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Comment Dissimilar situation (Score 1) 418

I won't state the company but a similar accidental deletion of a huge number of records from a database occurred at a company I was working for. This was a DBA who'd been working there for a considerable time, unfortunately when he realized what he'd done he edited the logs to try and hide who was responsible. Naturally he got fired but (at least from the gossip I heard) the principal reason for firing him was the log business - whether he would have been fired for the original mistake was much discussed but nobody really seemed to know the answer. Incidentally - it took nearly 12 hours working completely through the night to figure out exactly what had happened and restore from backups, although there was still some data loss even though we had pretty good back up provisions.

Comment Re:Why do this in the first place? (Score 1) 90

I've got a ZTE - bought it as a back up in case I break my main phone - I used it for a couple of months to get used to it / check it worked for me.

Seems fine for the basics, sat nav was a bit flaky but I don't use my phone for that much. Otherwise perfectly fine for voice, sms, and a bit of browsing.

Comment Re:We are not amused (Score 1) 253

The Barnett formula has NOTHING to do with oil revenue.

Always makes me laugh how Scots believe if they got all the oil revenue they'd be rich - despite the economic facts.

Fuck off and try it then!

If they really believed it the greedy gits would have voted themselves out of the UK no doubt - truth is they know better.

I had hoped that once they'd had their referendum they'd shut up their whining - fat chance.

Comment Re:Yeah, disappointing (Score 1) 776

My point is that the anecdotal example of a guy who had to fight for custody of his kids is pretty well trumped by the statistical example of 1500 women killed by their husbands/boyfriends each year.

What are you talking about? Trumped? What is the connection - how does women getting killed by their husbands relate to child custody. Are these not unrelated issues?

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