Posts by Pascal Monett 19108 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Absolutely.
Shame on her for deleting files.
Shame on the IT department for not having regular backups.
Shame on management for not insisting on proper security rules and surfing on the "hey, it's working, everything's fine" attitude.
Yes, she is to be blamed for what she did. But the company bears a greater burden of blame for making it possible in the first place.
I'm sorry, if there is anything that is more public domain than the Greek alphabet, please inform me.
This really is an example of trademarks gone mad. Who the hell got custody of the Greek alphabet and under what authority ?
That needs to be revoked immediately.
With prejudice if necessary.
Heh, buying TI does not mean you have a product made in the USA. Their web page boasts of 14 manufacturing sites worldwide.
Worlwide. Not in the USA.
"The CPU core running that code sees those instructions and communicates with the custom die to complete the operations fast, and returns the results to the calling code "
And to think that we all thought that Meltdown and Spectre were the worst that could happen. Now a hacker is going to be able to actually re-code the CPU.
And you'll never notice.
Neither will AV software.
Welcome to the future !
Ah, but it had 16Tb, as in tera-bits.
And, as we all know, there's 8 bits to a byte.
Plus there's the fact that marketing can't be arsed to calculate the kilobyte at its true value of 1024 bytes, it uses 1000 because if marketers knew how to count they would be beancounters.
Congrats, Borkzilla, on shutting yourself out of a rather large portion of the market.
I don't know if you've heard, but people don't upgrade every year anymore. And with the amount of computers that were sold due to COVID, you're not going to see much headway before 2026 the way you're going.
Too fast, too greedy. Should have played it cool, a shady deal a year, no more.
Especially since, in his position, I doubt he had financial problems at the end of the month.
But no, this guy obviously couldn't keep from raking it in, and he got caught.
Goes to show that fraudsters aren't as smart as they think they are.
Great publicity for Toyota's autonomous programming. Congrats. There must be a rogue engineer in there somewhere.
Meanwhile, how about hiring one human per bus, to drive it ?
Or at least slam the brakes when necessary, since the machine apparently can't do it reliably.
I've been saying for a while already : what is it with Size 8 (or pick another number, it's the same problem) ? Why can't the industry just state the size in centimeters ?
A Size 8 at one store is not a Size 8 at another store, and it's possible it isn't even a Size 8 between two lines of clothes in the same store.
I'm very sorry if someone has an issue with looking for a 78cm-wide shirt instead of a Size 7 (just inventing numbers here), but wouldn't it be easier to know that if you buy that 78cm-wide shirt, it will fit ?
I would think that the legal situation is that you participated in an event where you knew your picture could be taken, so you implicitly consented to have your picture taken. Said picture is then the property of the person who took it, and that person may dispose of it as he or she intends.
You're right, but 52%, man !
That's like the people who are at a BBQ and tell you that grilled meat has a 24% greater chance of giving you colorectal cancer. Greater than what ? They don't know. So I tell them.
Then I point out to them that the cigarette they're smoking has a 2300% better chance of giving them lung cancer.
Now pass me that hamburger.
The stock market graphs pull the same shenanigans. A week ago my wife and I were checking out a stock price and, when the page showed the graph, my wife said "Oh my goodness, it's tanking !".
I then pointed out to her that the graph minimum was 550, the graph maximum was 565, and the stock had gone from 562 to 554. That is a 1.4% drop.
But, on the graph, the fall was impressive.
Back in the day, nVidia did the same on its benchmarks to suggest it was seriously overperforming AMD cards. You'd look at the graph and think "wow, that nVidia card is at least 25% more powerful". But if you checked the y-axis values, you'd realize that there was, at best, a 3% difference.
And I'm pretty sure nVidia was hardly the one who invented that.
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