* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)

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Re: Dislike

Ha! I just posted sort of the same thing!

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The layers keep piling up

More and more layers of obfuscation keep getting added to the Internet, further distancing most people from having any clue how it actually works.

Creaky systems 'cost lives': Health secretary Matt Hancock pledges to solve NHS IT woes

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TITSUP he means.

I worked on a project for a major U.S. hospital that was successfully completed, on time, in 3 years.

Over 20,000 users and over 100,000 patients a year and rising. This hospital also has a top tier school and major research center and is spread out over dozens of facilities.

It can be done, just not by well connected morons.

This SAME system is also being successfully deployed at other major U.S. hospitals.

Microsoft tells volume customers they can stay on Windows 7... for a bit longer... for a fee

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Re: I would consider 'Windows 9'

Why bother at all? Win 10 is absolute shit. I've now deployed hundreds at the corporate level, and creating the image alone just about drove our team 'round the bend.

Then there are the infinite updates. I'm not even exaggerating. We had the latest version and the updates never stopped day after day after day after day, long AFTER we had already deployed them.

People were literally losing serious hours to updates and it was having a crippling effect on productivity.

Fuck Win 10.

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Re: Divorcing Microsoft

"It feels like innovation has been totally replaced by a subscription upgrade boot stamping on a human face forever..."

Because it has. MS is taking us back to the terminal/mainframe systems as fast as it can.

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Re: Microsoft is giving people some extra time...

No kidding, Unless your company runs some weird custom middleware or specialized software that should have been updated 10 years ago, switching to Linux is the no brainer solution.

Soft eng salaries soar by 25 per cent – and, oh yes, devops is best paid for non-boss techies

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How about the rest of us?

Some of techs would like a decent raise as well.

All that pretty software can't run on broken machines.

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Re: From the "no shit, Shirlock" files:

Came to say pretty much the same thing.

Hundred-million Kiwi Oracle project on hold after Deloitte review

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They never learn, do they?

You would think by now that the words IBM and Oracle would be known as being synonymous with FAIL.

UK.gov: NHS should be compensated by firms using its data goldmine

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So the UK has gone "full American"

Take people's data without permission and then MAYBE pay everyone BUT the individual.

That's "full American"

Skype can now record your 'special moments' in front of the computer

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You mean, when Skype works

See title.

Ever wanted to strangle Microsoft? Now Outlook, Skype 'throttle' users amid storm cloud drama

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I NEVER get tired of posting this

How's that cloud thing working out for ya?

If you weren't rich enough to buy a Surface before, you may as well let that dream die

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WTF?

Ah, but...

Why would I even want a Surface?

Microsoft gives Windows 10 a name, throws folks a bone

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"Higher and Deeper"

Now THAT would have been the more correct name.

TSB goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Surprise Users, Probably

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Abandon shit!

No, that's no typo.

Apple to require privacy policy on all apps

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Oh well, that will show them!

How about a privacy policy that mandates real privacy?

Security bods: Android system broadcasts enable user tracking

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Your wi fi should be off by default

Keep your phone wi fi off by default. Only use it when needed.

Mine is off even at home.

Mozilla changes Firefox policy from ‘do not track’ to ‘will not track’

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Re: Rearranging the deckchairs

Detecting browser and region of that browser has been easily accomplished for well over a decade.

Tracking is whole 'nother animal and needs to be stopped dead.

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Re: Check your tracking status

Yes, thanks Norman. Quite useful.

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Re: Could they make deleting cookies easy again?

Privacy Mode. Looks like a black mask icon.

Also Tool>Options>Privacy & Security>Cookies and Site Data

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Tool>Options>Privacy & Security>Cookies and Site Data

Been there for a few years, too.

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About time

Excellent news.

Ah, um, let's see. Yup... Fortnite CEO is still mad at Google for revealing security hole early

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Re: Here's a novel idea!

Any security vuln is NOT trivial.

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Here's a novel idea!

Stop making shit products.

Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

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Re: That's some seriously hard of thinking

Short answer Dan is yes. Rents are that high.

Everyone screams patch ASAP – but it takes most organizations a month to update their networks

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It depends

Most places I've worked at always test the patches first. So however long that takes.

Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

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Disaster capitalism at its finest

See title.

For reference see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

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Hoisted...

...by our own petards.

Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit

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Re: And, of course....

You make that sound like a problem.

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Oldest game in the advertising book

Audience numbers are ALWAYS bullshit.

'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway

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Re: Then again...

Right? Cops wanted mass surveillance and they got it. They just didn't think they would also be victims of it.

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It's almost like...

... most of the Internet was designed and built in the cheapest way possible by the least competent companies run by people who think grifting is good business.

Most staffers expect bosses to snoop on them, say unions

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Re: pretty please don't use your work email for personal shit.

Seen this many times. Local drive wiped/borked/failed and files irretrievably wiped because they were supposed to save them on the network drive.

Boss regrets pointing finger at chilled out techie who finished upgrade early

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Re: Oh so familiar

Oh so familiar indeed.

I've had similar happen several times. Vendors not paid, services cut off. Bosses want answers right now!

Always fun to tell them they need to pay the bills.

Democrats go on the offensive over fake FCC net neut'y cyberattack

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Re: Some of the above?

Exactly. Pai is still a lying shit weasel corporate tool.

As for "partisanship", my friends, this is everyday politics.

As for Pai's excuse, it's just another version of "I don't recall, your honor."

ZX Spectrum Vega+ blows a FUSE: It runs open-source emulator

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Re: They seem to have got the period ergonomics right.

Oh so true.

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Re: BIG NEW!

Not enough upvotes.

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I hear you Rod but you and I don't have the right connections.

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Re: FUSE?

FU?

Prime Minister?

Stress, bad workplace cultures are still driving security folk to drink

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Re: Not just IT

Well said. NO job is worth dying over. Nor to make some other asshole rich.

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Re: No job deserves self destruction

Most jobs suck and most people have no real choices.

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Re: IT is not a healthy profession

"Put your CV on a few of the big recruitment sites, and see what happens!"

They are not as plentiful as you think. I've been out of work for 2 months now.

Oh I get calls from the recruiters and they are all impressed with my CV, but still no takers.

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Re: Curiously American

You don't have to rub it in. :)

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Re: Curiously American

American businesses still have many elements of the plantation model.

Emma's Diary fined £140k for flogging data on over a million new mums to Labour Party

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That's gotta hurt!

A slap on the wrist like that must be oh, so painful!

/s

Oh, fore putt's sake: Golf org PGA bunkered up by ransomware attack just days before tournament

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Not surprised

This is what happens when you putter around without actually sinking the holes. You end up with sub-par results and are handicapped.

Apparently they had neither the drive nor iron will to fix this. I'd would be tee-d off about it. This will probably put a wedge between them and the green in their bottom line.

Profit-strapped Symantec pulls employee share scheme

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Re: About those beancounters

I've been saying this for years. Never let an accountant run your business.

Never.

Sur-Pies! Google shocks world with sudden Android 9 Pixel push

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Not one must have feature

My 2yo phone already does most of that.

Wake me when we at least have basic tricorders.

Internet overseer ICANN loses a THIRD time in Whois GDPR legal war

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Meh

Whois has been useless for years.