that it can't fall any further.... -
Kumara Republic, in reply to
aaah! But the upside of that,
is that it can’t fall any further….Unless of course, there's quicksand.
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Sacha, in reply to
Muppets Sit and Dither
my fave so far
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Ministry of Social Dislocation
I hear rumour that Ms Benefit refers to her pet Ministry as "My Sweet Dystopia" but don't quote me on that'
I keep having visions of Keith running from the Dole office (for that is what it should be called) with a Massively Swollen Dongle full of Paula's Manuscripts of Spiteful Disclosures. -
Ian Dalziel, in reply to
Data Ng-ja?
…visions of Keith running from the Dole office (for that is what it should be called) with a Massively Swollen Dongle
I see what you did there
Dole with Ng in = dongle
nice device…
;- )this illustrated fable is writing itself in the cloud:
Dongle Keyhost – tilting at Winzmills…
The Giant Vulnerability quaked,
its leopard skin spots changing feebly,
before the Massively Swollen Dongle,
are you being servered?
queried the enabled Filewizard,
as he began the ancient rites
alt delete
alt delete
backspace
at issue
a tissue
we all crash down….” -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
the Massively Swollen Dongle,are you being servered?
I read that as…
“the Massively Swollen Dongle,are you being severed?”
Shades of Lorena Bobbit glimpsed from the corner of a watering eye.
My Strength Dissipates
eta.
As always Ian, splendid stuff... ;-) -
Hebe, in reply to
So pretty your plague ditty.
Ministry of Severe Discontent? Ministry of Suffering Denizens?
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Keith, there's been a lot of talk about how the security vulnerability allowed access to all of MSD's files. Could you (or anyone else) have deleted all of MSD's files?
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Stephen Judd, in reply to
Interesting question, Matthew. I wonder how well designed and implemented MSD's backup procedures are...
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
They'd have (one hopes) backups to restore from.
A better way to f..k up an organisation is to install scripts that gradually make subtle changes, like altering decimal values in a database table. By the time they find out, the backups will have rolled over.
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Yes, I suppose they would have backups. Most departments backup between weekly and nightly so the possible threat is pretty temporary I guess (assuming the backup wasn't also accessible).
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You'd be amazed how often people go to restore from backup and discover that the media is unreadable, or the backups have been quietly failing for 6 months, or ...
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backup
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andin, in reply to
It’s all symptomatic of a system that combines the worst of both worlds: bureaucratic unaccountability coupled with nouveau riche greed.
Hang on, I'll just add that to my list. Of things to look out for.
I'd rather we read poems to each other. -
Steve Barnes, in reply to
A better way to f..k up an organisation is to...
I think there could be an instuctable in that.
Another good way of screwing with a large organisation is to reply to a letter that they never sent, works wonders.
;-)
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