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The point of lds.net isn't really to provide a place to hook up with other single adults. It's about discussion here on this forum. We aren't a "meat market". There are dating sites for that purpose. If you wanted to get involved in the discussions however, there are other subforums on this website which get a lot more activity than this one.

Obviously? :)

Congratulations :)

What about moderators on a religious forum? Is their location not to be disclosed for similar safeguarding reasons?

Network technician. Just another name for a system administrator. Job description: install, maintain and fix anything that has a plug on the end of it.

Psssh. I left work on time two nights last week! Oh we do have change management in place somewhat. And certainly nothing gets changed on the live network without being tested first. Sometimes though, settings that affect the entire network have to be changed at very short notice due to the current settings causing major issues. Working at nights and weekends where network usage is at a mimimum, and the time is there to resolve any issues that might arise, is not an option 99% of the time. So evenings are the best time to make such changes. If all goes well, I get to leave work only an hour late. If all goes dreadfully wrong, well, the building doesn't close till 5 hours after my shift is supposed to finish... so I have to use that time to resolve the problem before the next day :)

Ditto, unfortunately. I know several people in similar positions within the church who I wouldn't put that past due to previous experience with them. The members of the church have never been perfect.

I am curious about this as well. I don't like to take this thread off topic, but I feel it does relate to what is being discussed as your claims could strike very unnecessary fear into people. Firstly, where did you get your statistics from? Studies can be made to show whatever was the intended outcome in the first place, in order to get media coverage. Secondly, this sounds like the equivalent of saying "people who are legally blind statistically don't have a driving license, so that suggests those who don't have driving licenses are statistically more likely to be bind". That just sounds silly. While technically true, there are many other reasons why people don't have a driving license other than being blind. To assume being blind is the reason would be absurd. People who have a sexual desire to molest children will most likely resort to pornography as a way of relieving their desires. I'd imagine most of them know what they want to do is wrong, so go for the lesser evil. When that doesn't work, they go on to the actual thing. This does not mean that the statistic works the other way around.

Did you get it in writing when they employed you, that they would not ask you to work on Sundays? A vocal agreement is worth nothing in the legal world - merely your word against theirs. If you have any stipulations like that at the beginning of employment, you -need- to get it in writing.

The one thing I usually notice in mcdonalds is that they are rushing around like mad men - clearly understaffed or under equipped to deal with the load at that time. Even when it feels empty, they are generally making preparations for when it'll be busy, and it's easy to make mistakes, even simple ones (have you never put your bread in the fridge and cheese in the cupboard?). They also have to deal with unreasonable members of the public, without straying from the "customer is always right" motto. I saw another instance of this last night, and I felt myself getting frustrated with her, and I wasn't even the target of her ventings. So I do try and avoid making official complaints where possible (I may make unofficial complaints providing their manager never gets to hear it), and if I do, avoid naming individuals unless it explicitly has to be about them - I get worried that anyone named will end up a scape goat for what is a management failing. I would not want a mcjob, or a job like it, in a million years.

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I used to work for a primary school back in 2006. I don't know if you are aware of what the working environment is like in primary schools, but the budget for IT is practically nil, and the only software designed for this part of the education sector is usually very badly written - and the poor IT guy is still expected to get it all working like a well funded corporate network with whatever hacks he can come up with. Anyway, upon installing some terrible 16bit software onto windows XP, that was actually designed for windows 95, I received this error message: After doing a double take, a quick google informed me of what the error message actually meant: Product Support - Tech Note - Thinkin' Things® Collection 3 (School Edition) Still can't help but laugh at that one.

Or just copied it and pasted it from another website, as loads of websites have this 404 page :)

He said he does want to.

I just don't notice much difference between the week and weekends

Week.... end? What the heck is this thing you call a weekend? Is it somehow different to the rest of the week?

It's not a case of "is my government/next door neighbour spying on me", it's a case of increasing the ability for cyber warfare. I've given a proof of concept example - it's the first known case, but it sure as heck won't be the last. The more cars that have systems like this built in, the more attractive it will be to hackers.

My line of thought exactly. Systems like this would be a major advantage to any cyber warfare. A lot of people still think of cyber attacks as kids sitting in their garage and causing minor to intermediate disruption to networks which don't have much of an impact of the general population. However this last year a virus in the wild proved how much damage a virus can cause when the people who wrote it have a very specific target, specalist knowlege of the systems they are attacking, and the appropriate funding behind them. The suspected creator of the stuxnet virus is the government of Israel, and it was specifically designed to attack Irans nucear program (and succeeded). More info is here: Stuxnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia No system is 100% secure - so lets put GM's onstar system in place of Irans high value infrastructures. Imagine a rootkit virus being planted onto the inbuilt computer systems on all GM onstar cars, as happened with stuxnet. No-one would know until the creator actually send out commands to them. There is no difference between stuxnet and that scenario. All it takes is a group who has a good enough reason to spend the time and money on doing so.

Don't make any major changes/updates to anything at work at the end of the working day. It might just break everything very unexpectedly and very badly. Definitely in takeaway mode tonight. Sincerely Someone who should have left work 5 hours ago encounting.

Hi Mikey. I have a good friend (who is also my boss incidently) from Kuinre in Holland. Nice to have you here.

I was similarly confused after I did the same thing.

A manager (of all people) in one of our LEAs here in the UK posted an XML file of all student details for a certain school onto his personal website. Why he did something so stupid, I have no idea, I can only guess that he needed to access the details on the move and he considered this to be a secure method. He thought the information was secure as there weren't any clear links to the file (only he knew the URL for it) but it seems he must have placed a hidden link to it from an obscure location on his website (e.g. a certain pixel of a picture) that he thought no-one would find. And no-one did, apart from google's search engine spiders (via the link). A parent googled his own name, one of the top links being the offending XML file. The file was not secured in any way, he simply clicked on the link from google to see full details of all the students including their parents names and addresses. Luckily the LEA were quick to take action once informed, the entire website was pulled by the hosting firm and google are actually very quick at flushing their cache when it is for data confidentiality breaches such as this. Can only hope the "manager" got fired for such a blatant oversight.

Tipping is also used as tax evasion in many places (particularly through places where the tip is given in cash as an optional extra rather than being expected of all customers as part of the receipt). The whole concept of tipping still does not make sense in my mind. It's one of these things that everyone does, but no-one can seem to give a very good reason as to why (i.e. there are better alternatives), but it's rude if you don't? The world confuzzles me.

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