Posts by Pascal Monett

5 people lost $10 million ?

That's an average of $2 million per person.

A far cry from the excuse that poor people invest in crypto because they can't get a loan to invest in housing.

Also, you're on a dating platform and, instead of angling to get invited for dinner, the person you're talking to starts mentioning money and investments ?

And you fork over the cash without even meeting in person ?

Damn, stupid is always managing to set the bar lower.

"only about 15 percent of people use strong and unique passwords"

So that means that 85% of Internet users are ruining the experience for everyone else.

Well I'm sorry, but I'm part of the 15% and I'll be damned before I allow any website to have my biometric data for security.

Not until they either 1) prove that they cannot be hacked (yeah, right), or 2) tell me how I can change my fingerprints.

I don't get it

So, only off-the-shelf software and no additional development ?

I guess that means that Air Traffic Control software is shrinkwrapped now, and that accounting software is installed pre-configured to your needs. That's nice.

So, all you really need to do is get Office 365 licensed across all your PCs and you're good to go, right ?

Bollocks.

There isn't a company in the world that use Salesforce out of the box (let's not even think about SAP). There is no company using Excel that doesn't have at least half of its business-critical data lying around in Excel files of various complexity. All those files are regularly touched up to respond to changing business decisions - touched up by people who most likely have no training and learned on the spot how to use Excel formulas. If you're using a mainframe, you are developing/maintaining software every day.

Proposing a contract for software with zero development included just means that you're going to have to propose another contract for development, or beg the supplier to "help" you configure and tailor whatever software you bought to your needs.

And that'll likely cost more than if it came along with the procurement contract.

"Bitmanagement [..] disabled the copy protection software on BS Contact Geo"

And that was the beginning of the problem.

You bought X number of installs ? You get X number of licenses.

You want to install more ? Buy more licenses.

As much as I would love to rip on the US Navy on this occasion, it's more of a global administrative issue. Administration is very picky about what the peons that it controls do, very much less on what happens inside its own walls.

So don't go and give them any slack. They get what they pay for and no more.

Another brilliant demonstration of Borkzilla testing procedures

Oh, and "engineers were trying to resolve the problem".

How nice of them to worry after the fact.

Booz Allen

Booz.

Aptly named. Apparently, they have a rather drunken approach to operational data security.

Are those the same clowns who employed some guy who's Office version was hacked and not registered ?

Here's an idea, Booz : stop putting all your data into easily-accessible Excel files and use a real database with proper access controls.

Oh, sorry, silly me, that would mean work.

Just one question

The ACLU wants a warrant to be served for installing police cameras on utility poles.

My question : to who do they serve the warrant ?

When the police have a warrant to investigate a house or an appartment, they serve it to the occupant of said habitation. That's normal.

So, who gets to see that warrant when it's a utility pole ? The mayor ? The inhabitants 100 meters around the utility pole ?

"His sentencing is scheduled for December 7, 2022"

So, they'll both be behind bars for XMas.

Boo hoo.

Interesting video

Now, can we get back to the Good Ol' Days ^TM where you could replace the battery in your "smart"phone ?

"a CEO will be hired"

Good luck finding someone stupid enough to take the fall for you.

"The latest fix comes after a number of other problems were resolved this week"

Ah, Borkzilla.

Seven years into The Last Windows Ever and not only is it not the last, but you have four different versions of it running on customer PCs and they all have endless bugs to correct.

One might wonder if the Development department is not introducing new bugs just for job security.

"foster close and collaborative relationships"

Include Quake III Arena.

That'll get the adrenalin flowing, sharpen the reflexes and provide a good laugh for everyone involved.

Minesweeper ? Pah !

"Blockchain itself has not failed at the project"

No, of course not.

No one is authorized to criticize blockchain, the new darling of tech.

It's the implementation that screwed things up, obviously. Blockchain is flawless.

Except that it slows down transactions, can't manage concurrent access, needs to have endless workarounds implemented, etc, etc. In short, if they do insist on making it work, the code will be such a festering pile of crap that nobody will want to touch it with a bargepole.

$171 million blown on this failure, and a lot more work to come. I think it's time to bury this turkey.

A daft idea

There is no atmosphere in space, so no aircooling is feasible. The only way to get rid of heat is by radiating it away.

Out of date after 5 years ? That's the lucky scenario. It's much more feasible that there will be a heat meltdown before that.

Direct Access

Why is it that Borkzilla continuously strives to ensure that malware will have the best possible access to its platform ?

What's wrong with VMs ? They help ensure that any malware on the user side will not be able to attain the corporate side. It may not be perfect, but IMHO it's a hell of lot better than just plugging a user PC directly into the corporate network.

"I would never hide this"

But you did hide this.

So, what does that make you ?

A liar.

I don't do business with liars. It's hard enough with honest people.

"It’s hard to see SBF in a clear light"

Not really, no.

He's a con man, and he's now on the run.

Is that far enough ?

"TY15 will be located one kilometer from the TY6/TY7/TY8 IBX datacenters and approximately 1.5 kilometers from the TY2 IBX datacenter"

We're talking about Japan, hence earthquakes and tsunamis. I thought that the preferred distance between two datacenters was in the ballpark of 10 kilometers, not less than two.

At least they caught one

I hope the guy goes down for several decades.

"We all need to be more hardcore"

You're going to end up being hardcore with 12 employees.

Keep on making stupid decisions, then making stupid demands from whoever is left.

I'm sure your costs are going to go down sharply in the days to come - your payroll is going to go near weightless.

Of course, at that point it's going to be you running around trying to make everything work.

We're just here to cheer you to your doom.