* Posts by ecofeco

8241 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Microsoft Surface Book 2: Electric Boogaloo. Bigger, badder, better

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Re: it's a Microsoft product...

This is version 3. Or is it 4 now?

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Re: Buy the US 15” from Amazon or similar

I see what you did there, but the /s tag would have been helpful.

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They are actually quite nice! I was surprised.

But not as surprised as at the insane price of one.

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And still way overpriced.

See title.

Missed opportunity bingo: IBM's wasted years and the $92bn cash splurge

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Re: Failure to attract new business

Do yourself a favor. Never invite them into your business.

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Re: Puzzled

HP also does some incredible R&D. The problem is neither company remembers how to make profits from real tech and not baffling people with bullshit.

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It seems obvious what they should have done

They should have leveraged existing content and re-purposed it to create new synergies that changed the exiting paradigm that offered more value to stakeholders while raising visibility and brand awareness to drive more actionable results in response to projected pent up demand and reached out to....

Oh fuck them.

Oh good. Transport for London gives Capita £80m for WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi

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Hahahahahahahahahaha

Oh this will work out well.

Social network smacks back: Accusers say it helps recruiters target age-groups in job ads

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Gee, too bad for Facebook

I have no sympathy for them. Anyone dumb enough to create a complex system without adequate controls is irresponsible and deserves nothing.

Firefox 57's been quietly delaying tracking scripts

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Re: I wouldn't know, I can't even install it.

FF comes with its own built in reader now.

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Re: That explains a few things.

It's your tablet.

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Re: That explains a few things.

Put the blame where it belongs, on the site owners.

Been there, done that and they are all to blame.

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That explains a few things.

Rather cool actually.

Yes, the new FF is fast as hell. It's quite an impressive improvement.

Now if we could just smack a few website designers upside the head...

Magic Leap blows our mind with its incredible technology... that still doesn't f**king exist

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Facepalm

What's in a name?

Has nobody ever taken a moment to think about their name?

They are NEVER going to deliver. It's an investor scam. A pump and dump.

Vaporware.

Totally shock claim: Comcast accused of gouging TV rivals

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Gimp

Comcast?

The Marque de Sade of cable TV?

Shocked I tell you.

Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich

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FAIL

Re: Republican tax bill ready to rescue hard-up tech giants, struggling rich

Oh bullshit. It was a law that makes overseas tax avoidance feasible, not fucking taxes.

And a law can be changed.

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Re: The rich are greedy...

No need to post anonymously Marie Antoinette, we know it's you.

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Re: It's Robin Hood

It's the Sheriff of Nottingham.

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Re: Math

The average techie does not make 100K. Not even close.

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FAIL

Bullshit

"Wages, long stagnant, would increase 1.5 per cent, while the reform would produce 339,000 jobs."

Yeah, no. Not gonna happen.

And 1.5% doesn't even come close to matching inflation. Let alone the last 35 years of inflation.

Virgin Hyperloop pulls up the biggest chair for Branson, bags $50m, new speed record

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Coat

What this then?

A train in a tunnel, eh?

Mines the one with Freud in the pocket. No, no, the other pocket.---------------------------->>

European court: Let's not kid ourselves, Uber. You're a transport firm, not a 'digital service'

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Exellent news

This company is pure scum and really needs to be taken to the woodshed. This is a step in the right direction.

HTC U11 Life: Google tries to tame the midmarket

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Priced too high

This phone is priced WAY too high.

Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the data centre temp's delightful

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No, they died at much younger ages.

Engineer named Jason told to re-write the calendar

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You really have to wonder

You really have to wonder how some people hold jobs.

No hack needed: Anonymisation beaten with a dash of SQL

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This was proven years ago

See title.

A million UK homes still get crappy broadband speeds, groans Ofcom

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Re: Simple solution

You forgot the /s tag.

Oi, force Microsoft to cough up emails on Irish servers to the Feds, US states urge Supremes

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Re: It's always amusing when lawmakers are hindered by their own laws.

They do indeed think its just a statement of intent.

That they only have to pay lip service to. The rest of us get the hammer.

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Re: Feral Criminality

D) All of the above.

Not even joking.

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Re: Yeah, but common sense, too...

ROFLMAO. The international agreements of which you write already exist. This entire episode is the result of the authorities in this case choosing not to use them.

I am amazed at how many people are not understanding this!

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Re: UK not much better (in the quality of its arguments)

Because it would be illegal under EU law. And the penalties for Microsoft in the EU are WAY higher than likely for ignoring a US judgement precisely to trump such an attempt to sidestep EU rules.

Exactly

Reminder: Vast majority of serfs toiling away as Mechanical Turks for megabucks Amazon earn less than min wage

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FAIL

Re: Stop it

So they aren't facilitating the situation?

Oh do tell.

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Re: opportunity

You joke, but do you have any idea how MANY middlemen are in the world's supply chain?

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Facepalm

Better yet, don't take the fucking job.

It's a two way street, bub.

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Pirate

Tried my hand at it years ago

Realized right away it was a labor scam.

Disk drives spin, are you listening? In the lane, servers glistening...

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Those LED lights

A beautiful sight

Walking in a data wonderland

Hell's bells! Lights out at Diablo Technologies as plug pulled on website

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Who?

*snerk*

FBI tells Jo(e) Sixpack to become an expert in IoT security

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FAIL

Re: Don't use a router provided by an ISP

Not all ISPs will LET you use another router.

But that is beside the point. The product should be safe from the factory. THAT'S where the responsibility lies.

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Gimp

Same mistake all tech support geeks make

Every tech support geek thinks users should know as much as they do and they are just stupid if they don't.

Stop making this assumption. Computers are cool as hell, but really are designed by some seriously deranged people.

No one saw it coming: Rubin's Essential phone considered anything but

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No accessories

Where are the accessories? Even the new Moto seems to have figured out that you've got to HAVE the accessories if you say there are going to BE accessories.

https://www.motorola.com/us/moto-mods

Why bother cracking PCs? Spot o' malware on PLCs... Done. Industrial control network pwned

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Re: Not a real view of how things are, Ivan

Exactly.

Brrr! It's a snow day and someone has pwned the chuffin' school heating

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They certainly need their feet held to the fire.

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FAIL

WTF people

Just WTF.

Why are ANY goddamn infrastructure control systems even connected to the WWW?!

Kaspersky dragged into US govt's trashcan as weaponized blockchain agile devops mulled

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Re: Sigh... it's geographical as well a geopolitical, innit.

Holy crap, Muscleguy. Just googled it. There's quite a few subs sitting there, aren't there?

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Re: Fail spelled backwards is liaЯ, right?

It's America. Blame everyone but the culprit is SOP.

Coventry: Once a 'Ghost Town', soon to be UK City of Culture

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Just did a Google Image Search

Looks nice. Quite modern mixed with historical preservation.

Anyone currently living there with more information?

Lifestyle pin-up site Pinterest: Hack attempts blamed on 'credential stuffing'

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So yeah, how's that cloud thing working for ya?

I NEVER get tired of saying this!

Tired of despairing of Trump and Brexit? Why not despair about YouTube stars instead?

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Re: "Ten Ordinary People Paid HUGE Amounts For Entertaining Others"

Are you saying YouTube has nothing to do with computers or the interwebs or markets?

What color is the sky in your world?

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Concrete proof.

Have an upvote!

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The various Madoffs.

Ponzi is so last century.