Posts by Pascal Monett 19002 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I hate it when a company doesn't come clean on what actually happens. It always makes me suspicious about what shenanigans are still going wrong.
This attitude of not disclosing the full truth even after it has become known is despicable and, for me, means that there are many more issues that are just waiting to surface so Switchzilla is keeping its PR to the minimum in a "trust in me" hushed voice (think the serpent in The Jungle Book).
I'm sure France and Germany would love to be part of that club.
On the other hand, I'm also convinced that the USA and the UK would constantly disagree with German suggestions - if this new club is going to be managed the way I think it is : a front for pretending to do something about the Wild West that is the global Internet.
In any case, I hope they have thought of a procedure for adding members. They're going to need one.
Absolutely correct. And I would wish to add that, if Apple demands that employees clock out before searches, then legally those employees have every right to walk away because they are no longer under Apple control.
You can't have your cake and eat it. If you let your employees clock out, they are gone and you have no right to keep them there for anything.
It's far worse than that.
"The project failure left the SPPA "unable to progress strategic, business and workforce plans as originally intended" and it therefore required an additional revenue budget of £9.8m between 2019/20 and 2022/23, as well as capital allocations of £13.6m "
So it's 6.3 + 2.4 + 9.8 + 13.6 for a grand total of £32.1 million. And Capital paid back £0.7m.
So yeah, get project, fail to deliver, profit from not having to pay back more than a tenth of what it got and impose four times the amount in cost to the organization that was foolish enough to trust it.
One of these days, the British Isles are going to get the message. One of these days.
Any time now, just you wait and see.
"organizations 'make a lot of compromises' "
Oh do they now ? Funny, five years ago going into The Cloud (TM) was accompanied by a chorus of angels playing their harps and chanting "bonus, bonus, 100% uptime and no hassle anymore, bonus".
At least, that's how the marketing played it out.
Now, when The Cloud (TM) is firmly entrenched, we discover that no, it is not easy to manage, yes, it is easy to lose customer data and have data breaches and no, your costs are your problem and, if you don't pay attention all the time, those costs will go up.
In other words, you have to have a Cloud Admin who is overseeing all the company activity and reacting accordingly.
The only difference with a SysAdmin is that a SysAdmin had direct control, knew what was happening where and had the means to shut things down if it came to that.
So we've basically replaced SysAdmins who were in control by CloudAdmins who have to continually check to see if they are in control.
Yay progress.
So that's 1.5 followed by 27 zeros which means 1.5 billion billion billion of these particles (why didn't they say molecules ? Is the word not hip any more ?).
And all of that is just the oxygen that our Moon is recovering from being, once a month, in our magnetosphere.
Which means that during the rest of the month, those particles are just streaming off into deep space. This is a world crisis ! Our precious oxygen is venting into space ! Forget the border wall, we need a Space Wall ! It's time to panic !!!!
Now I get it. Somehow this bottom-feeder with large amounts of cash saw fit to weasel his way into the Board and is now calling the shots as if he was running a capitalist enterprise.
How did his nomination get approved ? And by who ?
They have some explaining to do.
It's not just the PlaySkool interface, it's the ads for "apps", the principle of pushing you to the Store and just the overall feeling that MY computer no longer belongs to me.
But, since I am an avid gamer, and since that card really calls to me, it seems that I will fall to the Dark Side before long.
<sigh>
Citation please ?
I do seem to remember that UK Gov specifically refused to use the Google/Apple solution on the basis that it used a decentralized approach, whereas UK Gov, obviously, wanted a centralized approach.
Please point me to the web page that says I'm wrong.
It is not being proposed as such.
It's a package deal. You distance socially, you wear a mask, and if you still get infected (as you likely will at some point), contact tracing is used to ensure that you don't spread it.
This is not a multiple choice area, you use all of it or you don't get the best results.
The countries that have had the least COVID-19 impact are all countries that have implemented confinement, testing and tracing to the fullest extent.
It's not rocket science. The procedures are well known. It just requires political will.
And that's where the cookie crumbles.
As far as being aware of what you're watching, I completely agree that the questions you ask are good questions and worth it to ensure that you're not being had by a staged video. However, it is obvious that Borkzilla's Video Authenticator will not detect those videos, because they are, technically, real. Only human analysis can detect the fakeness there.
But I disagree when you state that racists militia is crossing state borders on purpose because Trump can pardon them. That Trump will still be there to pardon them when their case comes to court is not guaranteed. On the other hand, they're obviously stupid enough to go and kill people just because they are not of the same color, so maybe they can't actually think that far ahead.
Ugh. The United States is now officially a shithole country.
It's always fun to see a Lorem ipsum in an article anywhere. Any web developer will understand.
As for controlling ads, I will never rely on Chrome. Good on the article author to mention Brave. I installed that on my Android A3 and have never used anything else since. So good on the page loading, so nice on the bandwidth.
Go Brave !
Growth is a Wall Street mandate. If you do not grow, you stagnate and die. That is the Capitalist bible.
That is also why marketing people are always changing company. They go into a new company with a target they can meet, work to attain and exceed it to get valuable bonuses, then are saddled with a bigger target year after year.
Inevitably, there comes a point when they can't meet the target. Then they change company and the cycle starts over.
On this subject, I will never forgive my French teacher for having mislead me about how wonderful a living language is when I finally understood that a living language is basically defined by people who can't speak it properly.
Latin is dead language, therefor whatever bastardization happened is over and its form is now pure.
French (and English and many others) is, on the other hand, under continuous assault by the ignorant who cannot conjugate properly, who insist on saying "je vais au coiffeur" instead of "je vais chez le coiffeur", etc.
And I love the poster who said that English followed other languages into a dark alley to beat them senseless and steal vocabulary. I've been reading English novels for over 30 years now, and I'm rather shocked by the amount of French terms that I find in today's English novels that are employed in exactly the same sense.
It's bewildering.
Oh I so agree with you.
I am incensed every time I search for a solution to technical issue only to find that some mumbling idiot posted a YouTube video that lasts 10 to 25 minutes, where half of it is him mumbling "um", "eh", "you know" and other completely useless drivel, and about 1 minute actually contains the solution I'm looking for, which would have taken only about 5 minutes to write and 30 seconds to read.
If you want to post a video, at least have the decency to prepare what you're going to say in as efficient a manner possible. Don't just wing it, you're not that good.
Look, I don't like vulgarity very much. I prefer Beethoven, Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky, personally.
But nudity ? I have no problem with that, I must admit, especially when it's a beautiful woman. So sue me.
That said, nudity everywhere is not something I appreciate either, but on the Internet, I have the choice of not clicking on it. So I'm responsible if I see nudity. That doesn't happen when I'm watching TV and suddenly a shampoo commercial (or car commercial) is spewed onto my screen with an alluring young woman. I don't have the choice, there, I have to submit, and most of the time, I couldn't care less.
It's always the same problem : the Internet is global, so the concerns are global. It doesn't matter if we consider an attitude to be backwards and puritan, Pakistan has the right to be backwards and puritan in its own space. The issue at hand is how that space translates into the global Internet.
It's going to be a while before we, as a species, get a handle on this issue.
I will root for anyone who goes after cybercrime. Frankly, as far as the law is concerned the Internet is the Wild West, anything goes.
And that goes for multinational behemoths as well, who impose their views in the structures that are supposed to manage how we access and use the Internet.
I really would like a proper legal structure imposed everywhere that protects privacy and enforces fairness, but that is a pipe dream.
However, making the USA respect international treaties and extradition requests is not a pipe dream. It's just unfeasible at this point in time.
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.
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