Posts by Pascal Monett 18239 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"The report says America’s national security agencies sought 534,396,285 call detail records in calendar 2017"
Seems to me they're drowning themselves in data. It is just not possible that their search criteria is sufficiently precise to yield actionable data.
Good.They'll be spending valuable tax dollars searching for eff all, while actual innocent people will suffer no consequences.
Hey, if you can't beat 'em, you can drown 'em in irrelevant data.
Translation :
Um, our heavy-handed tactics have been revealed, so we're backing off before being fined to oblivion. Hey, how could we guess that forcing our partners to use only our products would be illegal ? It's not like we have lawyers to tell us such things, or any respect of an actual Free Market. We just thought we could make all the money. Seems like we can't. Shucks.
The fact that Trump has been able to place his croonies in all key positions and have them dance to the corporate tune is just the measure of how utterly corrupt US Government is.
If the Government was functioning properly, this would not happen because there would be checks and balances to the power of whoever is in place. Those checks and balances are the first thing that were undermined long ago by individuals who had their eyes set on delicious bags of money rather than the duty of serving the public.
Decades of this influence has brought us here.
Drain the swamp indeed. Start by everyone who works for Trump, then go on to forbid corporate representatives from even entering in communication with any government official. Make it a federal crime.
Then, and only then, will you start being able to claw back your democracy.
Indeed, Twitter is apparently upfront about the issue and that is something that must be commended.
The fact that it is an internal gaffe and (allegedly) no data was actually leaked is a Good Thing (TM). The fact that Twitter still came out with the issue, and the possible hit to its reputation, marks a company that is definitely not like many others.
So good on Twitter for doing the Right Thing (TM).
I'm still not getting a Twitter account, though.
I have no problem with that, nor has anyone that played or still plays Left 4 Dead 2, I'd wager.
Great game, good balance between ammo and enemies, and big rush when the next wave arrives a the most inopportune moment.
You have control of 15% of shares. You ARE a minority owner.
Once again I read about Carl Icahn and I picture a hyperactive 8-year-old jumping up and down, shrieking at the top of his lungs "I WANT TO PLAY MONOPOLY" while all the other kids are out playing ball.
Not an idiot. Far from. Just a fucking nuisance.
VR in general has always been something I don't care about and don't really believe in. For the past three decades, I have walked the graphics card treadmill powered by the late 3Dfx, AMD and Nvidia. I have gone from Voodoo 2 to GeForce GTX 980 Ti, passing through a slew of GeForce cards, Radeon 9800 and HD 5870.
I have witnessed screen sizes go from 14" to 19" CRTs, then TFT from 19" to 28" widescreen. Pixel amounts have gone from 1024 x 768 native, to the monster I have now at 3840 x 2160. I have seen game visuals go from pixellated 3D wireframe to full, lush real-time images that are today better than the game cutscenes we had twenty years ago.
And out comes VR, apparently with the same graphics quality we had twenty years ago, the same in-world limitations of a Super Nintendo, and I'm supposed to forget that because I'm "in" the world ?
When I play Minecraft I'm "in" the world as well. When I play 7 Days you can bet your bum I'm in the world, and ears alert to hear the zombies sneaking up behind me.
VR gives me nothing I don't have already and having a sore neck is not worth the feeble world it offers. The day 7 Days runs in VR in the same resolution and level of realism, then call me. I might give it a try.
Why is it that lawyers who are not plaintifs get a full quarter of the total damages ? In what world is that normal ? Did they actually work for $2 million worth ?
No, they did not. They're just carving the beast for the lion's share before letting the rabble dine on scraps.
There should be a change of rule : lawyers get costs + 10% deducted from the total. With an audit of costs if necessary. That should be largely enough.
All the hype about going to The Cloud (TM) seems to have been shot down in one well-prepared speech.
Every single aspect of it is subject to restrictions and possible technical points that can end up creating bottlenecks or worse.
And random file names, really ? Yeah, we humans can deal with that easy-peasy, sure. It's not as if most users can barely remember where they stored that file, now they'll also have to remember what random jumble of alpha/number chars it is called. That's going to help for sure.
I'm going to keep a printed copy of this article so I can shove it in the face of the next cloud evangelist I will inevitably meet just to see his face change.
Apparently not, because all this ad stuff is going to happen when you create a new tab, not when you start FF.
I can't say I'm very bothered by it all. If I start a new tab it's because I'm going to type a URL to get somewhere, so I'll likely not pay any attention to any clutter below the URL bar.
The scientists have concluded, okay fine. But 780 thousand years since last reversal remains a long time, and a "preparation time" of 250 years means we could be at the start and have no way of knowing it.
Science is pretty good at determining what happened after the fact, but it sucks at forecasting anything outside orbital mechanics.
I'm glad that the scientific view is that a field reversal is not happening now, but I can't help thinking of volcano scientists who say that the mountain is fine, it won't blow tomorrow.
Yeah, well we'll see tomorrow, won't we ?
You're obviously not watching TV on the same bandwidth.
I've had an SFR line at almost 11Mbps for the past decade. No complaints on downloading or gaming, but as soon as TV was on, everything was hopeless. Not only did TV not work perfectly (image freezing for a second now and then), but downloads were hobbled and gaming was a nuisance.
it was such a nuisance that I reinstated our satellite dishes so I could keep my bandwidth for gaming.
Best idea I've ever had.
So true.
We do not have AI at this point in time. I grow tired of repeating that, but I will endure.
You want to know what AI is today ? Check out Google's own learning course.
You have statistical mathematics galore, but nowhere do you have Artificial Intelligence.
Nowhere is there a silicon mind ready to learn. There's just electronic transistors with calculation rules, and you make up the rules.
That is not AI.
Not by a long shot.
It is, however, largely enough to enslave us all in a world of targeted adverts every minute of the day..
"Not likely - that's why there is still 10% of traffic remaining after doing this - all catalogues, packages and signatures are still checked with Microsoft - its only the binary blobs that are cached."
Your faith in Microsoft is touching. Let me tell what is not likely : discovering a side-channel attack in a CPU caching process allowing to grab RAM data that should not have been available. It took 10 years, but the weakness was found.
That was not likely.
A Microsoft process distributing code to local network computers ? And you honestly think none of the computer wizards out there will find a way to subvert it ?
Excuse me if I do not share your enthusiasm for the security of Redmond code.
There's nothing Redmond won't do to help hackers take over its OS.
Now waiting for news that blackhats have found a 0-day and are plonking malware into the update system that gets distributed far and wide and auto-installed, courtesy of Microsoft's "bandwidth saving" measures.
Only when their fairy-tale comes back and smacks them in the teeth, which doesn't happen nearly often enough to ICANN.
In fact, I do believe that this is the very first time ICANN has taken anything in the teeth. So to see it happen so very publicly and without any of the usual "don't care, we decide it doesn't apply to us" attitude is indeed very satisfying.
Yeah, because having the most reliable and most powerful space launcher technology, which demonstrates a wide swath of technological and industrial expertise, counts for peanuts.
Go back to your Fox News now, everything will be all right.
Uh, tell that to the poor creatures it sucks into its beak with its horned tentacles.
It's not the loud that is the problem, apparently, it's the whistling.
I'd suggest adding another nozzle size, say 1.43 linguine, or 7.9 inches. Compared to the 0.9, 0.13, 0.18 and 0.27 linguine sizes, that should allow for rapid gas egress without whistling, I would hope.
Right. A company creates jobs in the US and Wall Street's first reaction is : punish it.
I don't like FaceBook either (far from), but you really should get your ducks in a line. You cannot complain about the level of unemployement and lack of jobs and simultaneously call for selling stock of US companies that create jobs.
Schizophrenic idiots.
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