Posts by Pascal Monett 19020 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
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.
Oh, so that explains why you're not churning out the chips, then ? You're not a chip-maker anymore, you're a data center. Is there any area of computing that is not turning into a vast excuse to slurp MY data ?
Oh well, there's AMD that's still a chip-maker. At least somebody is still doing what it is they're supposed to be doing.
Um, how can something be deployed if it isn't even set up ? Deploying does not just mean "copy to production server". It means configuring, testing that the config works in production, and activating in production.
"Big Cable is fiercely opposed but claiming it will follow net neutrality rules regardless and so there is no need for a new law"
Because Big Cable can be trusted to follow rules it doesn't like. Yeah. Bridge, anyone ?
If they're ready to follow the rules, they should welcome a law that states explicitely how they should follow it.
Pleading against a new law is simply saying "please leave us wiggle room to screw you without you being able to retaliate".
Glad to see AMD raking it in and provisioning for the future.
We all need a strong competitor to Intel, so as to keep everyone on their toes and prices fair.
And we need AMD to be able to push out a new architecture every now and then, to keep innovation from being dicatated by a single company.
AMD was first to have a Ghz processor, and that pushed Intel hard at the time. We need AMD to renew the experience in some way.
So good on AMD. Keep going.
Let's not jump to conclusions already.
Space is big. The Universe is complicated.
Yes, there is a new theory about how to explain the matter discrepancy and yes, I have myself a lot of misgivings about a form of matter that does not interact with anything yet still exerts a gravitational effect - not to mention that I would dearly prefer our Universe to not expand endlessly because I like seeing other galaxies.
But let's let the scientists hash it out before taking sides, shall we ?
go and create a proper encryption system.
You seriously think that ISO is going to accept a 2nd-rate anything simply because they refused a potential 1st-rate one ? You're thinking bureaucrat.
Think engineer. They're going to go and make another 1st-rate one, because Standards.
Really. Like trolls on Slashdot, then ?
First they get all their shiny toys stolen from under their noses, now they reveal themselves as the fucking trolls they are.
Well I do hope that this will long be remembered. Nothing proposed by the US should be approved for a very long time.
Don't forget : it takes time to build trust, but only an instant to lose it.
And you just lost, NSA.
Big time.
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