Posts by Pascal Monett 19104 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Sorry, but that does not feel enough for me.
Personally, I think that any company that has not been diligent in the protection of my personal data should see its CEO go to jail and its board fined on their personal fortune.
If it impacts me personally, I see no reason why it should not impact them personally.
I'm sure those terms were chosen exclusively because they fit the editorial line on the subject matter, eh ? (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
But more seriously, the day that anyone finds the way to "prohibit the access of a pornographic or other explicit web site" without impacting any other sort of material is the day we have finally found a functioning AI.
Won't happen tomorrow.
"Turtle Rock's title is a rare kind of game, in that it's entirely reliant upon other players for it to be a worthwhile experience."
Oh, so it's just like Call of Duty Online, every Battlefield since number 3, and just about every multiplayer shooter that is being made since five years ago.
Yup, sounds very rare. Especially since the single-player titles are something that have practically gone extinct since Y2K.
Could we please cut the marketing drivel ?
Given that everything is now produced either in China or in some geographically close country, you can take you 1970's dogma and put it back in the folder marked "Obsolete".
If we had to rely on things produced in the Northern Hemisphere, we'd have trouble getting things more technologically advanced than forks & knives.
Because of two simple facts :
1) any race that has developed itself to be space-worthy has first had to establish itself as the ultimate predator in its own native environment. You can't build a spaceship if you fear being eaten by whatever tiger it is you have there.
2) any race that is space-worthy has to have a bureaucracy which has to justify its existence in difficult economic times - thus an invasion will inevitably be a wonderful economic opportunity, for them.
Not at all. These are the people making noise about arms control.
The people deciding the issue are in weapons manufacturers boardrooms, dressed in suits and very serious about their job.
When they have made up their minds, they will tell the people who make noise which way to make noise.
Probably because they are actual scientists and are also taking into account mission mass and total cost issues as well as point-of-failure problems.
Adding a space plane will add mass that will increase the payload to chuck out of Earth orbit thus increasing cost. Additionally, it will increase the amount of mass to move to Titan, thus increasing the amount of fuel needed to push it, thus increasing payload even more, which increases cost. Finally, adding another element with another set of possible failure options that are extremely difficult to mitigate from a billion miles away and can totally render the entire mission useless is a risk that most true scientists, fully aware of how little money they are being allotted to work their magic, will most likely prefer to avoid.
I'm sure I'm all that reassured about this leak. Does this mean we can be confident that things are more secure, or should we consider that, now that the blackhats have dumped this tech in the open, they have better ?
On the other hand, this might actually be good news for all people looking for an excuse to avoid installing Silverlight.
Yeah, because ICANN is really, really reliable where complaints are concerned. There is absolutely no example of any complaint that has not been rigorously handled and justifiably managed, no sir, cross my heart (you shut up in the back, or I will cross your domain off the Web forever).
... have noticed that we are monitoring them. This will stop forthwith to revert to the stealth readings we were doing before until the market accepts less covert surveillance and we can carpet-bomb them with ads for 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes of whatever crap they thought they wanted to watch.
Yeah, especially when they utterly fail to stop a new version of a virus, or when they mistake a Windows system file for a virus, quarantine it and crash the system, or when they grab 99% of CPU for minutes on end and keep you from doing your job without rhyme or reason.
The only thing that is reliable with AV software is the fact that your PC now belongs to it, not to you.
Unfortunately, as imperfect and annoying as they are, we do indeed need them. Therefor the only thing we can do is find the anti-virus that will be as efficient as possible while bothering us the least.
A real treasure hunt, and the treasure is our security.
I Googled "drive-by infection" and the first two results were this and this.
In the second article, it is clearly stated that "Just surfing to an affected website is enough to infect a computer".
I do believe that that sentence is in direct contradiction to your belief that "on its own, with no clicking or acknowledgement, a website cannot infect a PC".
And would you care to clarify how, on the one hand, you talk about Javascript in most of your post, yet you say "a website cannot infect a PC that prompts for any activeX to run" ? Where does ActiveX come into the discussion, and how exactly do you believe that ActiveX is, in any way, secure after all the holes that have been found in it ?
Businesses don't need new features, they need a stable, reliable environment.
When they do need a new feature, they'll go and buy an app that does what they need.
The last thing they need is for the OS vendor to go and change their working environment under the guise of installing something they didn't ask for.
Interesting. I thought facial recog systems were not very accurate. If this actually works, it will prove that FRSs can indeed be useful.
On the other hand, if it doesn't, good luck explaining to a robot that you can't get into your room. I hope they have some actual Human staff for handling errors, or at least rolling up the bodies in carpets.
Or maybe he has tried, time and again, to have a discussion with posters of a different opinion only to regularly find his points ignored, his mother insulted and his masculinity put in question.
Whatever "side" you may be on on the question of AGW-now-rechristined-Climate-Change, you have to admit that no forum discussion is possible outside of people who agree with you. The entire subject is void of any more reasoning, it's just shouting louder than the other guy.
A pitiful state for such an important question. Thankfully, it does not keep scientists from doing their job and continuing to gather data and analyze it.
And then they pwned the place so bad it's not even funny any more. This seems to me to be a good step above skiddie level. This is serious criminal activity done by knowledgeable perps, and they're going to mint millions with it.
Big Corp might not get caught, but Mom & Pop operations are going to be sunk by this.
On the other hand : calling Sony ! Sony ? If you think you lost some money last time, when these guys show up on your doorstep, you're going to find out the true meaning of LOSSES.
Probably, but I have the feeling analysis can only be reliable when the user is already logged on. Using it for the ultra-short time required to validate credentials which constrain the possibilities because set actions are required will likely not produce a valid recognition. Kinda voids the premise, in that case.
Do they ? Funny I've never, ever heard of them then.
When I read that sentence I was thinking "they have a rap sheet a mile long...". If they've only been heard of by investors, it doesn't feel like a good thing.
Oh, and what industry is "similar and/or related to" the gaming industry ?
"We do have safeguards but we serve billions of ads so something might slip through"
Translation :
"We can't be arsed to really ensure our users' security, so we just half-assed it and when it breaks, oopsie"
Computers do what they are told. If they are given the proper procedure to lock down incoming data, that procedure will be applied on ALL incoming data. Computers don't just skip something every now and then - not when they are properly programmed.
What Grindr is actually saying is that they cannot properly lock down ad security because they would be limiting the number of ads they can serve. Which, in turn, means that those ads are doing fishy things in great numbers, but Grindr prefers the revenue (duh).
Once again, consumers are left hanging in the wind in the eternal battle between money and security. And money wins every time.
And all a skiddie has to do is put some exe on your PC that starts with the same couple letters and you'll be launching it without even realizing.
All I have to do is launch the shortcut. Given that I have eyes and know how to use them, and given that I also know how to use Windows since 1995, it is not a problem for me. All the apps I need to launch have their shortcuts either on my desktop or in the taskbar. It's called organization, you might want to look that up.
Go on searching if that makes you feel superior, but leave me my shortcuts.
Well bugger me.
Here I was still thinking that computers were supposed to simplify my life and that a shortcut was a pretty handy way of doing things.
Thank you for enlightening me. I will forthwith scramble all my possessions in all my drawers and cupboards, put my DVDs in the garage and my tools in the bathroom and spend the rest of my life wasting hours finding back whatever it is I might need to something I might want to do.
NOT.
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.
You need to go and learn what Free Speech means. Libel has never been included in Free Speech.
Free Speech does not mean that you are free to say any inane thing you want, it means that you are free to state your opinion on subjects of importance, be it religion, state or law, without fear of retribution.
It means that you have the right to stand up in the middle of your Mayor's speech about some transformation of your town and say that you don't agree with it, and why.
It means that you have the right to choose who you wish to vote for without somebody beating you up for it. And if somebody does, you have the right to obtain justice through the Courts.
Free Speech is the foundation of a democratic society - one I suppose you are living in. So please educate yourself about the foundations of the country in which you live, because it's all the morons spouting nonsense about everything that are bringing civilization into the gutter.
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.
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