Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Short is not equal to young. We don't let five year olds drive because they're not mature enough to handle driving, not because they can't reach the pedals. Short adults are very capable of driving.
Additionally, short people have eyes that generally work. He could very well have controlled that the pin was placed in the right socket.
He didn't.
P.S. : why is Danny 2's post no longer open to votes ? What is the reason of this special treatment ?
That's rich coming from a country with National Security letters and more than 10 official requests per day to Microsoft - that we know of.
A collision of three robots. Two I can understand, but three ?
And how exactly did they catch fire ? Were they carrying flammable cargo, or did their batteries overload and if so, how is it that they have batteries that can do that ? Shouldn't there be some temperature monitoring ?
So many questions . . .
I work in Luxembourg.
Check it out on the world map. It's a very small country. You can cross it in an hour on the highway.
It's even smaller in the workplace. I learned that very early on in my career.
If you want to chew someone out, you had better be damn sure you're right, because your reputation can be trash quicker than you can blink.
Does it matter, seeing as Bourdain did express those sentiments albeit in an email and not into a microphone?
Yes it matters.
We most definitely should not get into the habit of bending the ghosts of dead people whichever we choose simply because we can.
The only case where I would accept recreating a specific person's voice is when the actual recording of said person has bad audio quality. That, for me, would be acceptable, especially in the case of a documentary or such, but I would still prefer that there be a banner or some notification that the portion had been recreated.
If we are already faking people's voices to make them say things they never actually pronounced in public when we are the very beginning of this technology, just how far are we going to go with it ?
Knowing the basic (absence of) principle of the Human race, we'll go too far.
So let's reign it in now.
I think we've already seen some real damage.
Go ask the hospitals that have been hacked if the damage wasn't real.
As for an online ID ? Pie-in-the-sky. Won't ever happen until the Internet is managed by a single entity, and that's not happening for the forseeable future if only because China ain't going to let anyone else manage its local part of the Internet.
Am I supposed to believe that there were 5000 engineers lying around waiting to be hired ?
Okay, it's China, but even in China I would think that an engineer is not exactly the kind of person that waits for a job.
So that would mean that he hired 5000 newly-minted engineers from China's universities ?
Hmm. So they'll be getting their experience on the job, then. Good for them, maybe not so good for Xiaomi.
That's interesting. I thought there were standards on that point in my country.
In every house or appartment I have ever owned, the meter to my property was either in a cabinet labelled as such, or in the garage.
As it is in the house we live in since November 2017. I have the meter and the cutoff lever in the garage, just like I had it in the house we lived in before for 20 years.
On the other hand, in this house I have no idea where the public water mains is if ever my water meter needs replacing.
Interesting, isn't it ? There are some bits of technology that simply don't fail. How come we can't do that with light bulbs or garage doors ?
"How can we all be satisfied that drivers of vehicles fitted with ALKS know how and when to take back control of their vehicle? "
For me, the answer is simple : we can't.
As long as there are bloody Tesla idiots who put themselves in the back seat of their car, I am not going to put an ounce of trust in any technology that purports allowing the driver to not pay attention to the road.
Give me a true autonomous vehicle, or get lost.
Yes, let's absolutely merge together all anti-virus companies.
After all, they all use the same principle : compare binary code against signatures, which has proved time and time again to not be enough.
Then we can start talks about monopoly, and how we need to break them up again.
The world goes round and round . . .
. . all the Minister's friends and allow them to make bank during a time of crisis.
In that, it has indeed been supremely successful.
As for preventing infections, well given that they don't know who has the app, who's using it and who has uninstalled it, just how reliable do you really think those figures are ?
. . because El Zuck and his minions can't see a way to milk billions out of it by next quarter.
You can be sure, however, that if ever someone else finds a way, El Zuck's lawyers will be all over it with "prior art" to suck the very life out of the project.
Down to the last penny.
I totally agree.
There's going to be a mad scramble in city centers when businesses realize that the appartment building on the other side of the street has someone who hacked into their network via WiFi and is listening in on everything.
I don't know how easy that could be, and I'm not a hacker, but I'm pretty sure that CAT-5 is virtually impossible to evesdrop on unless you splice the cable - which is kinda hard to do from the other side of the street.
WiFi is convenient, no doubt there, but it is certainly not and never will be as secure as wired networks.
From what I've seen about the Agile process, it's a lot of meetings, and a lot of management patting themselves on the back and gargling themselves with all these new terms (Scrum master appears particularly appealing).
However Agile they call themselves, their projects are invariably late, don't have the functionality required, and take way longer to finalize than planned for (if they ever do).
But hey, they can make several changes per day !
None that will actually benefit the user, though.
I am very happy for you that you are in a position to change employer whenever it suits you.
Guess what ? Not everyone has that privilege.
There are various possible reasons, but some people just have to slog it out whether they like it or not.
You can understand or not, you can be empathetic or not care, but it won't change that fact.
Indeed. It's good to see that there are still engineers tirelessly at work to ensure that Single Point Of Failure options remain available.
A Cloud PC. What a wonderful idea. Now, when (not if) the Cloud is down, not only will you not have access to your online files, but your system won't respond either, so you really can't do anything.
Microsoft : ensuring that downtime means downtime.
I find it surprising that they have not implemented a pump to store Mars atmosphere and a spigot to spray the solar panels with.
I'm far from a NASA engineer, so i'm guessing somebody did think of it and the decision was that it was too costly for the energy budget, because frankly I fail to see any other reason.
Not by a long shot.
We're now being told, in France, that a fourth wave is going to happen. The D variant is, apparently, much more contagious.
Despite all the vaccinations.
All of this is just an excuse to force people to get vaccinated whether they want to or not. Macron has pleged billions to the pharma companies, so now we are marched to the needle despite all Constitutional and Human Rights arguments.
I am sick of my government changing its tune like a weathervane.
Pick a path and stick to it, for frak's sake.
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