* Posts by ecofeco

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Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo

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Stockholm Syndrome

If I worked for a company that had a profitable year and then said no raises, I would not even give a two weeks notice. I'd stay just long enough to find the next job and then gone without a word.

Turn about is fair play. No holds barred capitalism isn't just for the rich.

Anyone who isn't doing this has Stockholm Syndrome.

Mircosoft is another one of those companies that looks good on your CV, but you do not want to stay there.

Google accused of ripping off advertisers with video ads no one saw. Now, the expert view

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Advertising makes ponzi look honest

I found out decades ago just how crooked advertising is. Metrics are half truth fairy tales, rate are over-priced and unless you carpet bomb your audience over and over (very expensive), virtually useless.

Sourced: worked in advertising.

Microsoft and GitHub are still trying to derail Copilot code copyright legal fight

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Re: We all do it

cargo cult programming

What a perfect description!

H-1B fraud consultancies grow, with application abuse openly discussed online

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Re: I really like this idea

This is already the requirement. i.e. companies must pay U.S. market rate for H1Bs.

The problem is they game the system and also outright ignore the law.

This Windows update is snarling up some endpoint security tools

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Windows has in fact, been flawed from day one.

Microsoft signs 1.5 million seat contract for Office 365 and more

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Re: Windows?

Emphasis on Proctology.

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Welp

... they're boned.

Linux Mint cuts slice of 'Victoria' as 21.2 beta lands with dash of fresh Cinnamon

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Flat UIs must die.

Dumbest ever interface design.

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Re: Thank you!

My VERY non tech other half has been using Mint Mate for over a year.

Not one problem except having a hundred YouTube tabs open. Then fail.

Other than that, I update it once in a while and no other issues.

Forget these apps and AI, where's my flying car? Ah, here's one with an FAA license

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NOBODY is flying one of these without a pilot's license.

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Re: Argh, what is it going to be??

Pilots.

It's the law.

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Piper Cubs are not VTOL.

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Re: Is it flying car time again?

NOBODY is flying any manned vehicle without a pilot's license. (ultralights and low power experimental being the ONLY exception)

I swear I see this same stupid response over and over in every damn "flying car" article.

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Re: Are specially designed flying cars really necessary?

I see this same dumb question over and over.

NOBODY is flying any manned vehicle without a pilot's license. And those are neither cheap nor easy to get.

Crook who stole $23m+ in YouTube song royalties gets five years behind bars

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Re: Shocked!

Perfect fit, indeed.

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Re: "still has plans to remain in the music business"

The entire music industry is one big scam. All of entertainment for that matter.

This is not opinion, but documented fact for the last 100 years.

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...and if he has doubts, we can keep discussing this in front of a federal judge, thanks.

LOL!

And so he did.

Fire-resistant drones promise to help rescuers in a hot spot

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But, why?

These drones and robots can already be bought.

Search YouTube for fire fighting robots and firefighting drones. (for some reason, two separate things requiring two separate searches)

They not only exist, but are already deployed en mass.

Canada plans brain drain of H-1B visa holders, with no-job, no-worries work permits

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Correction

...but the visa is believed to be widely abused...

Proven. Search H1B abuse. Proven.

Think of our cafes and dry cleaners, says Ohio as budget slashes WFH for govt workers

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Re: The real reason...

You summed it up perfectly MMalik.

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Yeah, that's gonna leave a mark

https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/the-damaging-results-of-the-mandated-return-to-office-is/454043

A trio of compelling reports — the Greenhouse Candidate Experience Report, the Federal Reserve's Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), and Unispace's "Returning for Good" report — collectively paint a stark picture of this brewing storm.

Unispace finds that nearly half (42%) of companies that mandated office returns witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. Imagine that — nearly half! In other words, they knew it would cause some attrition, but they weren't ready for the serious problems that would result.

If AI drives humans to extinction, it'll be our fault

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Re: Ignorance is Bliss and Heaven Sent and Much Appreciated by AI and ITs Likes

Just what plug is there to pull on a massively distributed system?

Oh, you thought is was just one computer? Or just one data center?

Might as well try to pull the plug on the Internet. Because the first thing a smart AI is going to do is structure itself all over the network so that no single point of failure will affect its operation. Massive distributed system.

Sleep well.

JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence in multi-million record retention screwup

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Re: >JP Morgan accidentally deletes evidence

I would call you correct and bet on it.

Mega-data platform worth half a billion will suck in info from family doctors

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Re: Who will be the first woman to be sent to death row in Texas for having an abortion in the UK?

Two down-voters obviously think you are exaggerating.

I can confirm you are not.

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Mark my words

Future data breach assured.

US vendor accused of violating GDPR by reputation-scoring EU citizens

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Re: Another day, another U.S. corp finding out

Ah! Thanks for the info.

It's a damn snake-pit when it comes to corporation shell companies these days.

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Another day, another U.S. corp finding out

It always makes my day to see a U.S. corp finding out the rest of world will not put up with their bullshit.

Lawyers who cited fake cases hallucinated by ChatGPT must pay

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When they use the word hallucinate they are just trying to minimize the fact it was wrong.

Just plain wrong. But they can't admit that, can they?

Missing Titan sub likely destroyed in implosion, no survivors

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Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

My bad. Thanks.

I was just ball parking it. Have my upvote.

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Re: Shoddy risk-management

This event will be cited in risk management training for years to come.

..and ignored like the thousands of other examples, because... same old, same old.

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Re: "craft's carbon fiber hull"

Several thousands pounds per sq inch starting at just 3000ft. It just goes up almost exponentially from there.

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Re: A fitting epitaph

"I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules."

Some people never learn and others never live long enough TO learn. Related, see "prison".

Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules

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Re: Land of the free

I am not against organizing a work force to be able to stand up against corporate exploitation...

Congratulations! You just described a labor union!

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Re: Land of the free

Patience, the pandemic is not over and the labor shortage is going to get worse.

And that's not just me saying it, but the CDC.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2023/callinfo_061523.asp

7 min mark.

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Re: Workers rights in the US

15 down-votes for telling the truth?

What a world.

'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter

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Re: What's Hate?

Right Nick?

"It's difficult to define!" Only to those who promote it.

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Re: What's Hate?

Perhaps you have heard of this thing called a dictionary? Perhaps not.

Also, racism, terrorism, and promotion of genocide are NOT differences of opinion except to those who promote them.

See? This isn't hard. Except to those who promote the above.

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Re: What type of "hate speech"?

Thanks for proving my point.

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Re: What's Hate?

If you don't know the diffetence, you're part of the problem.

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Racism, terrorism, and promotion of genocide are NOT differences of opinion except to those who promote them.

See? This isn't hard. Except to those who promote the above.

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Re: What type of "hate speech"?

If you can't tell obvious hate, you're part of the problem.

This is something children understand.

Google formally accuses monopolist Microsoft of trapping people in its cloud

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Re: The primary purpose of "cloud"

The PC was created to free us from the mainframe and here we not just begging to be put back in chains, but PAYING to be put back in chains.

Microsoft Azure OpenAI lets enterprises feed corporate secrets to ChatGPT

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WTF?

This can't be real.

Oh wait.... Of course it is. Cuz these are stupid times.

Google has blocked in its in-car software rivals, claims German watchdog

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Potentially?

Have we sunk so low that obvious monopoly is not obvious?

We just don't get enough time, contractor tasked with fact-checking Google Bard tells us

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Re: It was great for a while

Same here. Search results are often so far off the mark as to be useless.

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Re: If they want a flawed product, that's on them

Dollar Store terminators?

Yeah, I can see that.

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Contractors?

I think I see the problem already.

Contractors are often treated like crap. In this case I'm guessing no better than jobbers at mechanical turks.

Remember that?

Oreo cookie maker says crooks gobbled up staff info

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Lawyers?

Again?

I think I see a trend here.

Lenovo's Yoga 9 is flexible at home, but stretches the friendship at work

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$1700?

Overpriced status symbol toy.

OpenAI calls for tough regulation of AI while quietly seeking less of it

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Re: AI Strikes Back with ITs Novel Forces for Spooky Quantum Entangled Sources ‽

The main lesson of history is that we never seem to learn from history.