Posts by Pascal Monett 19435 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
What genius decided that that was a good idea ?
Is that a pitiful stab at trying to avoid the cost and hassle of switching the steering to the right side for UK routes ? It's an electric vehicle, don't tell me that you have to redesign the drive shaft.
You're making an EV, not redesiging how people drive.
Because cryptography is hard ?
They coded and salted the hases, which is more than many do today. Not trying to find excuses, but they did better than most already.
You can always do more, especially where security is concerned. Maybe this "no persistent key" approach would break something else, or make everything more difficult ?
Um, no, that's not how you do it.
He was there for the making of those earnings report, so he steps up to the plate and takes responsibility for them.
Then he can step down.
Stepping down before is just demonstrating a lack of professionalism.
No cookie.
And, given that ASML is currently participating in the blockade against giving high tech to China, that might take even longer.
The official app of New York (among many, many, many other cities).
There's going to be a great need for video cameras for this to work - and I hope those cameras operate via WiFi, because if they're connected via cables, well, let's just say that rats can handle that problem.
Operations. Those things that are done by people. People who cost a salary - generally more the better they are, or so goes the theory.
So improving operating margins by firing people means that you'll have less people to do the same job - or more. That's a situation that generally sours the workplace and drives people away, thus improving operating margins even more - except that you get to the point where you don't have enough people to ensure operations (eh, Musk ?).
Well yes, there is the iron grip Google has on the entire ecosystem.
Google makes Android, but what Google wants is Chrome everywhere, because that's how it gets ad views.
And Google is all about the ad views. It's what it is, literally.
So, push in some actual capitalistic competition and you weaken Google's ad views, aka its bottom line.
And Google's job to its shareholders, which it gleefully fulfills, is to maximize its ad views.
So no, Alphabet won't be happy about this.
At all.
No, that would be : Ah, a while back I decided to create a situation that could possibly destroy the company since I didn't think for a second about any possible consequences of my decisions.
It's called Data Management for a reason. And doofuses like that are the ones who enabled the book to be written on the subject.
Agreed, but they're not the only ones. How's about 22.01.2023 ? Or 2023-22-01 ?
And I have a few more that I found while importing CSV files from various customers - sometimes with different formats inside the same file.
I swear, it's a good thing firearms aren't easily availble 'round here because when I snap I'll be reduced to strangling the bastards instead of shooting them - that'll give someone more time to drag me off.
Especially in cooking, you state the ingredients in grams or milliliters and that should be all.
Spoons, really. What size spoon do you ? And don't tell they're all the same size, that's simply not true. The spoons from our wedding tableware are bigger than the spoons of our daily tableware, so there is no standard there.
"pilot projects covering solar atmospheric modelling, natural language processing (NLP) and imaging of seismic data"
Are you saying that natural language processing is as difficult as modeling the interactions of the most powerful open-air nuclear furnace of our entire Solar System ?
Nuts.
The answer should be NO.
The only reason these attacks continue are because these assholes are getting paid. Stop paying and the problem goes away.
Yes, your company might fold in the meantime. It's called the Greater Good.
And, next time, train your personnel better.
No problem, Intel. How much money do you have in the bank ?
It would be interesting to see how companies would react if they had to fork over a share of the profits based on how much subsidies they were offered.
Like : "Okay, you say it will cost $10 billion to build this plant. We can offer you $7.5 billion. Then you will pay us 75% of revenue over ten years."
Of course, that scenario only works if every government does the same. Might as well wait for pigs to fly.
"the threat of criminal prosecutions could deter investment and drive companies to leave the country"
Go run while you can. Sooner or later, every decent country will have such rules, at which point you'll be forced to be hosted in some island haven that will be blocked, so good luck serving your wares to the few who live on the same island.
I am sick of seeing major companies get barely a slap on the wrist when they don't respect the rules, then threaten to up and leave when the rules get tightened.
Go host yourselves in China. Ask Ma what he thinks about that.
I wish you the best of luck. Diabetes is a pain because, although it is not painful in itself (as far as I know), it can kill you pretty quick.
In any case, I think this artificial pancreas has a great future in store and I hope it will help everyone afflicted with this condition.
It's called business.
You say you don't want to work with me any more ? Excuse me while I search for people who do.
And the childish sexual insults simply demonstrate that NetEase's management need to grow up. Petulant children should not be in charge of major communications companies.
Eh, Musk ?
Well he can still articulate.
Delivering will be exponentially more difficult given that he has fired or driven away most of the developers.
I wonder how his "search" for a new CEO is going ? I especially wonder what difference it would make to Twitter's image, given that everyone knows that said CEO will not be able to manage any differently than what His Muskiness accepts, so booting out the racists again is clearly off the table.
I disagree, somewhat.
The mistake was in implementing the plan on his own. What he should have done would be to present the idea to his manager and get approval.
Of course, that meant his idea could also have been shot down, but hey, them's the breaks.
Disclaimer : I was a long-time contributor to SETI@Home myself, and ran it on every computer I had at home, plus my work laptop if I could.
Yes, because in security nothing says success like an arbitrary financial goal.
Oh, and blockchain ?
Guys, if you actually manage to implement blockchain successfully where security is concerned, that will indeed be an achievement.
No it didn't.
$760K out of $3+ million is definitely not most of that spend.
Now, 8 petabytes of data is nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure. But, if you have a budget of over $260K/month, you have enough money for servers, a local SAS implementation running over 100Gbps fiber and money to spare for the aircon bill and fire suppressing installation.
Apparently, The CloudTM does not give you any savings on the IT personnel budget, since there is still need of a bunch of skilled admins to oversee it properly, so you have the people required to manage all that locally.
I'm curious to see next year's local bill and find out just how damning it is for The CloudTM.
Oh good. Violating the privacy of 300+ million individuals on a daily basis gave you less than a dozen useful cases.
That declaration in itself would be enough for me to tell them to take a hike. Then I'd go and create an even more restrictive law.
Plus : this is about spying on Americans, and the NSA is the one deciding what it can tell ?
Sorry buddy, you are talking to the elected representatives of your own country about your activity concerning your own citizens. You spill all the beans, or you go to jail.
Simples.
Not sure they've been trying that hard. After all, the Vatican is one of the richest places on the planet.
And the Catholic church has historically had dissentions in its ranks about the wealth of cardinals and such.
So it's more a case of "do as I say as not as I do" when the church is talking about Jesus being poor.
That is not, however, an excuse for paying one guy enough money per year to support 10,000 families. He's not doing the work of that many people.
Sure, his work is important and it is important that he know what to say, when and how to say it and to who. Those things are complicated and require an above-average intelligence, to be sure. But they're not worth $50 million a year - especially when that is on top of all the other stuff he gets.
