Posts by ecofeco

Retirement age must move as life expectancy grows, says WEF

Re: This is all very well, but........

There's another phrase: min wage don't pay the fucking bills.

Re: Work longer? ... Honestly I'd rather sign up to:

HA! I posted the same up-thread.

It died with offshoring jobs, pension cuts, unreliable jobs and pay cuts and zero hour "gig" jobs.

Was this a trick question?

Re: Obviously manual labor doesn't count!

Welcome to the Thatcher/Reagan New World Order.

It's been crime to be poor in all of history, but now the poor are an artificial creation by the oligarchs.

The new Antoinettes rule the world.

Re: Pensions

The thing is J.G. first you have to HAVE the income to save FROM, and no amount of "maths" will make up for decades of insecure and unreliable jobs.

Re: Pensions

They've moved the goal posts all our lives, Tom and they are still moving them and blaming the punters.

Re: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long

Logans Run.

Re: Three functional errors

The oligarchs in the helicopter are blameless? The perception is just an echo chamber? Go on, pull the other one.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

Re: The 1% does not "ADD UP"

That exactly what it is and it's worse than you think.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/apr/08/global-inequality-may-be-much-worse-than-we-think

Much worse.

Raise the retirement age?

They can fuck right off with this bullshit.

Walmart workers invited to shuttle packages

Nope, nothing to see here

Just another Uber wannabe. What could wrong?

BA IT systems failure: Uninterruptible Power Supply was interrupted

There are many more of these hard lessons yet to be learned.

Bank on it.

Dent in bonuses? You're joking of course.

Dent in some lower scapegoat's employment is more like it.

Re: We haven't heard anything from the BOFH recently.

I think you may be on to something there...

The cause is pretty obvious

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/11/british_airways_website_down/

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

The staff who knew the quirks and oddities of the system were dismissed and the remaining staff had no clue. The rest is nothing but shouting.

I've seen this happen a few times. Quite a few times.

Manglement always thinks a complex network is plug and play and so are the staff. And this is always the result.

So much schadenfreude here.

The Linux cloud swap that spells trouble for Microsoft and VMware

'Cause girls...

...just wanna have fun?

As you stare at the dead British Airways website, remember the hundreds of tech staff it laid off

I'm having serious manglement Schadenfreude

See title.

Uber New York class action alleges passengers overcharged $7.43m per month

Re: Money's for a good cause

One of those rare posts where the /s tag is obviously not required.

Have an up vote.

Google wants to track your phone and credit card through meatspace

Re: Told you so. At least 7 years ago ...

As have some of the rest us, yet still the downvotes.

The human race really is its own worst enemy.

Re: It's a bit of an irony, actually

Some of us have been trying to warn people for years and all we got were downvotes.

Uber found to be doing something awful? Yep, it's Tuesday

Re: It's tricky

Apparently obvious sarcasm not obvious to at least two people.

Millions?

The drivers will be lucky to see tens of dollars.

Supreme Court closes court-shopping loophole for patent trolls

Look out Delaware!

Fun fact: Delaware is the state with the most incorporations due to its very "friendly" laws if incorporation.

Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

They are failing.

I have yet to experience the "acceleration" aspect.

I wondered why the pages load so slow these days.

The problem is the shit barge of bloated webpages in the first place.

Re: How it works in the real world

Truly, many of us get that the poor contractor is at the mercy of the idiocy of the client. Many of us have the scars from it.

But a lot designers are complicit as well. At the very least, as you say, if you want to get paid, you've got to at least ape what the clients want. And many designers are also just as stupid as their clients.

I used to build websites. Then the market finally got to the point where the client knew more than the designer and that's when I quit. I literally said "no" to clients right to the poor house.

Hence, the sorry state of web design these days. Dancing hamsters, the lot.

You've been warned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TzAQXVpB8

Re: AMP is training people to be conned

Another damn good point. Not enough upvotes for you!

Re: AMP is good (For dumb mobile users)

The goal of AMP is to produce lightweight pages, which publishers SHOULD be able to create by themselves, simply using self-control to not stuff their own pages full of shit.

THIS. This right here is the nut in the shell.

All other arguments are moot and spectacle.

Not making lightweight webpages the way god intended is the REAL fucking problem. Everywhere.

I do NOT understand the downvotes for this. Poser designers? Clueless marketing bog brains? Wankerific script kiddies who just THINK they know how to design and build websites? The special-places-in-hell advert channel server business? Fuck off the lot of you.

All of them shitting in the nest by the tanker ship.

Does this mean I support AMP? Fuck no. The last damn thing the Internet needs it yet ANOTHER fucking protocol.

Biz overlords need to give a stuff about what they're told by IT crowd

Re: Why that won't happen

Not enough upvotes for you!

Hahahahahahah! Ego maniac stuffed shirt tossers listen to the hired help?

Can I move to that world?

Pay attention. We're only going to show you this once: OpenAI coaches robots to copy humans

Re: Honey, I'm selling the kids and getting a Homebot!

....well, until AI overlords take over, anyway.

DeX Station: Samsung's Windows-killer is ready for prime time

Re: ORLY?

Don't feel bad. Some of us have also been predicting that the basic PC for users is going to be a phone that docks.

With predictable down votes as well.

74 countries hit by NSA-powered WannaCrypt ransomware backdoor: Emergency fixes emitted by Microsoft for WinXP+

comcast in the U.S. may be affected

Comcast internet is having national issues for the last 8 hours. Intermittent and sporadic depending on region.

Coincidence?

Try not to scream: Ads are coming to Amazon's Alexa – and VR goggles

Re: Get me of this f'in planet...

They have no scruples about selling out their granny for a dime!

They will both sell out granny AND make her pay for it as well.

Because anything other than unfettered theft capitalism, is damn commie socialism!

Anyone not see this coming?

Anyone?

All that free music on YouTube is good for you, Google tells music biz

Ah the old "but look at all the exposure you'll get!"

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard THAT one...

Seriously, the arts are a very messed up business.

Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised

About damn time

If the driver can't set their own rates, then they work for the company.

How hard was this for everyone to understand?

Rhetorical question. It might as well have been quantum physics.

Unpaid tech contractor: 'I have to support my family. I have no money for medicines'

Nice sheltered life you got there Simon. Be a shame if anything should happen to it, eh?

Microsoft and Rambus will get schwifty in quantum-cum-cryogenic computation collab

Re: Rambus still going

Rubba dubba Rambus!

'Nobody's got to use the internet,' argues idiot congressman in row over ISP privacy rules

Re: 'you don't have to use the internet if you don't like it.'

http://www.theonion.com/article/american-people-hire-high-powered-lobbyist-to-push-18204

Re: Benefit of the doubt? "Notas Badoff" might not be American?

The lack of integrity in the voting syustem that allows multiple voting and voting by non-citizens is a far larger issue.

A repeatedly proven urban myth where the incidents that did happen were statistically unimportant and mostly committed by GOP supporters.

Further proof

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the powers that be really have no clue how the Internet works.

Canonical sharpens post-Unity axe for 80-plus Ubuntu spinners

Re: so this was the real reason

Unity is what turned me off Ubuntu.

Consumers go off PCs as global shipments continue their decline

PC sales have always been cyclical

That said, what compelling reason do people have to go buy new PCs?

None that I can think of. A quad core with a decent vid, NIC, HDD and RAM is about all anyone needs these days.

That's every computer made in the last 4 years.

Cyberattacks wipe more than $50bn off big biz value, say beancounters

What's that old saying?

It's good to save money in business, but you can save yourself right out of business.

Stop treating IT like janitors.

Twitter's motto: If at first you screwed developers over, try, try again, eh?

What am I missing?

It's a glorified IM limited to short text messages and small photos. (and videos now?)

What exactly is there to develop?

Murdoch will get EU green light for full Sky takeover – reports

Expect the expected

Prices up, service down.

Overcharge customers, underpay the serfs. Who else but Uber (allegedly)

Another clear violation contractor labor laws

This is yet another clear violation of contractor labor laws as well.

The law clearly states that a contractor must be able to determine how best to fulfill the work required and if the client, in this case, Uber, micro manages the actual work, they are in effect, now employers.

The law clearly states you can't have it both ways and was created to prevent just this scenario.

Re: Wouldn't surprise me a bit

And THAT is really saying something.