Posts by Pascal Monett 19430 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Disagreement is not hatred.
I can disagree with you, it doesn't mean I hate you.
It does, however, imply that I respect your person and position, and bring proper arguments concerning my own opinion on the matter.
I have no problem with disagreement in a civilized society. Disagreement can foster new ideas that are a benefit for all. What I have a big problem with is blind stupidity and the refusal of considering that one's own opinion just might not be the Lord's Gospel.
So, if I understand correctly, because Covington is a den of lawyers, they are required to have special priviledge when it comes to dealing with the SEC.
SEC asks the same thing in every case, it's not new.
If it is such an issue for lawyers then, given that even they state that being hacked is inevitable, they should find a way to ensure that client data is not available to hackers - aka don't put it on the network.
It's not like lawyers will ever have a paperless office anyway.
I don't think it'll be that simple.
You seem to have not at all followed the raft of diplomatic activity that took over 20 years to bring Russia to this point.
Yes, Russia invaded Ukraine all alone. But we (aka The West) made a lot of promises to Russia, specific promises, not general notions mouthed in platitudes, and we did nothing to hold ourselves to those promises.
You try promising things to someone and never making good on your promise, and then tell me how long that person is still going to believe you.
Because the "bonus" was a lie, and you don't have a choice.
Unless, of course, you're OK with saying goodbye to 45% of your commerce budget.
Your figures, not mine.
Aka : the NSA does whatever the fuck it wants and if you don't like it, fuck you.
Personally, I am still wondering why we (the EU) hasn't just shut down the data pipe until this is resolved properly, aka following EU rules.
Let's not get confused : that data is making US companies salivate. The junkies need their fix. You tell them what you agree to give and they'll fold, it just takes a bit of time. The rest is all a storm in a teacup. Let the noisy ones bloviate, you can wait them out. They cannot stand to wait.
Advantage : EU.
Well gosh, what a surprise.
I wonder if all the unforcasted units sold during COVID lockdowns might have an effect.
As in, now everybody has a PC / laptop or equivalent, even those who thought they didn't need one.
You ever seen someone going to a restaurant after having just eaten ? I haven't.
Cut the marketing budget ? Yeah, that's good. Nobody's buying because everyone is equipped.
Come back in a few years. You'll be useful by then.
Right now, you can hibernate. But stop whinging. You've had your buttered bread.
Let's not confuse the issue, which is all about the preposterous slander imposed by the word "recall".
That is what must be changed and Musk will die on that hill if necessary (aka send unlimited amounts of salesdrones to die in his place until the issue is snowed over by whatever important news is churned up next - look, squirrel !).
Of course. What Trent should have done was shut everything down so as to not inconvenience the desk drones. Customer Satisfaction ? That only counts if I can get a yearly bonus, or better yet, a raise out of it.
There is no I in Team, right ? Well, there obviously was no team there either, so I it was.
Well that's one plan that will be going forward now. Well done on quelling dissent, Tesla.
Major success.
What is it with companies in the USA these days ? It seems they are all pining for the Pinkerton days of yore.
Sure, I'm going to risk my money and my travel plans on a brain-dead, mindless, unreliable statistical inference machine that can't keep its facts straight - or even remain polite.
Yeah, no problem there.
Right.
I'm really impatient for the day this pseudo-AI bullshit hits the same brick wall as funny money did so we can get back to watching cat videos in peace.
It took decades, but finally Outlook allowed for controlling Reply All (I think it was in Office 2010).
I remember clearly working in various major organizations in Luxembourg around 2010 and seeing, for the first time in my life, that Reply All prompted a message box along the lines of "Are you really sure you want to do this ?". Some messages were more of the "Only do this if you can justify it to your manager" type.
So the military haven't cottoned on yet ?
Oh well, give them another four or five decades, they'll get there eventually.
There is a simple solution to this : stop handing out phones that have zero protection in place.
It's not only the Government, but it's the Department of Defense. If there is one institution in a country where you don't fool around, it's there.
The DOD should have software that locks the phones it gives out to only a set of applications. The Play Store should not be part of that set.
But of course, that means having actually thought about and planned something before handing out unsafe platforms, but hey, it's not like the DoD is in charge of the security of an entire nation.
Oh, wait . . .
"each is a twin-socket system with 2nd Gen Xeon Scalable processors configured with 1.5TB of DRAM, and four 3.2TB NVMe flash drives, plus eight 80GB Nvidia A100 GPUs, the latter connected by NVLink and NVSwitch"
Somehow, I feel a bit let down compared to Frontier, an 8.7 million core, 1.1K petaflop beast at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
It seems they'll call anything a supercomputer these days.
"travel bans on the seven and freezing their assets"
I wonder if these Russkies have assets outside of Russia. They probably have multiple crypto wallets, but I haven't heard that The Man can freeze those.
And for travel bans, I'm sure that has them shaking in their sapogi.
It's not a question of amount, it's a question of not needing to remove your eyes one second from that all-important screen that has replaced your hand (and mind, apparently).
Coming next : an Education app which will gamify your child's upbringing, so you can finally ignore the brat completely and fob it off to a slab of plastic and toxic metals while you go on with the more important things in your life, namely your next Twitter post.
Hmm. As far as software is concerned, if you're dealing with a system where all possible values are automatically and instantly computed, I'd think that your software would be fault-tolerant by default, else it would crash.
Quantum computing is a very, very curious beast.
Okay, Space is wierd and very, very large, but if it's already wierd that a 1,100 km-wide ball of stuff has a ring system, it is absolutely mind-boggling that it might have cryovolcanoes.
Jupiter's moon Io has volcanoes, but that's because Jupiter's gravitational field is literally mushing up that little pizza ball. Quaoar does not have such a luxury, and I very much doubt the Sun can be counted on for melting its surface enough at that distance to encourage icy volcanic activity.
So, if this stuff is confirmed - and it still has to be, apparently - then astrophysicists are going to have a hell of a time explaining how a dead ball of ice deep in the freezer of space can be active enough to spout frozen geysers that manage to create a ring in such conditions.
This is going to be a mind-bender of major proportions.
Not going to happen. Closed source has to obey the laws of the countries where it sells, there is no reason to exempt open source from the same obligations simply because the sale price is zero.
Besides, it's not like it's a problem for the developers. You don't want your code to be GDPR-compliant ? Not a problem, your code won't be used in the EU. I don't think there are many non-EU developers who are bothered by that.
EU-centric developers, of course, will have to ensure that their code is GDPR-compliant, meaning that they'll have to amend whatever FOSS code they decide to use to ensure proper compliance. The burden is on them (apply to other countries/law structures as applicable).
But all code should be compliant with the laws of the country in which it operates.
You want proof of funds ? I can provide you with a printout of my bank account balance.
I can even give you my IBAN number, for all the good it will do you.
If that is not enough, I can point you to my bank, where you can phone and ask questions yourself. But you won't be getting a cent either before, during or after the meeting. Not unless I actually transfer money to you, and why would I do that ?
Only in the funny-money universe can you feel obliged to actually give someone you don't know your own money just to prove that you have it.
