Posts by Pascal Monett 19502 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
They shouldn't.
The Republican Party should be dismantled for treason and all of its political members thrown in jail for for life.
Of course, that won't happen.
But don't think that the OHSG won't have problems presenting himself in 2024. Don't forget that there is a tsunami of lawsuits coming his way, and some of them have the potential to bar him from ever holding office again.
I'm stocking up on the popcorn as we speak . . .
One, Apple did indeed do a dirty by disallowing that app but allowing a very similar app from a group of hospital employees.
Hospital employees are generally not programmers. I would have more trust in an app made by actual programmers. In this case, of course, said programmers would have had to have some oversight in privacy protection measures and maybe medical counsel as well. I did not see that that was specified.
Two, a claim filed by an apparently non-existing "company" who does not identify a single person in the company, doe snot come forward with the list of its employees, partners or collaborators who worked on the app, and can apparently only be reached by calling the CEO of another company is not exactly a brilliant confidence generator.
So, as much as I'd like to harp on Apple for once again changing the rules after the fact to suit itself, the shady side of the complainant makes me side with Apple.
If you're honest, you're not supposed to hide stuff when filing a complaint in court.
Bullshit.
The Founding Fathers expected the loser to become Vice President and serve his country as a gentleman.
Learn the history of your own fucking country before spouting such ignorance.
No dice.
Every time I upgraded my graphics card - and with XP that was yearly, I had to re-authenticate with a call to Redmond HQ.
I would have thought that a graphics card was not that important in the grand scheme of things - I'm not changing the motherboard, but obviously Borkzilla did not agree.
So, in an Azure AD environment, you have the cloud AD and the on-prem AD, which both have logs, but there are some instances where you login in the Cloud and it is not recorded in the same log than in the on-prem log, and the Unified thingy does not carry the info either, so it's not all that Unified.
Great. Feels like that makes security controls real easy to handle.
Still doesn't let SolarWinds123 off the hook, though.
I think Google is going to find out that they very much need extensions, for example, via a drop in the market share of Chrome in favor of browsers that do accept extensions.
Security for Google is like terrorists for the NSA - just a convenient excuse to increase their own power.
It is beginning to seem obvious that if you are an important company with Internet access these days, you need to have an IDS.
It took three months for AnyVan to discover that they'd been hacked into. To me, that clearly indicates that they had no IDS and weren't monitoring their network activity properly.
I guess they should be thinking about that now.
Oh, and no "we take the security of your data very seriously" ? You're not playing by the rules, AnyVan !
"There are technical reasons relating to the bespoke and complex nature of the solution which would lead to substantial duplication of costs and unacceptable technical risks which would not allow for the service to be transferred to another supplier "
As the saying goes : when you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will soon follow. So it has happened here.
That said, I'm in a bit of a bind here ; as much as I'd like to make a scathing remark on how BT is screwing its customer, this is a telecomms project. I do not know that there are any Open Source telecomms infrastructures available, so I guess that BT or anyone else would have landed the NLPS in pretty much the same boat.
Is there any other provider available in Northern Ireland ?
I really appreaciated your article and I think you did a great job of outlining the situation Intel is in and the person Gelsinger is (and I envy you for having met him more than once).
I hope Intel is going to pull through for the same reason I'm glad AMD is having a moment in the sun : we need competition. We need people who can think of new ways to improve performance, reduce power consumption and generally make computing an even better experience.
So I'm looking forward to what Gelsinger is going to cook up.
I would have to say that I would have told the guy to do his job and keep me out of it.
I would also have found it quite suspicious to come to me and specify that "it didn't have to wait until 3, you can do it early".
Nope, no way. You're not going to weasel way yourself into an excuse for blaming me.
Of course, I say that with the benefit of 25 years in the industry. I've seen enough office backstabbing happen around me, and sometimes to me, to not have a sixth sense about it.
Oooh, burn. So, what extensions does Chrome have that manages ad blocking ?
Let me see : uBlock Origin is not available, searching for "ad blocker" returns No Result Found, no, you only have Easy Ad Blocker which, curiously, finds that it has to override my searh settings to "eaburl.com".
I don't think so.
"The hardware it makes does go into the backbone of a critical resource, and if someone could disrupt, intercept, or disable that resource, there would be big problems. "
I'm sorry, are you talking about Cisco ?
Or maybe Netgear ? No, not Netgear - they disrupt themselves already, no need to meddle.
The fact of the matter is that there is no argument against Huawei that could not be made against any other provider as far as security is concerned.
And don't get me started on the "secret backdoor" or "modified mainboards" bullshit that is clearly a lie, plain and simple.
If there had been any shred of proof, do you really think Washington wouldn't have it plastered all over the Web and on billboards along the highway ?
It's a lie, fabricated to support a desperate effort to curb Huawei and give a chance to US companies in the 5G arena - chance they do not really deserve if the market is supposed to determine things.
But the US has form in fabricating lies to further its own goals (WMDs in Irak, anyone ?).
Folks will always complain, that's a fact.
But complaining would be a lot more difficult if the fee was 15%. I personally feel that 10% should be largely enough for a Store that resells the same string of bytes indefinitely without having had to do any work to create said bytes.
Comparing to a brick-and-mortar store is not realistic. Those stores generally need to stock items before they can sell them. They need employees who are alert for shoplifters in addition to serving customers. The cost of running any store is higher than the cost of having a server that sells the same app again and again and again on demand, 24/7 and without any shoplifters.
So it seems that someone has finally levelled the playing field on quantum computing. It's a lab rat for the moment, and when we do get that, you won't run a browser on it. That clearly indicates that we are not going to shift from PC to QC at all. QC will be in addition to the PC. That sounds like the ideal slot for a coprocessor to me. One fine day, Intel will reveal the i21000Q, a 64-core CPU with an integrated 200-qbit coprocessor, all engraved at 0.2 nanometers.
Then we will finally be able to run Crysis.
Edge, then. Edge computing, of course, not that thing you use to download Chrome. So Edge computing is going to go horizontal ? I'm guessing blackhats everywhere are already salivating at the prospect. A powerful CPU and lotsa RAM at their disposal for botnets and whatnot ? They're going to be overjoyed at the news.
Might want to think about security on those things before you start relying on them.
A car's entertainment system failure can be a menace for the actual primary function of a car which is passenger safety.
How many times have I already said that the entertainment bus should be physically isolated from the car's command bus ?
I don't remember. I can't count.
In any case, well done Mr Musk. You might be a billionaire, but you still fail Basic Security 101 - all in the name of saving a few bucks.
Well I hope you're happy with your savings now.
I now have almost a year's experience in "video conferences".
Watching the bland faces of uninteresting people for 20 to 45 minutes at a time while they strive to say something relevant is, in the end, a very painful experience.
It's not surprising that video phones didn't catch on. Everybody hates them.
All we really need is audio. The rest is just selling a solution to a problem that does not exist.
And for the few of you who really do need to see who you're talking to, I'm sure your private jets can get you there without any problem.
Oh gosh. What a shame you didn't put your money in a bank. You know, that government-backed, legally-defended infrastructure that would have guaranteed your money ?
Sticking it to The Man comes with risks. You failed. You lose.
As an interesting side note, I wonder what the BitCoin ledger does with lost bits of coin.
Which sounds to me just like most forks of existing projects on GitHub.
There are a lot of people who have an idea and are willing to try to start a project.
There are a lot less people who are willing and capable of bringing that project to term, not to speak of maintaining it in the long run.
The fact that a new OS might have trouble rubbing shoulders with the entrenched versions is not an excuse. When Torvalds unleashed Linux on the world, he had no idea he was the guy who was going to allow the Internet to function, most IoT crap to exist and be the father of dozens of similar distros.
He just did it, and thank God he did.
You make a new OS that actually works and does what is says on the tin, and you make something that will find its way organically into the IT infrastructure of the world.
Take the market into account and you might as well not start.
Sorry, you made the platform available and did nothing to prevent people from mouthing off in any way they wanted.
Besides, your whole post is useless because the only way to promote a healthy conversation is put a stop to the unhealthy ones, and that would make you a moderator and that would make you responsible for what was posted - and that is the last thing you want.
So go ahead and cry your crocodile tears, I'm not impressed by them.
Sorry, katrinab, but comparing Coronavirus to a bunch of confederate-loving hostage-taking-planners with Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs strikes me as a bit exaggerated.
How's about you express your figures in the number of people killed in car accidents ? Do you really think that's going to make me scared of cars ?
Nope.
But a bunch of violent, bloodthirsty hillbillies with SWAT-level weaponry ? Yeah, I'd be scared of that.
A careful whitewashing of an actual terrorist assault on the basis that one side lost unfairly (demonstrably false), coupled with whining about Freedom of Expression (not the problem) and incessantly repeated falsehoods (we actually won) in order to ensure that the absolute fucking morons stay alert, primed and ready to start this shit all over again.
My message to the USA : you need to take 10% of your military budget and put it into educating your huddled masses, because they have become a danger to your Democracy. Try pushing courses on critical thinking (yeah, I know, as if that'll ever happen).
So you're going to mount a terrorist assault on Salesforce HQ ?
Because Democracy seems to not be your way of thinking, and anyone who even pretends to find an excuse for this shameful demonstration of just how much the GOP pisses on the Constitution is just another terrorist.
"This suggests that AI models may be more sensitive to image quality issues than human beings. "
No kidding. A computer that just might be totally incapable of not taking an image input otherwise than pixel by pixel. What a surprise when said pixels have an inordinate amount of impact on the algorithm's interpretation.
Computers do not see. They take the data they are given. Give them flawed data and the result will be wrong.
If there are so many parameters to take into account to do retina diagnostics, then maybe the tool isn't fit for the job.
I don't think so. The pandemic has just given them a booster shot.
Then again, that depends on the definition of a PC. I'm old school ; to me, a PC is a large box - not too noisy - connected to two very large screens, with a keyboard and wireless mouse on a desk, along with a comfortable chair to sit in and enjoy the power. A PC is the most powerful computer there is, because it has the best heat evacuation ability, so its components can be ramped up.
Yet, the article cites Lenovo. AFAIK, Lenovo makes laptops, not PCs. Okay, the laptop is the modern computer, so in that respect, yes, PCs are here to stay - but nobody has ever said the contrary. Laptops are indeed here to stay, and some models desperately try to replicate the power of an actual PC.
Wouldn't want one of those on my lap, though.
So yes, laptops are the future of computing for Joe Public. True PCs, however, will remain the future of those who need the power that a tower can provide and do not need the mobility that a laptop ensures.
And if you need more than two screens, there is no laptop that can suit you.
