Are you waving a dead chicken?

This is my phrase of the day.

I just found out what to "wave a dead chicken" means.

As per wikipedia it is, to make a token effort (wave a dead chicken) which one knows will ultimately be completely useless but must be done nonetheless so others are satisfied that enough effort has been used to try and fix the problem.

As per wikipedia, this has been taken from the Free Online Dictionary of Computing. Now we know, when companies come and say we are fixing your problem with the software, they are just waving a dead chicken at us.