* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Stop us if you've heard this one: Job cuts at IBM

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It's good to save money in business...

...but you can save yourself right out of business.

Microsoft patches patch for Meltdown bug patch: Windows 7, Server 2008 rushed an emergency fix

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Re: Patching hell...

Patch Adams?

It's baaack – WannaCry nasty soars through Boeing's computers

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Not really. Believe me, they are on open calls to their reports, who just want to be left alone to fix the problem.

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Re: The important question

Ha! Had this happen the other day. Email AV/Firewall flagged an incoming email and the user was cranky he couldn't open it because it was part of some VIP deal being made.

I tapped danced as nice as I could instead of just flat out telling the user, this was the AV/firewall's job and it was working as designed.

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Low IT budgets now have real consequences

See title.

No buck, no Buck Rodgers.

Microsoft Store adds ‘private audience’ apps to its Store

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How can we tell?

Isn't everything in beta testing these days? So how will anyone be able to tell the difference?

Cambridge Analytica's daddy biz had 'routine access' to UK secrets

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It may be beauty, but it does depends on your beer goggles.

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Didn't we fight a war against this?

What... fascism? Naw. Can't be.

Adobe: New Unified Customer Profile will personalise ads as never before

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Fuck adobe straight to hell

Fuck everything about adobe.

Do not install this shitware unless you absolutely have to.

I have just had a recent unpleasant experience. I had no idea how bad it had become. This company needs to die.

Hackers pwn Baltimore's 911 system?! Quick, someone call 91– doh!

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And now Atlanta is pwned

Atlanta's entire system is locked down from ransomware for the last 5 days.

GoDaddy told off for reeling in punters with 'misleading' prices

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These guys?!

These guys are still in business?

They make Facebook look good. God help us all.

Internet of insecure Things: Software still riddled with security holes

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We can't. That's how the consumer economy works. Crap tat for cheap makes the world go 'round.

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Shocked I tell you. Shocked.

Corking story: Idiotic smart wine bottle idea falls over, passes out

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Corked?

If you drink wine and you don't know how to get the cork back in the bottle, you have no business claiming you know a damn thing about wine, let alone trying to sell a wine product.

Not to mention just the general knowledge of the wine industry, let alone sommelier level of knowledge that you really need.

More ad-versarial tech: Mozilla to pop limited ad blocker into Firefox

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Re: If reader mode counts....

Reader mode is damn clever. It take the website and turns it back into a good old basic website that is very easy on the eyes.

Zucker for history: What I learnt about Facebook 600 years ago

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And we never learn.

Probe: How IBM ousts older staff, replaces them with young blood

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IBM lost the thread in the 1990s.

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Re: HPE is on the same road

Corporate strip mining has been the fashion since the 1980s.

Remember "greed is good?" Corporate raiding and vultures?

Building value and selling something of worth to customers is so... offshore.

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Re: Meanwhile in Italy - Chinese box practice

And without a pension as well.

Five things you need to know about Microsoft's looming Windows 10 Spring Creators Update

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Re: Win 10 replaced by Mint

Exactly. If there replacements for 2 programs I need, I would never use Windows at home again.

British Level 4 driverless pods are whizzing along ... er, a London path

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Re: Rebrand

Patty Podule?

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Re: "Everything in the States is on a grid layout."

Ha! Inside many cities as well it's nothing but converted trail.

BOOM! Cambridge Analytica explodes following extraordinary TV expose

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Re: It's all a show

Kabuki theater indeed.

Another day, another self-flying car pipe dream surfaces

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Re: Hope they're restricted to Silicon Valley and other liberalvilles

There is nothing liberal about Silly Valley.

BT: We're shuttering final salary pension scheme

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Yes we changed the deal

Pray we do not alter is more.

(Hrrhshkrrr)

Nest reveals the first truly connected home

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Re: Why would anyone PAY for a video recording "service"?

If people were smart, half of the retail economy would not exist nor most of the financial industry.

For that matter, a lot of businesses would be out of business. Which would be just fine with me.

Whois? More like WHOWAS: Domain database on verge of collapse over EU privacy

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This is crazy!

Whois and Betterwhois have been THE goto reference for who owns domain names.

Why would anyone want to break this system?

Web 2.0 like hell.

FYI: There's a cop tool called GrayKey that force unlocks iPhones. Let's hope it doesn't fall into the wrong hands!

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Holmes

Or is it vaporware?

It would not be the first time the police have fallen for vaporware.

Is there solid verification that this is real?

We're Putin our foot down! DHS, FBI blame Russia for ongoing infrastructure hacks

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Re: Stop blaming hackers

Agreed.

And I do not understand the down vote.

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Re: JFC

Is the correct answer.

Not enough upvotes.

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FAIL

Why the hell is infrastruture even on the Internet?

Seriously, who thought this was a good idea?

Critical, national strategic resources on the WWW? WTF, people? WTF?

Fermi famously asked: 'Where is everybody?' Probably dead, says renewed Drake equation

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Re: Not useful

And soon, quantum entanglement.

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Who can really say?

While both these men have valid points as do other scientists, the thing to remember is that radio waves dissipate over great distance to the point of useless noise, and the window of a civilization using radio wave before jumping to undetectable quantum entanglement is probably very short.

Airbus CIO: We dumped Microsoft Office not over cost but because Google G Suite looks sweet

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Notes<Office<G Suite

Office is to G Suite what Note is to Office: obsolete and unwieldy.

Poop to save planet as boffins devise bullsh*t way of extracting gas

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This is new?

Methane reactor tanks for powering generators is nothing new.

After repeated warnings Facebook bans Britain First for 'inciting hatred'

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Re: And if it really was hate speech...

If you had read the article, hell seen just the sub-title, you would know the police have arrested and jailed the leaders.

But that was obviously too much work for you but embarrassing yourself obviously was not.

Bad blood: Theranos CEO charged with massive fraud

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Re: Just goes to show how dumb...

Which always beg the question: how do stupid investors have so much money to begin with?

Seriously. WTF?

Microsoft says 'majority' of Windows 10 use will be 'streamlined S mode'

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S car go.

Slow.

Uber-Lyft study author jams into reverse gear over abysmal pay claims

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Yet, still came to similar conclusion

... didn't he.

Sci-tech wants skilled worker cap on PhD and shortage jobs scrapped

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Re: "Jobs on the shortage occupation list"

It always is.

Apple's new 'spaceship' HQ brings the pane for unobservant workers

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Isn't there an app for that?

iGlass perhaps?

WordPress is now 30 per cent of the web, daylight second

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Re: It could be worse...

Frontpage sucked. Dreamweaver was fine in the hands of a pro.

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Re: Wordpress is NOT a CMS

It's obvious innit?

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Re: Wordpress is NOT a CMS

Not enough upvotes, Pomgolian.

Wordpress is biggest piece of shit I ever seen. How people became convinced it was easier to use than HTML is one of the most stunning con jobs I've ever seen.

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Worpdress is shit

WORDPRESS IS SHIT.

I can't believe the Internet devolved this fast. Wordpress is absolute shit. People will spend more time learning Wordpress's utter garbage interface and code instead of simple HTML.

People really are fucking morons.

News lobsters demand to be let back into the Facebook boiling pot

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Says it all

"Any publisher that is dependent on Facebook, or that trusts Facebook, is out of their goddamn mind."

Equifax peeks under couch, finds 2.4 million more folk hit by breach

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Before I get any more downvotes, it's a joke.

I thought it would be obvious that I was agreeing with the OP.

Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired for opposing hiring caps on white, Asian male nerds

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He is wrong and will lose

There is no U.S. labor law that says a company cannot determine and set quotas for hiring minorities.

He was fired for being obnoxious and butthurt.

MIT gives one-star review to Lyft, Uber over abysmal '$3.37/hr' pay

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It's called the gig economy...

...because the joke's on you.

Microsoft to make Ubuntu a first-class guest under Hyper-V

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Oh oh oh can I guess number 3?!