Posts by Pascal Monett 19435 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Irreparable, yes, but not important.
Apple will survive even if Epic wins, and it's not like Apple will have to pay what Epic is not giving now.
Yes, Apple will make less money, but it already has litterally more money than it can spend. It is the top company in the world by market cap and is more valuable than Facebook, Nvidia and TSMC put together. It can take the hit.
Personally, I would not respond to this appeal.
Choice is crucial, for sure, the The Cloud is never going to be a level playing field.
It was created by behemoths, and the little flies that flit around them will only be tolerated as long as they don't become a bother.
OneNote's integration into Windows, as much as it irks me, was obvious. Of course Borkzilla is pushing Teams and Office 365, you can't stop that.
It took over a decade and a legnthy trial to give us the possibility of having another browser than IE as default, and now Borkzilla is trying to tie Edge in again.
It's the nature of the beast.
It is fascinating to view how criminals recreate and expand on everything legal markets have concieved of.
It sure would be interesting to see how criminals implement secure transactions - that has to be worthy of analysis.
Their only problem is that, well, they're all criminals. There's no guarantee that nobody is going to attempt to hack their own systems.
What a life.
Well yes. It's not cynical, it's perfectly normal. In a world where Zuckerberg is free to ignore repeated pleas and demands for making his cash cow more palatable to the concept of morality, it is obvious that one way to make that bastard focus on the issue is to drag the local CEO muppet in front of the beak and make him sweat.
Add a bit of inside pressure to the outside pressure that apparently does nothing at all to His Zuckyness.
And you can put the name of any multinational conglomerate that has a high presence on the web and no stores anywhere in the same basket. Right now we are under the influence of American companies, but nothing says that China, India or even Russia could not, one day soon, have an outrageously successful app on the Internet that is used the world over. When that day comes, we won't have more influence over the makers of that product than we have now over Facebook.
That is not acceptable when the risk is (young) people being stalked or abused.
Understandable, even if it is an easy cop-out for insurers.
It is obvious that insurers, however close to lawyers they may be, do not have the funds to reimburse damages that can be attributed to acts of war.
Otherwise, if you really want that kind of protection, imagine what your insurance bill is going to become . . .
"If you’re managing your own, the first question to ask yourself is, are you Google, Microsoft, or AWS? "
Oh, because of course, Google, Borkzilla and AWS are the gold standard in five nines availability ? Um, no.
And, obviously, the three are also paragons of data protection and always ensure your data remains yours ? Um, no.
Does the author of this piece have shares in all three providers ? If so, why did he not partake in IBM's cloud (it has one, FYI) ?
The Cloud (TM) has its utility, no argument there. But to pretend that everyone should just go and and rent a cloud server instead of managing things themselves is to beat a very particular marketing drum.
There are many companies that have been managing five nines, even before The Cloud (TM) existed. They're still doing so, and The Cloud (TM) still can't.
Come back with your bullshit PR argument the day The Cloud (TM) can.
Agreed. It's not because the JWST has "telescope" in the name that it will do the same job as the Hubble.
The JWST is specialized for looking into infrared. It is a requirement for Science, no argument there, but the only thing that could replace Hubble would be a Hubble II.
Optical may not the best tool for Science, but it is still mighty useful.
And it gives pretty pictures.
"Law enforcement bodies such as the National Crime Agency claim that wider adoption of E2EE will stop them from detecting paedophiles preying on children through messaging apps"
Because of course they do.
I'd like to know how many paedos have been caught thanks to this indispensable privacy-violating attitude.
This is the favorite excuse for snooping, but I've never heard an official declaration stating "We have caught X criminals with this technology".
So, out with it. How many are now behind bars because of your snooping in everyone's lives ?
Well, telecoms companies could compile a monthly list of all phone models that connect to their network and make it public (just the model is not PII or subject to GDPR).
Companies could then base their support towards all of their models on the list.
Of course, that is just a practical idea, so it will likely never see the light of day.
I would be very concerned if any hospital ran any of its IT on any cloud whatsoever.
If your software can be responsible for loss of life, it is your responsability to ensure 100% uptime, with redundancies and failovers.
There is not Cloud that ensures that today, or even pretends to.
Indeed they do, but not for apps on smartphones or comments on social media.
Criticizing your government is a right enshrined in the Constitution of any democratic country. As soon as you start cracking down on people who say they don't like you or what you're doing, Democracy has gone out the window.
Although there never has been any Democracy in Russia to start with, so . . .
Mint or burn, ie transfer to or from a bank account into a digital wallet. No more mining and 1 Digital Yuan = 1 RL Yuan.
Make things interoperable ? Laudable goal, but that's just the plausible excuse.
In reality this is just another step forward to ensuring that the government gets to see all of our cash transactions. The end goal is to make sure the government gets its cut.
Ideally, none.
Germany, much less China, does not need to know about my surfing habits in France.
This sickness about sharing data is the beginning of the end of freedom and democracy. The NSA is running roughshod over everybody's rights and nobody is controlling it.
I absolutely agree that a country's citizen's activity should stay in that country.
The only data that should be shared is data concerning Interpol and global police operations - which have warrants to justify their activity.
