* Posts by ecofeco

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Good news, everyone: Ransomware declining. Bad news: Miscreants are turning to crypto-mining on infected PCs

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"The only sign that a miner is installed is an increased CPU load on the infected machine"

And how can we tell the difference between it and regular Microsoft operation?

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Symbiotic instead of parasitic

Evolution in action!

Fujifilm, Xerox throw each other a US$6.1 billion lifeline

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Ichan the vulture capitalist.

You can always smell his stench around once great and now dying companies.

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And thus ends yet another era

Funny how many once great American companies have killed themselves over the decades, yet we are still forced to believe that American capitalism is the absolute bestist!

Pro tip: ditch your IBM stock before the middle of this century. They're next.

AT&T's financial figures reveal 19 BEEELLLION reasons why it lobbied hard for US tax cuts

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Here's some candy little kid. Now run along and play. The adults are trying to fuck over people here.

- every company that pulls this PR stunt.

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Re: Off The Topic Yet Again

I can relate. It's a fucking miracle the phone system works at all.

Been bugging the boss for a raise? Now's the time to go into infosec

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Re: Really?

"...it is important to note that this follows a prolonged period of IT professionals commanding higher and higher wages."

Those surveys are bullshit. I don't know who they are asking, but my income and experience is nowhere close to what the surveys say my income should be.

Forget cyber crims, it's time to start worrying about GPS jammers – UK.gov report

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Re: Big Brother is Watching You

Not getting the downvotes, Peter so have an upvote from me.

Don't shoot the messenger folks. Be smarter about your everyday habits.

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Critical?

Well yes, if people can no longer read maps.

Oh wait, GB and America have become that stupid.

In America, tech support conmen get a mild slap. In Blighty, scammers get the book thrown at them

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American justice for sale

See title. So what else?

As I tell everyone, you have all the rights you can afford in America. You poor? Sucks to be you.

Eggheads: Cities, don't woo rich Amazon with sweetheart HQ deals

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Re: How do they get away with it?

Bill Clinton invented it,

He did NOT.

Dodgy parking firms to be denied access to Brit driver database

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Good, private firms should not be doing government's work

See title.

This whole fashion mistake of allowing private companies to do government's business has been a bad idea from day one, thank you very much Thatcher/Reagan!

I mean, how'd that work out for the East India Trading Co? It was good for while, right? And then? Yeah, not so good.

Fancy coughing up for a £2,000 'nanodegree' in flying car design?

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Seems like something is missing

Oh yeah, there are no flying cars.

If you've ever wondered whether the FCC boss is a Big Cable stooge – well, wonder no more

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Re: Not a new phenomenon

If Pai's actions flout the law then organizations and states will bring lawsuits against him and the FCC.

They already are. They are also passing their own laws in favor of Net Neutrality.

The damage is already bad and will get worse. We still haven't recovered from Reagan's disasters, let alone the Bushes.

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Re: Pai is illiterate, IMNHO

"This clip, title, and description were not created by C-SPAN."

This is your reference?

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Cell phones towers and microwave relays and satellites.

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Re: Pardon?

Yes Trump made him Chairman, but the guy is beholden to $$ not the left or right.

No, you can't just dismiss Trump's action as if it were nothing.

29 MEEELLION iPhone Xs flogged... only to be end-of-life'd by summer?

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First adopters

I learned a long time ago to never be the first adopter.

H-1B visa hopefuls, green card holders are feeling the wrath of 'America first' Trump

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Many people ARE problems and bring no solutions.

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Re: A better life in the *States*?

America has become the nicest 3rd world police state in history!

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Re: i am wondering about unintended consequences

Except that isn't what will really happen.

What will happen is just an extension of the status quo: the illegals go underground like they always have and businesses continue to hire them because they can abuse them, just like they always have.

Employment abuse is THE point where I say immigrants should get and stay as legit as possible to protect themselves from business owners.

You want wires with that? Burger King backs, er, net neutrality

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Brilliant!

Good job Burger King!

Google can't innovate anymore, exiting programmer laments

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Facepalm

Well he's right.

I'm probably not the only one who remembers all the cool stuff they used to make even before the "Labs" thing they did. So numerous I can't even remember it all.

They have definitely lost their way. Search has become a bloated mess and is now trying to force me over to Google Assistant. Gmail has not improved its interface in years.

In fact, user interface is still a huge problem with Google.

And all this is just the basics!

Electronic voting box makers want kit stripped from eBay – and out of hackers' hands

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15 years?

Serverless: Should we be scared? Maybe. Is it a silly name? Possibly

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We're stumbling towards a generation of dribbling idiots who don't know how anything works.

Pfft. We've been there. Since day one.

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Serverless is a stupid name

Something more like "programless" or something along that lines. (I'll think of a clever name but I sure as hell won't tell you lot! Still trying to create a retirement fund, you know?)

I've always been a big fan of having computers do the heavy lifting. It is, after all, their sole purpose in life.

If I can create an application that can sort what was once disparate data and produce useful and practical information faster than all previous methods, then bring it on!

I've seen glimpses of this already and it's very cool. Well, the stuff that works right, anyway.

Here's one example (I cannot vouch for its quality only that it's not the only one) https://www.appmakr.com/

Info Commish tells UK.gov we shouldn't let artificial ignorance make all our decisions

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Agreed!

Why should we let artificial stupidity replace the MORE than abundant surplus we have of natural stupidity?!

HUZZAH!

'WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?' Linus Torvalds explodes at Intel spinning Spectre fix as a security feature

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Re: Intel's optimisations are the devil's work.

Yep.

Also, I'm sure those massive layoffs last year and the selling of massive stock was all coincidental.

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Re: It's about time the industry gave Intel a big spanking.

Lawsuits?

Boycotts would be better.

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Intel is NOT the gold standard

Intel has been making mistakes for decades. How they stay in business is either luck or crime.

Guess which one my cynical self thinks it is?

Sack the Xerox CEO 'immediately', yell activist investors

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How the mighty have fallen

Xerox is another one of those great examples of how business school/insider/good ol boys executives run a company into the ground.

Once the great innovator and brand to be reckoned with, it is now just a shell of its former self.

The list is long.

NHS OKs offshoring patient data to cloud providers stateside

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Came to say exactly the same thing.

Is the writing on the wall for on-premises IT? This survey seems to say so

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Re: Off-site IT...

The 1960's default architecture has simply been rebranded.

I've been saying this for years.

The PC was invented and became popular for a reason: it gave everyone independence of the mainframe.

For some reason, people no longer think this is a good idea.

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

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Skating away

Skating away

Skating away, on the thin ice

Of a new day

IBM turns panto villain as The Reg tells readers: 'It's behind you!'

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You would think, wouldn't you?

IBM's workforce, particularly in front line field services, should be the company's crown jewels. They are its feet on the street.

But nope. The email round robin manglement are pretty sure they ARE the crown jewels.

And that front line? Temp workers not actually on IBM's payroll.

Have three WINEs this weekend, because WINE 3.0 has landed

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I'm pretty good at things, but...

...for some reason I can never get WINE to work right.

No doubt it's just me, but the lack of good troubleshooting documentations doesn't help.

You may not be a software company, but that isn't an excuse to lame-out at computering

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Here's another eaxmple:

Blockchain.

Can we send all the marketers on that special spaceship now?

Feds charge Barclays trader with fraud in Hewlett-Packard deal

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Hard to believe, right? /s :)

Sad-sack Anon calling himself 'Mr Cunnilingus' online is busted for DDoSing ex-bosses

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Not enough upvotes!

Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em

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Re: Dont' name and shame persistent offenders

Sack them.

Came to say the same thing. I have no sympathy if they have been trained and warned more than once.

Intellectual Property Office drops, er, patently cool cartoon to teach kids about trademarks

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Re: Theft? stealing? Surely the IPO knows that it's called infringement!

Used to be the same is Amerikka. Copyright infringement was just... a copyright infringement and civil matter involving fines.

Now? It's equated with other "hard" crimes.

Quite Dickensian.

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Not enough upvotes.

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IP rights?

Do the large corps know about this? Or is it only when it applies to what they have stolen and now claim as theirs?

I never get tired of saying this: you have all the rights you can afford. You poor? Too bad.

HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens

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And that's the real pisser. Why are they using my PC and bandwidth to do their work?

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Re: Bar-stewards

Private mode browsing, ad blockers, do not track, firewall, anti virus, and then CCleaner (old version) after browsing. And that's on a good day.

Soon I'll HAVE to get VPN.

It's fucking ridiculous.

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First it was the virus arms race

Now it's the malware arms race.

Ask me if I feel bad about my blockers. Go on, I dare ya.

NHS: Thanks for the free work, Linux nerds, now face our trademark cops

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Except they were using NHoS.

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Re: "Roll on the next general election, and get these shower of bastards away from the NHS."

Love those shows. Too bad they too real to be laugh out loud funny.

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Typical school ties mananglement

"then you can see why we have no actual innovation, just bullshitters retweeting each other about a vague fantasy Blockchain and AI future,

That about sums up the school ties, brown envelope, old boy network nicely.