Posts by Pascal Monett 19436 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
To imagine creating shares in view of an impending deal is already clearly a case of insider trading, but to do so using a share type that cannot be sold and not even registering them is literally telling the judge that you wanted to cheat the system. Never mind the fact that all this was created by a guy who was having his own biz bought out in the deal.
When you point every single clue to yourself, you can't be surprised if you're the one collared.
Gotta agree on that. Sex trafficking is an abomination, a blight on Humanity as a whole. Targetting those who facilitate such a thing is good.
What makes me uneasy is the very cavalier way US law is used these days. We read this past week about how a new US law is being used retroactively on Microsoft to get holf of offshore data, now we see that an unsigned law has triggered an action that had no reason to wait for it.
This is not the proper attitude to the law and, given that corporations are defining US law these days, I will not be surprised the day a megacorp gets fingered for something illegal, but a new law is passed and all of sudden everything is all right.
And suckers line up to try and cash in from this fabricated e-bonanza.
Oh well, in a hundred or so years there will have been enough hard education for people to understand that managing a currency is not for PFYs. No matter how well they can code, they lack the experience of managing something complex in the nastiest, most insecure world there is : the Internet.
The only intentions FaceBook has is to rake in the moolah and shovel it to the shareholders.
Don't talk to me about a "mission to connect people". Connecting people is just the means to the end.
That's why FaceBook will never have a proper Privacy Policy - it literally can't afford it.
So, what you're saying is that your Quality Control is inexistant, you have no one in your team that gives a flying one, and you get your essential news about what happens on CNN ?
Sounds like your working environment is very nice. I'll take the couch over there, and a bottle of Jack's, thanks.
I'm getting pretty meh about Trump news myself, but I think you're missing the point here. If some unknown entity is operating unregistered cell towers in the capital of the US, then that is important news because you should be asking yourself if there are any in London, just as I am now wondering if there are any in Paris, and how to find out.
Are you seriously saying that since everyone spoke Russian it's no big deal that Russia annexed that part of Ukraine ?
You do realize that, with that argument, you've just justified Hitler annexing Austria and Poland ?
Why not have Mexico annex southern California, Nevada and a large part of Texas then ? After all, plenty of people speaking Mexican down there.
And claiming that some other countries are "worse" does not justify leaving Russia alone. That's like saying that a rapist should be let go because there are murderers on the loose.
Sorry, but I cannot accept your level of bias for Putin.
Well, there's the fact that words are kind of difficult to read if they are not presented in a 2D fashion that we can recognize, and there's still a lot more words on the Internet than there are videos. Making them 3D by adding depth to the characters is nice, but not at all useful.
That said, I would also like to see a true 3D interface that does something other than just hovering a 2D interface "in space".
Except that the launch itself went fine, it's the satellite that's on the blink. I don't think they insure that.
What they generally insure is if the launcher goes boom and the satellite is lost in the blast. That didn't happen, so no insurance.
Every single time I have read about that type of entity makes me feel like I'm reading about a particularly virulent parasite.
The "activist investor" appears to exist solely to insert itself in an otherwise healthy company and, when it has enough legal influence, to wreak havoc and mayhem to get the company to do what it wants, ie more dividends.
Well, dear "activist investors", why don't you go set up your own manufacture with your own product and see how that goes.
Oh, but you can't do that. You don't have the brains to actually create something. Swooping in and perverting other people's creations is a lot easier, isn't it ?
. . means you shouldn't have it in the first place.
Harsh, I know, but you set up something to deal with other people's money, so the least you can do is ask around to find out what are the risks and how to mitigate them. Even if it's just contacting support, or Googling the product. Do something for Pete's sake.
It's important to remember that you can trust no website with details on your personal life. Even if the site you use seems correct, that will only last until the next PHB has a brainstorm and decides to profit from your data.
Expect it to happen, and choose wisely what you publish out there. Even if it is private data registered on a non-public page that the site pinky swears to never, ever reveal - don't trust them.
I beg to differ. Cross-platform mail security is indispensable, or, at least the ability to send mail securely from any platform to any other platform is.
One must not consider that, because Facebook users might mostly write to other Facebook users, it is not important for them to be able to write and/or receive secure mail to/from other platforms.
Because the alternative is that, to send secure mail, you'd have to be on FB and send to a user on FB.
And having Zuckerberg in charge of secure mail just cannot be acceptable.
Um, sorry but no, you cannot use that as an excuse. Nobody ever writes something they disagree with unless they are working for the President or a candidate to the presidency. Even then, if you really disagree, you're supposed to resign your position.
While I am writing something, if I disagree with myself then I correct what I'm writing. When I've posted, I am 100% certain that I wrote what I wanted to say. I fail to see how one can disagree with what one wrote but go ahead and post it anyway. It just never happens.
Oh sure, 12 minutes later I might be slapping my forehead and calling myself names for posting whatever it was I posted, but when I wrote it, I was happy with it.
It is no more real than it was before. There are already people who have reportedly tried the thing and gushed about how wonderful the experience was, but are not allowed to say anything specific.
All we're getting now is notice that there will be more people who might be able to say they tried it, but won't be allowed to talk about it.
Given the issues outlined in this article, we're nowhere nearer to seeing this tech on store shelves, so I don't see what has really changed.
Windows is historically the largest gaming platform that has ever been.
It still is, actually, in hours played and amount of hardware.
Mobile phones are catching up, but you cannot compare a 5-minute session of Angry Birds to an hour-long multiplayer Call of Duty marathon (with teabagging).
More money to staff is put on the Company Payroll sheet, and that is a nuisance to keep up when you are facing shareholders who want a better ROI.
Outsourcing firms are put on Expenses, which are Tax Deductable and therefor more palatable because they save money - as far as shareholders are concerned.
Because shareholders these days have about as much commitment to the future of the company they invest in as a pimp has commitment to the well-being of the girls he manages - ie a week's worth.
That is not always the case.
I have personally experienced putting in a bid that I knew was lower than that of a very well-known (and expensive) IT Consulting outfit, and I lost to them despite the fact that I was less expensive.
I fully expect the reason to be that I was invited to bid in order to lower the price of that firm.
This happened twice. The third time I was invited to bid, I refused to participate. The company representative pressed me to explain, and I answered "I don't see the use of wasting two days of my time on drawing up a proposal, since you're only going to go with <redacted> anyway".
The conversation ended pretty quickly after that, and I have not been invited to bid since.
And I still wait to hear what the plan is when that data is compromised.
You can change a password, you can't change your fingers.
As long as there is nothing on how to treat compromised biometric data, I don't want it used.
It may be that this case is a bit borderline, but the real question is whether or not one should accept that presidential candidates should have the right to analyse and profile citizen's beliefs in the first place. The means to do so come second.
Personally, I think a candidate should run on what he thinks, not on what he thinks people would like him to think.
But that's just me.
It's not the VPN that is leaking info if I have to lock down my browser to prevent it.
When I started reading this article, I was under the impression that someone could use the weakness to get my IP address. That is not the case.
Apparently, someone can hijack my browser with the proper script and then get my true IP address.
So it's a browser issue, and for that, there's NoScript (or whatever js-blocker you prefer). Or it's a PEBCAK issue, and the solution for that is ye ol' cattle prod to teach not to bloody click on something just because it's a link.
In other words, this article is a tad misleading, at least for me.
Well duh. After 12 solid months of pointing out his many, many mistakes, calling him out on it and being brushed aside or lied to, I say we and the press are perfectly justified in having a bias against him because he is literally incapable of telling the truth.
Most of the time he is barely able to talk about what he is supposed to talk about, and veers off on tangents that are starting to become perpendicular.
Yes, there is a bias against him, and he is the only person responsible for it. Had he started as President by acting like one, speaking responsibly and making decisions based on facts, I'm sure he would have been given a chance. In fact, I'm pretty sure the press was initially totally ready to listen to him as his position required. But Trump thinks of his position as a clown's act for the gallery. He mocked "being Presidential" as if it were ridiculous. And he's the one who started the whole "fake news" thing.
So yeah, now the press is biased. Big surprise, and just one more point in a sea of low points for this orange buffoon who makes a mockery of intelligence, respectability and Democracy in one brain-farting package.
Mueller, for God's sake wrap up your investigation and get this failure of a human being thrown out.
Trump is under fire for talking with Russia during the campaign, but isn't this the same (from the US point of view) ?
I mean sure, US-UK, allies 'til the end of the world, of course, but still. The UK is a foreign country, and I don't know that you can collude with allies to win an election any better than with . . non-allies.
Well that happened at the latest when Gitmo was established and the US condoned waterboarding suspected terrorists for information.
Might have happened before that, though, the details are a bit hazy given that most of them are classified.
By the time those details are released, History will have been rewritten anyway, so the question becomes useless.
So, The Zuck is trying to pull a Trump ? Fake news then ? Bollocks.
That's the problem with "dumb fucks", my boy. One day, they wake up.
Society is still learning and adpting to the Internet and its ramifications, so it is normal that tech companies get a head start in a given direction before society catches up and decides what it needs to do.
But that issue aside, the very basic problem about the US is that companies have the right to lobby. As long as that situation endures, The People will always be fighting an uphill battle for their rights.
It's easy to find out how that will go : just look at any divorce where the guy walks out on the faithful woman.
First, there will be the shouting about how unfair it all is, with the EU reminding the UK that it's its own fault (current step in progress).
Then there will be petty revenge and pathetic pleas to "let me in just this one time", which will be denied (as they should be).
Over time, there will come the chilling realization that you're on your own now, deal with it.
Whether that realization will come under a bridge with a bottle, or in a new appartment - well, time will tell.
Well there is at least one useful thing that came from nuclear weapons : an understanding of meteorite impacts.
It was the study of the first nuclear crater that revealed many common points with what are now called impact craters.
So that's one good thing in a literal sea of horrific consequences. Was it worth it ? I don't know.
I do, however, know that xenophobia has never done any good anywhere at any time.
I highly doubt that any recent vehicle has such abysmal lighting abilities and I doubt even more that it would be allowed on the road like that.
I think there are way too many shadows on that video and I will not be surprised when analysis shows that the video is a cover-up exercise.
This is Uber we're talking about. It would be right in their ballpark.
The only thing trending is celebrities talking about doing it, or even doing it in some cases. Doesn't matter.
Joe User is not going to frop FB because there is nothing to replace it. MySpace is gone, Yahoo! is dead, there is nothing even in sight of challenging FB on functionality, forget replacing it. Even Google dropped its foray into the arena, despite hipster support that didn't really last all that long.
So no, leaving FB is not going to trend because the mindless idiots have nowhere else to post all the pics of their kids/family/spouse/latest purchase and pretend to be intellectual while posting duckface pics.
It's nice to see that some parts of CorporateLand are not completely borgified by the money god, because if there is one thing that has a chance of making a company change, it's hitting it in the bottom line.
Delta and others dropping NRA support was an enormous surprise to me, and now Mozilla and others are not spending ad money on FaceBook.
I feel a slight temperature drop Down Below. Somebody just might be in need of a sweater.
That, or I have a fever and I don't know it.
Wrong. The thing to know is that you should never, ever trust anything coming into your Inbox without checking first.
Your bank sends you a mail and a link to some great opportunity ? Phone your banker and ask why in hell is he sending you spam. If the bank really did send you that mail, he'll be able to justify it.
You get a note telling you that your PayPal account has been suspended and use this link to get it reinstated ? Log onto your account yourself and check it out - you already have the link, don't you ?
I'm beginning to think that our society is not going to die because zombies, or aliens, or anything awesome like that. No, it'll die of convenience.
