Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
And nobody who is doing all that "thinking" is actually running a company that has customers that need things to work.
One day, companies will understand that they are in charge and that a supplier who changes tune every few years or tries lock-in is not reliable.
Software lasts decades. The only reason there is a push to change is because of made-up marketing or worse, incompetent programming.
And don't talk to me about malware threats. You can patch your fucking code without forcing all your customers to some artificial upgrade that magically makes everything better, especially your bottom line.
Why ?
What fuckwit manager did not implement the blindingly obvious procedure to remove all access from employees that leave the company, whatever the reason ?
I'm seriously tempted to say that the company should bear the responsibility here. Its internal security is obviously a pile of shit.
Ah, crime is so enticing when it seems easy. What could be better than bringing a USB key full of data that airport security can't possibly control to a country that has no extradition treaty with the place you got the data from ?
Then the uniforms arrest you and you face the consequences of your ill-doing and suddenly, it ain't so fun no more. Especially since you only have yourself to blame for setting foot back in the country you stole the data from. You'd have stayed in China and you'd have it made.
But no, you had to go imagine that you were so smart you'd never get caught. And now here we are, reading about your stupidity.
Enjoy your time behind bars. And I hope you're forbidden from ever getting a passport again.
Yes, blockchain does not scale. It's not news. We've known that for long enough now and nobody has found a solution for it.
So why is it that people still talk about it like it is an integral part of the "security" of their bullshit scam ?
Oh, of course, silly me. Because there's a new generation of idiots born every day . . .
Because of course it is.
And thank you for specifying that debit cards are a thing in France (and Europe in general).
It seems to me that "alternative" systems of payment only get traction when a proper banking environment doesn't exist. In China, it's QR codes, in the US, it was PayPal, and now it's smartphone bonking.
I live in France, I work in Luxembourg, and I purchase things in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany (and online, obviously). All with my VISA. I have no trouble doing so, and I don't feel the need to adopt a another payment process. What I've got works. I'm not bothered with sending a friend some lunch money : it'll be my turn next time is all.
And, since I'll never be going to China, I'm not interested in QR code payment. I'm also very much not interested in loading a smartphone with my banking data - until the day you can prove to me that some miscreant somewhere has to do more than send me an SMS to hack it.
Now get off my lawn !
Until the day that Borkzilla screws up again and rolls it out to everyone including Windows 7/10 users.
And I love that Borkzilla "discovered" that Recall could run on configs that didn't actually conform to its initial previsions. Oh, and yeah, the whole on by default thing.
Way to go to stay true to your normal form of not having a clue . . .
Measuring output was never a thing.
Let me tell you about a little experience I had way back in the early 1990s. I had finished my licence in accounting at that point, and was looking to a future of bookkeeping (thank God that didn't work out). My future wife (at the time) had a friend who managed a gym. He was interested in putting his accounting on a computer (yes, in those days it was a question). He asked me if I would agree to go with him to evaluate some accounting products. I agreed readily.
We ended up in a (for the time) savvy business shop, waiting for a demo of a certain accounting product that shall remain nameless lest I get a lawsuit. There were six people there, representing at least three prospective customers. Reminder : these were the days where a 486DX was the height of technology, and Windows was version 3.11.
We got a demo all right. About 15 minutes of showing how to enter invoices and other fascinating accounting stuff (yes, that is satirical). Then we got about 95 minutes of how you could configure the software to record and document how often the users hit the keyboard, how often they made mistakes, how quickly they completed the entry of a record.
In the early 90s. When computers had, at most, 1MB of RAM and 33Mhz of CPU power.
I leave it to the reader to guess just what todays' accounting packages can do - as far as going full Big Brother on the employees is concerned. From that experience I learned that actually doing the accounting is a secondary, if not tertiary, objective as far as accounting software is concerned. The primary objective is clearly detecting who the slackers are.
YMMV, but I'm glad I ended up as a programmer.
Is Apple not withdrawing from the Japanese market ? Nor Google ?
Funny, I seem to recall that that was the go-to response in Australia. I wonder why that isn't the case for Japan ?
Hmm, let me check the Wiki. Ah yes, Australia, population 27 million, Japan, population 124 million.
Okay, now I get it.
Well yes, I do.
I do think that they navigated to a page containing porn, did not click "back", reviewed the page contents and clicked Like.
It's not the cat that did it and, although I do not use TwitterX, I'me pretty sure that the zone on screen to click Like does not take up half the screen.
So yeah, he clicked on purpose.
Not that I have a problem with that . . .
Of course, you want the check at the end of the month. But why make it seem that an AI is running then ?
Your email address is particularly poorly chosen, unless you actually want people to think that an AI is in the running.
But then you can't complain if you're rejected on that basis.
Elections are not an area for jokes or media stunts. They are serious business.
If only politicians took them seriously . . .
You don't say ?
At least you're honest enough to blame the code, but are you really saying that your vehicles depend on up-to-date map info more than on actual detection abilities ?
Because if that's the case, I'm not getting into your boxes of death-by-ignorance.
Telephone poles are not included in Google Maps. You need to update your code.
Horse, meet stable door.
Why am I not surprised that a company that hoovers up private info like crazy to sell it on can't be arsed to secure its platform properly ? Such a surprise.
So you only found out you were hacked because the hacker didn't take you down, but contacted you. And, once he did, you suddenly found out that, gosh, he did have the data.
Might want to think about investing money (gasp) into some actual network protection.
I mean, if you actually intend to preserve yourself from this kind of thing in the future . . . or you could forget about it and consider being hacked a cost of business.
It's not like you have your customer's security at heart, after all . . .
Why should an enterprise customer accept that a vulgar vendor decide what it is supposed to do and in what timeframe ?
I don't give a flying fuck that SAP thinks it's the bees knees, it is dealing with companies who are actually working and providing services to the public.
Since when do the back-end administrative processes decide what a company is supposed to do ?
This is nuts.
I'd venture that the upcoming legal analysis of his Autopilot might have clued him in to the fact that he was the one who needed to prove breach of contract and, contrary to the tens of thousands of Tesla owners, he ain't got no contract.
No, no no. Spaceflight can be good for you. Let's not jump to easy conclusions, shall we ?
And yes, we might actually come from Mars, as has already been discussed as far as asteroid impact ejecta from Mars landing on Earth has been observed IIRC.
I had to download the report to get this little tidbit, since the author of the article did not judge it sufficiently important to include in his report.
I'm sorry, but when I'm spoon-fed a bunch of statistics and percentages and absolutely no basis in numbers whatsoever, I get cranky.
So, for those of us who like to know what a survey is based on, I got the figures : over 2500 participants.
Now you know.
There's your problem : government that can't be arsed to take into account what the hell is going on.
Fujitsu ain't bidding ? No problem, Fujitsu gets the contract anyway.
Hey guys, could add me to the not-bidding process as well ? I could use a few million for doing fuck all.
I'm a freelance consultant. Thanks to COVID, 75% of my work is now Work From Office, my office. I have some customers where I do have to go on-site, but since COVID that is a clear minority.
And I'm fine with that. I get to commute less, I waste no time in useless banter and, when the job is done, I go home. There is no manager telling me it's not yet time because I'm the manager and when I say it's time, it's time.
Of course, I'm also in charge of getting my customers to pay my bills, but thankfully that is not much of problem since I eliminated the customers that took me 90% of my time just to get paid.
That said, I do count myself as lucky. Not everyone can do this job, and in my little niche I am quite privileged. It'll do me nicely until I retire in about a decade.
Yeah, like that's going to happen.
And 337 people ? A valid effort, but I'm not sure that it is a representative sample. I thought you needed 2000 to have a valid statistical basis for analysis.
Doesn't matter. I'll just file this in the "nice to know, will be talked about, won't have any effect" folder.
""Israel continues to be one of our key global manufacturing and R&D sites and we remain fully committed to the region "
continues to be . .
remain fully committed . .
Why am I feeling like this is the kind of declaration you make to prepare for the time when you'll say "we decided to abandon the project" ?
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