* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Spotify to cough up royalties, just toss your copyright claims over there ... in the bin

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If so then lawyer up and drop the hammer.

Astronaut trio blast off to space station with ... er, rearview mirror toy?

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Re: Radio Caroline?

RC? God I'm old.

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Re: Essential part of every launch

What a hoot!

Smartphones help medicos, but security is a problem

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Re: We Are Solving The Medical Photo Sharing Issue and It Is Available

Congratulations and sincere good luck.

DevOps, huh? Show me the money. Show me the MONAY!

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Yep

We're fucked.

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Re: Pronounced 'Monay'?

Count de Monay!

Microsoft to add a touch of Chrome to Edge

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Re: Just say no!

Liberties? That's being too polite.

Rectocranialinversion is more like what they are doing.

Apple Macs, iPhones, iPads, Watches, TVs can be hijacked by evil Wi-Fi, PDFs – update now

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So IoT then?

Yeah let's do that. /s

A Logic Named Joe: The 1946 sci-fi short that nailed modern tech

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The scary part? Psycho-history is now actually a real science.

(even more scary? spell check didn't flag psycho-history)

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I think I read this story

I read a LOT of old sci-fi when I was younger and still do. So much that I can't keep up with authors or even book titles any more. But the stories? Yeah, I still remember the stories.

I find it odd that of almost all the sci-fi ever written, it's been the dystopias that seem to have come to pass. Very odd indeed.

Even more odd is the fact that most of the public libraries where I live have very small sci-fi sections and a serious shortage of the old masters. You would think it was a conspiracy of some kind.

Top rocket exec quits after telling the truth about SpaceX price war

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Re: Choice

More.

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Well you get an up vote from me.

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Re: The Department of Defense has become a vehicle to siphon money to Boeing and Lockheed!

Well played people. Well played.

Telling your wife why you were fired is the only punishment

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Re: Check your attachments

Oops!

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Re: Use your own machine!

I will never understand why anyone views porn at work. On the company PC no less!

FFS!

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Re: Just do NOT do this on work kit

Right? Work computer? That's some serous stupid.

Google tries to run from flailing robotics arm

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Re: And the buyer is....

Damn. Beat me to it.

Feds raid 'extortionist' IT security biz Tiversa, CEO put on leave

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Re: "Tiversa's services to its clients and business operations continue as normal."

Bravo!

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Re: Rogue Corporate or Tip of the Iceberg?

Protection racket of the 21st century.

"That's a real nice database you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it."

HTTPS is not enough: Boffins fingerprint user environments without cracking crypto

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Re: Side channel attacks

Exactly rh587.

'Millions' of Android mobes vulnerable to new Stagefright exploit

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Already in the wild

I've seen this combined with ransom ware.

It opens the door for the ransom ware attack which itself is disguised as an Android update.

Nasty stuff.

Plucky cable billionaires defeat menace of small-town broadband

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Re: I used to work for EPB...

Thanks AC. Good info there.

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Re: Hooray for the free market!

Yes, but that's too short for today's buzz word bingo hipsters.

After all, why use one word when more are always better! /sarcasm

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Re: Confused

How does that work then?

Murica! That's how! Fuck yeah!

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Hooray for the free market!

Oh wait.

Uh capitalism!

Nope, that's not it.

Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™

Ah! That's it!

Blundering ransomware uses backdoored crypto, unlock keys spewed

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Gimp

pwnage

Some good old fashioned pwnage right there. l33t haxors FAIL!

Microsoft's done a terrible job with its Windows 10 nagware

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Re: Notification options

Holy fuck that's a blast from the past!

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Re: Windows 10

Don't.

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Re: I actually had trouble getting the Windows 10 nagware to show up

Paragraphs. Paragraphs.

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Re: Here's an idea

You are a bad man.

Up voted.

Brits shun nightclubs and CD-ROMs for lemons, coffee and woman’s leggings

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Er, external drive fixes that.

Millions menaced as ransomware-smuggling ads pollute top websites

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Again?!

Seriously. Again? AGAIN?

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Re: Firefox and NoScript

Thank you Neil. I've been saying this for years.

AT&T: Three-quarters of our network is going virtual, and we're open-sourcing the tools

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I see two problems right away

at&t and cloud.

Virgin bins Webspace, tells customers they can cry to GoDaddy

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GoDaddy?

Oh FFF, talk about insult to injury! The most useless piece of shit hosting company I've ever seen.

Suitable only for the gullible.

Anti-cyber-attack biz Staminus is cyber-attacked, mocked by card-leaking tormentors

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BA DUMP BA!

upvoted

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I love the Interent!

If there is one thing I like about modern times it's that poseurs get outed and pwned pretty quick these days.

DARPA to geeks: Weaponize your toasters … for America!

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Re: And over at MI6

Well it IS a modern world after all, init?

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Why does everyone think Idiocracy is both fiction and a future scenario when it is actually a current documentary?

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Re: "DARPA's mission is to create strategic surprise"

Going a little farther off topic, that $4 trillion spent of the 10 year war would have rebuilt a lot of infrastructure and provide a lot of local jobs.

But it pales in comparison to the $26 trillion given to Wall St as a reward for their failure.

At least DARPA produces things we all can eventually use. Wall St? Not so much. The last security derivative I used was fit only for toilet paper. Literally.

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Right?

I really don't understand the purpose of this DARPA project. I mean why don't they do what everyone else does and just contract it out to some overseas country whose name(s) shall remain anonymous for now and get the same results results everyone gets? A shit product that is already vulnerable.

I'm shocked that DARPA is this behind the times.

Rocky times for startups: Mutual funds devalue and VCs turn off money hose

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Re: Basic Business 101

Of course they have a business plan: pump and dump!

You mean it isn't obvious?

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Re: Tonight we're going to party like... Hey, my free music disruptor is offline.

Investors buy it then sell at a profit to a bigger sucker. Repeat as long as it looks like the game will keep playing.

Here's the dirty secret: In order to sell your over-hyped no-profit white elephant tech company, you first have to know the right people. Almost all those no-name companies being bought for stupid amounts of money by brand name companies all have pretty much one thing in common: someone knew someone. The RIGHT someone and has known them for some time. Plus there may be internal brinkmanship at the brand name company that motivates the purchase as well.

In other words, no matter how cool yours or my tech may be, we will never get rich like that because we do not move in the right circles, know the right people or have the right school ties.

And thus it ever was. Sure, there are exceptions, but that's all they are. Rare exceptions.

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The new bubble is almost over?

So Web 2.0 is almost over? Thank god. Has this been posted on InstaFacebookTwittergram yet?

You say I mustn’t write down my password? Let me make a note of that

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Who can blame them?

As an IT pro, I have well over ~20 passwords I have to remember everyday at work and home. The average user doesn't stand a chance.

They can't even use the same one across all logons and sometimes not even variations!

Single sign on systems? Great idea but still far to complicated for the average user.

Until we get serious about user competence, they will always be the biggest vulnerability. And the only way to fix that is to educate them.

Microsoft adds 'non-security updates' to security patches

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Re: It didn't happen to me

The issue here isn't Windows but the IT department behind that persons company,

No, the issue is that most small businesses have NO IT dept and never will. There is no budget for it. Not even the once a month visiting tech.

These size businesses make up the larger part of the everyday business world and they are NOT tech savvy.

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Re: "we will just add another nail to the coffin"

Not me. I realised that the coffin was becoming more metal than wood, therefore not structurally sound. So I bent all my nails and fashioned a chain out of them.

Windows 10 (and Microsoft along with it) are now in a sack, wrapped in chains, at the bottom of an abandoned, flooded quarry.

I might through a few rocks in, though. Just in case.

I'd get some garlic, a cross, some stakes and a sliver bullet just in case.

Seriously.

David Cameron hints at Budget law change to end mobile not-spots

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Exactly commswonk. It's called a celluler network for a reason.

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Against masts?!

WTF? So some flat earthers prevent some farmer from making money from the land lease or sale, and thus penalize everyone in the ares? And this was thought a "good idea"?

Don't fear PC-pocalypse, Chromebooks, two-in-ones 'will save us'

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The places I've worked have traded desktops for docked laptops. Only heavy data crunchers get desktops. Or where security is paramount.

This is the trend I've seen over the last 3 years.