Posts by Pascal Monett

"online child sexual abuse"

Yes, of course, obviously. You definitely need to mention online child sexual abuse if you want anything computer-related to pass into law.

"Cell Broadcast is not affected by traffic load"

After reading this article I was curious, I'd never heard about this technology before.

So I looked it up.

It is so reassuring to know that, when I'm desperately trying to call for help, my phone will be able to blare at me that I may be in trouble.

"bid to fend off cloud irrelevance"

I'm sorry ? Cloud irrelevance ?

Oh, you mean IMB's cloud irrelevance.

Okay, now I get it.

"a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter"

I don't want my laptop to be smaller.

I want my 17" screen.

I want 6 USB 3.0 ports.

I want a DVD/RW drive.

These requirements preclude you shrinking a laptop to the size of mobile phone.

Stop trying.

Vingroup, VinSmart

You'll excuse me if anything with the name "Smart" in it gives me a serious case of the hives.

I have no problem leaving that group to Vietnam. They can deal with it.

Don't get it

There are obviously many much more intelligent people than me that have worked on this (not difficult), but I fail to understand how something that has less connectors than a proper DDR5 RAM stick can be faster.

Can anyone enlighten me ?

"Northern Ireland Libraries can look forward to new corporate desktops and peripherals"

Why do they have to have renewed hardware ?

As far as libraries are concerned, any hardware since 2010 is good to go, just slap Windows 1 0 on the desktops, load the environment and the job is done.

You don't need a brand new 4Ghz CPU and 8GB of DDR5 to look for a book.

"you can't just stop the factory"

Um, in point of fact, if you are missing a critical component in your production process, I don't see that you have the choice.

Of course, you can likely make vehicles while you wait for tow bars, but when you make engines and you don't get the chips they need, you're gonna have to stop making them until you do.

This wonderful world of JIT production is going to have to get back to grips with the notion of stock (oops, a beancounter just fainted).

QC Monte Carlo

It's a startup. Another one. Another in a long line of startups that somebody promises will change the world. Magic Leap, anyone ?

I'll believe it if they've actually accomplished something in 5 years' time.

"The US DoD has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation"

I'm sure the FSB will help with gleeful abandon.

They might not give much feedback, though.

So AMD has $35bn to throw around

Good news. It would seem, however, that I'm going to have to revise my rating of AMD as "plucky underdog" and upgrade it to full-blown dog.

Even better news, actually. Intel is going to need to up its game.

Consumers will benefit.

China sent a team

It's impressive to think that climbing the Everest is a life goal for many people, and these guys just go up like janitors to string a barrier.

"What are you doing this week, honey ?"

"Oh, just gonna climb Everest again. Be back by Wednesday, dear. Bye !"

"a 28.8 per cent share of known UK government-themed phishing sites"

Methinks that NameCheap is going to be forced to clean up their act if they don't manage to do it on their own.

Now that they have been named and shamed by a government report, Kirkendall is not going to be bale to brush it off like an angry Twitter rant.

If you regularly host government scam sites, there's a good change the government is going to come and have a word with you.

So they've been delisted from the NYSE

They're still listed elsewhere, meaning that US investors can still buy shares if they absolutely want to.

Obviously, big holdings and such are going to want to set their records straight, but Joe Schmuck who bought 20 shares is not going to be bothered about all this.

"Sounds below 80Hz and above 90Hz have been turned down in volume"

Almost disappointed. I think I would prefer listening to the actual recording.

Don't misunderstand me, this was another awesome video, but I would like to hear what is really happening, not just what NASA wants me to hear.

The untouched audio is reality. This is great, but I prefer reality.

"run vaccine checks on the status of random people with no authentication"

Well thank goodness you're out of the EU now - that would have been a prime violation of GDPR.

But you've taken back control, so there's no problem, right ?

"3.6 million websites across 464,000 distinct domains... taken offline."

Yay for Single Point of Failure. Nice to know that the ol' buddy is still alive and kicking.

I think that, in the past few months, we've had largely enough demonstrations that UPSs should be quarantined far from actual servers.

In any case, whether you appreciate OVH's customers or not, I think OVH has done a fine job of openness and transparency on this issue. We are far from the usual "only a small number of customers have been impacted / we take customer data security very seriously / etc".

I'm hoping that OVH will publich a complete, official DR report with step-by-step instructions. As painful as this was for some, it is a priceless opportunity for all other datacenters to check against their own environment and start implementing mitigations now, before it's too late.

I think it's a great idea

To let rich people be the guinea pigs for a change.

As for me, even I had millions I'll still wait for the first hundred successful flights before I sign up to sit atop a gigantic fireworks that just might go boom quicker than expected.

"repeatedly and falsely claiming"

That just about sums up OHSG's entire presidency.