Posts by Pascal Monett 19542 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
My thought exactly. There are at least 195 accounts too many that have that level of access.
They should start by pruning that.
Unless, of course, that level of access is not controlled by web firewalls and therefor upper management can continue surfing - uh - specific productivity websites, yeah, that's it.
Which, in turn, will have an impact on the maximum height of any multicellular organism out there.
I'm no boffin myself, but I have read many articles on how King Kong could not possibly exist because the mass ratio to bone thickness would mean his skeleton couldn't possibly keep him standing, and other articles to that effect.
So, I'm all for superhabitable and I get that it means there may be life there, not that we can live there, but a larger planet means smaller creatures. At 1.25 times the mass of Earth, any dinosaur out there would not be as tall as the Brontosaurus, I'd guess.
It's still installed because I have customers that still use it.
I haven't been required to launch it for over a year though, because the COVID confinement made them acquire and install other tools for VPN access and so forth, so I don't know how long it will stay in my application list.
Everything has rings at Borkzilla. They have been well thought-out and cleverly implemented, with iron-clad protocols and processes to respect, and yet they regularly blow up and spew stuff over every ring at the same time.
Windows Update had the same problem no too long ago, remember ? It was the Fast Ring update that spewed over every other ring and borked a whole slew of PCs.
It's a very good idea, really. Except it's Borkzilla, so Murphy's Law stands proud.
Icon for the ring, obviously.
"Users must fill out a copyright removal request form, and when doing so we remind them to consider exceptions to copyright law. Anyone who believes their reuse of a video or segment is protected by fair use can file a counter-notice.”
Oh, you remind them to consider exceptions to copyright law, but then you go and file a strike against the YouTuber anyway. So, in practice, you do bugger all to keep things fair because even if the YouTuber disputes the strike, that won't keep you from piling them on and, after three, he's down for the count.
Stop trying to make it look like you're being fair, YouTube, because you are clearly not.
Fair would be a DCMA claim is made, the target is notified, the target then chooses to file a counter claim or not. If not, then the strike is counted. If a counter-claim is filed, then YouTube (not a judge) analyzes the video and determines whether the copyright holder is justified in his claim. YouTube then notifies both parties of its decision, and if there still remains a dispute, everybody goes to court.
THAT would be fair.
It's not the tech that is racist, it's the idiots who built it who utterly failed to take into account that white people aren't the only people on the planet.
Given how long it's been since we've been reading about these issues, I find it utterly incomprehensible that the problem still exists. Hello ? Train your damn "AI" with pictures of brown people. Can't be that hard, now can it ?
Don't worry, Borkzilla. Anyone with a modicum of experience in your updates knows that you have to wait for the reports from the first raft of users live beta testers to give it a whirl before deciding to implement an update.
You certainly have a point, I do not deny that, but I feel the frustration of the OP.
I am also continuously frustrated with the unending abuse of a term that was created to mean something specific - a mind living in silicon - and not a mere statistical analysis machine.
I'm glad we have something to do a tedious job more quickly, that's great for Science, I suppose, but it is not AI and it never will be.
Right, that means that there is one guy swamped in work, but he was only given a laptop, he has no server to test on and his office is on the other side of the building from the toilets and the coffee machine.
On top of that, there are daily 90-minute meetings to discuss progress.
Yup, things are going swimmingly.
Borkzilla is finally gearing up to get everyone on board with a subscription. And with the perfect excuse : no more out-of-date mail servers !
Ain't life grand ? There are going to be some fat bonuses when Vnext comes out, and it'll be every year, too.
I am starting to think about getting some Borkzilla shares. It looks like they won't be going down any time soon.
"If the United States truly wants to get serious about restricting the global spread of authoritarian technology ..."
I'm sorry, where on Earth did you get that idea ?
In case you haven't noticed, the USA is getting more authoritarian by the day. The only thing the US Government wants to restrict is people's privacy, and also it wants to be the only country to invade that.
Well duh, that's pretty much the definition of whistleblower right there.
The fact that the US government is incapable of granting Snowden his whistleblower rights by law is a strong indication of just how little the NSA or the CIA care about law.
And after that you expect the NSA to stop its surveillance just because some judge decided it was illegal ?
Pah.
Linux is what makes the Internet work.
Linux is what makes Azure work.
I'm pretty sure AWS is not using Windows to work.
For fuck's sake, even Microsoft is not using Windows to run Azure. Hello ?
Hint : a successful troll is posting something that is at least remotely plausible.
Amen to that.
Given that a car is typically a hulking beast of metal and plastic that has no problem killing pedestrians or cyclists at a speed of several meters per second, I would expect a driverless car to be able to react to an obstacle in less than a millisecond and not depend on sending a data packet to some remote server somewhere and wait for the latency, the processing time and the latency of the response before getting the message "BREAAAAAKKK !".
Driverless has to mean better-than-human-reflexes. Having a central computer and depending on network coverage pretty much scuppers that from the start in my opinion.
That's news. Because of course, once you have fusion, spending the near limitless energy on creating hydrogen is a no-brainer.
But without fusion, your hydrogen is mainly created by coal plants, so you gain nothing.
Really people, get going on Thorium.
It's our only hope until fusion gets real.
"Developers," he said, "add more stuff, add more stuff, add more stuff..."
Indeed. Borkzilla has been doing that since the dawn of computing. Remember when they wanted to make RSS more rich-texty ? RSS works fine as it is, leave it alone.
Really, sometimes I think there's a PHB who just wants to be able to say that he headed a project.
A good program is a program that does what the user actually needs. When you get to that point, take a step back and beware any modifications. Bells and whistles may be nice to have, but if they impede the primary function, they are an impediment and should be dropped.
I totally agree with you. What is this madness ? You need a webserver to manage your mouse configs ?
Is this another case of a job being given to the summer intern who just finished a web development course ?
Get your ducks in a row and make a proper DLL in C++ to do job.
Oh, right, that means you're actually going to have to learn a proper programming language. Sorry.
No, you won't. Because I understand that cloud is complicated. The amount of data, the bandwidth requirements, along with the security requirements, I genuinely believe that the people who have imagined, planned, specced and built this are largely above-average in intelligence and competence.
But, as I have said before and will not stop saying, when a company's local server falls, it only bothers the company and its customers. When The Cloud (TM) falls over, it impacts millions of people and businesses.
It's okay though. We're still learning this computing thing. One day, we'll get the message : never build a single point of failure into your IT infrastructure.
I don't know how that will pan out, but that's what we've got to do.
On the contrary, there are many gas giants that have been found close to their star and tidally locked.
It's a wonder why our own Jupiter didn't end up there as well - except we have Saturn.
This astrophysicist thinks that is the reason.
The one thing I will take from this article is the existence of something that allows Steam Windows games to run on Linux.
A ray of sunshine at last.
Now I can go peacefully toward retirement, knowing that, when I get there, I will be able to game to my hearts' content without the clunker that is Windows to hold me back any more.
Happy days.
Yeah, right.
Games today and historically have always been the activity that taxes the hardware to the max. CPU, GPU and RAM are left choking and sometimes even the disk gets its share (e.g. badly programmed loading screens).
I cannot count the times I have upgraded my PC to the latest and greatest in CPU and video, only to buy a new game and find myself playing at a measly 45fps.
I think that the only other widespread personal activity that can bring a PC to its knees is video editing. I hardly do any of that, but when I do indulge, well, let me just say that I put my gaming on hold until it's done.
Excel doesn't hold a candle to that kind of activity.
That is a wise decision. Crypto exchanges are not banks and are not run by banking professionals. Anyone can set one up and, by the rich history of exchanges having been hacked, anybody does.
Even if I did want to give funny money a try, I would be at a loss to choose someone who is worth trusting because there aren't any. It would be like walking into a den of thieves and handing my money over to the guy who did not have an eye patch yet.
Citation please ?
When is the last time somebody digitally broke into a client account and siphoned off the money ?
That doesn't happen, pure and simple.
Oh, ATM's can get pilfered, for sure. And there's that one transfer that got cracked, indeed. But that was not access to client accounts, that was the hijacking of money in movement between banks and it happened because it was an inside job and the security was lacking.
I have never read that a true bank's customer's account got hacked, and I doubt very much that I ever will.
Are you kidding me ? He is unlikely to ever be put in a position where he has access to a computer again. And that serves him right.
An IT specialist has a duty of behavior. When we are given access rights, it is to help people do their jobs, not take personal benefit from it and certainly not to wreck company data.
A year and a day makes his sentence a felony crime, and that will go down on his record. Good.
He can spend the rest of his life flipping burgers.
Indeed. If I had heard that I would have replied that if my cookies allowed me to see other people's data, then the problem is a lot bigger than I would have thought.
"Hello, bank ? I have access to your CEO's account."
"Clear your cookies and call back."
"Really ? Well don't mind if I make a transfer first."
Ridiculous.
Indeed. Not only is this perfectly consensual, but the guy had shares. That is his property and he can do whatever he wants with them.
The first affair is the issue, and what I would like is an explanation on how Google waited until now to decide to not pay tens of millions to top execs under suspicion of sexual misconduct. I'm sorry, I'm just a lowly programmer, but if are suspected of sexual harassment or misconduct and there is an inquiry ongoing, if you decide to bail and I'm the CEO, you're on your own and I won't give you a single cent.
Bailing out like that is a clear sign of guilt. There is no reason to shower a guilty person with money.
To me, that sounds like it is a nightmare to configure, with an abundance of settings that have obscure names and incomprehensible consequences.
SAP is flexible too, you just need to pay a team of experts for ten years to (maybe) get it running like you need.
I live in France as well. As a general rule, since the beginning of all the hoopla I have found my compatriots to generally be of the obedient persuasion. When walking outside there are people who wear masks in the local cities. In my village, that is not the case, but social distancing is observed. People walking their dogs cross each other on the opposite side of the road. If they are acquainted, they stop and chat, but the road is between them.
In shops, everyone wears the mask.
This is a far cry from the reputation of the average Frenchman, who scorns authority and rebukes government directives. It is the Esprit Gaulois and we persuade ourselves that we are all little Asterix and the government and police are the Romans. We are convinced that any invader would leave after a while because "we are ungovernable".
Well I don't see any of that spirit in the streets these days. That said, I live in Moselle, a stone's throw from the German border. Maybe there's a bit of German discipline overflowing the border bit by bit, like an invisible fog.
