Posts by Pascal Monett 16741 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Thank $Deity that there are still courageous warriors to stick it to The Man. Of course, mishaps will happen, but it is worth it to avoid the Eye of Sauron government.
Instead, you're exposed to the eye of every hacker in the world and, since you don't have the required experience, you get hacked.
Unlike actual banks.
But hey, you keep fighting the fight. Whatever.
Well, I can't say anything about where it happened or when, but what I can say is that there was a bank in Luxembourg whose leased line went down.
Cue absolute batshit panic everywhere and red-hot phone lines to get it solved.
I don't know how much the bank was paying for the line, but I heard that every hour it was down cost that bank over $100 million.
The line was back up in a quarter of an hour. I don't think 10X the cost of broadband was a serious issue.
"embedded analytics capabilities through dashboard interfaces, which often rely on iframes and cross-domain third-party cookies for authentication"
So you base your "embedded analytics" on a monstrosity that uses iframes ? One of the most-used tricks of malware writers ?
How's about you clean your shit up instead of complaining ?
Well, whaddya know ? Maybe some good will come from all this pseudo-AI malarky yet.
Oh, and I really like : "Musker mused that AI's potential is limitless, but customers are focussed on trying to solve business problems".
Gosh, ya think ?
I found this quote ages ago (cannot source it) and I think that this is the right time to republish it :
"Adjectives in English absolutely have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that word order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac. It's an odd thing that every English speaker uses that list, but almost none of us could write it out."
Brown, we can all agree, is color. Sticky, I think, corresponds to opinion. It's certainly not material or origin, and purpose even less.
So sticky brown smear it should be, I think.
Guys, it had to happen one day. Voyager 1 is one of the top achievements of scientific discovery. I would hardly be surprised if the famed NASA engineers managed to eke out some more usefullness from its tired frame, but maybe, if that doesn't happen, it would be time to let it rest.
If said plumber is registered, he already has a company. If he DIYs for you, he'll be DIYing for many other people if he is to make ends meet.
Not sure that simile applies. Unless said plumber is actually offering his services on PlumbersRUS, and you subscribe to get his service which PlumbersRUS oversee and guarantee their prices, paying a part to said plumber who also subscribed to get the gigs.
Then yes, but otherwise, not really.
I think.
"Attackers that do get in may try to create new VMs to do things like mine crypto. Those VMs will not use your templates and will not therefore run your security agents. Thus, you'll struggle to see them."
That really makes me want to go Cloud. What a vote of confidence. And why is it that hackers will be able to create a VM that doesn't use my templates ? How is that possible to create a VM on my environment without being subject to my rules ? I think that's something you should correct ASAP.
But what am I saying ? SAP doesn't need to correct anything. It's making money hand over fist, so everything is A-OK.
Right ?
Heck of a job, but someone has to do it. I like that she's laying down the rules.
Cardaci doesn't like it ? He can take a hike. Nobody owes SpaceX subsidies. Private companies take the risk, then reap the rewards. That's the rule. If you are continually begging for subsidies, you should be under government control and no longer a private company.
There was good reason to subsidize the Falcon Heavy, NASA needed a solution now that the Shuttle was decommissioned. But subsidizing satellite broadband ? Nope. Not necessary. There are existing solutions that, additionally, do not depend on giant firecrackers that might go boom.
That tiny thing ? The smallest of all official planets has a magnetosphere while Mars and Venus don't ? I mean hey, Mercury is smaller than our own Moon (check the mass figures) !
Well blow me down. I would've thought that, if Mars was not big enough to keep a molten core and its corresponding magnetosphere like Earth, then Mercury was damned by default, but hey, this is Real Life(TM). Things don't always go like you expect them to.
I fail to see how using BCC is any more subject to human error than bulk email. It's when you're not using BCC and bunging everyone into SendTo that things are worse. That is what must have happened here. Instead of using BCC, they sent the mail out with addresses in the SendTo and probably got people killed. That fact will be on their conscience forever, fine or not.
And who are you going to fine for the brilliant decision of not bringing along those fine Afghan people who helped you and stood by you but didn't have the proper paperwork done in the madness of a hasty withdrawal ? You could have gotten them out and bothered with the paperwork later, when they were safe, but noooo. You don't have your paperwork ? We thank you for your service during all these years, and wish you good luck with the Taliban. Next !
And he'll have the rest of his life to reminisce fondly about that while flipping burgers.
No pity. You get fired, you go. You don't touch your former employers' network or anything else. You want revenge ? Tell everyone you know that you unfairly dismissed - whether it is true or not.
Now, the only thing everyone knows is that he watches porn on the job and abuses his knowledge to wreak havoc when being caught.
He'll never work in a bank again, that's for sure, and there's a good change he'll never be in an IT position ever again.
And he doesn't deserve to be. Not for a long time.
Monumental. A jury has found against Google. It's going to cost Alphabet some pocket money to bury Epic under endless appeals.
More importantly, if this judgement is upheld, Google's entire gaming revenue stream is going to be upheaved in a major way. Goodbye 30%, hello 5%, or maybe 10%. Gosh, Board bonuses are going to dip by 5%.
Aw, shucks.
That's hoping that it won't be late which, given Humanity's track record on getting space right the first time, is far from guaranteed.
But one thing is certain : the ISS will be coming down. The challenge is making that happen in a controlled manner. Right now, that challenge is on the funding. We'll see how Round 1 goes down. That'll give insight on how Round 2, getting ready to de-orbit, might pan out.
The line that he is a Nazi is no longer relevant ? Old news ? Gotta find something else ?
If you were capable of winning this stupid mess you created in the first place, you wouldn't have to stoop to attacking your opponent's reputation. But I'm guessing Putin doesn't care about this kind of shenanigans. He may smile on it, but he doesn't have time to actually coordinate it.
This is done by the armchair generals in the rear, who's only ability is their Internet connection and total lack of moral compass. Oh, and the fact that they managed to not get drafted. Yet.
Completely agree. Yearly tasks are a pain to schedule, especially when the responsible person leaves the company (whatever reason).
I'm thinking there should be a yearly calendar process for business. The business needs to know these things, and they cannot be tied to the knowledge of one person. How many times has Borkzilla been caught out because it forgot to renew its own certificates ? And it's far from being alone in this. If there was some sort of shared calendar showing yearly actions and who is responsible for them, then I think this kind of issue would be almost resolved.
At a business level, that should be easy to organize. Create a user named Yearly Renewal, share his calendar with all upper management, and have HelpDesk insert the proper data and the names of people responsible. When one person leaves, check Yearly's calendar for all events under that person's name and figure out who to reassign them to. Then make sure everyone is checking Yearly's calendar at least once a month.
That should work, no ?
Well, manglement at SK Broadband could return to the negotiating table, but if that happens, they will be no longer be in a position to mandate 10x carrier prices.
And they will lose face which, contrary to our Western civilization politicians, is anathema to many Asian cultures (painting Asian in broad strokes, here).
So I feel confident that SK Broadband is going to watch Twitch leave without flinching. I do wonder, though : how much does it actually cost to transmit a megabyte over fiber ? I mean, the router is plugged in whether or not you're transmitting. How much more energy does it take ? I realize that it should take more, but how much more ?
As usual, NASA gets a problem, and NASA finds a solution. Redundancy FTW, eh Boeing ?
Being a NASA engineer must be one of the most stressful but rewarding jobs there is. You know that what you do is important, so when there's a mission-breaking issue like this, you have to find a solution. And when you do, it's better than if you won the lottery.
Big kudos to NASA engineers. Well done.
Could someone please explain why all those billions in trade taxes are not being eyed with envy by governments ?
Why should automakers be exempt from trade tax when everything else isn't ?
Or is this all just a question of "well, we're only getting around to discuss this problem now" ?
They operate on the good old "something must be done" principle (this is something, so it must be done).
Granted, since the past three decades it appears to me that, globally speaking, politicians everywhere are getting more and more shallow and stupid (the shitshow we've got going in France is appalling), if not outright callous and thieving, but the real problem, IMO, is that they all feel that they must appear to be achieving, and they will grasp at anything to do so.
They haven't understood that their job is not to achieve, it is to manage. Achieving is done by the voters, they have a job (hopefully, at least), and jobs are what achieve things.
Politicians (and administrative busybodies in general) are simply there to make sure the rules keep everyone globally going in the same direction. And maybe, from time to time, inaugurate a monument.
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