Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
If it says "under 20 seconds", that means more than 10. So, in order to purchase takeaway (I'm guessing), you have to not only consent for your facial biometrics to be captured by some two-bit outfit that will be hacked in under 20 minutes, but you also have to submit to a dystopian-future-style interrogation for a quarter of a minute to prove that you are just an innocent citizen.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Oh, and those small companies have not implemented this as a stopgap. If I know anything about small companies, they are not looking for a better solution. This is the solution.
Trump's manipulation of the Supreme Court is going to guarantee that the USA will spend the next few decades in turmoil and maybe end in a revolution.
It should be illegal to put biased people into such an institution, but the rules only work when people are ready to respect them.
Trump respects no one and, given the number of criminals he has surrounded himself with, it should be a clear sign that this man needs to be removed from politics.
Oh well, he'll be dead of old age soon. But not soon enough.
She's young, she still has her life in front of her. I hope that her cancer is over and that she will be able to live a full and fulfilling life with her spouse and children.
It is horrible to have been put through such an ordeal. Cancer is already bad enough as it is without being forced to make life-changing decisions literally right before going under the knife.
But, having lost my mother to ovarian cancer when she was only 63, I can't help but approve her decision. I'm sure her husband prefers her with one boob rather than not having her at all. Maybe, just maybe, it is a good thing for her and she will be able to have reconstructive surgery at a later date when all is well and the whole problem is over. I just wish her the best.
But it is still criminal to have put her through all that.
I don't know.
I am personally rather familiar with Sir Humphrey. I absolutely love Yes Minister and its sequel, and I personally consider that it should be mandatory watching for every political student.
Then they can go on to House of Cards, which I abandoned after season 1 because wayyy too plausible and not funny at all.
Excuse me if I am a bit confused, but how many file systems do we actually need ?
I understand why FAT fell by the wayside, and I get that NTFS might not be the best of breed, but it's been since the 1960s that we've been studying the problem.
Why don't we have a good, reliable, standard file system yet ? Why does every vendor still have their own ?
But it's okay to impede secure comms a little bit - just enough to avoid either putting boots on the ground or, worse, more paperwork like, oh I don't know, a warrant ?
You want to hear what some suspect is saying ? Here's an idea : directional microphone. I hear they work very well.
Of course, that's less easy to put in place than clicking on a keyboard from a thousand kilometers away.
A new Y2K in preparation ?
I can understand some points, actually. Adding seconds just means that logs write the next operation x seconds after the last. Removing a second would mean that a log (especially transaction logs) would have multiple entries for the same second, and then some more. That could be quite the headache for many servers and RDBMSs, not to mention the admins that keep them ticking.
And I have zero idea how to solve the issue.
Seems like there was a step missing in the project before the software was written. Thos creating the software should have been more aware of its implications.
As usual, people talking to people who aren't on the ground, making decisions about what should be done and then getting all surprised when the people supposed to use the software get all riled up and worried about responsibility.
It seems that the root problem is that it's never the people actually responsible who get asked what they need, it's only the upper-class manglement who don't have a clue but need something to look good on their CV.
In the cloud. On someone else's server. Server that is managed by a group of barely-paid administrators fresh out of college.
I'm sure nation-state-backed hackers everywhere are looking forward to finding out what is in that cloud.
And they'll find out.
Sorry to burst your reality distortion field, but given that the MacBook has trouble breaching the 20% market share, it would seem that the average user buys a Windows laptop.
It was all the rage back when watercooling came out. Watercooling won because the Peltier coolers had a tendancy to freeze not on ly the CPU, but the air around it, meaning ice crystals forming on the motherboard.
Not good.
Cue a slew of tutorials explaining how to spread vaseline around the CPU to avoid shorting the motherboard.
Yeah, watercooling was easier.
So, if the company is doing well, he's doing well. He doesn't need more and, since he's already a billionnaire, he hardly needs a few paltry million more.
He should have asked for 20 billion. Apparently, among billionnaires these days, it's all the rage.
I am gobsmacked to see that we are finding ways to overcome handicap so efficiently.
Well done. This is what happens when you have intelligent people dedicated to actually solving problems and technology that provides novel means to new solutions.
Don't tell me that landing on the Moon was a waste of money. This is proof that it wasn't.
I can but salute a courageous woman who placed herself in harms' way to protect innocent people, and paid the ultimate price for it.
Now I can only think of one thing : if that had happened in the USA, the guy wouldn't have come aboard with a knife, he would have had an assault rifle.
How naive. Really ? Go back home and be nice is all he gets ?
He knows how to set up this stuff, he will do it again. How is the police going to monitor his connection to be sure he plays nice ? They won't. They don't have the means and, frankly, they have more important criminals to catch - and I'm furious that I have to acknowledge that.
I think you missed the point.
I am not going to convert my customers to Linux. I have to live with that.
Yes, I have a Linux Mint PC on the other side of the desk right now. I love it. I can't use it for business.
You're 80 years old. I'm glad you're self-taught, but I never said I didn't understand Linux, I said I can't use it yet.
Windows is a cancer to my IT life that I will excise once and for all when I retire in less than a decade now.
Until then, as a freelance programming consultant, I unfortunately must have the same platform my customers use and, for some strange reason, none of them are on Linux.
Remark, if only one of them were, I'd be in a pickle. I guess I'd have to have a second work laptop. And no, I'm not going to VM Linux into my Windows or vice-versa. I'm not a systems administrator.
That is why I have scheduled my Linux conversion to when I'll have the time to deal with it.
Until then, well, I roll with the punches, I guess.
Um, buddy, since you claim a number of things that are already demonstrably fake, you can go claim as much money as you wish, nobody cares.
You are lying all over the place. You claim to be based in the UK, so where's your office ? What's your VAT number ? Why is your phone number not a UK number ?
You can talk about slander all you want. If that were true, all you'd need to do is file a complaint from your UK office. Right ?
I don't know if you're Chinese or not and I don't care. You've been found out and shut down and that's a good thing. Go ahead and try to create an empire, I will never trust you or your products.
It also clearly indicates that he is guilty, and the price of the fine is cost of doing business to him, so he doesn't care since there are no other repercussions.
On the other hand, this is not organized-crime-level stuff either, so nailing him to the wall would be a bit overkill. The unjust monies have been impounded, that is certainly punishment enough.
So don't do it again, right ?
Step carefully there. SCOTUS decisions have, of late, reserved some surprises.
As for the complaint, I feel there is some ground in it. A competent US citizen did not get the job some H-1B holder got. Sure, the competence of the H-1B holder is not put into question, but the chance that he also has decades of experience for that specific job offer seems kind of slim to me.
Whatever the outcome, I'm not expecting this affair to do anything to Meta's hiring practices. Not until there's a federal law that states that US companies are required to hire US citizens competent for the job before looking to bring in foreigners.
And that will never happen for many (lobbying) reasons.
The ISS is in a gravity well and it is going down. In order to push it up and away, one would likely need to strap and entire rocket to it to get the job done, which means launching a rocket that's carrying a rocket.
Last time I checked, Humanity doesn't have that capability.
One other solution might be an array of ion thrusters, but that would means dozens, if not hundreds, of hours of spacewalking and, since we've never done that before, a good chance that something might go wrong and the resulting catastrophe would end up sending the ISS down in an uncontrolled fashion. Not acceptable.
I think it is much better to plan for how and when the ISS finally re-enters the atmosphere.
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