* Posts by ecofeco

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US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year, more than startups can hope to afford, say VCs

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Works for me.

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Re: But wasn't that the point of the H1B?

All of the above.

Linux Mint pushes out its own Chromium build to help users avoid Canonical's Snap Store

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Re: I guess, but why?

LOL Wut?

"Chromium is a free and open-source software project from Google. The source code can be compiled into a web browser. Google uses the code to make its Chrome browser,"

You are a website designer and I claim my 5 pound.

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I guess, but why?

Chrome anything as turned into one serious resource hog with VERY limited blocking abilities.

So why would anyone want this? Besides being stupid.

No, your software ideas aren't copyrightable, US judge tells SAS amid its long-running feud with Brit outfit

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Too confusing

Every nation is sovereign in their laws unless specified in treaties.

Except of course, the U.S. which thinks it's laws are the world's laws.

The Huawei Mate 40 Pro would be the best Android flagship on the market – were it not for the US-China trade war

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Exactly. The old walled garden system never works out well int the end.

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Re: A Grand!

$500+ for any phone is suckers world.

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Not a fan of no bezel

I am not a fan of no bezel. These types of phones are impossible to hold without triggering some kind of unwanted action. Who the hell thought this was a good idea?

Trump administration proposes H-1B visas go to highest-paid workers first

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This is not new

This is actually how the law is already written, yet companies over time have deliberately weakened it and brought us to the current state of H1B undercutting prevailing wages.

The U.S. could put some teeth back into the laws, but companies will just go back to undermining them straight away.

Remember the days when signs were signs and operating systems didn't need constant patching?

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Re: Why Windows?

I was just about to ask the same question for the same reason.

All it took was a global pandemic confining millions to their homes to remind businesses how much they appreciate the IT crowd

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...or 50GB of Outlook emails from the last 7 years.

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Hahahahaahahahaha

Hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

Yeah... nope.

We still get treated like geek stepchildren and paid no different.

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

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Re: LiAr LiAr PD

Exactly. Judge Dread is their bible.

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

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No mystery here

Seems obvious why he was fired to begin with.

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

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FFS. WHY?!

Why does anyone think working on a tiny screen is somehow productive?

Dammit I swear the world turns more Idiocracy every day.

You forgot your laptop? That's on YOU for being an idiot. Along with all the other scenarios where you did not plan ahead.

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

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Why so long?

It's takes time to figure out how to properly screw the American consumer.

In a world where up is down, it's heartwarming to know Internet Explorer still tops list of web dev pain points

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Re: The won't have a choice

Website design has become a hot mess of bloated shite.

And everyone involved shares the blame. But mostly marketing and devs.

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Then YOU are doing it wrong.

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It's not the browser!

Any application that does not work properly is all browsers is the problem, not the damn browser.

I cannot believe we are still having this conversation 20 years later.

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Legacy cheap skates.

"Our customers are stuck on old software they cannot easily update."

Yes they can, they just don't want to pay for it.

Alibaba wants to get you off the PC upgrade treadmill and into its cloud

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Re: so, a 'Network Computer'?

More like 1966.

Need to track IT kit? Business continuity? Legal? ServiceNow has a package of satellite apps for you... now

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Re: The no-code approach

Ever heard of Filemaker? Template or drop down/drag-n-drop or code or any combination.

Quick start with full customization as the business grows that can be done in-house.

Amiga Fast File System makes minor comeback in new Linux kernel

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I am still very depressed the Amigo OS did not come to dominate the world.

Not even joking.

Can you imagine where we would be today?

Just another example of how so many great ideas are abandoned in favor of lesser ones when corporations (MS in this example) lie and cheat.

Experian says it recovered and deleted data on 24 million South Africans after giving it to random 'marketing' person

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Oh FFS

See title.

Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check

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Re: Replacement PCI bus service

But i've lready tipped the waitstaff!

Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB dips toe in serverless waters with pay-as-you-go preview

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This?

Again?

What legacy is IBM really shooting for? Cheating its own salespeople out of millions? Here we go again, allegedly

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Fuck IBM

Hard.

Shocking no one, not enough foreigners applied for H-1B visas this year so US govt ran a second lottery

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Exactly.

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Re: Oh NOSSSSSS!

Hard to become educated when you can't afford it.

And I've met many of the H1-Bs. Hundreds in fact. They bring nothing superior to the table, only the willingness to accept lower wages.

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Oh NOSSSSSS!

They might have to *GASP* hire Americans for real wages!

Cisco to sell everything-as-a-service – even core networking hardware – and cut costs by a billion bucks

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Time to find a new vendor

Goodbye CISCO.

Trump administration reportedly offers Oracle cheap end to $400m wage discrimination case

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Re: Run the Kanye scenarios

Godwin issued a statement that the law is temporarily rescinded due to Trump.

Yes, that is real.

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Then you are a rube and born yesterday.

Microsoft Defender casts a jaundiced eye over Citrix, slams services in quarantine on suspicion of being malware

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Micrsoft never fails to deliver!

They never fail to deliver reasons why they deserve their shitty reputation.

We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

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Re: The truth...

Ah HA!

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What's new is old again

Sears anyone?

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

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Re: It's all about the money

You won't have to wonder for long.

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Re: All money is theft!

Exactly.

Nothing new here and nobody is innocent.

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Sounds like the history of America.

Oh, you didn't know many inventions were stolen by America in the first hundred year of the Industrial Revolution?

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Pot, kettle

The three top countries which are responsible for the most hacking in the entire world:

-China

-Russia

...and...

-America.

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

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Ouch!

FFS.

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

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I've worked in many places the IT dept's bad reputation was deserved. Needless to say, I didn't stay there long. Nor was I very well liked my co-workers. It's weird how many places punish competency.

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Re: Ahh yes the

I have done exactly this.

A VP was eventually dragged into it. The VP made spares happen very quickly.

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Re: Rudest, Dumbest - same thing no?

That's how most places I've worked do it, although we put a little more effort into contacting the user. But if after 3-4 tries and a week goes by without the user getting back to us, we close the ticket.

Funny thing though, the user ends up calling back within hours of the ticket being closed.

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Rhetorical question?

"Ever done a good deed, only to have it thrown back at you by an angry user, or finally snapped after one petulant request too many?"

At least once a year, sometimes more.

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

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WTH?

Why don't they use some other spreadsheet of database?

This is insane!

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

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Re: We are not discussing pneumonic plague, Ebola, or smallpox

I am both amazed and appalled at how many people just brush off a million dead people.

In ONE country!

UK govt finds £200,000 under sofa to kick off research into improving mobile connectivity on nation's crap railways

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Must be nice

It must be nice to be paid this kind of money to be Captain Obvious.

Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

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Re: Training and infosec

No kidding. This is some serious fail by the security department.

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The hardest part

The hardest part of my job is enforcing I.T.security. The second is obstinate executives. The third is average everyday obstinate users.

The technical side and vendor idiocy is easy compared to those.