Posts by Pascal Monett 19430 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I agree with that point.
I use TeamSpeak for my bi-weekly Internet gaming sessions with my friends, but if I ever forget to plug in the USB mike before starting TeamSpeak, the latter will never recognize the former unless I restart the program.
I wonder what technical limitation is at play, here. You can open Windows Explorer before plugging in a USB key, Explorer will find it.
Why is that so difficult for microphones ?
Right, in other words, they are asking someone else to solve the problem.
I guess I'm glad that someone is looking into this, but if the BIS has any clout, shouldn't it be at the forefront of this effort (meaning putting money into it) ?
Why ?
What does it matter where the dish is ? There is a dish, with a paid subscription. You should be able to lob it on the roof of the car and drive around with it. The cubestats are moving at thousands of miles an hour anyway, a few more dozen shouldn't have any kind of impact.
Great idea. I have just one question : who is paying for the maintenance of the account ?
Whether you signed up for free or have a paid hosting account, this new idea supposes that BluSky is going to be dealing with the survivability of said account.
With what money ?
Because that's what it always boils down to.
How is BluSky going to fund maintaining all those free logins ? They are free, nobody is going to pay to maintain them.
I think BluSky is going into PieSky territory.
I would think that the primary duty of a network admin is knowing exactly what is connected to the network and why.
Any router or switch should be accounted for, and any new connection (because a beancounter decided to bring in a new router without asking) should be logged and analyzed to find out where it is and why it's there.
All changes to the network should be documented and a clear overview of the global situation should always be available.
It's not rocket science.
It really is a pity that democratic countries cannot use jail as an impactful means of meaning business.
Because if you are dishonest enough to impede on government sites on purpose just to prove a point, well I think dragging the local CEO to jail until the problems get solved should be standard procedure.
In other words, FB is never going to try that in China.
This, in itself, is a gigantic red light as to why Western companies should not have commercial dealings with China.
If it is my company, then I should be able to fire whomever I please, but no, not in China. China forces you to have one of their nationals at the head of the company, and if that guy doesn't want to step down, you're screwed.
Well that in itself tells me that I would never want to have a subsidiary in China. You can't trust it.
"Law of No Evidence: Any claim that there is 'no evidence' of something is evidence of bullshit"
That seems to be pushing it a bit in my view. If I am suddenly convinced that the disappearance of my sunglasses means that my house has been broken into, but find no broken window, no scratch marks on my front/back door keyhole and no muddy footprints anywhere, then there is no evidence that my house was broken into.
So it's just me forgetting where I put the bloody things.
No evidence is evidence that either you have to look harder, or you have to look elsewhere.
I am really impressed with Wi-Fi technology in general. It deals with radio signals and the fact that we have the technology to use multiple channels at a given frequency is mind-boggling when you think about it.
I mean, you're sending out radio waves. They can overlap. How on Earth do we know how to determine what is part of what signal ?
Any technology that is sufficiently advanced can be regarded as magic. Well, Wi-Fi is kinda magic to me.
We don't care that you didn't admit any wrongdoing.
You're forking over $141 million - that is an admission of guilt. That and the fact that you are forced to stop advertising "free" and change your practices.
You were doing wrong and without this lawsuit you would not have changed.
I really hate this attitude of "well there is no judgement so we dinna do nuthin' wrong".
Somehow I doubt that recovering a rocket booster with a helicopter is going to prove economically viable.
There is no guarantee of recovery, and if the operation misses, the booster is gone and you have spent not insignificant amounts of money on a helicopter for nothing.
Given that there is no way of ensuring success, what is basically needed is to know how many failures they can sustain before going under.
It licenses designs to an entity that is part of the global corporate structure - therefor it is an internal issue and not something that should avoid tax.
If tax laws were capable of dealing with that, then the loophole would be closed.
The fact that every multinational does it, everyone knows it and no country has done anything about it is a clear sign that there is something wrong with taxation laws.
There is.
There is a very small portion of all people holding a managerial position that are actually capable of managing.
Most of them are just capable of barking orders and complaining when results don't follow.
That is not managing.
Managing includes knowing what you are managing, understanding the constraints and being intelligent enough to imagine ways to improve the situation in a meaningful manner. Planning skills are a good bonus.
That is why there are so few actual Managers.
This is not a new tendancy.
A few decades ago, when I was a newbie accountant before freeing myself from that morass to become a programmer, I was called upon by an acquaintance to evaluate which accountage package would be interesting for said friend's gym club.
To make a long story short, we went to an official presentation of a well-known accounting package of the time, where we spent over 90 minutes listening to how the application could log down to the keystroke of the employees that were supposed to be working.
That was around Y2K.
I'm glad I'm in programming now, because if you come tell me I'm not hitting the keyboard enough in a given amount of time, I will tell you to fuck right off and do the job in my place if you think you can do better.
Such practices are odious and humiliating and leave no place for intelligent thought - they reduce the human being to a robot that is just supposed to peck the keys sufficiently per minute.
No wonder that beancounters are such soulless individuals - because don't tell me that today's accounting suites are not doing it when they have a million times the resources a PC had back in the day.
I am totally in agreement with the idea that privacy protection needs to become a branch of Science and treated in the same open and sharing way.
As much as I like the idea, I will not, however, buy an Alexa, or stop using NoScript and uBlock Origin and thus, I will not participate in giving "the enemy" data just so I can find out how they use it.
I prefer the concept of castle walls and drawbridges. I just hope "the enemy" is not in the process of creating the cannon.
That is a dangerous thing to say, even if it is exact. A brain is a brain. I can't see how black people would have a brain that is structurally different from white people.
Of course, I'm not a doctor in the field, but it's a hard pill to swallow, and it brings us two steps away from "Jewish" brains and "terrorist" brains and then it's eugenics all over again.
They say they have a "common understanding" of how these systems normally work. I say they don't, because they cannot justify the results. It's just "machine says this".
That is because they have no log of how the procedures behave. It's a black box and, when said box spits out results that we find acceptable, we say it's working.
When I am confronted with a piece of code that I don't understand the behavior, the first thing I do is set up a log of its functions. When the function starts, what are its entry parameters, what results it sends back. I do a couple of test runs on different data sets, and then I analyze the log results.
In that way, I can understand how the code gets to its results, then I know what it is I need to modify to obtain the desired output reliably.
They're not doing this for their wonderful AI, so they don't know anything about it except what they expect as a result.
That is no way to manage a project.
There is a third thing to do : make sure that the cleaning personnel understands the Golden Rule : to not unplug anything in order to plug in the vacuum cleaner.
The first time the cleaner makes a mistake, report him to his superiors and forbid him access to company grounds. The second time the cleaner makes the mistake, sue the cleaning company and tear up all contracts with them.
