Posts by Pascal Monett 18868 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
For am email server. How typical of Borkzilla.
We don't know how to do security efficiently, so let's just give email all the privileges and it will work. What's the worst that could happen ?
Hey Nadella, here's a challenge : get Exchange working on Linux.
That'll teach you a thing or two about actual security.
Gloom will be all about meeting and conference rooms. Not virtual, real.
Perfectly equipped, comfortable chairs, companies will be able to book rooms for 2 to 200 people, who will present themselves at reception with the online voucher. Once authenticated in person, they will be led to the reserved room and will be able to have their meeting/conference during the allotted time.
Meetings that drag on beyond allotted time will be subject to a penalty every 15 minutes after end of allotted time. The amount will depend on the room size and number of occupants.
Gloom is necessary to offset the fatigue that comes with online meetings. Your employees will be more alert, more involved, and get more work done.
That must be the first time I have ever even just read about a boss saying those words.
It's incredible, so much so that I firmly believe that, no sooner had he said those words, a wormhole to a different universe opened to return him to whence he came, because that guy didn't belong in this one.
Well, to be fair, he's only been in command of the NSA since May 2018, so he's only been "jolted awake" after 5 years, not 74.
I do notice, however, that he mentioned a meat packing plant (JBS), but no mention of hospitals.
One would think that hospitals would be a bigger priority for National Security than meat packing plants.
"People would actually have to follow through with the instructions – and ingest the cursed meals or beverages it recommended – for the technology to be really dangerous"
Never underestimate Joe User's ability to follow instructions. It's on the Internet ! It has to be true ! And the site wouldn't post it if it was really harmful, right ? There is nothing harmful on the Internet, right ?
So let's start mixing this cyano-bleach-polonium tea. It says that the taste is unique !
What is this obsession with increasing the amount of land under a country's control ?
There is no more land to grab that is useful and not already inhabited, so grabbing more means going to war. And that means sacrificing thousands of lives, on both sides, lives which would have served much better growing the economy. However the war in Ukraine ends, tens of thousands are dead. Useless deaths that will be sorely missed when the time comes to rebuild and make everything whole again.
Shameful waste of everything.
Stop oogling your neighbor's stuff. Until your own citizens are swimming in milk and honey, you've got better things to do at home.
And when they are swimming in milk and honey, they won't need to go get more next door.
And therein lies the problem.
Politicians today do not plan ahead. They react, mostly badly (and that goes for practically every country, not just US/UK).
If China does invade Taiwan, the US is likely going to get a heaping helping of trouble. Then politicians will cry that nothing has been done.
Yeah, well start doing it now.
The article states that the altitude of concern is over 60,000 feet.
I did a quick search and found that helicopters have a cieling of 25,000 feet, so completely useless for this task.
A cargo airplane can fly higher (the article states 40,000), but that does not mean they all can and that certainly does not mean that a slow cargo plane is designed for operating at 60,000 feet. It's useless to fly cargo that high.
The article clearly states that the only jet plane that can operate at that altitude is a fighter jet (the F-22 being one of the few), and they are not made to intercept balloons floating at mere feet per second.
I think a laser is indeed the best weapon. Put a prick in the envelope, let it sink gradually and then catch it with a skyhook. Won't cost billions, will work every time.
How can one not immediately see that it is a 3D-printed gun ?
Are they so well made these days that you can mistake them for the real thing ?
And the lack of serial number having been filed off is not a tell-tale sign ? Why tip-toe around that particular bush ?
Say it like it is, officer, everyone knows what you're talking about.
I don't think that they're actually "allowing" them, they're making ghost guns harder to make.
Of course, they're not making them illegal either, but this is the Land of the Nutjobs and, as soon as you even just mention gun control in theory, the mass of foaming-at-the-mouth, you'll-get-my-gun-when-you-pry-it-out-of-my-cold-dead-hands springs into action and immediately starts their regular religious chant of loudly proclaiming that their liberty is dependent on them having the means to quickly and noisily kill someone they don't like.
As long as that section of the population has not been put to rest, these shenanigans will continue.
I wonder what pushed those guys at the Quantum Energy Research Centre in Seoul to publish something that wrong.
Is this a case of they were genuinely convinced their data was good and made a mistake, or is it that they just wanted their names in the papers ?
Because they had to know that such a claim would be verified, and after the cold fusion scandal, there is no chance that they could just do a "you're trying it wrong" and get away with it.
Now they're not supplying the samples they promised. Another bad mark on this so-called research center.
I don't know if they're ever going to "find" anything or anything else, but if they do, they'd better find somebody else's name to put on the paper, because theirs is burned for all eternity (well, at least until the Internet dies).
I think Twitter's legal pockets are anything but bottomless.
Of course, layoffs are regularly unfair in the so-called Land of the Free, especially when big names are concerned, but Twitter's financial freedom has never been great, and the arrival of the chief twat didn't help things by far.
The fact that Musk has stopped paying his bills is telling. A company that doesn't pay its bills is a company that is going to shut down. And that is going to happen now that there are lawyers getting involved pushing judges to force Twitter to pay.
The bonfire is growing, get your marshmallows now !
Contrary to some fab implementation decisions these past few months.
Still, isn't it nice to be big enough to have countries willing to pay you for putting some money on the table ?
If I were to decide to mount an office for myself in, say, Switzerland, I doubt very much that phoning up the Chamber of Commerce in Bern and asking for a million Swiss Francs would bring me anything but, at best, a hearty chuckle and best wishes.
If, by anyone, you mean a competent IT person, then yes. But can that be easily made to function with a company-wide contact list and joining multiple meetings between multiple people who only to click on the invitation to join ?
Or is this a case of here's the URL, type it in your browser and add your userID to join ?
Because that will not work well for most people, I'd wager.
How exactly would China be able to say "We got here first, nobody else" ?
It's the Moon. If another base sets up a hundred clicks away, on the Moon that's pretty much an entire continent away. There's not much they could do about it except send a sterly worded letter from Beijing to the US embassy.
We're a looong way from being able to get tanks up there.
Bollocks.
SAP is not a social media platform. SAP provides (allegedly) the means for a company to manage its resources. There is nothing there that needs to be in the cloud.
The CloudTM is just SAP's excuse for wringing yet more money out of its customers' coffers.
Especially since there is no such thing as a completed SAP migration . . .
"We believe Figma and Adobe can deliver far more value for designers, creators and knowledge workers together than either company could deliver on its own"
Why do you have to merge to work together ?
Can't you just agree on a common product line, and have your engineers and developers work in shared teams ?
Because merging will bring nothing to designers, creators and knowledge workers. It will, however, consolidate shareholder value (extremely important), merge marketing departments and customer liists (there will be layoffs), and synergize development departments (there will be layoffs). Accounting will be in a tizzy for a year or two as well (and there will be layoffs).
But I see nothing in it for designers, creators and knowledge workers.
Maybe that's just me.
No, seriously. How can someone possibly imagine that taking video from professional customers, what with all the confidential details that inevitably are part of the conversation, and feeding that to a pseudo_AI is a good idea ?
Zoom decided it wanted an AI (what on Earth for ?), and its managers looked and said, well we have this data (why do you have it ?), let's feed that to the monster.
Zero thought, beyond here's a solution.
That's not a brain fart, that's negligence, pure and simple.
Not bad. Shows promise for the future.
I'm sure Chinese chip boffins are going to ramp things up. Good for the Chinese. Not so good for Intel.
On the other hand, commercial relations with China right now are not so good, and their future is completely in the dark. Things could get better, and they could get a lot worse. And given that India is apparently the country of choice for future sweatshops, uh, I mean industry, selling stuff to China is going to be problematic at best.
So, go Intel ! Try to not get your designs stolen.
I guess Tesla is right. If the owner has to go through the shenanigans of hacking his own computer every time he wants to start the car, it's quickly going to get old.
The article isn't quite clear on whether other things can be unlocked as well.
Still, spending some time every time you need to leave just to ensure that you have whatever features you didn't pay for but still want is going to quickly run up against the hassle of the wires, the laptop and the time it takes to dally around instead of actually getting where you need to go.
And good on Tesla for hardening their computing platform. "They couldn't get in" is about as good a reward as you can expect in this domain.
Now, if only they could get the autopilot working . . .
Especially in a company that installs a web server on every PC and has no use for it.
That was a brilliant idea there, or a wonderful absence of checking that the image had only what was actually needed.
In either case, if I had been in charge, someone would have been raked over the coals for that (not Bruce, I hasten to add).
Who hasn't ?
Just a few weeks ago, I was at a customer site during a migration to Exchange. I was asked to add an Internet Address to all the groups in the Name & Address book. The format was supposed to be <nameofgroup@companyname.com.
I'm not an admin, so although I found the request curious, it is not for me to speak up on such a matter. I created the required script, ran it, and all appeared to be well.
For about five minutes.
Then calls started coming in to the Helpdesk. People were receiving weird mails that they shouldn't have and didn't before. It just so happens that some groups had a group name that was very similar to some redirections defined on the internet side of the portal, and anything coming in from outside was now sent directly to all the names in those groups.
Oops.
Needless to say, I was asked to revert the change post haste, which I did in record time.
I then left them to devise some new format which wouldn't create a new dogpile of issues. Maybe by checking incoming redirection lists first ?
Unfortunately not.
A few years ago, as a partner in a small services business, we landed a contract with an organization that was building itself up on providing training for, shall we say, people in need (who didn't have the money, by far, to go and pay for a €650/day training course in the swanky spots in Luxembourg).
We set up the server, gathered the client PCs, set up the network, etc. Somebody else was tasked with making the classrooms functional.
At one point, I overheard the responsible person complaining that the cost of Office was prohibitive (yes, even the Education license, which is something they should have had no difficulty obtaining - that's the financial level of this whole thing). They had to use it on the student PCs, but they apparently wanted to avoid that on the "personnel" equipment.
So I said no problem, I can install LibreOffice for you. When I told them that it's officially free, their eyes lit up and I was the savior of the day.
A week later, I learned that they were still using Office - unregistered - because LibreOffice was "too complicated".
As I left the company shortly after and rescinded my partnership, I don't know how it all ended, so I'll just leave you to conclude on your own.
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