You can only really successfully sue the media over a story that can easily be proven false. It's hard to do thanks to the protection afforded by anonymous sources.
24 chipset lanes handle other connectivity, like M.2 slot
And that along with Spectre/Meltdown is why you shouldn't go Intel for systems which require fast storage I/O. You'll note that Ryzens also only dedicate 16 PCIe lanes to graphics, but have an additional 4 dedicated to NVMe.
Any chip that's old by "several years" would have at best pcie2, at roughly half the bandwidth per lane of pcie3.
PCIe 3.0 is over 8 years old. Dual GPU systems would consume all 16 lanes available which is precisely why AMD has upped the lanes to 20 for even their lower entry Ryzen chips. Gotta leave enough for storage.
They haven't had time to fix Spectre and Meltdown, I think I'll pass.
Incidentally there are not some 6 different Speculative Execution attacks on processors. According to the test script my brand new AMD is vulnerable to 5 of them. When I got news of this the first thing I did... disable the work arounds in Windows. Screw performance hits. My enemies are the script kiddies, and trojan makers of the internet, not the NSA or other well funded organisations that actually *may* have the capability to do something *useful* with these exploits.
If you are buying for gaming you are online for sure, in a swamp of script kiddies that know your IP and have a vested interest in learning your passwords.
Calm yourself. If a script kiddie is able to get your passwords using Spectre/Meltdown then you have really ballsed up your own security big time. These aren't fly by vulnerabilities that are exploited like a shitty PDF bug or I/E vulnerabilities. Spectre / Meltdown have not left the lab for very good reasons. They are highly targetted attacks that require knowledge and existing access to the machines.
If you're worried about the NSA getting access to your kiddy porn, patch. If you're worried about giving shared access to your VMs in your cloud service, patch.
If you're worried about script kiddies as a result of not patching, may I recommend a big dose of perspective.
Oh noes, shared data. Whoop de fucking do. Without knowing what that shared data is you're targeting precisely nothing. Also this has been patched against by all browsers.
Lets assume for a moment that something Ajit Pai said was true (no seriously stick with me for a moment, however unlikely this premise is). Why is the answer to a poor regulation that seems to affect a minor edge case to repeal? If the regulation impeded carriers upgrading, then add verbiage to the regulation that allows them to upgrade while still being bound to the original regulation.
It could very well be that the regulation did catch edge cases that made them restrictive. I haven't read regulation but if it contains the text "service at least as good" then it should be modified (NOT SCRAPPED) but modified to instead list the specific service requirements that need to be met.
Granted by the charta of human rights. And in Europe granted by law, after all we don't live in the middle ages here.
Sorry but you'll find that not only in Europe but even in Germany children do not have the same rights as adults.
By the way, neither the Charter of Human Rights nor the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU give you the right to information. Additionally you'll find there are many rights enumerated in both charters that don't apply to minors. Do you see very many 14 year old children vote for MPs of the EU parliament?
I have industrial machines. If manufacturers designed equipment where I could no longer repair them by myself, I'm not going to purchase their machine. I'm quite capable of designing and building my own if I have too.
And as a result of that kind of thinking in the wider market there are still plenty of manufacturers who are happy to offer you what you want.
Ultimately you hit the point of how the market forces work: Repairability for consumer gear is not high on nearly everyone's (saying "most" would understate this) priority.
It's not the engineers. Blame the business-school types who manage them
Nope wrong target. Business school types get taught to deliver what consumers want. Your laptops wouldn't be paper thin and completely unmaintainable if it weren't for the consumers who queue (literally in Apple's case) to buy the sleek shiny unopenable devices.
Maybe put some blame on marketing types for swaying consumer opinion, but ultimately if repairability were such a big key requirement for people the business-school types would be bending over backwards to provide just that.
Just like buying a laptop that I never even unbox. Things always look like a cost when you only look at one side of the equation. Anti-competitive practices come at a cost. Just how much money does Apple make again from selling default search options to Google?
By the way I am using my laptop so that wasn't just a cost, and neither is paying $40 in response to now being allowed to monetise a platform in ways that were previously not possible due to the previous illegal agreement.
Define "works". LineageOS has a market share that is almost immeasurably small. You will find a niche in only those people who prefer to have an OS without any of the ecosystem (Where's my Candy Crush APK?) or those who prefer special purpose services (Kindle).
In either case you're effectively giving up the traditional Android phone in the process. Expect next year to be the year of Linux on the phone.... wait dammit that didn't work the way I wanted it to, but you get the point.
Think that's too harsh, but the US needs to ban straws?
Yes the US needs to ban straws, so does the rest of the west for a couple of reasons. Firstly by leading by example some of the culprits are actually following: There are plastic bag bans in several western countries already, guess what, Asian countries are following suit.
That and you can get back on your high horse when you stop exporting your plastic waste to Asia.
I really really wish the pendulum would swing back to the operating system to just being an operating system. The kernel, drivers, window manager, desktop environment, etc., but basically no built-in apps, personal assistants, advertising, activation, or any other nonsense unless I want it.
I don't. The default system should have at least some form of basic functionality including internet, communication, media and back office capabilities without having to go out and customise everything.
Now what I do wish is for every default shipped thing to be removable when replaced with something else. Ideally even given the option automatically. I.e. when you assign a new default handler for all images the question Windows should be asking: "Do you want to remove the Photos app entirely or only reassign the default?".
Granted by whom? I think you'll find a 14 year old has very few rights in many countries including your own. Most countries have a legal process (emancipation) through which a minor needs to go through to obtain many rights.
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... he would be suing
You can only really successfully sue the media over a story that can easily be proven false. It's hard to do thanks to the protection afforded by anonymous sources.
If they were counterfeited in China, why bother adding the logo?
You do understand the point of "counterfeiting" right?
24 chipset lanes handle other connectivity, like M.2 slot
And that along with Spectre/Meltdown is why you shouldn't go Intel for systems which require fast storage I/O. You'll note that Ryzens also only dedicate 16 PCIe lanes to graphics, but have an additional 4 dedicated to NVMe.
Any chip that's old by "several years" would have at best pcie2, at roughly half the bandwidth per lane of pcie3.
PCIe 3.0 is over 8 years old. Dual GPU systems would consume all 16 lanes available which is precisely why AMD has upped the lanes to 20 for even their lower entry Ryzen chips. Gotta leave enough for storage.
They haven't had time to fix Spectre and Meltdown, I think I'll pass.
Incidentally there are not some 6 different Speculative Execution attacks on processors. According to the test script my brand new AMD is vulnerable to 5 of them. When I got news of this the first thing I did... disable the work arounds in Windows. Screw performance hits. My enemies are the script kiddies, and trojan makers of the internet, not the NSA or other well funded organisations that actually *may* have the capability to do something *useful* with these exploits.
If you are buying for gaming you are online for sure, in a swamp of script kiddies that know your IP and have a vested interest in learning your passwords.
Calm yourself. If a script kiddie is able to get your passwords using Spectre/Meltdown then you have really ballsed up your own security big time. These aren't fly by vulnerabilities that are exploited like a shitty PDF bug or I/E vulnerabilities. Spectre / Meltdown have not left the lab for very good reasons. They are highly targetted attacks that require knowledge and existing access to the machines.
If you're worried about the NSA getting access to your kiddy porn, patch.
If you're worried about giving shared access to your VMs in your cloud service, patch.
If you're worried about script kiddies as a result of not patching, may I recommend a big dose of perspective.
Oh noes, shared data. Whoop de fucking do. Without knowing what that shared data is you're targeting precisely nothing. Also this has been patched against by all browsers.
Get a helmet!
Lets assume for a moment that something Ajit Pai said was true (no seriously stick with me for a moment, however unlikely this premise is). Why is the answer to a poor regulation that seems to affect a minor edge case to repeal? If the regulation impeded carriers upgrading, then add verbiage to the regulation that allows them to upgrade while still being bound to the original regulation.
It could very well be that the regulation did catch edge cases that made them restrictive. I haven't read regulation but if it contains the text "service at least as good" then it should be modified (NOT SCRAPPED) but modified to instead list the specific service requirements that need to be met.
Systemd is not Linux.
I minor setback. I'm sure this will be fixed in version 230.
Granted by the charta of human rights.
And in Europe granted by law, after all we don't live in the middle ages here.
Sorry but you'll find that not only in Europe but even in Germany children do not have the same rights as adults.
By the way, neither the Charter of Human Rights nor the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU give you the right to information. Additionally you'll find there are many rights enumerated in both charters that don't apply to minors. Do you see very many 14 year old children vote for MPs of the EU parliament?
If 90% of table salt people are using all the time has microplastics in it, then it clearly has no negative health effects
Yes as said by asbestos manufacturers 30 years ago.
I have industrial machines. If manufacturers designed equipment where I could no longer repair them by myself, I'm not going to purchase their machine. I'm quite capable of designing and building my own if I have too.
And as a result of that kind of thinking in the wider market there are still plenty of manufacturers who are happy to offer you what you want.
Ultimately you hit the point of how the market forces work: Repairability for consumer gear is not high on nearly everyone's (saying "most" would understate this) priority.
It's not the engineers. Blame the business-school types who manage them
Nope wrong target. Business school types get taught to deliver what consumers want. Your laptops wouldn't be paper thin and completely unmaintainable if it weren't for the consumers who queue (literally in Apple's case) to buy the sleek shiny unopenable devices.
Maybe put some blame on marketing types for swaying consumer opinion, but ultimately if repairability were such a big key requirement for people the business-school types would be bending over backwards to provide just that.
Just like buying a laptop that I never even unbox. Things always look like a cost when you only look at one side of the equation. Anti-competitive practices come at a cost. Just how much money does Apple make again from selling default search options to Google?
By the way I am using my laptop so that wasn't just a cost, and neither is paying $40 in response to now being allowed to monetise a platform in ways that were previously not possible due to the previous illegal agreement.
Define "works". LineageOS has a market share that is almost immeasurably small. You will find a niche in only those people who prefer to have an OS without any of the ecosystem (Where's my Candy Crush APK?) or those who prefer special purpose services (Kindle).
In either case you're effectively giving up the traditional Android phone in the process. Expect next year to be the year of Linux on the phone .... wait dammit that didn't work the way I wanted it to, but you get the point.
Yeah how dare them not provide everything for free.
It doesn't cost anything. $40 is nothing compared to the cost anti-competitive practices impart on the economy.
Think that's too harsh, but the US needs to ban straws?
Yes the US needs to ban straws, so does the rest of the west for a couple of reasons. Firstly by leading by example some of the culprits are actually following: There are plastic bag bans in several western countries already, guess what, Asian countries are following suit.
That and you can get back on your high horse when you stop exporting your plastic waste to Asia.
We have engineering solutions. Unfortunately they all either fall into cateogories that include "politically unacceptable" or "socially unacceptable".
Pretending that you can magically fix this with technology without involving politics or society is just (I refuse to be polite here) sheer stupidity.
I refuse to go back to digging up grubs and eating grass while shivering in a cave.
See: You are part of the social problem because you think the current solutions require you to do this. Stop being part of the social problem.
I really really wish the pendulum would swing back to the operating system to just being an operating system. The kernel, drivers, window manager, desktop environment, etc., but basically no built-in apps, personal assistants, advertising, activation, or any other nonsense unless I want it.
I don't. The default system should have at least some form of basic functionality including internet, communication, media and back office capabilities without having to go out and customise everything.
Now what I do wish is for every default shipped thing to be removable when replaced with something else. Ideally even given the option automatically. I.e. when you assign a new default handler for all images the question Windows should be asking: "Do you want to remove the Photos app entirely or only reassign the default?".
and lots of complaints will vanish
I think you're dramatically over estimating how much users give a crap.
Based on the Slashdot comments from the anti-systemd crowd everyone here now runs BSD and Linux is officially dead.
Heathen! Off to confession with you!
What about a 17 year old? They are legally minors. What justification do you have to arbitrarily draw your line?
A 14 year old and above has the right
Granted by whom? I think you'll find a 14 year old has very few rights in many countries including your own.
Most countries have a legal process (emancipation) through which a minor needs to go through to obtain many rights.