Posts by Potemkine! 3270 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Jun 2017
It's obvious IoS thingies will be used to propagate ransomware if possible. If IT security is often a weak point on companies which don't want to pay to deal with the risk, OT is way way worser in term of security, because it's often managed by non-IT people who know nada about cybersecurity.
Not necessarily. Manufacturers could find less expensive to change a device rather than fixing it, especially of the production cost is way lower than the final price for customers.
The Right to Repair is also a way to limit continual production of new devices making the old ones garbage.
There hasn't been a significant advancement in lethality of small arms since 1885
I disagree. First, the rate of fire. It increased a lot with the introduction of submachine guns. MP18 got a rate of fire around 500 rounds / min. Next, the lethality of ammunitions: a .223 cartridge can gives a bullet an energy above 1,500J. That's more than twice than a 9mm parabellum cartridge.
Around 450 millions guns in the US. Around 80 millions guns in the EU.
45,222 firearm deaths in the US in 2020. Around 6,700 deaths by firearms in the EU.
About mass shootings:
Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):
United States — 0.058
Albania — 0
Austria — 0
Belgium — 0
Czech Republic — 0
Finland — 0
France — 0
Germany — 0
Italy — 0
Macedonia — 0
Netherlands — 0
Norway — 0
Slovakia — 0
Switzerland — 0
United Kingdom — 0
There's a clear correlation between number of guns and number of deaths by gun.This is not an opinion, it's a fact. US pro-gun people are delusional in claiming guns don't make things worse.
This commission's origin can be traced back to the Académie Française created in 1635. Claiming that French is a dead language since four centuries is clearly an academic-type joke: it's trying to be witty with no sense of reality.
ALL energy-production means are polluting and are hazardous. There's no perfect solution.
In history of nuclear power stations, there was one huge accident, in a power station whose design was known to be unsafe, tested in unsafe conditions, with most workers too afraid to say anything thanks to a dictatorial culture.
Solar cell? It require dirty mining to be made, with consequences lasting a lot of time.
Large wind turbine? Hundreds of tons of concrete left in the soil, with nobody taking care of it.
Coal kills hundreds of people worldwide EVERY DAY, it modifies our climate, its effects will last for centuries but nobody seems to consider it's dangerous.
In fact, replacing coal power stations by nuclear ones would probably save a lot of lives and provide enough energy.
Fusion will make it a bit better once it works, but there is a waste problem as well.
Which one? Fusion products helium, hardy a dangerous by-product.
Now, I feel nuclear power is really unsafe :( Maybe this is also what happened in RL to french EDF, with its fleet of nearly 32 out of 58 reactors out of the grid ...
Then you're wrong. Nuclear reactors are watched very carefully. If 32 out 58 EDF's reactors are out of the grid, this is because they are in planned maintenance.
The main problem is having relied for a long time on existing reactors without building new ones. The result is there: many reactors are ageing and require heavy maintenance, and no new ones were built to cover this, not even mentioning the need of covering new usages. There was so much anti-nuclear brainwashing by the so-called "Greens", so many newsfeed propagating the propaganda, so few educational efforts that now France has to reopen coal power stations which are an ecological disaster to compensate.
... I keep receiving emails which are intended for other people. It seems all the people in the US sharing with me the same last name and the first letter of the first name think it's appropriate to give my gmail address instead of theirs. Now I've got access to plenty of websites which don't think it's necessary to check a mail address before giving full access based on it.
For the french speaking audience: Un caoua SVP!
I remember seeing a video of someone making a liquid-proof case and immersing a PC into oil. It worked find. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT_fvSQsJ1Q. I don't see where is Intel innovation here?
Reusing thermal energy for another application could also be a way avoid to waste it.
"Thou shalt not commit murder." is rather older and has simply been translated into almost (?) every human language because we haven't actually changed our minds about this in the last 5,000 years.
Say that to the people in favor of Death Penalty, which is a State-sanctioned murder.
Many barbaric states around the World consider it's justified to kill legally people.
Companies may seek out workers under temporary work visas because they cost less to employ.
Thanks God slavery was abolished, or some companies would still import slaves to gain money
"H-2B employers like the H-2B program because they are legally permitted to pay H-2B workers less than similarly situated US workers"
I don't get it: why not closing the loophole, and making mandatory to pay workers the same may they be US workers or H-2B workers? That would solve the problem, wouldn't it?
That would mean that any Russian citizen and company is guilty because of the actions of his/her/its government and deserves punishment.
I see no reason to target individuals or private companies when they are not linked with Putin Khuylo.This is unfair and would a great help to the Russian official propaganda. Russians citizens to a lesser extent are victims too.
If your design life is such that the solar panels getting covered is not an issue (which with a 2 year life would not be an issue), why would you add weight/cost/complexity adding some sort of solution?
Because if this solution can lengthen the life span of a device that was very costly, very hard to send there and whose information are very valuable, it can be a good bargain.
Don't assume space engineers are stupid. It just makes you look like an idiot...
Don't assume that engineers are always right: you could miss an opportunity to do better. Scepticism, audacity, calling into question are ways to progress.
I agree with your comments about the reliability on electrical devices aboard French cars, but I totally disagree with your comment about French beers. You should open your mind and try some who are really outstanding (see https://www.worldbeerawards.com/winner-beer/beer/2021/worlds-best-pale-beer-33480-world-beer-awards-2021 or https://www.worldbeerawards.com/winner-beer/beer/2021/worlds-best-flavoured-spirit-33502-world-beer-awards-2021)
I would tend to agree, but it reminds me Saint Just's sentence: "no freedom for the enemies of freedom". Looking at what happened for those deemed "enemies of freedom" by the Committee of Public Safety, we should perhaps be more careful before applying such a radical strategy and look to the potential side effects.
Elsewhere in the world, he said, citizens can at least lobby elected representatives for change to tech-related regulations
There are plenty of countries where this is not the case, not in China only.
Why doesn't this gentleman mention Russia? Myanmar? Saudi Arabia? Turkey? And many others?
So if this applies to China, this should also apply to all dictatorships everywhere.
Stopping breeding is a good thing and should be encouraged worldwide.
We are way too many on this planet.
Taking care of the old generation can be done by taking on the values created by automated systems and AI that will replace many of us anyway. That value can be used to finance taking care of the older ones instead of just feeding the pockets of shareholders.
I had a math teacher who was able to insult the whole class for 15 minutes without repeating himself if he witnessed any behaviour he didn't agree with - Never before was I called a "pedal turkey" (dindon à pédale in the original version), and never after ^^
He was nonetheless probably the best math teacher I ever had.
"The UK, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and US cybersecurity authorities expect malicious cyber actors — including state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups — to step up their targeting of MSPs in their efforts to exploit provider-customer network trust relationships," the alert warned.
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"The UK, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and US cybersecurity authorities expect malicious cyber actors — including state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) groups and ourselves — to step up their targeting of MSPs in their efforts to exploit provider-customer network trust relationships," the alert warned.
FTFY.
Trusting the Five Eyes? No way.
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