Posts by Pascal Monett 19020 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Apparently, they do meeting scheduling. Their "plus" is that they 'remove the hassle of email to schedule the meeting', whatever that means. I'm guessing they have a video platform as well.
Their logo is blurry because the hexagon in the middle has rounded corners. This is the Age Without Angles, everything must be soft and fuzzy because Heaven forbid we offend someone by showing a pointed corner. That's aggressive .
But it's a lot better when the money is legit.
The guy's an idiot. In barely two years he reaps almost $1.5 million and he thinks nobody is going to notice ?
And now he's ruined his wife's career.
I wonder if he'll still have a wife in 2 years and 9 months. If so, it'll be a cold reunion.
Yes, but at least they are Thinking Of The Children (TM).
We have our sob stories on this side where girls were actually driven to suicide. I think we could do with a bit of cleaning up as well.
Yes, it's China, and yes, it is a totalitarian state, but in this case, what it is doing is protecting children and young teenagers from their own excesses and from bad influence. There is no political bias here, it is not to impose the Will Of The Party and have them all sing the national anthem every time they log on.
I approve this move. Children must be safe online.
Spying 101 : keep your enemy looking for threats, whether they exist or not.
Of course he's going to say that. Mossad is full of actually competent people. They know that you keep your enemy under pressure, so that the enemy makes mistakes that can compound whatever it is you have in waiting, or make it easier or better to unleash at the right time.
Of course, if I were Iran and Mossad declared that they were done and didn't have anything ready, I wouldn't trust them either . . .
Because the release date was decided on following political requirements, not design requirements.
Basically, the devs got the specs in their hands and just had to get something running by a given day.
I'm not going to comment on Indian developer skills, but I'm sure that any group of developers is going to have a tough time on such a project if they need three more months than they have.
"Stop that you two !"
"But he started it !"
"No, you started it !" <cue more scuffling>.
I was going to say that we need to approach this matter as adults, but then I remembered that we just got out of OHSG's presidency, and we still have The Boris on our side.
So playground scuffles it is.
And, contrary to carbon nanotubes, it looks like it will be available on the market sooner rather than later.
With all the Li-ion batteries out there, there is undoubtedly an immense drive to have a charger that can not only guarantee your battery recharged in minutes, but your battery life doubled as well.
I would soo like to get my hands on a charger like that !
"law enforcement authorities around the world are well and truly committed to finding ways through and around encryption, wherever it is used by criminals "
And I have no problem with that.
What I have a problem with is those same authorities arguing that my Sync encryption should be backdoored, or that my PGP mail should be backdoored, or that my communications over Internet with my bank should be backdoored.
No, they should not. It is what keeps criminals out of my affairs. If it so happens that it also keeps authorities out of my affairs, there is one big difference : criminals do not have warrants at their disposal.
Step One : public announcement : drivers will get 100% of their tips.
First off, if you have to announce that, there's already something wrong.
Then, second step : switch to variable base pay rate without telling anyone.
Ok, for that to happen, there had to have been a meeting. Someone chaired a meeting with a group of other people and the question was, specifically : how do we not pay 100% of the tips, like we promised ?
And all the good little soldiers brainstormed that little switcheroo.
The next question was : how do we keep the drivers from learning about it ?
Well, at that point, anybody could think of lumping all the tips together without any possibility of checking which tip for which job. The less you communicate, the easier it is to hide things.
What this whole story tells me is that Bezos is far from being the only evil one in Amazon. He's got an army of evil minions who have absolutely no morals at all, and they're all in upper management.
A properly cheerful BOFH just hinting at the terrifyingly evil one lurking just out of sight. Loved it !
I think this whole series could become the foundation of a new style of Tales from the Crypt. It could be called Tales from the Server Room, but someone would need to find something more catchy.
Someone call Hollywood . . .
Make no mistake, COVID is here. It's not going away. Countries are celebrating their vaccination schemes, and hell, I'm raring to get back to going to restaurants and being in public without that godawful mask, but you can be sure that, from now on, every year we'll have an updated COVID vaccine, just there's a flu vaccine.
COVID is here to stay.
More like a thick shroud of paranoia.
Apple operates in its own world, and thank $Deity that there are employment tribunals to set it straight every now and then, because otherwise it would forget that there is actually a Real World (TM) out there.
Except for Marketing. They know.
It's interesting that, in an industry that can have just about redundant everything (switches, servers, firewalls, you name it), it would appear that nobody bothered to plan redundant aircon (at least, not that I can tell from the article).
I know aircon is expensive, but now the question is : how much more expensive is a day of 100% downtime ?
You might want to design a second aircon system as backup, just to be sure.
You have encrypted backup servers and you still paid the miscreants ?
What kind of bullshit is that ?
Either you can restore from backups, and your ideal IT team should be well-trained on doing so, or you can't, and you pay.
It's no use singing the praises of your IT infrastructure if you can't use it to recover from ransomware.
We're going to see another central failure in a short time : building all of your new fabs in the driest State of the Union.
Arizona. Who the blazes thought it would be a good idea to build there ? Well, apart from the high-level suits who undoubtedly extracted a monstrously insignificant tax agreement and didn't give a flying one about the additional drain this is going to put on what's left of the Colorado river.
Additionally, cooling costs are going to be through the roof.
Way to go for ecology all around.
With the noise that thing made in the film, my first thought was that it couldn't possibly hear anything. It likely tracked its victimes via radar or infrared. The fandom wiki says nothing on how it tracks, it just gives gushing praise on armaments and troop-carrying capacity.
From what I recall from the movie, soldiers on the ground were pretty much able to move around freely as long as they stayed out of line-of-sight. They could even talk, but of course, military talk, not table-side chit-chat.
Of course, having read about how we already have companies with "vast experience in filtering unwanted noise", there could well be a new timeline where the buggers can filter out their own engine noise and hear a human running. From there, we're one step away from an area-of-effect missile showering an area 50sq meters around the supposed location of the sound, and that goose is pretty much cooked.
Not entirely.
Republican states are currently doubling down on the madness and doing their level best to ensure that, come next Election Day, only genuine, white-skinned Republicans will be able to vote.
Oh, and apperently Trump is announcing that he will be "reinstated" next August.
The level of delusion of these people is impressive, I must admit. How they remember to breath through the day is a miracle in itself.
Okay, so I am to understand that Twitter is now an official government information platform ?
I mean, I know every twat in office spends much more time on Twitter than he apparently spends working (hmm, there might be something there), but I was not aware that I should now be obliged to have a Twitter account and follow all governmental departments to get official news.
Official news should be broadcast on the telly or radio at official news times, presented by a professional news anchor and possibly commented on by a guest invited for that purpose - hopefully, someone from NHS, or at least the medical profession.
I'm not much interested in the opinion of a celebrity or an "influencer" (gah) on this matter.
And that's the key point : months of planning.
Most customers that call me in want me to solve a given problem NOW. They don't have a test server, because that is a cost center.
So I end up doing the job as cautiously as I can, asking all the questions I can think of before committing code to a production server.
Even then, sometimes things go wrong. Generally it's when someone comes in and says "this thing is broken now", and I most of the time I can answer "you never told me about that".
The rest of the time it's an edge case nobody was aware of.
But I basically have to code a test script that modifies nothing, test the hell out of it and, when I'm satisfied it does the job, then I port the code to the actual production script.
I've had my share of stomach butterflies, but so far so good.
I imagine this from the point of view of the marketing department. They are likely young men and women, full of enthusiasm in a company that has a lot of impact.
They brainstorm something for June 4th and set it in motion, and all of a sudden Beijing come crashing around them, bringing all their efforts to naught.
I'm betting they are all thinking "but why ?".
And now they're going to find out, one way or the other.
So Beijing is basically educating it's people on the exact thing it wants to suppress.
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