Posts by Pascal Monett 16733 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Apr 2007
So Clearview cut itself off from Australia. I doubt it removed any images though, so it is likely still scraping images of Australian citizens.
In other words, it continues to do the very thing it has been told not to, but because USA, it doesn't give a flying one.
Well, if Clearview doesn't give a fig about other people's rights, it is time for the countries of the world to have a word with the White House and get things sorted out vie international agreements.
Sure, it'll take longer, but given the callous disregard of US Internet CEOs, I doubt there is a better solution.
Where did that come from ?
Loognson's declarations are obviously written with a government and party representative. Every declaration must contain some form of jab at The West, even if it is totally groundless.
And as for the "independant analysis" of the architecture, I'm sure it was made by a party member as well.
It would seem that China's version of Pravda is working up a sweat.
China wants the money, because money is what makes the world go 'round. All the bollocks about the party line falls flat when the need to spend is felt. And China needs to spend. On its military, its infrastructure and its economy.
China has been keeping to itself for a long time and now it sees just how far back it has fallen. It wants to catch up, and its people want to live a good life. Communist politics have been battered down to allow the "capitalist" economy to flourish, and China is seeing the positive effect on its economy.
That positive effect is what is going to ensure that China does indeed play by the rules. Oh, it will resist as much as possible, to be sure, but in the end, if you want in on a market, you accept the rules of the market.
Until you can change them.
Good question.
From my point of view, it's the fault of the law. There is no justification to let a person under liquidation procedure open another company, whatever that company may be.
One thing at a time.
First you handle the liquidation issue, then you start over.
Here, it is apparently allowed to open multiple companies although one of your existing ones is being scrutinized.
I think it would be good to put a stop to that, by mandating that anyone owning a company that is in liquidation cannot open new companies until the procedure is over.
. . their problem.
You log onto an open wifi, you accept that that connection is not under your control. If it disappears, well tough cookies.
I'm not blaming them for using an open access point, but they have nowhere to complain. Back in the day, though, this kind of thing usually meant people with PCs but no internet connection, and those kind of people could likely be quick to jump on an open access point rather than pay for their own connection.
We've all heard the tale of the guy who gets a knock on the door and opens it to find another tenant asking him for his wifi password.
$130 million is not an "incident".
What is unfortunate is your belief that not using an industry that has over 1000 years of experience is a good idea. Banking rules were not made up, they are the product of everything that has already gone wrong and they are the guarantee that errors will be few and far between.
Discarding that to reproduce the same mistakes and make new ones is not a good choice.
It's late in the evening and it's raining. The police lieutenant is still clutching his cold, unfinished stimfee, waiting for the coroner's decision. The blue lights wash over the wet facades of city buildings, and the once-human form lying on the ground. The body is dessicated and charred, the fifth one this week and it's only Wednesday.
The coroner gets up, tired as hell, and turns to the officer. "Yeah, he got a phone call. Bad luck when you're in line of sight of three relays."
The lieutenant nods. Well, at least the forms for this are standardized. That'll make the paperwork easier. "You know, " he says, " they're talking about making 23G use high-energy x-rays."
"Well that'll make my job easier for sure," answers the coroner. "There won't be any body to analyze"
"Right" chuckles the officer. "Okay, you can take him away. Let's get out of this rain."
Funny how governments around the world fall into the same trap of fouling things up then trying to cover up the mistakes.
Interesting (and reassuring) that the various justice systems appear to behave somewhat similarly when it comes to trusting government to investigate itself (well, in democracies at least).
I don't much like it myself, but you have to admit that, 200 years ago, 99% of the population were farmers. We automated that and now I'm guessing that 95% of the population are doing other things.
So automation is not a bad thing in itself, it's just the transition period for the people who have to find another set of skills that is difficult.
Hey buddy, you trusted Microsoft. It's your fault, really.
How many more times is it going to take for people to understand ? Borkzilla launches a new tool ? Fine. Wait 'till version 3 to check it out. Wait 'till version 5 to start developing on it. Check the initial promises, compare to realization. If at V5 it's at less than 75% of initial promises, you should know that it will never get there.
Then decide what to do with it, knowing that there's a better than 50% that it will be discontinued in the next ten years.
Either that, or it will be "replaced" with something else you can no longer avoid using.
Honestly, these days you're better off with Open Source.
So, caught between a rock and a hard place, are we ?
The NRA being one of, if not the most harmful "associations" that has ever been created, I am amused.
You take extraordinary measures ? And you're "very vigilant" ?
Pro tip : having armed guards next to your servers is not going to help.
I can therefor create a package called noblox.js.jackpotnow and nobody is going to bat an eyelid until somebody actually wonders why that exists.
Somehow that does not strike me as "anyone can contribute", so much as "anyone can fuck it up".
I've got a feeling that the ease-of-contribution culture is going to get a healthy dose of reality check in the coming years. It's not because it's open source that it has to be a free-for-all. I'm sure developers are going to welcome a bit of verification if it means that their code can be kept from the dregs of the Intarwubs.
After all, what's the real cost of having to sign in to a project before being able to contribute ? It's just a few emails and an identifier for your contributions.
Identifier that can be banned if you screw up, of course.
Yeah, well it might not be that simple.
When I read those words, I was thinking "Finally, investors are starting to take a step back from this cesspit".
Then I read the complaint : their only problem is that the stock value has dropped. Not a peep about anything Facebook is on the hook for.
Right, time to pick up my cynicism again . . . I know I left it around here. Can't be far off.
I love science-fiction, as I'm sure many people do. The idea that we can span the distances between stars inside of a human lifetime is tantalizing, to be sure, as is the idea that we can find other habitable planets that can support our specific life form.
Unfortunately, I'm pretty convinced that, even if we could do so, we'd just bring the same amount of lazyness and apathy to preserving the new planet as we have shown with the old.
So being stuck here right now is probably the best lesson we can get on the consequences of mismanaging planetary resources.
Again, Arizona. The driest state of the Union is where everyone is building in an industry that needs millions of gallons of water every day.
Is there some special virus in Arizona that systematically infects only semiconductor CEOs and bends their mind to choose Arizona, instead of, gosh, just about anywhere else that actually has water ?
I've been using watercooling for years. If done right, it does not leak.
I would also point out that there is a high likelyhood that your motherboard has its SATA IO chips watercooled.
As for me, I have abandoned the idea of air cooling completely. Watercooling is more efficient, and quieter, even with top-of-the-range CPUs and GPUs.
As iconic as the Shuttle was, and with all the services to Science it did render, the Shuttle was not economically viable.
Add to that a layer of management that pays more attention to the schedule and PR than to temperatures and engineering issues, and it is a very good thing that the Shuttle was shut down, because I am convinced that those bungling beancounters at the head of NASA would have caused another shocking failure in the following years.
And we don't need that memory.
I don't give a damn about how tiny its margins are if its profits are enormous.
If it has enormous profits, it has money to improve its moderation abilities.
And I don't care why Zuck is not taking action. The Law can make him take action.
Of course, for that we would need politicians that don't already have their heads halfway up his ass.
Stupid. Utterly stupid.
An office address is useful for being close to where you produce something. Even if it isn't tangible goods, space is an environment where there's nothing.
And it costs millions to get there. And it dangerous to human health to stay there too long. Plus, the walls of the station are paper-thin, they can be breached by a pebble of sand. And to take a shit you have to shove a tube up your ass. Not to mention the food is pre-chewed.
I very much doubt any CEO of any company is going to enjoy being in space for business purposes. Sure, fucking the secretary in zero-G won't get old soon (or will it ?), but the sheer fact is that, while he's up there, actual business is happening down here.
And let's not forget that blasting off from Earth is not 100% certain to get you into space. You can also be blasted to bits.
It is way too early for this kind of project.
Now, when we have a functional space elevator, or some other way of getting people into orbit with 99.999% reliability, then we can start looking into mining asteroids and yes, that will be a time to have an orbital business space.
But until then, get access to space secure first.
Recipe that apparently everyone is happily walking straight into, because then it's someone else's fault.
What should be done is have a build server, make sure your code works there, then port all the used code to the production server and LOCK IT DOWN. No more calls to outside libraries, everything is on-site and under control.
When the build server gets an update, CHECK THE UPDATE. Yes, AND ALL DEPENDANCIES.
It's called security. Nobody said it was easy.
The lowest pickings, the easiest targets.
Non-profits with a strong financial structure, strong internal controls and a meticulous verification of invoices are few and far between.
On top of that, as IT manager he was in an ideal position to know just what to do and how to present it to slip through the cracks.
Although he still got caught, so easy as the job was, he was still too stupid for it.
Many crooks succeed at first. It's the ones that don't get caught that are good.
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