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Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre Patch Is Bricking Some AMD PCs (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the vulnerabilities-that-keep-giving dept.

Mark Wilson writes: As if the Meltdown and Spectre bug affecting millions of processors was not bad enough, the patches designed to mitigate the problems are introducing issues of their own. Perhaps the most well-known effect is a much-publicized performance hit, but some users are reporting that Microsoft's emergency patch is bricking their computers. We've already seen compatibility issues with some antivirus tools, and now some AMD users are reporting that the KB4056892 patch is rendering their computer unusable. A further issue -- error 0x800f0845 -- means that it is not possible to perform a rollback.

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  1. The wonders of the free market by lucasnate1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The free market guarantees meritocracy, right? right??? RIGHT!?!?

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    1. Re:The wonders of the free market by hey! · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      By your implicit argument, free market capitalism doesn't work because we don't use CPUs from Chile, which is much larger in population than Cuba.

      It turns out that China, which has a non-free economy designs some quite capable CPUs which have given China the top spot in supercomputing for the past four years. If you look at the top ten list of supercomputers, China represents roughly twice the computing power on that last that America does.

      This doesn't mean that I advocate the kind of government-crony capitalism practiced in China, but I'm saying don't be complacent and assume you've got the best of everything because you live in a country that, two generations ago, landed a man on the Moon. A lot of the stuff we have here is pretty lame: Internet service, cellular service, and -- if you go by outcomes or cost -- medical treatment.

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  2. Capitalism: Works as expected by perpenso · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The free market guarantees meritocracy, right? right??? RIGHT!?!?

    Adam Smith, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" - 1776, did not predict joy on every single day, he predicted better outcomes in the long run than otherwise available.

    So yes, capitalism allows us to switch to macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, etc to reward those and/or punish Microsoft. That is the mechanism by which a meritocracy is determined.

    Your Bug Report Status: Works as expected.