Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
You misrepresent yourself, you are automatically filed in "shyster".
You are a liar, and a potential thief.
970 thousand calls and only a £130k fine ? Okay, but put the CEO in jail for criminal activity. He knew what he was authorising.
It is high time we took to task the people who have ultimate responsability. Enough molly-cuddling companies who actively ignore the law.
I agree that there is a laundry list of mind-altering substances out there.
Alcohol has a major advantage over most of them : it's legal.
It also has another advantage : you can control your consumption of it.
Now I know that that last point will raise the ire of those who will answer "but it's just as addictive !". I will not refute that alcohol can be addictive. Hell, I'd gladly have a whiskey every evening before supper.
But alcohol is not crack. Those who have the willpower can control their consumption. With crack, you take one and you're on it, willpower or not.
In any case, addiction is a difficult subject. Whatever the vehicle.
So, first they said the tests had been done in France, then the tests had been done in Florida.
Obviously a simple keyboard mistake. I myself often type Florida instead of France, and I live in France. A common mistake, really, could happen to anyone </sarc>.
Now what I would like to know is, when the ASA asks for details on an ad, should that not include the results of the tests ? As in, proof that they were made, and here is why we claim what we claim ?
It's all well and good to promise that your kit has been tested, but if you have a shred of honesty, you provide the test results when an official governmental organization comes asking questions. You do so before the ASA needs to request them.
If you're honest, that is.
And if you're not, why is there not a full-blown inquiry including a police raid and prosecution follow-up ?
These shysters stuck their head up too far, it should be cut off sharply.
So you publicly acknowledge that you are managing Nominet as a commercial entity, and not as a not-for-profit.
When are you going to officially change status then ? Is there no judge that should take notice ?
The Nominet Board is rotten to the core. Get rid of them all, it's the only way to be sure.
It is faster because it cuts all the crap that websites try to side-load you with, so you get the page you want with the info you need, and nothing else.
Brave respects your privacy and your data allowance - not everybody has unlimited data on their phones.
Really, try Brave. You'll adopt it.
Could be possible if you farm out the jobs in slices, keep the big picture to yourself and keep the teams from communicating with each other.
But that would require KGB-levels of team management and having one crack group putting all the pieces together properly.
Still, not impossible.
But they are not doing the same work. From what I got from the article, they are being rotated in various departments and learning on the job.
They've been given a foot in the door, but they are not engineers and still have much to learn. Normal that they don't get the same benefits that are given to actual engineers.
I totally agree with you, but to the MBA, billing codes do not require human intervention. The software can scan them in an instant and make what it considers the appropriate decision.
All the rest of the stuff requires grabbing data from a plethora of places, maybe needing OCR to try and decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics doctors specialise in, and then giving it some hard thought - something software is not very good at.
So they went the easy path, and produced something that is marginally better than flipping a coin.
Well I have to admit that, technically, it sure seems to be true.
It's Facebook, so I feel icky about even thinking this, but somebody got a good idea - for once.
The question now is how is this going to pan out on the market ? What contraption will see the light of day that keeps heating elements away from the wearer's skull ?
Another investigation into its Store. By the Germans, no less. They tend very much to not appreciate bullshit. They are also sticklers for the law. Apple would do well to not be found guilty of intentional wall-raising.
I wonder if the Bundeskartellamt is going to find that Apple has systematically killed any app that reproduces functionality of its own apps, not to mention when Apple sees a useful app, steals its functionality then bans it because it reproduces "existing" functionality.
This is going to be interesting, aka probably painful for Apple.
Said modern tool is more down to the ignorance and stupidity of a portion of the US population than any particular platform.
The damage Fox News is doing on a daily basis greatly outpaces anything any foreign influence could possibly hope to attain.
The USA needs to pour a lot more money into educating its huddled masses, but I'm sure Republicans will do their best to keep that from happening. They need the stupid to stay in power.
I sincerely hope that Hubble will be able to come back online.
The James Webb telescope is not a replacement for Hubble, we need both to work together and improve our knowlegde of Space and Science in general.
Best wishes to the engineers. I'm sure they're racking their brains to the nth degree to solve this issue.
That's like Google who is still fighting against the term "google this".
Sorry, as far as the user is concerned, it's a BSOD, not a bugcheck. When that blue screen shows up, the PC is effectively dead and anything you were doing is lost.
So, Blue Screen of Death is the appropriate term.
Sorry Dave. With all due respect, you're wrong on this one.
Being a father, I have had the opportunity to watch my child learn to walk (many years ago now).
These days, I often reflect on that. An infant does not start walking from one day to the next. There's a lot of leg exercise to start with. That is followed by standing up, generally next to a low table or chair. It takes a few weeks before the infant is capable taking its first few steps.
That is a lesson we all need to re-learn : it's okay to fail, because you never succeed 100% on the first try. Charlie Brown was right, failure is the best teacher.
Babies know that. Adults need to re-aquaint themselves with the notion.
"Windows 10 has won hearts – well, grudging acceptance – for not breaking "
We obviously don't live in the same universe.
I live in a universe where Windows 1 0 updating has produced the update of the damned, has repeatedly broken printing and is guilty of incessantly inconveniencing its users with updates at the worst of times.
Windows 1 0 not breaking ?
Not in my universe.
But Toshiba is not worthless. Selling shares over a disagreement with the Board is not a financially justified move.
Sure, if you're holding twenty shares in a company, or even two hundred, and said company does something you intrinsically cannot abide, then sell your shares, by all means, but remember that someone else is going to buy them.
Effissimo likely has much more than a paltry two hundred shares if it is in a position to raise its voice in a General Assembly. It is right to push for change and, if recent Toshiba history is anything to go by, it will likely get support from other major shareholders.
Skipping town is for people who don't care. If you care, you stay and try to make things better.
NK is a rogue state. It is completely untrustworthy and its citizens have no access without special authorization.
Ergo, the only Norks connected to the Web are likely nefarious and up to no good. Who maintains their Internet connection and why is that not just cut off ?
I am well aware that that would be an extreme measure, but we're talking about North Korea, not Russia. North Korea is a wart on the world diplomatic map. The sooner it collapses under the weight of its own incompetence, the better.
Oh the FCC is definitely not kidding, it's just that all the rhetoric against Huawei and China that has been published in the last four years follows a template in which your can replace every instance of Huawei with Cisco, and every instance of China with the US Government, and the words retain all of their potency.
The official line is that Huawei is subject to Beijing. There is no proof, but there is fear of. And who better to fear that than a country that has National Security Letters which force any company on US soil to do exactly what the NSA tells them to, and keep it secret ?
National Security Letters are a known fact, Huawei's ties to Beijing are speculation.
On the balance of security, you tell me which is worst.
Am I supposed to believe that, because we're coming out of COVID, all of a sudden there's all this new tech lying around begging for investors to pick up ?
Last week we read about how Taiwan is rolling out a massive quantum encryption infrastructure, this week Bezos is backing a fusion reactor to be built by 2025.
I thought that there was this massive ITER project that was supposed to demonstrate that fusion was possible.
Are we short-circuiting that now ? Or is this just another UK snoughts-in-the-trough-project that will fail, but we did our best and our buddies made out like bandits, so all is well project ?
Oh yes, most assuredly. Being at the helm during a major scandal that casts doubt on the very integrity of your organization is definitely a badge to wear proudly at your upcoming knighthood.
Don't worry a bit, you're part of the Old Boys' network now. Your retirement in comfort is ensured.
The fact that you are disabled does not matter. Your car has been modified to adapt to your disability so that you can drive it.
You're still the diver, whatever semi-autonomous thingamajigs you have, and if you cause an accident, you will still be held responsible.
As a society, we're getting ready to unleash a storm of metal controlled by a program that, in the best of circumstances, can only prove it works when the day is sunny, the road clean and the road markings new.
I want tests for when it rains, when it pours, when it snows, and when the road markings haven't been refreshed in 20 years.
Once an autonomous vehicle can cope with those conditions, then we can start worrying about audio attacks on detectors.
Of course it does - now .
Interesting to note that this Swiss organization decides this year to change the historically-free download status of a very minor document.
Personally, I would believe that a standards body should have the obligation to publish its standards for free.
You put your standards behind a paywall and people will use another standard.
Someone please explain how the testing is supposed to be done in California when "the work" was done in China ?
Bottom line is : the testing was done in China, and covered by the BACL.
Brilliant demonstration of compliance there, guys. But don't worry, your reputation will not suffer much, and this will have no impact on your yearly turnover.
Won't it, TSB ?
"We must conduct an in-depth analysis of the protocol, for which we will hire a 3rd party, in order to understand all circumstances which led to such an outcome "
Yes. Please do conduct an in-depth analysis of the protocol and, while you're at it, try to include the last two thousand years of banking experience in the Real World, instead of imagining that you can think of every possible use case on your own.
I love reading about how funny money perpetually hits the same sand banks the real banks have learned to avoid through centuries of experience. Keep it up, guys ! At least you're worth the popcorn.
If you're so unhappy with their services, what the hell are you doing still using them ?
Are there no other choices out there ? Is it that difficult to do a search on Internet ?
It beggars belief that commercial entities today can provide an apparently consistently shitty service, and yet people still continue paying them for their shitty service.
I mean, why has TSB not shut its doors ? Why is TalkTalk still in existence ? These massive failures still have customers, for frack's sake !
This is Science we're talking about. I would suppose that, in the interest of fairness, the queue resumes at the point it was when the incident happened.
Hubble is a precious resource. Being granted time means you have something interesting and important to check out. It remains important when Hubble comes back online.
At least, I hope that's the way it works.
Of course. You got raped, it's your fault for being attractive and not wearing a trash bag.
Wow. What a progressive mentality.
I know we still need to make progress here in The West, but damn, if a woman goes to the police, I would at least expect a proper complaint to be filed and prosecuted. In South Korea, apparently, the cops will ask you for incriminating evidence, have a good laugh and send you on your way.
That's disgusting.
And the amount of spycams is absolutely intolerable. There must be a large proportion of perverts down there. I think some cattle-prod education would do wonders to clear up the atmosphere.
We regularly hear, from Washington, about how a Russian hacker group is guilty of trying this or that. What we never hear of is what the NSA is doing in Russia, and nobody is going to be surprised to learn that the NSA has its fingers in Russia. I do not believe that the NSA is sitting pretty, hands away from keyboard, not doing anything in Russia.
Russia has sent 45 inquiries ? Why haven't we heard about that ?
If this situation is to be resolved, transparency will be needed on both sides. So come on, out with the dirty NSA laundry already.
that all this deadline and moaning and lack of clarity would disappear, if only NHS Digital had decided for everything to be opt-in.
On top of that, they would have had no Day 1 problems with the rollout, as servers would harldy be pounded. They'd have years to perfect everything and make sure it all worked !
Then, of course, they'd need to find some data. Maybe hand out lollipops for opt-ins ?
The ISS is going to be scheduled to be de-orbited in the not-so-distant future, if I'm not mistaken, so there will be no more modules sent up any more. More scientific experiments, probably, in the time it has left, but they won't be needing plasma cutters any time soon.
I wonder what the de-orbit plan is ?
It's nice to know that there are still people out there who know what an OS is and how to make one.
People who are not dazzled by the latest shiny, nor feel the unsurmountable urge to throw code out there ASAP because this is the new trend.
An Operating System is supposed to be the bedrock upon which the user can build his software experience. It is not supposed to be the software experience.
When I retire and get the chance to reconfigure my home office to my personal specifications, I know what I'm going to choose for my home server.
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