Posts by Pascal Monett 19423 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
We are now in the Age of the Company, which decides what the customer wants and monetizes the customer's private details for maximum revenue.
It is insane to kill off an app that people actually like using. Of course, from Microsoft's point of view, it's obviously insane to keep updating an app that can - gasp - actually work with non-Microsoft platforms.
Get with the program, Microsoft. The future is about Cloud, not platform.
I find it astounding that companies are willing to write off decades of SAP ERP investment to start over just so that they can make calculations in columns. I mean, they've been managing so far, what's the problem ?
Honestly, if my company was big enough to need SAP and I had a working system, I'd hate to budget for an entirely new system just because of a new calculation method. I know IT is all about redoing stuff, but this is pushing things a bit far.
I hope there's some other advantage that justifies spending all that money all over again.
There's a twofold reason for that : one is that companies, contrary to Microsoft, like it when their databases are accessible 24/7, thus any change is viewed with suspicion because, yes, Microsoft and others have a track record of patches breaking things. The other reason is that there aren't all that many companies that have a dev environment that mirrors the production environment exactly, thus patching the dev environment and testing is not always representative what will happen when the production environment is patched - meaning more suspicion and delays.
Because Microsoft still hasn't understood that patching your production database and then not being able to use it is something companies don't like. At all. And I just can't understand how Microsoft can write code that breaks its own effing tools. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have the ability to actually test its own stuff, but here we all are.
Well what if a security researcher does ?
Personally, if I have not activated location services, I expect my phone to not activate them on its own.
I am sick and tired of devices that do their own thing independently of what I actually told them to do.
Another reason for me not to buy Apple - not that I'm lacking any.
Things are proceeding exactly as I have foreseen.
Never going to happen.
First of all, in companies the size of Microsoft, there's always something happening that should not be known to the workforce before the appropriate time - decided by the board.
Second, there are some things that need to be kept secret. Having an employee representative is a world of possible leaks waiting to happen.
Third, do you really think these kind of people are going to want to shoulder it with a representative of the peons ? They're above that, and that's where they want to stay.
Sorry, but there was no mistake there. This was a calculated and programmed operation with a specific target market, and the people responsible for putting this in place should definitely go to jail.
And the CEO should be first in line, because that's where the buck stops.
Our society is not going get better any time soon if we can't teach the right lesson to the criminals in white collars.
"Because many of the victims are small and medium enterprises, their accounts typically don't have the same legal protections afforded to consumer accounts."
What kind of schizophrenic country allows for different levels of legal protection following what entity it is that opens a bank account ? A bank account is a bank account, whether it is held by a corporation, a person or an illegal alien from Mars.
And how ironic that corporations who can potentially lobby to have laws written in their favor have less legal banking protection than voters whose votes don't count.
"The company recommended people take the same precautions with text messages from unknown mobile numbers as they would with emails from unknown sources"
People apparently blindly accept email from unknown sources, clicking the links and forwarding as requested ; telling them to do the same with SMSs is not really a good idea.
I find the whole selfie thing revolting.
Pictures are to record the special things you've seen, to remember them later. If you're in the middle, you're taking up space uselessly. Of course you were there, you took the pic. You don't need to be in it to remember.
But you do need to be in it to show off. I hate that.
I wouldn't worry. If you've made negative comments about a French company, you can be sure that there are many, many of my countrymen who have made even worse comments.
It's in our nature to complain. When it's hot, it's always too hot. When it's cold, it's not hot anymore. When there's sunshine, we'd like rain. When it's raining, we're fed up with rain.
It's called being Gaulois. It's the reason why no invader will ever stay - we'll drive them nuts because we drive ourselves nuts already. Vive la France !
Space is decidedly awesome. Last year that rubber ducky-shaped asteroid we put a lander on actually demonstrated landslides, now we have an asteroid that ejects solid matter without a volcano.
Explaining that is going to take some serious genius. I can't wait for the result.
Yes, I'm sure the NSA and hackers all over the world are in total agreement with that statement.
You are out of you mind if you honestly think that I am going to trust my entire desktop and all my data to someone else's computer, to be accessed under someone else's whim. I have a PC, a Personal computer, and I intend it to stay that way.
As much as I complain, like everyone else, about Microsoft products, I disagree with that sentence. Most software companies actually have product when they declare that they are selling it. Sure, said product will have patches and upgrades, but there is something working.
Oracle is apparently guilty of selling a non-existent product to customers, and tasking this guy to keep said customers patient while it was being developed. That is not at all the same thing.
In any case, it would seem that Oracle should partner up with Escobar Inc. They are obviously made to match.
I am comforted in my opinion that anything related to this company is to be avoided at all costs. It is astounding that such a family of criminals can openly deal on the international market without any backlash.
Escobar can keep its trash, I'm not going to help them launder a single cent of ill-gotten gains.
The article does not mention that the malware sample was found on VirusTotal. That means that somebody has scanned it, which has to mean that those Norks leaked it out.
However, the article states that the control server is not handing out the payload, which prevents the malware from doing anything at this point in time.
So that begs the question : has this malware actually been installed and then the Norks shut down the service because they were only interested in one target ? Or are they still in the ramping up stage and want everything to be perfect for when they do unleash the malware ?
Which still does not explain the sample on VirusTotal.
But can they detect where the disturbance is, meaning how far down the cable ?
To me, this reads like a boolean result : the laser signal is disturbed, or it isn't. There is not enough description in the article to tell me whether the boffins knew where those 6000 perturbations were. On the other hand, they knew they had 6000 perturbations, so they must have some way of counting.
I'd like to know.
Um, sorry pal, but in case you haven't got the email, the Internet has escaped USA borders and most of its users now are not actually American citizens.
Yeah. Let's see just how long Apple takes before deciding that it actually can tolerate that kind of risk.
After all, it's not about morals, it's just about how much Apple will lose if it doesn't comply.
Ah, the beauty of Capitalism.
Sorry Apple, but if you think for one second that I believe you give a flying shit about morals, I have a bridge to sell you.
Nope.
Never gonna happen.
A desktop is plugged into the mains, a phone has a battery that has a finite - and very limited - duration.
Even if you plug the phone into a charger, it is designed for a heat envelope that is orders of magnitude less than what a true desktop - with watercooling these days - is designed for.
So go on and say that your new design is the highest performer, sure, but a desktop it ain't and never will be.
Careful.
Second-generation immigrants are born in the country and raised in the country and are just as much a citizen as you are (*). A name does not imply that the person is not from your country.
* - not saying that 1st-generation immigrants aren't, obviously, as long as they've been officially accepted through the immigration process.
Apparently, they have amounted to an additional cost of $500 to $1700 per year per US household.
I'm sure US households will have no problem dealing with that additional charge.
