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That fell flat.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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I zinc I vill give you to ze count of tin before iron you out of town for zat!
Anyhow
I once made a pillow out of corrugated iron. You probably heard about it - it made headlines.
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You seem to have galvanized the community.
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As a replacement for your question:
Is titanium really hip?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Yes.
Looking at it, as I am right now.
And I sure hope it's nothing deceptively transformative.
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I'll tell you, for a small Fe.
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Hi All,
It's World Quality Week, my company is taking it quite seriously. Is yours?
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Just as seriously as it did last year, when it knew nothing about the existence of World Quality Day (which is Thursday, by the way)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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World quality day is on my birthday!
Coincidence? I think not! 
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Didn't know about World Quality Day, but our company quality has been improved significantly recently after meeting compliance with the ISO 9001 standard. Only problem is that due to very tight security measures it is getting hard to get things done 
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Know the feeling, hard to get things done...
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RickZeeland wrote: due to very tight security measures it is getting hard to get things done
I had to leave my last company because they "securitized" themselves out of business. Productivity fell to nearly zero, and we lost 2 clients in under a year's time - all of this 100% related to being too secure.
Yes people, there is a thing known as being too secure, especially when everything you do has to be held to a standard or protocol, that inhibits profit and effectiveness.
modified 7-Nov-18 7:38am.
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Yeah - not (yet) so deadly, but we have our CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) who's only made things harder.
For example - the company switched to cloud-based mail - which implies a high degree of accessibility, no? Except, soon after implementation, this clown decided to make it unavailable, except by logging in first through the company portal. We may as well have our own mail server if I can only get to it internally. Once I couldn't access it easily, my after-hours viewing of that mail has dropped off to near nil.
Other stuff, too - but if a problem sits unattended? Well - give me access so I can check. Which interestingly sounds a bit like the attitude of the clients you lost.
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Our company hosts the email home page where we use our active directory login to our corporate gmail accounts. Actually pretty nice.
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Great song. 
Oh, and thanks for putting that song in my head for the entire day.
We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, if they don't dance... Ahhhhhhh! 
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hehehe 
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...or even worse, security training that so negatively impacts timelines that important deadlines are missed. And, here's the punchline, its training for a methodology that is never actually implemented by the company.
RANT-ON
Although any professional should already be familiar with the usual suspects, I suppose companies can direct employees to read one of the countless pages covering the topic. This, in the (likely pointless) hope that they'll finally pay attention. That should require maybe an hour of effort.
Then, more importantly, companies should implement a continuing security review of code and run one of the automated auditing/scanning tools. This prudent expenditure of time/money, on useful quality assurance, usually seems to get de-prioritized.
Instead, companies prefer to spend 10 times as much time/money on training that does little other than provide a certificate they can cite when the inevitable liability case pops up.
Based on the number of folks, here in Q&A, who repeatedly ignore warnings about SQL injection, I maintain that a careful review/audit (not training) is the thing most likely to make an employee pay attention. Or, failing that, at least seek employment at a different company 
RANT-OFF
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Eric Lynch wrote: I maintain that a careful review/audit (not training) is the thing most likely to make an employee pay attention.
Nope...
The saying "that's wrong" once, saying "you idiot, that's wrong again" on the 2nd time and the kick in the ass at the third time.
That is what will do not only that employee but all other too to really pay attention
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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OK, you're right, I omitted the obligatory kick in the behind. So, let's make that kick in the behind third...then, seek employment at a different company
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glennPattonWork wrote: my company is taking it quite seriously.
And how are they doing that? And why only for this week?
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Meetings, lots of meetings with the odd Webinar. 
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Yup, the usual nonsense...training, training, training and zero QA 
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Eric Lynch wrote: Yup, the usual nonsense...training, training, training and zero QA
Aye, there's the rub -- who assesses the quality of the quality training?
Quis custodiet ipsos dickheads, an' all that.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 7-Nov-18 13:30pm.
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Never heard of it. But we do quality work every day of the year. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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