* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Ex-Intel boss Paul Otellini dead at age 66

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WHAT?!

"He was the relentless voice of the customer in a sea of engineers, and he taught us that we only win when we put the customer first."

You sir, are a goddamn liar.

Oath-my-God: THREE! BILLION! Yahoo! accounts! hacked! in! 2013! – not! 'just!' 1bn!

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Who else is lying about their data breach?

Now you have to ask yourself, just who else is lying about their data thefts?

Trick question: all of them

Nothing matters any more... Now hapless Equifax bags $7.5m IT contract with US taxmen

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Re: "Totally did not insist"

A fuck up at this level is more than just one person.

Where was the policy failure? Who failed to follow up that the job was done? Who wasn't reading tech news? Who had the authority to make sure this was a priority but didn't?

The real responsibility, and guilt, is further up the ladder.

Blaming the low man on the pole who has no authority to take unilateral action, is as old as the hills, but still utter bullshit.

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That's just crazy gay librul commie talk!

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Re: SOMETHING matters..

Everything in America is a scam.

Commodore 64 makes a half-sized comeback

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Half size?

So it's a 32 then?

BYOD might be a hipster honeypot but it's rarely worth the extra hassle

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Some of us have said it for years

BYOD is a security nightmare. Never mind the expected (no we don't, sorry, fuck right off) support.

Firemen fund sues Uber for dousing shares with gas, tossing in a match

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Re: Valued at $70 Billion. Are you f**king kidding me? Fantasy numbers

Master(bators) of the universe show once again they aren't as smart as they think they are.

Boeing slams $2m on the desk, bellows: Now where's my jetpack?

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What ARE they babbling about?

It's been done. YouTube jet pack. Micro jet engines. Fairly decent flight time. Easy to fly with minimal training.

Web devs griping about iPhone X notch: You're rendering it wrong

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More like the taint.

Brit military wants a small-drone-killer system for £20m

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Re: EMP

You realize you just screwed yourself out of 20 million, right?

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Re: Flock of Gulls

...and nailed it Salestard.

Want to keep in contact with friends and family without having to sell your personal data?

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Re: Really?

How long DS? Oh about another 2 decades because the stereotype is quite real and pervasive.

Not all old gits? Of course. But still the majority. I know, I'm their tech support.

Hell even kids these days ain't as slick as they think they are.

So chill. Tech support exists for a reason. Billions of people can barely operate their devices.

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Re: In my head I just heard ...

Video phone. Watson!

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Re: Get Out of the Way of My Lawn

I just saw an entire American football field move itself today. Real turf too! Rolled itself right out of the stadium! So it can't be too far away for us plebes.

No joke. It's real. Atlanta I think?

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Re: a small number of family and friends

The Man from Mars, is that you? (That's a compliment BTW)

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

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Re: A long and considered response is called for...

Yet you got a downvote for what is essentially the real history of mankind.

So have an upvote from me.

Because yes, not just people behave badly, but MOST people behave badly.

You forgot that you hired me and now you're saying it's my fault?

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Re: Meeting rooms

Book'em Dano.

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Re: You were doing so well...

Far too many clients lie or just flat don't know and have no clue.

Finance sector is littered with vulns, and guess what – most can be resolved by patching

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It's actually a bit more than that. The finance sector is notoriously cheap. Scrooge cheap. And not as smart as they think they are.

So, yes, it's where the money is at, but... they are also ripe for the picking.

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

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I uh

Wut? WTF?

Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

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Re: Security should be commensurate with the consequences.

Sad but all too true.

Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims

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FAIL

Quality unaffected?

My fucking ass. Search quality has gone to absolute shit over the last 5 years.

Surgeon's Law writ large. Almost to the point of useless.

What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

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Pirate

Equifax should have to pay for all of the fees associated with freezing all of the affected accounts at all three companies, period!

LOL That's just crazy commie talk! You private the profits and socialize the losses, son! That's the American way!

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FAIL

Re: Business as usual in the US&A...

No "may be the reason" about it.

They ARE the reason.

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Re: How long before....

...and new paradigms leveraging and repurposing existing content by reaching out to overlooked possibilities!

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Pirate

I've said it before: the perfect American business is to produce and deliver NOTHING and force people to pay for it.

Here is that very example.

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Mushroom

Hours?

We're damn lucky if we find out within MONTHS.

To hell with all those bastards.

Equifax's IT leaders 'retire' as company says it knew about the bug that brought it down

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Re: There's something missing

This. There's a lot more going on here than Struts.

Unloved Microsoft Edge is much improved – but will anyone use it?

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Re: And its only Windows 10?

Curl. Holy moly that brings back memories.

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Re: And its only Windows 10?

Good lord. Wget. Haven't thought about that ages.

Python explosion blamed on pandas

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Re: Hmm

BA DUMP BA!

Cops' use of biometric images 'gone far beyond custody purposes'

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Re: Napolionic

Heading? We are there and far past that point.

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Doubleplus good

Absolute minmax!

Linus Torvalds' lifestyle tips for hackers: Be like me, work in a bathrobe, no showers before noon

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Re: Umberto Eco

Too loose and no structure. Too tight and no freedom.

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Re: Linux Foundation Rocks to Roll with Memes that EnLiven ...... WeKidU2Not

I've missed you MFM.

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Re: Bathrobes are for cissies, work naked.

Damn Novleys, I actually spit my beer.

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Re: Last time I tried to work in a bathrobe...

Uhm coffee maker with timer?

That's my process.

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Re: The money motive

debuggering

Definite up vote.

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Re: hmmm

Krusty the Clown?

Apache Foundation rebuffs allegation it allowed Equifax attack

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Mushroom

Lotta bullocks

Some of my security mates say this was a social phish hack, from what they've been able to see. Someone high up in manglement got pwned and that was the door in.

Google to kill its Drive file locker in two confusing ways

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Re: It's really not that complicated

So bottom line, Drive as it is will remain?

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Re: Time to Migrate?

OneDrive will NEVER be "attractive."

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Re: I dont get it....

What's to be suspicious about? This is SOP for all large shitware makers these days. Making it complicated is what ALL the cool kids are doing!

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Re: What will people make of this?

They've gone Microsoft on us.

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Cloud storage? Issues?

SPLITTER!!

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Re: What about Chrome OS?

Chrome? The only use I've found for Chrome is that it runs faster than the native browser on my phone.

That's about it.

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Re: Clouding the situation

Ah but they DON'T have their photos. Google does.

And contrary to common fantasy, nobody is really connected 24/7. There are just as many dead zones in the city as in the country. Then what do you do? Oh right, yer fucked.

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There will be no simple folder you dump stuff in, now you tell it which folders to sync

I fucking hate that system.

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FAIL

More shitware

Why did they have to change it? What's the fucking point? And why not a clear and logical update?

More shitware.