Go talk to the Product Manger? Don't have a product manager? Who is responsible for talking to customers, prioritising features, and drawing up the product roadmap? This is the person you need to talk to.

Don't have product manger? As someone has said, find a new job. Developers by their nature spend most of their time looking at code, someone needs to spend most of their time talking to customers.

I would say the vast majority of Australian Muslims are horrified how this turned out, if only because it makes their lives so much harder. Most of them want to get on with their jobs and raise their families somewhere safe.

#illridewithyou

It depends on your definition of a crime.

Staging a sit-in prayer meeting in Julie Bishop's office is arguably a crime, yet what they were protesting about is apparently not.

        http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-n...

If "Christians" are capable of sitting on both sites of the immigration debate, why can't Muslems.

Of course, the obvious thing to point our are groups like the LRA, or those operating in the Central African Republic. You will probably be quick to deny that these people are Christians, in just the same way many Australian Muslims are saying the Martin Pl The siege is un-Islamic.

Not news for 2 reasons

    1) standard practice to re-screen if someone has bypassed screening

    2) this has happened several times before (see links below)

The only thing that made this relevant for slashdot was the presence of an iPad (Ah Ha! A technology angle!). That said, the exit from T3 isn't that secure, but it is a domestic terminal. The domestic terminals use pretty standard x-ray of belongings and a metal detector. In other words, just like getting into an office building in downtown New York. The security is nothing like the international terminals which are about the same level as at US airports.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
  http://www.theaustralian.com.a...

Ignoring the joke answers this is probably the best answer here.

We work in support services - unless you are an IT service provider you aren't part of the business that makes money. You support the business, but you aren't the business. Think about all those other support functions, HR, finance, legal, office facilities - they are all needed too but I don't often hear them asking to be appreciated by management.

To the OP - What is your objective? You say you want management to "appreciate the hard work that an IT department does?" - but why?

    * Job security?
    * Pay/conditions?
    * To make yourself feel good?

Turn the question around and ask "What does management appreciate?" - Face it, you aren't going to change your your boss but you can change the way you communicate, or better still, change the way you do things.

Do they value cost control? Show how you did your job on a budget - grab some analyst papers and show how you do it cheaper then comparable industry segments. If you start reporting on this then it will also drive yourself to manage costs well, so you should be able to report on cost savings and improvements. Be honest about who YOUR competitors are - your should be benchmarking yourself against outsourcers and "cloud" vendors. Again, this drive behaviour, make the cost comparison and deliver what management really wants.

If you have management that hates downtime, but you have trouble showing the hard work you do to maintain that - rethink what you are doing. You aren't keeping the systems up, you are addressing things that could go wrong. Do you maintain an operational risk matrix? Start formally recording and tracking what could go wrong, use it to focus you work appropriately and summarise this to management to demonstrate all the monsters under the bed you are chasing out that they never see. It is also a great way to get funding if you report on something in the risk matrix for 18 month as a future issue.. You have the opportunity to forecast things like hardware refreshes and forced software upgrades to management - presented in terms that are meaningful to them (e.g. "medium risks of downtime costing >$250,000 revenue can be resolved for $75,000") and you are able to report on all the risks you have removed? Are you working on things that aren't in the risk matrix? Why? Either get it on the risk matrix, start reporting it as project work (that someone else can justify the value of) or stop doing it.

Excuse the cynicism, but while it is possible that you are doing a great job you management would love if they knew, the fact you are asking the question highlights that you don't understand what senior management values. If you don't understand, how do you know you really are doing a valuable job? Sure you are working hard, but that isn't the same. I have seen technically competent hardworking people loose their jobs to outsourcers because they weren't delivering what senior management expected. Unless you are prepared to re-think your priorities to you are not going to get the results you want.

For domestic travel anyway. I've traveled with Amtrak in California & across the South, coast to coast, no complaints at all. Actually I think there are still trains between Montreal & NY. What about Windsor & Detroit, Seattle & British Columbia, etc? From what I understand only freight trains run between Mexico & the US, but I assume there was passenger train travel between Mexico & the US in the past, say the late 1800s to the 1950s?

is checking out old cathedrals while backpacking through Europe, & that's about it.

BTW how come hardly any Yanks take a year or 2 off after leaving school, or deferring a year or 2 of uni, & go backpacking around the world? Gez in the average youth hostel one is more likely to find more Kiwis even than Yanks, & it's seems when one does find backpackers from North America, virtually all of them turn out to be from either British Columbia or Quebec.

WTF lactose intolerance among Asian has got to do with evidence that Asians weren't into beer drinking in neolithic times?

All Asian lactose intolerance seems to indicate is a big gap between past transhuman migration/herding & modern dairy products in their diet, without a long culture/history of settled dairy farming in between.

What this has to do with beer is beyond me.

It might make cops more cautious about doing 'no knocks' &/or blasting away

Says it all

The only onus on proof is on the police

& the fact was they had no proof, just supposition.

That why he could've simply said "no comment" to any of those questions & no guilt is still implied.

For the entire history of agriculture from the neolithic to the contemporary. Yes a significant percentage, maybe even a majority, of the planet's farmers still do it today.

Patent law does not apply to anything homemade by end users themselves, it only applies to commercial products.

The fact is that the 500 000 Israeli settlers in their colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank use about ten times the water that the millions of Palestinians do in the West Bank. Fact is it's the gardens, farms, pastures, groves & orchids of West Bank Palestinians that are the most efficient Water wise - they have no choice, the Israeli settlers steal 95% of their water.

Just this month new wind-farm energy dropped in cost to the point that it's now cheaper per kilowatt hour than new coal fired electricity generation. BTW that includes taking into account issues related to storage & peak loads.