Posts by Pascal Monett 19429 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I really cannot see how Foxconn is going to set up a plant for anything when even illegal aliens in the US will cost it twice as much as what it pays where it is now.
Either that or my next screen is going to cost me €7000. If that's the case, it'll have to wait for me to have saved up the money first.
Yes, it is a bother. On the other hand, you can't repeatedly state that you have the best legal system in the world (citation needed) and then take shortcuts when it suits you.
I do believe this guy is a criminal. I do believe that it sucks that positive evidence is being thrown out. I also believe that it sucks more that police are just pawing through everyone's lives without respecting that little niggle called "due process".
That being said, phones these days are obvious targets for data. I don't understand how the police didn't get their warrant properly because obviously kids these days do everything with their bloomin' phones and if I found an illegal firearm in a suspects' house I would obviously think of checking their phones.
Apparently something was a bit too obvious to the police officers and they blew it.
Dura lex, sed lex. It's the only thing that protects innocent people from wrongful judiciary action, and God knows there's enough of that already.
You cannot prevent people from being inspired by a concept, only from making a blatant copy of your product.
AFAIK Arkanoid was a perfectly legal brick-breaker. If Arkanoid was not, then you have 90% of Steam's catalogue of JRPGs, RTSs and recreations of 1970s games that need to be removed, stat.
“It would, however, be entirely understandable why the government would be reluctant to reveal how many Lancaster bombers it actually had at its disposal on that particular night."
During WWII, against an enemy who had an Air Force and trained pilots.
So, am I to understand that ISIS has an Air Force that can down drones if they know how many there are ?
Don't think so.
There may well be some reasons for keeping the number of drones secret, but this comparison is not one of them.
Yeah, but they haven't got the licenses for Win7. Or maybe they paid for them, but lost the records and don't know. Or they know they've paid for them, but haven't gotten around to vetting the system for their current needs.
Because they probably don't know what their current needs are. Or what's actually running on their network. Which is why they're hiring experienced Vista staff - to ask them to find out what the bloody hell they're using in order to know how to upgrade.
Nah, can't be - that would be sensible.
That is going to take time and effort, and salespeople who actually listen to the customer and to the techs. No overselling the product's abilities then pushing the techs to do something unexpected in an impossibly short time frame.
As long as Lenovo does not copy IBM's way of doing things, it has a decent shot at success.
It was only a question of time.
That said, it just might calm things down if so-called Exchanges are under regulatory supervision. As long as they all are.
I wonder if we'll start seeing black market, unregulated exchanges ? After all, it's virtual money, and BitCoin showed that it could be forked.
Ergo, lack of transparency = opportunity to cheat, lie and steal.
Doesn't mean that every company cheats, lies and steals, but the possibility to do so is there.
It is especially bad in companies that are in charge of portions of Internet accessibility.
I think it is high time that someone writes down a Open-Source Charter of Address Registrators, or OSCAR.
Said charter would define very precisely and specifically how the registrar is suppose to operate, how decisions are to be made and how they can be challenged, the power and duties of the board, the managers, etc.
Any registrar not complying with OSCAR would be boycotted until dead.
And I'd like a double side of fries with that.
Went hunting for that address, Google Maps transformed it into Athinodorou 3, Dasoupolis, Strovolos, Cyprus.
From the satellite image, it looks like a small individual house, not an office building at all. To have that many references pointing to a simple house clearly means something fishy is going on.
I respectfully disagree.
A criminal can steal your money, eventually your identity. That's bad, of course. You have recourse against that, and, with time and effort, you can prevail in proving your innocence.
A government can destroy your life. Lock you up for years on baseless charges, or simply record the fact that you have been accused of something and therefor remove all possibility of getting a job. You have no recourse.
Which is worse ?
I can tell you why I object :
The fact that I do have nothing to hide does not mean you have permission to rifle through my life without a warrant (implying probably cause, which you don't have since I have nothing to hide).
The fact that so much data is gathered on everyone allows Big Data to find correlations that a human would take thousands of years to spot, meaning that advancements in data mining imply that all that data can conceivably find a way to implicate me personally in something I absolutely had no intention of participating in.
As in, if I somehow go every week at about the same time to the same place as an actual terrorist (think supermarket for food), my bloomin' so-called smartphone localizes me in the same general area at the same times, and I happen to be on camera with said terrorist (in the canned food aisle because he was asking about a specific price), I may get flagged as a potential contact, become a suspect and get my life invaded and overturned to find whatever excuse to jail me or at least ruin my future when I was just frakkin' shopping and so was he (because terrists eat too).
Yup, but it'll still take years before Manglement recognizes that and changes their stance.
Who knows, it might take a whole generation of manglement to change things. And one can only hope that the new generation, whenever it comes to power, will stop limiting password length to 8 bloody chars.
Reminds of the sequel to Westworld, FutureWorld. The robot that was the most sympathetic was the tech aide that didn't have a face (well, its face was unmounted to reveal the circuits underneath).
It never talked, and its movements were consistent with robotic behavior, but when the hero convinces the tech guy to go with him, leaving the bot alone, you could see how forlorn and lost it felt.
Even without a face.
I do not want robots to be human-looking. I do not feel that it helps in any way.
Not until we have actual AI to put in them, that is, and even then, I want to be able to differentiate them from actual humans.
What fun. Yet another article on future battery tech that we won't see before decades, full of chemistry-heavy references to make it look serious.
Look, guys, I know that there are people working on batteries, but I've got a bit of a case of burnout reading about all that extraordinary stuff they're doing in the labs when the only types of battery I've been able to buy since 1990 is good old Alkaline, Mercury-Cadmium or NiMH.
Been hearing about carbon nanotubes since it seems forever, but nothing on the shelves. Here comes another nothing then.
Who knows, maybe my daughter's children will see something new. Whenever she gets around to having some, that is.
And he's trying to make it look like a charity when it is clearly a for-profit entity that has zero transparency and no obligation to report anything. Typical.
You'd have to be daft to give him money anyways. I'm sure he'll find some who will, though.
Just evidence that Microsoft is a tired behemoth vainly struggling to get out of the tar pit of history. It has never been capable of adapting, much less forecasting change, and is now too entrenched in its own hubris to do anything that would make it change its habits.
Of course, said behemoth is still sleeping on a rug woven from diamond and platinum, so it will be a while before it dies out. Meanwhile, it is quite possible that it may gobble up a newcomer that just happens to have a good idea, which means that Microsoft will have a stay of execution for the time it takes to inevitably stuff it up and abandon that market.
Nevertheless, Microsoft is now a dead man walking.
Okay, so here we have different police forces that have spent valuable money on recording equipment, then state that said equipment is either not used, records not kept or not accessible, or records even not made.
What the hell is the use of the purchase then ?
Uber is :
- widely reviled by the public at large
- not trusted by its own drivers
- has a rotten workplace atmosphere
- has no leadership
- is being actively disrupted by ex-leadership
- is burning money without oversight
and it still has investors ?
That is definitely called throwing good money on the bonfire. Let the company crash and burn and pick up the pieces without the rot. THEN put money into something that works and is not a public example of everything you shouldn't do.
Unfortunately, paedophilia is a sexual issue, while Naziism is a political one.
As disgusting as it may be, Naziism is actually protected under Free Speech. So, while it is definitely not a good political system, one cannot prevent people from entertaining the idea openly.
One can, however, identify the individuals, never speak with them again and warn all of one's friends and relations.
. . that they could finally kick out all those smelly, expensive meatbags and replace them by one single, shiny electronic server that they could then shut in a room and ignore for the rest of time while paying a minimal fee on power, air conditioning and replacement parts now and then.
Sorry, Megabuck CEOs, seems like you're first going to have to invest another few hundred billion bucks in R&D before seeing that rosy future.
