* Posts by ecofeco

8240 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jul 2010

Apple and Android wearables: What iceberg? It’s full steam ahead!

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Re: I like my Magellan Echo

Simplicity and long battery life. That's how it's done.

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Re: Is that the sound of an ax being ground?

A gimmick is a gimmick no matter how many people buy it and should be called out as such.

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Re: Smartwatch = YACTx

Nailed it.

SoftLayer embiggens its cloud VMs

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Cloud VM?

Ah, the worst of both worlds! What could go wrong?

This is the kind of stupid that can't be fixed.

Charter halts TWC upgrades

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Have you ever seen a merger that didn't result in higher prices and reduced service?

Yeah, me neither.

Cable box unlock block

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Re: Corporate welfare for Google

You forgot the sarcasm tag.

Should we teach our kids how to program humanity out of existence?

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Re: We haven't got a decent programming language yet

What have they been going? Getting marginalized by VCs and MBAs in favor if InstaFaceBookTwitterGram garbage or vendor lock in.

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Re: Its not going to be a problem

Agreed. The bloat in software these days is beyond redemption.

UK's education system blamed for IT jobs going to non-Brits

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Biggest pile of bollocks ever

This is one serious pile of bollocks. Mt. Everest scale in fact. The 1% do not value local talent one wit and they will tell any lie to hide their contempt of said talent.

Can't have the help getting uppity, you know. They simply MUST know their place. /s

Outsourcery sold after Dragon runs out of puff

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Re: A ponzi scheme by any other name

Or pump-and-dump.

Either way, it's a tradition first pioneered by those kings of corporate raiding back in the 1980s. You remember. The Thatcher/Reagan era of prosperity for everyone except the average person.

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Yeah... who?

Damn! Looks like I missed another flash in the pan. How will I ever live with myself?

Oh wait. Don't care.

Just one question, though. Was ever heard to utter the phrase, "Do you know who I am?!"

Dad of student slain in Paris terror massacre sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their 'material support' of ISIS

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Just... no.

His grief is understandable but his targets are way off.

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You joke but every single example you gave has been tried and continues to be tried.

And then some.

Get-rich quick trick Twitch snitch: Bots sued for fake video views

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Number of hits/views/units shipped faked

So just like every form of PR then.

Right. No surprise here.

The only surprise to me is that they don't seem to have even the most basic verification system installed. Has CAPTCHA, email confirmation, or 2 factor login been that easily defeated? Oh wait, I'll bet it wasn't even deployed.

You Acer holes! PC maker leaks payment cards in e-store hack

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Another week another hack, yet again

If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium.

That an old movie ref, BTW.

Ex-SAP exec and pals accused of $500,000 insider trading scam

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Re: It's in the subhead "folks got greedy"

The SEC could catch a lot more if they weren't constantly hobbled by Congress.

Russian government hackers spent a year in our servers, admits DNC

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Re: OK, now there's a company I won't use for security..

Most IPSECS experts are snake oil con men.

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I've said it over and over

The PTB DO NOT understand the Internet.

Who shot JR (that great Dallas broadband)?

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Re: One company to rule them al!.

AOL tried that. How'd that work out?

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Re: Get the facts!

The other companies don't slurp your data? Are you high? Because nobody can be this naive.

Workers rejoice! Marx’s vision will become reality, argues SAP veep

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Let them eat Uber?

Marie Antoinette did get it either, but she was an amateur at piling shit as high as this clueless dirt bag.

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Re: more like hypercapitalism

Would have loved? That's exactly how it was almost to the middle if the 20th century and still is in some ways and places.

Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the price of 36 Instagrams

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Re: Good bye LinkedIn

Bookmarked.

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Re: Let me guess...

Very damn likely.

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Re: The first thing that will happen ...

You joke but that is a very real possibility.

MS wants everything on their Azure cloud and buying LinkIn and Windows 10 is part of the roadmap.

Microsoft's paid $60 per LinkedIn user – and it's a bargain, because we're mugs

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Re: Unable to delete my account

Your account has been nicked and the duplication and hand over is already underway. The failure is deliberate.

I was afraid it was too late.

No joke.

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...and Office and Exchange and...

Net neutrality victory: DC court backs full rules

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Put a sock in it, Donn Bly. The U.S. has the worst Internet and cell phone service of ALL first world countries.

"Customer demand" my ass.

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Amazing. Simply amazing

While the fascist juggernaut that is modern USA continues along, there are finally some signs of slowing.

Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net

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Re: It's all to difficult

Dreamweaver still exists. So does a Linux version of the old Netscape Composer. Both still work. Both still let you write and edit HTML as well as WYSIWYG GUI.

You still need to be clever to use them effectively and make small file size pages, but as I've said many times, most website code is bloated shit and clever is now measured by how convoluted you make something and not by efficiency.

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Re: "The consumer Internet is not securable."

Lexus Nexus was such.

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Re: Tim is a Scientist Guy...

Well said, DAM.

Crafty plan to give FBI warrantless access to browser histories axed

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Don't we all, AC. Don't we all.

Now Google backs everyone's favorite trade pact: The TPP

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The New World Order progresses

Have we all forgotten the NWO? This is just another step forward.

And another step back for the average person.

Developer waits two years for management to define project

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Been there seen that. Total fuckwits.

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Re: vacuum & UPS

Do we know the same person, GY?

FFS, Twitter. It's not that hard

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Re: It's SO simple

Brilliant! Up voted.

Texans sue Lyft and Uber

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Good luck with that

Texas is notorious as a state with weak worker protection.

Time Warner Cable, you've 'earned your miserable reputation' – NY Attorney General

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Re: Feelin' old

Believe me, nothing has changed with the phone companies. I worked for one for a while in this decade. You would not believe how old and decrepit their system is. I'm amazed it works at all.

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Re: Anyone surprised?

Not so much as dumb as too damn poor to do anything about it.

McDonald's says bigger fonts cooked up improved profits

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Whodda thunk it?

Something that is easier to read leads to increased efficiency and productivity?

Has the world gone mad?! I thought it was design LAW, WRITTEN IN STONE, that type should be as small as possible and some color that is low contrast to the background! /s

Yes hipster designers, I am talking to you, dumbasses. And your MBA bosses who just THINK they are designers.

Boffins slap quantum dots on diamonds to create mutant nanomaterials

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Gonna get weird

This century is going to get really weird. The rapid advancements in materials and their physical mass production as applied to everyday products are going leave most people with their mouths open.

Google snubs 'dark money' questions at AGM. Shareholder power? Yeah, right

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Shareholder benefit has been a myth for decades

The old canard about corporations having responsibility to shareholders is true only to the extent it applies to the majority shareholders.

That's usually the board of directors and the large institutional/financial investors. Everyone else can eat cake.

Sysadmin 'fesses up to wrecking his former employer's IT systems

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No mystery why he was laid off

I'm sure his work attitude was all sunshine and rainbows, right? /s

FBI tries again to get warrantless access to your browser history

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Re: Not Accurate

If you aren't doing anything wrong. Aren't committing felonies, hurting anyone in any way or planning to hurt people.. you're safe.

I was almost buying into your advice until I read this. Then I realized it was one big put-on. No one is this naive, are they?

Well done. Well done. That is some top shelf trolling. Top marks for pacing and timing.

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Re: Good luck with that

You forgot the /sarcasm tag, Mpeler.

Calgary uni pays ransomware criminals $20k for its files back

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Re: Cannot resist facehand

See Fatman's post. This was most likely a budget cut decision by upper manglement.

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Re: RE: can't believe....

I came to say the same thing, Fatman. I'd bet good money that was the case.

Is Windows 10 ignoring sysadmins' network QoS settings?

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Nothing new, just worse

Since XP, Microsoft OS has always had a large amount of Internet traffic hiding under inscrutable names.

FireFox also has this issue when you start collecting add-ons.

Far too many programs these days are constantly in contact with the mothership. Sure, most of it is checking updates, but how can anyone really know?

This is why good firewalls are essential. You have to control not only inbound traffic, but outbound as well.

Scots denied Saltire emoji

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The real question should be...

How many emojjis can fit on the head of a pin?