Posts by Pascal Monett 19394 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I do believe that the Tesla is actually better suited to European travel distances. Here in 30km, you can actually reach another major city. In the US, you've barely exited the suburbs of the city you're in.
I see a few Teslas going to and from work. Not saying they're popular, but there are quite a few around.
Yeah, but it was also fucking awesome and it could lift 140 metric tons into orbit.
Today's best lifter would apparently be the Falcon Heavy with up to 50 tons (taking into account only those rockets that have actually lifted something into orbit).
There are a number of rockets promising to approach the venerable Saturn V's record, but none of them exist anywhere except on paper yet, so we'll just have to wait and see.
"Our people need to be clear about their career path at DXC"
Oh, the path was quite clear before : the exit was right there. It's going to be one hell of a job to regain employee trust and demonstrate that management has indeed changed, if that is the case. Still, at least the are words about employee retention, that's a first change.
If this Salvino guy does turn DXC around, in mentality and not just profits, then I might well consider myself impressed.
Because he's starting pretty far down, one must admit.
That is likely the responsible answer. If the user is legitimate, then it is indeed up to the user to correct any profile mistakes.
Unfortunately, that means that you are subject to the whims of a nitwit that couldn't enter his own phone number properly.
Well, they do specify that the tool was made by Kaspersky Labs.
1) Their website is not good. They claim to have international clients, and only show three logos, none of which point to a testimonial from the website of the company in question. Oh, and they use the same guy on the two pics that show people - looks like they don't have all that many techs available.
2) They brag, that's not professional.
3) They tout a 100% success rate in "decrypting, analyzing and preventing ransomware attacks", which is simply ludicrously impossible.
4) Their testimonials are badly written, with the same kinds of mistakes across several "different" entries.
I look at that website and the wording itself screams "scam!" at me.
The amount of data collected by Facebook is several orders of magnitude greater than Uber gets.
Facebook has 15 datacenters and has spent a billion dollars on the technology. You don't make that many without the data that they need to store.
Uber, on the other hand, has not built any datacenters, and spends less than $250 million annually on hosted equipment.
It is therefor obvious that Facebook is getting more data than Uber.
Is it any surprise that a Google-hosted event to talk about how great Google is has people mouthing nice words about privacy while defending ads and the data collection it implies ?
Of course not. Obviously engineers are trotted out to reassure people : look how reasonable we are ! We know privacy matters !
You mouth the words, but you're working for the biggest ad giant on the planet. You fool no one.
Yup, you nailed that : people are rubbish at proper document handling and storage. Oh sure, there' the odd exception - like my wife actually, but generally speaking papers are to be stuffed in a closet and forgotten, or judged useless and thrown out. Medical records ? Why would I keep a five-year old bill from my local pharmacist ?
Medical documents are much better in the hands of medical professionals. That does not include Google, even if they hire a "Chief Medical Officer". Is that person even a doctor ? Well I'll be damned, she is. And the head of Google Health is as well. I hope that's a good sign, but that still doesn't make Google a medical company.
That dates way back to the apparition of GDPR, yeah. Oh, and the jury is still out on whether or not Office 365 is GDPR-compliant, might want to clear that up.
Oh well, at least Microsoft is paying lip service to the notion of privacy. We'll just have to wait for the inevitable cock-up to find out how much it is fooling around behind our backs.
Agreed, but the alternative is another government-funded space program and, to do so, more taxes because NASA is already rolling on three wheels instead of the six it would need to actually get things done.
So, the future of space is Capitalism, and that means profit. I don't like it either, but that's where we're going.
Excellent response. I was going to link to a video on a YouTube channel (Curious Droid) that talks about just that problem and outlines everything you have said, but I do not have the access to do so where I currently am.
You can look at the channel and find it though, so if you're interested . . .
Right now we're still learning the ropes. I am convinced that Cloud is complicated, and DevOps, go fast and break things, and all the new thingamabobs they keep adding to remain "competitive" are certainly not helping in the stability and availability sides of the operation.
In twenty or so years, when the long-toothed DevOps guys have actually gained the wisdom of experience, I'm sure Cloud progress will be at a much more sedated pace, and availability will be up there with the famous Five Nines.
But first, we're going to have to live through the breakneck (and neck-breaking) pace of those young whippersnappers who have to invent everything Right Damn Now and get it into production yesterday.
I'll keep my data on my own network during that time, thank you very much.
Yeah, just like a guy getting caught running a red light admits it to the cops who caught him red-handed.
Sorry bud, but admitting it in this case is not getting them any brownie points. It would have been simple to include a question at install time, collecting performance data is not something new and a lot of programs and other things offer to participate, so why did they think they were above that ?
They're not, and they deserve the fallout.
Right, so people are automatically going to volunteer the information that they had a deactivated firearm. Sure. That will in no way bring attention to them, there will be absolutely no investigation launched into people who "notify" several weapon transfers, and nothing bad will ever come to the people involved.
Come on, you don't require registration of such weapons, why do you suddenly need notification of change of ownership ? That is equivalent to saying that someone else now has it, which is the same as a registration in that person's name.
Might as well impose ID cards.
If you can replace your laptop with a phone, you're not doing much with either.
One day, maybe, when we have finally discovered how to make room-temperature superconductors that will allow us to push processors past 4GHz, we might get computing platforms with the power of a mainframe and the size of a phone, but there is no phone today that can match an i7-powered laptop with 16GB of RAM and a 500GB SSD.
Not one.
That is an interesting article, but I didn't read anything in there that contradicts what I said. Facebook is not going to be investigated under the first reason of statutory alignment with social security or state unemployment schemes. Neither is Facebook being investigated for fraud, and Facebook is really, really far from being bankrupt.
As I said, Facebook management is practically immune from legal reprisals.
Because Facebook is an enormous corporation that gives a lot of lobbying money and campaign fund support, so it will not be treated like you or me, simple citizens.
Then there's the fact that Facebook has it's own army of lawyers who would fight an incarceration tooth and nail, and probably without much trouble.
Finally, there's the fact that jailing company executives for doing the company's bidding is simply not in the law. You fine the company after a lengthy lawsuit, but the people in it are all but immune unless they commit a real crime (ie killing someone, insider trading or such, that cannot be excused by the company).
So what is needed is a change in the law, making executives personally responsible for the behavior of the company - and that is whole other ball game.
How is it possible for a computer to allocate a room that is already occupied ? It should indeed be a computer problem because I very much doubt that there is any booking system where the clerk can override room status on an occupied room - that way lies madness.
So there clearly is a bug in the system, but what on Earth could it be ? The database is corrupt ? The system got hacked and nobody's noticed yet ?
Anyone got any ideas ?
So, two low-scoring vulns could be combined into one big problem. Sure, theoretically, but how do you evaluate just how many low-scoring things can be combined and in what way, before you can rate all of them properly ?
Security is always in hindsight. We know to look out for privilege escalation issues because some hacker one day taught us that it worked. We have a body of knowledge today that is certainly impressive, and it will be one hell of a task to knit all that knowledge together to create a proper rating system, but there is no such thing as automating the risk evaluation - it has to be analyzed by a human. Humans don't know everything, and are rather bad at taking into account hundreds of parameters at once.
It is obvious the CVSS is not very valuable, but crafting a good replacement is going to be a massive headache. And yet, it should definitely be done. Good luck with that, then.
Funny you should say that, given how many times you've already been nailed to the post for misleading reporting on performance. So either you employ incompetent people to draw up your reports, or you don't do enough reviewing before publishing, or . . you're marketing efforts are a bit too zealous (yeah, let's put it that way).
This kind of behavior is quite common in the industry, just look at the continual skirmishing between NVidia and AMD on the graphics side of things. AMD is always being forced to defend the performance of its processors in all domains, because AMD is a worthy contender and we need AMD to keep everyone else in line.
IT is the one domain where the numbers should not lie. Thanks to AMD for their continual efforts to keep it that way.
Yup, when I read the words "all you need to do is set up a funding URL" I immediately thought "and all the hackers have to do is hijack that".
I totally agree on the principle, but JavaScript being the most hijacked thing in the IT world, I can't see how that will not attract all kinds of scum.
Still, at least they are trying something.
An $8bn company starts talking about buying a $27bn company. Reality stares back and says "Nope".
If I had $8000, I could conceivably persuade my banker to loan me another $20000 to buy a $28000 car, but even if I had $80000, I don't think my banker would loan me $200000 to buy a $280000 house. Not at my age and not on my salary.
So what is the real reason behind this pie-in-sky thinking ? Xerox can re-evaluate its cash flow, redo its financials six ways to Sunday, it doesn't and will never have the cash or the means to match HP's weight.
The whole affair is nonsense.
You do realize that hard drives are not backups ? They are subject to failure, magnets, and various other risks.
An optical disk is the only proper backup. Keep it in the shade at reasonable temperature and your photos will still be viewed decades from now. I suggest a BluRay writer and buying the 50GB disks. They are a bit more expensive per GB than the 25GB disks, but hey, double the storage is worth it.
The problem is not in private APIs or not. The problem is the rule said do not use them, developers used them and got away with it for a while, building their base and reputation, and now boom, no more private APIs.
That is not consistent. The developers should never have been able to post those apps in the first place. That would have been consistent.
After that, if you don't like it is another matter entirely. But if you ban them then you ban them from the start, not after a few years of saying so.
And therein lies the rub : consistency. Apple is well-known for wanting to control everything, but how it controls is not consistent. It is useless to lay down a rule if you only enforce it after years of ignoring it. That is how you get backlash and discontent among your user base.
Of course, it may be that Apple has decided it doesn't care, but the lapse between declaring the rule and enforcing it is just sloppiness. When a company decides to only accept Word files as job submissions, you can bet that it won't let the first 20 PDF files through anyway, just because. No, those PDF files are going straight to the round filing cabinet and those who submitted are likely never even going to hear about it.
It is disheartening and despicable to realize that we are in the 3rd Millennium CE and there are still men who treat women as objects to be acquired, without acknowledging that they are also people.
I do not understand that mentality. If you really think a woman is just an object, then go buy yourself a Real Doll. You'll have exactly what you want and women will have what they want : not you.
These days, it would seem that the ability to post inane tweets, a picture of your meal or some other equally useless thing is quite enough to validate the usage of people's data.
The only reason we're having this discussion is because people don't actually care what they are being used for on the Internet. There appears to be a general approach of "I can do whatever I want, there are no consequences and I will use anything that is free without thinking".
As long as the majority think that way, companies will be able to get away with a lot. That is why GDPR is likely the best thing to happen to the Internet in general. Only the fines will keep companies in line.
All the wonderful things that come with "smart" now also include "the provider can shut it down without your consent". Just like all those defunct music services where you thought you buying music tracks, remember ?
Man that really encourages me to dash off and purchase all that smartness.
The heliosphere is based on solar wind, so why isn't the heliosphere centered around the Sun ? Looking at the diagram, I see a very exaggerated version of Earth's magnetic field. I know the Sun is moving around the center of our galaxy, but surely the heliosphere encounters the pressure of the interstellar medium in all directions, no ?
So why the gigantically-disproportioned tail ?
