* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Bruce Schneier: We're sleepwalking towards digital disaster and are too dumb to stop

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He's right

Before safety practices became common, many people died.

Many.

It will be the same again. And has already had deadly consequences.

Net neutrality: Email trail reveals how Prez Obama bent the FCC to his will

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The bully pulpit

The office of POTUS has regularly and traditionally been called this.

Often it is used for good. Sometimes not. In this case, good.

Wakey wakey, app developers. Mobile ad blocking will kill you all

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Re: Rather filter out crap apps

Same here.

Photographer hassled by Port of Tyne for filming a sign on a wall

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Lighten up Andrew. It was a figure of speech.

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Re: The International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities

Thanks Vic. I learn the oddest things here sometimes.

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I'm all for whirled peas.

You're a cybercrime kingpin. You need a new evil lackey. How much do you tell them?

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Re: Pfft.

No no. The new look is Verion clothing. Yes, the car.

Poor recruitment processes are causing the great security talent drought

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Re: . . .and once you're hired. . .

Recruiters have gone from calling my (equal to national average for my experience and qualifications) salary expectation 'a bit overambitious' to asking why I'm only looking for this much and not 10 grand a year more like all the other applicants are - and I'm just a regular third line guy with a reasonably standard skill set.

Yep heard the same thing several years ago. Employers and staffing agencies said I was asking too much. Even my friends and family. I gave the same reasons.

Then my credentials starting better with each contract. So while the client/employer didn't want to give me a raise or keep me for very long, I was still getting a 20% raise each year. For the same reasons you gave.

Because skills AND experience matter. So if you're having trouble getting work and you have skills and experience, you need to rewrite your resume/CV. Things have changed in the last 2 years.

Oh, and I still haven't paid for any course work.

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Re: Some people write great CV's. Some people are great at doing the job.

Seen this far too often as well. Have an up vote.

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Re: First pass your background check

Oh now 2 thumbs down.

Touched a nerve did I? Stop being pathetic tossers and getting nicked.

I seriously cannot believe how many IT people are NOT getting better jobs because they cannot get past the 1st level background checks. It's a real problem.

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Re: I'll never get a job in IT

Too clever? You're a level one tech and yes you can get a job. It won't pay for shit but you gotta start somewhere.

That and get over yourself.

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First pass your background check

I've seen too many IT people who can't pass a 1st level background check.

I'd say that's the biggest problem.

Investigatory Powers Bill lands in Parliament amid howls over breadth of spying powers

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Magna Carta part II

It's seem another Magna Carta will eventually be needed for the average person.

If we hurry, we can have it ready in about, what, maybe 100 years?

Diffie, Hellman scoop $1m Turing Award for key work on crypto keys

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Er, what?

Wasn't Diffie Hellman cracked?

As an historic recognition, this is great and well deserved. As a current recognition, this is absurd.

Borked ESET antivirus update says entire web is too risky to browse

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ESET?

Damn how the mighty have fallen.

Nearly a million retail jobs will be destroyed by the march of tech, warns trade body

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Re: unskilled will always be the first to go

Posted from phone. Sorry for typos. No edit button in mobile mode.

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Re: unskilled will always be the first to go

Wrong. Min wage was indeed created as the min income could live on and stayed that way until Reagan. (May he rest in hell.)

Retail jobs also used be able to support a single person. Some positions barely others quite nicely.

You either don't know history or have drank the extreme conservative kool aid. Or both.

Me, I was there.

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Re: News just in...

Exactly Warm Braw. Most property owners I've met are some of the most shortsighted greedy people I've ever met.

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Re: A shift to more valuable jobs in analysis...

Yep, I'm tired of this fiction that everyone and anyone can have a desk job if they just try hard enough when most people barely know how turn a PC on!

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Re: Hmmmm

Well said Peter. Well said. Many retail shops are their own worst enemy.

Foxconn spikes six-billion-dollar Sharp scoff – for now

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And the difference will be...?

Sharp, like 85% of ALL consumer electronics in the world these days, was already Foxconn.

Makes you wonder who the REAL market mover is, don't it?

Official: Toshiba pulls out of European consumer PC market

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Re: Why buy new?

Same here Neill. Warranty refurbs are a deal these days.

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Toshiba still made PCs?

Who knew? I haven't seen one in literally a decade. They should have exited years ago.

Oracle: Oregon's attorney general leaked our confidential memos in health portal row

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Public money?

Then public knowledge.

Fuck off Oracle.

Dan Kaminsky is an expert on DNS security – and he's saying: Patch right God damn now

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I'd have to look it up.

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Re: Oh DNS

You funny. Up voted.

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Re: It's the nature of security consultants to big-up the problem

Up voted. I've met those cowboys.

FBI says it helped mess up that iPhone – the one it wants Apple to crack

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Re: Mobile Device Management?

Mobile Iron ain't cheap nor a fix-all.

Linux Mint forums hacked: All users urged to reset passwords

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Re: Quite a lot of whiners commenting here.

Have an upvote from me as well.

Huntsville, Alabama, has NASA, US Missile Command ... and now gigabit Google Fiber

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Re: Missile Command?

It's a classic.

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Re: Huntsville, Alabama, has NASA, US Missile Command ... and now gigabit Google Fiber

Is that a rocket in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

IBM UK puts 1,352 Global Tech Services heads 'at risk'

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Re: Annual improvement on price and service

One of the few times the sarcasm tag isnt needed.

Up voted.

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Re: £14k for 20 years service?

Lucky to get that these days.

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The silver lining?

They're better off leaving IBM.

Black Monday: Office 365 down and out in Europe

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Re: Outlook:

With winds from the north at 15 to 20.

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Re: The Cloud

Yes. Yes it is.

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Re: Because Office 365 is *too popular*

Notes?! Dear god please NO!

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Re: Any surprise?

Here here!

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Cloud!

You haz it!

Austinites outraged as Google Fiber tears up Texas capital

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Utility right of ways

Many property owners forget there are often utility right of ways on their property and workers have the right to build as they see fit.

Solution to tech bros' disgust of SF homeless people launched

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Is it real? That we even have to ask shows what kind of world we live in.

See, I'm not sure it's fake either,

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Ah that's sweet

Compassionate assholes aren't they?

Higher US Fed interest rates will hit startups over the head

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If so then yes, that works for me.

Failed school intranet project spent AU$1.4m on launch party before crashing and burning

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Re: Choosing Oracle..

Beat me to it. Up voted.

Ransomware scum infect Tinseltown hospital, demand $3.6m

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Raspberries all around

The randonware assholes and the hospital both deserve it.

Brit spies can legally hack PCs and phones, say Brit spies' overseers

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Doubleplus good!

Minmax!

Coding is more important than Shakespeare, says VC living in self-contained universe

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Re: Literature

Indeed Mark 85. Indeed and there are many just like him in all walks of life.

Free science journal library gains notoriety, lands injunctions

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Re: Free libraries

At the height of mankind's knowledge it seems the PTB are desperately trying to bring back the Dark Ages.

Or the 19th century st least.

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Re: Simple solution

Simple and elegant. Make it so!

Send tortuous stand-up ‘nine-thirty’ meetings back to the dark ages

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Re: The best meetings are

Brilliant! I've actually seen this technique!