Posts by Pascal Monett 16737 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
Given that these virtual currencies are all based on some sort of calculation time, any mention of real-world investment securing the value of said coins is obviously bullshit, and a great big red flag to anyone with half a brain.
This guy is obviously a smooth talker. I don't think he'll stop when he gets out - he'll just invent another scam.
As this is a financial risk, there's a good chance that patches will be applied.
Because, as we all know, if personally identifiable information was at risk, nothing would happen until a break-in and GDPR got in on the act.
But remember : the security of your information is their number one concern !
The other problem is that TSB didn't go live by stages, but all at once. Has TSB decided to go live on a subset of customers, it would have had the possibility of seeing the storm that was brewing and scale back and correct the issues before the whole thing blew up in their faces.
In any case, they certainly got a big bang, just not the one they were hoping for.
Oh, and a note to all high-level managers : let this be a lesson to you. Never believe someone who tells you that there will be no migration issues to worry about and we can do it all in one go.
It never happens like that.
That is not the kind of talent you can ignore, and leaving is very clear sign that MagicLeap is foundering, badly.
Abovitz can emit all the altered-reality mails he wishes, Reality (TM) is not going to be ignored.
He's going to sink with his ship shouting that a miracle is going to happen right up to the minute the water drowns his voice out.
Bold words, especially since a US judge can want access to said data wherever it is in the world.
Not only that, but now Microsoft is committing itself to guaranteeing that the data will remain available to the customer and never be either lost or corrupted. I wonder how that is going to play out.
I read that to mean they have subdued or detained 80% of the protesters.
And to those who are surprised about riots over 13 cents per liter gas prices, you forget that they don't have the same quality of life that you enjoy. This article from the World Bank paints a picture that is not all rosy. Unemployment is up, reaching an average of over 12% (more than 28% for the young). Poverty levels are rising up again, even though the bottom 40% of the population has seen an improvement due to international aid. With the sanctions, this is once again getting worse. Inflation is set to reach 30% in the coming years. Thirty percent.
Look at your salary and image it being worth only two-thirds of that next year and tell me that you'd feel perfectly fine with a 50% price hike for fuel.
I don't think so.
Because, as written in the article, DNS over TLS leaves the ISPs with the power to view your destination, whereas DNS over HTTPS removes that ability since it is encrypted end-to-end.
Obviously, ISPs prefer DNS over TLS because apparently there isn't a single organization out there that doesn't want to track your activity.
Speakers definitely shouldn't need software.
I have the same speakers for my home audio since 1996. They just work, and that's what is supposed to happen.
Personally, if any salesperson tries to sell me a speaker of any type that requires an Internet connection I'll just respond "are you actually shitting me ?" and leave.
DDoS is practically only used by pathetic losers who, not being able to handle real life, use that to "get back" at someone or something for a trivial issue they deem way too important to let pass.
Curiously enough, there was a time when we heard about DDoS blackmail, as in pay up or I take your site down, but it's been a while since I've heard that being used. Has it fallen out of fashion, or have encryption blackmail schemes taken over as goût-du-jour for the miscreants ?
But DDoS as a form of civil protest will never fly. If you want to protest against a governmental organization, you will have to DDoS a government web site and I think that is already a federal crime.
In a perfect world, maybe, just maybe, Intel has a count of downloads per file and date of latest download.
Just for a minute, let's imagine that the last download date of said BIOS files was, oh, November 12, 2003.
Maybe, just maybe, sixteen years wait time for no new activity is enough to consider that Pentium II BIOS downloads are not really something worth hanging on to ?
Of course, all of this depends on what the last download date actually was, and if Intel is actually tracking that.
That being said, there is one problem : Pentium II motherboards are still on sale at Ebay - if not elsewhere. I hope they have the latest BIOS version.
Apparently the terrorist angle has been worn out, so let's rile up the mothers and make Yet Another Push for backdooring encryption - despite every single FACT that has been laid down against it.
While you're at it, legislate Pi to be equal to 3.14, makes things simpler, right ? No need to bother with pesky rules of mathematics, lawmakers never understood those anyway.
Personally, when I attend an important meeting - whether or not notes are allowed, when I get back to my desk, I will record somewhere the most important points as I remember them.
Because, days or weeks later, there will always be someone to say "yeah, that was decided at that meeting" and, unless you have a record, you cannot disprove it.
Okay, a lot of things happened to muddy the waters, but I retain one thing from all this : nobody did an end-to-end test and validated the results.
Was it really necessary to have an email generated for a separate database ? When it was found that that confused the system and ended in spam, I would have tried to find another way of doing things.
Also, no monitoring of the applications' activity took place. The system went live and everyone was certain that it was working. Nobody made any sort of checks until months later, when the results were below expectations. Jon is not the only person responsible for losing two and a half million subscriptions - every manager implicated in the application was guilty of just assuming it worked without checking everything thoroughly for its first month of production.
If someone had checked the mail status regularly, they would have noticed the amount of incoming mail from server logs and the amount of actual subscriptions, and that would have revealed the issue well before losing even a hundred thousand subscriptions.
Wow. Maybe somebody is actually remembering something about the past and doesn't want a repeat - that'll be a first for HP.
Apart from that, it's management as usual. Kudos for having erased a layer of management, that's new, but 9000 layoffs to "save costs" ? Looks like not everything is changed at HP after all.
that security, in 5G, is software-defined.
Meaning wrote by humans. Humans don't have a great track record in writing secure software, otherwise there wouldn't be so many AV companies, data recovery companies and security consulting services, all of which fall prey at some point to the very threats they promise to protect you against.
5G may work, but when it goes wrong it will go very wrong, and there will be much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair.
Why ? There are other browsers. If Chrome starts shitting on your front lawn, throw it out and use something else.
After testing its suitability, of course.
With all the bullshit major corporations are pulling (looking at you as well, Microsoft), I foresee a future where it will be legally mandatory to ensure that existing production versions never change without full disclosure of what changes and what the impact might be, and failure to disclose or make updates optional is passable of fines up to and including, say, 4% of global, worldwide revenue before taxes.
Nothing like hitting them in the wallet to get the shareholders' attention.
First and foremost, it was the most awesome thing Mankind has ever done.
Second, it birthed many of the technologies we use daily today. You ever had a cordless drill ? You can thank the space race for that.
Actually, I have no need to say more, just go here, and here and here, and read about all the stuff you wouldn't have if NASA had not gone to the Moon.
On one hand, I understand that he wants to keep this under the radar. He wants to get rid of the page and doesn't want anyone to know who he is and what page he wants to kill.
On the other hand, it is kind of obvious that, if you don't tell the judges who you are and what you want deleted, it will be kind of hard for the judges to decide whether or not the request is justified.
So ABC really is in a corner of his own painting.
Given the competence of UK Government in managing IT projects, it will be dream job to nationalize and properly manage a country-wide phone/data network, along with the international connections that go with it. Oh yeah, sure. And that will not at all allow you to implement half-backed Age Verification schemes without asking anyone's opinion, no, no, of course not. Nor will that allow you to "filter" certain sites without having to mention it to anyone either, right ?
Free broadband for everyone ? I give it six months before nobody has anything better than 3G anywhere.
There's not enough popcorn for that shitfest.
Indeed it is not. But if you have an office full of a dozen consultants that are there every working day of the month for a "project" that is planned over two years (a scenario I have seen repeatedly where Sharepoint is concerned), then I think you're going about the hiring process in the wrong way.
In France or Luxembourg, I would publish a time-limited contract for one year, renewable twice, and advertise the job to be done. That is perfectly legal and, when the project ends after it is finished in the allotted time (yeah, I'm dreaming, but humor me), the participants go away and leave copious documentation for those in charge of maintaining the beast (again, humor me).
There is apparently this thing that business has with the size of the salary line in the budget sheet - they like to have that minimized, for some unfathomable reason. So they don't hire, but take on consultants because those guys go under operating costs, or some other bull like that.
I will never understand the reasoning behind that. I would prefer having the talent in the company, ensuring that, when things go wrong, I have the people who know how things work on-site and ready to intervene, and that in the long term.
I'm obviously not modern CEO material
On my mobile phone and my desktop.
On the phone, I absolutely love it. Chrome can go take a hike. Pages load almost instantly, and I no longer see the clutter around and in between what it is I actually came to read.
On the desktop, I curiously continue using Firefox, although I am telling everyone else to use Brave. My wife adopted it immediately, because of all the hassle ads are on the shopping sites she goes to. Isn't that ironic ? Ads on a shopping site. You'd think they'd be more interested in providing a clean experience to make a user happy and get more repeat visits, therefor selling more. Oh well.
Where his own finances are concerned, that is. Everything I have read about him tells me he is also a major pain in the behind.
So Icahn is behind this merger. Well now things are taking shape : Icahn wants it because he thinks he will be able to benefit from it. The number of layoffs that this merger would generate is none of his concern. So he will push and maneuver, then bother everyone to hell, then rant and rave until he gets what he wants.
I almost feel sorry for the boards of HP and Xerox. Almost.
I find it fascinating to see how some people can create a dedicated team around an idea, raise serious money, and yet fail to bring the awesome idea into existence. Oh sure, Magic Leap has a belt thingy and a goggle thingy, but it utterly failed to make it interesting, and certainly not as interesting as the hype machine it pushed on everyone.
Kind of like the Segway, with the exception that the Segway cannot be faulted for what it does, simply for what we were brought to think it would do. Hype can be a dangerous thing.
Now Magic Leap is gasping for breath, and if I were a VC, I would really be thinking very hard why give money to a company that ate through over $2bn and has a dud to show for it.
JP Morgan is going to get ownership of the patents. What on Earth are they going to do with that ? License to Nreal I guess, and rake in the other license fees that already exist. I wonder what is going to come out of those patents, since what exists now doesn't exactly rock the world.
Good to see that some people are taking care to get all the information before making a decision.
Elizabeth Denham should resign. Her job is not to protect companies and, unlike Ajit Pai, she is not working in the US. She should be ashamed of having expressed her authority in a matter where she had not seen all of the available information.
For an Information Commissioner, she acted in a singularly uninformed manner.
No, I haven't. Ever. The fact that I don't use Outlook might have helped, from the look of things, but first and foremost I actually pay attention when I reply to or write an email.
There's also the fact that never use Reply To All - my ego is not of sufficient size to believe that everyone is interested in my response.
Maybe, some time in the future after my brain aneurysm I might, but up to now my record is spotless on that account.
I do believe that the Tesla is actually better suited to European travel distances. Here in 30km, you can actually reach another major city. In the US, you've barely exited the suburbs of the city you're in.
I see a few Teslas going to and from work. Not saying they're popular, but there are quite a few around.
Yeah, but it was also fucking awesome and it could lift 140 metric tons into orbit.
Today's best lifter would apparently be the Falcon Heavy with up to 50 tons (taking into account only those rockets that have actually lifted something into orbit).
There are a number of rockets promising to approach the venerable Saturn V's record, but none of them exist anywhere except on paper yet, so we'll just have to wait and see.
"Our people need to be clear about their career path at DXC"
Oh, the path was quite clear before : the exit was right there. It's going to be one hell of a job to regain employee trust and demonstrate that management has indeed changed, if that is the case. Still, at least the are words about employee retention, that's a first change.
If this Salvino guy does turn DXC around, in mentality and not just profits, then I might well consider myself impressed.
Because he's starting pretty far down, one must admit.
That is likely the responsible answer. If the user is legitimate, then it is indeed up to the user to correct any profile mistakes.
Unfortunately, that means that you are subject to the whims of a nitwit that couldn't enter his own phone number properly.
Well, they do specify that the tool was made by Kaspersky Labs.
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