Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
How does that work ?
Unless I missed something in science class, in space you need some form of propulsion to go faster. This quasar tsunami (as awesome as it is named) is just gas and particles hurtling across a galaxy and encountering other gas and particles.
Those are not conditions that are favorable to acceleration.
Please use official sources to report on this pandemic. WHO's situation report indicates 8778 deaths globally as of yesterday.
Let's not go rounding up for no reason, shall we ?
And porn. Never forget the porn. It's not just the lowest rungs of the ladder either - CxOs and manglement are quite capable of having an interesting browsing history as well.
That said, my sister's oldest used to be an expert in getting his mother's laptop into such a state that I had to go and purge the system. Curiously, when I pushed for him to have his own laptop, that stopped. What a coincidence, eh ?
But we have failed as a society. We are selfish, we raise our kids to be consumers, we elect blithering idiots who can't see farther than their next election, and we are ready to blame all the foreigners for everything we aren't doing right.
Yet, somehow, society endures.
Amazing, isn't it ?
I am relieved to see that there is at least one other person that considers framework churn to not be the bee's knees of development environments.
And, as for decisions, removing frameworks because of lack of popularity is the kind of thing that makes me wince. Popularity is more important than features and stability ? Everything seems to be a show these days. Unfortunately, sometimes it's a shit show.
I have two hosted servers and I need FTP to update the files and check the local versions. I am, obviously, using a dedicated FTP client to do that, but if everyone is throwing FTP to the dogs, I do hope someone is going to think of a solution because managing my hosted files via a browser would be, I believe, a pain in the neck.
I rather like LDS's idea of an FTPS. Is there a good reason not to do that ?
Um, just a question to the FBI : can't you fucking get a handle on these guys if they have an actual PR channel ?
Maybe you should go ask help from someone capable, like Jim Browning ?
I've been upgrading my graphics card since - (checks records) - 1992. Yes, I've read up on interpolation, yes I know what NURBS are and can tell that I want a card to do that. But know how it works ?
Sorry, bud, I'm a gamer, not a mathematician. I check the specs and choose my card because I've been told what to look for. I have a vague idea of how stuff works because I read about it. I absolutely cannot fathom the math behind it and, being a gamer, I don't have the time. Those games aren't going to play themselves, you know.
Now, if only I could get a version of Minecraft that used Toy Story graphics. That would be awesome.
And I have to admit that, one, I like their approach to my security and, two, I like the Librem 15 laptop a lot. Its aspect, the fact that ruggedness and reliability is repeatedly mentioned, and the specs are nothing to sneeze at either. The $1400 price tag is surprisingly acceptable for the quality and specs that are put forth, at least in my opinion. I was expecting a larger price tag then that.
Unfortunately, I have no use for PureOS at this point in time. Still stuck with Windows until I retire. I hope they'll still be around by then.
Peng is not the guy compromising the security of the USA, he's just the courier.
The guy doing the compromising is, apparently, Ed. He's the guy the FBI should find.
Of course, Peng is part of an espionage ring and guilty, no doubt there, but I think the wording is wrong. Peng participated in compromising US security, but he did not do so directly himself.
If they work, that is. I find it extremely unlikely that a phone app can do any medical diagnosis whatsoever. With the exception of a bad-quality heartbeat monitor (the microphone that you can put against your chest), the typical mobile phone has no monitoring hardware for temperature, blood pressure or anything.
And if you're just asking questions to the user, then you run into the issues of response reliability. Not to mention understanding the question appropriately.
In short, I'm skeptical.
Yes , the app will know where you are, but I think the HK government is honestly not interested in knowing that. Apparently, the app does not upload that information, it just keeps it internally to compare with the new location. I guess it squawks to the government when it has nailed a new location, telling that the location has changed but not giving away the new location.
At least, I hope that that's how it works.
I wonder if anybody at NASA made a comparative cost evaluation of how much it would be for NASA to upgrade its DAACs to meet the 240+ PB storage mark vs properly costing AWS to get the job done.
With the download costs added to the mix, I really wonder if it wouldn't be better to go and upgrade the DAACs.
I'm sorry, Apple is touting a laptop for video editing and the basic version only has 128GB of storage ?
If you're editing video, you know full well that a terabyte these days is not too much. Yet, the terabyte version is the priciest.
That's like Renault selling you a Twingo named Ferrari. It's cheating, pure and simple.
Way to demonstrate just how fake the whole thing was. You prepared all the marketing material beforehand, so you could make a point about how "progressive" you are.
Unfortunately, you just underscored how fake all that progressiveness is.
The better way would have been to hold the fiesta, take pictures of actual participants, and post a news blog after. Of course, that does not allow you to run ahead of the news. It does, however, prevent you from smacking your face into the wall of shame, like you did.
. . is that it is time to stop trusting small startups with your private data.
Yeah, I know, that is going to put a crimp on startups that propose money. In the meantime, we need a certification that proves that the startup knows what security is and knows how to manage cloud accounts.
I know, I'm dreaming. Just don't trust financial startups that don't have a banking charter.
Let's not exaggerate, we are not forbidden to leave our homes, we are just asked to restrain from doing things that we do not have to do.
The form just states the reasons that will not get us fined, reasons which include going to and from work, shopping for the bare necessities, health requirements, important family requirements, and short, close-proximity movement that are not in groups.
This afternoon, I need to go and get my daughter at the train station. I will fill out my form, indicate that it is an important family requirement, and that's it. I foresee no problem with that, nor am I being restricted in my movements beyond the reasonable, given the current situation.
This is not worth a revolution. It's a global health requirement.
All the signs were there : my President gravely announcing that we were at war, that civic responsibility was paramount, that all means would be brought to bear. Yup, digital surveillance. I guess that now, Facebook and Google have a new category of customers to sell their data to : governments.
I wonder just one thing : how can Twitter posts, Facebook walls and Google location data pinpoint a COVID-19 carrier ? It's not like our keyboards have medical sensors. I think we'd know about that.
In any case, this is the greatest excuse ever to implement worldwide government surveillance. Nobody is going to complain, and when the crisis is over, surveillance will obviously stay in place "to be ready for the next crisis".
It's our civic duty, citizens.
Obvious icon is obvious.
The comments here alone demonstrate that BT is overly exaggerating once again. WFi extenders have existed since the Internet came into our homes. BT is far from being the only company creating such equipment.
On the other hand, it seems that BT doesn't have the requisite experience to make a good product, unlike many other vendors who've gotten the tech down pat since last millennium.
Who'd've thought ? Oh, everybody. I see.
I think it's a bit premature to announce that, Microsoft. You have no idea how game developers can bog down a top-of-the-line system with the latest titles.
There's a simple rule of thumb actually : a new game will require 180% of the resources your high-power gear has. It's only three years later that that year's high-level gear will be able to run said game properly.
Also, sometimes loading time can actually be used intelligently and be a valid part of the gaming experience.
That's already what they are. There's just a little hardware chippery added to make sure you can't just plonk Windows in it and use it as a PC.
I'm pretty sure the components are mainly off-the-shelf stuff. It's probably just the motherboard and BIOS that are a bit special, in order to enable the OS restriction and prevent tampering.
Yes. Absolutely that. You can only file a complaint over a patent that you use to create a product.
I said it before and I'll say it again : patents that are not used should be invalidated automatically by the Court. No need to do an expensive and extensive review of existing patents, just wait for the trolls to show up in Court, ask them what they're making with their patents, and if there's nothing, boom, case thrown out, trolls fined for contempt, lawyer trolls disbarred and everyone has a good laugh.
That would eliminate patent trolls overnight.
You forgot one little detail : those assholes who you want to accuse of Murder One are rich. They set up a company, snaffled the patents and started litigation in the same week. They have money, and in the US, that is a great shield against your bounty hunters.
They have no need to leave the country, they already have lawyers.
"less well-off Filipinos don’t come into contact with those who travel"
Wow. I know I have zero chance of passing a billionaire in the street, but there's a lot of millionaires and I have to have stepped next to one at some point in my life. I sometimes wonder if I'm not living next to one.
That's one serious level of social segregation over there.
As far as staff is concerned, I am confident that five minutes of discussion between the seasoned nurse and the new intern is likely to alleviate the issue. Once the machine is in place and working, I would think the flurry of activity is over. At that point, the nurse can leave immediate surveillance to the intern and go set up someone else.
The real issue is being overwhelmed. Right now, in France, we are consigned to our homes and should not go out unless we have a very good reason. That might seem a bit excessive, but when I look at WHO's SitRep from yesterday and check the graph, I can see that Europe in general is now replacing China as reservoir for the virus.
So yes, now is the time to keep everyone at home because now is when the virus is poised to do the maximum amount of damage and spread its influence to the point where our hospitals will be overwhelmed.
The response is European-wide, some countries like Austria have actually locked their borders down. It's the only way if we don't want to count our dead by the tens, if not hundreds, of thousands.
It's not the common cold. It's much worse than that.
I've had to deal with IBM as a partner for five years, from 2012 to 2017, and I had no trouble recognizing the IBM Way of presenting information - meaning in the least useful and intuitive way possible. The choices made are inconsistent and basically tailor-made to drive you mad. Of course, I was dealing with their Partner Portal, something I still have to do from time to time.
I see that IBM has remained steadfast in dealing with the future with the same incomprehensible approach it always has had. Well, that's $30+ billion for RedHat down the drain. I do not know if IBM will ever, ever realize what usability is, but it sure has a way of putting new acquisitions into the cookie mold to ensure that all newcomers come out formatted to the IBM model - the one that made them successful from the 30s to the 90s. Shame that they stayed in the last millennium.
But a criminal by night, with an oversized ego which got in the way of his thinking clearly.
It is rather obvious that, if you are partaking in criminal activity, you do not go to the police in order to avenge yourself of a (perceived) slight - at least, you don't put your own name in the fray.
I'm sure he was generally smart, but he blew a fuse on that last move. Serves him right anyway, criminal scum that he is. He stole from hundreds, if not thousands, of people - people who likely could ill afford his activities. I hope he is made to repay every cent to the people he stole from.
I find it horrifyingly fascinating to observe people choose the least stable platform and the guarantee of having to change and upgrade everything every three years as the platform to use for banking applications - you know, the kind of thing that needs to work every second of every day, Monday to Sunday, without fail and without being hacked.
Way to go to ensure chaos and customer dissatisfaction. Was there absolutely no other choice that can be upgraded without a complete refactoring every thousand days ?
That's because waterfall requires that you know what you're doing and how to do it. Here, you didn't have a clue, you were making it up as you go, so yes, agile was the solution.
Agile is not always the solution and, as we see here, neither is waterfall. As for a hybrid approach, I don't see what the problem is if that gets the project done.
A good project manager will choose the tool best suited to the job.
I heard yesterday that that little enterprise had been shut down. Frankly, I think he should be put in jail for that. You have no right to claim something is a medical cure when it is verifiably not. Medical quackery should be a federal crime, especially and more so if it puts people's lives in danger.
Now that they are collectively demonstrating that they can indeed curate their content, they will have a lot of trouble avoiding being taken to task on other issues.
So we are going to be faced with the next problem : who decides what should be curated ?
Oh and, side remark, I've got the feeling that there will be no outcry from the rabid defenders of Free Speech in this case. How curious.
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