You clearly have no idea how such systems work. My guess is that the IRS served their warrant and then demanded read only ODBC/API access to the companies systems. The company's DBAs likely balked at the idea... I know I would... and said "listen, if you have that sort of access, you could violate Hipaa if you submit the wrong query. We're very stringent on what we allow to be run against our tables" But the IRS being the IRS said "Fuck you, we're the IRS" and went right ahead. Once you have a legit login and password the data is no longer encrypted for you.
Knowing the ramifications of what the IRS were doing, the company likely logged their queries. The IRS's DBAs likely were worried the company in question could potentially get a court injunction to stop their access so their first query was likely "Select * from customers;" and dumped the entire table to a local table. Then company in question likely saw this, freaked out, but realized any lawsuit they filed would likely be quashed by "We have an ongoing investigation" yada yada... so they kept quiet about it until the original case was over.
I'm just guessing but I've been in similar situations and the governments admins are pricks and usually don't have a clue what they are doing. Violating hipaa is VERY easy to do if you don't know what you're doing. So much so that many people don't even want to work in departments that have access to such information. Make a typo in your query and you're getting walked out the door.
Convicted felons have (and should) their rights restricted. For example, in America, ownership of firearms is restricted. Reasonable.
It's not reasonable at all. The persons paid their debt to society. Why can they never vote or own a firearm again? Remember, the VAST majority of convicted felons were convicted of things that were non-violent drug offenses and in most cases were years or decades in their past. If they've served their time, why are they punished for the rest of their lives? We're talking about a dude that got busted in his 20s with some coke and now he's 50, has a family, a good job, and can't vote or own a gun. It's ridiculous. All punishments should be finite and have an end.
The prohibition on voting is simply a way to keep people that might have insight into what needs to change about the prison system from having any ability to vote to change it.
Fake Name... Most emails I receive from such sites start with "Hello Gofuckyourself!" etc... if you want to be creative you can tailor the message to be as entertaining as you'd like. As an added benefit, if you give a different name at each site, when you get spam, you can know who sold your private data.
You are absolutely right. The only yardstick worth measuring with is the "are you happy with what you do".
Where did you get that hippie bullshit? It's a job, if you were happy doing it they wouldn't pay you. I can code all day at home... or install a toilet (I, in fact, did bother last weekend ironically) I don't need my job to fulfill me, I can do the same work without others involved. This kind of thinking is what gets people trapped in Jobs or "Careers" where they think they can't leave or shouldn't leave. Fuck that, you should go wherever pays the most or you have the most potential to get paid more. No, you shouldn't take a job in an abusive environment. If the people there are jerks or the processes setup crush your soul, move on. But otherwise, if you can tolerate it for 8hrs and it pays the most, take it. Make your money, stick it into a broad index fund (S&P or whatever) and retire early. Retirement is happiness... plan for it.
Not everyone has the talent or desire for college, and I think we as a society ought to recognize that.
You presume that college requires talent and desire and plumbing does not. Having done both, and having worked with people that have gone through one or the other, if I needed a complex task done and was give the option of choosing a plumber or a "college graduate" I'd pick the plumber every time. College means you're good at taking tests. That's it. You might be good at other things but really, there's no way to tell based on your degree. You don't get to be a plumber until you do an apprenticeship and someone personally certifies that you're not an idiot. If colleges had such things maybe my building wouldn't have MBA's floating in and out like god damned dust mites all day.
Also, plumbers get paid a lot more than most college graduates.
This is exactly why we have a constitution. The fear of the framers was that a "passing majority" could remove our freedoms/rights out of fear or anger.
Every body has mentel week spots? Your a dandy to think that. Most of us has no such weekness and as such you should shut you're pie whole. philistine!
I'm fairly sure the actual military application for this will be something to do with drones. We're currenly using tank-killing missles against individual targets, and taking out dozens of bystanders in the process sometimes. Now imagine then getting hit by 3 50 caliber rounds instead. You still might have collateral damage but it would be a lot less than the missile.
yea, but there's just as much crap closed source products as well. The only difference is you can see the garbage in an open source product. My employer has gone from being very annoyed with having to deal with open source licenses and trying to get the whole idea of "it's free, we can't negotiate the license, there's no support contract" though their approvals process... to now just having a check box for which GPL version it is and an automatic approval process. It's great now. Granted we're limited in the scope of what we build with a GPL product. If we're building something that hundreds of people will eventually depend on and we have no way to back out... then that project is going to get a lot of scrutiny. The one good thing about closed source vendors is you can sue them if shit hits the fan.
Specifically the Gates foundation is working on eradicating polio at the moment, he just put $50 million in the pot and the taliban have finally given health workers paperwork to let them pursue their goal. He said on NPR the other day that his next stop after polio would be Malaria. You can say what you want about his Microsoft days, but given what he's doing now he's a great guy in my book.
Given that our current understanding is that the universe has no end, is infinite, then the number of any type of planet you could imagine would be infinite.
It's fucking terrible software. Clearly written by someone that has no idea how Windows works. When you plug in the apple device (iPhone, iPod) windows trys to read the drive on the device. Unfortunately Apples DRM is basically to encrypt the entire drive. So windows wants to format it. To prevent windows trying to do this constantly (and if it's a family member you have to because they will eventually click yes and fuck the device until you restore it) you need to disable windows ability to check the drive. This has the unintended consequence of making it not read any other device either. So now when you plug in a camera or USB stick, it doesn't open the device or the dialog that simplifies migrating the date into your computer.
If that weren't bad enough, you can't view the files on the device without iTunes. You cannot copy over MP3s like you can with any other device on he market. They must be packaged up, encrypted and then synced to the device by iTunes. But you do not "sync" the devices. iTunes just does it for you. If you've not disabled the windows auto-detection like I mentioned above, the sync will sit for about 20min and then fail. And it will do this over and over. Once you have it and working, it will sync when you log in. But again, if you have lots of songs, it takes it 20min to do this sync. So you add 1 new song to the list that you just bought, but it needs to wait until that first sync completes, then starts over with your 1 new file. Instead of adding 1 new file to the device, iTunes instead re-encodes the encrypted file and passes the entire thing to the device. Every time you sync you are deleted the entire contents of it and re-writing. It's completely insane. I literally got a clone of my wifes $200 ipod online for $20... the only real difference was when you plugged it in, it opened like a USB stick and you dropped songs in. Done... my wife is much happier. Die iTunes, Die.
You're assuming that: A. Our federal government isn't totally fucking retarded. B. Our federal government follows any of their own rules/laws/policies. Both of which have been proven about as false as possible after this past week. I've always wondered if our government was actually bad... or just inept boobs. You know, never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence... color me surprised to find out they are both malicious AND incompetent.
Ok, lets Mythbust your argument. We don't even need a show, or studies, we just need logic.
What's your BAC right now? 0? no... you have Alcohol in your blood at all times. It's part of most foods. Have you ever known someone that seemed to be able to drink like a fish and then drive home without a problem? How about someone that couldn't drink a single beer without swerving all over the road? We all know both types... so how is it that we can set a universal standard that really has little bearing on the individuals ability to drive? The NTSB wants people to NOT drink and drive. They could give a shit less about your BAC, they just don't want you to drink at all. That's their job, they want to make travel as safe as possible. That doesn't mean their recommendations are even remotely practical.
The fact of the matter is we have an excellent process for determining if you're safe to drive. The police officer notices un-safe behavior, pulls you over and administers the Standardized field sobriety test. This test is superior to blood tests in almost every way. They are impartial, the weight, race and gender of the person being tested is irrelevant. They are videotaped by the squadcars dash cam in most cases and can be reviewed later by both defense and prosecution. They test the SOBRIETY of the person in question, which is what we care about right? Where-as blood tests and breathalyzers test for the presence of certain chemicals in the bloodstream, which in many cases are not the actual intoxicant. Also, blood tests are limited to what you're testing. If a persons BAC is.01% but they also just got done eating a half ounce of mushrooms, there's no blood test for that. But they are certainly impaired. They do not impinge on the health privacy of a person that may very well be innocent. Once that blood is drawn, many law enforcement agencies are actually sequencing DNA, and doing all sorts of other tests without the subjects permission.
Drunk driving is a problem in this country, but law enforcement is not the solution to the problem. Treatment, education, and cheaper public transportation are the solution. I remember that when I was in college, every bar in the small town I lived in would have all cars towed from their parking lots in the morning. Every morning. It was a boon to the local impound service, but what did it do to the drunk driving rates in town? How easy would it have been to pass a city ordinance that prevented them from towing a car for 24hrs?
Because corporations are not people. They're not even controlled by people (generally) they are controlled by the market. Whatever is most profitable (in their opinion) is what they will do. They are not supporting a candidate for the good of the country. They are supporting a candidate because it makes profitable sense. For example, a company I used to work for donated to EVERY candidate for state office in my state. They donated equally (to the penny) to both sides of every campaign. Why would they do that? Really think about it.
And this is not a constitutional issue. The primary problem with this situation is that Groups, businesses and the like are treated like individuals... and they are not. People have the right to assemble, but to treat that assembly as equal to an individual is wrong. The individual requires the protection of the constitution. Microsoft and Apple do not.
Given that modern and probably future DRM will require "always online" connections... and businesses tend to monetize every conceivable aspect of their service regardless of how that impacts their customers... and the fact that this week the US federal governments pretty much been proven to be completely butt fucking insane and, I can't believe I'm saying this, Jesse Ventura might not be as crazy as we had all originally thought... It'll be a cold day in hell before I allowed any closed source software to read my mind. I doubt I'd let open source software read it either... but... shit, when we thought this stuff up in scifi novels it was so cool, how'd we ruin it? I give up and am going Amish.
No, Microsofts not damned because of the malware. Malware's the price of a free and open internet. We've got to deal with it. Corporations monitoring my encrypted network traffic is not a fair trade for being free from malware.
Never, ever, ever, listen to the vendor. Remember that when you're talking to them, you're talking to their salesmen. Not their technical lead, not their developers, their salesmen. So many people forget this when they go into these contract negotiations. These people are going to say whatever they can to get you to buy, and they rarely have any idea of what they're talking about.
The details of how long you should expect their product to serve your needs should be explicitly detailed in your contract before you buy. "this equipment/software will work for X years" If they come to you before X years is up and tell you that you need new, then you need to settle up on that old contract that they've just invalidated. If you're beyond what was contractually stipulated, well that's a management call. How important is the application of the product? If it fails, what's the impact? Does it make it harder for people to do their jobs or will you have 2000 people sitting idle until you have it fixed? Also, never sign "their" contract. We have a "contracts" department that writes all of ours, and often have vendors try to force their own contract down our throats. But, we have a company policy that stipulates we NEVER sign with the vendor. The vendor always signs with us. It's our contract, in our words, written by our legal team. If they don't like it there's nothing we can do about it, they cannot do business with us.
But keep in mind, negotiating a new contract when your completely screwed and need it now now now, is not the situation you want to be in. On the same token, if the vendors coming to you when your old systems running great you have a lot of time to haggle and little incentive to hurry the process. I think weather you upgrade is entirely dependent on what the vendor is offering. If it's a good deal and you're in a position to argue for an even better deal then why not? But if everything's running great and the vendors coming to you with some Y2K nonsense and you need to upgrade now at 2x the price of your last upgrade then tell them to shove it.
First they came for the communists, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist...
Don't let your distaste for the victim blunt the horror of the crime. Either we stand up and say "No!" now, or later generations will look back upon this moment and ask why we didn't. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There are so many cliche catch-phrases that describe exactly what we're seeing in our government today it's almost comedy that we let it continue. It's fucking obvious what is happening here. Stop it here, stop it now. You will lament this time for the rest of your life if you don't make a firm stand now. You may not be able to stop it, but you can at least say you didn't help it with your own complacency.
Who said they're going to keep it at 12 volts? A VRM can also be the transformer, but it doesn't have to be. They could ramp down the voltage on the board just like they always did and just have a VRM on the chip that is maintaining a steady voltage. If you read the article they are barging about how little fluctuation they are getting. So it seems like what they are doing here is adding basically an extra regulator on chip so they can have extremely stable voltage. I'm guessing as small as things are getting now, just the trip across the motherboard can have noticeable fluctuations on supply voltages due to EM interference and temp fluctuations, so having a regulator on the chip lets them get more precise. Maybe that precision will let them do some magic on the chip to increase performance or something?
Because Journalists are irritating. The government claims to have the right to send a hellfire missile into your living room by command of the executive branch with no over-site from any other branch of government. We need to keep tight control of one of those 2 groups... I vote for the one with the nukes.
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You clearly have no idea how such systems work. My guess is that the IRS served their warrant and then demanded read only ODBC/API access to the companies systems. The company's DBAs likely balked at the idea... I know I would... and said "listen, if you have that sort of access, you could violate Hipaa if you submit the wrong query. We're very stringent on what we allow to be run against our tables" But the IRS being the IRS said "Fuck you, we're the IRS" and went right ahead. Once you have a legit login and password the data is no longer encrypted for you.
Knowing the ramifications of what the IRS were doing, the company likely logged their queries. The IRS's DBAs likely were worried the company in question could potentially get a court injunction to stop their access so their first query was likely "Select * from customers;" and dumped the entire table to a local table. Then company in question likely saw this, freaked out, but realized any lawsuit they filed would likely be quashed by "We have an ongoing investigation" yada yada... so they kept quiet about it until the original case was over.
I'm just guessing but I've been in similar situations and the governments admins are pricks and usually don't have a clue what they are doing. Violating hipaa is VERY easy to do if you don't know what you're doing. So much so that many people don't even want to work in departments that have access to such information. Make a typo in your query and you're getting walked out the door.
Convicted felons have (and should) their rights restricted. For example, in America, ownership of firearms is restricted. Reasonable.
It's not reasonable at all. The persons paid their debt to society. Why can they never vote or own a firearm again? Remember, the VAST majority of convicted felons were convicted of things that were non-violent drug offenses and in most cases were years or decades in their past. If they've served their time, why are they punished for the rest of their lives? We're talking about a dude that got busted in his 20s with some coke and now he's 50, has a family, a good job, and can't vote or own a gun. It's ridiculous. All punishments should be finite and have an end.
The prohibition on voting is simply a way to keep people that might have insight into what needs to change about the prison system from having any ability to vote to change it.
Fake Name... Most emails I receive from such sites start with "Hello Gofuckyourself!" etc... if you want to be creative you can tailor the message to be as entertaining as you'd like. As an added benefit, if you give a different name at each site, when you get spam, you can know who sold your private data.
ok, but I don't even know you... you did mention candy right?
You are absolutely right. The only yardstick worth measuring with is the "are you happy with what you do".
Where did you get that hippie bullshit? It's a job, if you were happy doing it they wouldn't pay you. I can code all day at home... or install a toilet (I, in fact, did bother last weekend ironically) I don't need my job to fulfill me, I can do the same work without others involved. This kind of thinking is what gets people trapped in Jobs or "Careers" where they think they can't leave or shouldn't leave. Fuck that, you should go wherever pays the most or you have the most potential to get paid more. No, you shouldn't take a job in an abusive environment. If the people there are jerks or the processes setup crush your soul, move on. But otherwise, if you can tolerate it for 8hrs and it pays the most, take it. Make your money, stick it into a broad index fund (S&P or whatever) and retire early. Retirement is happiness... plan for it.
Not everyone has the talent or desire for college, and I think we as a society ought to recognize that.
You presume that college requires talent and desire and plumbing does not. Having done both, and having worked with people that have gone through one or the other, if I needed a complex task done and was give the option of choosing a plumber or a "college graduate" I'd pick the plumber every time. College means you're good at taking tests. That's it. You might be good at other things but really, there's no way to tell based on your degree. You don't get to be a plumber until you do an apprenticeship and someone personally certifies that you're not an idiot. If colleges had such things maybe my building wouldn't have MBA's floating in and out like god damned dust mites all day.
Also, plumbers get paid a lot more than most college graduates.
This is exactly why we have a constitution. The fear of the framers was that a "passing majority" could remove our freedoms/rights out of fear or anger.
Every body has mentel week spots? Your a dandy to think that. Most of us has no such weekness and as such you should shut you're pie whole. philistine!
Fines and seizures should go directly into prevention programs. As crime increases so do the programs we know work.
We do it all the time. It seems to be a normal course of business. Also, never sign the vendors contract. you wright your own and THEY sign.
I'm fairly sure the actual military application for this will be something to do with drones. We're currenly using tank-killing missles against individual targets, and taking out dozens of bystanders in the process sometimes. Now imagine then getting hit by 3 50 caliber rounds instead. You still might have collateral damage but it would be a lot less than the missile.
yea, but there's just as much crap closed source products as well. The only difference is you can see the garbage in an open source product. My employer has gone from being very annoyed with having to deal with open source licenses and trying to get the whole idea of "it's free, we can't negotiate the license, there's no support contract" though their approvals process... to now just having a check box for which GPL version it is and an automatic approval process. It's great now. Granted we're limited in the scope of what we build with a GPL product. If we're building something that hundreds of people will eventually depend on and we have no way to back out... then that project is going to get a lot of scrutiny. The one good thing about closed source vendors is you can sue them if shit hits the fan.
Specifically the Gates foundation is working on eradicating polio at the moment, he just put $50 million in the pot and the taliban have finally given health workers paperwork to let them pursue their goal. He said on NPR the other day that his next stop after polio would be Malaria. You can say what you want about his Microsoft days, but given what he's doing now he's a great guy in my book.
Given that our current understanding is that the universe has no end, is infinite, then the number of any type of planet you could imagine would be infinite.
It's fucking terrible software. Clearly written by someone that has no idea how Windows works. When you plug in the apple device (iPhone, iPod) windows trys to read the drive on the device. Unfortunately Apples DRM is basically to encrypt the entire drive. So windows wants to format it. To prevent windows trying to do this constantly (and if it's a family member you have to because they will eventually click yes and fuck the device until you restore it) you need to disable windows ability to check the drive. This has the unintended consequence of making it not read any other device either. So now when you plug in a camera or USB stick, it doesn't open the device or the dialog that simplifies migrating the date into your computer.
If that weren't bad enough, you can't view the files on the device without iTunes. You cannot copy over MP3s like you can with any other device on he market. They must be packaged up, encrypted and then synced to the device by iTunes. But you do not "sync" the devices. iTunes just does it for you. If you've not disabled the windows auto-detection like I mentioned above, the sync will sit for about 20min and then fail. And it will do this over and over. Once you have it and working, it will sync when you log in. But again, if you have lots of songs, it takes it 20min to do this sync. So you add 1 new song to the list that you just bought, but it needs to wait until that first sync completes, then starts over with your 1 new file. Instead of adding 1 new file to the device, iTunes instead re-encodes the encrypted file and passes the entire thing to the device. Every time you sync you are deleted the entire contents of it and re-writing. It's completely insane. I literally got a clone of my wifes $200 ipod online for $20... the only real difference was when you plugged it in, it opened like a USB stick and you dropped songs in. Done... my wife is much happier. Die iTunes, Die.
You're assuming that:
A. Our federal government isn't totally fucking retarded.
B. Our federal government follows any of their own rules/laws/policies.
Both of which have been proven about as false as possible after this past week.
I've always wondered if our government was actually bad... or just inept boobs. You know, never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence... color me surprised to find out they are both malicious AND incompetent.
Bo shit, who mixed this video? My parents have VHS tapes with better sound quality than this.
Ok, lets Mythbust your argument. We don't even need a show, or studies, we just need logic.
What's your BAC right now? 0? no... you have Alcohol in your blood at all times. It's part of most foods.
Have you ever known someone that seemed to be able to drink like a fish and then drive home without a problem?
How about someone that couldn't drink a single beer without swerving all over the road?
We all know both types... so how is it that we can set a universal standard that really has little bearing on the individuals ability to drive?
The NTSB wants people to NOT drink and drive. They could give a shit less about your BAC, they just don't want you to drink at all. That's their job, they want to make travel as safe as possible. That doesn't mean their recommendations are even remotely practical.
The fact of the matter is we have an excellent process for determining if you're safe to drive. The police officer notices un-safe behavior, pulls you over and administers the Standardized field sobriety test. This test is superior to blood tests in almost every way. .01% but they also just got done eating a half ounce of mushrooms, there's no blood test for that. But they are certainly impaired.
They are impartial, the weight, race and gender of the person being tested is irrelevant.
They are videotaped by the squadcars dash cam in most cases and can be reviewed later by both defense and prosecution.
They test the SOBRIETY of the person in question, which is what we care about right? Where-as blood tests and breathalyzers test for the presence of certain chemicals in the bloodstream, which in many cases are not the actual intoxicant. Also, blood tests are limited to what you're testing. If a persons BAC is
They do not impinge on the health privacy of a person that may very well be innocent. Once that blood is drawn, many law enforcement agencies are actually sequencing DNA, and doing all sorts of other tests without the subjects permission.
Drunk driving is a problem in this country, but law enforcement is not the solution to the problem. Treatment, education, and cheaper public transportation are the solution. I remember that when I was in college, every bar in the small town I lived in would have all cars towed from their parking lots in the morning. Every morning. It was a boon to the local impound service, but what did it do to the drunk driving rates in town? How easy would it have been to pass a city ordinance that prevented them from towing a car for 24hrs?
Because corporations are not people. They're not even controlled by people (generally) they are controlled by the market. Whatever is most profitable (in their opinion) is what they will do. They are not supporting a candidate for the good of the country. They are supporting a candidate because it makes profitable sense. For example, a company I used to work for donated to EVERY candidate for state office in my state. They donated equally (to the penny) to both sides of every campaign. Why would they do that? Really think about it.
And this is not a constitutional issue. The primary problem with this situation is that Groups, businesses and the like are treated like individuals... and they are not. People have the right to assemble, but to treat that assembly as equal to an individual is wrong. The individual requires the protection of the constitution. Microsoft and Apple do not.
Given that modern and probably future DRM will require "always online" connections... and businesses tend to monetize every conceivable aspect of their service regardless of how that impacts their customers... and the fact that this week the US federal governments pretty much been proven to be completely butt fucking insane and, I can't believe I'm saying this, Jesse Ventura might not be as crazy as we had all originally thought... It'll be a cold day in hell before I allowed any closed source software to read my mind. I doubt I'd let open source software read it either... but... shit, when we thought this stuff up in scifi novels it was so cool, how'd we ruin it? I give up and am going Amish.
No, Microsofts not damned because of the malware. Malware's the price of a free and open internet. We've got to deal with it. Corporations monitoring my encrypted network traffic is not a fair trade for being free from malware.
Never, ever, ever, listen to the vendor. Remember that when you're talking to them, you're talking to their salesmen. Not their technical lead, not their developers, their salesmen. So many people forget this when they go into these contract negotiations. These people are going to say whatever they can to get you to buy, and they rarely have any idea of what they're talking about.
The details of how long you should expect their product to serve your needs should be explicitly detailed in your contract before you buy. "this equipment/software will work for X years" If they come to you before X years is up and tell you that you need new, then you need to settle up on that old contract that they've just invalidated. If you're beyond what was contractually stipulated, well that's a management call. How important is the application of the product? If it fails, what's the impact? Does it make it harder for people to do their jobs or will you have 2000 people sitting idle until you have it fixed? Also, never sign "their" contract. We have a "contracts" department that writes all of ours, and often have vendors try to force their own contract down our throats. But, we have a company policy that stipulates we NEVER sign with the vendor. The vendor always signs with us. It's our contract, in our words, written by our legal team. If they don't like it there's nothing we can do about it, they cannot do business with us.
But keep in mind, negotiating a new contract when your completely screwed and need it now now now, is not the situation you want to be in. On the same token, if the vendors coming to you when your old systems running great you have a lot of time to haggle and little incentive to hurry the process. I think weather you upgrade is entirely dependent on what the vendor is offering. If it's a good deal and you're in a position to argue for an even better deal then why not? But if everything's running great and the vendors coming to you with some Y2K nonsense and you need to upgrade now at 2x the price of your last upgrade then tell them to shove it.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist...
Don't let your distaste for the victim blunt the horror of the crime. Either we stand up and say "No!" now, or later generations will look back upon this moment and ask why we didn't. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There are so many cliche catch-phrases that describe exactly what we're seeing in our government today it's almost comedy that we let it continue. It's fucking obvious what is happening here. Stop it here, stop it now. You will lament this time for the rest of your life if you don't make a firm stand now. You may not be able to stop it, but you can at least say you didn't help it with your own complacency.
Who said they're going to keep it at 12 volts? A VRM can also be the transformer, but it doesn't have to be. They could ramp down the voltage on the board just like they always did and just have a VRM on the chip that is maintaining a steady voltage. If you read the article they are barging about how little fluctuation they are getting. So it seems like what they are doing here is adding basically an extra regulator on chip so they can have extremely stable voltage. I'm guessing as small as things are getting now, just the trip across the motherboard can have noticeable fluctuations on supply voltages due to EM interference and temp fluctuations, so having a regulator on the chip lets them get more precise. Maybe that precision will let them do some magic on the chip to increase performance or something?
Because Journalists are irritating. The government claims to have the right to send a hellfire missile into your living room by command of the executive branch with no over-site from any other branch of government. We need to keep tight control of one of those 2 groups... I vote for the one with the nukes.