* Posts by ecofeco

8166 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Robots are killing jobs after all, apparently: One droid equals 5.6 workers

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Re: Globalisation

...and keep getting...

BAH. Damn phone.

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Re: Globalisation

Exactly. I've been saying this for years keep getting told I'm wrong.

Alabama joins anti-web-smut crusade with mandatory opt-out filters

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Re: Now watch Alabama's taxes dry up.

Exactly. Go across state lines and buy your gear there.

End of tax revenue.

Firefox Quantum: BIG browser project, huh? I share your concern

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Re: I don't know about lynx and w3m

Hear hear.

Pure Silicon Valley: Medium asks $5 a month for absolutely nothing

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50 million a year?

I wish I had that kind of money to pretend to make something. I could actually... make something.

But then, I don't know the right people, do I?

Douglas Coupland: The average IQ is now 103 and the present is melting into the future

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Re: Automation

"the industrial revolution gave us the weekend"

Except that is didn't. It was the unions who had to fight hard and bloody to get it.

I stopped giving him any credit right at that sentence.

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The Golden Age

https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Age-John-C-Wright/dp/0765336693

If you have not read this book, I highly recommend it.

Lloyds Banking Group axing hundreds of jobs again

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IBM?

I can already see the future headlines and it's not god.

King Battistelli's swish penthouse office the Euro Patent Office doesn't want you to see

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6 bodyguards?

A little self important there, is he?

FYI anyone who codes outside work: GitHub has a contract to stop bosses snatching it all

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Simple solution

Don't go public with your invention or idea until AFTER you leave the company and never say you thought of it while at the company.

'Sorry, I've forgotten my decryption password' is contempt of court, pal – US appeal judges

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This is strictly un-Constitutional.

See title. The 5th Amendment makes no exceptions.

Spammy Google Home spouts audio ads without warning – now throw yours in the trash

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Re: Wow.

Corporate America is all the same: Shameless crack whores who will stab you in the back for money.

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Re: The modern way?

A lot of coders think they can design websites and other user interface controls as well.

It's even worse when the marketing department thinks it can instead.

They can't.

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Re: This is nothing

You aren't even joking Kevin.

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When is water not wet?

When we your corporate overlords say it isn't, peasant!

Germany to Facebook, Twitter: We are *this* close to fining you €50m unless you delete fake news within 24 hours

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Re: Canada debating a bill that would criminalize Islamophobia

Making threats of violence has never been and never will be legal.

To defend those threats is psychopathic.

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Re: Hasn't history taught us to think twice before appeases the Germans?

Exactly. They ARE NOT the Internet, but like AOL back in they day, they want you to think they are.

For profit organizations have no civil rights, they just want you to think they do.

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Re: "which gives strong legal defense to all forms of speech no matter how offensive"

Nor calls to violence and destruction.

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"Speech that advocates the injury or death of others based on their racial background, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation" would be a good place to start.

That you got any downvotes is both stunning and appalling.

US regulator looks at Internet of Things regulation, looks away

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This is going to end badly

Very badly.

Scott McNealy: Your data is safer with marketers than governments

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Oh FFS

Ah, I noticed I've used this title before.

Well, it's certainly appropriate.

Fancy that – the sharing economy lobby doesn't speak for the sharers

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Re: " Until the "digital era" we've treated humans differently"

2 thumbs down?

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/dec/06/medieval-britons-richer-than-modern-poor

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Re: Only idiots would work for chump change in the gig economy

The rest of us are constantly learning and developing valuable skills that are worth real money in permanent jobs with a regular income. Till they fuck us over and outsource us all again that is...

Your cognitive dissonance is stunning.

Or did you forget the sarcasm tag?

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Re: " Until the "digital era" we've treated humans differently"

We're WAY past "there". Wealth inequality is worse now than it was during the Medieval Feudal era.

Pennsylvania sues IBM for fraud over $170m IT upgrade shambles

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Re: IT project failure is now structural

After 15 years of marketing telling the suits that IT is a new kind of utility that just be thrown onto the cloud, never needs maintenance and any kid can fix your computer, is it any surprise that project failure is the new norm?

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Re: SOP

Been there, seen it myself. Fuck IBM.

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Typical IBM

And this isn't their first time.

Why does anybody still use these clowns?

Force employees to take DNA tests for bosses? We've got a new law to make that happen, beam House Republicans

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You have problem with Corporate Communist Capitalism©®™, comrade?

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It's confusing because there is no care nor system.

Devs bashing out crappy code is making banks insecure – report

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Re: Writing robust code doesn't take much more time

That blue collar attitude toward all tech is pretty much the norm these days.

The eventual backlash and consequences will be spectacular.

The good times are over, Peter Thiel tells Silicon Valley's oligarchs

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What?

I cannot parse any of what he is saying.

It seems like incoherent rambling at best.

The average American is no longer optimistic? Gee, I wonder why?

Firefox 52 kills plugins – except Flash – and runs up a red flag for HTTP

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Re: SKY GO NO LONGER SUPPORTS FF

Any website that is not browser neutral is FAIL.

I can't believe this is still a problem 20 years on, yet somehow it is.

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Uh oh

Sounds like one of those updates I'll not be installing.

Fraud detection system with 93% failure rate gets IT companies sued

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Re: Wow Michigan's state government is out of control

Michigan is just another example, and not an isolated one, of how corrupt the American empire is and how stupid people keep voting against their own interest..

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Re: FFS

Who signs off on them? Who do you think?

Is this a trick question?

(seriously, I know it was rhetorical. I too am pissed about back channel kickbacks and favors)

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Due process?

In America? Is this some kind of joke? Due process is a damn liberal commie Un-American conspiracy!

No, no /s tag because it's not a joke. America has no claim to freedom and rights these days. Actually hasn't for decades.

Rap for chat app chaps: Snap's shares are a joke – and a crap one at that

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Pump and dump

Pump and dump.

Watt the f... Dim smart meters caught simply making up readings

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Scam

Many here said this was going to be a scam and so it is.

America halts fast processing of H-1B skilled worker visas

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Re: Anyone care to correlate...

"You get what you pay for" is true in almost everything.

Hire cheap programmers, get shit code.

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I wish it weren't so, AC, but unfortunately, this is all too true.

Of course not all H-1Bs are unqualified, nor rude, but far too many are. I get reports from various levels of the entire IT industry and most of the IT CVs from India aren't worth the paper they are written on.

It is a scam and western tech companies are active participants in the scam.

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Good

The H1-B system is rife with abuse. ESPECIALLY in the IT sector.

Taking a pause is a good thing.

COP BLOCKED: Uber app thwarted arrests of its drivers by fooling police with 'ghost cars'

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Re: You gotta give them credit:

Uber schlect.

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They are all taxis

tax·i

ˈtaksē/

noun

noun: taxi; plural noun: taxis

1.

short for taxicab.

a boat or other means of transportation used to convey passengers in return for payment of a fare.

That this is, and was, even debatable is absurd.

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Especially if you are a hedge funded that is shorting them (or their investors) and is leaking these stories to the press

OH HO! I had not thought of that angle!

I guess they have to get back some of those sunk billions, right?

1.37bn records from somewhere to leak on Monday

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1.47 billion?

That's... that's a LOT of records.

User rats out IT team for playing games at work, gets them all fired

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Works for me

Nothing I hate more than being the one person carrying the department load while the rest slack off and blame the few people actually doing their job for their own failures.

I've worked with far too many groups like that. Fuck 'em.

Euro Patent Office puts itself on Interpol's level, demands access to staff phones and laptops

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The EPO is going cause serious poblems

A patent office with this much trouble is not one anyone in their right mind would consider trustworthy or reliable. This has serious consequences directly affecting science and technology progress and the secondary effect of affecting applied science and technology for commerce.

This problem needs to be fixed immediately. DO NOT let it become the USTPO.

Did you know? Amazon does film production – and it treats those workers like dirt, too*

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Typical

In the last 10 years, half of the places I've worked have tried to short my pay. This has become the norm in American business.

And it works because most people are too poor to fight it and the government agencies who are supposed to protect you are underfunded and understaffed and most claims go done the memory hole.

Java? Nah, I do JavaScript, man. Wise up, hipster, to the money

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PLC anyone?

Just thought I'd throw a spanner into the pissing context. :)

Congratulations IBM for 'inventing' out-of-office email. You win Stupid Patent of the Month

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Exactly. This is prior art and a bullshit patent.

It's patently illegal.