Posts by Pascal Monett 19436 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Hmm. Looks like just being a CEO is not enough to guarantee that you can do that job anywhere.
And, just out of curiosity, does a CEO of a financial institution have to follow the training and certify that he is aware of anti-fraud techniques like every other peon ?
Because it doesn't look like he is.
Not surprising that this character lied his way through, he was following the ex-President's brilliant example.
And as long as the OHSG is not cut down to size and put in an orange jumpsuit, characters like this one will continue to pop up and wreak havoc everywhere.
we regularly hear 'Even if imperfect, we prefer to have something 80 percent correct, [rather] than nothing at all'."
Great. Looks like Borkzilla has always been ahead of the curve after all.
So, this is the future of programming. This explains Crapita, Fujitsu et al. to a tee.
I am not reassured.
Between jailbreaking and locked ecosystem and now this, the iNazi has amply demonstrated its thirst for control of everything.
And, as usual, when you're addicted, you don't think straight. Apple is addicted to control, and it has now undermined the security and privacy of its users.
Congratulations for giving me yet another reason to never buy your products.
It is incredible how Google continues, year after year, to axe useful projects while making more and more billions, and yet cost-cutting is the name of the game.
And everyone who used the products that are being disemboweled somehow still haven't got the message : Google is not there to make your life better, it is there to make PROFITS.
Stop using its products. Stop validating this behavior by looking at the next new tool and saying "oh, I could use that !".
Just stay away from Google code. Google needs to be taught a lesson : when you're making all the money, you can afford to let projects continue.
Either that, or be true to yourself, Google, and replace the Board every two years. Via shotgun.
I totally agree. Nobody is going to put a Core3 Intel CPU in a "smart" doorbell. So there has to be a simple chip in today's tech that could do a job that does not require umpteen billion transistors if you know how to program it.
What might that spiritual successor be ? What chip is being used in all those damned IoT thingys that are being sold by the thousands every day (for the greatest joy of malware hackers everywhere) ?
This tech is going to be invaluable for the future of communication in space. Sending cat videos from the comms satellite orbiting Mars to the comms satellite orbiting Ganymede will be a cinch if this can be worked out. It'll just take time, as the authors of The Expanse demonstrated brilliantly.
No, not a happy read, but a clear indicator of why we got the Challenger disaster.
Rules were being ignored. During the heady days of the Apollo program, that would never have happened. They would have scrapped the flight, returned the Shuttle and too bad for the cost of the mission that would have had to be redone.
But Apollo was over. The cost of the mission, and its urgency, took prime consideration and the mission was ordered on. If there had been an actual failure of the flow pump, the Shuttle could have been destroyed on re-entry.
We came that close to not knowing about O-rings.
So, they're aiming to fire 88% of their "contingent".
Does that mean they're going to fire 88% of administrative busybodies ? And nobody has gone on strike yet ?
Wow. Talk about double standards. Google fires 25 people and it's headline news. A UK Gov administration is looking to reduce headcount by 88% and it would seem that that's just worthy of a throwaway line in one sentence of a 14-paragraphe article.
Where's the angst ? Where's the revolt ?
Oh, I forgot. It's administration. Bureaucrats do not know how to revolt.
Tesla is tanking (55% profit decline for Q1), but Musk parades some outrageous claims and promises and Wall Street ups the share price.
Intel has solid plans for the future, is realizing gains at a high level, but because one quarter lost half a billion bucks, Wall Street sends the share price down.
What a bunch of morons.
It would seem that intelligence is not his strong suit. You want to flee by plane and you bring a gun with you ? Way to go to pass unnoticed.
From the article, it seems obvious that this idiot was bungling his job, getting rightfully chewed out for it and, of course, decided to retaliate instead of cleaning up his act.
What made him decide to run for it is not clear, but getting caught simply because you improperly stashed a firearm speaks volumes about his lack of anything resembling the notion of risk vs reward.
That argument is only valid if every citizen has the choice between every ISP.
I very much doubt that that is the case anywhere, let alone in the Land of Monopoly that is the USA.
Anyone using that argument is just a humongous hypocrite.
It's only big because there are no subdivisions. Somebody is obviously a control freak and cannot stand the idea that his local empire be divided and his "power" be diminished.
So there's just one big blob of incompetence at the top, instead of spreading the risk and maybe finding someone competent somewhere else.
Of course they aren't.
They're not investors, they're gamblers. They want their fix, NOW (or soon, at the very least).
An investor is a person who wants to participate in a project, and is willing to put funds in it to bring it fruition, not to get a return in two years.
If the project is important, it could take ten years. A true investor knows that and is willing to take the risk because he believes in the project.
Today's "investors" are just selfish man-children who want their next lollipop for snack time. Long-term thinking ? Not their strong suit.
"one of the reasons the Land of the Free has the highest per capita incarceration rate in the world"
That is not the reason.
The reason is that prisons are private companies who have primed the law to send them people that other countries would use rehabilitation programs to get back on track.
The War on Drugs is just one good excuse to condemn users to jail instead of going after dealers - there's more of the former.
Then you have police entrapment with "hookers" who are just there to entice men to commit, then get cuffed.
That is why the Land of the Free has the highest incarceration rate. It's a business.
"The neural network is unable to generalize from what it has 'learned' ”
And I'm going to keep this article's URL to be able to show it to anyone who starts spouting off about how computers are now "intelligent".
Unless they're in marketing. Then it would just be a waste of time.
For a bank to be forbidden from adding new accounts, that is just . . mind boggling.
I've seen some bank departments where some people were seriously out of touch, but that was just the one person here or there. For the entire bank to not know what it's doing with 40+ million customers ?
How can that happen ?
Yeah, I know, India. But this is a bank. We're not talking some online store, this is supposed to be men in suits with serious boardroom power.
I just cannot fathom what the hell is going on over there.
Oh of course. I'm sure many proud owners of a car that costs at least $35K will be overjoyed at the opportunity of having Random Joe Schmuck climb drunkenly in the back seat and vomit over everything during the trip.
And that is supposing that Full Self-Driving actually works, which I seriously doubt Musk will ever get to.
"tech companies should respect the rule of law and the order of a court, or independent judicial authority, and provide that information"
Obey the rule of law, no problem. Obey the order of a court, obviously. But just what exactly is an "independant judicial authority" ? Is that your nephew's office with a nice sign on the door saying "Warrant Delivery" and no questions asked ?
Because I would not agree with that. Get yourself a proper warrant from a proper judge and stop trying to use children as an excuse yet again.
I fully support EVs with 10-minute charge times and 1,200km in range that don't spontaneously catch fire and can last 20 years. Once you guys have licked those issues, how about tackling the issue of your EV being sent to the scrapyard after a collision ?
Because I've heard that that is a thing.
There is no "We" with Musk. It's what he believes that count.
And he can go promise yet more awesome and outstanding improvements for his death wagon. I'm pretty sure we'll be hearing more accounts of latest-model Teslas plowing into something or another under Full Self-Hallucinating.
Good.
I fail to see what benefit the making of entirely fabricated content can bring. If I want to read something that has a chance of being interesting, I want it to have been produced by a human, under human oversight.
Sure, throw in an image made by Leonardo. That's not a problem because it will be the human that has decided that the image was relevant. If said human had asked another human to create the image, the result would have been the same. Leonardo is just destroying the livelyhood of actual human content creators. If everyone is OK with that, then let's do that.
But I refuse to read a book that has been generated by pseudo-AI. I refuse to read entire articles generated by a machine. I do not see how they can possibly be engaging and interesting.
GenAI can drown. It's no loss to me.
And what, pray tell, may be a "reasonable exception" to your government selling your private data to, not only a 3rd party, but a 3rd party that's not even in your own country ?
No. Just NO.
When I deal with a government portal, I fully expect that everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
I'm paying for that portal. I'm paying for the people managing that portal. I'm paying for the hardware that that portal is working on. That fucking portal does not need more revenue.
But hey, if you find normal that your own government whores your data out to anyone, well that's your choice . . .
Oh, so just like a human then ?
If that is the case, then what's the point in automated vehicles ?
You're supposed to do better. You're supposed to have the means to detect issues dozens of times per second. You're not supposed to get distracted.
If you can't do better than a human, you're useless.
No problem.
Huawei just needs to demonstrate that its OS isn't phoning everything to Beijing.
How I would like to be able to say : "like Android". Unfortunately, Android is already as bad as Beijing, so, again, why not ?
It's not like we are living in a civilization that respects our individual privacy. So, one more, one less . . .
