Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
These days, it's what you say that counts, not what you do.
Women are soft ? Thank God they are. I love rubbing up against my wife's soft skin.
Women are weak ? Let's see how weak you are while giving birth. Oh right, you can't, mutherfucker.
Disparaging women and pursuing them is a sign not only of assholery, but of inherent lack of manitude.
A real man can respect women, because he's not afraid of them.
Well guys, looks like you can now budget $10 million for your backup procedures, because they'll be back in a quarter or two and you obviously need to lock down your backup procedures to something a bit more robust.
And there should be a fine of 10 times your blackmail money to prevent this kind of thing from happening.
"Nor does the Chinese government or military, or any entity affiliated with the defense industrial base, possess the ability to exert control over the management or affairs of the company "
can very well be replaced with
"Nor does the US government or military, or [the NSA], possess the ability to exert control over the management or affairs of the company"
and it will ring just as true.
National Security Letters are a thing. We know that. Stop screaming hysterically about another country's companies when you have set the example.
Yeah but, for Joe User, there are no alternatives.
He wants to use Outlook, because everyone he knows uses Outlook. He wants to use Office, because everyone is talking about Word and Excel. He wants to play some games, because they're all the rage these days.
He doesn't know about Linux and, if he did, he couldn't go about installing it himself. If he did install Linux, he would have to learn a different mail program. He would have to install LibreOffice, and that's not Word. And he couldn't play many of the games that "everyone else" is playing anyway.
Now that Borkzilla is laser-focused on The Cloud (TM), and has finally started porting parts of its software empire to be Linux-compatible, we have a chance to see the day when Office will run natively on Linux and DirectX maybe as well.
That will be the day that will signal the start of Linux on the Desktop, because there will be a real alternative, ironically brought about by the same entity that has done its level best to keep Linux out of the desktop.
Indeed. Because you put the barriers in place to ensure that would need to happen.
It's funny, in a way, because I've been hearing for decades now that buying a video gave me a "right to view", and not a right to own.
Of course, that discourse is a load of crap but still, I'd really like to see someone argue in court that their "right to view" transcends the platform and any restriction artificially implemented by a company is an illegal impediment to their right to view.
Heck, if I were a millionnaire I think I'd give it a try, just to scare them shitless.
It's nothing but growth and percentages of growth throughout.
If you take the transcript at face value, in every single category they mention it's year-on-year growth. Just growing like crazy.
Even their financial department apparently improved the cashflow. I wonder how beancounters can improve cashflow. I though it was sales people and the grunts on the ground that improved cashflow by working more deals, but no. Maybe they invested a lot in BitCoin and made out like bandits ?
In any case, there is absolutely no explanation whatsoever for delivering $1 instead of $1.10. Reading that blurg, they should have delivered $1.50.
It's all malarky anyway.
Which is not a problem for many people who work in Open Source.
It is not much of a problem either for projects that can be realized by one person.
It's when you need a team, and need to coordinate, and use procedures for submitting code etc, that's where Open Source falters if there isn't good management and some form of financial backing.
It is free. Nobody is paying to use Babel JavaScript.
But if you want the project to survive, you need to have people willing to give their time to that, and it is simpler and easier to attract developers if they get a financial incentive out of it - especially if you want the good ones to work full-time.
That being said, I'm sorry but $11k a month is not the kind of incentive I think is justified for an open-source project. Up to $4k could be justified, following the amount of work the developer contributes, but I think that is pretty much the high bar.
It's Open Source. A living wage, yes, but if you're in it for the money, go back to being a company drone. Either that or create a startup and go hit venture capital.
Absolutely agree. It's the first thing I want to say to any idiot with a public mandate. You want backdoored encryption ? Fine, let's start with your communications. See how you like that.
After all, leading is showing by example, right ?
Okay, stop pushing, I'm on my way out.
Not really. Not in my opinion.
Otherwise, our justice system would be quite simple : you committed a crime, you get executed.
There are degrees, and they must be taken into account. A group of thieves who stake out a house, find out when the occupants are gone, break in and loot the place and get gone will get less attention than a group who break in and murder everyone, then loot.
And that is logical.
After reading this article I was curious, I'd never heard about this technology before.
So I looked it up.
It is so reassuring to know that, when I'm desperately trying to call for help, my phone will be able to blare at me that I may be in trouble.
Well of course, compared to 7 billion people on the planet, 18 000 is indeed a very small number.
Except that your 18000 customers just happen to include some of the most important organizations on the planet.
Oh, you forgot that point, didn't you ?
Well we didn't. And neither did they.
And here I go again.
Sorry to grind the same organ again, but since when has it been a good idea to mix the network controlling the car with the network accessing the outside ?
Answer : never. But the beancounters argue for economy of scale.
Fuck them.
Beancounters are the bane of security and common sense.
I'm sorry that you have issues transferring Euros from Thailand.
I live in France. I work in Luxembourg. My main bank account is in Luxembourg. I have an international VISA card, obviously.
When I ask for a professional's intervention at my home, be it plumbing, electricity, delivering wood for the chimney, or remaking the shower, I pay by IBAN transfer.
I've never had any problem with it. I consider it to be secure and convenient. I am not unhappy either with the knowledge that VISA is not going to gouge a transaction fee out of it.
I don't know why Thailand has issues with IBAN transfers, but, as an insider, I feel that you need to look to your banks rather than blame the Euro for your issues.
They most often do, and that is a major factor in sorting the wheat from the chaff, but the truth is in the link.
If the link you're asked to click on does not obviously belong to the corporate address the mail is supposed to be from, then good bye, nice try.
But if the link is to a verifiable corporate domain and you come tell me that it was a phishing exercise, I will rip you a new one.
I use Rules in my corporate mailbox. Every time someone sends out something that has absolutely no bearing on my daily job, I set up a rule to shove it into a folder labelled "Ignored".
Given that I am a freelance consultant, and only log in when I am asked to by the customer, such rules are pretty easy to set up. If it doesn't concern the project I'm on, it's ignored.
I'm sorry, how is it believable that you have to register for a company-wide bonus ?
Either the company gives the bonus, or it doesn't, but it does not make its employees register for one. I think that would be grounds for a lawsuit.
Not blaming the people who clicked the link, but I think this whole affair is going in the wrong direction.
Somebody should have complained about the principle.
I'll bet it is.
It is incredible that we've been able to do such things. It is indispensible that we continue to milk Voyager for every ounce of scientific data we can get while we still can.
And it is a tribute to Science and to the entire human race that NASA selflessly grants access to such data, instead of hoarding it.
I'm not saying that NASA has a habit of hoarding data, I'm saying that NASA is the embodiement of Knowledge, giving access without hesitation to any data it has on our Universe.
There are some forces for Good in our world, and NASA is one of them.
Why do they have to have renewed hardware ?
As far as libraries are concerned, any hardware since 2010 is good to go, just slap Windows 1 0 on the desktops, load the environment and the job is done.
You don't need a brand new 4Ghz CPU and 8GB of DDR5 to look for a book.
Um, in point of fact, if you are missing a critical component in your production process, I don't see that you have the choice.
Of course, you can likely make vehicles while you wait for tow bars, but when you make engines and you don't get the chips they need, you're gonna have to stop making them until you do.
This wonderful world of JIT production is going to have to get back to grips with the notion of stock (oops, a beancounter just fainted).
Methinks that NameCheap is going to be forced to clean up their act if they don't manage to do it on their own.
Now that they have been named and shamed by a government report, Kirkendall is not going to be bale to brush it off like an angry Twitter rant.
If you regularly host government scam sites, there's a good change the government is going to come and have a word with you.
They're still listed elsewhere, meaning that US investors can still buy shares if they absolutely want to.
Obviously, big holdings and such are going to want to set their records straight, but Joe Schmuck who bought 20 shares is not going to be bothered about all this.
Except that there are still El Reg readers who bank at TSB. WTF ?
TSB is not a joke now, TSB has been a joke for over two years, if not more.
Anyone with an ounce of sense should have gotten the hell out of there by now. Changing banks is not that difficult.
On the other hand, in the UK, there is the question of finding a bank that is actually reliable.
That may be an issue.
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