The Meltdown attack also affects chips from AMD and those based on ARM designs and, in turn, nearly every PC, smartphone and tablet made in recent years.
What. the. FUCK! That couldn't be further from the truth. It's like Intel wrote this garbage piece of shit "article" for them.
Yeah but not getting sued is also worth something, which is why it's now $29, whereas it used to be $79 before the bad-battery-throttle-the-hardware fiasco started.
The company chief also insisted that AT&T honored an open internet and doesn't block, throttle or otherwise hinder access to content.
Well that's simply false. Don't believe me? Try running Exodus/Covenant on their wireless network & see how many sources you get back vs your home connection...
What if your computer is running in a rather secure isolated environment? Why default to the patched version which will slow everything down?
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Secure & slow should be the default, not the exception. For those that want fast & insecure, they should opt-in for that.
Not meaning to sound elitist, but if you've ever spent ANY amount of time working directly with the general public, you quickly come to realize that 95% of them are fucked in the head, and you wonder if they are actually worth all the oxygen they are processing.
I'm more concerned with the amount of CO2 they're expelling.
No shit. I live in Texas, therefore I'm privy to many Republicans' views. By far the most worrying thing for them is the government taking the money they've earned and giving it to others they feel are less deserving of it.
Explain to me exactly how throttling back a CPU running on a device with a shitty battery is a shady business practice, when the alternative is to just let it crash & burn at will.
At the same time, they have two decades of exposed products and much higher volumes than they had before. So the scope of a recall would be way more massive.
If a recall were to happen, I would imagine it would only apply to chips made within the past 5 years. Anything else would be considered EOL and thus not covered by the recall.
Are you sure this is a microcode update? Nowhere in TFA does it mention that. From what I understand, this is an OS patch that is preventing the Meltdown bug from being an issue, but at a 5-30% performance penalty.
Or maybe some other companies were thinking of buying Shazam, and then Apple would have been possibly in trouble without the ability for Siri to recognize songs (which has used Shazam behind the scenes for quite a while).
Hire some additional, competent employees to the team. Seeing how out-of-date their own skills are compared to the new-hires' might be the bit of motivation they need to get their own skills up to par. The new folks could even help train the incumbents.
The problem with Facebook and Microsoft as competitors here is that they already typically have access to a superset of your customers. If you were developing Windows software and Microsoft wanted to compete with you, not only were all of your customers already their customers, but all of your potential customers were as well. This put them in a far stronger position than you, even if they were developing the product from scratch. Facebook is often in a similar situation.
And this type of shit is exactly what got Microsoft in trouble in the late '90s:
My sister did this while she was getting her biochem degree. She was making so much money, in fact, that she still does it today, even with a biochem degree now.
No. But if he's an adult working full time at the most sophisticated job that he's able to do, he should make enough for food, shelter, and health care. I'm not married to forcing his employer to bear that whole burden.
Careful with that line of thinking, as it could very easily get one into age-discrimination territory.
If this is a common issue, you might want to consider putting a caching DNS server locally on your LAN that does recursive lookups against Google's servers, but caches them locally so they're fast (after the initial, uncached lookup, of course).
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The Meltdown attack also affects chips from AMD and those based on ARM designs and, in turn, nearly every PC, smartphone and tablet made in recent years.
What. the. FUCK! That couldn't be further from the truth. It's like Intel wrote this garbage piece of shit "article" for them.
Yeah but not getting sued is also worth something, which is why it's now $29, whereas it used to be $79 before the bad-battery-throttle-the-hardware fiasco started.
The company chief also insisted that AT&T honored an open internet and doesn't block, throttle or otherwise hinder access to content.
Well that's simply false. Don't believe me? Try running Exodus/Covenant on their wireless network & see how many sources you get back vs your home connection...
If you don't like them then don't buy them.
It sounds like people aren't buying them, which is probably why they're discontinuing them.
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Secure & slow should be the default, not the exception. For those that want fast & insecure, they should opt-in for that.
Not meaning to sound elitist, but if you've ever spent ANY amount of time working directly with the general public, you quickly come to realize that 95% of them are fucked in the head, and you wonder if they are actually worth all the oxygen they are processing.
I'm more concerned with the amount of CO2 they're expelling.
Well yeah, when the population is largely composed of gullible idiots that believe anything they read online.
No shit. I live in Texas, therefore I'm privy to many Republicans' views. By far the most worrying thing for them is the government taking the money they've earned and giving it to others they feel are less deserving of it.
What the fuck is a "design ethicist"?
Explain to me exactly how throttling back a CPU running on a device with a shitty battery is a shady business practice, when the alternative is to just let it crash & burn at will.
Tackling the important issues I see...
But, wasn't Meltdown an issue with Intel CPU's far before this change in validation happened?
An OS that isn't terrible?
At the same time, they have two decades of exposed products and much higher volumes than they had before. So the scope of a recall would be way more massive.
If a recall were to happen, I would imagine it would only apply to chips made within the past 5 years. Anything else would be considered EOL and thus not covered by the recall.
Are you sure this is a microcode update? Nowhere in TFA does it mention that. From what I understand, this is an OS patch that is preventing the Meltdown bug from being an issue, but at a 5-30% performance penalty.
It is simple to replace, I just replaced mine myself recently because of this exact issue.
Or maybe some other companies were thinking of buying Shazam, and then Apple would have been possibly in trouble without the ability for Siri to recognize songs (which has used Shazam behind the scenes for quite a while).
Hire some additional, competent employees to the team. Seeing how out-of-date their own skills are compared to the new-hires' might be the bit of motivation they need to get their own skills up to par. The new folks could even help train the incumbents.
The problem with Facebook and Microsoft as competitors here is that they already typically have access to a superset of your customers. If you were developing Windows software and Microsoft wanted to compete with you, not only were all of your customers already their customers, but all of your potential customers were as well. This put them in a far stronger position than you, even if they were developing the product from scratch. Facebook is often in a similar situation.
And this type of shit is exactly what got Microsoft in trouble in the late '90s:
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My sister did this while she was getting her biochem degree. She was making so much money, in fact, that she still does it today, even with a biochem degree now.
No. But if he's an adult working full time at the most sophisticated job that he's able to do, he should make enough for food, shelter, and health care. I'm not married to forcing his employer to bear that whole burden.
Careful with that line of thinking, as it could very easily get one into age-discrimination territory.
Man, I've been saying this for years. I'd love to see this done, if like you said, was done correctly.
He likes rape
Put all your eggs into one basket, that's real smart.
If this is a common issue, you might want to consider putting a caching DNS server locally on your LAN that does recursive lookups against Google's servers, but caches them locally so they're fast (after the initial, uncached lookup, of course).