Posts by Pascal Monett

"we are saying they will not be fixed"

To which the proper response should be : we're not saying you're wrong, we're saying you will not be paid until they are fixed.

Why does nobody have the balls to do that ? Because nobody's going to do that.

In any case, this is a Good Thing (TM)

I'm glad to hear that statistical analysis machines are being put to uses other than comparing my face to a terrorist database.

And who knows, this might help with the fight against cancer, or even more stuff.

Go science !

"There is no escape from collaboration"

Unless you're name is Wunderlist.

Good article

And good blog reference as well. I will refer people to this article in the future when asked my opinion about current VR technology.

Well done

That is an impressive list of the things that are going wrong in this particular instance.

It is also a damning indictment of ICANN's attitude towards respecting its own rules. Transparency is a cornerstone of ICANN ? Really ? It may have been at one point, but if it's still there it's buried under a mountain of hypocrisy.

ICANN, bah !

"be sure to back up the encrypted data first"

How about backing up the regular data regularly ? You know, with a normal backup schedule - one per day, one per week, one per month, one per year ?

Like any serious company should do ?

"Just in time for Microsoft's next attempt at a mobile phone"

Which I will copiously ignore, since Microsoft has a proven track record of bungling everything it does aside from Office, and letting everything else go to rot.

Honestly, why anyone buys into the Microsoft "ecosphere" is beyond me. Nothing lasts outside of Office, which is now being jacked into the Cloud by every conceivable orifice.

No thanks.

"If you think about it,"

If you think about IT security, it is a minefield of ever-changing threats and issues that are a nightmare to manage and impossible to forecast.

I guess that means job security and continuous revenues.

Schlaeger is doing the right thing

He his helping the community get the solutions to a very complex problem. Sure, he's doing it because he would prefer not to have to redo the changes for each kernel update, but still, he's trying to help everyone. That is a Good Thing (TM).

The fact remains that hyperthreading is more than 30% of your CPU performance. That's 30% I absolutely cannot do without.

Just a minute there

"President Trump [..] puts the very integrity of the government [..] in question"

There, FTFY.

"all died within a week"

So they brought into the world a few monstrous creations only for the poor things to suffer uselessly for an entire week before departing to a better place.

It is cruel what we do in the name of Science.

Once again, you paid for something but now someone else decides for you

All this "smart" and "connected" hoopla is cesspool of failure waiting to happen and, when (not if) it does, invariably it's the consumer that is left high and dry.

I am boycotting anything with "smart" in the name. I intend to be able to use my stuff for the long run.

The Age of the Customer is over

We are now in the Age of the Company, which decides what the customer wants and monetizes the customer's private details for maximum revenue.

It is insane to kill off an app that people actually like using. Of course, from Microsoft's point of view, it's obviously insane to keep updating an app that can - gasp - actually work with non-Microsoft platforms.

Get with the program, Microsoft. The future is about Cloud, not platform.

It really is impressive

I find it astounding that companies are willing to write off decades of SAP ERP investment to start over just so that they can make calculations in columns. I mean, they've been managing so far, what's the problem ?

Honestly, if my company was big enough to need SAP and I had a working system, I'd hate to budget for an entirely new system just because of a new calculation method. I know IT is all about redoing stuff, but this is pushing things a bit far.

I hope there's some other advantage that justifies spending all that money all over again.

"extending the process to include American citizens was too risky"

But treating every tourist like a potential terrorist isn't ?

And why do they decide to do that when they just ask the NSA to warn them ? Come on, people, a bit of inter-agency cooperation isn't that hard, now is it ?

"the reason why some companies are behind on their patching"

There's a twofold reason for that : one is that companies, contrary to Microsoft, like it when their databases are accessible 24/7, thus any change is viewed with suspicion because, yes, Microsoft and others have a track record of patches breaking things. The other reason is that there aren't all that many companies that have a dev environment that mirrors the production environment exactly, thus patching the dev environment and testing is not always representative what will happen when the production environment is patched - meaning more suspicion and delays.

Because Microsoft still hasn't understood that patching your production database and then not being able to use it is something companies don't like. At all. And I just can't understand how Microsoft can write code that breaks its own effing tools. It's not like Microsoft doesn't have the ability to actually test its own stuff, but here we all are.

"We do not see any actual security implications,"

Well what if a security researcher does ?

Personally, if I have not activated location services, I expect my phone to not activate them on its own.

I am sick and tired of devices that do their own thing independently of what I actually told them to do.

Another reason for me not to buy Apple - not that I'm lacking any.

"a range of severe but plausible disruption scenarios"

Like, upgrading the software in a single stroke without using a staged deployment scheme ?

Is that one of the scenarios ?

I feel vindicated

Things are proceeding exactly as I have foreseen.

"ensuring there can be no repetition of the mistakes that were made."

Sorry, but there was no mistake there. This was a calculated and programmed operation with a specific target market, and the people responsible for putting this in place should definitely go to jail.

And the CEO should be first in line, because that's where the buck stops.

Our society is not going get better any time soon if we can't teach the right lesson to the criminals in white collars.

"Everybody I've spoken to is not going to go forward"

And Mexico is going to pay for the wall, and China will pay the tariffs.

Yeah, we know you, Donald. You live in a curious little world that will soon no longer affect us.