* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

China gets mad at Donald Trump, threatens to ruin Apple

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Re: Grow up China

China? It was American companies that sent American job to China and got tax breaks to so. China did not take them

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Re: Trade War

Why does everyone forget that U.S. companies get very large tax breaks to move manufacturing overseas.

Ask yourself, why do they need it if they are already saving in the labor?

Pay up or your data gets it. Ransomware highwaymen's attacks on small biz octuple

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This will only get worse

Small businesses do not have a budget for even the most basic of IT and the equipment they have is usually a huge mess of kludged desktop PCs and outdated software.

They are going to learn the hard way.

Boffins find Galaxy making killer radiation, rule out Samsung phone as source

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Love the title

That is all.

UK.gov has 18,000 IT contractors on its books due to dearth of skills

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Re: Oil & gas

I'm one of those who has been directly affected by the oil downturn and yes, when it comes back around, I will make damn sure the lost money and time is made up.

But give up the dream of no one contracting. All industries are moving that way and have been for decades Fewer and fewer companies hire permanently.

Trump's plan: Tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, turn off the internet

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Re: Calm Down Everybody

Congress is now all GOP majority.

Think about that for a minute.

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Re: Brexit and Now Trump

Work for...

Damn phone

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Re: Brexit and Now Trump

I look forward to the future even if it is with flames and perhaps a better world awaits.

How'd that work Nazi Germany?

Fool.

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Re: Arrgh!

Good point.

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Re: Arrgh!

I can't pin down what it is about Trump's vocal delivery - but it screams "conman" every time I hear him delivering a speech.

Because he IS a conman. Do you not know his history?

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Re: Trump can't do a lot of these things

Congress is now GOP majority.

Give up your fantasies of Congress doing anything other than rubber stamping.

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Re: "Strap yourself in, world. This could be a bumpy ride".

Congress is now GOP majority.

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Re: Disturbing

This is the America I've seen so far. I really hope it gets better choices in 4 years time, because this is a dangerous time for progression. He even has a climate change skeptic as his science advisor... He may was we'll be a creationist for all that says. Not good.

The trend has been getting worse for the last 35 years. Forget about it getting better anytime soon.

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Re: Neccessary

Perhaps this will turn out to be a very useful lesson for the US electorate. Long-term I mean. Letting Trump screw up might be a way of showing the hard-of-understanding that all these "easy solutions" are a fantasy. A useful lesson, as long as it doesn't lead us to a nuclear war that is...

That didn't work with Reagan, Bush 1 and 2, deregulation, tax breaks for offshoring jobs and destruction of workers rights and Big Recession. Why would it work now?

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Re: The room of people who will control Trump

I fear that the next 4 (or god forbid 8) years will be hard on us all.

Where have you been for the last 35 years? It been downhill ever since, and because of, Reagan's GOP.

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Re: YEAH!

Trump IS the status quo. The very embodiment of the worst of it. Any moron that believes he is somehow different is beyond redemption.

This is "that guy" who fucks his contractors, employees AND investors and you think he's going to help anyone? Seriously.

AYRTSIA?!

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Re: First of all, sorry

But at least he is not a career criminal.

Uhm, Google? Ever heard of it?

Trump has been found liable from numerous lawsuits. Hillary has been convicted, er, how many times?

And DO NOT hand us that bullshit that lawsuits do not mean guilt. They do indeed mean someone did wrong and was punished for it.

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Re: First of all, sorry

Given where he's got to in life, that simply can't be true;

4 bankruptcies says it is. Like most people, you confuse cunning and treachery with intelligence. You also forget that most Americans are incredibly, dangerously, stupid.

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Re: And we thought BREXIT was bad

What processer are you using in your main computer at the moment dingbat?

Made in Taiwan, why do you ask?

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Re: And we thought BREXIT was bad

Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it - while those who do study history are doomed to stand by and watch in horror while history is repeated by those who don't.

Truer words were never spoken.

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Re: And we thought BREXIT was bad

Quote of day as seen on twitter:

Britain: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.

USA: Hold my beer.

Silicon Valley VCs: We're gonna make California great again – on its own

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I would love see them try

I would love see them and the other groups in the other states who talk this bullshit, try.

Just try it.

And that will be the end of that for a few more generations.

Angry user demands three site visits to fix email address typos

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Re: Not me, but a colleague ..

Estate agents are the same everywhere. You could have easily just described an American RE agent.

As with the rest of the posts in this thread.

I get an RE agent needing support and I'm instantly hard nosed and overcharging.

Oh, and abfab was NOT fiction.

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Re: Oh man, I feel his pain

I remember reading at one time that the typical education major in the US ranked in the bottom 40% of their class despite a course load was less than rigorous. For example, a person preparing to teach math was not required major in Math and only required to take the basic required math courses.

My experience has tended to confirm that, as a group, they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

The reason being low pay and much abuse. You get what you pay for. Nobody in their right mind is a teacher in the U.S.

A cardboard desk? I won’t stand for it (actually I will)

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Re: Cardboard Desk?

At least you HAD a septic tank! Why, in my day.....

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Yes, but....

Will it fit in my cardboard house?

Google Pixel pwned in 60 seconds

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No excuse for poor security

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/01/learned-helplessness-and-the-languages-of-dao/

Read it. Learn it. Know it. Practice it.

Stick the excuses where the sun don't shine and fuck off.

Russian banks floored by withering DDoS attacks

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Which part of cyber war was I downvoted on before?

It's on.

And here's a little reminder:

An American general coined an aphorism "once is happenstance, twice coincidence, but three times is enemy action"...

(thanks to Jemma for this reminder)

Building IOT London sessions: From tiny sensors to big data

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This wlil not end well: part duex

*sigh* This is the kind of stupid the human race seems to excel at.

"Hey, let's make the entire city vulnerable to hackers! What could go wrong?"

Looking to hire IT staff in St Louis? The talent pool just got a lot bigger

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Re: Taxpayer assistance

You're joking right? American taxpayers are morons. They complain about taxes and then elect politician who give companies tax breaks causing the average taxpayer to have to make up the difference.

They do so thinking it will create more jobs, yet, every time it turn out to be a real estate "flip" dodge for the companies.

Every. Damn. Time.

US citizens crash Canadian immigration site after Trump victory

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Re: You're lucky you have the channel

Yet for some reason they are able to find jobs. Are you saying the politicians were hiring them all?

I did not know that!

Oh wait, it's actually American business owners who don't want to pay citizens decent wages.

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Re: Mission Accomplished

It began with Reagan, Uncle Slacky and the deregulation of the 1980s.

The GOP convinced everyone that jobs they were giving companies tax breaks to send overseas, was the result of "unions" and "ferriners." who were also going to take away their guns.

The Stockholm Syndrome has not been cured yet.

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Re: The number of anti Trump anti-brexit comment votes...

Only in your bizzarro backwards world mind.

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Re: ___

Remind us again how many times she has been convicted?

Oh wait. Not once.

How about remind how many times Trump has screwed his contractors, employees and investors?

Yep. Every time.

But yeah, other than that, you have good points.

Oh wait...

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Oh it's quite real. White supremacists are America's own terrorists. Also responsible for most of the meth trade.

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Re: and we thought brexit was a bloody stupid decision

Seen on twitter:

Britain: Brexit is the stupidest, most self-destructive act a country could undertake.

USA: Hold my beer.

Mirai IoT botnet blamed for 'smashing Liberia off the internet'

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Re: re: the point...

3 downvotes?

An American general coined an aphorism "once is happenstance, twice coincidence, but three times is enemy action"...

(thanks to Jemma for this reminder)

Silicon Valley's oligarchs got a punch in the head – and that's actually good thing

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Yet Trump is the very embodiment of status quo for the rich and fuck everyone else.

America has a stupid that can't be fixed.

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What utter gibberish

Trump is also an elite who doesn't give a fuck about the average person. This is proven fact.

There is NO difference between him and Silly Valley.

Retiring IETF veteran warns: Stop adding so many damn protocols

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Bloat

Bloat has become a huge problem in the IT industry in every field and it has very real consequences.

We're already seeing some of them.

Karhoo who? Uber challenger shuts down after burning through $250m

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Re: Never heard of them!

The phonetic is already in the name. Sound have been the VC's first clue.

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250 million?

Where can I get a job and waste 250 million and still get paid for it? Besides government, that is.

FBI's Clinton email comedown confirms it could have killed the story in a canter

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Re: Come(d)y come(dy)down

Pretty much because it's still Wall St., big oil and the military industrial complex that runs America.

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Re: The innocence of Americans ...

Nearly? We are WAY past nearly.

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Re: The only letter left to write for Comey..

Take your meds AC. Your delusion is clinical.

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Re: But Wait ...

The GOP have literally been traitors for the last 30 years.

They have literally thrown the American people under the bus and sold out to foreign countries for their own monetary gain. They have deregulated industry to point they are killing people.

Here's the latest example:

"In Sept of 2010, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill on Tuesday to end tax deductions enjoyed by companies that close their U.S. plants and move overseas.

With a largely party-line vote of 53-45, Democrats failed to muster the 60 votes needed to clear a Republican procedural hurdle against the measure, which would also give employers a tax break to hire new U.S. workers.

(2 months later the GOP were given the House majority by popular vote. You can't fix that kind of fucking stupid)

Published November 03, 2011 Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Republicans in the Senate Thursday dealt President Obama the third in a string of defeats on his stimulus-style jobs agenda, blocking a $60 billion measure for building and repairing infrastructure like roads and rail lines."

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But, but....

Benghazi! Obamacare! Fake birth certificate! Gays! My guns!

She's guilty of something, dammit!

/far right wing rant

Living with the Pixel XL – Google's attempt at a high-end phone

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Re: Wanna buy a Pixel?

Damn fawdman, you're right. I was thinking of the IMSI. The IMEI and IMSI were connect by the database record.

Good catch. You can tell it's been a while since I did this. Have an up vote.

Still, my point is that the SIM is still essential for various and good reasons by providing identity of user, carrier and geolocation of carrier system and type.

Twitter trolls are destroying democracy, warn eggheads

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Re: It isn't only Twitter

Great quote Neil.

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Re: It took the Researchers How Long to Figure this Out?

Right there in the name. The joke definitely on the users.