Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I'm sorry, but I have abandoned WinAmp a long time ago. I remember using it, I remember perusing the skins and choosing my favorite, but all that is water under the bridge.
Now I use VLC. It does everything I need, does it well, and I'm not aware that it reports back to the mothership - or that there is a mothership.
Yeah but, it's likely that those subs are under National Security rules and you're not going to be able to just copy/paste their reactors to the civilian world because The Man still doesn't want anyone to know their abilities.
The Cold War may be dead, the paranoia isn't.
How on Earth do you not get a clue when the delivery address for the company laptop is in North Korea ?
And an IT worker using a personal laptop ? No. He gets a fully locked-down laptop on which he can't install anything and, if he says that the camera isn't working, you know he's lying because you've tested the configuration first. Finally, he may be an IT contractor, but that doesn't mean he has access to everything. He has access to what you allow, the rest is out of bounds.
Bloody hell, your security is your responsability.
You're CTO with nagging doubts, but you don't do anything about it ?
Of what use were you, exactly ?
Oh, right : signing off reports saying that everything was fine.
So, corrupt to the bone, eh ? And now you're pretending to have a conscience ?
A bit late for that.
China has many faults, but if it is really willing to further Science and space exploration, then good. That is not something you can bluster your way through with an official communiqué. These are actual engagements which will be witnessed by the rest of the world, in failure or success.
China wants a Moom base ? Why not ? Somebody has to do it. There's largely enough space for two bases anyway so, if push comes to shove, China can have its base and NASA/ESA/JAXA can have theirs and everyone can mine Helium3 (or whatever) to their hearts' content. The more people we have on the Moon, the better.
On this, I say go China !
It says everything it needs to say about all that "smart" malarky that I never did and never will trust.
I'm not handicapped. I can get my fucking ass off of the fucking couch and flick a switch. The rest of the world doesn't need to know about it, thank you.
Fine.
As the government, I would lock up the CEO until the shit got sorted out.
How do you like that idea ?
You want me to be responsible ? I will responsibly go after the idiots who created this shitstorm in the first place. Your product is responsible for 99% of the Internet's problems.
You're first in line for my "responsibility".
Trust His Muskiness to spout nonsense about something he has absolutely no knowledge of.
Kudos to the incredible SpaceX team and the CEO who has managed to keep Musk at arms' length and stop him from imposing stupid decisions that would have undoubtedly made sure SapceX never got to where it is now.
As far as SpaceX is concerned, Musk can spout his bullshit. Everyone knows who is doing the job and, as long as he isn't a decider, people will continue to trust that the engineers are doing their job right.
If only Boeing could back into that mindset.
Yeah, like making sure the engines are properly placed, the doors don't fly off mid-flight, the pilots actually know what they can do and the plane can actually take off and do it.
Big challenges for a company that has completely lost the plot.
I'm guessing that this is not going to be the last reschedule . . .
Those are the stories that demonstrate how we got to where we are now. Better management of email is, just like laws about security, due to the abysmal failures of existing procedures.
The eggheads who thought of email management (back in the day where a 10MB hard disk cost a huge chunk of money) didn't think about the real world, they just thought that a message should never be lost - and that's how the Real WorldTM lost plenty of messages.
Nowadays, we have servers with terabytes of disk space, and we still limit message size to a very reasonable 10MB. If you have more than that to send, you can arrange for a shared cloudy thing and not bother the email server with it.
But that takes experience, and experience always means experiencing failure and finding out why.
I don't like that because it means that they can tie your name to who you voted for.
That, IMO, is a violation of the right to vote and a clear path toward rounding up everyone who voted "wrong" and making them pay for it.
In France, any ballot with anything written on it is considered null and not counted. The UK system opens you to this kind of ridiculous shenanigans.
In France, every time I vote I go through the same procedure. I bring my voting card (sent regularly by the government), present my voting card to the first town official who looks me up in his database - which is a sheaf of printed papers with all the people allowed to vote in that town. When he finds me, he has me sign in (with a pen) in the empty space next to my name.
Then the second town official gives me my voting envelope (which is empty) and I can go to the table where the ballots of all available candidats are waiting for me to pick up (one ballot per candidate). I look over the choices, pick more than I intend to use (because I protect my voting anonymity that way), and I go into the voting booth to place my chosen ballot in my envelope. I could also have brought my ballot with me, because a week or so before the vote I am always sent an official, nominative envelope with all the candidate's ballots in it.
When I exit the booth, I go to the voting box where a third town official verifies that I have placed my envelope in the box, saying "a voté !" (has voted) when I'm done.
Then I go to the fourth and last official who gives me back my voting card and I am free to leave.
So my name and signature are properly registered on a piece of paper which is undoubtedly stored somewhere, but who I voted for will never be known unless I say it.
Oh really ? And how did you do that ?
Because, apart from implementing rules that prevent customers from buying and/or selling x amount in t time, which somebody with average intelligence could circumvent using more than one account, I don't see that you're intelligent enough to prevent market manipulation.
But those were just words anyway. PR fluff to impress the gullible.
Which is the basic rule for anything crypto these days.
Maybe social engineering ?
An embassy was infiltrated. Embassy personnel know better (normally) than to pick up a stray USB and insert it into their work PC. I'm thinking specific employees were targeted with the appropriate arguments and an infected USB key was handed over. The arguments can range anywhere from basic seduction to promises of important data.
The only other possibility is that the cleaning lady had a hand in this.
Great. Guess what ? Battery life will probably not improve because, as usual in the CPU arena, whatever power gains are made are gobbled up by new, power-hungry bits and bobs - here, it's AI.
So you'll be charging your phone every day, as usual.
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