Posts by ecofeco

Euro Patent Office prez's brake line cut – aka how to tell you're not popular

Talk about can't take a hint

See title.

Sky! Blue!, Oceans! Wet!, Yahoo! Overvalued!

Re: Failed to turn around....

Yes, yes we are well aware the job of the CEO is to loot the company and help increase board of directors stock profits, bonuses and expensive perks increase shareholder value and be chief liar and front man the public face of the company.

Re: stop the press!

Not for a long, long time.

Re: All things come to an end

Death by bean counters indeed. Never, NEVER let the bean counters control your business. They know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Re: Let the Bidding begin!

You're overbidding by $3.50 if that's the small bag.

Hypersonic flight test hits Mach 7.5

Congratulations

Good job. Well done.

Great, IBM has had a PCM breakthrough. Who exactly is going to manufacture?

Re: What???

We live in very odd times. Both science and technology are moving ahead at near science fiction speed, but the average person is getting dumber by the minute.

As the old saying goes, this will not end well.

Good article though. Very rarely do I want to do more research from just reading an article. This was one of those times I did.

Modular phone Ara to finally launch

Re: hmmm

And just how many of those do you think there are? 10? 100? 1000?

The number would close to a million or better. That is only a small market to people with unreasonable expectations.

Yeah those colors have GOT to go. They do look like shit.

Re: Geeks...

Exactly this.

Re: So much pessimism?

Well said LeoP. Upvoted.

Yeah, well, I was promised moonbases, flying cars and house robots and world peace and the leisure time to enjoy them.

That this is even going into production at all in any form is pretty impressive.

Re: What happens if you drop it?

Don't drop it. Simples. Or do like most people do and get a cover/case for it.

In theory, this is the least of your worries. You would simply replace the damaged part.

Re: There are severe technical limitations

"Or, more likely, it's going to fizzle out in a heap of whining that you can't upgrade the RAM, or they picked the wrong screen, or Apple didn't make it. Sigh."

Seen this happen with many a product so that we always seem to end up with the least common denominator technology.

China caught astroturfing social networks

Re: $0.50 per post?

No kidding. Nice job if you can get it.

If you know what's good for you, your health data belongs in the cloud

Oh hell NO!

Nothing, NOTHING belongs in the cloud except data you really don't care about. Personal health information? Go fuck yourself.

Tech support locker scam poses as failed Microsoft Update

Re: hmmm...

Affinity looks damn nice! A Microsoft version and Linux version would pretty much kill Adobe.

Too bad they don't have a Dreamweaver substitute.

Re: Erm... theres

Phones can be forwarded.

GM crops are good for you and the planet, reckon boffins

Re: Patrick Moore

You are free to post credible sources of proof. That's the beauty of the Internet.

FTC's Jerk ruling against ex-Napster boss upheld by court

Exactly.

SEC warns cybersecurity is biggest threat to financial system

SEC also warns water is wet

Financial business continue to ignore warning and complain about their colds and pneumonia, attempt too pass laws against tides.

Google slaps Siri with Assistant and Amazon with Home device

Yo we heard you like ceaseless nattering

So we made it possible to embiggen your ceaseless nattering.

Cuz there just isn't enough people talking and saying nothing!

Cryptxxx shipwrecked: Laughing white hats shred latest ransomware

Excellent

Congrats.

Help! We're being crushed, cry billionaire cable giants

Re: Cry me a river.

Yep. Fuck them. They charge more and offer less and less. I get that they are also getting squeezed by the copyright holders of the content, but fuck them too.

I've pretty much opted out of the whole entertainment circus. I watch free broadcast TV, don't buy music and rent the occasional movie and if something is really interesting, I'll see if I can get it over the Internet. If not, then I stop caring.

Nothing about the industry makes my life better in any substantial way. Nothing.

The Windows 10 future: Imagine a boot stamping on an upgrade treadmill forever

Re: Here's the Windows 10 future I see ... it will be used to download Android desktop

Android desktop? Hahahahahahahahahahahhaa

God help us.

Re: If there's one thing...

"I am sorry, I assumed that the individual would be able to make their own minds up as to whether or not the T&C's for the action pack are suitable for them or not."

Why would you assume small business owners are IT savvy? Because they sure as fuck are not.

Any justificaitons fanbois?

Fuck Win 10. Just fuck it to death already.

Destroying ransomware business models is not your job, so just pay up

Wait. Embolden?

Embolden? This guys is a fucking moron so no surprise at his statements.

He needs to embiggen his educationing.

Got $130,000 down the back of the sofa? Great. Grab an HP 3D printer

Re: hp brand damage

You left out "Ladies Man" Hurd.

Yes but what about the drivers?

Does it come with the mandatory 64GB driver bloatware?

Politician claims porn tabs a malware experiment, then finds God

Re: thought process

Republicans politicians are proven closet pervs.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise hiring temps to cover for redundancies - sources

Blast from the past

When HP bought Compaq, they fired everyone and made them reapply for their jobs.

Some of the white collar employees got their jobs backs and did well. Some didn't. Some of the factory employees got their jobs back and took huge pay cuts. Many did not get rehired at all except for...

To cover the factory labor loss, they then hired temp employees only and this became (and still is as far as I know) the policy with no chance of ever being hired on to HP, proper.

This is pretty much SOP for almost any technical positions at the big corporations these days and has been for years.

HSBC swinging axe on UK IT department, 840 heads to roll

Honest question: how so?

Americans cutting back on online activity over security and privacy fears

Re: Yes, to all the above, and "we accept / make no commitments by e-mail ..."

Most contracted IT is won by who is known and how undetectable you can make the kickback much discount and how cheap you can get the actual employees who will do the actual work.

Merit and competency hardly come into play.

Re: Be safe online AND on the phone

This should be taught to children. I have to tell my aging parents this all the time. No caller ID? No answer.

Re: And I thought I was an anomalous holdout --

Perhaps, one day the banking system in USA might move into to 20th Century let alone the 21st.

Why would they when they can fail and still be rewarded? You simply will not ever beat that kind of corruption.

Re: It's not surprising.

Steve Knox. Dear god! That's insane!! WTFF?

Re: Legislation

But that would be government interference in the free market! /s

Websites with viable contact information and problem reporting? Oh how... plebeian. Who do you think you are? A valued customer or something? /s

No joke. In the U.S. it is the law that when your money is in the bank (or similar) it is now the property of the bank. If your account isn't sporting large sums, they WILL find ways to fuck you over. (manufactured overdraft fees being now the largest revenue source for banks) In fact, it's the banks I trust the least.

Yeah, don't get me started.

Re: won't someone think of the children

Privatize the profit, socialize the costs.

What are you, some kinda damn commie-nist! /s

How... predictable

In the early days of on-line transactions, the sticking point was security and rightfully so. It WAS a problem. Then it was solved. Now it's a problem again. Only now it's everywhere, not just on-line.

Who can blame the customers? They are not tech people and should not have to be especially considering the level of knowledge required these days to stay safe. It is utterly ridiculous and NOT the users fault in the first place.

So the natural response is "fuck this shit." Pretty much the same as even the more experienced and tech savvy poster here. Who can blame them?

Microsoft phone support contractors told to hang up after 15 minutes

Re: Can you beat my 6+ hour support call?!

Gah! Maths! 24 hours at 8 hours each day.

Re: This is not unusual

Too true AB, but I don't hate them. Their work conditions and job training usually sucks. If I got good user info from them I was happy.

Re: Can you beat my 6+ hour support call?!

Easy. Three days.

VP. Middle of nowhere. Satellite connection only. Virus. Slow remote connection. Slow PC. Everything that could be wrong with the OS was wrong.

2 days to clean, another day to update.

Almost an hour to write the final tech notes. AFTER the regular daily notes.

To be honest, I only worked strict 9 hour days with an hour off for lunch. Overtime was not allowed. So, 18 hours then?

FBI director claims that videoing police is causing crime uptick

Re: Simple solution

Colorado has the answers regrading the legalization of marijuana. They are public and available with a quick google search.

The resulting drop in crime was significant as was the costs saved and increased tax revenue from the sale thereof.

Cities are investigating, workers are on strike, but it's not all good news for Verizon

Re: I can tell you exactly how things can get worse

Prisoners seem to be one of a growing number of subhuman underclasses - along with people on benefits and immigrants - who are being written out of mainstream society and excluded from the same rights as everyone else.

Got bad news for you. It's always been this way. The human race is rather insane that way.

Re: given this

Until they start overthrowing countries and or killing their customers, no. But they sure are trying.

And yes, many U.S. companies have done this. Google it. Especially ITT. (the old phone company)

US work visas for international tech talent? 'If Donald Trump is elected all bets are off'

Re: What is a "native" to do??

Entitled graduates aside (and what else is new there?) the problem is not the ridiculous expectations of the less experienced, but the deliberate ostracizing of those with experience because they have earned their wage level and the blatant and documented widespread abuse of the H1B system..

Have an upvote to offset the clueless moron (or maybe the sock puppet) who gave you a downvote.