Posts by Pascal Monett 18868 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
No, because all the citizens of those countries have preferred to leave instead of standing up for their rights and the rights of others.
Alternatively, no because they couldn't be arsed to stand up for anything between reruns of whatever inane TV series it is they watch.
You don't get the country you ask for, you get the country you work for.
It's 20% of his "base salary". Which means that all bonuses, incentives, tokens and whatever else can be put on his salary will come in at 100%. Frankly, I'd like one of those guys to say, just once, that he will only get his salary - like all us other lowlifes.
But it'll be a cold day in Hell before that happens.
I can see what that will bring : a whole lot of misunderstandings, lost files and general pain for home users.
What, because you think that Microsoft is going to reserve this "revolutionary" file thingy to business users only ? Nonsense ! It'll be the centerpiece of Windows Number Whatever and everyone will have it regardless of whether or not they actually need it.
Don't forget, this is Microsoft, and Microsoft Knows Better (c) than you what your needs are. Proof ? Just look at Vista and its embedded DRM ! Isn't that a wonderful thing for the end user ? Obviously (says RIAA/MPAA) ! Did any end user actually ask for it ? Of course not ! How could they ? Nobody had ever thought of it before !
Given that the general agreement on Win 8 is that it is already a re-hash of Win 7, itself a spin-off of Vista based on XP with added DRM and fancy bells and whistles, I can't help but shudder when I think of the royal clusterfucks that will happen with a new, untested file system working, I should say laboring, under DRM restrictive processes. Sounds as fun as trying to single-handedly pull an elephant in one direction when the animal wants to go some other way.
I wonder what will happen when this new file system is pulled from the functionality list yet again ?
Very true, but where Microsoft is concerned, it is very black indeed.
Especially when a Microsoft mouthpiece has the gall to spout such nonsense as "we've proven we're very serious about security". Buddy, the only thing you've proven up to now is that security is the worst thing you do. Seriously.
Is a moron, but in a slightly larger amount of words.
Let's see, the first word that jumps out on Amazon is "Shop", whereas on Amazee it's "Change". Amazee has no left-hand menu at all, nor does it mention the word "book" anywhere. The home pages are not in the same colors at all. The only thing you can quickly do on Amazee is "Join". Amazee has no "Cart" button or logo.
I agree, only a moron would confuse the two sites. Now lumping me in that category is tantamount to libel, maybe even slander.
I am insulted. My lawyer will contact yours, Amazon. Lawsuits at dawn.
So, you liked the Cool-Aid so much you posted the same thing twice ?
Must taste real good then !
But tell me, don't you think Google is a bit of an exception as far as cloud computing is concerned ? I mean, is there any other company that has anything even close to what Google has as far as data-crunching is concerned ? I don't think so.
As for the rest of your arguments, you sidestep nicely the question of confidentiality. Banks are not going to use the cloud for anything and you know that. I'll wager that most companies will keep the mission-critical apps in-house as well because, you know, there's that liability thing that keeps cropping up now and then. And there's already enough trouble with loss of customer data as it is, no need to add cloud hacking to the mix.
In short, I really don't see how this new fad is going to go anywhere farther than it already is. Remote hosting is an old idea, and there are domains where it can be used advantageously - I believe those domains are already well-known and the services already available.
This cloud thingy strikes me as just another train for the Web 2.0 crowd to milk as far as they can, nothing more.
Let's make one thing clear : child pornography is when an _adult_ takes pics of minors in various states of undress or suggestive poses.
If the minor takes pics of him- or herself, it's no longer child porn ! It may be stupid, but it cannot be labeled as child porn.
This whole case reeks of zero-tolerance, overreacting do-goody twoshoes whose actions are way out of line with whatever the intent was. And I'd like to see a lawsuit come up to determine just how those pics were dug up in the first place.
After all, if American cops start random mobe searches in US universities and schools, I wager we'll hear a lot more about child porn soon, and possibly about regular porn as well !
Microsoft only complains that "one company" holds the cards when that company ain't Microsoft. It means that Microsoft is pissed that they are not the ones calling the shots. It also means that Microsoft will show great eagerness in getting its bloody hands on the specs in order to "enhance" them with proprietary plug-ins which will "encourage" developers to use the Microsoft version and none other.
Oh we know the drill all right, and God are we tired of it.
You forgot just one thing : China is respected as a member of the international community based on two things only : first, it can field an army of more men than most countries have people, and second, it has limitless market potential for capitalist money-grubbing CEO's to drool over.
Being respectful of people's rights has never been a criteria and probably never will be.
The usual Microsoft gumption is at work here. Judge you by your deeds indeed, do you think we've waited for your permission ? Do you think your track record is such a shining, spotless testament to your belief in Open Source ?
In case you might have missed it, Ballmer, we still remember the fact that you are a convicted monopolist, despite all those things Gates claimed to not remember. And we will never forget the hugely reported trial against Linux, which was really a perfect demonstration of your "commitment" to Open Source. By the way, Steve, have you ever actually published the 200+ infringements that you based your trial on ? I mean, apart from the one so poorly disguised by hiding it in another font ?
So, just to make it perfectly clear, Monkey Boy, your track record reads like a pimps' criminial record. Abuse (of customers and vendors), battery (of the judicial system), corporate misdoings (company takeovers just to kill a product), money laundering (i.e. tax evasion) and practically every crime we have a law for (metaphorically speaking), they're all in your record.
And we will never forget that.
I feel that this article outlines quite clearly the major issues that exist with "cloud service" operators. For me, my opinion of cloudy stuff is simple : banks and major multinational corporations will never allow their internal data to be hosted by someone else.
Ergo, without the boost and credibility that these key organizations give, this whole cloud thing will never really take off, or else will remain at the "host your mail and 100GB of data" level that it is today.
I can understand Phorm, I can understand private companies doing anything to make another buck and waiting for the backlash to tone things down. It's a stupid policy, but I can understand it. For the life of me though, I cannot understand that a public service, government-owned and government funded, without any commercial obligation, stoops to that kind of petty thievery. Where does this tendency come from ? What is it with civil servants these days ? Who in their right mind can possibly think that opt-out is the morally proper way to do things ? I can't get it. I just can't.
No really, how many times have we heard of this kind of nonsense. Vendor's product has issue, questions posted on vendor forum, posts deleted.
Customer Relations 101 reminder : deleting questions without explanation will invariably bring the issue under greater scrutiny and will, without fail, put the vendor in bad light in the opinion of the public.
Happens every time. No exceptions.
Why oh why do these companies still try ?
I look forward to seeing a police car hurry to a location, stop with screeching tires and four cops popping out to look for a victim who is actually 100 yards away around the corner, bleeding on the ground next to a little bunch of plastic pieces that may have been a phone.
Because he made the admins in the US military look like the idiots they are, and for that reason he has to be put away and made to break rocks to atone for the horrible, terrible deed. That is 99% of the damages cited. The rest is just the time it took to slap one of those admins until proper passwords got set.
I heartily agree. I see objects shuffling around every day at the office. They have very good sensors (high-tech ones called eyes and ears), but they seem blissfully unaware of anything.
As long as the coffeepot is not empty, that is.
So they're gone . . to better serve their customers ?
That must be something like the local Triad gangster changing the "ownership" of his restaurant three times in the last five years - with the same personnel, the same crappy list of dishes, but a different decor each time.
And the Income Tax guys get fooled every time.
Get with the progam, mister. You need it because we say so. And when you get wristwatches with 2048x1600 pixels, we'll make sure it has a Blu-Ray drive so you can watch you favorite space opera while getting a cramp in your arm.
Now go and pay your voluntary contribution to the Save The RIAA fund. If you don't know where to go, don't worry, a friendly RIAA SWAT team is waiting just around the corner with a lawyer to "serve" you.
Yeah sure. Funny how that argument is totally ignored when it comes to cigarettes, alcohol, guns, Wall Street, genetically-modified organisms and a bunch of other subjects that have been proven to be dangerous in given circumstances.
I am seriously tired of this game of switch-to-the-argument-that-suits-us-best that these politicians play nonstop.
I would like a global policy put in place : choose a line of conduct and STICK TO IT. If you are worried about long-term effects of one thing (as well you should be), then take that perspective into account in ALL other aspects of your mandate.
Politics would be a lot simpler if each subject had a checklist with the same items :
- is it a global issue ?
- is it financially important ?
- is it socially important ?
- is it economically feasible ?
- is it socially acceptable ?
- is it morally acceptable ?
- will there be any short-term benefits ?
- will there be any long-term benefits ?
- what will the short term cost be ?
- what will the long term cost be ?
Go through the list publicly, each time, and validate the answers with experts AND the public.
The day that happens we'll all be one big step closer to democracy.
Curious how (supposed) Linux users are all over the comments on Windows articles. One would think they have other things to do with a such a wonderful system than waste time reading articles about an inferior OS.
I'm a Windows user because Linux (any flavor) doesn't suit my needs. Yes, Capito, you read that right : neither Ubuntu nor any other Tux flavor does what I want to do, so I (shock) don't use it.
But you don't see me banging on about Windows in a Linux article. Nor do I see any other comments about Windows in Linux articles.
Oh wait . . there aren't any Linux articles, and Linux is insignificant, market-wise. I wonder if there may be a correlation there.
I don't know if it's true, and Kaspersky's track record on this issue does not exactly incite me to believe them, but one hour does seem a bit short.
I would think that a proper response time would be at least two working days.
On one hand, leaving such a hole open for more than two days does seem rather slack, but on the other, one hour is surely not enough to evaluate the risk, test its veracity and do something about it.
Are you aware that all that money is chump change to him ?
Sure he gives a lot, and of course it's a good thing. Never forget, though, that he has reaped a million times what he gives from the gouging he gave the market.
In my view, the only thing he's doing is buying himself some respectability.
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