Posts by Pascal Monett 18980 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Okay, I know Jira is crapware, but it's crapware that's selling.
How is it that Atlassian is losing money selling software ? How bad do you have to manage things to lose money when you're selling the same code over and over again ?
I would disagree. ID cards are useful and are not necessarily a sign that your government is veering Big Brother (it is, but not for that reason).
The problem in Japan, as I see it, is that the team drawing up the specifications apparently didn't bother to check with countries that already had ID cards to find out what problems those countries had found and think about how their scheme might be impacted. On top of the other problem that is this is the first time anyone has tried to implement a digital ID scheme based on numbers.
No, wait, Social Security has been based on numbers since forever. Maybe they should have looked into that.
Oh well, I'm sure the Agile team is on it. After all, move fast and break things, right ?
Oh, right. It's already broken.
Boilerplate response. Of course you do. Unfortunately for you, just about everybody else probably thinks is has merit, and I'm guessing the judge will too.
That said, I think there should be a law stopping shareholders from sueing their own company. You're not happy with the company's performance ? Then sell your shares, take the loss and go invest in a better company.
But are, apparently, valid in Germany.
So basically, patents are a nightmare everywhere. Until there is one, international patent court, that is. But then, given the farce that is the United Nations, it's pretty clear that we humans are totally incapable of managing anything on a large scale that cannot be corrupted or influenced outside the established rules.
In other words, as a species, we need a benevolent dictator to ruthlessly enforce the rules we have ourselves chosen, because we can't be arsed to do that in the long run.
Um, why ? You're the certificate authority, are you not ? It seems to me that you have the ability to do whatever with your certs, including having a bit of patience while thousands of admins and thousands more IT staff have their schedule thrown into the blender to satisfy you.
And that is the perfect demonstration of the so-called auto-regulation of capitalism. It doesn't.
You shouldn't need a law to remove hazardous products from your listings, Amazon. Defending your right to not do so just demonstrates (as if that was needed) how little you care about the consumer and how much you care about your profits.
We knew that anyway, so go for the law. It's the only thing that will curb your capitalist enthusiasm.
Don't worry. There's just a massive governmental push to replace all ICE vehicles with electric ones.
Can't have anything to do with your own power supply, now can it ?
I mean, it's not because we already don't have the necessary power generation (forget sustainable) to support that change that you should worry at all, now should you ?
That is a bold claim.
So, back up your words and explain to us what you would have done to ensure that the time clock on the taskbar not take up too much resources, since you're so much more knowledgeable.
And then, when you've done that, why don't you give us your insights as to how UEFI should have been implemented.
With code examples, please.
"writing efficient code to exploit the parallelism of multiple processor cores is very hard"
Fuck yeah.
And there is no amount of pseudo-AI bullshit that is going to change that any time soon.
That said, if and when it does, that will be one hell of an accomplishment.
In other words, things you would be logically interested in knowing are things that car manufacturers and insurance companies load up with personal data exfiltration.
Let's not pussy-foot around the obvious here : some asshole thought this was acceptable. He thought that it was perfectly normal to saddle legitimate requests with data exfiltration.
That asshole is a sociopath, and every manager above him who signed off on this as well.
They should all be fired and sent to McDonalds for remedial education.
My little password database is secure, if only because nobody knows its format, where it is or what's in it.
It could be a plaintext file in a specific (non Windows-managed) location. It could be an Excel spreadsheet on my NAS. It could be in my StickyNotes.
What it is not is depending on the vagaries of some remote entity I have no control over.
It used to be called a Personal Computer.
Emphasis on the word Personal.
I dispute that. El Reg has nothing in common with Facebook or any other "social" media. I have no way of finding out who is new on El Reg if they don't post something somewhere I read. You don't have a wall I can check. I am not alerted to your presence in the forums, nor can I "follow" you in any way. The only personal info I have access to is what you put into your public profile. If you decided to include your gender, religion, family details and/or sexual preferences, that's your decision. It is neither a requirement nor, I believe, encouraged by El Reg.
And I can't send you a private message. I can only publicly respond to your posts, as can you.
It's a forum, it's not social media.
Everything you say is, I'm sure, absolutely true, but you cannot compare user failures to product or systems failures.
Users are stupid, unaware or uncaring. You can try to convince them to do things right, but most won't get the message until it's too late.
UEFI was supposed to have been created by engineers. That is not the same level of importance.
There is no longer any such thing.
I do not think that CrowdStrike will fold. Too big to fail comes to mind. Too many megabuck multinationals do not want to upheave their flawed systems. They will prefer that Kurtz makes his mea culpa, makes a ton of promises, shows transparency and a ton of bullshit, and they will stick with what they know.
If CEOs were capable of venturing into the unknown, every business PC would be running Linux.
I can understand you placing your phone on a table and it falling off. I can understand you taking your phone out of your pocket, fumbling, and dropping it.
I cannot understand you mowing the lawn with your phone. You're mowing the fucking lawn. You can live without your slab of toxic materials during that time.
Self-configuring is already a red flag. The software doesn't know where it is, so some amount of manual configuration is necessary.
Self-healing means nothing for software. Software doesn't stub its toes. Either it has resiliency programmed in it, or it will fall over like Windows 95 after 24 hours.
As for self-securing, I look forward to reading reports of PCs running Omnissa where Omnissa has decided to refuse network connections . . .
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