Posts by Pascal Monett 19424 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I'm sorry, doesn't that mean that AI companies are defending their ability to lie ?
And that has been accepted in a country that continues to endlessly chant God Bless America ?
You guys do know that the Ten Commandments include "Thou Shalt Not Lie" ?
Hypocrites.
You missed this part of the article :
"Binary Defense is due to publish a report on Thursday about the cyber-break-in and lessons learned. "
If they're already writing up a report about lessons learned, it seems to me that the details are known.
Maybe not by you, but they are known.
Just like kidnapping.
It was made a crime to pay a kidnappers ransom, result : no more kidnappings for ransom in the US.
Do the same with ransomware. When there is no more money to be made, the only attacks left will be those of state actors who have other interests in mind (my how that sounds better <shudder>).
Excuse me ? If you're laying me off I will not sign that and I will talk about it. Now what are you going to do ?
How is it that this kind of thing is legal ? At the very least, I would have thought that someone being "forced" to sign that NDA would go directly to court over the matter.
Look, I'm very glad that you dismantled a violent criminal network, don't get me wrong, but I can put 200kg of anything in the back of my Skoda Fabia.
That is not an impressive amount to me. Can't you find anything better ? In the boatload range, for example ? I don't know, a ton or more ?
200kg sounds like a Saturday at Cosco. If these guys were such criminal masterminds, you should be able to find that under the sofa.
Just one question, Nadella : have you planned on shutting down Borkzilla in five years ? No ? Then why is your Long Term limited to five years ? Are you planning on leaving before that and you won't care any more ?
Your customers, the ones who pay for your product, definitely plan to be there in five years and long after. It is exhausting to continually read that software companies are the ones who decide how long their software is supposed to be used. It's not like that. You're a multi-billion dollar company. You put out a critical piece of business software, and YOU FUCKING SUPPORT IT UNTIL BUSINESS DOESN'T NEED IT ANYMORE.
That should be enshrined in law.
I'm glad that industry people are starting to fear that the projects they make money out of and pay nothing for just might end up not being supported any more.
When that happens, maybe industry will think of a remuneration package for new maintainers. Oh, of course, it will be new young maintainers with a vast lack of experience and all the problems that may ensue but hey, you only have yourselves to blame for that.
I absolutely do not approve this internet warfare, but one thing that is apparently even more certain is that critical infrastructure needs to be secured and never has been because nobody ever decided it was needed. So it's been available for attack since forever because who cared ?
Well now, it is needed and everyone cares, so put up the money, get the training, and get those critical infrastructures secured. You've been coasting on ignorance and complacency long enough.
Maybe it can, but if it hands out the same abominable mess that MS Word dishes out when you wish to save in HTML, then I will do fine without it.
That said, I have seen the results when asking ChatGPT for a LotusScript function that checks all the documents in a Notes view and I have to admit, while I wouldn't have written it exactly like that, the code provided does work, so maybe, just maybe, there might be a possible future where you could ask WhateverGPT for a functional Windows kernel without the cruft and get something that actually works and respects your computer (and allows you to play your games).
Here's hoping.
Well it's backed by China, so duh.
It is so duh that experts reviewed it detail because obviously they would.
So I applaud this initiative, but I wonder exactly what good it will do. It's kind of like the wishlist of nice things we'd all like to have but have no way of getting yet.
I hope the ensuing comments will create an outline that could finally become an actual standard. Adding that to my wishlist.
Gosh, it's almost as if Redmond never actually rewrote the Windows Core since XP and just kept piling on the cruft and arbitrarily deciding, via UI "upgrades", which was the next version.
This nonsense with hardware requirements is just the latest in the glaring pieces of proof that Borkzilla is phoning it in rather than actually working on its product.
Of course it wants everyone on Win 11 : that's where The CloudTM is, which means more monthly revenue because nickel and diming functionalty instead of providing it out-of-the-box.
Nobody is surprised. HPE (the Board) is a bunch of vultures. Not taking into account their own due diligence is not something that will keep them from looking into the mirror and finding that everything is fine.
And you can be sure that, at the end of this year, they'll find a good reason to give themselves more humongous bonuses after having tearfully announced yet another round of layoffs.
It works.
And the more IPv6 was foisted upon us, the more we realized how simple (and therefor robust) IPv4 really was.
The academics can bang their IPv6 drum all they want, the rest of us just want to get doing what we need (or want) to do. And, if the IPv4 boot still fits, why change ?
I am adamant about one thing : I do not want to become a full-fledged administrator just to have my home PC, a few laptops and several mobile phones connected to my Orange box and, therefor, to the Internet. With IPv4, it's a breeze. With all I read about IPv6, it would be a nuisance. And I will do well without having to explain to my wife that her normal web sites don't all work today because somebody did something to the IPv6 connection. No thank you.
So I don't want IPv6. Not before you pry my IPv4 NAT out of my cold, dead hands . . .
These days all you hear about is quantum, AI and financial scams cryptocurrency.
And you rarely ever hear any bad things about the first two.
It's good to learn that there are still pie-in-sky ideas that can be shot down by any person with a sane mind aware of the requirements.
Now that I have learned the requirements of QKD, I will know to not be impressed by the next snake-oil prophet that tries to pull a fast one.
Thumbs up from me for this article.
To be sure, except that repayment will not go into Redmond's ample coffers, so why bother ?
I don't know what it will take, but it took over three decades of Windows bugs and snafus to get the DOD to politely hint that enough was enough, so it'll be a while yet before the principle of defensive programming is applied generally (I would say that proper explanatory popups should be included in that method).
So I gather that there is consensual deepfake pornography.
What is that ? Is that when some guy (because of course it's a guy) takes an image with a pornstar and deepfakes his wife's head on it ?
Because if it's not that, then I can't image what consensual deepfake pornography is.
Could somebody educate me ?
Wow. Talk about anthropomorphisizing stuff.
Oh, now I get it : an arrangement that suits Oracle's belly button bottom line ?
Sure. Why didn't you say so ?
We are slowly progressing towards the HoloNet.
It doesn't matter that it is Boeing that is involved, it's the science that is important. If Boeing screws up true to form, someone else will pick up the job and continue.
For this, I'm ready to wish Boeing good luck.
More tens of thousands of stuff orbiting in LEO and clogging up the night sky ?
I'm not sure we need that. Besides, SpaceX has competition in the Internet space. I don't need it, I have fiber. Starlink may be the only space-based Internet provider, but it is an Internet provider, and there are a number of those in almost every country.
I have a deep respect for the engineers and technicians at NASA, but one day, people, one day Voyager I is going to die.
Your continued admirable, nay, legendary, service to this bit of equipment that has already surpassed ever possible limit is no less than astonishing, but we all have to face the facts : one day, there will no more response.
Meanwhile, I bow before your dogged determination to keep things working.
You are the best, and that's an understatement.
You did wrong.
You didn't adequately protect your customers' data, you failed to do what you could to keep it from being published, and you chuckled when proposing the usual after-the-fact "protection" (okay, we all know it's useless, but still . .).
I am insanely annoyed by this by-the-book refusal to recognize failure by corporate USA. You have no right to say you did nothing wrong, just like a cat who just threw up on the carpet has no right to deny it.
You should be fined just for that.
In Paris there are metro lines without a driver now. It has been like that for a few years already. A train, technically, is just a metro with longer times between stops. In the metro in Paris, they are upgrading stations to build barriers between the tram and the people, so as to guarantee that people won't be able to suicide themselves by jumping in front of an incoming tram. Obviously, an actual train will not have that kind of protection, much less a high-speed one, but it would seem that there are a lot less people who jump in front of trains rather than trams. No idea why. In any case, I think automating trains is a good idea, because I know that train drivers on France's TGV are basically button-pushers. They have to press a button every minute to prove that they are awake.
There are apparently more interesting jobs out there . . .
Nope. Not any more. TV news is just the official government source.
If you want the truth, nowadays, you have to look for it, and the only place to look is now the Internet.
I'm not happy about that, but one must never forget that "news" is presented on stations that belong to some billionaire or another, and those guys have multiple agendas, none of which include telling you the truth.
