Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
The 2030's is going to see company network security beefed up by a large margin.
There have been so many high-profile hacks since a few years, I cannot imagine that the security industry isn't feeling a major kick in the rear and is going to react in a big way.
At least, I hope so, or God save our data because we won't be able to.
While I do think the phone industry has gone a bit mad about the amount of pixels, I welcome a reasoned argument about how less is sometimes better (stop sniggering at the back).
As for me, I'll stick with my Canon EOS 400D for my important pictures, like family events. Phones exist only to grab a pic when you've not got anything better.
The music industry doesn't give a damn about discerning listeners. The music industry is all about whatever the young people care about, because they are the ones glued to their phones and most susceptible to spend money on streaming services.
The discerning listener can go buy vinyl.
I wonder what the decision would have been if FaceBook belonged to Microsoft ?
Microsoft survives today for two reasons : 1) it's bottomless pit of money, and 2) Windows and Office, which are the defacto standards of computing.
Everything else Borkzilla has tried has basically failed to bring in money. Windows Phone is only the latest disaster, there have been others. Borkzilla is in the back seat on the Internet, it is no longer calling the shots.
I wonder if it is going to start a news outlet. Being paid by Google & FB would certainly be the ultimate irony.
You might want to check out this video and revise your understanding of how the brain works.
If you don't want to watch all of it, the relevant part starts at point 12:45.
Enjoy !
And nobody checked. A billion dollar transfer and nobody checked.
Three different "managers", and they all blindly clicked OK without checking themselves, or checking that the previous guy had did the job properly.
Rubber-stamp management is easy.
Citibank certainly does not deserve to get the money back.
And kudos to the UK Supreme Court judges for not having been blinded by lawyers wearing expensive suits. It is good to see that Reason and Justice can still prevail against corporate greed.
"We respect the court's decision" - well of course you do now, you have no other option but. And of course, now you wish to engage with drivers and listen to them, but you won't hand out mass employement contracts unless they go before an employment tribunal - which many will probably decide is not worth the hassle.
So, in the end, Uber hasn't really lost much and, cherry on the cake, those "employees" can easily be fired in the near future as soon as they make a mistake.
So I heartily applaud the decision, but until it is enshrined in law and valid for all UK Uber drivers be default, it's not really a win in my view.
Could someone please point me to a Government IT project that has not gone poorly in the UK ?
Just one ?
Because I can't remember ever hearing about one.
Emergency services communications ? The old one was going to be cut off and the new one wasn't in place.
NHS ? Please.
No, somebody please tell me that something has gone well in UK Goverment IT services.
Oh, the lifts are working ? Well that's something, I guess.
The solution is simple : only allow the purchase of one card per credit card number.
Gamers generally only buy one card, it's the miners who buy them in stacks of four.
Of course, the miners could manage getting four credit cards, but if you had announced the move on the day the sale started, that would have them flummoxed and the gamers would win.
It's impossible to get three more credit cards in a day, and once the gamers had gotten their legitimate share, the miners would have wasted a lot of time.
Obviously not, but unfortunately ethical and legal are two different things.
CEOs are not there to be ethical - they exist to "maximise shareholder value". As long as that situation is not changed, there is no amount of laws that will force a CEO to things ethically.
The only thing that can have an impact is public image. That is why is critically important to continue flaying online any company that underpays its workers, does not keep bonus promises, does not provide a safe workplace, or sources components from child labor or slave labor conditions.
We, the citizens, are the last force to make CEOs comply to what we think is ethical.
If we don't do it with our voices, the law cannot do anything about it.
There are enough visioconferencing tools available, and email makes a perfectly sanitized hole in the wall.
I see no reason to waste more than a day in a plane, not to mention airport hassles, in order to not be able to take advantage of the local nightlife, or even do a bit of shopping.
If I'm supposed to be locked in a room during my stay, I might as well stay home.
What on Earth was he thinking ? Slipping bits of flammable material into a box that uses electricity, what is more natural ?
I mean obviously, this "computer" thingy has a portal to the waste dimension, right ? Isn't that in the specs ?
And the fact that the thin opening is not labelled "Waste Basket" is just a mistake, obviously.
It is one thing to not understand computers, it is an entirely different thing to build the intellectual fortress of stupidity that allows you to justify to yourself that you're doing nothing wrong.
The helldesk drone should have evacuated the building. Then, when time came for explanations, the responsibility of the user . . . would have been swept under the rug and the helldesk drone would have been blamed for wasting everyone's time.
Ugh, I hate stupidity.
You can find it on YouTube here.
They've finally managed to make Notes browser-based. That is awesome.
Mail still has the same look. That is unfortunate.
But hey, Notes can now be completely browser-based. No more local client if you don't want one. And you can use it on a phone as well !
Can't deny it, HCL has put a lot of work in this version.
As a Notes developer, I can't wait to have V12 on my work laptop.
"This is an ancient ECI cabinet and the lines here have been problematic forever (lead sheathed paper insulated ... "
If this is true, then Openreach is guilty of not having upgraded that thing in due course. Openreach just let it rot to avoid the costs of ensuring proper service.
I'm guessing that a new cabinet costs a pretty penny, for sure, but unless I'm mistaken, Openreach is making a lot of pretty pennies. Time to drop one and make your service better.
Oh, and you might want to take stock of the age of all your cabinets and start planning their replacement dates.
Um, like Hydroxychloroquin ?
Which has been largely demonstrated to help people recover from the respiratory sydrome ?
Sure, proper clinical trials are needed to establish facts with scientific rigor, but apparently millions have been treated with it and they're still alive to talk about it.
You know what, Fujitsu ? By removing 80K employees you're also going to save a lot of money.
Oh, but you'll also be removing your means of making money. What a shame, eh ?
You want to make money ? You have to invest money. Salaries and bonuses are your investment to ensure that you continue to make money.
France is selling power to basically every country it has borders with, plus the UK.
Germany, who has the heavy anti-nuclear lobby, readily buys part of its electricity from France's nuclear power stations.
Even better, Luxembourg buys its power from Germany so as to say that it doesn't use nuclear power.
We're going to have to face the fact that nuclear is the only future of power generation. Preferably with thorium reactors, and fusion the day we get there.
I think that might be a bit a bold claim.
Technology has now reached 7nm when it comes to engraving electronic chips. This technique is not doing much better.
Of course, this is like arguing that next year's Olympic champion is only going to be 0.1% faster/better than last year's. It's the final 0.1% that is the hardest.
So, if I am not good at maths, you're saying that I'm incapable of recognizing that a given subject involves math ?
I'm not good at running. By your definition, I'm also incapable of recognizing that the New York Marathon involves running ?
You don't have to be good at something to realize what the basic requirements are.
Admittedly not a bad title, but there is no AI - it's all statistics. So, if you want to get your machine learning on, you need a maths professor. Not an economist, mind you. While those ones are full of statistics, they're only good at explaining why their predictions didn't pan out.
Google has a great AI course out and it's free. I started to follow it, but I've never been good at maths And after lesson 5 I was lost.
Try that out before giving money to people who steal other people's images to make themselves look good.
Another provider to many important companies has its software compromised. Okay, through its customers' fault, granted, but still.
I think it is time to have a general review of high-profile software being used by companies that serve many other companies. We've basically stumbled across an underground trend that has been going on for years thanks to SolarWinds123's stupidity, but now it is time to take stock of the true situation and every company that operates in the Network Management market should be reviewing its published code with a fine comb and checking all of its code repositories to ensure that it is still offering secure code.
When your debugging session required a technician and line-by-line computation verification, you were heavily incited to think about your code twice - if not more.
18,000 vacuum tubes (or 19K, who's counting ?). Can you imagine a modern datacenter based on that ? You'd have twenty guys replacing the broken ones day in and day out. The vacuum tube industry would be more important than Exxon.
The industry has come a very long way in a very short time. Always makes me wonder what will come by in the next ten years.
Bloomberg's credibility is zero as far as I'm concerned. So they're doubling down ? Still no pictures ? It's hookum. Hogwash.
I will believe this very dubious story if you show me pictures of the modified mainboard, with a bright red arrow pointing to the part that has been added, and specify where you found it.
It's classified ? How can it be classified and widespread at the same time ?
I'm tired of this bullshit story.
Mine's the one with a phone that can take pictures.
Internet access is not going to bring back Democracy in Myanmar. At least, not if there's only a handful of people who have access that is not under surveillance.
Remember, they still have their local Internet. They're just going to need to find a way to coordinate without raising suspicion if they want to do something and, given that they would be going up against armed men who, contrary to US Capitol guards, likely have orders to shoot and will probably do so, if the people try anything there will be blood. Lots of it.
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