* Posts by theExecutive

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Meta pours cash into servers and AI as ad revenue falls

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Second life

Seen this before, it failed, for the same reasons.

Capita: We were juuust about to generate revenue growth and sustainable cash flow – then pandemic stuffed it up

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Furloughed Employees cost money?

Maybe cost of offices , or something, meh!

IBM talks up open cloud, downplays vendor lock-in as it signs public cloud framework with UK.gov

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Hello Hello Hello Hello

Hello how am I being your help please?

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

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VPN

Yes your safe!!!!

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Daniel Kinahan

Drugs and Murder exposed

Home working is here to stay, says Lenovo boss, and will grow the total addressable PC market by up to 30%

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Re: Market +30% = wages -30%

Yes and that new "Smart Energy" meter can be used to penalise you for using electricity at peak times, poor people have different dinner times.

IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process

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Re: wondering

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd He has restarted incidentally, Armonk..

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IBM rehires old programmers

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd

Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM

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IBM

1. So they have plenty to spaff on IBM (Not British) see here .. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/bbc_broadband_levy/

2. They expect us to fund them, and they choose IBM, nobody ever got retained for buying IBM :)

3. IBM is BBC?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/bbc_broadband_levy/

https://www.cbronline.com/cloud/ibm-wins-5-year-bbc-contract-to-drive-mobile-and-cloud-transformation-4859910/

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450280976/BBC-outsources-finance-and-accounting-technology-to-IBM

4. Its 1st April

Who's going to pay for Britain's Aunty Beeb to carry on? Broadband users, broadcaster suggests to government

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April Fool

HEh!

Hunting for IT staff? Lost your job during the pandemic? Sysadmin vacancies – and a free job ads offer – inside

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What a selection

#sarcasm

SAP's locked-down offshore project managers develop remote work plans for clients

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IBM

Indian Business Machines, they should have been! , ah well, can a service as shit as IBM's get any shitter if they have no staff? Actually may get better, THAT is why they are not mentioned, IBM are better without the staff... ill go now...

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Most Lied

To keep cash flowing, meh!

IT services sector faces armageddon as COVID-19 lockdown forces project cancellations – analysts

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1984

“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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IR35

Yay IR35 postponed a year... Let the good news commence.... please!!!!

IBM puts 1,248 frontline techies at risk of redundo, warns of data centre closures

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Re: Bunch of negative cry babies here

India on lockdown now, but you know that :)

Hong Kong coronavirus quarantine evaders collared by cops with the help of smartphone-tracking tech

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1984

“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”

― George Orwell, 1984

It's time to track people's smartphones to ensure they self-isolate during this global pandemic, says WHO boffin

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1984

It was a bright cold day in May 2020, and the clocks were striking thirteen

OneCoin lawyer trial kicks off in NY as cryptocurrency founder remains on the lam

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Electronic Money

Tokens that can be exchanged are exchanged for "Cash" people buy tokens to "Make Cash" , its not the future of money, it is old fashoined greed, and a BlockChain ledger does not make any crypto currency any different, OneCoin is a little different, as Sotoshi Nakamoto is anonymous, OneCoins creator is not....Hey fancy buying a https://dagcoin.org/ ? "Yes it good, make much money" quote by Dr.Philip Goodtimes

Mystery database left open turns out to be at heart of a huge Groupon ticket fraud ring

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Internet Facing for a reason

Then you can access it from anywhere, and not provide credentials ... simples.

IBM hunkers down for no-deal Brexit, warns of disruption to supply chain, data transfers

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Maths were by Dianne Abbot

And it was Eleventy Billion every half quarter..

I helped catch Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht: Undercover agent tells all

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Re: So the moral here is

Yup DPR2 was whacked :)

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Big Brother

Re: More Questions

Yes because we set up servers to leak from "Special" pages..

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Big Brother

Re: More Questions

Correct, PluralOfMongoose hada rotating VPN and its was through the TOR network, who the fuck did they catch :)... Dead men tell no tales...

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PROOF

They have to proove you ordered it, and not an evil enemy putting you in it..good times.

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Pirate

ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!

Its a TOR site, this is bullshit! "what we did find was that the actual server itself showed the admin was logging into the actual Silk Road from an internet cafe in San Francisco."

Amazon meets the incredible SHRINKING UK taxman

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Offshore transaction, onshore goods

The transaction is handled by computer outside the UK. Thus is not taxable, in the same way that if my software was developed offshore I would pay India, its not Brexit, its very simple, like most thinking that brexit will cost them, imagine when every store and cloud device is amazon, have you seen the future? Good, go back to running through wheat fields...

People like convenience more than privacy – so no, blockchain will not 'decentralise the web'

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Meh

5kg of Cocaine

I prefer Privacy

I see you're trying to leak a file! US military seeks Clippy-like AI to stop future Snowdens

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All my secrets are PGP encrypted before i send them to myself

So you dont know what it is,ever! :)

Evil third-party screens on smartphones are able to see all that you poke

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Re: Clever

McCoward?

You just activated my battlecard: How IBM sales droids plan to whack flash array rivals

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You just activated my battlecard: How IBM sales droids plan to whack flash array rivals

Local Talent, Local Sites, and they speak your language, not confusing Indian/Corporate

For €10k, Fujitsu will tell you if your blockchain project is a load of bull

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Does your Project have any value other than Investment, or Ponzi

If not, its shit!

There saved you £10k

Dudes. Blockchain. In a phone. It's gonna smash the 'commoditization of humanity' or something

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First Coin Suported ADA (Cardano)

Which is written in Haskell, like speaking Georgian (East Europe) is that way so few understand what a con it is.

So basically a phone with hackable API bridges, you get some idiots with Social Science and Divinity Degrees..

Nostalgic social network 'Timehop' loses data from 21 million users

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No IP Logs

It never happened, however if yu check your IP vs the IP that was reading your data, it did :)

Leatherbound analogue password manager: For the hipster who doesn't mind losing everything

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First Pet, and Mother Maiden Name

Yep im looking to the future, where all passwords can be easily remembered by their password hints, will save acres of paper and plasti binding.

Just a flip card should do, 50p. Usually i get people to tell me these things anyway, as passwords are so complicated, it comes down to....... Fluffy , Armstrong :)

IBM Cloud TITSUP: Techies investigate troubling storage underperformance

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FAIL

Not Normal

Data has been restored, erm to last week, all a business has to do is go through a magic time portal, to last week, or face a weeks lost work.

IBM wins five-year whole-of-government deal with Australia

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quantumchain blockovation innolution

May as well use these Bingo words, as they dont exist, and will never get delivered, and Id quite like to go to Australia where the government are on ICE or other hard drugs, and have wodges of cash to spaff all over the worst ideas by the worlds worst outsourced supplier, yeah Australia can be my SPAFFDADDY!!!!!

Thrice, in a trice, IBM cloud cuts prices

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Herro!

Wat are the probrem sir! isa give loadsa stuff free, for you to buy, yes?

IBM memo to staff: Our CEO Ginni is visiting so please 'act normally!'

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The boss is <finallly> coming, quick act normal and busy.

MongoDB turns on, tunes in, drops ACID and goes mobile

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Haskell

What next, OS changed to Haskell, and using the Blockchain to generate transactionless e-money...what...oh.. ADA (Cardano) have stitched that ride up for themselves man...

Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination

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Re: Nothing to see here

Not really significant, and it is you!

GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep

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GitHob

May as well , its where Hub originated, and I can make money from the mass stupid

Aussie bloke wins right to sue Google over 'underworld' images

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He is all over the Internet now

BBC News, RT CNBC, Hitman Sues Google , Milorad "Michael" Trkulja, hitman... he created this!

Amazon scam trio primed for prison stretch after million-dollar fraud

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Amazon Freebie

Well this will go on social media, then a lot of Amazon "FreeBies" will occur, kinda soon..

Schadenfreude for UK mobile networks over the tumult at Carphone

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Overdaft

In the UK the banks now charge higher overdraft fees than even the s-wanky-est phone, so you could just burn 2x £ on nowt :)

Great time to shift bytes: International bandwidth prices are in free fall

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PORNVR

See the new Playstation VR headset, see tha bandwidth streaming to that, see the porn, Mmmmm!

Microsoft commits: We're buying GitHub for $7.5 beeeeeeellion

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RUN FORREST RUN!

Before you get fucked in the ass!

You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened

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1984

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself

Newsworthy Brit bank TSB is looking for a head of infrastructure

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Bank Holiday Weekend

Coming up for any IT changes!

TSB outage, day 5: What do you mean you can't log in? Our systems are up and running. Up and running, we say!

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Re: "Embattled bank TSB"

To another Indian Tech, best of luck!

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