* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Scientists mull Solar Radiation Management – a potential climate-change stop-gap

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Re: Denier no more?

Seems obvious you've never heard of Fourier.

But please do show us where Fourier was doing it wrong.

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Disruption?

Disruption is coming one way or the other.

We either do it in a somewhat controlled way or catastrophes and disasters do as they please.

Place your bets on which is more likely. Because you are. Betting your life that is.

As for pipe dreams of solar shading, keep smoking whatever is in that pipe and see where that gets you.

Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep

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Re: LOL wut?

Damn allergies.

"...IN the ditch..." "...decreed."

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LOL wut?

I've not even switched to 5G yet.

But sure, keep that planned obsolescence churn for profit train rolling. We're all made out of money, right? And we run out, we can just die on the ditch as our lord god Mammon degreed.

Amazon already has a colossal ads business and will extend it to Prime Video in January

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SUCKERS!

I find it amazing that even in this modern hyper-digital age, people still fall for bait and switch.

Rule one: any subscription service will eventually change the terms for the benefit of the company and never for the customer.

Irony alert: Lawsuit alleging Chrome’s Incognito Mode isn’t will settle on unknown terms

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Not in America. Maybe somewhere else.

That is not hyperbole. I've been involved in everything from single proprietor to global corps. Even the mom and pop shops are getting screwed by their vendors, forcing them to chisel a little here and there just to stay in business.

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It's only fraud when you steal from the rich.

Just another day ending in Y for the rest of us.

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Re: Terms of settlement

Ah I see you are very familiar with the U.S. corporate economy.

I'd bet good money you are right.

Apple's timepiece turmoil taken to appeals court

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Meh

And nothing of value

...was missed.

Here's who thinks AI chatbots will eventually be smart enough to be your coworker

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Eventually?

It's already smarter than most of my co-workers.

War of the workstations: How the lowest bidders shaped today's tech landscape

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Re: Well written

Holy crap! That's the one!

Have as many as you want on me! ----------------------->>

I've been looking for that article for the last 3 years! Lost the bookmark in a data shuffle.

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Re: Survival characteristics

No, the tech that survived was forced on us by marketing and decades of illegal business practices.

That is not hyperbole, but documented fact.

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Re: Correctness and Simplicity

The guys at MIT in the early 1960s called it "bumming code".

This means to make it as efficient, small and elegant as possible.

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Well written

Well written article.

I first became aware of mini computers and then PCs in the mid 1970s. I did not learn how to use them until the mid 1980s. It was far too expensive for me at the time and I had to catch as catch can.

But every word of this article is the truth. I saw it in real time. We now use crippled, overpriced tech every day and nobody knows any different. And the brand stan-bois are the worst.

And it just gets worse every year. Which means this article will eventually disappear down the memory hole and outside of some of us who may remember it in the future, it will be gone and the morons will keep marching while looking at the those of us who know as some kind of cranks.

Much like the article I read about learned helplessness in software writing these days. I can no longer find the article (see reason above), but it detailed how and why software is utter shite these days. This El Reg article makes a great addendum to that lost article.

Programmable or 'purpose-bound' money is coming, probably as a feature in central bank digital currencies

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Re: Oh hell no

Thanks.

Damn autocorrect.

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Oh hell no

It's company script all over again.

Windows 12: Savior of PC makers, or just an apology for Windows 11?

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Re: Logged onto work PC

I too am tired of software UX being a stupid time wasting game of treasure hunt.

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Re: Windows 12 ?

MS is the dominate computer company on the planet. It has its grubby fingers in EVERY aspect of yours and our lives.

Move on? To where? There is no escape. Not even as a hermit in the mountains.

Must be nice to be so sheltered. Or a stan.

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Neither

Just more crap.

Bricking it: Do you actually own anything digital?

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Joke

Slightly?

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Facepalm

People are incredible!

Incredible suckers! ... that is.

Artificial intelligence is a liability

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Re: 2024 will be the year we mention Darwin a lot.

Enjoy the shows? But many of have seen this move over and over. It's become irritating.

(I got your meaning, no insults intended. just fed up with the mountains of bollocks of the modern world. Cheers)

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Wait, what? A person's life is worth about a quarter of the price of the car that hit them?

Your life is worth nothing if you don't win the lawsuit.

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Re: reliance

This is already happening.

Many lawyers are already fighting against what has become a modern form of "redlining" in the last few years

(refuse (a loan or insurance) to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk.

"banks have redlined loans to buyers")

Before you go away for Xmas: You've patched that critical Perforce Server hole, right?

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Re: Just imagine

Have my upvote as well and the 7 downvoting stans can go talk to Krampus.

Microsoft prescribes command-line surgery for HP Smart app malady

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No good guys here

HP and MS? No good buys in this.

Both make crap software.

Cyber-crooks slip into Vans, trample over operations

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Re: Funny that

Exactly.

I'm now at the point where I cover my ass, do what the policy makers say and collect my paycheck. It's a shame half of my labor is spent covering my ass, but I just don't care any more. I am not going to waste the rest of my life teaching the horses to sing.

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Why am I not surprised.

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

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I see what you did there. Have my upvote.

I see 6 other people did not get the joke.

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Re: 5 years isn't good enough.

As I've always said, the ideal American business is to force customers to pay and deliver nothing in return.

And despite all the laws and regulations, it never seems to stop the bastards from trying, and sometime succeeding.

Study uncovers presence of CSAM in popular AI training dataset

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WTF?!

What the actual goddamn fuck!!?!?!!??!?!

SEC charges ex-medtech CEO with fraud for selling plastic fake implants

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Having worked for a few hospitals, it's amazing how ignorant they are of all things technical and how their hubris prevents them from ever learning.

Not ALL hospitals are like, but far too many are.

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Re: Sound business principles

American society decrees you must die for Mammon, but investors are a protected class.

Millions of Xfinity customers' info, hashed passwords feared stolen in cyberattack

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Re: No Notifications

My logon-ons to everywhere get harder each year. Yet somehow, breaches continue.

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Re: So my theory is...

Because the bigger the database, the more it's worth to third parties.

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Re: So my theory is...

Well they do get fined, but it's something on the order of .001% percent of their worth.

So yes, pretty much no financial punishment.

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LOL! Just another day in the cloud

I never get tired of saying it:

So hows that cloud thing working for ya?

Doom is 30, and so is Windows NT. How far we haven't come

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Angel

Did it also give you a happy ending?

Jokes aside, I got what you meant. Cheers.

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Re: Telemetry

Oh you are just going to love Win 11!

It makes Win 10 look downright discrete and trustworthy! I've spent almost a year chasing down and shutting off all the goddamn reporting it does. And I'm still not sure I've got everything.

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Re: Monopolistic stagnation

You could argue that. You would be wrong.

A quick google returns many results for government fines and class action suits for illegal business practices over the last 30 years.

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It takes longer to cold boot a modern PC than a 1980's original.

I was with you until here. I could make and then pour coffee by the time my 1980s PC would boot. My current PC boots faster than I can push my chair back.

What era did you decide was the end of modern?

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Re: Improvements???

Or maybe you're a waffle man? How about some nice warm toaster waffles?

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Re: Computer did get faster, software did get bloated.

It's almost all shitware. Well, anything in MS, Android and Apple word. That's the problem.

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Re: "Yes, I could buy an ad-free version, but why should I?"

It feels like we have hit the buffers of the "pile it high, sell it cheap" model of IT.

We have.

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Re: "Yes, I could buy an ad-free version, but why should I?"

This is not a rumor. All one has to do is follow the news of the last few years to see this is obviously where they are headed. We're almost there right now.

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Re: Word 6

Wordpad has all the features I've ever needed. Still use it.

Thank god MS has not killed that off... yet.

ValueLicensing tries to smack down Microsoft defenses in license reselling spat

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Re: Its a great model

The company I work for has switched almost exclusively to cloud and subscription from MS.

The on premise service was bad to begin with and now it's almost unusable. That is not hyperbole. I am constantly missing notices and getting very delayed email and messages. The system also does not like that I have accounts across different domains. Does not like it at all. Anything on One Drive has become Schrodinger's cat.

The list just goes on from there.

How anyone thinks MS is fit for purpose is beyond belief. This house of cards WILL utterly collapse one day. And sooner than most people think.

Biden urged to do something about Europe 'unfairly' targeting American tech

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Re: Users will probably suffer in the end, as usual.

I fail to see how users were hurt by any of those examples.

If anything, it was to their benefit.

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Re: Nobody move

Not even my pet taridgrade can find mine.