Posts by Pascal Monett

One must admit that China is not your average country, is not chatty about what it does and, contrary to the average teenager, does not feel the need to post everything it does to FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram etc.

So we are just now learning that China got its hands on the Space Shuttle design, has been working on recreating it, and has now successfully launched and recovered one of its prototypes.

Wow.

I wonder if they've solved the problems with the protective tiles ?

Absolutely correct. And I would wish to add that, if Apple demands that employees clock out before searches, then legally those employees have every right to walk away because they are no longer under Apple control.

You can't have your cake and eat it. If you let your employees clock out, they are gone and you have no right to keep them there for anything.

Re: So...

It's far worse than that.

"The project failure left the SPPA "unable to progress strategic, business and workforce plans as originally intended" and it therefore required an additional revenue budget of £9.8m between 2019/20 and 2022/23, as well as capital allocations of £13.6m "

So it's 6.3 + 2.4 + 9.8 + 13.6 for a grand total of £32.1 million. And Capital paid back £0.7m.

So yeah, get project, fail to deliver, profit from not having to pay back more than a tenth of what it got and impose four times the amount in cost to the organization that was foolish enough to trust it.

One of these days, the British Isles are going to get the message. One of these days.

Any time now, just you wait and see.

Re: Good

I don't get it ; what exactly are we taking from Google and Amazon ?

In one case, we're being tracked, in the other, we pay for what we order.

I don't see that we're taking anything from them.

Re: Mouth-watering specifications and possibilities

It's not just the PlaySkool interface, it's the ads for "apps", the principle of pushing you to the Store and just the overall feeling that MY computer no longer belongs to me.

But, since I am an avid gamer, and since that card really calls to me, it seems that I will fall to the Dark Side before long.

<sigh>

Re: UK IS testing app based upon the Google & Apple system...

So I was right. Initially, UK Gov refused to use the Googapple solution.

It's just that, as every UK Gov IT project ever, they fouled up badly and now are forced to make do.

Re: Double check everything

As far as being aware of what you're watching, I completely agree that the questions you ask are good questions and worth it to ensure that you're not being had by a staged video. However, it is obvious that Borkzilla's Video Authenticator will not detect those videos, because they are, technically, real. Only human analysis can detect the fakeness there.

But I disagree when you state that racists militia is crossing state borders on purpose because Trump can pardon them. That Trump will still be there to pardon them when their case comes to court is not guaranteed. On the other hand, they're obviously stupid enough to go and kill people just because they are not of the same color, so maybe they can't actually think that far ahead.

Ugh. The United States is now officially a shithole country.

Um, honestly, I do think that this is not a situation that is restricted to Korea.

Take any multinational behemoth and I dare you to find one that has not had the possibility of bending the law in its favor.

What Borkzilla really needs is to understand is that the UI and the OS are two different things.

Linux got that right, why can't Borkzilla ?

Oh, right, legacy.

Growth is a Wall Street mandate. If you do not grow, you stagnate and die. That is the Capitalist bible.

That is also why marketing people are always changing company. They go into a new company with a target they can meet, work to attain and exceed it to get valuable bonuses, then are saddled with a bigger target year after year.

Inevitably, there comes a point when they can't meet the target. Then they change company and the cycle starts over.

I will root for anyone who goes after cybercrime. Frankly, as far as the law is concerned the Internet is the Wild West, anything goes.

And that goes for multinational behemoths as well, who impose their views in the structures that are supposed to manage how we access and use the Internet.

I really would like a proper legal structure imposed everywhere that protects privacy and enforces fairness, but that is a pipe dream.

However, making the USA respect international treaties and extradition requests is not a pipe dream. It's just unfeasible at this point in time.

Re: Missing tools?

The article states that it has everything it needs to run a container.

That sounds like a pretty good idea to me, and demonstrates brilliantly just how adaptable Linux can be.

You'd be hard pressed to get Borkzilla make a Windows 1 0 For Containers version that wasn't actually just Windows 1 0 renamed.

It's true that it is rather difficult to pretend to the moral high ground after having spent the entire second half of the 20th century selling weapons and ammo to any country that had a revolutionary movement, often to both sides at a time.

And, as for not wanting Trump to win the upcoming elections, I hardly think China is the only country with that disposition.

In any case, I fully support that stance.

More like they're continuing to screw themselves. If they still need SHA-1 since it has been deprecated, it means that they've done diddly-squat to solve the problem and migrate to something more secure.

Once again, business-critical applications whose original vendor has long bitten the bullet are still lurking about, preventing any change because of the prohibitive cost in replacing them by something more secure.

Of course, companies in this situation could just physically isolate the affected machines from the Internet, but if they're already doing that and there are no other machines accessing the outdated security components, then the Edge/SHA-1 issue already doesn't impact them, so where's the problem ?

I thought that was akin to religious practice in IT circles.

Obviously, religion has not been passed on to the new generation.

So, be Agile Monday through Thursday, but be wary on Fridays. Always.

Beware

Don't forget that there are people, apparently a majority of whom are women, who take a lost pound as never being enough and force themselves to lose more even though they are more than thin enough and could actually benefit from taking a pound or ten.

Anorexia is no laughing matter.