Posts by Pascal Monett 19255 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
"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.
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.
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 . . .
"That may shrink cloud bills, or with Red Hat and on-prem tech shrink bills further still."
IIRC, the initial hype around The CloudTM was that it would make your on-prem IT less expensive. Highly paid consultants in suits were hyping CEOs everwhere (well, essentialy at Fortune 1000 companies where the business meal is still a notion), chanting about how The CloudTM would bring vast economies compared to all those expensive admins.
So, it looks like we're back on track to talk once again about how on-prem is lowering bills.
And the wheel ever turns . . .
I'm sorry to rain on your parade, but the EULA has been extremely efficient up to now at preserving Redmond from any fallout of its shoddy programming and lack of testing procedures.
I see no reason why this should change, and MSFT's stock price practically only ever goes up, so, that has to mean Redmond is right, right ?
That is the go-to excuse for companies who are not making enough money to satisfy the shareholders.
It doesn't matter that they're making money hand-over-fist and can largely afford the salary charge. No, what matters is that shareholders, who do nothing at all but sit with their mouths open like chick in a nest waiting for food distribution, what matters is that those freeloaders get their share.
Capitalisme needs a rethink.
So, Crowdstrike gonna pull a Zuckerberg, or is the CEO actually going to submit to a public flogging ? 'Cause that's what's waiting for him.
Not everyone can be a total asshole. I'm guessing Kurtz is going to bend over backwards to try and keep the share price from falling further.
Time will tell.
So it is down to the shitty Windows environment once again. No surprise there.
The issue might be more in the fact that it seems to be very difficult to isolate the kernel in an OS while granting security access to protective measures, all the while keeping the hoi polloi at bay and the system secure.
Too late to think about a redesign of the OS architecture. We'll just have to make do with what we have.
