'Zach' the NZ "super computer"

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#1978755 16-Mar-2018 16:13

IANAL but it sounds like the doctor did get clients to sign a waver and removed personally identifiable information. So that could be hard to pursue?

I wonder if they have accidentally misquoted the currency involved, and it is all in Vietnamese Dong?

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#1978821 16-Mar-2018 18:40

I loved the bit about using several Cray supercomputers just for their firewall, the guy is a serious fantasist. Quite sad that he seems to suck ostensibly intelligent people like a GP in

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#1979244 18-Mar-2018 06:02

Natural stupidity can't be replaced by artificial intelligence.

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#1979260 18-Mar-2018 10:26

Fantasist, liar, or crook?

I've known people who can't stop lying. They almost believe their lies.

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#1979266 18-Mar-2018 10:57

I checked his website, he also offers the fastest retail internet connection in the country....

https://terrible.ngo/nz/talk/

Stupidly Fast.
With up to 10 gigabits per second, do whatever you want, whenever you want. Download 4k movies in seconds, stream instantly.

Say goodbye to buffering.

Quite honestly, why doesn't the commerce commission police this stuff?

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#1979267 18-Mar-2018 11:16

This guy reminds me so much of this guy.

Obvious BS to those that understand the realities of such things, but he sucked in a large group people on other broadband forums (mostly in India) with his slick words. In that case, people really wanted to believe that someone was going to bring amazingly fast yet cheap broadband to them.

Some people seem to have some sort of mental illness that causes them to really believe what they're saying. I really believe mgcarley really thought he was going to do what he said he was. I wonder if Zach's owners suffer the same problem, they really believe they can do this magical thing that no one else has cracked.

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#1979382 18-Mar-2018 16:59

surfisup1000:

I checked his website, he also offers the fastest retail internet connection in the country....

https://terrible.ngo/nz/talk/

Stupidly Fast.
With up to 10 gigabits per second, do whatever you want, whenever you want. Download 4k movies in seconds, stream instantly.

Say goodbye to buffering.

Quite honestly, why doesn't the commerce commission police this stuff?

Small fry, the ComCom would get so many complaints and they only have so many resources to deal with them.

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#1979384 18-Mar-2018 17:06

muppet:

This guy reminds me so much of this guy.

Obvious BS to those that understand the realities of such things, but he sucked in a large group people on other broadband forums (mostly in India) with his slick words. In that case, people really wanted to believe that someone was going to bring amazingly fast yet cheap broadband to them.

Some people seem to have some sort of mental illness that causes them to really believe what they're saying. I really believe mgcarley really thought he was going to do what he said he was. I wonder if Zach's owners suffer the same problem, they really believe they can do this magical thing that no one else has cracked.

Thanks - I hadn't seen that thread it was a good giggle. I guess the OP has disappeared into his fantasy world.

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#1979834 19-Mar-2018 13:12

Wowsers. That's nutty.

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#1980215 20-Mar-2018 00:38

This is the no. 42 (yes, THE 42!) in the world (at this time) and it's not far away from me as the crow flies. With the PDF manuals provided I'm quite tempted to use it for my backup plan and for radius server.

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#1988759 5-Apr-2018 13:21

It seems the Internal Affairs Investigation may have started...

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#1988807 5-Apr-2018 14:47

These guys are so dumb.

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#1988841 5-Apr-2018 15:56

$30M p.a. is a pretty poor ROI for $450M in assets. Presumably that will improve when Zach takes over running the "charity".

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#1988843 5-Apr-2018 16:15

frankv:

$30M p.a. is a pretty poor ROI for $450M in assets. Presumably that will improve when Zach takes over running the "charity".

It isn't that bad. For example if you are renting out a house, the returns can be a lot lower. Although landlords also expect a good capital gain on the property over time, but that isn't always going to happen.

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#2076498 20-Aug-2018 20:15

And... Unlocking this with some news...

1) The site (terrible.ngo) is mostly broken now. Many 404's, no reference to Zach at all.
2) They're terrible at renewing domains with terrible.org.nz now "Pending Release".

Looks like this is a terrible end...

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