Posts by Pascal Monett 19078 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
The fact that they are all women should not be enough to validate a class action.
Besides, more than 8,000 checks sounds like a lot of payout hassle for a poor lawyer. Methinks a "cy pres" is in order here, no ? I'm there's at least two Universities that would gladly devote their bank accounts to holding that money in the "rare" case someone actually comes to claim it.
Right ?
Well, in all honesty, there may be no more IPv4 addresses to give out, but the ones that ISPs already have are not going to wear out, now are they ?
I think that, the troubles that IPv6 impose, plus the simple rule of if it's not broken, don't fix it, explain why IPv6 uptake is not the star-studded cakewalk some engineers thought it would be.
Really ? FB cannot afford further doubt ?
Because I'm still waiting for news of the mass exodus and shutting down of accounts that has been promised everywhere and, as long as that hasn't happened, I fail to see what FB is mortally in danger of.
This is just more of the same ; FB cocks up, nobody moves, the world keeps turning, El Zuck keeps raking in the dough.
If other business meetings are not an entrapment attempt, it may just be because other business meetings are between normally dishonest business people doing normally dishonest business and not between some shady person in search of scum to do even more shady stuff.
Coming from the guy who vouched to provide prostitutes to ruin people's reputations, I find this remark particularly rich.
What about routing around failures ? The Internet is supposed to remain flexible, there is no single path from source to destination because if there were, a connection failure along the line would mean packets don't arrive any more at all.
How do they take that into account ?
There's already a solution to that, it's called a movement detector. Place it near your light looking down and the overgrowth will not keep it from detecting you and turning on the light.
Why people absolutely have to go with the least secure bit of shiny instead of using proven tech that is safe is beyond me.
Honestly the thing that surprises me the most is the fact that we're all talking about how a Stringray device deployed by an unknown entity was used in proximity to the White House and yet there has not been a massive deployment of police, military, helicopters and SWAT teams to find the perpetrator.
Seems to me that such a move in a Hollywood film would be the perfect excuse for such an exercise, but in Real Life it's just "well, seems somebody has been spying on comms near our most strategic historical building, let's write a letter to the FCC to complain".
The Cold War is so last milennium I guess.
Uh, MineCraft is doing fine, you know. Don't ask me how, but I am an avid Minecrafter and my experience has not changed one whit.
Since MS bought MineCraft, the only real new thing was the introduction of Realms, which is entirely optional but I guess there are people who find it useful, so good for them. I don't know what exactly is happening on Realms, but there is quite some activity judging from the info panel on the game launcher.
Meanwhile, no microtransactions or advertisements have appeared, and no hint of that sort of thing on the horizon, so, from where I sit, MS is not, for once, doing bad with its acquisition.
Here's hoping that will continue.
So the sheeple still go "baaa" on cue.
Congratulations. Way to make The Zuck still believe he is doing The Right Thing (TM). His Apology Tour turned out to be a Meet the Politicos Tour with hardly any rough spots, now his annual shareholder meeting starts and ends with applause.
People, he ain't never gonna learn he's doin' wrong if you keep behavin' like that.
China is a big country with an enormous population and easy to control - because tourists are just so visible. It's not easy to be a foreign terrorist in China, much less easy than in Paris.
China has used Western economics to its advantage up to now, and now it is wanting to do more than just use other people's tech ; it wants to make its own. And that is perfectly normal.
The question in my mind is will China become a world-wide supplier when its language is so totally incomprehensible to everyone else ? If that is what it wants, it'll have to make its tech in English, because nobody outside of China will buy something with a Chinese interface. And my guess is yes, China will want to sell abroad.
That's going to give us a lot of funny pics showing some popup of a Chinese product saying one thing in funny, broken English that obviously should be written quite differently. In the mean time, Chinese software houses will become proficient, their Universities competent, and we will see Chinese products come to our stores in waves.
That day is coming closer.
Oh, but it is supposed to be. It's also supposed to be reliable, as near always available as marketing can dare say without actually writing 100% (because that'd make 'em legally liable), and fast.
It is supposed to be all that and more - the operative word being supposed.
I remember times when we use to argue that a server going down in a company's server room would only affect the customers of that company, but the cloud won anyway and now we know that when a cloud server goes down, it's the customers of many companies that are affected.
Yay progress.
And that is all they ever do. We hear about AI, but none of their computers are capable of doing anything else than what they have specifically been trained for.
A true AI would look at one video, then play the game several times to get the hand of it. Then it would go play a different game, maybe without watching anything. Then it would surf YouTube for a while then it would read a book. Then you'd ask it a question and it would say "Can't you see I'm busy ?".
I feel sorry for the families who will likely never have proper closure on this horrific event.
Anyone who thinks that someone else has to die for a plan to be successful should go back and re-evaluate the plan.
Some things are worth dying for. Nothing is worth killing for.
I agree with most of your post, but I doubt very much that drones will put any kind of dent in the number of pilots and manned aircraft, most of which are either leisure or people/cargo transport.
No way a drone can persuade a true pilot to let go the stick and sit in a chair in front of a screen. he knows how to do it for real.
You mean, like all the stuff the NSA had stashed for a rainy day and got stolen ?
You can tout the NSA's "efforts" at transparency all you want, we all know that the NSA is just lying through its teeth, making puppy eyes to better stab us in the privates (pun intended).
Encryption, encryption and more encryption. No backdoors, proper stuff. If it just delays discovery by a week, that'll be good enough for TLA's to throw up their hands in disgust and give up.
Either that, or Intel gets pressured into inventing a new 48-core desktop CPU that runs at 8Ghz and has 100GBps bandwidth. Can it run Crysis ? Can it ever !
Better privacy and more powerful computers. Who can complain about that ?
That does not mean they're tracking you, they're just counting the pages you open - count that goes to a total that they can then play with. Once totalled, the data is effectively anonimyzed.
It's ironic that the only industry that doesn't play fast and loose with our private data is the porn industry - in other words, it's the porn guys that are the cleanest of the lot.
Misleading. A default password is just something that the hardware maker provided because there has to be one - all that needs doing is to change it. In this case, however, the password and the user name are hardcoded and are not changeable. That makes it much more than a default password. That makes it a permanent entry point to anyone who knows that information, which is just about anyone who bothers to look for it.
The team that built this robot were obviously people without even the most basic notion of the definition of security. I mean, how hard can it be to allow for changing the bloody password ?
That will simply never happen, no more than Google will publish its Page Rank system or FaceBook will publish anything at all.
1) Microcode is how everything can actually happen, and it is the equivalent of the Crown Jewels. It is the reason a processor does what it does, and you do not want your competition to see what you are doing or how you are doing it.
2) Microcode is difficult to grep, and there are not all that many eyes available to check it out - plus, most of those eyes are working for the competition anyway.
Don't know where you live so I have no idea of who "we" is, but the USA is most definitely not a democracy.
You can find the Democracy Index mentioned in that article here. The United States isn't listed as a Full Democracy, it is under Flawed Democracy.
I don't see what her physical state has to do with the fact that this accident could have been avoided if the driver simply had his eyes on the road.
Besides, the article is misleading because returning positive for substance abuse does not indicate just how positive the victim was and frankly, I don't give a damn. She could have been tripping over Saturn, she should still be alive today and she would be if it weren't for a despicable company having yet again taken every single shortcut to profits.
Uber is directly responsible for placing a broken and dangerous vehicle on public roads and mandating the driver to not look at the road periodically to fill in fucking administrative paperwork. It's basically manslaughter with intent, and I hope Uber's management will get nailed to the wall on this.
. . possible for hackers and criminals to fudge the system. What's that, Your Honor ? Of course I wasn't robbing that house last week. Check my phone, you'll see that I was on holiday in Spain at that time. I only got back yesterday. Can I go now ?
I never use my phone for anything else than actually talking to people. I don't download apps and I barely use any of the ones provided out-of-the-box.
Of course, if actual permission granularity was provided in the phone OS by default, maybe I'd venture a bit forward in this domain. As it is, I consider phones and app stores to be a nest of vipers waiting to strike at my privacy.
I'm thrilled to learn that someone who is competent in physics had a good YouTube video of why something could not actually work.
Unfortunately, if I'm not mistaken, YouTube is not a recognized, peer-reviewed, scientific news platform.
So please point me to his published paper on why the EMDrive couldn't work, because if there isn't any, I fail to see why Science should take that into account.
We are so glad you did. We might have been afraid we didn't get it the first time but, then again, we have people who know how to read.
In other words, you are not Trump and repeating your opinion endlessly does not make it any more relevant.
Please excuse me, but the fact that the largest whatever trust chain out there does not recognize DoD as a trusted root chain is neither here nor there. I'm not expecting anyones's browser to be happy about it, I'm expecting the people who need to access DoD websites to know that they're accessing the right ones.
Your remark tells me that browsers are basically beholden to the largest trust chain, which means that I can't trust who I choose to trust. For Joe User that may be a very good thing and I do not dispute that, but for specific military users, I'm not convinced that that is so useful.
Thank you for avoiding the use of "AI" in your post - especially since you declare being in the field.
I saw the words "although you may find the module is buried inside an analytics or data science programme" in the article and immediately wanted to go on a rant saying obviously, because that's what ML is and THERE IS NO A.I. TODAY.
I did the Google beginner's course in ML and all there was was statistics and how to apply them. If you don't grep mathematics, you're up the proverbial creek without a paddle, and I'm not good at maths.
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