* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

When does tackling pandemic misinfo become censorship? US courts argue it out

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Re: This is absurd

Ah, now looks like two criminals.

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Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

It's just stunning how you can be wrong about everything.

I would be impressed by your incompetence if not for the millions of deaths involved.

Oh, and masks?

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/how-the-cochrane-review-went-wrong-report-questioning-covid-masks-blows-up-prompts-apology/article_80b67196-5872-5b1a-a208-b0a525f8de5b.html

The Cochrane Review has apologized for an evidence review that led many to conclude, inaccurately, that masks don’t work.

The idea that masks don’t help slow COVID is an “inaccurate and misleading interpretation” of the report they published in January, Karla Soares-Weiser, editor-in-chief of the Cochrane Library, wrote in an update posted to the their website on Friday.

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Re: Fairly obvious answer.

And so they were.

Unless we are misinformed about people dying during the pandemic?

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Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

"Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

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Re: This is absurd

Well that's one criminal posting here.

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Re: Fairly obvious answer.

Not only called out, but prosecuted.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1038

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Re: Don't like the way you are framing this

The Cochrane review has since proved they are very likely correct.

LOL, no. Not even close.

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This is absurd

The law is clear:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1038

(a) Criminal Violation.—

(1) In general.—Whoever engages in any conduct with intent to convey false or misleading information under circumstances where such information may reasonably be believed and where such information indicates that an activity has taken, is taking, or will take place that would constitute a violation of chapter 2, 10, 11B, 39, 40, 44, 111, or 113B of this title, section 236 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2284), or section 46502, the second sentence of section 46504, section 46505(b)(3) or (c), section 46506 if homicide or attempted homicide is involved, or section 60123(b) of title 49, shall—

(A) be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(B) if serious bodily injury results, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(C) if death results, be fined under this title or imprisoned for any number of years up to life, or both.

IBM Software tells workers: Get back to the office three days a week

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Re: Why do people assume it is only upper management that supports back to office?

Must be in the same office?

I'll let my 50,000 co-workers working all over the world know we are doing it wrong.

Chrome, Firefox and more caught with their WebP down, offer hasty patch-up

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Oh FFS Google

See title

India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered

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Re: Well done India

Google, Amazon, and Facebook consulted on the draft guidelines, along with local e-commerce players Flipkart, RIL, Swiggy, Zomato, Ola, and Tata

You're joking, right?

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Who helped them?!

LOL! The biggest offenders got to write the rules.

Bombshell biography: Fearing nuclear war, Musk blocked Starlink to stymie Ukraine attack on Russia

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Big mistake getting personally involved in this war. Now either the Russians or Ukrainians, or both, will want to extract some revenge at some point in time.

Yep he's in WAY over his head now

Mozilla calls cars from 25 automakers 'data privacy nightmares on wheels'

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Re: A long time ago...

Because it is.

But reality is about to fix that.

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Re: A long time ago...

Are we as a species completely afflicted with wilful blindness.

Is this a trick question?

Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history

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Chrome?

What is this Chrome you speak of?

Meanwhile. FireFox continues to improve its security and privacy.

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Re: Yeah, like most places that say it's web based

Thanks. I've been saying this more or less for years.

But Rube Goldberg-ing pays more, so here we are. Simplicity is against policy in many places these days. And the quest for the walled garden never ends.

IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent

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The load capacity of the turnip truck is infinite and the back gate is never closed.

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I never get tired of saying it

So, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

So you want to save energy? Ditch web apps and go native, boffins say

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Coat

Heretics!

Splitters!

How dare they defile and debase the holy phone app? They are unclean! Infidels!

Oh wait, I'm with the heretics. Uhm, excuse me, just gotta call.... ------------------------------>>>>>>>>>>

IT needs more brains, so why is it being such a zombie about getting them?

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Re: Plenty of specialists, massive shortist of generalists

All of the above. ^^^

Dell and Samsung grab first-class tickets for AI hype train

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Maybe pumping blockchain grifts?

Seems like the perfect match.

Twitter says it may harvest biometric, employment data from its addicts

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They are all doing it

May? Like an alcoholic may have a drink or two?

I've also noticed a serious uptick in user data swapping across the board. I've got blockers and cache clearing out the wazoo and I still see certain things targeted at me from my recent browsing. On completely different websites. This is not coincidence.

The Pentagon has the worst IT helpdesk in the US govt

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Money is funny that way

Anyone who can get a high enough security clearance to work in DoD IT support is going to make more money in the private sector. And the ones still in service are just marking time until discharge/retirement. Actual hands on IT support tech in the military tend to be NCOs who are well aware of their worth in the private sector.

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Have my upvote.

Well stated.

Google threatens to inject Duet AI bot into more corners of Workspace: Meet, Chat, etc

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This will end well

Not.

Silicon Valley billionaires secretly buy up land for new California city

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Galt's Gulch

This NEVER works. Tech douche bros and fintech douche bros are so out of touch with reality it's not even funny any more.

Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps

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Re: MS does not care one little bit

Same here.

Both of them are bloated garbage barges that chains your data to the cloud.

Not to mention their crap-tastic UX.

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Serendipitous

I fail to see how that's a bad thing.

365 everything is garbage. They are doing them a favor. A backhanded favor, but a favor nonetheless.

Europe's tough new rules for Big Tech start today. Is anyone ready?

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Re: Scary, are we blind to this?

Look at you, you beautiful selfawarewolf!

Concorde? Pffft. NASA wants a Mach 4 passenger jet

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Again?

Does this mean the flying car is finally coming as well?

/s

US Republican party's spam filter lawsuit against Google dimissed

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Hahaahahahahaahaha

Hahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa

The GOP just love to shoot themselves in their feet. This will never get old.

Profits just keep rolling in at T-Mobile US. So only thing to do is axe 5,000 workers

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Liar

"We have zero intention of being a faceless – or heartless – company in a situation that is already difficult," he added.

Bullshit. They epitomize it. In every single aspect of their operations.

UK health service has £1.5B to put toward Digital Workplace Solutions 2: Electric Boogaloo

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1.5B?

I'm going to bet the B stands for bollocks.

About 1.5 billion pounds worth.

Zoom CEO reportedly tells staff: Workers can't build trust or collaborate... on Zoom

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Re: Just... Wow

This isn't just tone deaf, it's more like lobotomy through the ear canal.

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LMAO!

Bwhahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hollywood studios agree AI-generated content should not reduce humans' pay or credit

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Writers can only do what the executives want.

Oh, did you think the writers were in control?

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Re: Veni, vidi, vici

LOL! After all these years, people still downvote you.

Have my upvote. And a pint. ---------------------------->>

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Exactly!

That's the executives' job!

Imagine the nerve of AI replacing executives!

LibreOffice 7.6 arrives: Open source stalwart is showing its maturity

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Re: Where's the "Outlook" feature in LibreOffice?

Beat me to it.

No Outlook connection is a feature, not a bug.

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Re: "it is increasingly difficult to develop entirely new features"

Maybe this will help?

https://extensions.libreoffice.org

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Installed

Not bad. Seems slightly better than the previous version.

Not really stressed it, but then I hardly used any office suite that much these days.

So... works for me.

Microsoft whips out probe after Windows 11 users suffer the blue-screen blues

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As much I love to bash MS

Love me some MS bashing all day long, but this looks like a mfg BIOS issue.

Mfg bollocks IS still a thing these days.

Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users

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Dropbox?

It's been barely useful for years. They keep changing the terms and the craptastic UX is just so lovely. (Hierarchy? Taxonomy? Outline file format? Simple directory tree? Unpossible!)

I do not use them unless forced to.

Space junk targeted for cleanup mission was hit by different space junk, making more space junk

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Where does this fall on the Kardashev scale?

See title.

You can now fine-tune OpenAI's GPT-3.5 for specific tasks – it may even beat GPT-4

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There is something else I can do as well

Not care.

No reflection of El Reg. Legit news is legit and this is legit news.

But personally, I'm just waiting for the hpye train to derail.

Apple's defense against apps vandalizing other apps still broken, developer claims

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Well this is awkward

Apple is tight arsed about just getting an app in their store and yet this is still a problem?

I'm not buying. Apple is full of it.

Get a $25 gift card if you help the US check whether these facial logins really work

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I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Or at least buy you a beer. Elegant solutions to stupid problems are so rare these days.

ICANN warns UN may sideline tech community from future internet governance

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Re: Reality is overrated

Been looking for this quote for years.

Thanks! Have a beer on me!

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LOL! Well then can try

Apparently they seem to not know that computers control EVERY aspect of modern civilization.

Every. Single. Thing.

And it's ONLY the geeks that understand how it all works.

That said, ICANN are still wankers.