Posts by Pascal Monett 19006 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
The cost of what ?
Dealing with one employees daily work, or dealing with risk of having your entire worforce's date on someone else's server that can be hacked any time ?
I swear, if ever I am in a situation to have a meeting with a Gartner marketing representative, I'll start the meeting by putting a loaded Smith&Wesson on the table and then I'll say : "Okay, let's talk reality.".
I don't care what interface you are using to consult a true expert system in your domain.
An expert system hasn't been "trained" on scraping posts from Reddit. It has been build on actual experience in the field.
But morons don't care about that, and they vastly outnumber intelligent people who know what they're dealing with.
It would have been refreshingly honest if they hadn't waited for said criminals to brag about having stolen data.
That would mean :
1) Manpower is actually aware of what is happening on its network, and
2) it had the balls to signal a major data leak without being called out for it
It's not difficult guys, those criminals will always boast about it, so step forward before they do.
Unless, of course, you only learned that data got stolen when the crims boasted about it, in which case you have a lot of work to do to secure your network . . .
I do wish him luck.
Personally, given the money Borkzilla has in the bank, I would enfore support for all existing versions as long as there is still a single user using it.
When I am elected World Dictator, that will be one of my first decrees, along with the ending of all conflicts, free healthcare for all, respect and equality for women, and the building of Thorium reactors until fusion comes into its own.
Hola, the baboon. You are President of the Unied States, you are not President of Private Industry. You have no say in nominating or removing CEOs.
You can, however, put him under surveillance and have him watched to find any dirt you pin on him, for National Security's sake of course.
Given that you are the principle threat to te USA's future and its democracy, it's really rich to hear you complaining about a mere CEO.
Yeah, duh.
Why is it that well-paid besuited idiots can't realize what security actually means ?
I mean, they aren't going to bed while leaving the front door open, are they ?
If you're not going to leave the front door open on your pitifiul little million-dollar mansion, then how about not leaving it open on the multi-million critical infrastructure you're actually responsible for ?
Once again, that band of untrained monkeys demonstrate their complete incompetence when it comes to affairs of state.
They only have one thing to do : ask the Secret Service for the secure communication protocols and use them, instead of downloading anything that calls itself "secure" without having been vetted and then finding out the hard way that it wasn't.
It's Government, for fuck's sake, not a flying circus.
Sorry, but apparently the cat's already out of the bag, the horses have made a run for it and anything you try to lock this down is going to have the almighty shareholders screaming about how you are impeding Capitalism.
And since they have larger brown envelopes than you, good luck with your crusade.
We have PCIe5. We're going to have PCIe 6 - which datacenters are going to gobble up like the data-bandwidth alcoholics they are. We are now alerted to PCIe 7 and 8.
Excuse me, but what is the point of 7 since 8 is already on the cards ?
I don't think gaming PCs need 1 TB/s bandwidth, but I'm pretty sure datacenters do. I'm also of the mind that datacenters prefer to minimize hardware modifications when they can.
So, does PCIe 7 have any chance of being deployed, or will it be another Osborn ?
Is there any other company that is valued in the trillions of dollars and can consistently deliver bug-ridden products while still being considered indispensable for corporate IT ?
If Borkzilla made cars, it would have been consigned to historic failure decades ago. In the best case, like the Delorean. More realistically, it would have become a Yugo.
When will we finally get rid of this shit and move to something that is actually reliable ?
Of course. When you run out of money, the first thing you do is spend more.
If you're government, that is.
If you're a private individual, then you're accused of being a spendthrift and no bank is going to lend you the money,
But government doesn't care. It doesn't need a loan, it can raise taxes . . .
And what is the conclusion of the Police ?
It is astounding, and quite disheartening, to conclude that so-called law-enforcement agencies have no power when it comes to enforcing Internet equality and respect of privacy, or indeed, simple respect of the Constitution of a country (yes, I'm looking at you, USA).
I am.
Borkzilla is making Windows more shitty with every update and I'm fed up with that. But, until I retire, I'm stuck with it because all my customers use Windows. And gaming is still easier on a Windows platform. I am under no illusion that Windows is superior. It's a pile of dogfood laying on a pile of shit.
But seeing those holier-than-thou comments from people who are not concerned is starting to grate on me.
When I retire, I'm moving everything to Mint (that's my decision for now - I'll take stock of the situation when the day comes). Until then, I'll grit my teeth and bear it.
“We are changing Trello to become an entirely different product ”
Yeah, apparently one that no one wants.
What is it with these stupid UI coders who change everything ? Don't they understand that a UI is something users get used to and they need to keep it that way ?
Move fast and break things DOES NOT APPLY to user workflow.
Get that into your thick skulls.
There is nothing recent in Trump's mixed messaging.
He doesn't know how to make a clear message. For that, the Stable Genius would have to have an actual idea of what he was going to do.
The orange baboon is not intelligent enough for that.
And here I was thinking that major industrial sites are heavy investments that you don't go changing on a whim.
So, the EV market is saturated now. And you couldn't tell that four years ago ? Surely there were indicators, no ?
Now it's datacenter equipment. Granted, that market doesn't look like it'll be saturated any time soon, but I would like to point out that there is growing hostility for those energy-gobblers.
But, when the time comes, you obviously won't have problem stripping that down to build Gorilla glass or something.
Carry on !
the malware “integrates deeply into the authentication stack, survives system updates, and leaves almost no forensic traces. Combined with layered obfuscation and environment tampering, this makes it exceptionally hard to detect using traditional tools.”
Once again miscreants prove that they are not always stupid. The knowledge one must have to simply envision this kind of hack must be phenominal.
Or it was built by a state-sponsored group of very intelligent people.
In any case, I almost admire the work.
Now, Linus, your baby is under threat. What are you going to do about it ?
Let's not.
Those pseudo-AI agents never understand what it is you're trying to explain, because they can't. They respond to a fixed set of rules and if you don't fit, you end up literally cut off (the "agent" hangs up on you).
Back in 2019, I had my fiber connection installed (finally). I'd had it for one month when a passing tractor ripped it off the post - it wasn't broken, it still worked, but it was on the ground (living in the countryside has its drawbacks). The problem was, the connection still worked. I phoned the nearest police station to ask what I had to do, and the officer politely told me that it was a dangerous situation and that, if anyone got hurt, I was liable to end up responsible.
So I called my provider's support line. The automated agent drilled my down through choices 2, 1, 2, 4, and then decided to test my connection and hung up. I knew that wasn't going to work, so I waited for the test to finish and I called again. Same rigmarole. I was starting to get angry by that point when the phone rang and an actual human being from the support line asked me what the problem was. I still had to explain twice that no, my connection was fine, but the physical wire was on the street. When he finally got the message, he promised that I would have a ticket and he would see what he could do.
Three weeks later, nothing had been done. Then a passing motorcycle ripped the line in two. This time, no more connection. Call support again and, lo and behold, there is a real problem (for them, that is). Two days later, a new line was installed and, after explaining to the technician, he installed it a meter higher on the pole.
And that happened with actual humans answering the phone. I shudder to think how a pseudo-AI would handle the issue.
Incredible.
That's kind of like walking down the street with a giant "I'm a criminal" sign hanging over your head when you pass in front of the police station.
That said, they'd have to get off their donuts long enough to notice . . .
Unless you're black, of course, in which case they've have you on radar from 300 meters away.
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