Posts by Pascal Monett 18239 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
As opposed to shutting the screen down and then looking for the source of the problem.
Really. I do believe that, had I been responsible, I would have much preferred passersby seeing a black screen rather than that.
I might have made a copy of the stream though, for "evidence", of course.
Fuck that. Microsoft, you can't even keep language settings correctly for your failed browser, you think I'm going to be stupid enough to entrust my entire desktop to your effing cloud ?
Do you remember what PC used to mean ? Personal Computer. Emphasis on Personal.
ODFO.
Yep, but no guns.
600 armed officers seems a tad much for invading an ISP's premises, even if said ISP is located in a bunker. I mean come on, there's 450 of those guys who must have spent four hours just standing around.
Yes, it was a WWII bunker. That does not mean that it was defended like a WWII bunker. If it had been, I'm pretty sure that 600 cops might not have been enough, and the death toll would have been, as they say, catastrophic.
A much better option would have been to send a squad of 20 men, and keep a hundred as backup. If shots got actually fired, then bring in the army.
They made a pseudo-military operation out of a perfectly civilian one.
Oh, right. We fucked up so you just reset your settings to the proper thing. Of course. It's not like you're the maker of the #1 OS used in the world, how could you possibly have the means of correcting your own mistakes ?
Ah, Microsoft. Where would we be without you ?
On a stable system, apparently.
So on the one hand, we have concerts with cameras watching us without our consent, and now somebody wants to put yet more cameras in shopping areas to "simplify" our shopping experience.
On that subject I have a question : what is going to be the experience of the non-registered shopper ? They had better have a sign saying "Registered Clients Only" or something like that, because otherwise what people are going to see is some people picking stuff up and just leaving, which is likely to create the impression that the merchandise is free.
That will likely create problems.
Why ? Are the parents with babies being prevented from booking flights ? Are their rights being infringed in any way ? NO.
Other people, who are not comfortable in the vicinity of a wailing infant, have the right to desire not being next to one, and this functionality allows for that. If you think that I should be obliged to endure a wailing infant for the length of a flight simply because you decided to make one, I have news for you.
Now I am just waiting for this technology to extend to warning about smelly gits, people who should pay for two seats and people who can't shut the fuck up. Somehow I don't see any of that happening soon.
Yes, it makes a lot of sense to be the first to draft legislation that will ensure that you can spy on people's lives and derive profit from that invasion of privacy without being bothered by pesky law enforcement rules. So you want to set the rules in your favor.
The root of all the issues the US has is the ability for companies to influence law. That should really be nerfed after the next revolution.
I'm glad that there are people out there who are intelligent enough to tackle these kinds of issues and do so for the sake of my protection.
That said, I kinda doubt that "most people" encrypt their laptop drives. Most of the people I know who do have laptops have work laptops, and even they are not always using disk encryption, although their IT department should be pushing that.
As for private users, try and talk them into encryption and watch their eyes glaze over in real time.
No, sorry, I don't see it happening any time soon.
"Data privacy and security are Steer's absolute priority"
Yes, now it is, because you realize just how much your reputation is fucked. That said, you apparently only had the realization after El Reg had to shove it up your nose.
There is no excuse for hard-coding credentials in an application and I don't care that the account has been disabled. Those credentials should never had been coded in the first place.
I will STEER well away from your applications in the future.
Okay, let me imagine a world where that is acceptable. Now I have one question : what kind of twisted sexual pervert takes pics of himself while trying to reach sexual release ?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I'm choking the one-eyed snake, I am paying attention to a video, a slideshow or a bunch of pictures, i am most definitely not fiddling around trying to make a fucking selfie.
Thus ends one of the most exhilarating and bold chapters of the history of our species, bogged down by beancounters and politicians with no balls.
But everything must end some day, so enter Musk and Bezos and capitalism and corporate profits, which will be the basis of actual space expansion.
Sad, but inevitable.
and I will say it again : the only way to neuter patent trolls is to tie the amount of damages to the amount of money the patent troll is making with his patent.
In other words : if you're just sitting on your patent and not producing anything of value with it, then you get no money for someone else actually producing goods with it (or something similar).
That will sort the wheat from the chaff.
Google is nothing if not persistent. I have Chrome on my work laptop and I installed Google Earth as well. Thinking it would be useful on my home computer, I installed Google Earth there as well. To my surprise, at next boot I found out my home computer had Chrome installed as well.
I didn't want Chrome, so I removed it. The following boot I found it there again. I'll spare you the details (rummaging around the Registry, checking startup options, controlling services, etc) but suffice it to say that after four days of these shenanigans, I gave up and removed anything Google from my home computers and Google is blacklisted on my personal hardware.
Oh really ?
I use Dropbox for non-critical, non-PII storage only. Anything important goes on Sync if I need it there because Sync has encryption and, if you trust their blurb, only I have the key and that means that I am indeed the only one to be able to access that data.
So you'll excuse me if I believe that Sync has the better storage service.
No it is not, since you specify in the title of your post a "successful businessman", meaning one who has made a lot of money.
And that is still not true, since the notion of oligarchy implies a small group of people who are thus called oligarchs.
Elon Musk is a very successful businessman, but he is not an oligarch. He rules alone.
The problem is not how many you catch, the issue here is the fact that you monetize those you don't catch.
And frankly, a photo no older than a week and connecting with 5 people per week in order to "qualify" for a refund ? Do we have permission to work, or are we supposed to just spend all our time on your site ?
Dating sites are just a huge scam IMO.
I can't even begin to fathom how a black hole merger happens inside. The singularity that crosses the event horizon first (I'm guessing the smaller one because smaller event horizon) is attracted to the bigger singularity just like anything else dropping in. What happens then ? Does the singularity start orbiting the other one for a short while ? Does it go straight for collision ? And what is the energy release of such an event forever contained behind the ultimate shroud ?
Mind-boggling stuff.
So, China has its fingers in Huawei, hmm ? And nobody mentions that the NSA has access to Cisco equipment ? If you're beating the security drum, beat it all the way.
The main hacking threat comes from China ? Really ? So Russian hackers are not that much of a threat, then ? All the data encryption and ransomware we have heard about this year came from China ? I don't think so. And let's not forget North Korea. I seem to recall a lot of fuss centered around a state-sponsored Nork team, but that is not important anymore now, right ? Riiight.
Strand Consulting is obviously just another Trump muppet, spouting the bull and spreading the FUD. He's toeing the line, dumping on China and waving unicorns. The US has achieved nothing in 5G. Show me the market using it before telling me how good you are.
Get away clean ? I think they've already blown that as well. Atari fans will never forget this shambles of a botched project, nor the names of the people attached to it. The head architect may have gone to another startup, but that will not diminish the furor of the people who paid good money on a promise made of empty.
And frankly, said architect managed to go for over a year with nothing to show for in the end. I would not want to have anything to do with his new startup after such dismal results.
Given that the rover's job was to study the regolith in the South Pole region, and that the results were highly anticipated by just about every space agency on the planet, I think that measuring success by the distance covered is wrong.
You do not pass an exam by showing up at the school door.
That the orbiter be credited with a 100% succes rate is fine, it is doing its job. But the mission had two components and one is DOA.
The success rate for the mission is 50% at best.
Meaningful connectivity means you have a connection that brings you the information you need in less than a minute. 4G should basically cover that, so why faff about it ?
It's all very nice to heartache over populations that cannot afford a mobile phone, but I think they probably have more pressing problems - like how to get something to eat for lunch, or (in some cases) how to not get shot before dinner.
Hardly. IE isn't even mentioned on StatCounter any more.
At ease, everyone. Carry on with your normal lives.
I do not see the current members of the committee putting in £6bn to correct the situation, so they are guilty.
Unless they can demonstrate that they are scraping every farthing they can find to correct the situation, they are guilty.
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