Posts by Pascal Monett 10530 posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"The metadata is always present anyway. But without the message it's nothing more than coincidence"
Maybe, but if the metadata demonstrates that you've been calling a criminal scumbag twenty times in the past month, then the police don't need the content to tell the judge that you know the guy. From that point, it should be easy to gather proof that you're dealing with him financially, or working for him materially, and then you go down for the count.
If only there was a structure in place where you could put your money and be confident that it was guaranteed that you could not lose it under any circumstance.
If only there was a legal framework and charter that allowed for the creation of institutions who were responsible for the money you placed in your accounts.
If only there was a way to ensure that, even in case of robbery, your account was guaranteed and you didn't lose anything.
Instead, it's the 3rd millennium and we still have people hiding their "life savings" under the mattress. What a shame.
Oh wait . . .
Apparently, they are not robust enough.
It seems to me that Cisco is happy to circumvent visa issues in order to get low-pay employees, and after that it doesn't give a damn what happens.
Curious, because a company who is really attentive to its revenue should ensure that all of its employees are happy to work there.
But hey, what do I know ? I'm not at the head of a multinational behemoth. With my stupid ideas of salary tied to what the employee brings to the company, I would probably bankrupt every multi-billion international corporation in a month.
First, Boeing is facing an uphill climb to get its 737 Max re-certified and, given the amount of deaths due to beancounter cost-cutting measures, that is perfectly normal.
Second, the FAA has lost its prestige and now international bodies are setting up their own certification procedures. The buddy contract between Boeing and the FAA has backfired so spectacularly that the costs for Boeing are going to climb much higher to get itself certified on the international scene.
Good. The rot that has settled in the top layers of US government agencies has come to light and now no one will trust the FAA on its word. I feel really sorry for the good people that I am sure work there, but their negligence and laissez-faire attitude is also responsible for the unacceptable amount of deaths that are due to the simple fact that the FAA couldn't be bothered to set up an actual test for that cursed model.
The FAA is going to spend many, many years regaining its credibility - if that ever happens.
Ah CSV. The magic of having addresses with commas in them. I cannot count the number of hair-pulling times I have had to export data into a CSV file and send it off, only to have the recipient call me and say MY file wasn't working.
Buddy, I exported YOUR data. I you can't be arsed to not bung commas everywhere they shouldn't be, you don't get to blame ME for it.
No you do not. It doesn't matter what the laws will involve, what matters is that Beijing is hijacking your legal system. The jackboots are coming in. Now is the time to leave.
Waiting to see what the laws will be simply validates this procedure. And even if the laws seem acceptable at this time, Beijing will change them when it suits itself.
It was never a question of if. It is now. If you value your freedom, you need to go elsewhere. Because, when China decides to "reeducate" the remaining Hong Kong population, well let's just say blood will be involved.
Dear oh dear, what politicians won't do to make it look like they're doing something about something. Quantum compass technology, really. A cubic-meter sized contraption that uses lasers to super-cool atoms in order to detect movement in a single plane. That could conceivably be useful for a car, which generally only moves in one direction at a time, but I seriously doubt that a Twingo will have either the space or the power output to sustain laser-operated super-cooling just to get from place to place.
And £95 million for a report ? Sounds like the guy who typed that up can retire right now.
A UK-specific GPS system ? I honestly think you have better things to do at this time with what is left of your money. Besides, GPS units that work with the US and EU constellations will soon be available for £99.99, no subscription required. So why are you spending money you don't have on this pipe dream ?
It was IBM not long ago, now it's Google's Cloud and we can be sure that Azure is going to have its problems soon, as will AWS.
I wonder, has anyone done the math on the true uptime of these "services", and compared it to the good ol' local SAS uptime ?
Because being six hours without access to your data on Someone Else's Server is galling, especially when you bought into the fairy tale of Always On.
Agreed. When I read that "Apple supports other APIs that can be abused, such as those related to orientation/acceleration, geolocation, camera access, GPU accelerated graphics, gamepad API, and file and directory upload " it feels kind of galling that there is all this hullabaloo about a Battery Meter API.
A website wants to know how much juice I have ? What for ? Sure, it's ridiculous, but then I can be tracked much more efficiently via my location, and apparently everybody is fine with that, including Apple.
Yup, the FBI was so aggressive it even got an email from one Chinese national in China to another. Were these guys stupid enough to use Gmail or something ?
And then they were stupid enough to come back to the US after having gotten away with it ?
Goes to show that criminals are stupid, even when they have a doctorate degree.
So, UK Gov has a list of addresses that cannot be resold even when expired. They set up that list when .gov.uk came about, transferred all their .org addresses to .gov and promptly forgot everything .org.
Are there any other .org.uk addresses that are still in use by the the government that could also be snapped up like that ? Or is some busybody finally going to get the order to sort the situation out yesterday ?
That is the problem with the administrative mentality. When transferring to .gov.uk, somebody should have made it clear that the "old" .org.uk addresses needed protecting as well. Maybe somebody even did, but the order came down from On High : .gov.uk addresses are to be protected, no mention of .org.uk so, no protection for the latter.
And now this happens.
Incidentally, the fact that the guy who got it for £10 turned around to sell it for much more, that used to be called something nasty, didn't it ? And the original owner could complain about it and get it back for manifest domain name squatting or something. Yes, it had expired, but the operation was clearly not with the intention of using the domain, just selling it for (tidy) profit. Doesn't the government (as negligent previous owner) have a say about that ?
Of course not. That abomination of an excuse for a systems configuration database was made to control DRM and take your PC away from you. There's not a snowball's chance in Hell for that to be removed.
And this command-line-only undelete thingy can't even work without Windows 1 0 ? What a joke. I would really like to know what part of the Windows 1 0 system is sooo indispensable to a tool that works on NTFS partitions.
Come on, Borkzilla, the NTFS on your latest OS-as-a-service (hurk!) is the same as what it was on Windows 7. Your tool could perfectly well run on 7 if you didn't put code in to forbid that.
"Users do not expect, or consent to, the exploitation of their personal information in perpetuity by third parties that the users and the website owner did not authorize and whose interests are not aligned with the interests of the owners of that personal information."
Indeed. That's why I closed my LinkedIn account. Getting bought by Borkzilla was the drop that overfloweth the cup.
That is a sure sign of insufficient planning.
I'm not an admin, but I'm pretty sure that these days, when you're planning to install/move several servers, the checklist includes enough power for each and UPS for all and you don't go through with the install/move until you have those boxes checked.
On the other hand, as always, things like that have had to happen in order for today's admins to have that complete checklist to sign off on. Because there are very few humans who are capable of thinking everything through and envisioning all possible issues. We learn to plan because we've hit a snag, or witnessed a UPS go bang.
Yet the CalU paid over a million bucks to get whatever unimportant stuff back.
I may be mistaken, but a million bucks should get you a pretty good backup system. HELLO ? It's time to WAKE UP. You ARE going to be targeted, so you might want to think of spending a few hundred thousand on proper backup procedures before you have to spend a million on the good will of a fucking criminal scumbag.
Just a thought.
They are not untraceable. They are, however, not in the same country as LG HQ, therefor law enforcement cannot do anything locally and international cooperation on that front is nearly non-existant.
So being a criminal on the Internet is basically without consequence, as long as you don't attack anything in the country where you reside.
Okay, I think it is time that Borkzilla swallows the pill and licenses its DirectX technology to all and sundry. DirectX is clearly the best tech for rendering games, and Redmond has profited from it enough now. Windows is a service, right ? So license it off to Cupertino and the world of Linux and stop vainly and uselessly trying to get everyone to Windows.
Everyone is already using Windows apparently - even the well-heeled shiny ones who take care to show to everyone that they have a Mac. Apparently, they still boot into Windows, the irony.
I won't suggest open-sourcing DirectX, I know that that will never happen, ever. So just sell the license already.
Obvious : they cannot accept that someone else's experience go contrary to their biased opinion of what should actually happen.
Then you have the mention of the Idiot Tax, which sends some Apple fanatics into conniptions.
So, basically, it's a post that shows Apple users in a rather poor light, and there are Apple users who just simply cannot let that slide.
I hope that the bouncy guys have a very good notion of how much ice they have left, and how much it will take to get them back to the lander.
Otherwise, if they run out and are a few miles away from said lander, well, they'll be stuck and that would be too bad. I like the idea of bouncing balls for Science.
You want to improve the mobile web experience ? Great idea, as long as you do it for people using a phone.
I do believe it is possible to make the distinction between a phone user and a PC user, and orient the browser to the proper site. Given that the guys coding the UI are very likely not doing so on their phones, I would have thought that they would see an interest in keeping those things separate.
"Last week, the department finally admitted that it was scrapping those initial plans because the software developed didn't work as they'd hoped. "
Wrong, the software worked exactly as it had been specced. It was the specs that did not conform to the masturbatory declarations of the idiots in charge, but that is hardly surprising when said idiots had no idea of what they were approving vs what the tech would actually do.
I'm pretty sure someone tried to explain, but two minutes into the training course and the non-techies were all glazy-eyed drooling corpses that only got revived when they were sat at a dinner table in a restaurant with a glass of wine in hand.
Look, I appreciate that they told these miscreants to get stuffed, but how's about having proper security in the first place ?
Why is it that all these consulting firms with critical data seem to find the way to install "advanced tools" to magically solve their incompetence after the fact ?
How about installing those damn "advanced tools" before you get hacked ?
And what exactly are those "advanced tools" ? A firewall ?
Bitdefender Total Security 2020 is not totally secure. Ironic.
Of course, from a marketing point of view, you couldn't call it Bitdefender Best Security Effort 2020. You are either Total, or you don't even exist.
Well, at least they corrected the problem when notified, not like some others on the market, eh, IBM ?
Now that is impressive mismanagement.
I wonder how it got to that point, and why the existing board hadn't been sacked last year (or the point at which 50%, or €13bn, had been erased from stock value).
When you have stock, you have investors and, if I was an investor in that company, I would be screaming bloody murder after having half of my investment vanish in thin air.
No it is not. It is supposed to be a tool that allows me to run the programs I need, when I need to.
But now, Borkzilla has taken control. Borkzilla decides, and you can just meekly click Accept and bend over to Borkzilla's wishes.
Yes, updates are indeed important, but the day's work is no less important and, until the day Borkzilla can guarantee that an update is not going to brick the "service", Borkzilla should wait for the user to have time to start updating. Like, for example, at 5:30 P.M., just before leaving. So stop bothering us at 10 in the morning with an impending update when we don't have the time for that shit at that time of day.
It seems like a very good compromise, but I have no idea of the tech stuff behind it or how it could be subverted. On the face of it, it does seem good.
I guess I'll wait for UK Gov's reaction. If they don't like it, it's likely that it is because they can't use it to further the surveillance state they are desperately trying to push forth - which would mean that it is indeed a good solution.
No way that could go wrong. Nobody will be able to take control of the phone with malware and have some fun, like by flying the drone into the mast.
I do hope that the communications between the phone and the drone are encrypted. They are, right ? Right ?
Oh who am I kidding, the guy who wrote that app hasn't even looked at an encryption framework, let alone implemented it.
Satan and Beelzebub are going hand in hand. I'm not quite sure I'm reassured by this turn of events.
Meanwhile, Borkzilla's latest update installs Edge as default browser even if you had Chrome before. I wonder how long it's going to take Google to tap Borkzilla on the shoulder and say "knock it off" ?
Officer, you can't ticket me, the cost of that ticket compared to my paltry revenue is enormous.
Inspector, you can't arrest me, the cost of losing my freedom is enormous.
Your Honor, you can't put me in jail, the cost of losing my illegal drug cartel is enormous.
. . .
Man, the ways that argument could be used is dizzying.
Your understanding of our Universe is quite obviously much higher than that of the thousands of PhD-level experts in the field.
Would you mind sharing your universal theory of physics with us ? You know, the one that binds quantum physics and the Standard Model that all the experts you are better than have been looking for since Einstein revealed that little problem ?
With your vastly superior knowledge and understanding I'm sure you have already solved that on a napkin somewhere. Please share.
</sarcasm>
It seems curious to me that our best minds are desperately trying to detect our level of technology on other planets.
That wavelength is where you would see sunlight reflected off of our solar panels. What right do you have to decide that an alien civilization is using the same solar panel tech ? They might have room-temperature superconducting solar panels that don't reflect anything at all and are 100% efficient.
You won't detect that.
And what forecast does Canalys has as to how many will end up in landfills, polluting our water aquifers ?
Any idea on that ?
The entire wireless earbud sector is just electronic waste, especially if the batteries are not replaceable and, if I'm not mistaken, they generally aren't.
This entire market is an affront to everything that ecology stands for.
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