Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Given the result of the last review, I fear that that is not really an incentive for Nominet to Do The Right Thing, namely it's fucking job.
What would really stir the hornet's nest is if Nominet was found by a judge to actually be a for-profit organization, and forced to change its legal structure.
Looking forward to that, actually.
The article states that it has everything it needs to run a container.
That sounds like a pretty good idea to me, and demonstrates brilliantly just how adaptable Linux can be.
You'd be hard pressed to get Borkzilla make a Windows 1 0 For Containers version that wasn't actually just Windows 1 0 renamed.
It's true that it is rather difficult to pretend to the moral high ground after having spent the entire second half of the 20th century selling weapons and ammo to any country that had a revolutionary movement, often to both sides at a time.
And, as for not wanting Trump to win the upcoming elections, I hardly think China is the only country with that disposition.
In any case, I fully support that stance.
More like they're continuing to screw themselves. If they still need SHA-1 since it has been deprecated, it means that they've done diddly-squat to solve the problem and migrate to something more secure.
Once again, business-critical applications whose original vendor has long bitten the bullet are still lurking about, preventing any change because of the prohibitive cost in replacing them by something more secure.
Of course, companies in this situation could just physically isolate the affected machines from the Internet, but if they're already doing that and there are no other machines accessing the outdated security components, then the Edge/SHA-1 issue already doesn't impact them, so where's the problem ?
The only problem is the fact that our planet is going to be an roasted husk in about a billion years, due to the Sun's increased activity as it goes through its hydrogen reserves.
Humanity will have to have migrated from Earth by that time if we want to have a chance of being around when the merger actually becomes visible.
I totally agree with this position. Way too many projects end up gathering dust on the shelves after the initial feature set is more or less working.
This will at least level the field - either someone is actively taking care of the project, or the project dies the death that is waiting for it.
But really, to go back to her desk and look forward to working with those four assholes - I wouldn't want to have to do that.
And besides, work calls actually scheduled for Saturday mornings ? What the blazes is that ?
If, as a manager, you can't get your work done weekdays from 8 to 8, then you're useless as a manager. Obviously, there can be exceptions, but if you have to wrap up your week every Saturday morning, then you're doing something wrong.
Monday mornings is supposed to be the time for the weekly pep talk, not Saturday.
Honestly, I don't really care if Autonomy was cooking the books. I's not good if it was, for sure, but frankly, I still hold HP completely responsible for being conned in the first place.
I said it before and I'll say it again : if I buy a house on the basis of nice pictures, then find out once I've paid that those pictures were just canvas photos in lieu of a a run-down ruin, I don't think that the courts would grant me any recourse. So why does HP get one ? Especially since HP had the time and power to do due diligence, and more especially since there were people in HP that were dead against the whole deal in the first place, with good reason.
HP should lose this case, for the example. Maybe Hussain should be condemned, not judging that, but HP should still definitely lose.
That Microsoft was intending to buy TikTok is no surprise. Borkzilla would buy a dead squirrel if it thought it could milk another billion out of it. But Oracle ?
There is no credibility there. Oracle and TikTok just don't go together. Borkzilla is already a worn-out patchwork of hodge-podge applications and tools, one more won't make a difference, but Oracle is just Oracle.
Does not compute.
I would like to think that that would be my attitude as well, but you never know until it happens.
And let's not forget that kidnapping your significant other, or child if you have one, can also be on the cards, with the threat of losing body parts if you don't comply.
It's rather hard to ignore that kind of threat.
Once upon a time, the KGB would have first gotten dirt on the prospect, or fabricated it if there was none to be had. Then there would have been a night out, but with girls, not friends, and the deal would have been proposed. Of course, the dirt would have been hinted at, then blatantly exposed if the prospect was not compliant. When the deal had been agreed on, the prospect, now very willing accomplice, would have remained under surveillance until completion of the mission.
Don't they watch The Americans any more ?
Pff. Amateurs.
Although it is an order of magnitude cheaper than during the Apollo launches, launching a kilo of mass into low earth orbit is still pegged at over $2700, which is not negligible.
There is another matter to consider, the volume available for launch. On the Falcon Heavy, Humanity's most capable launcher at this time, the available space to launch is 13.2 meters high and 5.2 meters in diameter. I'm sure boffins could fit a telescope in there - the Hubble space telescope is out there after all and it's smaller than that, although not by much.
So the problem is more along the line of we can launch another Hubble space telescope, but we can't launch anything bigger at this point in time.
Yes, in my country it is different. For one, candidates only have two weeks to campaign, time during which their speaking time is heavily regimented. Second, all candidates must submit a complete declaration of their personal possessions - trying a Trump will just get you excluded, billionaire or not. Third, in my country there is no second group of people who can override my vote. Finally, campaign expenditures are scrutinized under a microscope, and nobody spends billions on it.
So yeah, France is different. It's actually a democracy.
Oh, come now, we all know that this is inevitable. Amazon is just taking its rightful place in the government wheels. Place which will allow it to better serve the public, right ?
I mean, hey, multi-billion dollar corporations have been wining and dining lobbying government officials since their first billion, so why not get real and give them a seat at the decision table ?
It's not like there are any government officials who have the balls to send them packing anyway. They need those sweet retirement gigs.
Agreed. It is good to learn that the Scottish Wiki editor is not Scottish, but it is no use banging on his head for the problem. The real problem is that there are no Scottish people editing the Scottish wiki.
Get some real Scots on there and the problem will solve itself. And if no Scots can be bothered, then maybe it isn't a problem.
Yep, indeed : focused on alternatives that cost less, even if they're not as good.
Maybe this push by Adobe is going to incite other vendors to up their game a bit. Adobe has always had a near-monopoly with Photoshop, even forcing its clients to the Could didn't put a dent in its user base, although teeth were grinding loudly.
That's because there is no product that can compete with Adobe on features, Photoshop is just king of the hill.
And Adobe pushes that as far as it can (in the interest of its shareholders, of course).
"[Apple] insisted that local carriers foot the bill for advertising and fixing under-warranty iThings "
What nerve. If the iThings are under warranty, they are your responsibility, Apple, and no one else's. I am frankly appaled at the idea that the carriers didn't tell Cupertino to stuff it, accompanied by a vast ad campaign telling the public what Apple had demanded and why they had refused.
Public opinion can be useful. I doubt very much that South Koreans would have appreciated that Apple was trying to force someone else to bear the costs of Apple's warranty.
You have to be a boob to go and enable content just to read a Word document. Whatever is enabled is just links and code, the actual content of the document does not need enabling to read it. On top of that, whatever links may be embedded generally pertain to the author's network, and you haven't a snowball's chance in Hell of being able to access it. So the only thing you'd be enabling is code you don't know.
And this was a sysadmin <facepalm>.
I counted. I have reinstalled Win98SE a grand total of 312 times. And that, only on my computer. I have also reinstalled it dozens of times on other people's computers.
XP was truly an Operating System. It worked for weeks at a time (well, my memories are mostly about SP3, so there may be some bias there), had one or two orders of magnitude less BSODs, and was fun to use (ie it didn't get in the way of what you wanted to do). Of course, it had the godawful Registry, but that was its worst point.
Win 7/64 is, for me, the best MS OS. It'll be Mint after that.
It is true that there has recently been a tsunami of people abusing their power and status, and brazenly denying anything wrong even in the face of overwhelming proof (no, I'm not just thinking of the OHSG).
That being said, it is hardly new. ICANN has been trailblazing on that front for more than a decade now, and nothing appears to be stopping it. On the contrary, it has clearly spawned admirers (eh, Pai ?).
Central recording and retention of chats. Brilliant. That way, you get problems like this.
Why is it that humans, in general, absolutely want to treat every platform like a data store ? Chat has one use : to contact someone that has the answer to the problem you have NOW, get the answer and solve your problem. The chat window is only useful up to the moment you have that info. Once you're done implementing the info, you close the chat window and it is of no use to you any more.
If you absolutely want to keep that chat for reference purposes, every chat tool I have ever used allows you to save the thread, but once you close the window, the chat is gone.
And that's the way it should be.
"The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions has handed Accenture a £20m contract extension, without outside competition, to try to keep some seriously ageing applications and infrastructure running. "
Or does anyone else have an intense feeling of déjà vu when reading that first sentence ?
I started reading that and could almost finish it before I was halfway through. I have the feeling that I've already read that exact same sentence ten times this year.
Oh, DWP, you have a "long established procurement process" ? Yup, and we can all see how it works : you choose the vendor you're already working with and throw more money at it.
That article is one hell of a wet blanket on my fusion enthusiasm. If what he says is true, we're better off with thorium reactors.
So, if I understand correctly, now companies in India will check the COVID status of consultants that need to come in and do stuff the company needs and, if the result is not good, the consultant cannot come.
Which means the work won't be done, or at least, not by that guy.
It might look like a good idea on the surface, but the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Not sure of that. If we imagine a round-ish meteor punching a hole in the surface ice, the melt would clearly outline a circle and the interior would be noticeably smoother than the region around it.
Might take a bit of time to spot, but I think it would be quite visible once you've found it.
Isn't that a bit long for "advance notice of algorithm changes" ?
I perfectly agree with Australia's desire to see news outlets get their fair share - which Google has never worried about until now - and I totally support any effort that reigns in this out-of-control behemoth that does whatever it feels like and whines like a child when someone steps up to curb the rampant tracking and broken ad system, but this is the age of Internet and near-instantaneous worldwide communication.
28 days of notice is a perfectly administrative mindset defined by people who do nothing but talk all day long, then agree to meet tomorrow to talk some more. If we admit that an advance notification is useful and necessary, then we also have to admit that five working days is more than enough time to get the notification, read it, understand the impact and explain to the higher-ups.
Especially since Google is just notifying, there's no acceptance to be had. So basically Google could just make a web page listing the changes, send the notification and implement the changes. Why wait ?
Then the page could serve as an ongoing log of what changes Google made, and that would become historical reference at the same time.
Good enough.
It is hardly surprising that this Stame is a high-ranking manager, he's got the knack for not saying anything useful in more than enough words.
He also manages to contradict himself when he says that IT workers no longer define themselves by the product they're good at but by the skills they have, then goes on to say that they refer to themselves as AWS or Azure specialists.
He calls himself a strategist, but he has clearly been working more on the sales side of the business.
No wonder he can spout so much bull without thinking.
Exactly. The school did not choose to pay to not let the information out, the school chose the pay-and-pray-they'll-keep-their-word option.
You're dealing with criminals, their word is a good as their deed.
On the other hand, from a marketing point of view, it's bad for business if you hack someone, get the ransom and then let them hang. So I guess the hackers are kind of forced to keep their word because if hackers are known to screw you once you've paid, there would be zero incentive to pay, right ?
They do that on attack choppers all the time. The Apache had a forward gun controlled by where the pilot (or gunner - don't remember specifically which) was looking, not where the chopper was pointed.
But a helicopter doesn't go supersonic, and dogfight tradition is you point the plane. It was rather successful in both world wars.
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