Posts by Pascal Monett 19394 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
And you would replace email with what ? Facebook postings ? Twitter notifications ? An SMS, maybe ?
Email is still very useful, especially in a business environment.
Obviously, for those who spend their free time on social media, yeah, not so useful. It's okay though, nothing they do there is useful either.
Those are words that have never, ever been used to described the ad experience on a computer.
None of those words have anything to do with ads on an electronic device, and likely they never will.
Ads are a nuisance, a malware vector and totally useless. You can slurp all the data you want, you can hoover all the info you get your hands on, you will never realize that when I've just bought a UPS, seeing ads for a UPS just makes me want to strangle you. Get your finger out and code your ad pseudo-AI to note the date of my purchase and start showing me ads on that when the expected lifetime of the object is about to be reached. THEN you will be relevant.
Of course, by that time your marketing manager will have long been changed, so no impact on his bonus. Well he's not getting one now, now is he ?
We need to nuke the whole ad system and restart from scratch. Start by taking all ad agencies and shooting the lot of them. That will clear the ground to do something useful.
I never did understand that move. If you want people to use your language, you have to give them the interface to learn it. The fact that MS made Visual Studio not a free package is just another gun->foot moment in my mind.
Traditionally, all programming environments have been free. Turbo Pascal didn't make you pay for its dev environment, nor did Borland ever do that. They understood that you need to incite people to come and discover, and if you set a price for entry, it just becomes a barrier that only those who have to pay will do so.
So it's no use complaining that people aren't using your language, Microsoft. You're the one who is keeping them out, for the sake of a few more bucks to throw on your bottomless pile.
What a sad life she has. I wonder if she went off the rails, or if she never was on them and found Alan's life appealing/attractive and used that to build her own.
In any case, unfortunately for her, his things will obviously be returned to their rightful place. It just might be a good idea to post a full-time guard because she seems quite capable of going and stealing them again.
Now that is a valid concern, as well as an acceptable reason to not implement total encryption. The Helldesk is hard enough as it is, and the idiots who lock themselves out of their pics would likely be the first to blame Apple for it.
That said, it's obvious that authorities are back to the "think of the children" angle. They must have a rotating wheel with Terrorist, Pedophile, Mass Murderer and Evil Thug, and at the beginning of the month they spin it to know what angle to use on the public. This month we've been getting Pedophile, last month was, I think, Terrorist.
Anything to keep them awash in private data without a warrant.
"would violate ICANN's commitment to ‘preserve and enhance ... the operational stability, reliability, security ... and openness of the DNS and the Internet"
If that is the case, then what is the penalty ?
Let's be clear : ICANN is a rogue organization now. It does what it wants to best serve its own interests, and its charter is pretty much a charred lump of ashes in the furnace. If there is not a clear and imminent danger facing its Board and directors, nothing is going to change.
It just blows my mind that an organization chartered by the Government to do a specific thing in a specific way can just completely ignore its duties and do whatever it wants without the police marching in to round up those responsible, throw them in jail for treason and have the Government set up new management.
Why is that not happening ? WHY ?
Well that certainly is a successful lawsuit.
I personally don't care for Ubisoft games in general, but you have to be a special kind of loser to want to actively hurt the play experience of people you don't know and will never meet. These four don't care about that, they're in it for the money, which is just evil. I hope they go down for the count.
What is it with people who just have to have their life online without backup ? Nothing against password managers, but for Pete's sake don't you have a local backup ?
I coded my own password manager. I have it where I need it, and I have a backup at home where it is easy to get to. Of course, I'm not using three different platforms to access the Internet, so managing the password database is much easier for me, but still : I have a backup.
Back it up, people. It will save your bacon one day.
Go AMD !
For sure, Intel is handing AMD the market now. Intel doesn't want to lose the big four, but it is certainly not gaining traction elsewhere. AMD is perfectly poised to scoop up a larger share of the market and I can only hope that it reaps all the rewards that it can.
That said, this scuffle is in the server market. Consumer-oriented chips are just as available as before, right ? Intel doesn't just make Xeons, there's the entire iX family (i3, i5, i7 and i9). Those aren't being hit by any major restriction, right ?
Intel will keep making money hand over fist, and AMD will have a bit more room to grow. That's good news everywhere.
Clearview is quite incorrect indeed. There's this thing called decency, where it is not because you can do something that you should consider yourself justified in doing it.
You can follow someone in the street. If you do that for too long though, that person is going to get cross at you. Arguing that you have the right to be in the street does not change the fact that you do not follow people. Here, it is the same thing. You can look at a picture. That does not give you the right to copy the picture and monetize it.
Unfortunately, the law is not going to react on this point.
What do we have here ?
A police inquiry that makes an official request for information to an organization that keeps GPS information far longer than any company should need to. The inquiry is legit, restricted to specific, determined area and backed by a judge. This is justice in motion and I have no problem with that.
If there is any issue, it is in the fact that fucking Google has the means to become an auxiliary of justice. Who gave Google the authority to store GPS data on its customers ? Who delegated to Google the means of recording the life of Joe Public ? How is it that we continue to accept that a commercial, for-profit company has the right to record and store more data about our lives than the government ?
One day there should be a reckoning about that, if we are to hope to preserve the privacy of our lives.
" In effect, the hackers exploit the flaw to get access to the server, kill any existing malware, set up their own backdoor, then block off the vulnerable code from future exploit attempts by mitigation."
So basically these hackers can do a better job than AV vendors ? They're in the wrong business. They should create and sell an AV suite (they could call it HackerGuard). They'd make millions and it would all be legitimate.
"They always understood that they were an engineering-driven company, not a financially driven company . If they’re no longer honoring that as their central mission, then over time they’ll just become another company."
Yep, well that train has now arrived at the station.
That was thrown out the window when the beancounters persuaded the Board that using only two processing units would save 33% on costs. They mentioned that it would be just as accurate and reliable.
The Board, obviously, only saw how much money they could augment themselves by, so it was approved because there are no lowly engineers on the Board to state the problems with that approach.
Except that, now that the entire world doesn't want anything to do with the 737 MAX (and the FAA is not going to let them self-certify any more), all of a sudden they have to listen to actual engineers because that plane has to fly, or else Boeing is ruined.
"we have witnessed several companies in the past 18 months making license changes to block the cloud providers from continuing this trend"
And how exactly is that going to do anything to block Azure or AWS from taking any open-source code, fiddling with it until it does what they want, and stashing the result where nobody can see it ?
It's not like those several companies are going to be granted investigative powers and check what state that now-proprietary code is in.
Of course they do, they need the funding. I, however, am very doubtful that this can, one day, be used to help self-driving cars navigate the crowded streets of New York. I doubt very much that their laser will even be able to hit the wall and, if it does, it certainly won't be able to reflect anything back to the vehicle's detectors.
Besides, given that you have to get the angle just right, I don't see this working at all outside laboratory conditions.
For this tech to actually work, statistical analysis machines need to progress and miniaturize to the point where each vehicle has its own. I don't see that happening any time soon.
10 minutes is enough for spelling errors, and obvious mistakes. Anything else and you have, as you have used, the additional comment.
There is no way to change that without endangering the coherency of the entire forum thread.
We all need to think twice and proofread before submitting, myself included.
Putting in place a form of technology, then pulling the rug out from under everyone who put effort into it a few scant years later.
The only difference is that it's Google, perpetually in beta. Microsoft does that with products that are supposed to be long-term, drumming up support via expensive marketing and endless hype, right up to the day it decides that nah, it's done with this crap and moving on. Just the same, tens of thousands of enthusiasts of that tech are left bereft, drifting in the Sea Of Abandoned Ideas.
Kinda makes you think about sticking to things that last longer than a CEO's attention span, doesn't it ?
It is probably already hiring an entire new law department to stomp all over the Middle Kingdom. I wonder how China will handle copyright claims (if it will) ? I mean, how long is copyright in China ? If it's e.g. five years, then they could logically oppose any legal action concerning something made 20 years ago and nobody could do anything about it, while validly claiming to respect copyright.
Did you feel that ? I think Mickey Mouse just fainted.
It seems that there is a digital divide looming in our near future. There will be one bastion of freedom and privacy, the EU, and there will be the rest of the world living in totalitarian surveillance states "for your protection, citizen".
I'm glad I live in France. And I'm glad there still are people in this world who retain their sense of duty when they attain important positions.
No, Pai, I'm not talking about you.
And the pocket never gives anything back. As soon as we invent folding space or whatever method by which we can get to another star in hours instead of millennia, I will gladly help fund a probe to send over there and stream whatever is happening back.
Because I don't think putting a Fhloston Paradise-style luxury starship there would be a good thing. The radiation environment over there is probably horrendous.
Not any more, it doesn't. American law says one thing, Trump and his goons do whatever they want and high-level execs escape scot-free.
And, given who Trump pushed into the Supreme Court, soon American law will be re-written to basically state that anything a multi-billion company does is legal by definition. That is what Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, HP and the rest of them are pushing for.
Hussain's part in "inventing" misleading accounting strategies is said to be both entirely legitimate and "wildly over blown."
I'm sorry, first you're saying that Hussain was entirely justified, then you say that his involvement was "wildly overblown" ? What's the point ? If his shenanigans were legitimate then you don't need to minimize them.
Either you say he was right, or you say he didn't do much. Mixing both sends a very negative image of you just trying to cover something up.
Damn right. 890+ orders down to less than 60. Hey, beancounters, whaddya think of that ? Did you succeed in diminishing costs enough ?
Hey, board members ! Happy about pushing your engineers to cut corners ? Pleased that you have worked in the best interests of your shareholders ?
I am pleased as punch with this result. Orders down by a whopping 94%. Now if that doesn't provide an incentive to do things right, I don't know what will.
If there is any professionalism left, the entire board will be sacked and an actual engineer put back in control.
Here's hoping.
Swoop in to save the day, and carry off a billion-dollar contract. Who can complain about that ? Not TSB, who is obviously incapable of managing its business any more, so is showering Big Blue with moolah so it can continue fleecing its customers. Not the IBM salespeople, who can rightly revel in the insane bonuses this contract will bring them. And not the board at IBM, who can finally count on a nice chunk of revenue for a change.
No, I think the only ones who could complain are the customers, who witnessed hundreds of millions pissed away in the Mother Of All Botched Upgrades, and are now witnessing a cool billion being skimmed of their money's interest.
Ah, what sacrifices they endure to continue having access to their money . . .
. . recreate the mess that was Excel spreadsheets and Access databases spread hither and skilter without any oversight, control or knowledge, thus continuing the entrenchment of companies in the ignorance of the tools and data they are using, meaning no backups and no proper DR scenario in case of trouble.
For God's sake, Google, is there anyone there who understands the value of keeping control over what tools are being used in a company ? Do YOU allow your employees their own databases and code without any oversight whatsoever ? Somehow, I doubt that. So why impose it on the rest of us ?
Oh, silly me, divide and conquer, of course. Carry on.
Dear Lord that is sooo smart. That just has to be the result of middle management meetings pontificating about what to do without having a clue about what the consequences were.
Somewhere, there is an engineer smirking in his beard, thinking "I told them that wouldn't work, but did they listen ? No. Well they're going to get an earful now".
What slow businesses are left (okay, IBM excepted) ? Is he talking about Fortune 500 behemoths ? They're all Agile (TM) now, aren't they ?
Because I don't think that your local garage manager can do much planning where Brexit is concerned. Either his suppliers will continue to supply him, or he'll have to find new ones.
I went to the Openreach homepage to try and check out what kinds of FTTP were on offer. I was expecting something like with Orange (France), where they practically throw the information at you. All I got was a load of marketing across the face and, eventually, a request for a post code.
I tried finding the postcode of Devon, mentioned in the article, but I don't think I got anything useful because I never got beyond that request page.
So I Googled to try and find the types of contracts and their prices, and man, was that a painful experience. It is unbelievable for me that it took so long to finally get this data.
Second surprise : the prices. A year-on-year 1Gbps contract is almost twice what I pay. If, however, you sign up for the 3-year stretch, then you're getting around my price. Obviously, Openreach is pushing people to long contracts, which is understandable.
Third surprise : Openreach is only giving you Internet access. There does not appear to be a phone/Internet/TV bundle going on. So not only is Openreach more expensive unless you sign on for the duration, but you're also getting much less than I am.Oh well, at least it appears that you're getting a better deal than the Yanks.
BTW, does Openreach also limit their "unlimited" contracts ? Because I actually didn't find any mention of unlimited anywhere. That would really be the kicker.
Well in a helicopter you're just a pilot. Plus you're not even a billionaire, so there. In your offices you're used to being the Top Man, we understand, but at the airport you're just a number.
Buy the airport and come back to us then, dickwad. If you have to cite the operating costs of your vehicle as a reason to treat you special, then you don't deserve the vehicle in the first place.
Do you ever hear Ferrari owners complain about maintenance costs ?
Small timer.
