Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Pfft. Hrmmph. HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HA ! HAAAAAA !
That was a good one. I needed that.
ICANN has accountability like I have syphilis - none has been detected.
Today that is perfectly true, and even reusable rockets will be a great burden on Earth ecology and economy.
With some future technology available, Earth would likely benefit from having all heavy industry removed from its surface. Mining operations would take place in the asteroid belt anyway, processed minerals would be shipped to the Moon and used there, and needed items could then be deposited back on Earth.
That is how it is going to have to be for Earth's climate to stop suffering. Well, that and shutting down most of the electricity generators based on coal and replacing them with generators based on thorium.
And got 180 forum pages of complaints for its trouble.
It's 2019 and there are still companies that can't handle customer issues other than by using Soviet-style behavior.
Shame on Bose. Borking a driver is a mistake I can get, the only people who never make mistakes are the ones who never do anything. But putting a lid on a problem is not a viable solution, especially in an age where the Internet makes it so easy to vent and bring attention to the problem to the wider world.
Covering the issue is only ever going to make more pressure, not less. Get your PR department in order, Bose.
Oh come on, what's the National Security issue there ? Do you think you can possibly be more ridiculous than when NASA borked a landing because descent velocity was described in feet instead of meters ? Did someone leave a scarf on the altitude detector ?
Man up and tell the world what actually went wrong. You're just making things worse for when we do find out - and we will, in the end.
Although I generally agree with your post, I must say that I do not believe NASA has thrown away any blueprint or plan for whatever it may have had.
You might be referring to the fact that we don't know how to make the Saturn V's engines any more, but it has been amply demonstrated now that that is not a case of having thrown anything away, it is a case of losing what you correctly referred to as institutional knowledge.
IPv6 should have been an ISP thing. ISPs would transition to IPv6, and each ISP would have a full IPv4 environment for connecting their customers. Packets moving from one ISP to another would be bridged with an IPv6 packet (or tunneled, whatever).
If they had done that, IPv6 would have been adopted long ago, in the backend, and us users wouldn't even be talking about it.
Instead, we have the mess we're trudging through today, with some saying IPv6 is not very different from IPv4. Yeah, except that most everyone is still using IPv4, so IPv6 is neither easy nor convenient enough to adapt to at this point in time. And, since IPv4 addresses are not going anywhere any time soon, I've got the feeling that this kind of conversation will still be taking place in thirty years.
And ? Do the existing IPv4 addresses risk rusting out, or fading away ?
No, they don't. Whatever IPv4 addresses we have now are perfectly fine, thank you, and will continue to be so for millennia to come. They just might outlive the Human race, actually.
If IPv6 hadn't been artificially complicated in an engineer's fevered dream, there would have been no problem to go to IPv6. Just tack on four more bytes, and consider that the existing IPv4 space was simply 127.0.0.0.x.x.x.x and that would have worked fine and everyone would have understood.
But no, that was too simple. So they made IPv6 a monster of a thing that only network engineers can understand, and now it's languishing in adoption hell. Cry me a river.
Besides, what is RIPE crying about ? Now that IPv4 addresses no longer exist (again), new addresses will have to be IPv6, so where's the problem ? It's upgrade by restriction. RIPE should be happy.
The only thing that is funny in this whole affair is that Apple is apparently in danger of running out of courts. It has already plowed so much effort into this (*) that courts will actually no longer hear an appeal on one part of the case.
That has to be a first.
* - okay, I admit, avoiding a half-billion dollar payout is worth some effort.
Yes, we get it. You're not the criminal, you're just the guy who picked the lock and let the criminals in.
Sorry, that does not wash. You admit yourself that you facilitated - a judge would call that complicity.
In any case, once again the problem is malware coming in via ads. Ads are a scourge to security and privacy. Block them, ban them and boycott them until the ad industry gets it shit in order.
But Life ? Even planets are likely going to have a hard time not smashing into each other. I really don't see that kind of environment as being anywhere near a place where Life could take hold.
On the other hand, with all the stuff that's in the area, water is likely to be there as well, so those planets could very well have water. If they are massive rocky planets, there could be water deep down, shielded by dozens of meters of rock, where some form of bacterial life could subsist.
Since the idea is that planets form in the accretion disk, they will orbit the black hole and not get sucked in. That means that they'll be around for the next wave of matter that falls in. Except that, if that next wave is in the form of an incoming star, then all bets are off as to the stability of the planets' orbits. They'll either get ejected from the system (at high velocity), or they'll be dragged into the singularity, ripping apart along the way.
Either outcome means the death of any life that may have taken hold.
Not a nice place to be born, to say the least.
Typical. Just like game developers who seemingly always have the latest and greatest hardware to develop their games on, here comes Microsoft who imagines that everyone had a gigabit connection and nothing to fear from hackers.
I'm just waiting for the patch that will "ensure that the cloud service called is a proper Microsoft-certified server" and not an unregistered 3rd-party server in Hacker Homeland.
That is exactly the limit of a signed integer variable in practically every programming language under the Sun. What a coincidence.
A programmer with any sort of experience is going to have hit that limit some way or another during his various projects and knows that, for any sort of operation outside of basic For/Next, or very basic mathematical calculations, integers should generally be replaced by long ints, which go a bit beyond 2 billion or into the 9 billion billion depending on language definitions.
It is quite obvious that the summer intern who was given the driver project did not have the required experience, nor the foresight to imagine that 4 bytes would not be enough to count uptime. It is also obvious that the senior reviewer didn't do his job properly.
I concur. As a freelance consultant, I see many different office types (accounting, finance, insurance, technical, industrial, etc..), but I have never seen even one without paper everywhere - even in IT departments.
The printer business may be declining in the home, but in the business it is flourishing.
I don't like the guy, and what he does generally bothers me with it's infantile and puerile elements, but on this, I have to admit that I stand behind his every word.
Good on him for saying it. Shame on everyone else that matters for needing him to say it.
NO. Abso-fucking-lutely NO.
Only the UK, as the White House's habitual lapdog, has recognized anything. THERE IS NO OTHER GOVERNMENT that gives this shit any credit whatsoever.
My GOD it is so annoying to see US governmental institutions spout utter bullshit like that and get no comeuppance whatsoever.
The US is officially a shitty country now.
Are you out of your mind ? I can already not uninstall Samsung Drive, Facebook, Excel (!?), Hangouts, OneDrive, PowerPoint, Samsung Cloud, Samsung Health, Skype, Word or YouTube on my current Galaxy A3. They're disabled, but I can't get rid of them.
You really think those government apps imposed by Moscow are going to be removable ?
'Cause if you do, I have a bridge to sell you.
I'm sure actual criminals are absolutely going to fall over themselves to not have phones delivered from abroad that do not have said apps installed.
No, never. Impossible.
As one person mentioned, if you outlaw guns, only criminals will have guns. In this case, it'll be the criminals, the billionaires, and anyone with any kind of connection to the other two.
Hey, kinda like backdooring encryption, come to think of it.
Society has spent the first 150 years of car making understanding that curves were good.
But now, for the last ten years, all of a sudden everyone wants to make the Batmobile and have angles everywhere. I get that the F-117 was high tech and stealth and all that, but one did not see those things flying.
This thing is an eyesore and I hate angles on my car. Will never buy, no matter what the price. I'd hate to be seen in that cage.
A massive asteroid will be a serious blow to a major part of the ecosystem, for sure, but some forms of life will endure. The dinosaurs prove that the asteroid apocalypse doesn't necessarily kill everything.
Though I'll be quite happy for Humanity to test that theory in a few hundred years or so at the very least. I prefer not being there to find out how it goes down the next time.
Okay, the idea seems interesting, and I'm guessing that 20 kilometers high is good enough to avoid stormy weather, but there seems to be a rather continuous cycle of replacement built into these things. That is going to increase costs.
Also, is there enough helium to go around ? I seem to recall that we're running out of that stuff.
and yet we are throwing them to the wolves, just over 30 days before XMas.
Nice of them to say that they are going to provide transition help - I'm sure the people laid off in September are green with envy.
Ah, November, the perfect time to have massive layoffs. The XMas season has not yet started, so you don't get bad rep for depriving people of Santa's visit, and yet you have just enough time to present the 4th quarter results with a financial uptick, thus earning manglement better bonuses for a job well done.
Oh but no, that's the thing. No laws are being broken, they're just being fucked over the table from behind.
You see, the spirit of the law does not matter any more. Only how the law is written, and you can count on the USA's current crop of government administrators to exploit any aspect they can find to sodomize said spirit thoroughly.
That is not a reason to buy, that is just an indication of how quick you will get the thing you bought.
I do use Amazon, but my buying criteria is whatever the hell I actually need, not how fast it is going to be delivered.
You really have to be a moron to go and buy something you don't need just because its delivery time is in hours and not days.
That I agree with. I can't count the times I have had to entirely take apart an Ikea thingy because, at some point, I realized that some specific piece had to be put in before, or in the other way, in order to complete the build.
If they can make a robot that understands perfectly how to follow the instructions, they will have made definite progress.
Now I have one question : do they intend to sell that robot to every household ? Are we supposed to live with an Ikea-building robot integrated into our living quarters in the future ?
Because I'd rather complain about having not correctly understood the instructions, thank you.
It's about damn time AMD got it's moment in the sun. Intel has been a shadow on that very capable chip maker since forever. I am happy that AMD is finally going to be able to eat a part of Intel's lunch. Intel will survive, but this is going to help AMD surge ahead like never before.
Competition for the win !
Given that these virtual currencies are all based on some sort of calculation time, any mention of real-world investment securing the value of said coins is obviously bullshit, and a great big red flag to anyone with half a brain.
This guy is obviously a smooth talker. I don't think he'll stop when he gets out - he'll just invent another scam.
As this is a financial risk, there's a good chance that patches will be applied.
Because, as we all know, if personally identifiable information was at risk, nothing would happen until a break-in and GDPR got in on the act.
But remember : the security of your information is their number one concern !
The other problem is that TSB didn't go live by stages, but all at once. Has TSB decided to go live on a subset of customers, it would have had the possibility of seeing the storm that was brewing and scale back and correct the issues before the whole thing blew up in their faces.
In any case, they certainly got a big bang, just not the one they were hoping for.
Oh, and a note to all high-level managers : let this be a lesson to you. Never believe someone who tells you that there will be no migration issues to worry about and we can do it all in one go.
It never happens like that.
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