Posts by Pascal Monett 18880 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
And even other criminal groups found it disgusting. That's saying something.
In other news, complaint registered on the 25th of September, arrests made on October 7th. That is quite the quick action on the part of the police. Well done.
Now chain them to a fucking huge ball of iron in a stone quarry and have them break rocks for the next twenty years.
You do not touch the children. Period.
And it is possible.
Right now one of my clients in Luxembourg is a government institution. When I work there, I have no access to my gmail account. From the mail account I have there, I am forbidden to send or recieve mail to/from the Internet. I cannot install anything on my computer - I can't even change the background wallpaper. I have the possibility of placing the desktop icons where I want them, but I cannot delete any of them, nor can I change their properties. My on-site desktop is locked down tighter than a gnats ass. And, as for browser access, you can bet that there are a bunch of sites that are on the blacklist and, since you don't know which ones are, you're careful to not trip the firewall warning too often. My only zone of "freedom" is the taskbar, where I have the right to place and remove any shortcut I want.
So it can be done.
Not to me, but I will acknowledge that my hearing isn't what it used to be.
That said, if each key does sound different, then each keyboard sounds different as well. Seems to be a bit difficult to have a standard library, so it means calibrating the keys to specific frequencies.
Okay, congrats on having found a new attack vector, even if it is only 60% reliable.
Still, this whole thing stikes me as a bit of intellectual masturbation. If you can get malware onto a PC via an pseudo-open-source program, you've got better things to do than listen to mouse vibrations.
The author has taken every opportunity to wax lyrical in a beautiful way :
- work avoidance is actually one of the finest acts of self-empowerment in the corporate world
- a subversive rebellion against oppression, a shining bulwark against erosion of the soul, and a just response to the disrespect in which so many organizations hold their employees
- true laziness requires the moral fortitude to reject materialist hedonism and accept the social exclusion that poverty brings
- achieve their preferred level of intellectual indolence while seeming to serve their masters
- the clothes of usefulness around a skeletal body bereft of life
- it exists in dynamic equilibrium in the whole framework of hypocrisy
- the working environment denies the dignity that comes from making a difference
That was a very pleasant read on a subject that could have been just a dry repetition of survey results.
Well done !
You're talking about a Naval commander. Someone who is responsible for two things : the mission (where he might save the lives of many people on multiple vessels) and his men.
The little snowflakes who use pseudo-AI to validate themselves have no idea what the word responsability means. They're also giving up their brains to a hallucinating bullshit generator.
That's how you end up with morons falling in love with a female chatbot. On the other hand, they're also doing a service to humanity by slef-removing themselves from the gene pool, so . . .
He still won't be able to make it reliable enough to work.
First, there's the need for an outer shell that can minimize cosmic radiation. Just getting that shell in orbit is going to cost him mountains of cash. Then there's the cost of putting people up there to assemble the damn thing, while sending them the mountains of kit they're going to need to put together. Supposing that his cash reserves hold up (and that he doesn't just abandon the project like billionnaires are wont to do when the results take too long), in space that is a project that is going to take years. And we can only hope that there won't be too many lost screws adding to the trash that's already in orbit.
Getting the huge radiators that will be needed up there is going to cost another mountain of cash, not to mention the continuous money bleed of keeping a human construction crew (trained for space) well fed, protected and managing their waste and oxygen.
Bezos, you're not going to like the bill on this one, nor the timescale.
And that is before the complete automation of disk replacement comes into play, and you can only pray that disks are the only things that are going to fail (hint : they won't be). I'm guessing that when you get the $200 million bill for replacing a motherboard, you're going to have a hard rethink about the viability of this lunatic idea of yours.
But there is no problem with the technology, of course.
Except for the fact that, apparently, the drone software isn't looking for obstacles in its path. Or, in any case, obstacles that are smaller than a building.
Maybe all the empty spaces in a crane confused the drone's software into thinking that it would just pass through ?
Amazon is going to have to make updates to drone software, ergo there is a problem with its technology. But hey, it's PR, so . . .
Goebbels would be proud.
"The idea, she explained, is that business users, rather than developers, can jumpstart the development process, and once the proof-of-concept application has taken shape, developers can then add refinements. "
Translation : some stupid PHB can cobble together one input screen, then hand over his grand idea to the dev team which will have to work its ass off to make a sloppy idea into reality. And they'll have to make it work because His Manglement will point to his abortion of an idea and say "but it works here !".
Indeed.
Businesses obviously have zero memory, otherwise they would have ditched Windows long ago.
Users don't care, they just want a computer that works. Now that more and more things are being done via smartphone, I honestly wonder where Borkzilla is going to keep its revenue flowing from.
Not that I care, though. This pile of DRM-infested shit deserves to die whatever manglement says about its precious, precious Excel pie charts.
So it's not yet "an utterly mainstream part of the global financial system". It's just a promise.
I'm very interested to find how they solve the scalability issue with blockchain. International finance is not going to stand for waiting longer and longer when the ledger gets bigger - and bigger it will get. Fast.
So, unless SWIFT can find a way to solve that issue, this promise is worth nothing more than the pixels it is printed on.
Yet another product that shuts part of your brain down. You don't need to remember where you put your phone, just press the button and presto! follow the beep. Or something. I don't know, I can't remember what I just read on their site. Oh look ! A kitten !
Civilization. Going to hell in a nice, comfy, padded-cell basket . . .
Yeah, it's called AI.
It's the future, whether you like it or not.
The funny thing is, when this house of cards finally crashes (and it will), Wall Street is going to punish the companies that used it for mismanagement.
Oh well, I'm not going to be shedding a tear for those CEOs.
"The Register is not aware of a government deciding telecommunications and the internet have no role in its society "
The Taliban are not a government.
They are a bunch of crazed zealots of a non-existant "religion" that has been cobbled together with nonsense and hatred to put down women.
Women no longer have the right to education, nor to work. They only exist to bear children. I've heard that they are not even allowed to invite their women friends for tea - not that they have tea anyway.
So no more midwives, no nurses and, since men are not allowed to touch them, no medical care from male doctors. This brain-dead thinking is self-defeating. Once most of the women have died in childbirth of from some sort of untreated disease, there won't be enough male children to continue the proud Taliban legacy. That means that, in the worst-case scanario, in fifty years or so the Taliban will all have died out because there won't be enough male children to indoctrinate.
Well done Taliban, you've set your own clock on your demise.
Meanwhile, the women are going to go through unimaginable suffering.
I doubt that that is possible.
The human brain is absolutely extraordinary when it comes to audio analysis. In a room full of people chatting (more or less loudly), you can still concentrate on what the person you're talking with is saying. Your brain can sort the wheat from the chaff, as they say.
I don't think a computer can do that. Sure, it can record an audio stream, but I do not know of any product that can take an MP3 and seperate the piano from the trumpets, for example.
Asking a Tesla to pay attention to audio is just asking for more trouble.
Of course it is - for him.
He'll be squirreling away a million here, a million there, stashing the dough in bank accounts he controls.
When the bubble bursts, he won't be left holding the purse in any case. He'll just trot off to whatever mansion he has and open a bottle of champaign for what he will believe is a well-deserved rest.
Meanwhile, Oracle will hit the wall with tens of billions in debt it cannot repay.
Will it fold ? Or will it hike up the licence prices by 1000% ? Who knows ?
You will only be able to start leaping and bounding after 2029, when the current orange curmudgeon is forced to take a pause in returning the US to the stone age.
If NASA still exists and the shitgibbon-in-chief hasn't dismantled it on grounds that it's full of democrat-terrorists.
In the meantime, China will be pushing ahead, ESA will probably be delighted to hire all the NASA specialists that will be fired by the orange tsunami of ignorance, and even India might end up with a bigger budget than NASA.
So yeah, there will likely be a Moon base in the next quarter century. It just won't be flying the US flag.
No, it is completely unheard of.
The US President has, historically, taken care of the country, not of his own personal vendettas.
It would seem that Trump is indeed the greatest US President. He is the most pathetic, vindictive, tiny-dicked asshole there has ever been.
At this point in time, I think the Statue of Liberty should be dismantled and returned to France for safekeeping.
The US doesn't deserve it anymore.
Additionally, hardware today is largely powerful enough for anyone but heavy users, video editing or high-level gaming.
A Windows 7-era computer is still fine, from a hardware point of view, for reading one's mail, viewing videos on Youtube and generally surfing the Intartubes.
This whole treadmill thing is slowing down because nobody cares what Redmond says, if it works, then it's good enough.
Companies have the money to do endless upgrades, people don't.
Redmond is going to treadmill itself out of existence (in time - lots of time).
I'm guessing that the idiot who soldered had zero notion of electricity and just basically soldered the back of the chip to the motherboard, regardless of the fact that there were pins and emplacements on the motherboard.
So, not only an idiot, but a myopic one as well.
I can't imagine any other solution to this unbelievable situation.
And, if Tex was fired because he pointed out the obvious, then it was obviously not a company worth working for.
Yes. I absolutely agree. We are, with the Internet, at the same stage Borkzilla was when RAM hit the GB range. Programmers stopped worrying about tight code and started gobbling up resources like it was candy, because it was there.
Today, bandwidth is like candy. You create an app and want telemetry on it ? Go ahead, people are on WiFi with FTTH, so who cares ? On YouTube everyone wants you to Like & Subscribe, so they can send you notifications - more bandwidth usage - and it's always been like that. What happened to good ol' bookmarks ? I don't need no stinkin' notifications, I know where you are and I'm not Pavlov's dog.
Let's cut down on useless bandwidth usage, I agree wholeheartedly.
COVID taught everyone that working from home was possible. No company went under because their workers were not on site.
Now, you try to find excuses and brute-forcing your way back to pre-COVID, but it ain't gonna work. Your employees have a taste of the WFH crack and they're not going to forget it.
Neither will they forget that they did their jobs just fine and the company continued chugging along and even turning benefits.
So sell your expensive offices with their empty cubicles, set up a small, plush office for yourself and the secretary you bang, and leave well alone.
Find another status symbol.
The title says nearly half of businesses, but then it starts by saying :
"A survey of cybersecurity bosses has shown that 62 percent reported attacks on their staff using AI over the last year "
Seems to me that that means it's not half of businesses, but half of cybersecurity businesses, which is not the same thing.
Also, if 40%+ of all businesses had been attacked, I think we would have heard of it before this survey.
That title is misleading clickbait.
They're also keyboard blockers. In winter, my cat has the knack of hopping on my desk table and lying on my laptop as soon as I have my back turned. I go get a glass of water, or go to the toilet, come back and bam! there she is, purring contentedly with the typical cat face of what ? I ain't done nothin' wrong, did I ?
So I've taken the habit of lowing the lid just far enough that she can't get under it, but not far enough to put the laptop to sleep.
So, the National Security threat is now over, is it ?
I love how the orange shitgibbon is taking care of every billionnaire's problems and totally ignoring the issues that the less-than-millionnaires are facing.
Hey, Republican trailer trash, are you happy about the actions of your Orange Baboon when you go shopping and cry over the price of eggs ?
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