Posts by Pascal Monett

"the United State in charge of software security standards"

Typical. The USA gets to tell everybody else how to do their job, then sits back and watches the minions scurry.

Why am I not surprised ?

The problem is convenience

Sure, it is very convenient to Sign in With FaceBook/Google/Microsoft.

On the other hand, security experts have been constantly repeating for years that you should not use the same passwords for all sites you sign up for.

How does that compute ? It doesn't. Where does that get us ? To this sort of problem.

I never sign up with any 3rd-party identifier. I manage my own passwords and I don't sign up to social platforms (well, Google signed me up for Hangouts when I got my Gmail account, but I'll be damned if I use it).

I'm glad they found solutions to correct the issue, but I still won't use those kinds of services.

Good luck hijacking my 24-character passwords.

NVidia has experience with liquid cooling

I have an RTX 3080 and, although you might say that it is air-cooled, there is still a bunch of liquid in there to get the heat from the GPU to the fans.

I wonder how that will work for the datacenter. For the moment, the A100 doesn't seem to be liquid cooled, but it sure is outrageously expensive.

"an opportunity to preempt this threat"

Here's another one : don't download anything to your production server before validating it on your test server.

Because you have a test server, right ?

RIGHT ?

"confrontational"

I'll bet he is. He doesn't want to roll over and let the northern lunatic take over the south.

I'd be pretty confrontational too, if I had a dangerous megalomaniac for a neighbor.

"declined to make public any [..] figures that would demonstrate their true performance level"

And why would China make figures public ?

Much better to keep everybody guessing.

"patches to fix patches seem to be becoming a little too common"

Okay, I'll be the first to admit that networking is not always easy, especially when you're a vendor with an uncountable number of variations to handle.

Still, I stand by the idea that having a Quality Control team to test and wean out the at least some of the problems would go a long way to make these out-of-band patches rarer than they are.

You still can't have your cake and eat it

"an internet platform cannot facilitate free speech for one demographic of its users while applying extensive political censorship against another demographic of its users"

Well, it seems that Borkzilla (et al) must make a choice : either it is for free speech, or it is for raking in the dough in oppressive dictatorships.

It's going to be interesting to see how this goes.

Great news

"A little more than half of the illicit proceeds, $15,111,453.84, has since been transferred from Swiss bank accounts to the US government"

So Uncle Sam gets a windfall, but the companies who paid for the non-existent ad views get what ? The satisfaction that that particular crew isn't scamming them any more ?

"while Microsoft plays with the concept"

Microsoft : playing with every single concept it can think of apart from making its OS streamlined, out of the way, functional and fast.

Wait a minute

"speed up bag tracking, enable preemptive rerouting based on weather conditions"

Isn't that stuff they're already doing now ? With computers ? What exactly is the improvement AA is expecting after having spect weeks, if not months, handing their current system over to the single-point-of-failure platform that is Azure ?

And when Azure is down, will that mean that pre-emptive routing will not work, or will AA keep the existing system as an emergency backup (yeah, as if that would happen) ?

BAYC

Oh, those images I can find in an instant on Google Images ?

And some people paid money for that ?

The depth of human stupidity knows no bounds - especially when they're full of money.

"living-off-the-land binaries"

Now that's new to me. What on Earth is that ? Notepad ?

What's the bandwidth on these things ?

A terabyte of data every minute is a rather tall order to transmit via WiFi, even with 5G. Also, 60TB of data is one heck of stack of hard disks to put in the trunk (or boot), and driving for one hour is not all that uncommon. What is the data retention policy ?

So how is the car linked to the Azure server, and what is being sent/received ?

Also, when the learning phase is over, what kit is going to be left in the cars ?

"wireless chips can no longer be trusted to be turned off after shutdown"

So it is true, the mafia types are right to put smartphones in lead boxes when they meet.

"not everyone is yet ready to return to the corporate altar"

No kidding.

The one good thing about COVID is that it has amply demonstrated that going to the office is not a requirement to being productive.

Oh sure, for the insecure managers who like counting heads, yes, having all your minions on hand must be very satisfying indeed, but unfortunately, your minions have worked off-site for almost two years and productivity has not gone down.

You're going to have to live with that fact now.

Beijing continues to crack down on complaints

And it will have to continue even more, because when people are not happy, they complain.

I would say : instead of cracking down on complaints, listen to them and mend your ways, but this is Beijing. Beijing does not mend its ways.

Office 365 Family is $100/year ?

Dear God, to think that LibreOffice is free.

"the only way out of the churn"

. . is to pay a decent wage, not treat your employees like shit and give them at least the impression that they are useful.

Giving them scraps and piling pressure on them is just how you push them away.

That is the problem with total oversight

Once you start forbidding some form of online expression, you start a game of whack-a-mole with all the derivatives.

Well Xi Ping, I'm happy that you give plenty of work for your endless pool of administrative busybodies to continue making the lives of Chinese citizens worse.

Way to go.

By the way, you will not suppress dissatisfaction by governmental decree. It will grow and, some day, it will come to bite you in the ass. If you were intelligent, you would let the people vent and listen to what they are venting about. It would give you pointers on what you need to improve.

You cannot dictate how people feel, and there's more of them than there is of you.

"181.1 petabytes in 2020"

And, during lockdown, that exploded into what ? 300 petabytes ?

"discussions are under way with §0 parties"

So, after all the drama of the previous weeks, suddenly there is a plethora of companies crawling out of the woodwork to buy Toshiba ?

"75 percent of data will be created at the edge"

Which translates to : 75% of malware attacks will happen at the edge.

I hope they're baking security in from the start, because otherwise this will be a major shitstorm.