Posts by Pascal Monett 19505 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
The court's decision is based on law. I understand that the prosecution is disappointed, but if the prosecution is so sure of itself, it should have made the arrest and booked the guy on charges.
The fact that this hasn't happened means to me that the judge made the right call.
I will applaud any company that faces the reality that facial recog simply does not work in public areas. The error rate is way too high.
So yeah, let's say that IBM is throwing in the towel at the opportune moment, I don't care. On this, the CEO is right and has made the right call.
Let's see what comes of it.
I'm sorry, but you don't seem to realize the true extent of the Cloud Act.
It means that a US judge can force a US company to turn over any data it has on anyone, irrespective of where that data is held and who the person is, as long as the server is managed by said US company.
There isn't even a need for a warrant. The judge says "jump", and the company can only say "how high ?".
A company making masks is not going to have data on a vaccine. I doubt very much that research companies have mask-making facilities, and I doubt even more that they would share vaccine data with anyone until they have something that works.
Tell me that hackers are targeting vaccine research centers, that is understandable, but mask makers ?
That's nuts.
There absolutely is. Except that there are companies that can't be arsed to have one. And I still have to go in and create functionality on the production server, because they need that functionality. So I go and code in production. Extra carefully.
Even then, I have had the odd phone call or abrupt face-to-face with a guy who asks me why did the mainframe do this supplementary job ? I answer "because I was told to put this file there".
Cue much anguish about how he needed to go and sort the mess out on his side. And now I have to continue coding without being able to actually test my code because if I do, I've just learned that another system will take that as a cue to go and do its thing, which nobody told me was going to happen.
You live and learn. That's life.
Sorry, what exactly was keeping you from doing massive deals like that before ?
If I'm not mistaken, there already is volumes of commercial exchange between the UK and the USA and Australia as well. The Australian British Chamber of Commerce is touting its 110th birthday.
The EU was not keeping you from doing more.
It'll be funny to see how little Edge will be used now that Borkzilla is pissing it all over.
Still, this line sounds ominous to me : "The automated browser replacement routine will migrate Start menu pins, tiles, and shortcuts, as well as taskbar pins and shortcuts ".
How long before we notice that the automated replacement routine also "helpfully" replaces your default browser choice ?
I have followed this issue since being alerted in these hallowed pages that there were Californians able to Do The Right Thing and get their state to GDPR-like levels.
This is not that. And a new regulatory body is just a small nuisance to companies like Google and Facebook.
I was hoping for much better, but I guess you take what you get and carry on with a smile.
Are you kidding me ?
If you wake yourself up in the middle of the night to check your ECG monitor and verify your oxygen levels, you're doing worse than someone who is getting a good night's sleep.
Medical attention should be regulated by a doctor who knows what he's doing, not by some company who feeds on the Munchhausen syndrome.
I'm really sorry for the 12k people who have been conned out of their money, but it is more than obvious that they have been conned.
I do hope that the the scum who is the reason of this con will forever be remembered : Fred Chesnais. This guy is touted to be at the head of no less than FIVE companies.
I suggest that investors in those companies think twice before leaving their funds with such a lying loser.
I hope so. As you say, declaring that a top secret national security weapons platform has its flight software running in the Cloud is an open invitation for state actors to find it. I cannot believe they actually did that.
Either that or they have a local Kubernetes installation that is not connected to the Internet in any way. That might be possible.
"paradoxically the most popular website for Tor users is Facebook "
How is it possible to make that affirmation when you don't know what Tor users are up to and Tor prevents metadata from being used ?
I just went through Tor's Overview page and it specifically states :
Using Tor protects you against a common form of Internet surveillance known as "traffic analysis." Traffic analysis can be used to infer who is talking to whom over a public network.
So you don't know who is talking to who. To me, that means you don't know if Facebook is the preferred web site for Tor users because you don't know what other websites they're using.
Also, using Tor to post your life on FaceBook. Now that's ironic.
I appreciate the fact that, apparently, the DoD is treating this migration just like morning exercise. Plan ? Just go out and run, numbskull. Oh, it's harder than it looks ? Maybe we should follow the recommendations ? Nah. Just put on another pair of shoes and it'll sort itself out, probably.
These "security concerns" of theirs, they do not prevent planning. There's no reason to not plan properly because of them. Lack of personnel trained in IPv6 ? So plan to train personnel. Email not compatible with IPv6 ? Plan to replace it, or upgrade it.
Planning is not doing, but if you don't want to plan, you won't be doing for sure.
And the DoD quite obviously does not want to plan. Probably because really doing so will put a lot of ugly figures on an official report, and the DoD doesn't want to show those figures.
There is still water on Mars. Seems like most of it is trapped in the south polar ice cap, but more has been discovered under the surface in the Utopia Planitia region (wherever that is).
That said, when Mars lost most of its atmosphere and it dropped to the 1% density it has today, all surface water that wasn't frozen simply boiled off and was swept away by the Sun's wind. I have trouble finding a reference as to when that happened exactly.
Fake flu ?
There have been more than 370,000 deaths globally and you're talking about a fake flu ?
You work on Fox News or what ?
Is it me, or is the UK Gov making it rain money ?
And on IT projects, no less. Deals worth £100 million ? Don't worry, by the time the project is finished, it will have cost £500 million and still won't work properly.
And kill off bespoke systems ? Impossible. Everything government is a bespoke system.
Unless you want to replace everything with Excel. Which, actually, just might - no, no. Not gonna finish that phrase.
You have an app that reveals who was in contact with who. That is what doctors need to know. Where it happened has no medical use whatsoever.
Therefor, any contact tracing database that purports to include location data is just a PII grab and should be avoided.
The UK contact tracing app has just been made available and scammers are already on the hunt ?
It's a bit quick I think, and a lot of those calls must logically end in "but I don't have the app on my phone yet, so how did I get into your database ?".
Of course, there still is the obvious issue of users not engaging brains when getting a phone call, so maybe it's okay for the scammers.
"open source should be preferred, but not mandated [because it] will prevent the problem of vendor lock-in"
Preferred, but not mandated. Hmm. Sounds to me like private companies are going to be all over this with closed-source stuff and, now and again, drop in a little widget in open source just to say there is some.
Let's be honest : if you say open source is not mandated, you open the door to a lot of capital that want returns and the best way capital knows to get something is through closed source.
That's not how you prevent vendor lock-in.
"The Ministry of Fun* declared that it wants a multitude of "industry-led" assurance schemes rather than just one"
No. You let the industry create a certification scheme if you want, but you don't go and have many of them, otherwise the customer isn't going to know which one is good and which one isn't.
This is daft. You finally get around to mandating a security scheme, which is a bona fide Good Thing (TM), then you completely undermine the system by allowing many different schemes. That is only going to create confusion and give rise to miscreants that will take advantage of the system.
Bad government. No cookie.
Wow. Government privatizing the handling of its border control. UK Gov has obviously not had enough examples of IT stuff going wrong, and can't help but set up a new line of funding for the same coterie of incapable sloths who are going to have a new trough to plunge in.
What can possibly go wrong ?
Not everyone needs one, and certainly not everyone who buys one needs one. Some people buy highly priced kit simply to show off that they can.
The fad for highly priced phones is going to wane not because of current economics, but because the new model brings next to nothing new compared to the previous model. 5G support is the only real addition of value, and you're still likely to not have a 5G network available until next year, aka next year's new model which will also, obviously, support 5G. So a reasonable buyer is going to hold on to his current model and splash for a new, 5G-enabled model when he'll actually have the chance to use it.
The Workstation VM manager now runs at user level, and VMware no longer has "direct access to the CPU".
Shouldn't that mean that, in case a VM sandbox is breached by malware, that malware will have less opportunity to muck things up ?
Seems like a good thing to me.
Agreed, but then upping the limit to 100 is just bonkers. Why should there be a limit anyway ? Just line-wrap when you get to the edge of the screen. If you type over five lines, who cares ?
Of course, that does imply that the command line utility needs a rather drastic upgrade, but that would really be putting his code where his mouth is.
I'm sorry, he's a beancounter. The only thing beancounters do is restrict budgets. I fail to see how that accelerates anything.
Were he top salesdroid, then yes, he could definitely accelerate growth by closing six-figure deals.
Beancounters don't close deals, they just record them. Then they cook the figures so that the salesdroid doesn't get the bonus he thought he was entitled to.
A very good remark. If a standard (i.e. poor) citizen were to try and pull that off, that's no doubt what he would get, but for some reason, politicians can lie their asses off without any consequence whatsoever.
Even if the consequence of their lies is a lengthy investigation that costs plenty of money.
I think it would be good to reinstate corporal punishment for lying politicians that throw gratuitous accusations. If you can't prove what you alleged, and the investigation proves that you were wrong, you get twenty lashes.
I would pay to watch that.
You may be right, but I'll always have problem with admiring a con artist.
He may have raised $2.6 billion (not 6.2), but he did it by lying continually and deliberately, and posting videos that were fake and not representative of the true abilities of the product.
As for “the ability for businesses to operate across vast distances and connect with their customers in ways that mimic physical interactions ”, if MagicLeap does ever manage to pull that off, it will rake the money in by the tanker load because the porn industry is going to be all over it.
to defining a law to enable them to change a budget after having voted it.
Come now, this was a clerical error and, had they voted the thing as is, they would have just voted a change. It makes for a great article, but honestly it would not have condemned an entire government to a budget of a Mercedes or two.
Turbo Pascal is what I cut my object-oriented teeth on. I had self-taught myself BASICA (like everybody else, back then) and it was clunky but okay, but programming in Turbo Pascal just . . felt right. Like it was what real programmers do.
Then I went to uni and got smacked across the head with Assembler, C++ and Lexx & Yakk. That put some sense into me.
But I think I'll always prefer Turbo Pascal.
