Posts by Pascal Monett 18232 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
It will help because months and months of tedius transit in pitch dark to lug Unobtanium from Ganymede back to Earth will not be bearable without a proper shot of ol' mellow to take the edge off of extreme boredom.
And a local Diablo III server (ranked) would help immensely as well.
The only thing I know about Pokemon is that you had to catch them all. I didn't catch any, nor did I even look around for some.
With this renaming, I think Cisco may just have given enough impetus to create a whole new crowd of MetaPodians exchanging entirely new, non-Pokemon related jokes. And maybe some network-related horror stories as well.
Time will tell.
Where are those ?
The offers I see most of the time ask for a single person to manage three different server environments, know the intricacies of five different database environments, plan, execute and manage backup strategies, project planning and execution, people interaction and oversight, and be able to remap the network and recable the building as well, all for the princely sum of minimum wage or thereabouts.
If you want a person to do the job of ten people, you damn well better be ready to pay him the salary of ten people, otherwise you can get stuffed.
Nerver mind cookies, websites are out there that actively detect AdBlockers and shunt you to a garage page if you're using one.
If I don't really need the info, or if I can find it elsewhere, I generally do not return there - which shouldn't bother them since they're more interested in shoveling ads at me than in me seeing their website.
Most certainly that was part of the testing phase.
Apparently, when the tests were positive, they just shoved the whole thing into production without anyone giving an effing eff about whether or not they should take out the test access.
Because obviously nobody would ever think of trying to access something wireless by using root/root as credentials, right ? It's only Samsung testers that are authorized to do that.
And why, pray tell, was remote access available in the first place ?
Apparently, remote access is just bolted on to the main car's data system and the software is supposed to sort out legit commands from unwanted ones by itself.
I call that a recipe for disaster.
What on Earth was that guy at a tennis match with a drone for ? Couldn't he just have played with his phone ?
Why are people terrified of an itty-bitty flying toy ? It's not a bloody Predator, now is it ? The worst it could have carried would be a firecracker.
What the fuck is the reason for BLOCKING THE VIDEO ? On what grounds did they get that done ? It's not a private game, there are spectators. They're not going to lose money, the game's over. Why do we accept this kind of dickery ? There is absolutely no reason for it.
Ravens and dogs, and every living creature, have one thing computers will never have : the ability to act on impulse.
That was the point of my example. Ravens may not admire the view (and what proof do we have of that ?), but I am fairly sure that they can decide to fly to a given place without any proper reason to do so. I'm sure you can find a corresponding example for dogs.
When a computer is not responding to code imperatives, it does not decide to do anything but wait for the next imperative. That is why it is not AI. Intelligence is whimsical, or it is not.
Could we please have confirmation that there is indeed an "n" before the "ever" ?
Because there is an enormous change in meaning there, and the sentence, as it stands, does not compute with the general tone of that part of the article.
Since then, Google has developed a self-driving car, computers can type what you speak, and phones have become really good at playing chess.
First, the Google Car isn't finished, and there is no AI in there, just a PC with a (very) complex set of instructions reacting to its sensors and instructions. If it were AI, it might want to stop and admire the view every now and then.
Second, computers can type what we speak, most of the time almost accurately, but again, that's not AI in the sense that it's not an artificial brain doing it, just another set of complex instructions. if it were AI, it might interrupt us now and then to say "REALLY ?".
As for chess, yeah, I'll leave you that one. The damn thing beats me every time.
They don't, apparently. They've only theoretically demonstrated the theoretical possibility of doing something.
The word "supraconductor" is generally a tell-tale sign. Room-temperature supraconductors don't exist yet. The word "meta-material" is another sign. I don't anything meta exists either.
But when they do, it'll work. Promise !
I don't suppose they have HD cameras out there yet. Obviously, the problem is not buying the kit, but making sure new kit would work flawlessly with the rest.
Oh, and there's the cost of getting it up there and putting it in place as well. And the fact that a spacewalk is a potentially dangerous thing, so keep 'em to what is needed.
Okay, so no HD. But what's with all the numbers ? Do they really need all that data all the time ? (independantly from the fact that it's NASA, so if they have it, they most certainly need it).
Sorry, but given how everything computer-controlled has demonstrated a marked ability to go haywire with, sometimes, dreadful consequences, the fear of loss of control is decidedly not irrational.
That said, I will welcome a car that drives itself properly and securely at all times, under any conditions, with open arms. The thought of sitting in my own private taxi, telling it where to go and then opening a book for the trip to work is one I would really, really like to see come true.
Alas, it most likely won't happen before I retire. Oh well.
Multiple people having their names on this most famous list were contacted and Bitcoin payment demanded.
So that means that, had my name been on that list and had I received such a demand (and were I stupid enough to not realize that it's way too late to hide now), I would have had to go and buy a bitcoin because I don't have any and no intention of dipping into that particular pond either.
Talk about a roundabout way of doing things.
External GPU ? I can't believe that performance is not going to take a hit for that. And frankly, lugging that humongous box around plus the laptop is rather ridiculous, but if it rocks your boat, good for you.
I'll stick to upgrading my desktop box. Watercooling that is not a problem, there are no more space constraints and besides, LAN parties are in the past for me. Much easier and more practical to game with my friends over the Internet.
That they will, not a shred of doubt about that.
The only question that remains is : who decides what is a valid surveillance operation ?
Whatever the answer today, what happens when a new government takes power and decides to abuse the system ? People die, that's what.
Catching criminals is an essential endevour, but the potential for abuse - especially in the current state-sanctioned-universal-surveillance we currently live in - is enormous. Add to that we simply cannot trust politicians to not do it, and I think that this is, overall, a bad idea.
Facial recognition - the final nail in the coffin for our privacy. Your phone/tablet/whatever is going to be the industry's portal into your life, recording everything you say, watching everything you do, and tracking you everywhere you go, "for a better customer experience".
And you won't be able to turn it off, because they'll lock it into the phone's function "for security reasons".
I am so going to live in a cave as soon as I retire.
The developer didn't do something entirely stupid, he thought he was submitting to his private repository and, without GitHub's mistake, that's what would have happened and we would never have heard of it.
He apparently would not have included the keys if he intended to use a public repository.
To me this story is just another confirmation of "never put confidential data in the cloud". Ever. Under no circumstance.
Among the data that is thought to have leaked are records of Standard Form 86, an exhaustive questionnaire designed for people who are requesting security clearances
Well it looks like that's all the hackers needed then. Jackpot for them.
Now all the government's got to do is create an ITB - Identity Theft Bureau. Because it's gonna take a whole new Bureau to deal with the fallout on this one.
"multinational businesses will need to pick a collection of suppliers that comply with various jurisdictions' requirements"
As opposed to their usual attitude of "do it however we bloody want and ignore what we're told by local authorities while pretending to listen politely".
My heart bleeds for them, really it does.
Could we just get rid of region locking ?
I know all about unlocking the player, but I really shouldn't have to since I bought the bloody DVD/BluRay in the first place. The box says that I have the license to view the material, it doesn't say that the license is restricted to the country where I bought it and it doesn't have the right to say that.
Keep the regional code as an informational notion, but cut it out with locking the players to one region.
It might have something to do with the fact that the NCA has seen and regularly sees worse than that (in real life, I mean), coupled with the fact that the NCA is not political or politicised, so nobody there has anything to gain by going nuts over a simple and unavoidable DDoS.
But it's still nice to see, indeed.
Cars cannot be reconfigured after purchase. Software can.
It's like all the rage around the TIFKAM thing. Wouldn't have happened if Microsoft had just made an option out of it.
Curiously, it is very rare that software makers bolt on entire new functionality and include a checkbox to enable/disable it. Maybe it has to do with being to lazy, but I think it has more to do with avoiding the angst of dealing with masses of stupid customers not able to read instructions and wailing about how something ain't available when the checkbox is unchecked.
Sounds like DDOS time !
Effing bastards. From now on, I am nuking anything with "telemetry" in its description.
Now, more than ever, it is a good idea NOT to auto-install WU patches and wait for feedback before choosing anything.
Really Nadella, if you want us on the warpath, keep it up.
Citation please ?
I do agree that this affirmation appears to be, at first glance, a reasonable one, but is it actually true ?
The wikipedia article makes no mention of meritocratic influence on this Liquid Democracy thing.
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