"It seems money markets are content"
Money markets are rarely unhappy with multinational behemoths that have billions at the bank.
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I have literally just come back from having lunch with one of my closest friends. He explained how he was happy to branch out into cybersecurity. He created a new company for that (he already has several that are functioning fine, so he has form in that), company which has secured partnerships with major anti-virus companies present in Europe. He told me how happy he was that this new creation already had about a quarter million euros in orders and upcoming sales.
The whole time I couldn't help thinking : my God what have you gotten yourself into ?
Sure, the money appears to be rolling in now, but what's going to happen to you six months down the line when Putin's dogs savage your clients' data through whatever means ?
I fear for him. Cybersecurity is a world of treason and backstabbing, and you never know where it'll come from.
“I think what is perhaps even more important, dare I say, than the device itself, is the software ecosystem that grows up in support of it”
No, really ? Ya think ?
Gosh. Somebody call Monkey Boy. The 80s has finally found someone who listened.
Agreed.
The cost of the least expensive element has doubled. So ?
You're going to be spending a lot more on all those people and machines who have to actually make it happen.
Sure, margins are going to be slightly tighter. The marketing guy might not get his full bonus. The client might find that there is a bit more to pay.
But it costs a hell of alot to more to dig a ten kilometer trench that it does to lay fiber at double the price of 3 bucks per kilometer.
Let's dial the hysteria down a bit, shall we ?
Yes, of course. Perfectly logical.
Because it is Oracle that is paying for the electricity that makes their clients' servers run, right ?
What ? No ? The clients have their servers hosted locally, or with a Cloud contract ?
So, basically, Oracle is just using an economic excuse to increase its revenues without any expenditure whatsoever ?
My, I would like to able to print money like that.
Well here's the choice :
1) You do not restrict copying technology. Tens of Youtube channels pop up to tell you how to perfectly copy a €50 bill. Thousands of miscreant idiots decide to give it a try, and tens of thousands of businesses are left out of pocket, plus tribunals are chock full of of the penny-pinching, freewheeling morons.
2) You control copying technology. Counterfeiters are forced to put a lot of work and not a small amount of technology into making plausible fakes, and then they are caught anyway after a while. One court case, problem solved.
I don't know about you, but I prefer option 2.
So, can we finally stop hearing about how The CloudTM will save you so much money ?
The CloudTM appears to be just as expensive, if not more, than hosting servers on your own.
If you want to do things right, that is. Otherwise, you're obviously free to do the bare minimum and then cry a river when everything goes down.
Because, at some point, it will.
A far cry from any Western conglomerate, who (especially in the USA) never admit to any wrongdoing.
DiDi has "accepted" the fine ? No kidding ! Its CEO doesn't want to find out the insides of a Chinese jail.
There are some aspects of Chinese justice that I would dearly like to see imported around here.
Moon dust is really abrasive, and gets everywhere.
We're going to have to find a solution for that if we want a base that isn't constantly exposed to outer space.
I would prefer : get your finger out and do the updates, then you can consider it done.
Management will wait until tomorrow to have its precious Jira timesheets if it means quashing some bugs that have been present since years. And of course they are present since years, because the bug was created in a piece of code that Atlassian has been re-using ever since.
Logical.
There is an even more increasing urgency to decarbonize energy production but, funnily enough, nobody is talking about that.
An EV or even a hydrogen vehicle is all very nice, to be sure, but if the electricity is generated in a coal plant, all you're doing is displacing the pollution, not eliminating it.
No it isn't.
At least, it's not the only way.
It is, however, become the way for people who can't be arsed to properly define the needs of the software and require multiple iterations to finally think : "yeah, that'll do".
The Apollo program wasn't built on agile.
I'm willing to bet that JWST wasn't built on agile.
Agile is just the excuse for the majority of people who can't plan properly.
Pride themselves ?
More like talk about it.
Over-engineering costs money. The CloudTM is about making money, not spending it.
And, as this episode has proven, they didn't over-engineer their cooling systems, they put in the bare minimum to ensure "normal" operations.
Well they're going to have to go back and over-engineer that part a bit, because I'll wager that next summer, they'll be seeing those temperatures again.
It's a GPS. What the hell does that have to do with how the vehicle functions ?
I don't care that it's a tracker, the only thing it needs is power from the battery. It has nothing to do on the CAN bus.
But of course, as in all the stupid things people do, they've linked it to the CAN bus.
Morons.
Crypto is not fine.
Exchanges are regularly folding and "clients" lose everything, while somebody makes off with the money.
The only way crypto will be fine is if it is handled by companies that have banking charters and the obligation to support the accounts of their clients - in which case, I ask : what's the point ?
Every country already has its currency that people use credit/debit cards/smartphones for without practically touching any coin (except the USA, but they obviously have a very shitty banking system, on top of their very shitty Internet network and their even more shitty telephone system).
Crypto is useless. Improve your banking system and the problem is solved.
"Not just restrictions but the almost-complete closure of access to foreign high-tech products is being deliberately, intentionally used against our country"
I wonder why.
Might it have something to do with the fact that you entertain Soviet-era fantasy about how your country is managed and what is going on in it ?
Maybe if you stopped murdering journalists who are just doing their job and face reality, things might start going for the better ?