Posts by Pascal Monett

"by removing the fuel card it would have saved"

You know what, Fujitsu ? By removing 80K employees you're also going to save a lot of money.

Oh, but you'll also be removing your means of making money. What a shame, eh ?

You want to make money ? You have to invest money. Salaries and bonuses are your investment to ensure that you continue to make money.

"a small number of customers"

That is code for "less than 90%".

Always.

"thousands of times faster"

I think that might be a bit a bold claim.

Technology has now reached 7nm when it comes to engraving electronic chips. This technique is not doing much better.

Of course, this is like arguing that next year's Olympic champion is only going to be 0.1% faster/better than last year's. It's the final 0.1% that is the hardest.

And it continues

Another provider to many important companies has its software compromised. Okay, through its customers' fault, granted, but still.

I think it is time to have a general review of high-profile software being used by companies that serve many other companies. We've basically stumbled across an underground trend that has been going on for years thanks to SolarWinds123's stupidity, but now it is time to take stock of the true situation and every company that operates in the Network Management market should be reviewing its published code with a fine comb and checking all of its code repositories to ensure that it is still offering secure code.

Tea Party Patriots

It's funny how the racists always have the their mouths full with the word Patriot.

ENIAC, the reference defining how far we've come

When your debugging session required a technician and line-by-line computation verification, you were heavily incited to think about your code twice - if not more.

18,000 vacuum tubes (or 19K, who's counting ?). Can you imagine a modern datacenter based on that ? You'd have twenty guys replacing the broken ones day in and day out. The vacuum tube industry would be more important than Exxon.

The industry has come a very long way in a very short time. Always makes me wonder what will come by in the next ten years.

"with whom NHS Digital can develop strategic relationships"

I'm sorry, given how long UK Government has been shoveling money their way, you'd think that the strategic relationship was already developed.

"urges the Democrat to fund efforts"

I thought this was the USA, the country that frowns on government intervention.

Oh, right. Money. Nobody frowns on getting that.

"Buyers are advised to check the privacy policy"

My privacy policy is simple : it's my car, you can fuck off.

I will not buy any car that is tied to any other person's server. I don't care what your excuses are, or what service you pretend to offer, as long as I am the one who is legally liable for how the car behaves, you can go drown in a gutter if you think I am going to give you the slightest amount of input in how I drive my car.

"Criminal charges against Autonomy's Lynch will never be dropped"

Of course not. We all know how the USA can hold a grudge.

We also know how the USA can withhold its citizens accused from abroad of war crimes and keep them from facing trial.

Justice and freedom for all ? As long as you're white and USAian.

"there's been a 430 per cent increase in upstream software supply chain attacks"

Of course there has been - it works.

And, on top of that, you can reap extensive rewards by getting automatically inserted into all of that company's customer's networks as well.

It's a blackhat dream come true.

All that because, for the past twenty years, developers have taken the habit of not bothering to check what they're putting on their production servers.

I don't care how much you trust that Github repo, you do not put code on production servers that has not been vetted.

Once again, lessons are going to be learned the hard way.

Autonomous ships ? Dear God.

As much as I love the idea, and applaud Samsung for having the balls to actually set this up and try it, I can only think of one thing : what do you do when it goes wrong ?

If it works, fine, congrats, job well done. But if it doesn't, what are the possible consequences ?

Best case scenario you've got a beached ship. Expensive, but no harm done.

Worst case scenario you've got a collision with loss of life. Not only expensive, but a massive lawsuit in the making.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to be the lead developer answering questions in front of that jury.

It is time to GROUT !

Get Rid Of Useless Twats.

And slap a lawsuit for criminal mismanagement of a non-profit with a public remit. There has to be something to stick on those bastards to get them to jail.

"potential buyers of the company, such as HP."

HP is a big company. It had its own review of Autonomy finances. It's own internal high-ups were against the pruchase, but the nitwit at the top made the deal anyway.

So, who is going to drag Apotheker in court to accuse him of 'grasping claws' ?

Not to mention blatant incompetence ?

Wow

"The system works by allocating kernel memory for the new code, pauses all processes, modifies the original functions, jumps to the new code, then resumes processing. No reboot is required. "

Elegant, simple and efficient.

In other words, nothing to do with Borkzilla.

Two sides shouting

Openreach says conditions do not deteriorate, syndicate says they do.

Somebody is not listening.

Obviously I largely suspect that Openreach is optimistic in its declarations. If it truly had been working with the syndicate for the last year and a half, there wouldn't be a strike, now would there ? It's all well to say you've been meeting, but if every meeting is just you saying "this is how it is" then you haven't been dialoguing much.

On the other hand, I don't know CWU at all, but syndicates in general are kind of prone to siezing any chance they can to strike under the pretense of improving labour conditions. That said, if 80% of its members agree, then something has gone wrong in the discussions for sure.

I can't tell who is telling the truth. Is Openreach really trying, or is CWU just trying its best to defend the workers honestly ?

Pretty much had to happen some day

It is unfortunate that the numbskull decided to try a "prank" robbery against a guy with a gun, but given the amount of weapons that exist in the US, the only thing that surprises me is that it took this long.

That said, there are two things that bother me (aside from the whole death thing, obviously). One, this happened in what is supposed to be recreation park. The guy brought a gun to a recreation park ? WTF ? What is wrong with him ?

And two, and this is worse IMO, he just pulled out his gun and fired ? Couldn't he have drawn his gun and say something like "I suggest you GTFO" ? You know, give the guy a chance to reconsider ? But no, he just rambo'd it and got trigger-happy.

Somebody commented that he would have to live with that for the rest of his life. I'm not convinced that that will be a problem for him.

Globally, Apple didn't do bad on this

Ok, mistakes were made, not denying that. But the machines were meant to be returned - can't fault Apple for trying to enforce that.

Yeah, Apple screwed up completely on the recall procedure, but it also corrected the issue and, in the end, played fair.

I don't like Apple, and I always relish a good El Reg bite of any hand El Reg can get its beak on, but overall, Apple did good on this one.