Posts by Pascal Monett 19434 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Here is the best balance : information comes before the purchase, experience comes after the purchase.
It's not up to you, Lenovo, to "inform" your customers when they have made the purchase. Your customers know how to use a browser, they can inform themselves.
Apple has an internal police that can carry concealed weapons.
Apple has given itself the right to search your house with its stormtroopers if it even only thinks you are a risk of giving away something about its latest curved-cornered smartphone.
Who in their right mind would want to work for a company that gives itself state-level police rights without a warrant ?
Not me.
To be fair ?
Let's make one thing clear : bosses are not techies.
There may be a one-in-a-million people who rise to management after having lived in helldesk, but this is more than an exception ; it's a miracle.
The rest are all manglement material who have flunked Board-level entry and haven't the faintest idea of what an IP address is, much less how to manage a firewall.
Let me give an example. I was once part of a vast administrative entity with an IT department and, at its head, an individual who's grasp of IT was the following : one day, I and my colleague were summoned to the official's office to discuss access to the Dev server and how things were not going to standard.
My colleague had access to the Dev server. I had been refused access to the Dev server.
How is it that the fucking head of IT didn't realize that before I put it on the table ?
And you want me to believe that that fucking idiot would be entitled to not appreciate that I know that he should fucking know who he granted access to what ?
Head of IT. You should definitely know who has access to what. That's not rocket science. That is your responsibility.
I am always absolutely flabbergasted when I see a US politician spouting bullshit without any consequence whatsoever.
This asshole is publicly trying to obstruct a government inquiry, and nothing. The cops don't show up, no journalist is calling him out, nada.
It is not a Democrat inquiry, it is a Government inquiry you moron. You're lucky I'm not the President, because I would have the IRS take your taxes apart line by line. I'm sure you've got some dirty laundry to hang yourself with.
Yes but, it was old code.
You know, code that was written ten years ago ? It's rusty now.
Borkzilla doesn't give a flying fig about the efforts you have to make to continue working. Borlzilla knows best, and Borkzilla is all about innovating. If all that innovation makes you work overtime, it's a sacrifice Borkzilla is willing to make you make.
Once I was on holiday in the USA when I got an SMS from a client asking me why I wasn't answering my mail. I had to phone at 6AM (California time) to explain that I was out of the country.
The interesting thing (from my point of view) was that my associate at the time was also in contact with the client, and he apparently did nothing to handle the issue before they texted me.
He is no longer my associate.
Let's be real, that was never a choice. If there was any chance to keep going without loss of life, that's what they would choose.
You can't take your boss for a ride and, because of an administrative alarm, tell him after one minute "uh, boss, we have to abort and all that publicity you made for yourself is going to come back negative times a hundred".
Being grounded after the fact is negligible, PR-wise, compared to the absolute shitstorm that Branson would have been subject to if the mission had aborted.
Um, what exactly is that brain fart ?
Which "male stereotypes" are acceptable in China now ? The rugged woodcutter ?
I'm absolutely not and never have been a fan of boys bands in general, but I fail to see how the argument of male stereotype can be used to ban them.
That's pretty backwards as far I'm concerned.
I'm sorry, fiat currencies do not lend themselves to digital exchange ? Since when ?
The only time I have to use banknotes is when I'm going for pizza takeout at my friendly local pizzaiolo in his mobile kitchen.
The rest of the time, I'm using a no-contact VISA.
Apparently, you can also use your phone for paying stuff.
I can also send money to anyone with an IBAN number. I do that all the time when I have to pay an invoice for work done in the house, or an important delivery. Easy as pie.
The only thing I can't do digitally is give someone ten bucks (euros, whatever). To do that, I have to use physical currency.
If that is the problem they want to solve, I think it would be a lot more simple to have an app from the bank that you can charge, and via Blutooth you could sync between two phones for a given amount. End of problem. No need to go fabricate some more funny money for that.
Stop with the funny money already.
Sure, we're already pretending we have AI, why not throw gardening in the mix ?
I really would appreciate it if El Reg at least could stop pandering to this marketing illusion. It's not AI, it's a statistical analysis machine.
In any case, call me when they need mowing the lawn. I'll be sure to ensure that all the data points are cut down to the same height.
What it is is a giant warning sign for companies wanting to set up a branch in China.
Do so and you will run the risk of losing your IP to a local who refuses to obey your commands.
I don't think there's any other country in the world where the subordinate relation between a branch and company headquarters has ever been put into question. The Board wants you out ? You leave. Period.
But apparently, in China, that's not how it works.
Well I'm sure of one thing : even if I become a billionaire, I'm not setting up shop in China until I have the guarantee that no local can refuse my orders.
It will be interesting to put your theory to the test.
Obviously, I subscribe to the idea that Linux is generally "safe" because not many people use it on the desktop. That said, malware can be had on Linux, it's just that Windows is a far more juicy target.
Even so, the fact that most, if not all, Linux users do not work with an admin account, something that is virtually impossible to do on Windows without an IT department to manage things, means that even on Linux, malware will be rather limited in its effects.
But hey, when the day of the Linux desktop has arrived, we'll see what the scum manage to do.
Because one thing is certain : they will give it a go.
Okay, I will be upfront about the fact that I absolutely do not believe that airtaxis are going to be a thing.
We have enough trouble with the thousands of land-based accidents we already have, we hardly need to add falling hunks of metal into the mix.
If aerial travel was so important for hopping from one place to another in a given city, helicopters would already be a roaring business. It's not because your vehicle is electric that all of a sudden it creates an entirely new market, nor will it bring the cost down to regular taxi levels. Only rich people will be able to afford it, and rich people can already charter a helicopter.
Not to mention that landing sites are at a premium in any city that could use an aerial taxi service. It's not like they'll be landing in a park.
So I fully expect this startup to fail miserably, although I will be sad to see it go.
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.
