Posts by Pascal Monett 16755 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
I find the whole selfie thing revolting.
Pictures are to record the special things you've seen, to remember them later. If you're in the middle, you're taking up space uselessly. Of course you were there, you took the pic. You don't need to be in it to remember.
But you do need to be in it to show off. I hate that.
I wouldn't worry. If you've made negative comments about a French company, you can be sure that there are many, many of my countrymen who have made even worse comments.
It's in our nature to complain. When it's hot, it's always too hot. When it's cold, it's not hot anymore. When there's sunshine, we'd like rain. When it's raining, we're fed up with rain.
It's called being Gaulois. It's the reason why no invader will ever stay - we'll drive them nuts because we drive ourselves nuts already. Vive la France !
Space is decidedly awesome. Last year that rubber ducky-shaped asteroid we put a lander on actually demonstrated landslides, now we have an asteroid that ejects solid matter without a volcano.
Explaining that is going to take some serious genius. I can't wait for the result.
Yes, I'm sure the NSA and hackers all over the world are in total agreement with that statement.
You are out of you mind if you honestly think that I am going to trust my entire desktop and all my data to someone else's computer, to be accessed under someone else's whim. I have a PC, a Personal computer, and I intend it to stay that way.
As much as I complain, like everyone else, about Microsoft products, I disagree with that sentence. Most software companies actually have product when they declare that they are selling it. Sure, said product will have patches and upgrades, but there is something working.
Oracle is apparently guilty of selling a non-existent product to customers, and tasking this guy to keep said customers patient while it was being developed. That is not at all the same thing.
In any case, it would seem that Oracle should partner up with Escobar Inc. They are obviously made to match.
I am comforted in my opinion that anything related to this company is to be avoided at all costs. It is astounding that such a family of criminals can openly deal on the international market without any backlash.
Escobar can keep its trash, I'm not going to help them launder a single cent of ill-gotten gains.
The article does not mention that the malware sample was found on VirusTotal. That means that somebody has scanned it, which has to mean that those Norks leaked it out.
However, the article states that the control server is not handing out the payload, which prevents the malware from doing anything at this point in time.
So that begs the question : has this malware actually been installed and then the Norks shut down the service because they were only interested in one target ? Or are they still in the ramping up stage and want everything to be perfect for when they do unleash the malware ?
Which still does not explain the sample on VirusTotal.
But can they detect where the disturbance is, meaning how far down the cable ?
To me, this reads like a boolean result : the laser signal is disturbed, or it isn't. There is not enough description in the article to tell me whether the boffins knew where those 6000 perturbations were. On the other hand, they knew they had 6000 perturbations, so they must have some way of counting.
I'd like to know.
Um, sorry pal, but in case you haven't got the email, the Internet has escaped USA borders and most of its users now are not actually American citizens.
Not really. Tracking is part of the Internet because the law was ignorant of the issue and the greedy ones saw an opportunity and, like cockroaches, infested the place. Now the law can be made to say that tracking is illegal and any company that is caught tracking gets its yearly revenue (before tax) as a fine.
Well, it could be made to say that, in countries where companies do not write the law.
Yes, I like sledgehammers. How did you notice ?
Yeah. Let's see just how long Apple takes before deciding that it actually can tolerate that kind of risk.
After all, it's not about morals, it's just about how much Apple will lose if it doesn't comply.
Ah, the beauty of Capitalism.
Sorry Apple, but if you think for one second that I believe you give a flying shit about morals, I have a bridge to sell you.
Nope.
Never gonna happen.
A desktop is plugged into the mains, a phone has a battery that has a finite - and very limited - duration.
Even if you plug the phone into a charger, it is designed for a heat envelope that is orders of magnitude less than what a true desktop - with watercooling these days - is designed for.
So go on and say that your new design is the highest performer, sure, but a desktop it ain't and never will be.
Careful.
Second-generation immigrants are born in the country and raised in the country and are just as much a citizen as you are (*). A name does not imply that the person is not from your country.
* - not saying that 1st-generation immigrants aren't, obviously, as long as they've been officially accepted through the immigration process.
Apparently, they have amounted to an additional cost of $500 to $1700 per year per US household.
I'm sure US households will have no problem dealing with that additional charge.
Stop trying to transform basic IoT crap into a great idea that unfortunately failed.
It was a bunch of lights. What the hell did they have to develop a proprietary protocol for, and why the hell did they have to tie that into a remote server ? Because they did what all the rest do : try to control everything.
Kudos on having understood that they had no chance unless the product could be used on existing sockets, but the failure was inevitable since they tied their product to the survival of the server.
You can invent all the manufacturing excuses you want, if they had started by making a lightbulb that didn't need a remote server to work, they might have made something actually useful and they might have survived.
No pity here.
Excuse me, but if that were actually true, GitHub would not have let itself be borged by Microsoft.
Ergo, that is a lie.
Personally, I do not understand what made them accept being bought. Microsoft did not need to buy them in order to use the platform, and Microsoft does not need another paltry few million to pad its already well-padded coffers.
Of course, being showered with billions was most probably a very nice incentive, but if you're all about independence and neutrality, then you stay the course and remain independent. GitHub was not in need of money, so it's just basic greed that made them sell out.
Agreed. Someone who knowingly buys counterfeit luxury goods is not someone who would buy the original luxury goods. They don't want to pay the price, so it is not a lost sale.
And, I would argue, someone buying a luxury item at a vastly reduced price knows exactly what they are buying.
It's only the person who is willing to pay full price, but gets nabbed by a counterfeit at, say 30% off, who is being harmed and the sale lost for the original company.
I wonder how often that actually happens ?
Anything on a phone could conceivably be used for intelligence. That is not news, it is not even a warning, it's just a fact.
Come back with an actual, proven risk that that app is under orders from Moscow and then you'll have something interesting to say.
Oh, I forgot, TLAs these days have no proof of nothing, they're just bleating FUD to keep the peons in line.
But, first you said there was no problem. So all of sudden there was one and it's dealt with ? After you ignored an initial warning ? Isn't that convenient.
The worst thing about this is that it is something that affects you whether or not you have the app, since it is other people who get to see your details. So, saying "well I'm not going to download that app" is not a solution.
That is bad. I do hope that it has been effectively dealt with.
Yeah, my first accelerator card was an m3D as well, back in the day. Wasn't too impressed with it after the first few minutes.
Then I got a VooDoo 2 and never looked back.
Still, it's good to know that they've been improving. This new gen is no m3D, that's for sure, but it won't be beating the RTX 2080 any time soon.
It has obviously been meticulously planned, and its success is due to the good ol' buddy network.
Now they're going to cash in, pretending all the while that they are innocent of all wrongdoing.
And, since this is the age where nobody pays attention to acts but only to words, they're likely to get away with it entirely.
Where are those pesky kids when you need them ?
"the other contestant revealed that she had paid someone to win the contest for her, and was suing the station both for the tickets and to recover costs for her cheating"
So we have a woman who wanted the tickets, but didn't have anything much to get her to win. Except her body, which she apparently had no trouble flaunting. So she - correctly - estimated that she would get attention with a lewd pic, but that was not enough, she wanted to guarantee a win. So payment to some guy for help.
She had the gumption to go through with this plan, but when it failed she didn't have the intelligence to think it through and went into a lawsuit guns blazing, but neurons not firing.
I wonder if her pic was part of the evidence ? I'm sure the judge would have considered it carefully.
I have enough time-wasters and not enough time as it is. Blimey, it does sound appealing though.
I'm pretty sure that my rig is up to giving a good experience, but my 980 Ti Lightning is no longer top of the heap, that's for sure. Looks like I'm going to be saving up for an upgrade next year.
If I may, 3 seconds is largely enough since the time between you press the button , take your seat, grab your coffee and get your mouse ready is going to be at least 3 seconds. And that does not take into account putting your glasses on.
Come on, anything less than 5 seconds is perfectly functional. Of course, I have a Windows history of needing to wait for more than a minute with Windows 95, to several minutes in a Vista corporate environment, so I've probably been beaten into submission on that point, I'll give you that.
Just remember one thing : better is the enemy of good. Don't go ruining something just because you want to shave another second off your boot time. Most people boot their computers once a day, if that, so saving one second is not really a heavy priority.
Then again, saving 33% can be viewed as a priority I guess, but that's just how percentages can screw you.
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