* Posts by ecofeco

8156 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

US voter info stored on wide-open cloud box, thanks to bungling Republican contractor

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Far fetched? No, its easily done.

Worried about election hacking? There's a technology fix – Helios

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Re: No! No! No!

Exactly Gnosis.

Google coughs up $5.5m to make recruiters 'screwed out of overtime pay' go away

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Re: It'e like the 'kin; wild west out there!

How did you know I was talking about IBM? :)

Yep, been there done that with Big Blew.

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Re: It'e like the 'kin; wild west out there!

Yes and no.

Yes, the laws exist, but unless you can afford a lawyer, you're screwed, because the agencies that are supposed fight for you, are massively underfunded. Want to guess by which party?

The last time someone tried to pull this on me I raised serious stink. I did get my money, but was fired shortly thereafter.

And guess what? I couldn't afford a lawyer so no retaliation suit was filed.

I've said it before and it always bears repeating: A U.S. company will try to screw you just as hard as a Chinese, India or Russian company will.

As for any reform, the pain obviously isn't bad enough yet. You see, many Americans, instead of seeing what the rich and powerful are doing and demanding they be thrown in jail, instead wonder how they can get in on the action. Being Lord King Boofoo is more important to them than social justice.

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Re: A Couple Of Things...

I hope UrpanTech is also being penalized.

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Re: Wait, that's not allowed?

Far too common in the U.S.

Yet more reform efforts at the Euro Patent Office, and you'll never guess what...

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Re: American CEO sleeper?

Good points.

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American CEO sleeper?

Are we sure Battistelli isn't a former American CEO?

Software dev bombshell: Programmers who use spaces earn MORE than those who use tabs

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WTF?

Wait. What? HOW much?!

Most devs make less than 60K?

What... what happened?!

Move over, Stuxnet: Industroyer malware linked to Kiev blackouts

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Re: Puzzling

There are only 5 versions of PLC in the first place and they vary only a little at that.

Two leading ladies of Europe warn that internet regulation is coming

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Re: Such backwards logic it could only come from polticians

Ignore? Oh no, no, no. The terrorists are SOME ONE'S pawn.

Now does it make sense.

My unpopular career in writing computer reviews? It's a gift

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Rock climbing with router?

I'm looking forward to that review.

Carry on!

Record number of non-EU techies coming to Blighty

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The quantity of non-EU IT workers coming to the UK to fill local skills gaps

"Skills" gap?

Funny way to spell "low pay". I guess I've learned something new today.

Windows 10 Creators Update preview: Lovin' for Edge and pen users, nowt much else

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Re: Windows as a service

Something wrong with facts, downvote person?

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Re: Windows-as-a-service...

Not enough upvotes for you.

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Windows as a service

A few of us here said this was the direction they were going.

DIY self-driving cars are closer than they appear (and we're not talking about in the mirror)

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Re: Bring it on!

Where I live has one of the highest auto insurance rates in the nation and contributes more than its share of auto deaths.

Automation will not come soon enough for me.

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Re: New Zealand has a much better solution

That's... impressive!

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Re: Criminalising the opportunity to make mistakes

Most people are idiots, and only a handful aren't.

FTFY

When can real-world laws invade augmented reality fantasies? A trial in Milwaukee will decide

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Re: Wont somebody think of the flowers?

Priorities, man! Priorities!

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Re: Actually seems reasonable to me

Exactly. This was not an organized event. It was people taking their personal property and using it in a public space.

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Re: I rather approve of a ban.

The park is a public area. So people have a right to go thru the park.

That's the long and short of it right there. Why they do so do is their business.

Also, the company didn't trash the park, the people did. They should have been fined, not the company.

This case fails on so many levels. and is a frivolous lawsuit. But I'll bet they win it. I hope I'm wrong.

Avanade getting into hardware to deliver an Azure Stack

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Re: @ MyffyW

I can also confirm.

I wouldn't ask them for the time of day.

State senator sacked by broadband biz Frontier after voting in favor of broadband competition

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Re: I'm torn

That's just American politics/business as usual.

Did you know that many bills put forth by Congress are written by lobbyists?

HPE to staff: 'We are permanently clipping your costs'

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At $50 Billion proft last year

They can't afford travel and meals for the working staff?

*cough*bullshit*cough*

Tech can do a lot, Prime Minister, but it can't save the NHS

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Pirate

I will never understand how any contract can have enforced customer payment for failed delivery to the customer.

Correction: I will never accept that any contract can have enforced customer payment after failure of delivery to the customer.

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Raise taxes? Why?

There is more than enough money sitting in tax dodges.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

NSA leaker bust gets weirder: Senator claims hacking is wider than leak revealed

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Re: I like Russians. I could support rapproachment

I believe that Trump is being used as a useful idiot by people who are even more scary that he is.

He is. You can bet your life on it. In fact, we all have without our consent.

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Re: Reds are under our beds

Exactly AC, and to think otherwise is incredible naivete.

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Mushroom

No doubt

No doubt at all.

Actions at this level are not some "oopsie"

UK PM Theresa May's response to terror attacks 'shortsighted'

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Re: FFS!

The Village, AC. They want to turn it all into The Village.

Now enjoy some of the coolest theme music ever created.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhnTMxHOWlY

Microsoft totters from time machine clutching Windows 10 Workstation

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When your punters will buy anything..

.. .you sell them everything you can.

What's not logical about fleecing well heeled morons?

Consultancy titan EY to shift jobs to Indian outsourcer TCS

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You forgot the joke icon, or are you trolling?

Did YOU forget the joke icon? Because these are the same deals that have been made for the last 2 decades, yet people keep electing the same parties that are screwing them.

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Re: That outsourcing craze....

The 1980s actually and it's never stopped.

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Remind me again?

Remind me again why anyone would work in British IT?

Break crypto to monitor jihadis in real time? Don't be ridiculous, say experts

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Re: Did I miss a law being passed

Google translate. 2 seconds. :)

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The PTB have NO clue

The current aristocrats of the now Edwardian western empire (GB, USA, JP) really have no clue how computers work, or any technology for that matter, let alone the Internet.

No hypersonic railguns on our ships this year, says US Navy

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Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmcmKwWzYo

Here's some active armor by other countries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUVnNk0aJBE

British electric armor. That's right, electric armor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7rxBifd0cY

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And you believe this?

https://news.usni.org/2015/04/14/navsea-details-at-sea-2016-railgun-test-on-jhsv-trenton

Scroll down and there is a picture of it mounted to the deck.

But who can blame them for disinformation? That's just SOP for any military.

The internet may well be the root cause of today's problems… but not in the way you think

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Re: Nuance

Well said, LDS.

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Re: The problem isn't ideologies spreading on the Internet

Just stop with the tax and spending arguments right now.

The very wealthy are dodging billions in taxes and the average punter is getting screwed. And that's the long and short of it.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

Enterprise patching... is patchy, survey finds

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Re: Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk

Absolutely AC. Absolutely.

Good catch. Thanks.

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Re: Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk

Well, looks like 4 more morons have voted!

You lot wouldn't happen to work for BA, would you?

IBM: ALL travel must be approved now, and shut up about the copter

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Re: One wonders

I too wonder why anyone stays there. My brief stint was enough to convince me beyond any doubt their days are numbered and they are by far the most dysfunctional company I have ever had the displeasure of working for.

Looks good on the CV though!

I have yet to run into an ex-IBM employee/contractor who liked working for them. And one who didn't have trouble getting paid.

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Re: How to fail in business

For some inexplicable reason, this seems to always be the go-to solution for many companies.

Truly clueless, the lot.

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Well, that's been happening already, along with numerous breach of contract and SLA failures and it hasn't stopped them yet, has it?

See an above post regarding IBM's attitude toward customers.

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Re: IBM would...

Deliberate obfuscation is the hallmark of the scam artist and con man.

You would think grown adults with power and money would understand this.

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Wow.. Not sure what else to say!

I do: this is a very common attitude among all large American companies and has been for decades.

No exaggeration.

I've said it before and I never get tired of saying it: the goal of every large American business is to force a customer to pay them but not have to delver a single damn thing.

Again, no exaggeration.

You know, like a Wall St broker.

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FAIL

There are a lot of pump-and-dump companies these days that could use the invisible hand of the free market upside their heads.

But alas, the game is rigged and the platitudes only for consumption by the gullible punters. Free market just means free to fuck you, the customer, up the arse without consequence (or even lube) while socializing the consequences and privatizing the profits.

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Re: IBM, HP and Yahoo. What do they have in common?

Failing upwards with their own bootstraps!