Your job as CEO is to increase the market cap, market share, and profitability of your company
Correct, because that's what the CEO's bonuses are correlated with. Although I'm not sure why Mr. Zuckerberg would need more money at this point. Bragging rights? Can't take it with you.
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent
I have an idea for you Mr. Zuckerberg, how about making a commitment to being honest? Facebook is the ultimate time waster. You've exceeded everyone's expectations in that regard. Nothing left to do there.
Hello, my name is Sanjay and I am with the India State Tech Support Agency. I have received a notification from your computer that it has encountered a problem that needs to be fixed. If you will please give me your credit card information, I will help you fix your computer. Thank you for your cooperation and I'm sorry for the inconvenience this computer problem has caused you.
Seriously, it's about time the love got spread around to India to see how they like being scammed.
K5 was AMD's first processor? I must have imagined a whole heap of their processors which I owned and used before that one... And meltdown STILL doesn't affect AMD, all we have on that front is speculation from intel and their fanboys who wants to paint everyone else with the same tar brush.
I should have said the AMD K5 was AMD's first in-house processor. The whole history is right here. No fan boi nonsense just facts. If you don't like facts, I can't help you.
These attacks are a sort of new category of security analysis--realizing that out of order execution can have side effects, and that programs can check for those side effects to leak program state and system memory.
Not really. Sophisticated security attacks written in ASM have been around for decades. I have a friend who has worked for a decade as a security contractor for federal agencies and they are well aware of this sort of thing. I think what's happened is the knowledge to be able to architect these types of exploits is known to a relatively small group of people that have highly specialized knowledge. Most of the exploits we see these days are effectively script kiddies but in some cases very effect. Back in ye olden days when DOS roamed the earth, the black hats were a lot more evil and had a lot more knowledge. We should be thankful script kiddies are not that savvy. I recall (Satan bug?) would inject itself into the BIOS Flash memory and operate from there. Others would hide in the MBR and be executed during the boot strapping process of a hard drive which is essentially start executing at the beginning of storage memory. What they would do is put their own code there or jump to where their code was, load into memory and then jump back so that the user was none the wiser. Not real keen on seeing these types of hackers re-surface. Ugh.
No if you read TFA carefully, Meltdown and Spectre affect Intel, AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors to varying degrees. The 1995 bit probably solely refers to Intel in the sense that the AMD K5 was AMD's first processor and released in 1996. Back in 1995, if my memory serves me correct, the only two x86 CPU's in town in 1995 were the Intel Pentium 1 and the IBM Cyrix chipset. I'm guessing 8086/8088/286/386/486 were not affected?
The final version of the ACA that they signed was received less than 24 hours before they had to vote on it, and it was 1100+ pages. Nancy Pelosi famously said "you have to sign it so we can find out what's in it" grinning ear to ear.
All we need to know are two things:
1) How does the legislation process work per the US Constitution?
2) Was the legislative process of the US Constitution followed?
If it turns out #2 was not followed then said legislation would be unconstitutional and could be challenged in the Supreme Court. It doesn't matter what the NYTimes OPINION is. It matters what is legal per the laws of the land. If the NY Times doesn't like the laws of the land they can do one of three things:
1) Challenge it in the Supreme Court
2) STFU
3) Move out of the country
Yes. Are you asking for a reference? If you just search for "Republican secret tax bill" you'll find plenty.
It's not secret if it's advertised in same way that ALL house bills are advertised. It clearly wasn't hidden and still isn't hidden. NYTimes is full of shit. The claim might be something like they didn't advertise it in a "reasonable time" whatever that means but they are not obligated to do anything like that per the US Constitution. I went back and looked through bills like ACA and what you find it ACA was being discussed for far longer than 6 months. It was introduced in the house and then 6 months later it was passed. You and the NYTimes are on a witch hunt for what is standard operating procedure in Congress. Maybe you should learn about the actual process as described by the US Constitution for how legislation is passed before passing your absurd judgment?
Seriously, if you have this type of addiction problem, it's largely psychological. Go see a psychologist. You're most likely self-medicating. Once you figure out the problem you're medicating, you can do something about that problem then you won't feel compelled to self-medicate anymore. If you think you're not self-medicating or doing something psychological it means that you are not consciously aware of what it is. There IS a reason and it's in your head whether you know it or not. That is the source of all compulsive behavior. If you lack the ability to peer into your own mind introspectively to understand your own thought process that is giving rise to this behavior, your only hope is to consult someone else who might be able to deconstruct it.
The tax bill that the parent was talking about was not handled the same way. That was kept under wraps until the last minute, so that the public wouldn't find out about it and wouldn't have enough time to organize opposition.
It was introduced into the House on 11/02/2017, evidence. You call that the last minute? Explain your claim please.
Looks like Xbox placed 3rd in a 3 way race this holiday season
I was almost compelled to pick up one for 200 bucks just because I could use it as a media center with a 4K blu ray player. Ultimately, I decided I'll just wait for standalone 4K blu ray players to go down in price.
What are those exactly? What are fans requesting? If Kinect was hated because it required bodily movement are the new devices going to be controlled by the undulation of fat folds and farting?
If your claim were true, the Wiimote would not have been a huge success. Try again. The Kinect was well known for not tracking body movements very accurately.
It's all up to personal choice, and I would think anyone smart enough to get a technical position at the NSA would be able to go work anywhere else...these aren't your typical Keyboarding Specialist III civil service workers who make a home for themselves deep in an agency's bureaucracy.
Yes, yes. I heard in Opportunist's above post, some of them have quite advanced exotic dancing skills. Quite valuable in the private sector at certain establishments.
The error of deliberately crippling a competitor's performance due to your own blunder when you're a hundred billion dollar company cannot be adequately explained by stupidity.
It's a double-edged sword, if you do nothing to purposefully alter the behavior of the competitor, you're accused of doing something wrong and out of line. If you deliberately alter the behavior for your competitor, even if you had good intentions, you're accused of doing something wrong and out of line.
Besides, that's what pull requests and code reviews are for. You throw out your best guess and then the code review participants make suggestions based on their bigger picture view of the system. This is how any large scale system with multiple customers that use the system differently works. You're obviously not a developer. Managing all that is tricky business.
And you picked her. Every man that has had this experience needs to read up on psychology especially Histrionic Personality Disorder. No matter how tantalizing and mesmerizing they are, RUN AWAY!
Please, let them. Playing God with the procreation process is usually a civilization destroying process.
Really now? Can you present evidence for this claim? Do you have evidence for the following:
1) There has existed a civilization that advanced science to the point that they could artificially reproduce outside of normal biological processes (assuming that they reproduced sexually)
2) That this scientific advancement destroyed their civilization?
Take your religious mysticism and FUD and go home.
Men are in trouble if this succeeds. Feminists are not all welcoming, open, forgiving or tolerant;) lol
Good thing that at best, third wave feminists represent about 10% of women. They're quite a minority and the majority of women disagree with them. If you're really that concerned, don't live in one of the far left states. Personally, I'd never live in a locale where third wave feminists and SJW's are elevated in social status. They're just annoying. Three types of people I can't stand: Third Wave Feminists, SJW's and Bible Thumpers. Do your homework on which state to live in and relocate accordingly and live happy.
It's visible to the public, not "open". If it were open, we'd have some say in it (which means it wouldn't be happening.)
Oh gee, you need the truth spoon fed to you instead of seeking it out yourself? You do realize that's precisely what the propaganda pushers expect and use as the means to distort the truth right?
Slashdot Mirror
Your job as CEO is to increase the market cap, market share, and profitability of your company
Correct, because that's what the CEO's bonuses are correlated with. Although I'm not sure why Mr. Zuckerberg would need more money at this point. Bragging rights? Can't take it with you.
The world feels anxious and divided, and Facebook has a lot of work to do -- whether it's protecting our community from abuse and hate, defending against interference by nation states, or making sure that time spent on Facebook is time well spent
I have an idea for you Mr. Zuckerberg, how about making a commitment to being honest? Facebook is the ultimate time waster. You've exceeded everyone's expectations in that regard. Nothing left to do there.
I'm sure you meant Bob.
I believe you're thinking of Rachel from Card Services
Hello, my name is Sanjay and I am with the India State Tech Support Agency. I have received a notification from your computer that it has encountered a problem that needs to be fixed. If you will please give me your credit card information, I will help you fix your computer. Thank you for your cooperation and I'm sorry for the inconvenience this computer problem has caused you.
Seriously, it's about time the love got spread around to India to see how they like being scammed.
Oh, for FFS, at least get your facts straight.
K5 was AMD's first processor? I must have imagined a whole heap of their processors which I owned and used before that one... And meltdown STILL doesn't affect AMD, all we have on that front is speculation from intel and their fanboys who wants to paint everyone else with the same tar brush.
I should have said the AMD K5 was AMD's first in-house processor. The whole history is right here. No fan boi nonsense just facts. If you don't like facts, I can't help you.
These attacks are a sort of new category of security analysis--realizing that out of order execution can have side effects, and that programs can check for those side effects to leak program state and system memory.
Not really. Sophisticated security attacks written in ASM have been around for decades. I have a friend who has worked for a decade as a security contractor for federal agencies and they are well aware of this sort of thing. I think what's happened is the knowledge to be able to architect these types of exploits is known to a relatively small group of people that have highly specialized knowledge. Most of the exploits we see these days are effectively script kiddies but in some cases very effect. Back in ye olden days when DOS roamed the earth, the black hats were a lot more evil and had a lot more knowledge. We should be thankful script kiddies are not that savvy. I recall (Satan bug?) would inject itself into the BIOS Flash memory and operate from there. Others would hide in the MBR and be executed during the boot strapping process of a hard drive which is essentially start executing at the beginning of storage memory. What they would do is put their own code there or jump to where their code was, load into memory and then jump back so that the user was none the wiser. Not real keen on seeing these types of hackers re-surface. Ugh.
Shouldn't that be : Almost All Intel processors?
No if you read TFA carefully, Meltdown and Spectre affect Intel, AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon processors to varying degrees. The 1995 bit probably solely refers to Intel in the sense that the AMD K5 was AMD's first processor and released in 1996. Back in 1995, if my memory serves me correct, the only two x86 CPU's in town in 1995 were the Intel Pentium 1 and the IBM Cyrix chipset. I'm guessing 8086/8088/286/386/486 were not affected?
The final version of the ACA that they signed was received less than 24 hours before they had to vote on it, and it was 1100+ pages. Nancy Pelosi famously said "you have to sign it so we can find out what's in it" grinning ear to ear.
All we need to know are two things:
1) How does the legislation process work per the US Constitution?
2) Was the legislative process of the US Constitution followed?
If it turns out #2 was not followed then said legislation would be unconstitutional and could be challenged in the Supreme Court. It doesn't matter what the NYTimes OPINION is. It matters what is legal per the laws of the land. If the NY Times doesn't like the laws of the land they can do one of three things:
1) Challenge it in the Supreme Court
2) STFU
3) Move out of the country
Yes. Are you asking for a reference? If you just search for "Republican secret tax bill" you'll find plenty.
It's not secret if it's advertised in same way that ALL house bills are advertised. It clearly wasn't hidden and still isn't hidden. NYTimes is full of shit. The claim might be something like they didn't advertise it in a "reasonable time" whatever that means but they are not obligated to do anything like that per the US Constitution. I went back and looked through bills like ACA and what you find it ACA was being discussed for far longer than 6 months. It was introduced in the house and then 6 months later it was passed. You and the NYTimes are on a witch hunt for what is standard operating procedure in Congress. Maybe you should learn about the actual process as described by the US Constitution for how legislation is passed before passing your absurd judgment?
Answer: you whine and pontificate on slashdot
The set of things that cause cancer is pretty large. The set of things that cause death is pretty large. Pick your poison.
Seriously, if you have this type of addiction problem, it's largely psychological. Go see a psychologist. You're most likely self-medicating. Once you figure out the problem you're medicating, you can do something about that problem then you won't feel compelled to self-medicate anymore. If you think you're not self-medicating or doing something psychological it means that you are not consciously aware of what it is. There IS a reason and it's in your head whether you know it or not. That is the source of all compulsive behavior. If you lack the ability to peer into your own mind introspectively to understand your own thought process that is giving rise to this behavior, your only hope is to consult someone else who might be able to deconstruct it.
The tax bill that the parent was talking about was not handled the same way. That was kept under wraps until the last minute, so that the public wouldn't find out about it and wouldn't have enough time to organize opposition.
It was introduced into the House on 11/02/2017, evidence. You call that the last minute? Explain your claim please.
Looks like Xbox placed 3rd in a 3 way race this holiday season
I was almost compelled to pick up one for 200 bucks just because I could use it as a media center with a 4K blu ray player. Ultimately, I decided I'll just wait for standalone 4K blu ray players to go down in price.
What are those exactly? What are fans requesting? If Kinect was hated because it required bodily movement are the new devices going to be controlled by the undulation of fat folds and farting?
If your claim were true, the Wiimote would not have been a huge success. Try again. The Kinect was well known for not tracking body movements very accurately.
...the Nintendo Power Glove. Truly a sad loss for us all.
It's all up to personal choice, and I would think anyone smart enough to get a technical position at the NSA would be able to go work anywhere else...these aren't your typical Keyboarding Specialist III civil service workers who make a home for themselves deep in an agency's bureaucracy.
Yes, yes. I heard in Opportunist's above post, some of them have quite advanced exotic dancing skills. Quite valuable in the private sector at certain establishments.
The name of the release is the biggest news?
Because it's named after a woman?
Just like it ... always has been?
Oh Slashdot, what has happened to you?
msmash happened...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The error of deliberately crippling a competitor's performance due to your own blunder when you're a hundred billion dollar company cannot be adequately explained by stupidity.
It's a double-edged sword, if you do nothing to purposefully alter the behavior of the competitor, you're accused of doing something wrong and out of line. If you deliberately alter the behavior for your competitor, even if you had good intentions, you're accused of doing something wrong and out of line.
Besides, that's what pull requests and code reviews are for. You throw out your best guess and then the code review participants make suggestions based on their bigger picture view of the system. This is how any large scale system with multiple customers that use the system differently works. You're obviously not a developer. Managing all that is tricky business.
It's pretty obvious you haven't met my ex.
And you picked her. Every man that has had this experience needs to read up on psychology especially Histrionic Personality Disorder. No matter how tantalizing and mesmerizing they are, RUN AWAY!
You obviously haven't met my wife.
When you think with the wrong head, you reap what you sow.
Please, let them. Playing God with the procreation process is usually a civilization destroying process.
Really now? Can you present evidence for this claim? Do you have evidence for the following:
1) There has existed a civilization that advanced science to the point that they could artificially reproduce outside of normal biological processes (assuming that they reproduced sexually)
2) That this scientific advancement destroyed their civilization?
Take your religious mysticism and FUD and go home.
Men are in trouble if this succeeds. Feminists are not all welcoming, open, forgiving or tolerant ;) lol
Good thing that at best, third wave feminists represent about 10% of women. They're quite a minority and the majority of women disagree with them. If you're really that concerned, don't live in one of the far left states. Personally, I'd never live in a locale where third wave feminists and SJW's are elevated in social status. They're just annoying. Three types of people I can't stand: Third Wave Feminists, SJW's and Bible Thumpers. Do your homework on which state to live in and relocate accordingly and live happy.
It's visible to the public, not "open". If it were open, we'd have some say in it (which means it wouldn't be happening.)
Oh gee, you need the truth spoon fed to you instead of seeking it out yourself? You do realize that's precisely what the propaganda pushers expect and use as the means to distort the truth right?