* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Bending the knee: US semiconductor juggernauts ask the government for help

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Re: "SIA recommends that the government removes “counterproductive” caps on green cards"

STEM is no longer a garuantee of steady employment at any age these days.

It's all projects on contract.

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American business as usual.

Privatize the profits socialize the losses.

Boeing nowhere fast: Starliner space taxi schedule slips once again to August

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Re: Software

Beat me to it.

Hands up who can tell me which pupil details transfer system has glitched. Yes, Capita's

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Re: Who to blame

Not enough upvotes.

NPM clings to its cuddly image – as senior staff vote with their feet: Now longtime product boss quits JS package biz

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Who?

See title.

Easy-to-hack combat systems, years-old flaws and a massive bill – yup, that's America's F-35

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Perfect example.

BOFH: Tick tick BOOM. It's B-day! No we're not eating Brussels flouts...

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Lol!

Seriously I'm getting old and haven't a good out loud laugh in weeks.

Thanks! Cheers!

Make America buy phones again! Smartphone doom 'n' gloom crosses Atlantic to cast shadow stateside

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Overpriced phones might be the cause of slow sales?

Whocouldaknowed?!

HP crashed Autonomy because US tech titan's top brass 'lost their nerve', says lawyer for ex-CEO Mike Lynch

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Re: Wrong Target?

Dammit. Meant to edit.

It is possible that KPMG made recommendations that HP ignored.

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Re: "Losing their nerve" is a common theme in all of HP's acquisitions...

The "HP Way" was dead the day H&P retired.

By the time they bought Compaq, it was in full crash mode. Carly just poured more gasoline on the fire is all.

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I said it from day one

HP did not do a proper audit and are now trying to blame everyone but themselves.

And yes, they did drag their feet and created a lot of uncertainty with Autonomy's existing and future customers.

I also have no doubt Autonomy is also sketchy in some way. It's a tech company, innit? But this is mostly HP's fault.

Stop us if you've heard this one: IBM sued after axing older staff, this time over 'denying' them their legal rights

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Re: Once...

I've said in many times: NEVER let an accountant run your business. Nor the lawyers either.

What bugs me the most? World+dog just accepts crap software resilience

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Failure is expensive as well.

Ever heard the phrase, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?"

If you do not have the capital to make proper investments in your business, you should not be in business. Because you surely do not have the capital to fix the costly failures.

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I can no longer find the article

There was great article written in a similar vein to this one a few years ago.

It basically said the same thing. Why do we accept shit software?

As Red Hat prepares to become part of Big Blue, its financials look as solid as Linux kernel 2.4

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Re: Wise move financially? Perhaps. Culturally? Nope ....

You can bank on the fact the IBM culture will be forced on Red Hat.

And that will be the end of Red Hat.

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Goodbye Red Hat

It was nice while it lasted.

And no. IBM will bork Red Hat like they do everything else.

DXC Security exec: Yes, I'd have thought we'd spend more on certs and laptop kit for staff, too

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Re: Certifications? Wha'?

You are joking, right? American companies wouldn't be caught dead spending money on those things.

Chap joins elite support team, solves what no one else can. Is he invited back? Is he f**k

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Oh boy have I met a lot techs who think that asking questions is tantamount to being weak.

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Been there, done that

Literally got the t-shirt.

Public disgrace: 82% of EU govt websites stalked by Google adtech cookies – report

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Re: Public sector bodies now have the opportunity to lead by example

Not getting the downvotes. Have an upvote from me.

From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move

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So....

How's that cloud thing working for ya?

(why no. I never get tired of posting this thankyouverymuch)

Mayors having a right 'mare in Florida: Acting mayor arrested weeks after boss also arrested

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Re: If Florida Man did not exist

Damn. I just posted almost the same thing.

Yeah, Florida Man.

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America has a phrase for this

"Florida Man"

How many Reg columnists does it take to turn off a lightbulb?

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Re: Very accurate!!

Try the latest version. It's quite nice!

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Naw mate, it ain't you

Control interface design is now being done my marketers or engineers with no business designing control interfaces.

I mean, they changed the name to UAX. How intuitive is that?

Yeah.

Radio gaga: Techies fear EU directive to stop RF device tinkering will do more harm than good

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Re: What's the problem....

I'm with you. I am amazed that so many people do not grasp the serious consequences of RF interference.

Simply dumbfounding. Gobsmacking lunacy.

Libertarians and free marketers are idiots.

Microsoft tweaks Windows 10 on Arm64 to play nicely with KVM

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FAIL

Yeah, but..

It's still Win 10, innit?

YouTube's pedo problem is so bad, it just switched off comments on millions of vids of small kids to stem the tide of vileness

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Re: Let the public moderate

“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”

Ever heard this one?

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Re: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn...

“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”

Brave New World, ain't it?

IBM hunkers down for no-deal Brexit, warns of disruption to supply chain, data transfers

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Re: It'll be worth it

That WAS sarcasm, right? So hard to tell these days.

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Disruptions? IBM?

And how will we be able to tell the difference?

If at first you don't succeed, you may be trying to install that Slow Ring Windows 10 build

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Re: What a complete and utter fustercluck...

I see what you did there.

Well played.

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Goddamn Win 10

Goddamn Win 10 straight to hell.

What a major pain in the ass.

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Re: Does anyone bother with Windows anymore ?

Too many corporations suffer from sunk costs over literally decades.

Far to much custom middleware is written for MS interfacing for them to ever recover the cost of porting to Linux.

A shame because Linux is by far the better OS.

Psst, I use all three major desktop OSes. For decades. This is not opinion, but professional observation. Linux is now the best.

Fuck Microsoft.

Correction: Last month, we called Zuckerberg a moron. We apologize. In fact, he and Facebook are a fscking disgrace

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Re: Its all about trust

You had me at "everything."

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Re: Arrgh!

The human race has a bad habit of not facing problems and fixing them until after exposed to extreme pain.

We are not as bright as we think we are.

And those of us who give warning are ostracized. Killing the messenger is a time honored tradition.

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Re: Facebook and Disabled Accounts

How's that cloud thing working for you?

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Re: Warning!

Exactly. Just because you aren't using it doesn't mean some numpty mate of yours hasn't posted your local pub piss up already.

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Re: Wow

There is nothing wrong with the moral compass of American company execs.

Because there isn't one to be broken.

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Re: Facebook is the absolute worst

I'd argue that Twitter holds that honor.

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Never forget how and why FB was first created

It was created to rate women at Zuck's college.

THAT should tell you everything you need to know.

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Power corrupts

And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

SPOILER alert, literally: Intel CPUs afflicted with simple data-spewing spec-exec vulnerability

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I am always disappointed in modern computing

How the hell the modern world decided on the worst possible bollocks for the majority of modern computing is dumbfounding.

UK tech has a month left to bare gender pay gaps, but less than a fifth of firms have ponied up

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Misogynist much?

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And they won't

Until they are forced too.

The UK becomes more like America every year. :(

And my god the number of misogynist comments here is appalling.

UK banking was struck by one IT fail every day for most of 2018

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Re: Cashless society?

I recently got screwed by an on-line payment system without recourse.

Fuck them all.

Don't bother with blaming the victim, the details are not what you think they are and there truly is no recourse for me.

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It's epidemic

Major systems are breaking everywhere every day.

No, this is NOT normal. That anyone would think this is acceptable and normal shows how bad it has become. It also points to a serious coming catastrophic event in the near future.

Systematic failures are not a sign of normal operations. Ever.

Bun fight breaks out after devs, techie jump ship: Bakery biz Panera sues its former IT crowd

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Coat

He got a rise out of you, did he?

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Re: For maximum profitability

Call it Water 2 Wine?