* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Russian hackers got Trump elected? Yeah, let's take a close look at that, says Obama

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Enjoy your pyhric victory. Need a light?

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Re: Russians or not

We did? Surely you jest because nobody is this fucking stupid.

Trump WAS elected after all.

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Re: What would be really funny ...

I was with you until Hildfelon, which made your post both moot and juvenile and unintelligible.

Congratulations on your trifecta.

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Re: Perhaps the US should require any presidential candidate to prove their sanity

No sane person would ever WANT a high public office.

Fatal flaw found in PricewaterhouseCoopers SAP security software

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Re: Wow even for cutthroat corporate motherfuckers...

This is the century of ever lowered expectations.

Theyre just trying to close the bastard gap.

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Re: Because PWC is run by accountants and management consultants

You would win that bet as that's SOP almost everywhere.

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Damn AC! Good find! Wow!

Ransomware scum offer free decryption if you infect two mates

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Well that's novel

They are scum of the earth but that's rather novel for this.

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Re: If only someone....

That's just crazy talk!

Latest loon for Trump's cabinet: Young-blood-loving, kidney-market advocate Jim O'Neill

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Re: Free Market Protect Us

Wha.... what?!

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A ghoul and a vampire are in charge of public health

Seriously, you can't make this shit up. Who would believe you?!

Yet here we are.

I'm trying real hard to think of any time in history when the ruling class was so anti-progressive that it set the new standard for evil. Pol Pot? Idi Amin? Stalin? The Spanish Inquisition?

Anyone got any historical comparisons?

Samsung, the Angel of Death: Exploding Note 7 phones will be bricked

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Re: I don't doubt we'll see a similar situation with cars in the future.

On Star has been able to this for years.

Marc Andreessen has a pretty creepy relationship with Zuck

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Re: Looks like the legal system supports Schrödinger

Been this way for decades.

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Inbred sleaziness in Silly Valley?

Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

Although it's a fact of life than many corporate boards have directors from other corporate boards and there seems to be no limit to how many boards one can sit on, there are far too many boards that abuse this. Enough, that conflict of interest is the norm, not the exception. And because, like million dollar tax loopholes that only rich people can take advantage of, it's legal which makes it very hard to prove these conflict of interests because they are allowed.

The shear amount of unethical, sleazy deals that are done in boardrooms would make you very angry if you knew what was really going on.

Most people have no clue.

AT&T took too much money from customers, will pay them back by ... taking less money

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Re: There's a catch....

You would win that bet handily.

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Re: How long more America??? ... This type of con has been going on for 3 decades or more

Considering the new corporate fellating friendly administration appointments, a few more decades at least.

90 per cent of the UK's NHS is STILL relying on Windows XP

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You have GOT to be kidding

Is this report authentic? Oh sweet pogo chocolate Jesus, WTF?

Capita: 2,250 jobs cut, more offshoring, more robots... Merry Xmas!

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Re: Copy Cats

No honor among thieves.

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You must be joking, they make their money from the overruns and cockups.

The old fashioned IBM way!

Say bye-bye to net neutrality next year, gloats FCC commish Pai

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Say goodbye to everything next year

Our long nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally at an end!

- credit to The Onion

Wannabe Cali governor gives up against beach-blocking billionaire VC

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Re: And the animals who aren't rich

Read the law DBA-One because it's obvious you haven't.

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Re: Get a grip

Read the law DBA-One.

Access has been long established and he is breaking the law.

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California does and this fucktoad is breaking the law.

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Utter bollocks

Send the damn sheriff and get it done. Tear down the gate and send this motherfucker the bill for the demolition.

And people wonder why everyone hates the rich?

CloudFlare warns of another massive botnet, er, flaring up

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Re: What’s in it for cloud flare?

Except, that unfortunately, you can bank on more IoT attacks in the future. It's pretty damn obvious.

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Next predicition

The sun will rise.

How did we ever live without these experts?

Engineers say safety features got squished out of cramped Samsung Note 7

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So, manglement then?

Was it manglement or marketing?

The UK's Investigatory Powers Act allows the State to tell lies in court

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Already did Mark 85. Patriot Acts I & II.

Way ahead of you.

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It's ALL bad, bob.

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Re: A Big Welcome back ...

Yep.

Team Trump snubs Big Internet oligarchs

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Re: Smorgasborg

Low pay is an effective argument.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

US election pollsters weren't (very) wrong – statistically speaking

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Re: Not A Democracy

Not to mention they are the biggest employers of those "undocumented" immigrants.

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Re: You illustrate this perfectly!

You arrogantly assume that anyone voting for Trump SHOULD be ashamed!

They fucking should. This admin is going to make Reagan, and both Bushes look like a fucking church picnic. Not to mention the outright racism.

Remember what a great job they did for the average person? Yeah, me neither because they didn't.

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Funny thing, in the red state where I was during the election, most everyone I met said they would vote for Trump, yet the region went majority for Hillary.

I'm still scratching my head over that one.

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Re: They lied

They will have, in general, at least a high school education.

I wouldn't be too sure about that nor put much stock in a U.S. high school education.

Local TV presenter shouted 'f*cking hell' to open news bulletin

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Newcastle?

No bollocks!

Cheers!

Exclusive: Team Trump's net neutrality guru talks to El Reg

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Re: Very mixed metaphor

Have an up vote Frank ly. I literally LOLd.

Microsoft, IBM, Intel refuse to hand over family jewels to China

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Re: How about domestic software?

Have an up vote Jeremy.

Windows 10 market share growth just barely has a pulse

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Re: Windows 11

Well said V1.

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Re: Let me guess...

You know BB, this is the first thing I've ever agreed with you.

Don't scare me like this. :)

Euro Patent Office prez 'a disgrace to France'

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Re: Translation

Thanks AC. What Snafu1 said.

Why your gigabit broadband lags like hell – blame Intel's chipset

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Re: Intel seem to be a bit fallable

These days? Intel has a long history of fuck ups.

King's College London staggers from outage, replaces infrastructure services head

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Just

Words fail me.

GET pwned: Web CCTV cams can be hijacked by single HTTP request

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Re: Bah!

Well played. Well played.

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Re: Who writes this crap?

Who? The programmer who cost the least.

Was this a trick question?

(I know it was rhetorical, just making the point that good programmers, ITsec and IT folks in general struggle to find work because shitty programmers and techs are a dime a dozen. There is going to be serious consequences for this and we haven't seen anything yet and it's pretty fucking bad now.)

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Re: It's 2016 and buffers are still overflowing...

Better suggestion: hire programmers who know what the fuck they are doing.

Chance of suggestion being implemented? Yeah, none.

The Big Crash is coming. It's only a matter of when.

UK cops spot webcam 'sextortion' plots: How vics can hit stop

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Re: Try stopping making people feel ashamed of sex and their bodies.

5 downvotes? I thought all the Puritans had moved to America.

Wow. What a shock. The FBI will get its bonus hacking powers after all

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Meh, the 4th Amedment died decades ago

This is just the natural progression that has been in process for the last 40 years. It began with the War on Drugs and has thoroughly destroyed the 4th Amendment.

'Mirai bots' cyber-blitz 1m German broadband routers – and your ISP could be next

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From monthly to weekly to daily

Seems like ages ago these types of attacks and take-downs were only happening every few months and then about one a per month.

Then weekly. Now it's daily.

And still the big companies haven't learned anything.

Passengers ride free on SF Muni subway after ransomware infects network, demands $73k

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Re: Design failure

Because that costs more money and "there's no need to do that". (At least, thats what management says *before* it goes wrong, *after* it goes wrong it's "how could you let this happen!")

Exactly.