Posts by Pascal Monett 18239 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Now that is a real problem. You can argue that images posted on the Internet are public, but you absolutely cannot argue that the guy labeling images made a slip of the keyboard. If image labels are racist it's only because some asshole in charge of classification was a racist.
No wonder facial recog systems are acknowledged as being biased against non-white people. If any random AI training project has racists labeling pics then it would seem quite difficult to have any AI project that only has non-racist people handling the data.
To think we're in the 3rd millennium. Seems like we'll need a few more millennia before Humanity actually becomes intelligent.
Indeed, and replacement cartridges are not priced following the gold standard.
When I got fed up with inkjet printers that could barely last one full cartridge, endlessly needing head cleaning and whatnot, I got a B&W laser printer and I've never been happier. Pages are printed in mere seconds, quality is excellent and a toner cartridge lasts hundreds of pages (of text, obviously).
One day, I just might shell out for a color laser printer, but for now I have no need of that.
In any case, inkjets are for suckers.
If I were an avid tarot reader, it is absolutely obvious that I would immediately think of Oracle Corp when stumbling upon a site named Oracle Times. It is blindingly obvious that nothing containing the name Oracle has ever, in the history of Mankind, ever meant anything other than Oracle Corp.
Someone is going to have to invent a new concept for Ellison's ego. Or maybe we just use him as a reference, as in "that guy has an ego of 1 ellison".
I'm sure that's a great thing, right ? All the government contractors that are going to disappear are going to have to replaced by somebody, and that means hiring, right ?
Oh but, the government doesn't have money to hire anyone ?
Well then HMRC is basically putting a halt to every IT project there is in the UK. Well done !
Given that the whole Huawei hoopla started with lies, I am giving zero credit to this new raft of lies. We know exactly why US Republicans are on the warpath against Huawei : Huawei has 5G network tech ready, and Cisco does not.
Let me be very clear : you have the right to be unhappy about the fact that your country is not the leader in a given domain, you do not have the right to slander and cheat your way to leadership.
Instead of dissing Huawei, kick Cisco's butt and make it do something worth something in the 5G arena.
On top of that, it's really rich to have the party of Free Enterprise be against capitalist competition when they're not the ones winning.
So all the printing that has already been done is all good because of efforts that you promise to make in the future ?
That's like a teenager saying that you can give him his allowance this week because he'll start cleaning his room next month.
And what of all the cartridges in landfills ? Are you going to pledge to recycle that and make your entire line carbon-free with offsets ?
Somehow I doubt that.
Oh, and that "monitor the types of paper used" thing. Does that mean that we'll also have to buy HP paper or the printer will say no ? Now that's something that could happen - until the inevitable court case throws that toy out of the pram, that is.
There are a number of companies who have paid rather important sums on the basis of an "urgent" email alone. And those are companies who have a finance director who is supposed to be an actual professional, not a charity whose "finance director" is the guy who agreed to take the burden.
After reading the above posts, I have to agree that it is hard to be sure that you can trust a charity. There are indeed many charities that are nothing but scam operations in disguise. But there are many more charities who are doing the work they proclaim. And there are some charities who are extremely important, and need to have competent people at the helm. The International Red Cross is a charity that I think is trustworthy, and I hope the CEO at the helm of that one is getting some good coin because he's got loads to do to keep things running smoothly (if they ever do in that area).
[we have] "put mitigations in place to prevent and detect this type of skill behavior and reject or take them down when identified"
Seriously, guys, four times in the last four paragraphs ? If that is not called padding out the word count, I don't know what is.
Your readers are generally intelligent people and many are technical. You do not have to repeat things to have them understood, and certainly not four times in four successive paragraphs.
In other words, there is no way to be sure that GDPR can be respected.
That said, the only possible conclusion is that Window 1 0 and Office 365 should not be used if privacy is your concern.
Funnily enough, the report does not come to that conclusion.
That's simple : the money vanished because the entire Bitcoin industry is run by thugs, criminals and incompetent idiots. The idiots serve as unwitting patsies for the criminals to launder the money made from illegal activities all over the world.
That is why, in this case, a US-based exchange has money frozen in accounts in Poland. That is why two companies are run by the exact same people.
The whole thing is a sham and a cover for criminal activity. It may not have started like that, but that's how it is now.
Republicans, Democrats, they both did it, both got caught and nothing came of it. They'll both do it again, and get caught, and nothing will come of it.
The only reason Trump isn't doing it is because he's incapable of even being that smart.
Call me when they actually do lock someone up over this kind of behavior. That will be news.
We need a Yawn icon.
Congratulations for inventing yet another something that ties everything to your OS, Microsoft. Apparently you haven't grown tired of lawsuits for monopolistic behavior.
No matter, you can keep your "Secure-core" initiative and you Windows Eternal Beta. I can't wait to see how it fails.
So it wasn't just a DDoS attack, it was a planned attack. Whoever did it had to have scouted out their network to find the failsafes and did so without being detected.
Or is it that a DDoS is just so big that the failsafes where overwhelmed ? Because in that case, they weren't so failsafe.
Either way, Sucuri does not come out of this looking good.
If it was illegal, there would have been a complaint filed and a judge assigned, and it would be a court case.
As it is not, you cannot say that it was illegal. I readily concede that it was highly immoral, but we're talking about government decisions, so they will try until public outcry tells them "oops, we went too far on this one".
You can view the effect of "that old trope" here.
As you can see on the graph, PCs hit their maximum sales year in 2011, and have been on the decline ever since.
I totally agree that PCs are the best. I have three in my home office, and two laptops for work. I would hate using a tablet for just about anything.
But that does not change the fact that tablets and light computing units are replacing PCs in almost every customer-facing job, and tablets are now a favorite of non-IT home owners because they are less complicated to understand (and not having Windows makes their maintenance a lot simpler). Not to mention all the kids who won't even know what a PC is until they get to school, madly typing their SMSes and watching YouTube as they are.
So yes, like it or not, PCs are going to be reserved to the (relatively) small group of people of actually need the power, group of which I am part.
You got the wrong date. November 8th 2016 is the date at which the USA stopped being a democracy and became a pathetic joke. The only one who can be genuinely happy about that is Dubya, because everyone's forgotten him now.
Yet I disagree with your conclusion. Yes, the USA has fallen far, far below what the Founding Fathers had wished for, but the American people are good people, and some of them are trying their damnedest to turn the ship around and head back to calm waters. In the end, I'm sure they will prevail.
The only question is how many generations will be wasted in the meantime.
Have you forgotten how many governments still want to ask him questions ?
He can't relocate to the UK, they want his head on a spike. He most likely won't relocate to Canada, there's been some grumblings there too. I highly doubt that he'd relocate to anywhere that doesn't speak English, but even if, it wouldn't be anywhere in Europe because of GDPR and the fact that both France and Germany want to speak with him very intently.
So, what's left ? Mexico ?
Yeah, that would go down well.
Given that it has been largely proven that current facial recog tech has trouble recognizing people who are not of Caucasian complexion, and given that this is undoubtedly going to be deployed along the Mexican border, I can't wait for the inevitable tales of false positives and the outrage that will follow.
Gotta to stock up on the popcorn now . . .
It is so nice to see that Google cares about our security - to better snaffle up our private lives and monetize them.
Use a script blocker. It doesn't matter what browser you use if you have a script blocker, because 99.9% of malware on the Web comes in the form of JavaScript.
Block JavaScript and you are safe.
PayPal is not your pal. As long as everything is fine, you can be happy, but when things go pear-shaped PayPal is the last place you can expect to find help from.
Especially since there is no phone number to get someone to talk to and resolve the issue.
Use PayPal at your risk and peril.
For the engineer, they might be, but as a human being I do prefer being to see things with my own eyes.
That said, I must admit that, when watching sci-fi spaceships of a certain size (the ones you can land on), I really think that having the control of an entire vessel one window pane away from the void of space is kind of asking for trouble - especially if it's a combat ship.
I would think that the control center should be embedded deep in the structure of the vessel, and have redundant monitoring equipment to manage attitude, roll and direction.
But for small vessels ? Put the windows back in.
Parenting is about talking with your children, about discussing things, helping them understand and make informed decisions.
A device is no better than a government filter - it takes the job away from the parents, explains nothing to the children and makes everyone think everything is fine.
Pornography is an important subject, it should be addressed in an adult manner and not avoided at all times
Of course, the discussion must be at the level of the child. I'm not saying that you should tell everything to a 5-year-old, but I am saying that you don't let a 5-year-old loose on a screen without supervision.
That was doomed to failure anyway since people have been lugging about VB runtimes since Visual Basic came out.
I'm honestly not sure anyone noticed that the library was not included because nobody ever had the habit of it being included in the first place. I know that it was not until XP that I stopped worrying about having my VB runtime versions in a system folder.
Citation please ?
You do know that technology is not static ? Pacemakers are constantly improving, security standards are in constant review, microwave technology is standardized and 5G masts are not being put in your backyard, or in your neighbor's backyard. They are being put on top of the tallest buildings in the area, and their height is to ensure that nobody gets fried if walking on the roof.
Honestly, it's time to put this kind of bullshit to rest.
Oh, poor little rich exec would like some form of recognition other than a rather large bank account.
Be still my aching heart.
Okay, let's make two things clear : success in any computer game is a time-limited proposal because, as any StarCraft II top-lister will tell you, you get old and your actions per second are inevitably going to go down, meaning you will be replaced by someone younger sooner than later.
So, just like professional sports players (which earn 10x more), your time in the limelight is on a schedule, and you don't have all that long to enjoy it.
CEOs, on the other hand, not only get 1000 times the salary of the lowest ranks, they also have this thing called a Golden Parachute, which nobody else gets, and which allows them to absolutely screw everything up and drive a company into the ground and yet still waltz away with millions in severance pay.
THAT is immoral.
So cry me a river, asshole.
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