Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"Electricity is one of the few things in Iran that's cheap, thanks to the nation's abundant fossil fuels contribution to the global climate crisis"
TFTFY
Thorium, Iran. Invest in Thorium. You can't make nukes out of it, and you'll have zero emissions, so everybody will stay calm and you'll stop being a major contributor.
Oh really, Mr Cummings ?
And you have no such skeletons in your closet ?
I'm not really up to speed on UK politics, but I do seem to remember that you've done a few things that I thought should have gotten you the same result.
Pot calling kettle black, as usual.
Way to go to boast about how much personal data you obtained without consent in a post-GDPR era.
On top of that, way to go to demonstrate how little you understand of the functioning of Google. Google does not have the image stored in its databases, it has the link to the image, and the metadata surrounding it.
Might not be better, but at least Google cannot show you the image if the host removes it. You can.
The amount of geekery in this thread is impressive.
I would have thought that a 700+ page specification would be a guarantee of thoroughness and reliability - after all, this is not Borkzilla wat wrote it - but apparently there are a number of more intelligent people than me that have a lot to say about it.
El Reg is the best.
We have Internet today, there's no need to lug around a computer to game with friends anymore.
Every Monday and Friday I have a gaming session in the evening with my friends. We play a range of games and we chat via Teamspeak at the same time. Works fine.
Of course, if you want to participate in a LAN competition, we're not talking about the same thing, but even then, I would think there are some who prefer to lug around their tower instead of trusting a laptop.
Indeed. The USA has a strange attraction to the concept of detecting lies, despite the fact that its own Supreme Court has completely thrashed the idea - and that was a process including a trained FBI investigator overseeing the whole thing.
To think that we are capable of writing a program that can allow a computer to detect a lie is just bonkers.
And we don't have AI. We have statistical analysis machines, and we don't know how they work.
It would seem that the results are pretty clear : since Borkzilla borgified GitHub, things have gone worse.
Now the real question is : who is surprised ?
We're not done hearing about how things could have been managed better.
And it's not just the UK. In France I'm hearing a lot about how there are treatments that could facilitate the ordeal of the hospital bed, but apparently doctors are forbidden to mention them.
I have difficulty in believing that, but on the other hand the French government is clearly on a no-holes-barred quest to get everyone vaccinated at any cost, so what am I supposed to think ?
There will be fallout on this, of that I am certain.
Nobody is disputing "Apple’s ironclad control". Apple has every right to police its Store as it sees fit.
The dispute is over money. 30%, to be precise, and I think that that is way too much for a platform that is done and dusted and resells the same bytes over and over again 24/7.
5%.
That's the limit.
Well obviously it couldn't have been a prefectly even disk of dust, else nothing would have had enough gravitational weight to attract anything else.
Besides that, we difinitely need to get away from the idea that the Universe is perfect. It's its imperfections that created it.
The rules that govern its existence, on the other hand, are perfect. We just need to find them out.
That's curious, I thought that Europe wasn't the best place to launch from.
France has its base in Kourou, because colonialism. Russia and the USA are "confined" to their own territory because no colonialism.
China and India use mainland launch because they are already well placed.
I would have thought that the UK would have seeked an agreement with its ex-colonies, some of which could advantageously host a launch platform.
Interesting.
The entire x86 world is still trying, unsuccessfully, to shed its 32-bit past and become fully 64-bit, and here we have ARM boldly going where no x86 processor has even dreamed of going : to 128-bit.
Does that have anything to do with video, perchance ?
The problem lies right in the title : dragnet.
No fine-tuning, no discrimination, just violate everyone's privacy and hope you find something. After all, you're The Law. The good guy. Except when you abuse your powers to check on your wife, which is sooo easy to do. Just rewatch True Lies.
I would like, nay, I demand, a report on how many times this global violation of privacy has resulted in stopping crime, let alone terrorism.
If you could prove, without doubt, that raping my privacy has stopped significantly more criminals than you could have without it, then I might rethink my attitude on that.
But you won't, because you cannot actually justify any concrete benefit.
Yeah, no worries.
Until The Cloud (TM) disappears for any number of reasons.
And all your work with it.
Look, I know that The Cloud (TM) can very well be a solution, but any company that uses Oracle's products has enough money to manage its own cloud.
And that still looks better to me than subscribing to a ginormous Single Point of Failure that can fall over at any time - mainly when it is least convenient - and for any amount of time, and you have no control over the recovery process.
I just can't fathom why large companies agree to take that kind of risk.
"The Chocolate Factory has proposed it as a potential solution for embedded systems where hardware capabilities are limited (such as IoT devices and car infotainment systems), as well as for more potent smartphones and PCs. "
If you think I want anything Google in my car, think again. And the fact that you're marketing it for IoShite is quite obvious : you want the slurp on that too.
As an old curmudgeon, I totally agree with you.
This trend that is trying to make developers code in The Cloud (TM) sickens me. How do I know that my code is secure ? Basic answer : it is not. It is up there for the world to see.
That might be an acceptable outcome if you're coding for Open Source projects, but when I code for a company, I would be very, very surprised if said company would accept my code being paraded on Someone Else's Server.
I will not stop saying that we need to stop trusting the Internet with production code.
Solarwinds123 is the result we can expect from that.
That is a good thing. It demonstrates that there is some functional backup system that can be relied on, with a bit of coaxing.
It is still to be hoped that a better backup procedure can be implemented, because restoring data in more than a quarter of a year is not exactly a stellar performance.
I'm not sure that I can agree with that statement.
Back in the halcyon days of pre-pandemic, I used to fill my tank once a week. That's give or take €40. Multiply that by basically 50, and that's €2000 per year of fuel.
The annual checkup costs me around €700.
So no, fuel is by far the biggest cost in the life of my car.
And actually, when I think of it, I'll be paying more for fuel than I paid for buying the car.
I understand the importance that mobile phones have today, but if you lose it in a ginormous model dinosaur and you're all alone, maybe you should start by going to the Municipal Hall and ask for help ?
Or even flag down a police car. Anything but going in headfirst without anyone to help you get back out.
Not to mention that he could have damaged the model.
That was an unreasonable act any way you look at it. I'm sorry that he died, but he really should have given the matter a bit more thought.
Thinking about that, it does not give me any confidence "going forward" that I will be inclined to use Apple OS, since it obviously doesn't consider it important enough to maintain properly.
I mean, if Apple is ready to throw it away at a moment's notice to justify something completely different, then Apple OS is not important enough to merit Apple's full attention. Why should I trust an OS when its maker doesn't care ?
I already don't trust Wondows 1 0.
That's what we're going to find out.
All this is The Zucks' fault. He has set precedent in not knowing anything about his company and passed with flying colors and no consequences, so why not do the same ?
Personally, if I were judge and the CEO of a trillion-dollar company stands before me and doesn't know anything on the subject that the Court has specifically been talking about for a week, I would slap him with contempt of Court and jail him until he remembers.
Good thing for Cook that I'm not a judge.
Not only notorious, it's statistical.
More than half of the missions that have attempted to land on Mars have failed. That doesn't make for good odds.
Recentrly, we've been getting better at it, but it's still far from easy.
So kudos to the Chinese for succeeding on their first try !
That's news to me. I've taken part in some, do I need to send a check somewhere ?
I don't think so.
This is apparently a breach of contract, not a copyright issue, and if you're in a breach of contract with Steve Wozniak, well it's a rich man's issue I can't bring myself to be bothered about.
Ever since Trump University I would be wary of any organization using a famous name anyway.
The only right time to reveal that you've a data breach is when you find out.
Eventually, you can take a day or two to ascertain the extent of the breach and what was pilfered.
Every additional day without a word just means two things : you are not competent enough to know what's going on on your network and you don't want anyone to know.
Well I'm sorry, but you were breached. It already doesn't look good, but at least you're hardly the first, so bite the bullet and alert your customers.
Waiting 5 weeks is borderline criminal.
And just exactly what is that ?
Every supercomputer is unique. From the number of CPUs to the amount and type of RAM to the disk space, not to mention the architecture used, there is no such thing as a typical supercomputer.
And excuse me if I think that compressing months of work from a supercomputing behemoth that has thousands of processors, terabytes of RAM and petabytes of disk space, into 16 hours on a desktop GPU means that there has to be loss of precision in the result.
I'm sorry, I can't wrap my head around that phrase. Especially when, litterally in the same sentence, it is followed by "Microsoft’s dominance in the enterprise".
So, the enterprise is not where the professionals are ? That's news to me.
Let's be clear about things : Microsoft is the most used desktop OS, whether you like it or not. Linux is actually what makes the Internet function, is part of the backbone of all communications, and is the spearhead of most things we send into space. It's also what makes The Cloud (TM) work - yes, even Azure. Apple is for the people who work on making things look good. There aren't that many of those, but their work is just as valuable.
Saying that only Apple has professionals is uttely ridiculous.
And how do you do that if you do not sell data ?
This whole mess looks to me like there are too many people in charge of "informing" the public. Each of them inform on their little circle of oversight, without any coordination whatsoever.
So it's a typical UK Gov project. Everything's fine, then.
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