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A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. 

 

Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today.....

Through time will understand his background/story.....

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1 minute ago, Ken Ickie said:

A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. 

 

Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today.....

Through time will understand his background/story.....

Or a quick photo innocently looking at your phone, then scan at home.

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16 minutes ago, Ken Ickie said:

A regular traveller on my regular last train from Cork to Cobh has a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his neck. Clearly known to locals, of which, I'm not (yet). Has the genetics to be a bouncer, though clearly doing a regular (ish) job. 

 

Not a threat, just an illustration of the diverse world we live in today.....

Through time will understand his background/story.....

Sneak up behind him then shout BEEP and see what happens.

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18 hours ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

Just had an email from our External Relations fuckwits, full of self praise that they had been awarded some award for best email communication 2023. 

The email had a typo.

It was retracted and an amended version came out 5 minutes later.

Still with a typo.

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"cancrete" ?

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Heard some data was purrrged


A four-hour system interruption in September at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri has been attributed to a cat jumping on a technician's keyboard.


So we're told by a source, who heard the tale on one of the regular weekday calls held by the US government department with its CIO, during which recent IT problems are reviewed. We understand that roughly 100 people – contractors, vendors, and employees – participate in these calls at a time.


On a mid-September call, one of the participants explained that while a technician was reviewing the configuration of a server cluster, their cat jumped on the keyboard and deleted it. Or at least that's their story.


Kurt DelBene, assistant secretary for information and technology and CIO at the Department of Veterans Affairs, is said to have responded on the call with words to the effect that: "This is why I have a dog." There was laughter and not much more – it was a short incident report.


This is not an unheard of problem. Anecdotes of feline data vandalism abound in various online forums. This reporter has personal experience with typos introduced by an orange tabby conducting a keyboard crossing to reach a sunny spot by the window, and one of El Reg's editors has suffered similar issues.


So we asked the Department of Veteran Affairs to confirm the yarn. VA press secretary Terrence Hayes responded promptly with the following statement:


"On September 13, 2023 the Kansas City VAMC [Veterans Affairs Medical Center] experienced an issue with image transfer within Vista due to an inadvertent deletion of server profiles. The issue was quickly identified and the system restored within four hours. There have been no further issues or direct impacts to veterans from this incident."


Vista, in this instance, refers not to Microsoft's much-maligned Windows operating system of yore but to the VA’s Veterans Health Information System Technology Architecture Imaging system, often rendered with a trailing capital, VistA. An installation guide [PDF] provided by the VA makes it clear that it would be no fun to deal with cat-edited configuration files in the administration's electronic filing system.


No mention was made of the cat in the VA's statement. And when The Register explicitly asked Hayes to confirm the involvement of a problem with paws, he declined to comment. We informed him that we would be reporting what we heard and to let us know if our source's account was in any way not purrfect.


We've not heard anything further from the VA, so we're left with a Schrödinger's cat scenario, where the cat both exists and does not exist in different tellings.


We note that Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), who is also Kurt's wife, does report having a dog named Reily. Our source reports that occasionally the dog's tail can be seen wagging into frame during his video calls. ®

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The only reason I even thought about it is I can see an Opel advertisement board in the background of P&B. Then wondered by I've never seen a car in this country from a manufacturer large enough to be able to sponsor Bayern, AC Milan etc. Was not expecting to uncover an intricate and life-long deception.  If they'll lie  to you about THIS, what ELSE will they lie about??? 🤔🤔

 

 

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51 minutes ago, Jives Miguel said:

 Then wondered by I've never seen a car in this country from a manufacturer large enough to be able to sponsor Bayern, AC Milan etc.

Us older ones can easily remember Opel Manta, the flying machine of it's time! Vauxhall Astra was an Opel Kadet. All wee very common in early/mid 80's  

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