It is obvious that deploying AI has nothing to do with deploying robots in factories. This is just a software deployment !
The previous automation revolution, ie robots in factories at least required robots be built. The AI revolution only requires someone at Google or Amazon to push the deployment button and could wipe by this single action loads of jobs.
As such is unlikely we can consider the AI revolution as something that will replace old jobs with new jobs, It will simply destroy them. End of story. A very small team of engineers and data scientists could actually wipe a whole type of job... worldwide.
As a CS engineer, I would never recommend any of my teacher friends to attend a brainwash from the GAFAMs in order to help them format the students for the industry.
If the GAFAMs really want to help education, they may start by paying their taxes.
So Microsoft will help to secure ? Ah ah ah.
I would prefer to ban all proprietary software from any public organization... Or continue to pay Microsoft consultancy to fix Microsoft bugs.
:+1 I would really like to see this pseudo-social networks madness to end but I'm not really optimistic.
You want to share things ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. You want to petition ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. You want to organize events ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. Actually there are privacy friendly alternatives for everything (I say alternatives but most of the times the pseudo-social networks didn't invent anything, and the so-called alternatives are the original...).
Only the infinite laziness of the users lead to the existence of monstrosities like FB. The worse being when governments or NGOs start using it for their own communication, pushing the citizens into thinking that giving up on any kind of privacy is something normal...
The fundamental issue with biometrics is that people tend to think they represent a kind of security token (an idea actually pushed by greedy companies whose only goal is to sell you more of their useless stuff under the umbrella of "innovation").
It is clearly not ! This is simply an easier/convenient way to identify yourself, the equivalent of your good old login name. Full stop. any attempt to use biometrics beyond this point is just utterly stupid.
This is the exact reason why containers exist !
When dealing with installing software somewhere you have many ways to install it, from building from the sources to running a full blown VM.
The "standard" way being installing from a package made for your distro (or from marketplaces on proprietary OSes). When it comes to server software, the preference is now the container which abstracts a lot of the hassles leaving basically nothing but the port management to the admin. This is very convenient, and easy to manage.
I don't see really what snaps bring to the picture. This is as heavy as a container because it solves most of the dependency hell but still "pollutes" the system and interacts with it in a privileged manner. For me this is the useless level between system packages and containers... Looks a lot like the desperate attempt to stay in the loop for the server side management at Canonical. Please do not hesitate to tell me if you feel I'm wrong.
I use Linux since the very early days of 1992. I have been using Slackware then Mandrake (which became Mandriva) then Debian for years and finally for the last years Ubuntu personally and Centos professionally.
I switched from dual-boot systems to Linux only somewhere in early 2000. I've always had windows laptops in the companies I worked for although serious production machines were always running Linux.
You have to realize that "you cannot save everyone". Most people do not care about privacy, security or even stability (after years of Windows use they are now familiar with the reboot-to-fix pattern...). Add to this the MS lobbying, the stupid/lazy game industry and the corrupted representatives and you have the winner cocktail to why Linux will never become the desktop standard for everyone.
Now I don't try any more to push people to switch to Linux. Most people are not ready to trade any of their stupid habits for better practices or security. No matter, Linux will survive, without them. Linux is by far the #1 system in the world, ranging from low-end connected devices, raspberries, phones to cloud infrastructure and top 500 supercomputers (all of them actually). No other operating system is even close to achieve this... Anyone who has a bit of curiosity can easily move to Linux to run everything he needs, in a secure, controlled an reliable manner.
Why do you think Google wants to develop their own kernel to replace Linux in Android ? Linux is about giving freedom and ultimate power to the user, what Google wants is power to Google...
To specifically talk about Munich, I don't really know the case and why it failed. What I'm sure of, is that this is not because of Linux. It may be because of bad hardware choices (there are always a lot win-hardware in the wild), wrong people leading the project, bad training plan, wrong partnerships (I would prefer by far to partner with some company like RedHat than with MS).... who cares ?
What I know is who will pay for this... And Munich tax-payers will soon know what it means. And BTW guys, forget about any form of data privacy.
Closed source, not even a Linux client this is clearly not targeting development teams !
Slack is not bad to kick-off a project. If you have infra, Mattermost or RocketChat coupled with some Jitsi-like video solutions may be your preferred setup...
Any design relying on stored procedures whatever their language is a very, very bad practice ! A very clear pattern for non-portability and non-scalability.
So, ok Python stored procs are probably much better than any crappy language, but the pattern remains the same and should be avoided at max...
When it started happening, we were all shocked thinking part of the money for high-tech gadgets would go to these so-called celebs... It was opening the door to basically anything. Then why not elect a reality TV show presenter as president...
This post tends to imply that Nuclear industry is profitable in France which is absolutely not the case.
This is a speciality in France to split responsibilities between different entities to trick the results. For example EDF (selling electricity and profitable) and Areva, managing nuclear plants, and deeply indebted (billions) same as for example for the rail, with the SNCF (selling train tickets and profitable) and ERDF in charge of the railway network and deeply indebted...
Most French nuclear plants are out of age, with an end-of-service date constantly delayed and the next Chernobyl / Fukushima will unfortunately and definitely be French, although no-one seems to care... At least our neighbours should care.
Not even mentioning the legacy for our children as none of the real issues are addressed, ie waste reprocessing/storage and plants dismantling.
+1
FB is useless, be it to communicate, or even worse to get info... There is no such things as "social networks". Those so called networks are everything but "social".
I am French and must admit that France has a terrible problem. Politicians here have always been believing in "the Maginot Line". That's their only answer, whatever the subject, despite the fact History has shown how wrong they have been...
It can be applied to economics, terrorism, online activity, whatever...
Now their new target is encryption... The brightest and newest "Maginot Line" ever. They believe they can control content by regulating the encryption of some popular sites or even tools. And as encryption is coming from Open Source libraries, the only outcome of all of this will be useless mass surveillance but everyone that really need privacy (for good or bad reasons) will build his own P2P fully encrypted military-grade tool in ten minutes using available libraries...
Instead of an encryption licence, there should be a licence for French politicians to have the right to talk about technology that none of them understand. It is really a shame, and if we let them spread their stupidity no one knowns to which kind of dictatorship we may end-up...
How possible that this country moves so fast from light to darkness ?
Preventing someone to use weak passwords is quite easy. You just have to put in place a policy for when the user enters the password.
The question is how do they know ?? If Microsoft would follow very basic security rules (PCI/DSS), they would not keep any copy of the original password, but only a secured hash of it. They would then have no possibility to know afterwards if a password was originally weak or not !!
This only highlights that Microsoft (as expected) has the worst security practices ever... You have to definitely turn yourself to OSes considering security as first class citizen instead of keep using a system aimed at game consoles...
SharePoint a pleasure to use ??!? On which planet do you live ?
This is the biggest bloated piece of crap ever. Unfortunately that was the corporate choice in my company for years. Implying stupid dependencies with Windows, IE, buggy and sluggish ActiveX etc... It took us years to get out of this. Finally alternative raised, namely Confluence. It doesn't solve the mail issue (still locked on this horrible OWA), but at least we have now something decent for internal sites, docs, sharing, wiki that is no more tied neither to Windows nor to IE... But I guess that if for you IE6 and Win XP is something acceptable, there is probably not very much people could do to convince you... Especially if you have such basic misconception of what the web is, that you agree to justify specific browser dependency with particular web-apps.
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It is obvious that deploying AI has nothing to do with deploying robots in factories. This is just a software deployment !
The previous automation revolution, ie robots in factories at least required robots be built. The AI revolution only requires someone at Google or Amazon to push the deployment button and could wipe by this single action loads of jobs.
As such is unlikely we can consider the AI revolution as something that will replace old jobs with new jobs, It will simply destroy them. End of story. A very small team of engineers and data scientists could actually wipe a whole type of job... worldwide.
+1
I agree 100%. Any bio-metric information can only be used in the context of identification not authentication. Full stop.
As a CS engineer, I would never recommend any of my teacher friends to attend a brainwash from the GAFAMs in order to help them format the students for the industry.
If the GAFAMs really want to help education, they may start by paying their taxes.
So Microsoft will help to secure ? Ah ah ah.
I would prefer to ban all proprietary software from any public organization... Or continue to pay Microsoft consultancy to fix Microsoft bugs.
:+1 I would really like to see this pseudo-social networks madness to end but I'm not really optimistic.
You want to share things ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. You want to petition ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. You want to organize events ? There are privacy friendly alternatives. Actually there are privacy friendly alternatives for everything (I say alternatives but most of the times the pseudo-social networks didn't invent anything, and the so-called alternatives are the original...).
Only the infinite laziness of the users lead to the existence of monstrosities like FB. The worse being when governments or NGOs start using it for their own communication, pushing the citizens into thinking that giving up on any kind of privacy is something normal...
The fundamental issue with biometrics is that people tend to think they represent a kind of security token (an idea actually pushed by greedy companies whose only goal is to sell you more of their useless stuff under the umbrella of "innovation").
It is clearly not ! This is simply an easier/convenient way to identify yourself, the equivalent of your good old login name. Full stop. any attempt to use biometrics beyond this point is just utterly stupid.
This is the exact reason why containers exist !
When dealing with installing software somewhere you have many ways to install it, from building from the sources to running a full blown VM.
The "standard" way being installing from a package made for your distro (or from marketplaces on proprietary OSes). When it comes to server software, the preference is now the container which abstracts a lot of the hassles leaving basically nothing but the port management to the admin. This is very convenient, and easy to manage.
I don't see really what snaps bring to the picture. This is as heavy as a container because it solves most of the dependency hell but still "pollutes" the system and interacts with it in a privileged manner. For me this is the useless level between system packages and containers... Looks a lot like the desperate attempt to stay in the loop for the server side management at Canonical.
Please do not hesitate to tell me if you feel I'm wrong.
I suspect that maybe they produce globally as much energy as they consume, which is not exactly the same thing as being "green"...
Living in France, I can already tell you that there is no way their stores in France can be powered by anything else but nuclear plants !
I use Linux since the very early days of 1992. I have been using Slackware then Mandrake (which became Mandriva) then Debian for years and finally for the last years Ubuntu personally and Centos professionally.
I switched from dual-boot systems to Linux only somewhere in early 2000. I've always had windows laptops in the companies I worked for although serious production machines were always running Linux.
You have to realize that "you cannot save everyone". Most people do not care about privacy, security or even stability (after years of Windows use they are now familiar with the reboot-to-fix pattern...). Add to this the MS lobbying, the stupid/lazy game industry and the corrupted representatives and you have the winner cocktail to why Linux will never become the desktop standard for everyone.
Now I don't try any more to push people to switch to Linux. Most people are not ready to trade any of their stupid habits for better practices or security. No matter, Linux will survive, without them. Linux is by far the #1 system in the world, ranging from low-end connected devices, raspberries, phones to cloud infrastructure and top 500 supercomputers (all of them actually). No other operating system is even close to achieve this... Anyone who has a bit of curiosity can easily move to Linux to run everything he needs, in a secure, controlled an reliable manner.
Why do you think Google wants to develop their own kernel to replace Linux in Android ? Linux is about giving freedom and ultimate power to the user, what Google wants is power to Google...
To specifically talk about Munich, I don't really know the case and why it failed. What I'm sure of, is that this is not because of Linux. It may be because of bad hardware choices (there are always a lot win-hardware in the wild), wrong people leading the project, bad training plan, wrong partnerships (I would prefer by far to partner with some company like RedHat than with MS).... who cares ?
What I know is who will pay for this... And Munich tax-payers will soon know what it means. And BTW guys, forget about any form of data privacy.
Closed source, not even a Linux client this is clearly not targeting development teams ! Slack is not bad to kick-off a project. If you have infra, Mattermost or RocketChat coupled with some Jitsi-like video solutions may be your preferred setup...
A non-open source browser ?? Why not using TrackMeOS aka winple then...
Any design relying on stored procedures whatever their language is a very, very bad practice ! A very clear pattern for non-portability and non-scalability. So, ok Python stored procs are probably much better than any crappy language, but the pattern remains the same and should be avoided at max...
When it started happening, we were all shocked thinking part of the money for high-tech gadgets would go to these so-called celebs... It was opening the door to basically anything. Then why not elect a reality TV show presenter as president...
This post tends to imply that Nuclear industry is profitable in France which is absolutely not the case.
This is a speciality in France to split responsibilities between different entities to trick the results. For example EDF (selling electricity and profitable) and Areva, managing nuclear plants, and deeply indebted (billions) same as for example for the rail, with the SNCF (selling train tickets and profitable) and ERDF in charge of the railway network and deeply indebted...
Most French nuclear plants are out of age, with an end-of-service date constantly delayed and the next Chernobyl / Fukushima will unfortunately and definitely be French, although no-one seems to care... At least our neighbours should care.
Not even mentioning the legacy for our children as none of the real issues are addressed, ie waste reprocessing/storage and plants dismantling.
+1 FB is useless, be it to communicate, or even worse to get info... There is no such things as "social networks". Those so called networks are everything but "social".
I am French and must admit that France has a terrible problem. Politicians here have always been believing in "the Maginot Line". That's their only answer, whatever the subject, despite the fact History has shown how wrong they have been... It can be applied to economics, terrorism, online activity, whatever... Now their new target is encryption... The brightest and newest "Maginot Line" ever. They believe they can control content by regulating the encryption of some popular sites or even tools. And as encryption is coming from Open Source libraries, the only outcome of all of this will be useless mass surveillance but everyone that really need privacy (for good or bad reasons) will build his own P2P fully encrypted military-grade tool in ten minutes using available libraries... Instead of an encryption licence, there should be a licence for French politicians to have the right to talk about technology that none of them understand. It is really a shame, and if we let them spread their stupidity no one knowns to which kind of dictatorship we may end-up... How possible that this country moves so fast from light to darkness ?
Preventing someone to use weak passwords is quite easy. You just have to put in place a policy for when the user enters the password.
The question is how do they know ?? If Microsoft would follow very basic security rules (PCI/DSS), they would not keep any copy of the original password, but only a secured hash of it. They would then have no possibility to know afterwards if a password was originally weak or not !!
This only highlights that Microsoft (as expected) has the worst security practices ever... You have to definitely turn yourself to OSes considering security as first class citizen instead of keep using a system aimed at game consoles...
SharePoint a pleasure to use ??!? On which planet do you live ? This is the biggest bloated piece of crap ever. Unfortunately that was the corporate choice in my company for years. Implying stupid dependencies with Windows, IE, buggy and sluggish ActiveX etc ... It took us years to get out of this. Finally alternative raised, namely Confluence. It doesn't solve the mail issue (still locked on this horrible OWA), but at least we have now something decent for internal sites, docs, sharing, wiki that is no more tied neither to Windows nor to IE... But I guess that if for you IE6 and Win XP is something acceptable, there is probably not very much people could do to convince you... Especially if you have such basic misconception of what the web is, that you agree to justify specific browser dependency with particular web-apps.