Posts by Pascal Monett 19191 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
As much as I like the idea, one must not forget that this whole mess only concerns HPE, who is crying over the milk it itself spilled.
So random executions may be a tad excessive for a private issue like that.
Brexit, on the hand, has been mismanaged from the start. A few random executions in the lot of politicians that are responsible for that mess would be good.
If you have a "dark net" delivery service that is lawful and visible, as you say, then call it DHL and you're done. If you want it to deliver stuff outside of the law, then it has to be, itself, outside of the law. And that's just a recipe for disaster.
The only reason there is this culture of dark net is because the Internet is not the real world and fudging one's existence, location and identity is very much easier on the Internet than it is in meatspace. However, when real goods need to be moved, you don't have the ability to fudge the destination or the amount unless you're smuggling - which is a crime in itself.
And, as good as the dark net denizens think they are in hiding from the law, in real life their experience is probably a lot less valid, not to mention subject to the whim of fate and random police stops.
Sanjay Kumar got 144 months for losing a paltry $400M when Charles McCall got only 120 months for burning over $8 billion ?? That's hardly fair.
In any case, this Hussain guy seems to be a real scumbag. And a rather efficient one at that.
Looks like he's got a job waiting for him at Uber when he gets out.
Apparently it's a lot more reliable than facial recognition (not difficult, I know). The Guardian posted an article answering just that question last September.
It can be fooled, as can everything, but The Guardian appears rather positive about it.
It would seem that the situation is a bit more complicated. Formerly-known-as-SPI is now part of a Norwegian conglomerate.
So who's to say that the rot was purely local ? I'm sorry, but multinationals are not high on my list of trusted things these days.
I think that what bothers me the most is that Microsoft has clearly transitioned from a Windows-is-the-only-true-path culture to an anything-that-will-bring-in-the-money culture.
Of course, that fact that Microsoft has had to use Linux for its Azure platform, instead of an army of Windows servers, was certainly a painful cluebat to the face. Apparently there was some brain damage after all.
Oh, you mean that thing that is failing to bring the expected benefits ?
Brilliant example.
Yeah, it's old, so it's obsolete.
Just like the wheel. We've been using that for thousands of years now. It's obviously obsolete.
By the way, out of curiosity, what do you have to replace it with ?
Because, if you don't have anything, then maybe you should check the dictionary for the definition of obsolete. I don't think you have the right one.
You are very right, but still, it should not be terribly difficult to understand that, if you take a piece of paper, write stuff on it, put it in a box, then take the same piece of paper, erase everything and write something else, you no longer have the first version.
I'm guessing she just needed someone to point out the equivalence of what she was doing.
It would probably be a lot more damaging to have a partner send out an email by himself only to discover after the fact that he had made a mistake or included a detail he shouldn't have.
There is one advantage to dictating a response : you have another pair of eyeballs reviewing your text and thus a better chance of spotting goofs and correcting them before sending.
For solicitors, I'm guessing that that is important.
No, it really isn't. Science is all about experimentation and confirmation. Stony asteroids were considered to be devoid of water, but not proven to be.
Science likes proof when it can get it, and this was the perfect opportunity to verify the hypothesis.
Now we know that stony asteroids can have water. Science is advancing.
It's your regular work routine and you still waste your time trying to connect to train wi-fi ? You should stop that and protect your blood pressure ; you're not getting any younger either, you know.
As for not knowing how they get your email, if you stopped signing up to all the stupid wi-fi maybe it would help.
Well since you can't be arsed to post a link supporting your views, I did the search and I found that :
Frida Ghitis, journalist on CNN, definitely states he is not a journalist
Peter Greste on stuff, another actual journalist, says he's not and why
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a columnist for The Bulwark, says the question is irrelevant and why
David French, journalist of National Review, calls him a leader of a non-state hostile intelligence service
On Wikipedia, his page states that he has been a member of the Australian Journalist Union
Kathy Kiely and Laurel Leff, two professors of journalism at The Conversation, explain why calling Assange a journalist is a bad mistake
Of course, I also found quite a lot of articles supporting the thesis that Assange is a journalist.
What I did not find is any report of a judge stating he is not.
So, citation please.
What's the level of market saturation ? How many people are there in the world who do not have a phone and have the means to pay for and use a flagship model ?
Does anyone really think that such people exist ?
I don't. I think that just about everyone who can have a phone has one. The market is saturated, so shipments are dropping.
Nothing to see here, except marketing people in panic. Well, you're supposed to analyze the market, not react to it. A drop in shipments is inevitable, as we are now transitioning to a replacement market - which is something marketing should know.
I must disagree with you there. What happened after Snowden was Schrems, who killed the existing data transfer agreement and forced the world to agree that the NSA are a bunch of above-the-law, cannot-be-trusted people. For you and I, not much has changed right now, but the GDPR came out of that mess, and that has kicked the hornet's nest for sure.
Eventually the market will get to a point where what you sell is a commodity, and you will have to settle for commodity prices.
Apple has always set its flagship phone at eye-watering prices, but that is less and less justified by the incremental improvements in what you get for the price. I cannot see that this trend continues long term. People are going to come to their senses and stop forking over thousands of dollars for a bloody mobile phone. $200 is more than enough for a phone and it should last five years at the very least.
My home server is now running on Mint. I have discussed with my sister and she has agreed to let me put Mint on her laptop as well. My wife's laptop is heading for Mint. As soon as I find the right video drivers, my nephews' game laptop is going to Mint as well.
Obviously my work laptop will have to stay Win7 for the time being, but I am looking into making the transition there as well. My home game rig will, unfortunately, have to stay Win7 for the foreseeable future, because gaming, and my daughter's laptop will have to as well because the video editing program that she uses for her projects does not have Linux version. But all those rigs that are not Mint will stay Win7 until the hardware dies.
How's that for feedback, SatNad ?
Go right on ahead and review. Cut yourselves off, I dare you. I am sick and tired of all the sharing that you have going on anyway. Let's stop sharing, let's stop handing over every snippet of even the most insignificant stuff simply because Uncle Sam wants it.
The US wants to bully the world into obeying it ? I'm French : I'll do the contrary just out of spite.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAA HAAA HAAAA !!
The only version of Windows that ever ran on 1GB of RAM was XP - and even then it was a lot better with 4GB.
My personal minimum RAM requirement for Windows has been 16GB for the past ten years, and now I have 32GB. Once I have completed transitioning my family entirely to Mint, things will be a lot easier on the support side.
Yeah, because it always pays off to insult the Attorney General. Looks like they handle lawsuits just about as well as they handle their responsibilities : badly.
In any case, this is just one more in a long list of either incompetent or criminal bastards. I have long been convinced that all virtual currencies are just a front for criminals, and to date I have nothing to prove me the contrary.
Hosting companies have a lot to worry about : server stability, virtual server management, complicated administration rights, I get it.
But there is no reason on Earth that I can accept a hosting company falling to malware. Your staff is supposed to be alert to that, phishing is a well-known concept that network administrators are supposed to know by heart. A hosting company falling to malware has failed its number one obligation : having trained personnel to deal with issues. If A2 has indeed had its servers taken over by malware, then it is through sheer incompetence, either of management or in implementing procedures properly.
If I were being hosted by them, I would be transferring my site elsewhere pronto.
An interesting take on security, but you're talking about industrial environments. Security is something people do actually pay attention to in those environments, because people have died in industrial accidents.
People have also died in elevators, but that is not something anyone pays attention to when going back to their hotel room. Personally, if I'm going back to my room after a well-liquored evening, the security guy has one thing to check : do I have my keycard. After that, I will take offense and make one hell of a stink, and if it has to go to calling the manager, it will go there. I paid good money for that room, no two-bit sentinel is going to stand between me and my bed.
"I find it interesting that US Gov will protect Intel but not US consumers"
Simple answer : US consumers do not have powerful lobbyists working for them and lavishing the lawmakers with swanky parties and brown envelopes. Also, there are not enough lawmakers or senators that are there to do their job of managing the country properly - they're all blinded by the big issue : getting enough funding for their next re-election bid.
Yeah, we all know how FaceBook negociates : it listens to the litany of damning evidence, then it says something to the effect of "Uh-huh, um, we'll see what we can do about that". Then it returns to its lair to laugh maniacally before instructing its programmers to find more ways to track everyone and everything.
What should happen is that all of its servers and datacenters should be cut off from the Internet until it can prove that it has solved the issues.
That would focus its attention.
"the law in China states that a company MUST give the state any and all information when requested"
Sorry, but the US has a law by which, with a National Security Letter, anyone, any company, must comply to the instructions. Oh, and they must also keep secret that they are doing so.
Don't see any real difference there, so if that is your basis to be wary of Chinese equipment, then you must agree that we also need to be wary of US equipment.
And let's be honest : do you really think there is a country wherein a company based in that country can say no to the police or government of that country ?
Uh, about that idea Zuck - it won't work. You need to have your headquarters in a country where the government couldn't demand access. As long as your company is hosted on US soil, a US judge can and will demand access (they don't always get it, but they ask for it).
You will find that judges are a lot less accepting of being brushed off and/or ignored.
Yeah, we know what that means : the Government has access to all comms without a warrant, and nobody else does. I'm so glad that there are some highly-paid people spending their time saying all this when it is the comms companies that are going to do all the work.
Sounds like my mother-in-law when she tells me how I should mow my lawn.
