Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I'm guessing that they used cloud compute - it's not specified clearly int he article (or I missed where it was). If compute intensity is that high, wouldn't it be better to buy the equipment and use that ? If you have tens of millions in cost of execution, surely it cannot be worse to buy your own and then just pay the electricity ?
Their only quality is that they semi-prevent the drawer from being opened when it is "locked".
A while ago I was consulting in a company that worked with vast open space offices. We're talking a hundred people in the same room, working on a hundred desks. I was obviously told, on my first day, that the desk had to be clean every evening - papers (and valuables) were to be put in the drawers.
I settled in and my neighbor wasted no time in getting me up to speed on the clean desk policy. It would seem that it was common knowledge that there were only three different lock types, meaning the key on my drawer could open at least a third of all desks present. On top of that, he showed me a trick to get the top drawer open : some desks didn't have the desktop strongly fitted to the drawer section, and if you could lift it just a few millimeters, you could just slide the top drawer open like that.
I dutifully put my papers in the desk, but my personal belongings stayed with me for the duration of that contract.
Because we are going to ram this baby down your throat whether you like it or not. And that is why we activated this ability before giving you the possibility of locking it down.
Possibility which will unfortunately have a hiccup in a future patch Tuesday, unlocking user access once again and taking into account ever user who asked and was blocked by the setting that will unfortunately be reset.
Because we can.
It's a tower, and if you open it up I'd wager you'll find a microATX motherboard, a regular AMD video card and the usual components connected to said motherboard.
The one thing that may change is the way the OS is configured, locking you down to the Microsoft Store and only giving you the gaming options.
I wonder if you could install Linux on it. I also wonder why you would want to.
"Both highways should not be exposed if the environment has been set up according to the recommended system configuration in the Siemens SPPA-T3000 security manual."
Given how often certified electricians can apparently get it wrong when wiring potentially deadly electrical outlets, I'm not sure that Siemens' recommendations are followed as much as we would all like them to be.
I would be grateful for a rebuttal on that.
We changed house at the end of 2017. The previous owner of our new house was - apparently - an engineer, and had a (very) high opinion of himself. He even bragged about having done all the electrical stuff himself. When we moved in, we discovered a few quirks that we had not noticed before, notably a slight buzzing sound in the ceiling of the entry hallway. We didn't make much of it at the time, it wasn't loud enough to be annoying.
Some time in 2018 we discovered that the electric heaters in one room were defective and needed replacing (not something you notice when visiting in the summer). So we shopped around for replacements and found something to our liking, which we got installed in August. When the installer came, he asked to look at the electrical cabinet. I showed it to him and, on opening the panel, I saw his expression change. He looked at me and said "Sir, I cannot install your heaters with this mess. I'm going to have to redo your panel entirely."
He explained carefully and clearly why the existing installation was not only defective and obsolete, but could very well be source of serious trouble (ie a fire). I obviously gave him permission to do everything he thought necessary.
Once everything was cleared up and the heaters installed, the buzzing had disappeared in the entry hallway.
It would appear that the previous owner was less competent than he thought.
So it smells of hobo piss there as well ?
In 2016, for my daughter's 20th, we went to the USA to show her the places her daddy grew up and around. Of course, passing by Los Angeles, we toured Hollywood Boulevard.
It stinks of piss. Every tree is "watered" all night long, and in the morning there are repeated heaps of snoring blankets every few yards. It's sad.
If San Francisco is going the same way, I'm not surprised Oracle is pulling out. As shitty as Oracle is, that is competition it cannot hold up against.
Of all the stupid things to include, that takes the cake alongside integrated GPS.
Just put a cradle on the handlebar to hold the phone the user already has that has GPS in it already. Add wireless charging to it since you're selling to the hipsters.
As far as locking, a nice, solid, physical lock is the only solution.
If it was catastrophic, it must have changed Phaethon's orbit, right ? I'm thinking impact.
If Phaethon had an impact with something where the Geminid cloud is, then I would think that it does not go through that area now. Is that the case ?
Because if Phaethon is still going through that area now, then whatever happened was not catastrophic enough to change its orbit. Then what ?
Two large companies merge, two different ERP systems exist. There can be only one.
Right there is millions, if not tens of millions, of investment thrown out the window. Plus millions more making the side whose ERP is not kept adapt to the new system. With the inevitable remarks of "hey, we can't do [thing] anymore, how dumb is that ?".
Plus a few more million adapting the remaining ERP to the new company configuration.
All that for a group that is on the decline. Was merging such a good idea, or is it just better to fail together instead of alone ?
It seems astonishing that companies these days still act like the Internet is 1995, then get all surprised when it becomes clear that, no, the Internet is full of assholes and if you want to have customers, you need to implement the means to deal with said assholes.
It's not news, people. Wake up.
Take an off-the-shelf solution and you're going to customize it. Sorry, no company is going to change its structure to fit a program, whatever the promises are.
Make your own ERP and you foot the entire bill all the way, plus whatever changes need to be made to fit the changes of the company. And you have no support from anyone, you have to make do with the resources you have in-house. Good for whoever is in charge of the programming, not so good for the company in the long run.
I can't see that there's a good choice there. Maybe it's better to go with individual products that do one thing well, and arrange for software to tie them loosely together. Might seem clunky, but it is modular so easier and cheaper to deal with. Maybe.
Bold words. Especially when, just a few paragraphs later, it is said that no, Azure does not turn off hyperthreading. You can talk mitigations 'till the pigeons come home to roost, you're putting your clients at risk.
That being said, and my having already stated that I cannot, for the life of me, turn off hyperthreading, I'm wondering just exactly how much of a risk it really is. Is an Azure server always a Windows platform ? If it is Linux, that's already a lot of malware that is ineffective. Is there an actual exploit in the wild, being used at this time ?
I'm not saying that the side-channel attack is a figment of imagination, I'm just wondering how easy it is to actually implement and get data out of from a hacker's point of view.
With all that has been said about virtual currencies, how is it possible that people are gullible enough to fork over real money in order to "invest" in funny money.
If you're dealing in nonsense money, you do not sell shares, you give a mining program and tell people to download it and run it. That is the only form of investment that is required.
Anything else and you should just call the cops and keep 'em talking.
I don't think it was a basic error. It seems that it was an honest mistake made by misinterpreting what a given data variation meant.
Personally, I've already a hard time understanding what exactly the error is, so I find it understandable that the initial authors made the mistake.
What kind of heat are we talking about, the heat at the center of a red giant where palladium is formed ?
Because what palladium we have mined and refined around here has been smelted, if I'm not mistaken, so it can easily hold up under several hundred degrees of heat at least.
If palladium can be destroyed by the heat of where it is created, how can there be any that exist out here ?
I'm confused now.
Ok, fine, you'd need to know how to use Wireshark, which is probably not on the list of abilities of every thief in the area, but still, this is just one more thing to add to the ever-growing list of things IoT has promised and not kept in Real Life (TM).
A bog-standard lock may not be the right solution to protect a front door, but a good, 5-point security lock is.
And you don't need to worry about the state of the batteries.
That is an impressive list of the things that are going wrong in this particular instance.
It is also a damning indictment of ICANN's attitude towards respecting its own rules. Transparency is a cornerstone of ICANN ? Really ? It may have been at one point, but if it's still there it's buried under a mountain of hypocrisy.
ICANN, bah !
Which I will copiously ignore, since Microsoft has a proven track record of bungling everything it does aside from Office, and letting everything else go to rot.
Honestly, why anyone buys into the Microsoft "ecosphere" is beyond me. Nothing lasts outside of Office, which is now being jacked into the Cloud by every conceivable orifice.
No thanks.
Not to mention that running on Windows 1 0 requires you to accept that some update at some point in the future is going to completely bork you entire system base, and you'll have to wait for Microsoft to get its finger out and fix it - if that is possible.
It really is high time Linux comes to the desktop.
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