* Posts by ecofeco

8241 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Oracle sorely wanted case alleging improper inflation of cloud sales to disappear. But the judge said no

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Re: Uh, no.

Exactly. It was straight up fraudulent representation.

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Not all shareholders are equal and contrary to popular misconception, outside of the board of directors, they have very little power these days.

To effect any meaningful change and address malfeasance, they HAVE to sue these days.

'Agile' F-35 fighter software dev techniques failed to speed up supersonic jet deliveries

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Oink

Oink oink oink.

In a barrel. By the trainload.

Cockup or conspiracy? Popular privacy extension ClearURLs removed from Chrome web store

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Re: Applicable?

Become? Yes. Has been for some time.

Tired: Linux fans using the Edge browser. Wired: Linux fans using a Microsoft account to sign into the Edge browser

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You're taking the piss right?

Nobody is really doing this, are they? Are they?!

Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility

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Re: Wow...

Fix? Are you familiar with these two companies?

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LOL, dogs breakfast for all!

The two WORST offenders of browsers are collaborating.

This will end well!

Bwhahahahahahahahahah!!!!!

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Re: Weird way round?

The problem with standards is they do not allow for bloat and therefore, job and market lock-in.

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

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Re: But surely, tech is dangerous?

Every word of this is truth.

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Re: @Big_Boomer - Drones

Well libraries are not profitable, are they?

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Mushroom

Re: shortage

Nailed and it's been that way for the last 20 years.

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Re: Have they considered paying more for IT?

Do you even know what I.T. stands for?

We'll wait.

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Re: Have they considered paying more for IT?

What other countries?

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This is the short of it. I.T. no longer pays like it used to nor has the job security either. So why bother? More money to be made in the trades these days. And offshoring to India really screwed everyone, including the Indians.

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Re: In other words Office 365 is not the same as Python or C++

...with the leather handle and custom knurling?

Oohhhhhhh. Yeah baby!

What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose

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Create a problem, then profit from the solution

I've been saying it for years and people just think I'm some negative person, but I've seen this all too often. People deliberately create a problem and then try to profit from the solution.

They are legion and they are why we can't have nice things.

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Re: Disappointed but not surprised

This common in all sectors in every industry.

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Re: made a senior team member very angry and retribution was swift and brutal

I've worked a lot of places and found that it's about a 50/50 chance of finding a better place.

So easier said than done.

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Toxic? Yeah, but it happens every, single, day.

America's Supremes give Facebook nothing but heartaches: Top court won't stop '$15bn wiretap' lawsuit

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Bwahahahahahahah!!!

Love it.

See title

Windows 10 Insider build fixes the fix it sent out to fix the fix that broke printing? Afraid not, but here's a new Notepad icon

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Same old Microsoft

Same shit, different decade.

IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions

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Re: That is a shareholder problem

Do not have

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Re: One of the worst CEOs in history lost $134Billion in marked cap in 9 years

Nailed it.

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Re: That is a shareholder problem

Shareholders do have as much leverage as you think they do and are often overruled when they press for accountability and more responsible managers.

There are hundreds of such examples if you google for them.

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Re: Not surprised at declining revenues..

IBM should have been on that out list of yours years ago.

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Re: Unbelievable!

...and history shows this never ends well.

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Failing upwards

Must be nice. I'll bet their bollocks doesn't smell either.

Security pro's time-travelling Twitter bot suspended after posting download link for Adobe Acrobat for MS-DOS

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Down the memory hole

See title.

Exchange flaws could be much worse than thought: Six hacking groups suspected of using the zero days pre-patch

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Re: We need to change the Internet

Not questioning you, but need a source to show the boss. Do you have a link for this? There is so much FUD coming up in the search results I have not been able to verify anything.

Thanks.

US govt indicted me because I make privacy tools, says crypto-chat app CEO accused of helping drug smugglers

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Re: So tomorrow Signal, Telegram?

So the best to assume that everyone is criminal?

Nice due process, there.

Microsoft customers locked out of Teams, Office, Xbox, Dynamics – and Azure Active Directory breakdown blamed

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Becasue it's what all the cool kids are doing!

Starlink's latent China crisis could spark a whole new world of warcraft

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Internt Free China

Seems like a modern update of Radio Free Europe.

How Facebook uses public videos to train, deploy machine-learning models and harvest those eyeballs

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Re: "videos of tractors"

Just... just watch out for those PTO ones. The way they hook up is kinky. Real kinky.

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Re: It's a world wide web, not your local pub.

Good points, but since when did psychopathic boards of directors every use good sense?

Also, the comeuppance usually comes far too late for the lives they've damaged and the money they've made.

Facebook’s new world domination ploy is a two-megabyte Instagram app tested in India and Brazil

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Re: Too m

Your personal info is worthless?

Cardinal Richelieu would like a word with you. 6 words, in fact.

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World domination!

...through better sexting!

Pron has a long history of driving technology.

'No' does not mean 'yes'... unless you are a scriptwriter for software user interfaces

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Re: when to use the word "fewer" instead of the word "less"

En-biggen.

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This is how languages die

If you have ever wondered how langues die and become unreadable to the masses, this is how.

They don't evolve, they de-evolve.

The trend of the last 20 years to use 20 words when one will do, has not helped. And the portmanteaus are no longer funny. Ceaseless nattering, all of it.

AND DO NOT GET ME STARTED INTERFACE DESIGNERS!

The great Microsoft cull continues as paid content set to be stripped from Business and Education Store

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Re: How generous!

American corporations are weird that way. Even though you bought and paid full price for something, they still think they own it.

In other words, larceny.

Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention

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Re: Just fix the CPU's - Still not done

That would be nice, but have you forgotten the golden rule of capitalism? Privatize the profits, socialize the losses? Anything else is just crazy eebil commie talk!

Google and Microsoft's public squabble over who's the worst is giving us life right now, not gonna lie

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There are no good guys in that scenario.

Let them enter the Thunderdome!

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IBM enters the chat

IBM has entered the chat.

ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer

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What bloat?

Oh THAT bloat.

SN was bloated years ago. So their solution is to add more? How typical of all vendors these days.

Privacy purists prickle at T-Mobile US plan to proffer people's personal web, app pursuits to ad promoters

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Re: Move to whom?

Move to whom indeed.

In America, your choices are exactly the same only with a different wrapper and brand name.

In everything for that matter.

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

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You get what you pay for and reap what you sow

The government and corporations ran off the good coders decades ago along with the good I.T. staff who would enforce safe practices among the users, just to save money and hand out "most favored" contracts. Now we are seeing the consequences.

State of Maine threatens to tear up Workday HR contract and request $21m refund if it cannot remedy concerns

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Is Workday taking lessons from IBM?

Well how about that?! Yes they are!

https://www.ibm.com/services/workday

I think I see the problem. (funny how this was THE very first thing I thought of AND IT TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE)

IBM settles £36m Direct Line insurance platform project lawsuit, after claiming Teradata tried to usurp its spot

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Re: IBM "had no one suitably qualified available."

Longer than that, but, yeah.

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Re: Translation

Your corporate translation kung fu skills are superior.

Qualys hit with ransomware: Customer invoices leaked on extortionists' Tor blog

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LOL

Wut?!

Gootkit malware crew using SEO to get pwned websites in front of unwitting marks

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Re: NoScript FTW

I share that dream.