Posts by Pascal Monett 18221 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I will not trust that individual to respect anything he promises.
I trust that he will find a way to track people who have subscribed and opted out of advertising, will get caught and try to brush it off with another "Oops, sorry Your Honor, we made a mistake. Won't happen again, pinky promise."
And then it will happen again.
Well duh. It's not like you're going to actually say anything like : "well we are considering grounding our entire fleet for an extensive security review".
That would basically shut down the company. Permanently.
So no, head chief engineer and all spokesdrones are going to be "confident" in their planes - even though they avoid flying on them.
Shoulda woulda coulda yada yada. It's all very nice to request the public to be responsible, but the public isn't and it's not being given the tools to be responsible about AI.
Those decisions are all being made at the Board level by people who, frankly, do not have the public's interest at heart in any way, shape or form.
So the only tool the public has is blind disregard for anything AI. Once the Board suits will have understood your message and understood that it is in their interest to show the public what has been 100% human-generated versus what has been "facilitated" with pseudo-AI, then we have a better environment where the public will be able to gradually accept and integrate that, indeed, pseudo-AI is not going away and there are things that might be better for it.
But until then, only shunning AI is going to have any effect on Boardroom discussions.
I don't.
We live in an age where multinational behemoths believe that they have the right to define how we go about our daily lives and, for Alphabet, that means it has the right to track our every move. It will do any and everything it can to ensure that that "right" is enforced.
Poor Mr Orwell. He thought it would be governments . . .
Now that is an intelligent choice for a chip foundry.
Just below the Great Lakes, water in abundance, it is a much better choice than Arizona.
Good on Gelsinger for having done that. Now why did he have to go and put two fabs in the driest place of the US of A which is subsisting only because it is sucking up an entire river of water that is failing ?
How is it that people looked at this possibility and thought : "now that's a great idea" ?
I am not interested in remote-opening my front door. I want to open it when I get there, not before and certainly not after.
And if I am renting something with this, I will tell the owner that I am replacing the lock. If he objects, I will look elsewhere.
There is only one solution to oppose scams and malware : intelligence.
Check the link. If it goes anywhere you're not familiar with, don't click.
Nobody is going to offer you millions to just click something. Sorry, that Nigerian billionnaire does not exist. Play the lottery, you've got better chances.
No one you know is sending you an attachment you should open. If someone you know does send you an attachment without you expecting it, contact the person and make sure it was meant for you. In every other case, trash the mail. It's a weapon.
It is so fucking simple, and yet so many are still caught by this.
Sometimes I dispair of Humanity.
Looks like the days of Cupertino riding high on other people's work are coming to an end.
5% is enough for Apple to still gain money and provide Store services at their current level but, of course, why settle for 5 when you can gouge six times more ?
Well six times more is too much, and the rising number of lawsuits tends to prove that Apple is going to have to lower that ratio permanently.
It might choose to do so on its own terms before having to bow to a law (ie set the bar lower to appease everyone before you're forced to set it really low).
Artificially tight deadline created because the Board has decided something stupid ?
You bet it's going to create a mess. The gun is going to meet the foot and Broadcom is going to demonstrate how little it cares about the users of the product it has paid a fortune to destroy.
Is that really a disadvantage ?
Some bad things are greatly reduced, some bad things aren't, but they're not increased either. Honestly, I'm tired of seeing these everything-isn't-perfect kind of comments. So it's not perfect. It's still better.
And it recycles already used oils, which, in my opinion, is even better.
I disagree.
That may be how today's MBA types think, but there is a saying in French : ce sont les rivières qui font les fleuves, which can be loosely translated as it's the little streams that makes great rivers.
if you are willing to cut off all the little streams, your greate river is going to fail.
I don't know how to to teach that to the business suits, though.
That is the point that should be relentlessy repeated.
This is not your run-of-the-mill failed Government IT operation where the higher-ups get their honours and move on, and the public pays the bill and shuts up.
No, this is an abject failure of government where the higher-ups literally walked on the corpses of honest people just trying to do their job for Queen and Country.
The fallout on this should be ruthless and profound. There is no excuse for the Old Boy's Club here.
Of course they did. I was in Luxembourg City last time there was an eclipse there. I saw daylight turn into darkness, went outside and experience the sudden drop in temperature and the silence. Even the birds were hushed.
It was an awesome experience and I readily understand that Humanity was terrified by it.
Well duh, it's just administrative busybodies that are making themselves look busy.
Given the state of US politics, it's certain that any actual decision or accord made now stands every chance to be overturned if the OHSG get re-elected. He did, after all, decide to flush the existing Paris accords down the drain. He doesn't give a shit about previous engagements.
I have my doubts on that point.
The way I see market conditions these days, having an open-source based second-source supplier that becomes successful is going to entail two things :
1) open-source developers are going to attack the company to get what they consider is their "fair share" of the spoils, and
2) AWS, Azure or any other multi-billion behemoth is going to lavish the company board in boatloads of billions to buy them out, and they will fold
So, short or medium term, any successful open-source-based company with big government contracts is going to disappear, either because of lawsuits, or because of bagfulls of money.
Return to step one.
It's almost a mistake, PR-wise. Indeed, now the scum have demonstrated publicly, in less than a month, that they will go back after targets that have previously paid up.
Boards everywhere should be paying attention here. You get hit, you'll get hit again if you pay.
Stop paying. It's the only solution.
Once you've secured your network properly, that is.
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