* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Net neutrality-lovin' Sweden mulls law to censor the internet

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When did the GOP take over the Swedish government?

So basically, conservative governments are the same all over: ignore the law while claiming to be the champions of law 'n order and doing so when the laws especially benefit the average person.

Full of fear at work: Blame the boss, or yourself?

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Are you kidding?

Any place I've ever worked that had fear as the overall culture was as effed-up as it gets in their operational polices and procedures and head-firmly-up-arse supervisors.

The places that I've worked that embrace innovation, progress and realistic polices and rock solid testing processes had no fear.

Forget the drones, Amazon preps its own cargo container ship operation out of China

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Welcome!

I, for one, welcome our new container overlords!

Wait. What? They've been here for decades? Are you sure? Really? Chinese products with American logos? Amazing!

Trend Micro AV gave any website command-line access to Windows PCs

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WTF?!!!

Did Trend Micro hire some ex McAfee folks?

Freelancer.com fined for 'reckless indifference to privacy rights'

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Re: I made the mistake

It's the same with their copycats as well. Simply not worth it. Great idea, but went to ruin quickly.

Hacks rebel after bosses secretly install motion sensors under desks

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If I ever saw one of those under my desk...

...it would the last time it ever senses my butt in that chair.

Cisco forgot its own passwords for seven weeks

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Why not ask HP?

After all, those are just re-badged HP servers.

Future Snowden hunt starts with audit of NSA spooks' privileges

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"If the CIA wanted him dead, he would be dead. Russia or not."

You give the CIA too much credit. They really don't have the humint and influence they used to have.

Now if it were the Mossad...

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Barn door

Horse.

Next: more spilled milk coming and control freaks continue to not learn their lesson.

Comcast repeatedly crams modem upgrade demands into browsers

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Again?

Or maybe this was another cable company I'm thinking off.

Still, it also shows that most people do not have a good enough defense system in place. A good firewall, script blocker and AV would fix that nag.

Boozing is unsafe at ‘any level’, thunders chief UK.gov quack

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Re: News Just In

And just who's crazy damn idea was this anyway? It's like life was deigned by some damn government agency!

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Unsafe?!

Next they'll be telling us that fapping will make us go blind!

American cable giants go bananas after FCC slams broadband rollout

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Re: Comcast and Co disagree

"Yeah, but artificial scarcity is the only thing taught at the MBA schools."

GOT THAT RIGHT!

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Re: Back Story

How you get "conflict of interest" from a government agency at least trying to benefit the average person is beyond me.

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Re: It's an anti-terrorism measure...

"This is for protection, citizen."

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Re: No surprise, really ...

"...most all US agencies, including the FCC, are thralls of the corporations they supposedly regulate."

You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™, comrade?

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Re: Thanks FCC

"Because of the "Minimum downlink rate" update I now am getting 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up at the same price of $34.99 from Time Warner that I was getting for 15 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up.""

We went from 1Mbps down and 0.3 up to 5 down and 1 up. Same reason. at&t.

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Re: "FCC's fault"

"I'm hoping the ISPs get beaten soundly multiple times with a very large stick."

I hope they have that very large stick put where the sun don't shine.

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The report MUST be wrong!

The report has to be wrong! Everyone knows that free market capitalism provide the best product and services! Even though the damn socialist/commie countries in Europe and Asia have faster and cheaper broadband, it's just a fluke!

A fluke I tell you! Ignore the man behind the curtain!

NSA spying on US and Israeli politicians stirs Congress from Christmas slumbers

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Re: If the spy agencies have blackmail material on all the politicians you have a Chekist state

The general art of politics is that one has dirt of some kind on ones opponents, but yes, when it's the spy agencies, yer fucked.

We're rapidly becoming worse than the USSR and joining Putin's Russia in our level of internal spying.

Becoming? Oh we past that milestone LONG ago. Remember the 4th Amendment? Civil Rights in general? Dead and buried back in the 1980s.

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What that's you say Congress?

You created a monster and you're surprised it's turned on you? I'll bet you guys have never heard of Marie Antoinette either, have you? George Santayana? George Orwell?

No, I thought not.

Trustworthy x86 laptops? There is a way, says system-level security ace

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We need this

We need this or something like it. I'm no computer scientist, yet I was able roughly follow the idea and concept of this proposed configuration, which means to me it follows the basic tenet of elegance and simplicity and thus often robust as well.

I also like CB'c (above) enhanced proposal.

Cache-astrophic: Why Valve's Steam store spewed players' private profiles to strangers

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Re: Thanks For The Candor.

My Steam account is strictly manual. When I want access, only THEN do I launch the gateway program. The rest of the time is is not even so much as a TSR.

When done, I make sure it and any associated lurking TSRs are shut down.

There is too much goddamn shit talking to their motherships as it is.

Password-less database 'open-sources' 191m US voter records on the web

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So?

I was talking to a guy who buys junk cars and he has to be able to verify titles and the sellers. There is a database called PublicData where you can do pretty much the same thing. There are a host of others as well, some free, some with fees.

Name, SS, address, cars owned, license tags, driver's license number, the works.

We are ALL, already bagged and tagged. It is already far worse than you think.

No, drone owners – all our base are belong to US, thunders military

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If there is a way for people to be dicks and fuck up a good thing

...they will find it.

Feeling abandoned by Adobe? Check out the video editing suites for penguins

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Re: lwks.com

Lightworks? That looks very nice.

Gaming souk Steam spews credit card, personal info in Xmas Day security meltdown

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Oh good lord *facepalm*

How the hell does that even happen?

The Police Chief's photo library mixed business, pleasure and flesh

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Re: Not once but twice

Ah charities. I will never make the mistake to work for one again.

Oracle promises 'next-gen' Texas cloud campus

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There goes the neighborhood

The last time I was in Austin I saw that it was no longer a desirable place to live.

SXSW turned it into a pretentious douchery in the last decade and tech jobs are driving the cost of living up for everyone.

I'm happy for their growth, but it's off my list of cool small cities. And "a better Silicon Valley?" Big warning right there.

Secret shaggers, rejoice! Now you can blame that Hyatt credit card bill on hackers

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Another week

Another breach.

Christmas comes early at US Patent office after massive IT outage

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Re: Good. More time for goofing off, writing scientific papers unrelated to work

Generally speaking.

Windows 10: What's coming in 2016?

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copy and paste to notepad and place on desktop

Win 10 nags

KB2882822

KB2952664

KB2977759

KB3021917

KB3022345

KB3035583

KB3067808

KB3075249

KB3080149

IT bloke: Crooks stole my bikes after cycling app blabbed my address

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Re: Only the bad about Strava et al?

How did we ever manage with just stopwatches and paper?

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No it's a reminder that...

YOU NEVER PUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET.

IT guy and he doesn't know any better? How does he even have a job?

Feds widen probe into lottery IT boss who rooted game for profit

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It's all rigged

Just another reminder that everything is rigged.

Everything.

There's an epidemic of idiots who can't find power switches

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Seen a few of those as well

"Everything just stopped working!"

Looks under desk. Power strip is off or unplugged or has tripped its breaker.

"Yep, your turboencabulator has slipped a marf bearing. This might take a while."

Skilled workers, not cost, lured Apple to China says Tim Cook

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Re: Lies from the Top

Dummycrats you say?

In Sept of 2010, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill on Tuesday to end tax deductions enjoyed by companies that close their U.S. plants and move overseas.

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Re: ...and if you believe that one, I have some ocean front property in AZ

"...In the end, its Walmart's fault. We have no one to blame but ourselves."

I don't think so.

In Sept of 2010, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill on Tuesday to end tax deductions enjoyed by companies that close their U.S. plants and move overseas.

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Re: @bailey86

..."chances are half of it was made in China by Foxconn."

The actual number is 85% of ALL worldwide consumer electronics are made by Hon Hai (Foxconn)

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Only in America would we send our jobs to Communist China in the name of Capitalism.

- I have long lost the credit for who said this.

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Re: Utter horsefeathers

"It is not big business that has driven off-shoring and out-sourcing "

Oh?

In Sept of 2010, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill on Tuesday to end tax deductions enjoyed by companies that close their U.S. plants and move overseas.

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Bullshit

Utter bullshit.

Chicago cops under fire for astonishingly high dashcam, mic failures

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BRAVO!

'Powerful blast' at Glasgow City Council data centre prompts IT meltdown

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Re: Gas fire suppression is bad for hard disks...

Classic system Richard 12. That's pretty much the optimum model.

Unfortunately, that's not what the "favored contractor" spec'd.

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HVAC is usually the LAST thing on the budget

I know a really good old hand HVAC guy and you would not believe his horror stories.

I am not surprised at this one.

And BTW, how's that cloud/mainframe-terminal model working for ya?

Pandora pleased with 15% rate hike for streaming music

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Re: If only ...

HA! Have an upvote.

Assembly of tech giants convene to define future of computing

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The future of computing?

The future of computing? That's easy.

Break away from the mainframe terminal model we have gone back to and embracing the whole damn point of the PC that made it popular to begin with: inde-fucking-depedence.

Mark my words. Cloud computing is just one big disaster/catastrophe of the death and destruction kind from falling out of favor.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong but mankind's history says you can pretty much bank on it.

Now for today's daily hack: The Hello Kitty empire was hacked for about 3 million accounts. No joke. This is real news.

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Re: +6

Be seeing you.

SpaceX launch is a go for Sunday after successful static fire completed

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Re: Someone forgot Grasshopper

"And those that recall Grasshopper have forgotten the NASA vertical-takeoff and landing rocket, the DC-X which did pretty much everything the Grasshopper did but twenty years earlier."

You have made me sad today remembering this.

Nonetheless, it's always good to remind people just how far behind we are and that much of our current super cool tech was created years and decades ago.