Posts by Pascal Monett 18990 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
According to Wikipedia, they're looking for a new CEO to replace Mrs Wlkinson who is already gone. I'm not sure that that is a good sign.
For the rest, the wiki paints a reassuring picture of the organization, but hey, it's a UK Gov IT project, what could possibly go wrong ?
Smaller equals less power consumption and more components in the same space.
Less power consumption also means easier to cool.
The cutting edge these days is 7nm. 14 is positively ancient.
Apparently, there are Intel engineers that say that 2nm is possible. We'll see when they get there.
I always marvel at the intelligence of people who can purposely lie in order to get money.
Giphy is a company that wants to track you, just like Google. In order to do so, they imagined chat images, because everyone likes to add an emoticon now and then.
They made them funny, which makes them appealing, increasing their chance of use.
But all of this is to enhance their tracking ability, siphoning your private life to sell it to ad companies.
Giphy is a bunch of vampires.
Not surprising that El Zuck wants to get his hands on it.
Nope.
You're the "expert". You can blame no one but yourself.
If your research team didn't do its job, you're supposed to be the one to control and double-check and make them do it right.
You're just a lazy slob who went before a judge without doing the job properly, but accepted the money to do so.
You will forever be associated with failure.
Are you out of your mind ?
5% and not a cent more.
It's code Apple didn't write and hardly bothers vetting, sitting on a hard disk waiting for a customer to click on a button that has already been coded a decade ago.
The Apple Store has paid for itself already, maintenance costs are next to nothing.
5% is already generous.
You're considering the wrong type of Management.
What you mean to say is : Management decided on Windows PCs, because they can't be arsed to imagine that there's anything else in the Universe that could fit the bill.
When you've got a hammer . . .
Indeed.
They might have had some use of calling in the expensive security consultants before the shit hit the fan, to ensure that, when it did, they would be prepared.
But, hey, that costs money.
These days, reputation costs nothing, so the beancounters say no.
Until it happens.
Then it becomes a PR exercise, and that goes into the marketing budget.
Still not important.
This is just Capitalism at work, people. No surprise here.
What these boards would like is to benefit from actual Open Source, but not have to risk someone else benefitting from their company's work.
Capitalism : the definition of selfish.
If you don't want to share the results, don't use Open Source code.
I'm sorry, even if you're on the board, you can't have your cake and eat it.
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.
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