Posts by ecofeco

Judge rejects claims Cloudflare should be held responsible for customers' copyright infringement

Re: A lot of support for Cloudflare here...

Because it's not Cloudflare's fault. The blame lies solely on the website stealing the IP.

Re: “ Wedding dress designers - an honest business if there ever was one …”

Wait, are you talking about the wedding industry or the music industry?

Re: Missing the point

Not enough upvotes.

While suing Cloudflare is frivolous bollocks, American corporations and the civil courts are as corrupt as it gets in the history of mankind.

Want to support Firefox? Great, you'll have no problem with personalised, sponsored search suggestions then

Two things

First, do not create a Firefox account. Ever.

Second, clear your history every single day or use Private Browsing as much as possible. You can also set FireFox to delete all tracking data, page caches, cookie, etc, when closing your session.

Install and use ad blocking plug-ins. NoScript and UBlock seem to work the best. Yes, they will take constant adjusting until they work with your personal needs.

Do this and you can stop worrying about the low hanging fruit.

EU readies 'antitrust charges' against Apple Pay for locking rivals out of iPhone NFC chip

I never get tired

I never get tired of the EU teaching American corporations how to be civilized.

Infosys and Wipro employees charged with insider trading

Congressmen only get punished... if they don't report it. But they are still free to trade on insider information... IF they report it.

How can they be charged? It is specifically not illegal for them, and them only, to do so.

Yeah, insane innit? Yet true.

Execs?

Shocked I tell you! Whocouldaknowed?!

Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments

I don't need that many words to say no love lost for Google.

Brit builders merchant Travis Perkins opts for Oracle after ERP disaster with Infor

Shooting the other foot

Looking forward to future news of this one.

Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

Teams? Powersh...ell? Default install?

OK, nice to have as default if you need them, but what are their purpose again?

Teams? Hands down THE least intuitive, useful interface, ever. Well done MS! Zoom thanks you.

Powersh...ell? (sorry keep wanting to use alternative spelling) the scripting language it appears nobody will ever fully know? And sometimes works? That has embraced the modern proclivity of verbosity over brevity?

Lovely. Carry on. /s

I have never understood this. Seems so simple, yet somehow. MS cannot grasp it.

All I feel is wanked marketing speak.

Want to check out Windows 11 but don't want to buy a new PC? Here's how to bypass the hardware requirements

Re: Even better....don't bother yet!

Simple answer: tell them it's not company approved yet.

Re: Even better....don't bother yet!

3 months? You're quite the optimist.

I would say at least a year. Maybe two.

Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist

This is paradoy, I hope

I hope this parody by the Internet Archives, but if they are serious....

Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

Mere, I'm sure. ;)

Re: Want to run it?

Exactly. If you don't like it, you can always load another. That's the beauty of Linux.

Re: Want to run it?

Yes. Mint.

But almost any flavor of Linux is fine. I've only tried a few flavors and settled on Mint.

Want to run it?

No. But one day I will have to because Borg. But I'll wait at least a year before I install. I'll do what I always do: let others beta test.

What if Chrome broke features of the web and Google forgot to tell anyone? Oh wait, that's exactly what happened

Re: Bloat!

That's not IT, that's marketing.

Bloat!

Bloat for job security.

If you can't make it work with HTML, gifs and jpgs and cgi-bin, yer doin it wrong.

Wots that? You say you MUST have the complexity? No you don't. Bugger off.

Re: Absolutely agree

This. The internet was never meant to be a walled garden and many forget this at their peril.

And websites were never meant to be bloated shit piles. Remember Front Page? How did that work out? Many forget this at their peril as well.

Maker of ATM bombing tutorials blew himself up – Euro cops

Re: Think of it

NB: By definition a Darwin award winner hasn't procreated yet.

Oh god, not this bollocks again. What self appointed authority moved the goal posts?

Firewalls? Pfft – it's no match for my mighty spares-bin PC

Re: Bodged rack mount server

I DO NOT miss SCSI.

One-character bug gives away $90m in COMP tokens – recipients can keep 10% or consider themselves doxxed

It does, doesn't it.

Not really, no. Just pump and dumpers trying to get everyone else in on the scam.

I mean, investing in an unregulated thing and doing it by turning your real money into funny money to do so, can't possibly have a downside, can it? /s

No wait... /hs.

Re: Ahahahaha...

Mere coincidence! *snerk*

Re: Are the tokens convertible to cash somehow?

Except they aren't banks. Or anything else that is regulated.

Oops.

Why it's almost like...

It's almost like they need some kind of process and guidelines and oversight.

There's a word for that. Sounds like egg-something-relations, something, something.

UK umbrella payroll firm Giant Pay confirms it was hit by 'sophisticated' cyber-attack

Umbrella corporation??

I think I see the problem.

Amazon delivery staff 'denied bonus' pay by AI cameras misjudging their driving

Re: Too soon

There is a flaw in your arguement.

It's not 4 seconds, It's more like two seconds.

So the scenario is, drunk driver makes bad move. Second second, crash.

Quit

Seriously. Quit and find another job. Any job. This is micromanaging bollocks designed to steal money from the drivers. And damned dangerous as well. NOBODY needs a backseat driver.

HPE campaigns against 'cloud first' push in UK public sector

Exactly. Cloud and on-prem are like having closets at home and public storage for the extra.

Who in their right minds puts ALL of their possessions in public storage as a permanent thing and tries to live like that daily?

Data is not like physical inventory. It is the very blood of every business. Insurance can replace physical inventory that is no longer accessible for various reasons. It cannot replace unique data.

Cloud is a great place for back up or surge demand. It is a very, very stupid thing for primary reliance.

"Here stranger, these are the keys to my house." How is that a good idea except to idiots?

Square-shaped hole in workers' wallets after payment system fails at peak tip time

Re: I never get tired of saying it

Processes by digital transmission over complex networks using other computers not owned by just one person or company is not the cloud.

Got it. The parrot is not deceased.

Carry on. Carry on.

Re: I never get tired of saying it

Everything you just named is the cloud.

What was your point?

I never get tired of saying it

So how's that cloud thing working for ya?

Texas law banning platforms from social media moderation challenged in lawsuit

The ocean will take care of the Florida problem. No need to do any extra work there.

Becoming?

Re: Texas is amazing...

Florida would like a word with you.

I'm almost certain Texas and Florida are inbred siblings.

Re: Virtue signaling

Wait. What? You mean Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha were not about making people rich and the rich ruling the earth?

BLASPHEMY! SPLITTER! HERESY!

Re: Censorship

Every person on the entire planet, outside of China and Russia, are free to create websites of their own and say whatever they want.

Nobody on the entire planet, IN ANY NATION, has the right to go on private property and do as they please.

Websites are private property. Like it or lump it.

Not only private property, but free to say what they want. So that's two inalienable rights they have.

So we see that conservatives are really authoritarian hypocrites and not be be given even a modicum of respect. In other words, sucks to be you.

Re: Censorship

Do facts and science not exist in your world?

Rhetorical question, of course.

Re: Conflicted

Facebook is a monopoly?

When did this happen?

Now America's financial watchdog probes 'frat house' Activision Blizzard

I'm shocked!

I am shocked, just shocked, I tell you, to see tech douche bros acting like tech douche bros... and actually being investigated for a change.

Turing Award winner Barbara Liskov on CLU and why programming is still cool

Re: Error handling

LOL. Right?

Activision Blizzard accused of union busting, intimidating staff in complaint to watchdog

Game companies are toxic employers

Every large game company is a toxic employer. Many of the smaller ones are as well.

I know a few veterans who have been in the business for 30 years and every one of them say, do not work for a game company. They have only worked for themselves for the last 20 years and even though their credentials are amazing, they will never work for another game company again by choice.

AI caramba, those neural networks are power-hungry: Counting the environmental cost of artificial intelligence

There is also the human labor

Perhaps I skimmed too fast, but I did not see mention of the legion of Mechanical Turks, and their counterparts, who work 24/7 to assist current "AI."

They too are using stunning amounts of power.

Talent shortage? Maybe it's your automated hiring system, lack of investment in training

Or maybe

Or maybe it's the same old game of not wanting to pay for real skills?

That's the way I would bet.

'It takes a hell of a mental toll' – techies who lost work due to COVID share their stories

I also skated on thin ice

If it weren't for the government assistance, I would be homeless and came damn close more than once. Thank god for the money and understanding creditors. Millions were not so lucky.