Posts by Pascal Monett 19002 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Maybe so, but if China does occupy Taiwan, you only have to look at Hong Kong to see how it will go.
And, for Taiwan, that will be the best-option scenario.
The other option is that all Taiwanese people will be shipped to the Uighur camps (or, you know, "disappeared") and Taiwan will be "repopulated" with 100% China-loyal citizens.
”If we had a strong privacy law on the books, Mark Zuckerberg would already be in jail for his serial lying about Facebook’s abuse of Americans’ data"
That was a great start of the year. Imagining El Zuck in jail. Hmmm.
Now, aren't you a Senator ? What's keeping you from proposing laws that tighten up privacy ?
Oh, it's your campaign donations that are in the way ?
Pity.
"By providing users the ability to delete individual cookies, they can accidentally change the implementation details of the site and potentially break their experience on that site, which can be difficult to predict"
Oh, the poor little things, one of their webby thingies might not render that ad properly. Can't have that, can we ?
And well done to the doctor.
I have to say, if it's winter, snow on the road, and I happen to be driving by and old man clearing his driveway who falls down, I don't think "heart attack" will be the first thing I think of.
I'm guessing I would have driven past, completely oblivious to the issue.
That scares me now.
Yes, because people buying powerful hardware will not at all mind that 60% of the power they purchased will be going towards "mining" funny money pyramid scheme bullshit.
The entire professional world has lost its mind (along with the rest of us). NASA lost the Shuttle to beancounters, Internet companies are losing it to marketroids.
STOP HIJACKING MY PC WITH YOUR BULLSHIT EXCUSES !!
IT'S MINE, NOT YOURS !!
Please excuse this outburst of bombastic bob-levels, I'm off to get myself a whisky to calm me down.
Nurse ? Mine's the one with the flask of JD in the inner pocket.
A very nice point, which amply demonstrates that you have never had to parse a 10000+ line CSV file with dates from over 60 users and at least eight different date formats.
Did you know that some people use . to seperate year.month.day ?
I swear, if I had had a gun that day, you would have read of another shooting in the news.
I am seriously wondering how this virtual concert thing is going to work (not enough to buy a VR headset, or go to a Bieber concert).
I checked out the linked page (on EW, as in Eww) and it states that The Bieb will be present on scene virtually (so, sitting comfortably in his chair at home), lipsynching belting out his tunes to all connected, some of whom could be present on stage with him during "dedicated fan moments", with the possibility of "influencing" his performance.
Okay, live virtual concert programs are not exactly a hot item on GitHub, if I'm not mistaken, so that means that there's a group of programmers hard at work to make this possible. Not saying it can't be done, but it never has been done before so the possibility of bugs is rather high, IMO.
I wonder how they're going to work them out - supposing that they're going to try.
I don't think a new license will be required. Borkzilla is capable of understanding that you change your hardware. I think that you have five activations possible before they lock down activation, but even then, you can call them and explain the situation.
Of course, we're talking honest people here. If you activate your license on four different computers and use them concurrently or within a given time frame, don't be surprised if your key gets rescinded.
In this case, the situation is pretty clear : yes, you had activated on a certain configuration, but that config is gone and you're activating on a new one.
Honest people should not have any trouble.
Oh that it does, but that wall will crumble. The more countries call Apple's position into question, the more trouble it will have ignoring the issue.
And please, your online souk is not comparable to real-world resellers. The one major, vastly important difference is that you don't need to restock. You have one item, and you sell it and resell and resell it again and again and again. The other difference is that you don't know shoplifting, which is a clear budget line in the real world.
So, based on these two differences alone, you have no right to claim a 30% fee.
Then there's the fact that you serve millions with one store and a handful of personnel. If you had to box those apps and sell them on shelves, you would have to have thousands of stores, with the buildings and personnel count that would be associated to them, not to mention supply line costs.
So really, your argument is pure hogwash.
But hey, we know all about your Reality Distortion Field. Enjoy it while it still lasts.
Object-Oriented coding exists since when already ? Why are we still coding dates in strings instead of having a date object that has, say, four elements : year, month, day, timezone ? We should have a time object with hour, minutes, seconds, hundredths. And we could have a date-time object inheriting from both.
That would avoid all these shenanigans about trying to convert dates into numbers.
And, Borkzilla, you might want to check your Excel code. It works there.
Then they had to go for a firmware upgrade. With no apparent good reason.
Here's an idea : you fully test that the system can do what you need it do the next day, then you make up your mind on the firmware upgrade.
If the test had did badly, then yes, you upgrade, but if the test went well, you don't touch a damn thing until after the event.
Oh well, experience is what you get when things break unexpectedly - especially when it's your fault.
Interesting. Is this going to fracture the CPU market ? Are we going to find ourselves in a world where there's Intel, AMD and EuroChip ?
And what about other countries ramping up their own fabs ? Are we going to find a dozen choices for CPUs in the next decade, or is everyone simply going to make Intel or AMD designs ?
I'm not strongly against the idea, mind you, but choosing between the two incumbents is already a headache, I'd hate to think of having to choose between four or five different platforms.
That's modern education for you. Kids must be officially occupied all day long. Not a minute should be spent doing nothing, much less something that's not on the program. Parents are dragging their spawn to club after club during the week. Dancing, sports, horse riding, anything but having them at home where they need to create their own fun.
These kids have now grown up and are ruining the fun for their kids.
But hey, can't have a brat bothering you all the time, now can you ?
So, links with Beijing are not so bad after all, are they now ? Of course, data means money, and the US Gov is never going to get in the way of American companies making money.
Huawei hardware is Chinese companies making money - that was not acceptable. Fiber cable with China is American companies making money, so that is acceptable.
Never mind that no hardware spy stuff has ever been proven, and that this cable is literally a superhighway for Chinese hackers into US territory, it's the money that counts.
Security ? Only if there's no money to lose.
The chip we never saw that was supposed to be a Bejing backdoor into Huawei equipment has now been replaced by this supposed technical spying excuse.
And I note that this report comes, once again, from Bloomberg, the guys that were not capable of giving any supporting evidence of their previous attemp at scandal.
Why should it be any different this time around ? And why continue beating this drum, Bloomberg ? Who needs additional justification ?
The deed is done, Huawei is out. Whether or not people believed it is now immaterial. You can stop flogging that dead horse.
How crazy is it these days that convicted people have the power to accept or refuse to stand trial, and by video of all things ?
It is unbelievable that the USA can get away with such a blatant one-sided application of justice.
Is Mrs Sacoolas in danger of assassination in a UK prison ? I don't think so.
So why the hell isn't she physically present in front a UK judge in a silly wig ?
A $280 billion behemoth looks to buy a $28 billion behemoth.
The fact that the $28 billion thingy has a massive failure in its CV is no problem, obviously.
You and me, on the other hand, would have a big problem getting employment with a gigantic failure on our CVs.
Business as usual.
One day I got a call from an acquaintance.
He was utterly panicked because his Windows machine was showing him an FBI warning on boot-up.
I reminded him that the FBI has no jurisdiction in France, and told him to bring me the desktop.
I purged the unwanted malware with a Linux distro that boots on CD and told him not to go view pr0n on just any link.
Haven't heard from him since.
That does not seem much for a model that cost a ton of money to develop.
Boeing made more than a thousand of its famous 747s.
Airbus will only have made a fifth of that. Too bad.
I wonder how Evolution made this kind of creature viable. I would think that, the longer you are, the bigger a target you are to predators. Small size can be a benefit.
On the other hand, in its environment, maybe it has no predators, so that is not a factor.
It's still bewildering that such a creature can exist with so many segments. Could all millipedes grow to such length ? Maybe the fact that actual thousand-foot 'pedes are so hard to find is just because normally they get eaten before they can grow long enough ?
Questions, questions . . .
I should think that, with all the testing and checking and re-testing that has been done, there will be no problem with the mirror.
And if there is, well we can all write one telescope off the charts because there will be no servicing this bird.
Unlike software companies these days, this one has to go out the gate 100% functional. There will be no patches to the hardware.
Fingers crossed !
(and legs, and toes)
We need to keep these names in mind as well :
Cobweb Technologies
Cognyte
Black Cube
Bluehawk CI
BellTroX
Cytrox
And we also need to be aware that there are more than that. NSO was just the tip of the iceberg. Even if it is shutting down, the people behind it are not going away to become burger-flippers. They will be back under another name.
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