Posts by Pascal Monett 18239 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Just admit it : it's a sanction against China. Then go on living your lives.
If you're so afraid of equipment from companies beholden to their government, then you only have one choice : make your network equipment a government institution and only use your home-grown equipment.
Because Cisco is just as beholden to Washington DC as Huawei is to Beijing.
Remeber what National Security Letters are for.
It's a mainframe, not a laptop. You support a mainframe for 25 years, not five.
If Fujitsu thinks that it's going to sell a mainframe that only has five years of support left, I think Fujitsu is in for a bad surprise.
They may as well stop making them now - as long as they still offer support until 2035, they just might still sell one or two.
I so agree with you. Especially when it comes to laptops, which are often delivered with a single partition for OS and data. So, when the inevitable Windows crash happens and you have to reinstall Windows, it wipes the disk and your data with it.
Once upon a time I insisted on having two HDDs, one for the OS, one for the data (and swap file). Nowadays, with SSDs and their size, a single disk is enough, but I still insist on a data partition and I install all my programs and put all my files there.
That way, when Borkzilla borks again, at least I can reinstall Windows without losing any actually important stuff.
Icon because Borkzilla still hasn't understood this.
Sorry, what is there to negociate ?
The US does not get EU citizen's data. Simple.
I can agree to an exception when an EU citizen is physically going to the US, but that is it.
And if the White House don't like it, it can stuff it where the sun don't shine.
Oh yeah, absolutely. We really need an identity verifying app on the most insecure, unupdated platform that has ever existed.
Bonus round : having to prove that you are the owner of the phone once you've "proven" your identity.
Different standards will create opposition to those initiatives ?
I'm already there, mate.
Oh good, Zuck is going to fill his Meta-fied Second Life with a bunch of virtual people. Then he will declare the Metaverse a success and spend his time chatting with bots.
And the rest of the world will watch him burn all his money on that particular pie in the sky.
I'm glad you believe that a computer program can teach itself. I can't wait to see how that turns Tay.
Be that as it may, Lite Mode has many advantages and there is no real reason to remove it.
It's like saying "the price of gas has fallen so low, we've stopped making economical cars". No, you don't stop saving data just because in India they have great mobile data plans. I have a budget of 4.5GB/month - normally more than enough. Recently, there was a storm that cut my fiber connection for three days. Working from home, I used up a total of 6.8GB during that time, with a nice 70% increase in my phone bill for that month.
Keep saving the data, you never know when you might need that.
Besides, less clutter on the backend will do good for everyone.
Well that's a big, fat single point of entry if ever I saw one.
Of course, I've been working in IT for more than a quarter of a century. I have no problem managing (checks list) around 200 passwords. I never use the same password twice, nor the same login.
But I know what I'm doing. People who view the Internet as their own personal shopping space, and their computing device as an enabler, those people simply cannot imagine everything that goes on behind and likely wouldn't understand if you explained it to them. It's a shopping cart, what's the problem ? That is their point of view, and I'm not going to blame them.
Maybe, just maybe, all this data sharing and consumer pressure just might end up in creating a world where everyone, not just IT professionals, have the means to really manage where their data is going and who can use it.
Maybe.
It would seem that a proper encryption scheme should also have a default implementation function/procedure.
Encryption is difficult. Even if you (like me) have no idea how difficult it actually is, there's largely enough history to demonstrate that fact.
So don't leave it up to the vendors. If you create an encryption scheme, give a default, secure, functional scheme that vendors can rely on.
That way, if they go their own route and screw up, it's entirely their own fault, whereas here you kinda built the scaffold for them to hang themselves.
But he said "a proper facial recognition system".
His point is valid in that specific, restricted area.
As in, a facial recognition system that does not just a picture, but LIDAR technology or somesuch to create a 3D map of the face on top of visual cues.
That should prove more difficult to cheat, whatever makeup you have.
Of course, if you go putting Silly Putty on your face and makeup on top of that, then all bets are off.
I guess facial regocnition is just doomed from the start.
Wow, that's a lot of work for not much return.
As a freelance, if I had almost $2 billion in revenue, I could shut my company down even after income tax (which would be at least $380 million) and there would be plenty enough left for my family for generations (well, until the 3rd one at least).
Agreed.
It's very nice of Cisco to warn and serve the required updates, but I agree that companies are going to be a bit wary of just rushing into this, and it takes time to validate a test server update.
Besides, it would really be unfortunate for a bank to be offline for two weeks while they recover from a borked update, wouldn't it ?
Unless you're TalkTalk, of course, in which case nobody cares.
Um, idle question : what HDD still has little enough space to be completely formatted in FAT32 ?
I don't think there are any. So, if using an HDD, you're partitioning it into the ridiculously small FAT32-sized partition, then partitioning the rest in NTFS (or whatever floats your boat).
I think you're asking the wrong question. The actual question is : why use Microsoft products when you do not want any possibility of data exiting the EU ?
Borkzilla is a US company. It is understandable that its products are tied with its US servers.
If it is so important to keep data inside your own borders, use LibreOffice and make yourself a local cloud-based fileshare with encryption.
It's not as sexy, for sure, and you're probably going to need to replace Outlook with something else, but it responds to the demands.
Obviously, manglement is not going to have its pretty charts and PowerPoint presentations any more. Boo hoo.
This is interesting. Given the atrocious history of ERP projects I have been reading recently, I am really curious : what makes them think that grouping universities is going to make it work better ?
Or maybe it will, since there will be less manglement of the project and it will be managed by a group that wants the whole thing to actually work instead of being managed by one guy who just wants a star on his CV, or a group of psychotics who view this as an empire building exercise (by excluding all other empires, of course).
So, I'm curious.
Even though we have created a product that specifically allows for stalking without any serious safeguards.
Shame on you for taking advantage of it.
Come on Apple, you goofed. Own up to it, retire the product and think of a better version.
With all these multi-terabyte per second connections coming in from all over the world, what is the impact on the backend in Europe ?
100 TB here, 100TB there, pretty soon you've got petabytes of capacity at your doorstep.
Does the EU have a global backend measured in petabytes ?
I mean, legally, of course. I live in France. Let's say I use a VPN to connect to Switzerland, then another one to connect to India, then I do my business.
The EU has no right to check my Switzerland VPN, nor does India. India can well find out that there is a Swiss IP behind my India VPN connection, but the trail stops there unless India makes an official enquiry.
I mean, we're not in GoldenEye territory here where the Indian government is going to have the image of the world map and a red line going from India to Switzerland to France, are we ? They still have to do something in Switzerland to find out that there is another connection from France, right ? And that something is illegal if India doesn't show a warrant, right ?
I have never heard of an assumption that there is a single, global blockchain.
Every instance of funny money has its own blockchain, I think that's pretty obvious.
However, even if I do not know how blockchain works, I do know that a blockchain is a public ledger, emphasis on the word "public".
So, as far as I'm concerned, all the police need to do is hire competent IT experts in blockchain and they'll be able to trace the money and shut down illegal operations. Or at least point the finger at them.
Now, as far as attacking anything abroad, I do believe that that puts the US in the same boat as the malware criminals themselves. Of course, it is expedient, but it is also not justified when you call yourself a democracy.
On the other hand, the US is no longer a democracy so, win all around ?
Not without a lawsuit, that is.
Tying the installation of an OS to having a proprietary online account is veering straight into monopolistic behavior . . . again.
As usual Borkzilla is confusing itself with a black hole. The difference is, there's nothing a judge can do against a black hole.
Unfortunately, being stupid is not a disqualifying criteria for using a computer.
And if you think that just changing the file extension from xlsx to csv changes the file format, then you're too stupid to use a computer.
More unfortunately, there are many, many people who haven't got a clue what a file extension means, but they're still employed and using a computer.
That's the employer's fault : he doesn't know what a file extension means either.
It is clearly a bold stance.
Unfortunately, it's not because you are going to be able to stack chips on top of one another that, all of a sudden, you're going to become a graphics king.
Now, don't get me wrong, there are very capable people working at Intel, that I will not dispute. But there are also very capable people working at Nvidia, and Nvidia has twenty years of experience in high-end graphics. Intel ? Not so much.
So I'm glad that you've set the bar to high expectations. Unfortunately, I have never counted on Intel to power my gaming sessions, and I have no reason to think that that is going to change any time soon.
I am willing to be pleasantly surprised, though.
That really is a nice idea and I subscribe to it wholeheartedly, but look around. If we did that to China, in the short term we'd have next to nothing left to buy.
And I don't see much in term of European or American industry gearing up to replace Chinese sweatshops, especially in the luxury market.
It just won't happen.
It should, but it won't.
Excuse me, but I seem to recall that, if we ever needed discrete graphics in the first place, it is because integrated graphics were shit in performance.
It used to be the case that if you were using integrated graphics, it was because you were working on a server and the only thing on screen was the console - text version. Integrated graphics were good enough for that, but not much more.
These days I acknowledge that integrated graphics can actually show a Windows GUI properly, without much in matter of lag, but if you think that you're going to persuade me that your integrated graphics can boast of GeForce RTX 30-level performance well, I'm sorry, I'm not drunk enough to buy that.
So the point of acquiring Arm was ?
As much as I like my Nvidia graphics card, I have to admit that Nvidia is monopolistic. It is following the likes of Apple, Google and Borkzilla in stifling competition as much as it can.
Nvidia has used almost every dirty trick in the book, from massaging benchmark figures to disparaging AMD products outright.
If Nvidia had taken Arm into its purview, I think it would have had catastrophic consequences in the long run, so I'm quite happy that it did not happen.
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