Posts by Pascal Monett 19020 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Not necessarily using Google of course, I'm describing the search, not the engine.
If I understand correctly, .onion domain names are, in effect, public/private key definitions. Any search engine will have to have all the keys to access the domains it wants to search.
Kind of defeats the purpose then, doesn't it ?
You're probably correct where the engine is concerned, but you've overlooked one point : the people, who will be wanting to view their cat videos during the trip, or play their games or whatever.
If autonomous cars become a reality, I'm convinced that they will be viewed and sold as mobile entertainment rooms. After all, you're not driving, and you know the road on most of the trips, so why not play ?
Or work, if you're that kind of person ?
And that entertainment is going to drain some portion of power, to be sure. Less than the engine, obviously, but not insignificant, I think.
I get held up by a traffic jam
Theoretically, autonomous cars should eliminate traffic jams because they should be able to drive at speeds that bring them to their destination smoothly. Any ability for those vehicles to talk to each other, tell each other which way they're turning etc, will only be a bonus in removing slow downs.
We have traffic jams today mainly because everybody rushes forword, often in disregard of speed limits, to try to get ahead of everyone else, then they all come to the next choke point and brake wildly, sometimes causing accidents.
Autonomous cars will be more measured, won't change lanes for nothing, won't "think" the other lane goes faster, and thus things will move along more leisurely, but more regularly.
At least, I hope so.
I guess it would depend on how widespread that ends up being.
Given the current insistence of grafting wifi and online entertainment to the same bus on which travel system commands, I'd say that it's likely to become pretty widespread before it gets corrected.
And I don't like the idea.
We already know what they are : "no unauthorised individual will have access to the data".
They'll just forget to mention that they are authorising everyone sitting behind a government desk, and anyone who is working with someone sitting behind a government desk.
And you will never be able to ask for a list of the people who have accessed your records, not to mention when.
Exactly that.
Every single article I read singing the praises of the Cloud totally skirts even the notion of the word.
Company email in the cloud ? Well of course, all emails from and to all of your customers sitting like ducks in the cloud. How can that possibly go wrong ?
Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.
That is the problem.
Individual rights are in the same conundrum as IoT security. Everybody agrees they are essential, but as long as all the actors don't step up to bat when it's their turn, nothing will happen.
To ensure our right to freedom and privacy, we need to push ALL of our representatives, wherever and whoever they are, to do what is right.
Come on, everybody knows the CEO was fired during a board meeting. And for tripling losses instead of turning things around, it is understandable, although I wonder how it would have been possible to not incur losses after losing a major customer.
It may be the CEO handled things badly, but it may also be that she's just being handed the blame as a convenient excuse, or to reassure the market.
"loving Windows" ?
Not gonna happen.
You can eventually particularly appreciate one or more programs that you use regularly on any platform, to the extent of qualifying your appreciation with the adjective of love, but to extend that to the OS - whatever it is, makes no sense.
You can love your car, but you're not going to say you love the road infrastructure.
This is further extended to anything and everything that can be proven to have as much as a toehold in the USA too
Indeed, and it is high time for that interpretation to get smacked down on the basis that the USA certainly wouldn't like a Chinese judge to reciprocate and order a Chinese subsidiary in the US to hand over sensitive email data. At least, I doubt the USA would agree.
I do hope that the EU is going to find the balls somewhere to stop this nonsense. The Internet is a game-changer because of its globality. Local rules cannot be imposed over the Internet.
MPEG-LA is a group of 31 businesses, and Microsoft is part of it.
So there will be no charging of MP4 licenses - at least, not for Microsoft.
What drunken idiot thought that scheme was viable ?
Employees do not buy company-owned applications, they are installed on their computers by IT so they can do their job.
Or are we going to witness BYOWorkplace as the follow-up to BYOD ? And pigs will have wings next year.
Everything in this piece tells me that I'm going to be hearing a lot about Win10 update-related failures in the coming months.
There is a big difference between a Windows platform and Android - on the Android platform the user is not admin.
In Windows, historically speaking, the user has always had all rights to the OS and hardware access because Microsoft took two decades to start understanding that that was not a good idea. So yeah, on a PC a lot of malware is there because of Microsoft, not always because of the user.
Given the scale of the issue, and the fact that they work on a Linux platform and would apparently like the code in the kernel, I have the feeling that they will be giving back, as soon as they are sure that they have a viable solution.
At least I hope so. Anything that can improve mobile phone performance in calls or data is a godsend.
For the same reason people talk endlessly about themselves and other people, with the added bonus that Twitter makes you feel like you talk to the world and the world reads your words and talks back.
It's the ultimate self-aggrandizer. Even when you know yourself that what you're posting is abysmally useless, somebody, somewhere will react, thereby justifying your post.
I think Twitter is actually a psychology test, for the members AND its management.
Expunge it, erase it, eradicate it.
Ask the SWAT teams to go in there and frogmarch everybody out and take them all to jail.
Then bring in a NEW team, recreate a new ICANN on the latest board-refused proposal.
Since the board is so adamantly against it, it has to be good.
I am part of an IT outfit. We do code and consulting. We use mobile tech for email and rapid communication, like everybody else. But how exactly are we supposed to use "social media" ?
Tweet every morning that we're getting to work ? Post my latest code snippit on that "wall" thingy ? Tell everyone (well, 2 people) how this project sucks on Google+ ?
Social media is for socializing (well, showing off or getting attention, really), not for business.
Businesses have websites of their own. They don't need "social media", unless they're in the business of social stuff (like party planning or travel).
And as for Big Data, well you've gotta be Big to need that, and the big companies are already on that bandwagon.
Stupid remark.
If you want to get rid of patent trolls, tie the damages they can claim to the amount of product sales they generate. After all, only those actually selling product are "damaged" by infringement.
Patent trolls sell nothing, they just sit on their patents and wait for a juicy target. Since they sell nothing, the damages awarded will be a multiple of . . zero.
Poof ! Instant disappearance of the issue.
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.
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