Posts by Pascal Monett 19114 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Statistical analysis machines cannot violate anything they haven't been programmed to violate.
They're machines, not AI.
You want to assign guilt ? Find the manager who defined the data to be fed to the machine.
Theoretically, that's still a human.
Reminds of a passage from Star Wars Volume 3: The Last Command (Timothy Zahn). I type the excerpt below :
"I'm Councilor Organa Solo," Leia identified herself. "This is Ghent, an expert slicer. Can you use him ?"
"I don't know," the colonel said, throwing the kid a speculative look. "Ever tackled an Imperial battle encrypt code, Ghent ?"
"Nope," Ghent said. "Never seen one. I've sliced a couple of their regular military encrypts, though."
"Which ones ?"
Ghent's eyes went a little foggy. "Well, there was one called a Lepido program. Oh, and there was something called the ILKO encrypt back when I was twelve. That was a tough one - took me almost two months to slice."
Someone whistled softly. "Is that good ?" Leia asked.
The colonel snorted. "I'd say so, yes. ILKO was one of the master encrypt codes the Empire used for the data transfer between Coruscant and the original Death Star construction facility at Horuz. It took us nearly a month to crack it." He beckoned. "Come over here, son - we've got a console for you right here. If you liked ILKO, you're going to love battle encrypts."
And right there you strike out.
Any important data should not be stored in Excel. It should be in a proper actual database, be it MSSQL or Oracle or literally anything else.
Because a database needs a proper db admin, and probably a designer as well. Tha's two people to raise questions and ensure data accuracy.
Excel ? A single fool can mash anything up, and that's what happened here.
I give Office training courses. I've heard people say they know how to program because they have used Word macros.
That is what happened.
No pity.
Given that everything old comes back again, I can't wait for all this Online malarky to be folded back into local servers.
Because I dearly hope that CxOs will tire of relying on Borkzilla's ceaselessly failing infrastructure.
Maybe they'll even go for something else entirely. There has to be something else than Exchange in this world, no ?
Please ?
I wonder if anybody has actually taken notice of that.
All the agreements are for transfer of Personally Identifiable Information to the USA. Never the other way around.
The USA is the black hole of PII on the Internet.
Maybe someone should do something about that.
Yes indeed. Those are the magic words that enable the idiot that spouted them to hide behind the bullshit if it doesn't work.
It's the business version of "you're holding it wrong".
Honestly, to publicly state that some absent-minded text-spewing robot that doesn't even understand the significance of what it says improves cloud migration should be a one-way ticket to the padded hotel room.
Such deceit is despicable.
Just wondering : if SAP customers have a working local version and are not going to be pushed to The CloudTM, what is SAP going to do ?
It's not going to just cut off its existing customer base, not when two-thirds say NO.
So, what are its options (apart from the obvious) ?
I'm curious. Hubble had its issues, but detecting its position in space was not one of them.
I haven't heard that JWST has any issues like that either.
So, how is it that this telescope does ? Isn't satellite positioning a known science now ? What did they change on this one to make it not work like the others, and why ?
I would have thought that Science shares knowledge like that. Apparently not.
I'm a bit disappointed about this.
Seems a bit difficult to achieve. Our governments don't want us to feel safe. They want us to be scared. COVID. War. Crashing economy.
A scared population is a compliant one.
So this declaration is hookum.
Especially since, if they really wanted people to feel secure by being subject to police invasion of their private lives, the police would be announcing that they have the tool (and are not afraid of using it).
If they have the tool and aren't telling us about it, how are we supposed to feel safer ?
Thank God he was part of the Human Intelligence squad !
Can you imagine his actions if he was just a basic grunt ? He might have posted secrets on a Minecraft forum !
Of course, he'd have to remember them first and, from what I read in the article, remembering things (like operational security, online stealth and spycraft basics) is not his strong point.
And just who do you think you are to say that the SEC is overstepping its bounds ?
A normal human being would be mortified by the attention, and would do everything to prove good faith and obedience to the law.
Because the SEC is the law, not you.
But you go ahead and keep digging your grave. Celebrity driving over a cliff is always prime time entertainment.
Bait-and-switch, again.
I understand that Miku got bought out by some new company who decided it had the right to make the change.
It doesn't. It shouldn't have. You buy a company, you buy its obligations. You don't like its obligations ? Don't buy the company.
This is why I will never have a "smart" house. The only thing that is smart is the vendor fees to keep everything working.
I can use manual switches. Go to hell.
"An AI PC," he added, "is a PC that learns about you continuously, it's a PC that is your personal foundation model within the data within the PC and it is a PC that will be able to interact with you more naturally."
What you're actually saying is that Google can go cry in a corner, you're making a PC that will report our every click, hesitation and decision to some remote data store to be combed over incessantly by multiple scripts that will inevitably sell all that profiling to all and sundry.
Well I'm not having any of that. I've been using computers since the IBM PC. I don't need you to "help".
I can confirm that I have found my cat louging on my laptop keyboard often enough to totally believe that.
It's come to a point where, especially in winter, if I leave my home office desk for more than a minute, I have to lower the laptop screen to 45° above the keyboard else I find that my cat has edited my code in a strikingly surprising manner.
Yup. We don't care.
And the fact that hardware doesn't improve that much year over year means that we won't care for good long while to come.
Why is Borkzilla declaring Windows 1 0 obsolete ? It was supposed to be the last version until Redmond got an aneurysm and decided to do another one.
There is nothing in 11 that can't be ported to 1 0. All you need to do is put it in the upgrade system. You do know how to do that ? I'm asking because I seem to recall that Windows 1 0 patches from fast track kinda spilled over to the regular channel from time to time.
But, in any case, there is nothing in 11 that anyone cares about but you.
Oh, and talking AI for future upgrades ?
Fuck off.
Yes, there is a choice. The choice of not buying.
The choice of only buying things that can be fixed.
We did not make that choice, so now we have the long, hard slog of getting the law involved. And that means fighting the lobbyists, which are still doing their damndest to fight the right to repair.
If we had just not bought, it's the manufacturers that would be begging us to buy their fixable stuff.
Because there's more money in selling than in fixing.
This is the consumer's fault. We all accept that Apple decides, arbitrarily, to define a date after which something is obsolete and refuses not only to fix it any more, but even deprives other providers of parts to do so.
This will last until people get fed up of buying things that are declared obsolete when they are still perfectly fixable and maintainable. We have all been led down the path of the new shiny, and enough of us have run stright down it that I don't know if we'll get back out of it any time soon.
I'm honstly rather surprised by this situation.
I would have thought the ESA would have had a better grasp on scheduling than to retire a launcher that works before its successor was ready.
But hey, this is rocket science, and I'm sure the people on the project are working their asses off to make things right. Space engineers are no slouches. If the launcher is not ready, I'm sure there are good reasons for it.
Shame though.
Airports these days are not safe territory for wanted criminals wishing to flee the country.
He would have been better off taking a boat trip. Much more discreet and efficient, I would think, although then you are stuck in boat for a while.
But hey, he's scum scamming people with empty funny money promises. His escape strategy was just as bright as his work ethics . . .
I'm sorry, didn't you just mention "followers" and Mastodon ?
Or are you saying that you've let your followers go to Mastodon and you haven't set up shop there ?
Because if you're on Mastodon with your followers, you haven't abandoned social media in its entirety, slimy or not.
Bullshit. Meta has committed to nothing. All it's done is make the proper mouth noises to make the problem go away.
When it has made the corrections in code, then it has committed.
Until then, fine them a million kroner per minute. That'll make The Zuck think again.
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