Posts by Potemkine!

"we've regularly made enhancements to our industry-leading benefits as a part of the overall support we provide to our valued team members."

iPocrits.

About this topic, I would suggest to read the last column of Mr. Dabbs: Artificial unintelligence rides off into the sunset with all our jobs

US, The Land of the Free*

_{* exceptions may apply, for instance if you are a woman}

Evicting staff is in marked contrast to US tech employers, typically pay laid-off staff several months severance and offer outplacement services to find them new gigs. Where's the workers' paradise now?

Is it a standard behaviour for US companies to offer flats to employees after 5 years of work?

According to 'Asia Times', YTMC being blacklisted by the US is less a question of security than a way to slash competition

When I see that ITER cost is projected to be from €18 to €22 billion and probably higher, I wonder if the UK government is ready to invest that much by itself.

Candid question: If merging NHS Digital with NHS England will bring "the NHS' national data and technology expertise into one organisation, creating a closer link between the collection and analysis of data to help drive improvement to patient outcomes", why was NHS Digital created in the first place?

As an outsider, the requirement looks like being made to favour one competitor over the other ones.

Global spending on the stuff is at $190 billion a year

Sounds huge, but how much is spent on IT worldwide? What do $190 billion represent compared to the whole of IT spending?

Some evaluate that the correct proportion should be 5%, are we near or far of that value?

Talking about trust: trust no one.

One could think the Mollahs had the hands full crushing children and women in their own country, but no, they have still time to try to harass the people criticizing their Supreme Leader

According to prosecutors, while exfiltrating data from Ubiquiti's GitHub repos, his home IP address was revealed following a brief internet outage.

Yeah, right.

Or SurfShark provided the info.

I hope Wikipedia would reject such modification if their only justification is bigotry. If it doesn't, expect all the pages related to events occurring before October 23, 4004 BC to be deleted.

In France, the Senate hasn't the last word. The National Assembly does, and can rewrite any line put by Senators into the law.

Our Senate is a congregation of old notables put there to have a nice and long pre-retirement period with plenty of advantages at the cost of the taxpayers. Its only utility is to put a hold on laws for some times, it cannot do more. Senators are not elected directly by the people, ensuring an over representation of the Right. In the last 65 years, the Right had the majority for 62 years. If we could get rid of it, it could be a nice save. However, senators will never scuttle themselves.

About video-surveillance, I'm confident in the role the French Regulator (CNIL) can play. They are independent and with sharp teeth. Even megacorps fear them. If there's a risk about data, CNIL will tell.

No opt-out

Make opt-in mandatory instead, with companies having to prove the user really opted in.

Once again, workers pay the burden, shareholders are preserved

At least this time those impacted are those with the biggest salaries, not the ones pushing the minecarts.

I'm all in favor of getting rid of coal, which is probably the dirtiest way to produce electricity.

However, can we compare a power plant with renewables sources, when the latter ones are intermittent? To get the same functionality, there's a need of energy storage, either through batteries, mechanical storage (water pumped to some height then released through an alternator for instance...).

Note to Kaspersky: if you don't move your HQ from Russia before the end of the year, you will loose some customers, and one for sure.

First, let's not forget that "the charges contained in the indictment are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law."

Next, Too many times kids or young adults don't realize what can happen to them IRL. It seemed so easy to them to play nefarious games, they thought they were safe and even they were caught, they never imagined they could spend a very long time if not their whole life in the hell of a US prison.

Maximum publicity should be made around this case, so the next ones think twice before playing the black hat.

Dumbness is Smartness

This is the new mantra.

The latest word on the subject comes from Stephan van Rooij, a software architect with Smartersoft BV in the Netherlands and a Microsoft MVP in security [...] The Register asked the US spokesperson for Sweden-based Electrolux to comment.

Maybe El Reg should try the EU counterpart.

By anticipating a crisis those companies are creating one for sure.

A company firing people when making a lot of profit should be overtaxed. It would give them an incentive to be a little bit more respectful of their wage slaves.

Does that work in a foggy weather?

€11 million for in the end a report made by ChatGPT. Isn't life beautiful?

Good.

Everyone must help Ukraine to defend itself against Putin Khuylo's aggression.

If every company belonging to a country which is on Ukraine's side would stop to make business with Russia, it would be welcome too.

During the last 5 years, Intel's dividends increased by around 33% (inflation was around 21% in the US for the same period) . Here goes Intel's money. Shareholders are cajoled, workers are despised.

As China's GDP is rising, companies are following the path of the "poorer one" to maximize their profit. There must be a Law of Acquisition to describe this.

I guess those MS execs didn't fly to Switzerland by Ryan Air, did they? I would also bet they didn't book the cheapest hotel.

Cost reduction isn't for the C-suite, when wage salves are expendables.

A profit of $17,135,000,000 only in a quarter? Yeah, it's a good reason to fire people.

And firing people will boost the economy. Wait...