Posts by Pascal Monett 19006 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I am willing to accept that people look for files, but looking for apps ?
Is this a case of not knowing what you have installed on your PC, or has Microsoft screwed the GUI up so badly that finding an application shortcut is now a case of Search or Die ?
Really, everything I read about Windows 10 makes me not want to lose Windows 7.
The first rule being : it's the small streams that make the great rivers.
Wanting to be on-site with the big accounts is all good and nice, but that does not mean that strangling everything else is a good move.
I understand, of course, that Oracle does not want to deal with small fry, but the Channel was there for that, except that now the Channel is running on fumes and will likely soon disappear.
Having your product in the big accounts is all nice and ego-building, but if you're only present there, you are at the mercy of a product change. Yes, big accounts have the Big Money that pays for fat contracts, but they also have the money to change their environment - and they will do so if they think it is cost-effective.
Oracle is, I think, painting itself into a corner. A comfy one for now, but a corner nonetheless.
It is not a requirement, obviously.
However, when the marketing makes a point of making you think that they did something that is meant to show a historical figure's life, the least they could do is actually respect what happened in his life.
Otherwise, they should call it differently, change the names of the characters and the name of the location. THEN they can do what they want, and slap on a "based on the life of . . " in the credits like they usually do.
If Ray was appreciated at the level it was, it is because they didn't go entertainment with it, they respected him and his life.
In this case, they obviously didn't, and I won't be seeing it because of that.
The fact that ContentID "can be a bit wonky" is not the problem.
The fact that ContentID's results are accepted by all companies involved without human verification is.
The proper procedure should be :
- claimant finds possible infringement with software tool
- claimant checks the possible and draws up a list of infractions
- YouTube receives claim and verifies its veracity and well-foundedness
- YouTube now has authority to block the video and notify poster
The actual procedure, of course, appears to have done away with both middle steps. Once again, humains have replaced their brains with blinking lights.
Well they're going to go out of business, because I'm not working to keep them in business.
I watched all this HD hoopla with disinterest because I have a very good TV set that works fine and I don't care that it may be getting old, it works.
Then the 3D craze came and I got fed up with it all.
Now they're talking 4K ? Tell you what, when I need a new TV, I'll choose something. Meantime, just leave me out of it.
A fair reading of your rack record clearly indicates that you have no regard either for the Constitution of your own country or for any sense or moral at all. You are just the visible tip of the iceberg of paranoia and ends-justify-the-means attitude that has forgotten what made the USA a great country and has brought it to a state one step above African dictatorships.
Yup, sounds like what my status will be on Facebook At Work.
Don't care who says so, I'll never use it. And I'd like to take advantage of the opportunity to state that my professional life is NOT like my personal life and I do not want to mix the two.
If I want to be social with people I see 50 hours per week, I don't need a fucking ad server Big Brother Zuckerstein product to help me.
Even then, you're never sure it cannot be intercepted and decrypted by someone with the means to do it.
That used to be an issue only for big corp, those who had commercial "enemies" with pockets deep enough to support the costs of decryption of the day. These days, those with the means don't necessarily need to have the motive. When governments are listening to everybody by default, it's no longer a question of motive.
On top of that, PCs are more powerful than ever, meaning encryption needs longer keys to remain an efficient barrier.
I eagerly await the day that we will hear of the triumphant return of the PC based on soaring sales - only to find out that all those sales are in China and India and the "First World" market is as stagnant as a frog pond.
I wonder how they will spin that as good news ?
Wow. Just - wow.
You'd think that ICANN has responsibilities on par with the White House, deciding the fate of the world.
Reality check : you're handing out TLDs, you prick, and most of them have less utility than my garbage collector. Take it down a notch.
I just love to think of hotels having to manage customer bracelets on top of all the rest. I wonder just what the customers are going to think of the scheme. Will they feel like they are treated as cattle ? All those high-level execs and VIPs are expected to jump at the opportunity of being tracked in real time ?
Funny, I get the feeling that there will be a very frank and net rejection of the scheme.
Unless they guarantee free (and effective) WiFi if you wear it. Then I see a widespread adoption followed by much rejoicing.
In The Future (tm), recruiters will only interview candidates that correspond to their corporate culture. The Police will use predictive analysis to follow people more likely to commit infractions. Insurance companies will tailor premiums to your social rating. Entire neighborhoods will only accept newcomers if their Facebook Profile Indicator is in a range corresponding to their own tastes.
And everyone will be automatically subscribed to Facebook at birth by law.
But what of those people who exhibit anti-social behavior (i.e. not being appreciative of this wonderful, safe, cosy environment provided by the Bureau of Governmental Statistics), you ask ?
Why do you ask that ? You don't want to be a burden for your friends and family, now do you ? Of course not. You will now be transferred to a Social Reeducation Facility of your choice for processing. Be seeing you !
Hang on - it's only "plans" at this point.
If the legislation does pass, either these "plans" will have been entirely forgotten, or there will be so many loopholes around the wording that they may as well not have been included at all.
We're talking about Big Money. Nothing gets in the way of Big Money, especially not the Law.
No it is not. The entire reasoning for our society is based on the notion of civil rights - taking them away voids everything we believe in and everything we fought two World Wars for. Our way of life is ours to decide and should not be influenced by social or religious considerations from people who don't live with us.
Of course, that also means that we have no right to go abroad and impose our views on how other people should live. Maybe if we didn't do that so quickly, we'd not have this problem in the first place - but it's too late to change that. We do need to stop doing that, though.
In any case, I strongly encourage you to publicly respond to your MP and remind him that he was voted in his position as a representative of the People, not as tool for the Government.
An internal review ? No.
Given the documentary "Yes Minister", we now know that an internal review is just to bury the problem, not solve it.
What is needed is a fully open external review of security procedures. That is the only way we will know what the buggers are doing, what they're doing wrong and have a chance to correct it.
But, National Security, so it'll never happen anyway.
I highly doubt that companies are going to agree to migrate their work base every 7 years just because MS says so.
Desktops are going out of fashion, and with them is going MS's influence. MS will have to resolve itself to being just an OS provider, and the OS is going to have to resign itself to the back seat. Where companies are concerned, what is important is the applications, not the OS.
We are at the end of the upgrade treadmill, but MS apparently hasn't got the memo. The days when upgrading last year's hardware was justified by performance increase are gone and with them, the need to have a new OS for the new hardware.
MS : you need to make an Operating System, not a Consumer Experience. Get the bells & whistles out of the OS, so that upgrading one does not impact the other. Make your code able to update the kernel as the hardware evolves without endangering the apps that are needed. And, while you're at it, make the UI fully configurable.
We want to USE our computers, not watch your installation screens.
Sorry, but if a man is to be denied his birthright to freedom, I prefer it to be because there is incontrovertible proof, not because some official from a 3-letter agency declares he is highly confident that said man should be put in jail.
And the fact that the FBI states that IP addresses are a strong basis for its opinion does nothing to reassure me that he actually knows what he is talking about. He would need to demonstrate that he had proof that said IP addresses had not been spoofed before I even started to begin to give credit to this White House mouthpiece' drivel.
And its distances are totally incomprehensible to the regular human being.
Consider that astronomers are regularly talking about our "galactic neighborhood" - meaning the group of galaxies that are closest to us.
This has nothing to do with understatement, and everything to do with you not being used to the distances and concepts. Not a slur on your knowledge or intelligence, far from, but when one's job is to look at data coming from the nearest galaxies who happen to be up to a trillion light-years away, I guess that one does end up considering them in a different light and talking about them in such a way.
So, considering that a group of stellar systems less than 2000 light-years away are in "our neighborhood" seems perfectly reasonable, when you realize that that distance is less than 1.7% the diameter of our galaxy.
There is no legitimate excuse for a company to create fake certs that act like other companies. That is a breach or morale, pure and simple. If you don't want customers to do something on your network, be honest and block it (with a redirect to a page explaining why).
Anything else is a hypocritical cop-out.
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