Posts by Pascal Monett 18878 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Very interesting link. Thank you for that.
It remains, though, that the article is on target concerning the shit that is sold these days. There are precious few things that will be working in the next ten years, let alone two hundred, and I will venture that nothing Apple sells today will be part of that group since Apple has a thing about not making the battery easily replaceable.
That link no longer resolves. I get a 410 error with a message that states "This post is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules".
It seems that his report was a tad too scathing for the tastes of the website moderator.
Pity. The next time, you might want to think of keeping a copy of things you link to. The Internet is not, in fact, eternal.
Just another demonstration of how little you actually "control" your mobile phone.
All the big names are doing it, it's just this time it's Samsung that got caught. Somebody fat-fingered a config file and notifications were sent when they shouldn't have been.
It'll be interesting watching how Samsung is going to try to weasel its way out of this one.
I'm convinced that there are many people who would gladly light up one of those candles purely for fun, out of sheer curiosity (does it really make it smell like a Mc D hamburger) and, for some, for simple convenience (it's a candle).
I would be part of the curiosity crowd, then I switch to convenience. Only for the one, though. Scented candles are not really my thing.
Um, look, I'm very happy that AMD is riding the wave right now, but you're fooling no one. AMD has had capable products before and not attained such levels. You and I both know that, despite AMD having an excellent product, it is Intel's failure to deliver over a long period that has pushed companies and consumers to switch their mindset and go to you.
And that's fine.
Um, I use Windows 7 and 1 0 regularly. I can't say that the icons on 1 0 are so much more appealing. Maybe XP icons would be jarring, but I wouldn't know since I haven't used XP for more than a decade now.
Frankly, I'm happy that the winter intern's work gets some recognition, but there are more important things to take of as far as Windows is concerned.
A massive load of bullshit, and always will be.
I've said it before and I'll say it again : if you want to lose your money in funny money crypto, buy yourself a PC with the latest specialized NVidia graphics card and churn them out yourself.
If you're in, it would be a lot better to not make waves since doing so would inevitably introduce changes. As in, now this plant has likely separated the production network from the admin network. So, now that you have raised almighty Hell, your knowledge and access had been shredded and you can start again.
Real spies leave no traces of their access.
Well the clean up has to happen, so no surprise there.
What is always astonishing is finding out that nobody bothered to implement any sort of security beforehand.
Oh well, two days revenue lost is a lesson. Now, how many other natural gas plants will sit up and take notice ?
Because I'm guessing that plant was not unique in any way.
Interesting. I know nothing about the layers under Jupiter's visible surface, but from here, it's pretty obvious that the bands of color don't mix very much. It logically follows that the contents of one band mostly stay inside that band and don't mix with neighboring bands. That would go for water as well.
Could someone please explain to me how capturing the MAC and IP addresses of the stuff I use in the privacy of my own house is going to overcome any issues whatsoever ?
I am well aware that any service provider likely has this capability - after all you're paying it to provide you with connectivity, so it obviously has the means to manage that connectivity. And that includes knowing what you connect to its service. Fine.
Except that, I can have a WiFi printer that the rest of computers can use. That printer is not going on the Internet, cannot be used from the Internet, and my computers using it do not send anything over the Internet to get to it to print. So why should my provider grab that address and what can it do with said address to "overcome these issues" ?
Apart from being able to tell me what I have connected to my network, I don't see how any provider can optimize anything at all with that information. And I'm not saying my provider is selling that info, I don't think so, honestly.
So what good it is to have that info ?
I don't think of the high seas as a place where you'd lug a powerful aerial on a boat to hack passing cargo container wifi. The open ocean is not exactly a comfortable place to be, unless you're in a very big ship.
And even then, things can get rough.
Poor infosec in the middle of the Pacific ? I think the cargo companies can live with that.
They will pay $20 million to be cooped up in what looks like a large-ish Gemini capsule for five whole days ?
If you can splurge that amount of money, you are a person that has the habit of doing whatever you want, going wherever you want, whenever you want. You're also used to spacious, luxurious environments and people whose only job is to ensure that you're happy. Being locked up in a large telephone booth for five days is not your habitual environment, and doing that with four other people who are just as uppity as you are is going to drive someone crazy without a shred of doubt.
Plus, you'll not only not have caviar and champagne on demand, you'll also be defecating in full view of four total strangers. You'll have to get along with them, and that's not something you're used to either.
Paying that amount of money sure will bring you bragging rights back home - if you live to brag about it - but the experience is going to be unique in more ways than one, that's for sure.
And in what world does the US think it can impose on a Taiwanese company who it can deal with ?
If TSMC gets notice that it cannot sell to Huawei, it should shrug and say "sure", and continue right on dealing with Huawei. America's problems are not Taiwan's problems, Taiwan has bigger fish to fry.
And if the US starts getting uppity and saying thing like unless you do as we say we will stop dealing with you, well, let's just say I'd like to see Trump try that. The US can't live a day without the chips TSMC makes for it. Apple would have an aneurysm, Intel would have an attack, IBM would lie helpless on a gurney and HPE would be agonizing.
A measure like that would last all of 24 hours before the entire IT industry would scream for its reversal with its dying breath.
The shit stains you leave everywhere will provide a mountain of work for historians to pontificate on for decades to come.
Your mere existence in the White House is a demonstration of how broken Democracy is in the USA. And you're breaking it a bit more every day, this time by whitewashing your scummy pals.
I would say shame on you, but you don't know the meaning of the word.
Bzzzt ! Wrong attitude, Ring. You should have created your "privacy vault" to not allow for sharing personal information unless the user opts in on that.
For Pete's sake you don't need to have a PhD to understand that. You do, however, need a company that is not obviously built on sharing personal information with advertisers instead of being built on providing a service to its customers.
Ring is just another company that caters to the ad market, using its IoT tat to farm the information from its stable of clueless users.
Sure it does; the ICANN way. You know it exists, so bow down and grovel.
Congratulations, ICANN, in demonstrating a thorough disdain for everyone else's opinion, and the complete ignorance of the spirit of your own rules. You have shown the way for other groups to do the same, and now ISOC is emulating your despicable behavior.
Line them up behind the chemical shed and shoot them all, I say.
It's not that difficult.
1) You go into the voting booth where no one is supposed to see what you're doing
2) you insert the ballot of your choice into an envelope and close it
3) you bring your ballot to the box where you insert it and your vote is counted
4) nobody looks at your envelope before it is time to count who won - by then your envelope is one of many and, therefor, anonymous
Well yes, it will, because the virus is actually affecting China, whereas the tariffs are being paid by US companies and - by direct consequence - US citizens.
The only part of Trump's tariffs that have any impact on China is where US companies order less stuff, or no more at all following the famous forbidden list that erased 30% off the revenue of a company that needed parts from China.
The Chinese company is just suffering a small loss of revenue, the US company is hit for a third of its activity. Who's suffering the most ?
Wow. I had no idea that the consequences could be so widespread. In retrospect though, yeah, basing a big chunk of your production capacity in the same country is asking for trouble when things like this crop up.
I guess this is going to be a wake-up call for quite a few industries. From now on, companies will need to diversify their production centers and not only implant in countries with cheap labor. From time to time, having a site in a less-cheap country will be useful to pick up the slack when the cheap country has a hiccup like this.
I'll let the MBA's find the right balance for this.
What is Emsisoft trying to do, be reasonable ? That's not how you report virus damage at a country level. You speak of hundreds of billions, not a measly single billion. You're talking computer virus. It's Armageddon time, not beer o'clock. You're supposed to scare the bejeesus out of people, not deliver a school report.
Go back and put some pizzaz on those numbers. I want to feel the fear, you understand ? FEAR.
I am sick of hearing of this scum bothering people that are actually trying to make a product.
You have a patent ? Good for you. Are you making anything with it ? No ? Then shut up and fuck off.
Patent law should be changed to include an article that states that a patent is valid only if the patent holder can justify that product is being made and sold using that patent. Doesn't need to be the holder, who can grant usage to whoever he likes, but product must be made or you have no right to complain.
That would clear out quite a few portfolios that are in zombie mode right now.
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