Posts by Pascal Monett 19423 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I think the 350 new employees might have more importance on that side of the business.
Pseudo-AI can always plan for the plane to depart by 6:30, if not enough hands are available to load the luggage, top up the tanks and get the passengers inside, it won't happen, period.
Oh, and side question : is that pseudo-AI going to be using FPGAs , or regular climate-destroying GPUs ?
Democracy and bureaucracy had nothing to do with it all.
It was paranoia and economic gains that were asleep. Paranoia entered hibernation when the Soviet Union fell. During that time, economic gains have been slowly waking up, and now paranoia has been jolted into action.
So, progress will be made . . .
Releasing confidential information without doing a proper job of protecting the names of people involved has never been tolerated, it's just that Assange was the first to do it.
I would have accepted his leaks without problem if he had sought to protect the names of the people from public scrutiny. That would have been a demonstration of US Government shenanigans.
Instead, what we got was a lot of people in sudden danger who needed to flee in urgency, many operations that were exposed and failed, or worse, and the fact that Assange paid for all that with the stress and confinement he got is only justice.
A journalist is not a judge. Leak curated info about government affairs, no problem, but you cite names when the person has been arrested or is being investigated officially. Then you can because you're reporting an ongoing affair, but you do not create the affair and name the people involved.
A proper journalist does not do that.
"when I asked what changes I should make to be compliant, they had no idea, nor when I asked what a retro game console is. "
Yeah, it's Apple. They find excuses and make up rules to refer to when they deny you, but they will never, ever publish a clear guide of how to respect the rules.
That would remove the ability to deny you, you see, and Cupertino needs that ability to ensure control.
Control is paramount. Publishing the rulebook would remove control.
That cannot be allowed.
"after someone broke into its Chemical Security Assessment Tool (CSAT) portal "
So, basically, you're telling me that, because some government portal couldn't be arsed to do its job properly, now it is getting all on its high horse and telling everyone else to do their job ?
Are we in a real universe, or is this some clown universe that I'm not aware of ?
A drop in the bucket. And what do you expect ? He gets shares because he's CEO. They are given to him so he can sell them.
Nvidia got hit on the stock market ? A blip on the radar. Nothing to do with market expectations, nothing to do with revenue.
This is all just more Wall Street wanking.
But what "financial damage" are you complaining about ?
That you couldn't sell your shares as high as you were expecting ?
That's the game you decided to play. You're an investment company, you're supposed to know the rules.
If I had money to invest, I know who I wouldn't be trusting with it now.
Right. That is a typical 1st-world detail right there.
As far as keyboard lighting concerns me, my eyesight has gone to shit so all I need is a nice amber color, which is what I program for my existing keyboard lighting.
Aside from that, I do not need to have my computer box lit in rainbow colors, my fans lit in blue, red or green, or whatever else. The box is under the desk. I don't see it anyway, so why should it be lit up like a Christmas tree ?
I will leave that to the people who think it is important, no judgement here. For me, it's not important, so don't judge me.
Well, with Starlink it can now shut down its entire network, can't it ?
Oh, silly me, they still want the parts that make good money.
Well, you can't have it all. And be thankful you don't operate in Luxembourg because there, there is a law that states that anyone asking for a connection must be served.
You'd be having conniptions over there . . .
I would like to think that you're wrong.
Then I look at the state of conflict in this world, the Republican party and Trump, and all the idiots that are pretending to be responsible for my country, and I think to myself : "meh, bring on the asteroid".
Sure, there will be a bad moment to pass but, like ripping off a bandage, if you do it quickly, it gets better quickly as well.
It's still a horrible thought to have, but hey, Trump.
Now, where did I leave that booze ? I need to stock up.
Um, sorry, but I believe the movie you're referencing is called Armageddon.
2012 is about neutrinos heating up the Earth's core.
Armageddon is the one where Bruce Willis sacrifices himself to save his daughter's love life (oh, and the rest of Humanity as well).
You're obviously not wrong, but you've omitted one factor : Big Oil.
Big Oil is doing everything it can to slow our response to climate change because it thinks that is in its interests. An asteroid that will devastate a large portion of the Earth just might endanger its extraction facilities as well, and Big Oil won't like that.
So I'm thinking Big Oil just might be a driving force in this scenario.
And besides, can I just point out that if you're out camping, why don't you, gosh, take in the view ? Get off that fucking screen for a while ?
In all seriousness though, having a portable access to the Internet is a good idea. That would help solve a number of connectivity problems for people who get into trouble in the wilderness, or people who are in a disaster zone and need to coordinate the emergency.
So yes on the tech, but could we please stop inviting people to keep their eyes glued on a slab of toxic materials when they have the beauty of Nature (with a capital, please) in front of said eyes ?
They don't need encouragement.
Not a problem for the NSA. It loves trawling through all that unused data to try and find something under the paranoia du jour.
Unused data is not useless data, and it'll be a cold day in Hell before your average manager authorizes the complete and irrevocable distruction of data he hasn't looked at since at least a decade.
Just in case, you understand.
Who is, of course, a paragon of truthfulness and virtue and could never tell a lie. Of course he's going to deny. They denied Tchernobyl until the rest of world was red in the face before mumbling that there might have been an issue.
It's come to a point where Putin's Russia could actually admit something and everyone else would be like "whoa, what angle are they playing now ?".
That is why Apple adopted the smartphone market. On a PC, Microsoft cannot dictate what browser you can use, the user can install the browser he wants and, should Redmond try to circumvent that, the lawsuit would be immediate and devastating.
But, on a smartphone, Apple can have a field day. It owns the platform, it does what it wants. And what Apple wants is total control without liability (and yes, I know about MacOS, but the PC market is still something that Apple has not penetrated significantly after decades of trying, the smartphone market is an entirely different ball game).
The only way to change that is with legal imposition. Capitalism is not going to auto-regulate this.
Interesting to note that absolutely nothing is mentioned about how "green" EV's might actually not be.
I mean, if solar panels are starting to look a tad more grey than green, then what chance do EVs have outside of the political rhetoric of some biased idiots who want to see us all live in caves ?
Yes I do, thank you very much.
I don't have an EV and I don't intend to get one. That doesn't mean that I approve of selling one's country to multinational conglomerates.
Excuse me if I prefer the idea of democracy - however hard that is to keep going these days.
I'm sorry, the ability to sue for slander is not something that should be under the authority of some administrative busybody.
The Australian so-called Director of Public Prosecutions should be fired and someone competent put in his place.
Oh, sorry. Silly me, I forgot. Australian government exists only to pander to Big Oil . . .
Can AI possibly reach peak hype ?
It was bullshit from the start. I don't think it is possible for AI to peak in hype.
It would be then end of all the startups that are building their entire future on this bull. They'd actually have to create a viable product.
We're not ready for that . . .
It's curious how people are automatically sceptical about anyone who is naysaying the current media push - as if they knew better and were more competent in deciding what was reliable and what is media bullshit.
That's why blockchain, virtual coin scams and AI are so successful. There are competent people raising problems, but nobody is interested. Especially not if "free money" is in the mix.
Until the pyramid crashes, that is, then everybody goes "well yeah, what did you expect ?".
Making one's own opinion is difficult, for sure, but I've always felt a healthy dose of scepticism is a good thing. Even more so when something is being touted as "the next best thing".
If it's true, I have time to see it become true.
I'm sure that that is extremely reassuring to the highly-trained professionals that are actually in the ISS.
Apparently, access to space has gone from relying on the lowest bidder to relying of the least capable that still has a government contract.
And they want to go to the Moon with these clowns . . .
