Posts by Pascal Monett 19435 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Yeah, sure. Whenever we get "advanced" AI I'll agree.
We don't even have AI now, what gives you the right to talk about advanced AI ? Do you have access to some special version that no one knows about yet ?
Marketing will remain marketing, but a fucking reality check is in order here.
You need AI for that now ? I thought you just needed a sensor, like, for exmple, off the top of my mind, the microphone that's already included, plus a bit of local CPU code to adjust the volume "automagically".
But no, now you to send the data God knows where to have it treated by God knows what and spend a portion of your Internet bandwidth on that simple function.
I am curious to see just how fast and how far this new AI-Pixel version will crater. I hope the hole will be deep.
It is reassuring to learn that an important industrial figure is aware that you need to educate and train actual humans if you want your company to thrive in the future.
Pseudo-AI can eventually be a useful crutch, but it is nothing but a crutch. If you don't have a human to ask the proper questions, pseudo-AI will never be able to answer (whether right or, more likely, wrong).
Inconvenient why ?
Almost nobody outside China speaks Chinese (Mandarin), and almost no one in the billion-plus population under Bejing's iron rule speaks English, so where's the problem ?
If China's own network admins cut off access to the world for their state-sponsored network terrorists, I think that that is that much time saved from bothering about them.
And how exactly are you going to manage that ?
First of all, you'd have to have the means to determine that it's a child using the VPN (because guess what ? Adults have professional reasons to use VPNs. I know that because I have a Swiss customer that requires that I join its network from Switzerland. I'm not going to drive 300km every time I need to connect to their network).
Then, you'd have to determine that "the child" is doing something that you have decided is "unwholesome". Who are you to decide what is "wholesome" ?
I'm sorry, this is 2025.
How many times do you need to be warned that social media is just milking you to get the message ?
If you can't understand by now, then there's only a cluebat to the face - or a great big hole in your bank account - that will get the message across.
And I'm sorry if I do not sympathize.
" is how little some most companies care about training"
FTFY
Training is expensive. It is based on the idea that the emplyee is going to stick around and benefit the company from the training.
Interns are not really expected to stick around.
Especially in the days of low-capacity (compared to today) hard disks whose fragility was easily demonstrated, they should not have been in charge of testing that disk without supervision.
Failure on the part of the manager. He didn't do his job. So it's normal that he deals with a replacement.
The question should be : Are UK taxpayers is anyone getting real value from SPA24 Microsoft ?
Sharepoint ? Excuse me while I ROLFL. SQL databases are 1000 times more efficient.
Active Directory ? Does Linux need that ? I don't think so.
Anything Borkzilla does is a vector of attack. That is not the case of Linux.
But I'm just pissing in the wind here . . .
Color me stupid, but Open Source is Open Source. How come there are different versions of it ?
Yes, I understand that various entities see an interest in subverting Open Source for their own selfish interests, but if they cite that are based on Open Source, then Open Source should be the rule.
If you don't want to publish your code under Open Source, that you fucking stay Closed Source and shut the fuck up about it.
The cost of what ?
Dealing with one employees daily work, or dealing with risk of having your entire worforce's date on someone else's server that can be hacked any time ?
I swear, if ever I am in a situation to have a meeting with a Gartner marketing representative, I'll start the meeting by putting a loaded Smith&Wesson on the table and then I'll say : "Okay, let's talk reality.".
I don't care what interface you are using to consult a true expert system in your domain.
An expert system hasn't been "trained" on scraping posts from Reddit. It has been build on actual experience in the field.
But morons don't care about that, and they vastly outnumber intelligent people who know what they're dealing with.
It would have been refreshingly honest if they hadn't waited for said criminals to brag about having stolen data.
That would mean :
1) Manpower is actually aware of what is happening on its network, and
2) it had the balls to signal a major data leak without being called out for it
It's not difficult guys, those criminals will always boast about it, so step forward before they do.
Unless, of course, you only learned that data got stolen when the crims boasted about it, in which case you have a lot of work to do to secure your network . . .
I do wish him luck.
Personally, given the money Borkzilla has in the bank, I would enfore support for all existing versions as long as there is still a single user using it.
When I am elected World Dictator, that will be one of my first decrees, along with the ending of all conflicts, free healthcare for all, respect and equality for women, and the building of Thorium reactors until fusion comes into its own.
Hola, the baboon. You are President of the Unied States, you are not President of Private Industry. You have no say in nominating or removing CEOs.
You can, however, put him under surveillance and have him watched to find any dirt you pin on him, for National Security's sake of course.
Given that you are the principle threat to te USA's future and its democracy, it's really rich to hear you complaining about a mere CEO.
Yeah, duh.
Why is it that well-paid besuited idiots can't realize what security actually means ?
I mean, they aren't going to bed while leaving the front door open, are they ?
If you're not going to leave the front door open on your pitifiul little million-dollar mansion, then how about not leaving it open on the multi-million critical infrastructure you're actually responsible for ?
Once again, that band of untrained monkeys demonstrate their complete incompetence when it comes to affairs of state.
They only have one thing to do : ask the Secret Service for the secure communication protocols and use them, instead of downloading anything that calls itself "secure" without having been vetted and then finding out the hard way that it wasn't.
It's Government, for fuck's sake, not a flying circus.
