Posts by Pascal Monett 19252 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"Windows 10 has won hearts – well, grudging acceptance – for not breaking "
We obviously don't live in the same universe.
I live in a universe where Windows 1 0 updating has produced the update of the damned, has repeatedly broken printing and is guilty of incessantly inconveniencing its users with updates at the worst of times.
Windows 1 0 not breaking ?
Not in my universe.
But Toshiba is not worthless. Selling shares over a disagreement with the Board is not a financially justified move.
Sure, if you're holding twenty shares in a company, or even two hundred, and said company does something you intrinsically cannot abide, then sell your shares, by all means, but remember that someone else is going to buy them.
Effissimo likely has much more than a paltry two hundred shares if it is in a position to raise its voice in a General Assembly. It is right to push for change and, if recent Toshiba history is anything to go by, it will likely get support from other major shareholders.
Skipping town is for people who don't care. If you care, you stay and try to make things better.
NK is a rogue state. It is completely untrustworthy and its citizens have no access without special authorization.
Ergo, the only Norks connected to the Web are likely nefarious and up to no good. Who maintains their Internet connection and why is that not just cut off ?
I am well aware that that would be an extreme measure, but we're talking about North Korea, not Russia. North Korea is a wart on the world diplomatic map. The sooner it collapses under the weight of its own incompetence, the better.
Oh the FCC is definitely not kidding, it's just that all the rhetoric against Huawei and China that has been published in the last four years follows a template in which your can replace every instance of Huawei with Cisco, and every instance of China with the US Government, and the words retain all of their potency.
The official line is that Huawei is subject to Beijing. There is no proof, but there is fear of. And who better to fear that than a country that has National Security Letters which force any company on US soil to do exactly what the NSA tells them to, and keep it secret ?
National Security Letters are a known fact, Huawei's ties to Beijing are speculation.
On the balance of security, you tell me which is worst.
Am I supposed to believe that, because we're coming out of COVID, all of a sudden there's all this new tech lying around begging for investors to pick up ?
Last week we read about how Taiwan is rolling out a massive quantum encryption infrastructure, this week Bezos is backing a fusion reactor to be built by 2025.
I thought that there was this massive ITER project that was supposed to demonstrate that fusion was possible.
Are we short-circuiting that now ? Or is this just another UK snoughts-in-the-trough-project that will fail, but we did our best and our buddies made out like bandits, so all is well project ?
Oh yes, most assuredly. Being at the helm during a major scandal that casts doubt on the very integrity of your organization is definitely a badge to wear proudly at your upcoming knighthood.
Don't worry a bit, you're part of the Old Boys' network now. Your retirement in comfort is ensured.
The fact that you are disabled does not matter. Your car has been modified to adapt to your disability so that you can drive it.
You're still the diver, whatever semi-autonomous thingamajigs you have, and if you cause an accident, you will still be held responsible.
As a society, we're getting ready to unleash a storm of metal controlled by a program that, in the best of circumstances, can only prove it works when the day is sunny, the road clean and the road markings new.
I want tests for when it rains, when it pours, when it snows, and when the road markings haven't been refreshed in 20 years.
Once an autonomous vehicle can cope with those conditions, then we can start worrying about audio attacks on detectors.
Of course it does - now .
Interesting to note that this Swiss organization decides this year to change the historically-free download status of a very minor document.
Personally, I would believe that a standards body should have the obligation to publish its standards for free.
You put your standards behind a paywall and people will use another standard.
Someone please explain how the testing is supposed to be done in California when "the work" was done in China ?
Bottom line is : the testing was done in China, and covered by the BACL.
Brilliant demonstration of compliance there, guys. But don't worry, your reputation will not suffer much, and this will have no impact on your yearly turnover.
Won't it, TSB ?
"We must conduct an in-depth analysis of the protocol, for which we will hire a 3rd party, in order to understand all circumstances which led to such an outcome "
Yes. Please do conduct an in-depth analysis of the protocol and, while you're at it, try to include the last two thousand years of banking experience in the Real World, instead of imagining that you can think of every possible use case on your own.
I love reading about how funny money perpetually hits the same sand banks the real banks have learned to avoid through centuries of experience. Keep it up, guys ! At least you're worth the popcorn.
If you're so unhappy with their services, what the hell are you doing still using them ?
Are there no other choices out there ? Is it that difficult to do a search on Internet ?
It beggars belief that commercial entities today can provide an apparently consistently shitty service, and yet people still continue paying them for their shitty service.
I mean, why has TSB not shut its doors ? Why is TalkTalk still in existence ? These massive failures still have customers, for frack's sake !
This is Science we're talking about. I would suppose that, in the interest of fairness, the queue resumes at the point it was when the incident happened.
Hubble is a precious resource. Being granted time means you have something interesting and important to check out. It remains important when Hubble comes back online.
At least, I hope that's the way it works.
Of course. You got raped, it's your fault for being attractive and not wearing a trash bag.
Wow. What a progressive mentality.
I know we still need to make progress here in The West, but damn, if a woman goes to the police, I would at least expect a proper complaint to be filed and prosecuted. In South Korea, apparently, the cops will ask you for incriminating evidence, have a good laugh and send you on your way.
That's disgusting.
And the amount of spycams is absolutely intolerable. There must be a large proportion of perverts down there. I think some cattle-prod education would do wonders to clear up the atmosphere.
We regularly hear, from Washington, about how a Russian hacker group is guilty of trying this or that. What we never hear of is what the NSA is doing in Russia, and nobody is going to be surprised to learn that the NSA has its fingers in Russia. I do not believe that the NSA is sitting pretty, hands away from keyboard, not doing anything in Russia.
Russia has sent 45 inquiries ? Why haven't we heard about that ?
If this situation is to be resolved, transparency will be needed on both sides. So come on, out with the dirty NSA laundry already.
that all this deadline and moaning and lack of clarity would disappear, if only NHS Digital had decided for everything to be opt-in.
On top of that, they would have had no Day 1 problems with the rollout, as servers would harldy be pounded. They'd have years to perfect everything and make sure it all worked !
Then, of course, they'd need to find some data. Maybe hand out lollipops for opt-ins ?
The ISS is going to be scheduled to be de-orbited in the not-so-distant future, if I'm not mistaken, so there will be no more modules sent up any more. More scientific experiments, probably, in the time it has left, but they won't be needing plasma cutters any time soon.
I wonder what the de-orbit plan is ?
It's nice to know that there are still people out there who know what an OS is and how to make one.
People who are not dazzled by the latest shiny, nor feel the unsurmountable urge to throw code out there ASAP because this is the new trend.
An Operating System is supposed to be the bedrock upon which the user can build his software experience. It is not supposed to be the software experience.
When I retire and get the chance to reconfigure my home office to my personal specifications, I know what I'm going to choose for my home server.
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.
