Posts by Pascal Monett 19436 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
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.
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>.
