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  1. Re:Not the same? Not an actual backdoor? on After Intel ME, Researchers Find Security Bug In AMD's SPS Secret Chip-on-Chip (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    TPM is very useful for storing secrets like encryption keys. For example, you can use it to store the encryption keys for your hard drive, in order to support waking from sleep modes, without needing the key to be in RAM where it is vulnerable.

    You can also use TPM to secure your OS against rootkit attacks. The TPM can verify the boot code is unmodified, independent of the CPU and any other code that could be compromised.

    Hardware TPMs have proven reliable. AMD uses a software TPM, which has this issue.

  2. Re:Hard to believe for me... on Some Smartphone Salesmen Aren't Sold on the iPhone X (cnet.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Face ID and the missing home button are a poor compromise to avoid having to "copy" other phones that put the fingerprint sensor on the back.

    They reduced usability and performance just to avoid the obvious, tried and tested solution.

  3. Re:Needs updating on C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you meant & instead of %.

    In any case, there are better ways to do this: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~...

    My favourite is the second example using only AND operations with constants. It's faster and has more predictable execution time, although it's not constant.

    I seem to recall that some systems (BSD?) have a prototype function for this in their standard library too, which on some CPUs complies to a single instruction.

  4. Re:No on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Maybe we don't need to replace the main CPU, just add a second one that handles secure stuff for us. Performance doesn't need to be as good if it is only managing secrets and does some crypto, i.e. the stuff we are worried about being stolen.

    That's basically what a lot of these CPUs do anyway, with things like TrustZone and Intel's management engine stuff. The difference will be that it's under our control.

  5. Re:Oh Really on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The really have to accept a loss of performance, no choice at all. The fix for the Intel only issue is really killing some server workloads:

    https://www.epicgames.com/fort...

    50% performance loss for a game server...

  6. Re:Theoretically it could last all week. on Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why a phone OS would really help. In Android you can keep WiFi on and it makes little difference to battery life because the phone turns it off and keeps all the apps asleep most of the time anyway. When the screen is off it sleeps for increasingly long intervals, up to 15 minutes iirc.

  7. Re:Counter question on Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com) · · Score: 1

    Chinese manufacturers will provide something at reasonable cost.

  8. Phone with a big screen and decent keyboard? Sounds great.

    Based on the frequency of my auto-correct based typos you can probably tell that I post from my phone a lot already.

  9. Re:GIANT MIDDLE FINGER on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll consider it if they pay my going rate to rent the ad space. â100 per ad when stationary, or â1000 per ad when moving seems reasonable.

  10. Re:If this works as well as ads in web pages on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why they favour product placement now. Waze has been doing it for years, you see random business highlighted on the map as landmarks. If you open the restaurant search it suggests the brands that paid first.

    With car integration I imagine it will start highlighting petrol stations when you get below 75% fuel remaining, for example.

  11. Re:Sigh on Your Car May Soon Start Serving You Ads (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    AM won't go away any time soon. Aside from the longer range and low cost, it's seem as a alternative to digital radio where reception is poor. The spectrum is also less valuable than higher frequencies so there is less benefit to turning it off.

    I finished working on a brand new AM receiver last year, to supply to countries where FM is being turned off.

  12. Re:Apple TV on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    Rather expensive though.

    Just get a Raspberry Pi, install Kodi (literally 3 minutes) and share media via Windows shares, NFS, Plex or whatever you like. Your TV remote will control it seamlessly.

    You are in full control, no walled garden, and it costs about â40 for everything. Future proof as well.

  13. Re:2nd gen FireTV on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    Also, it didn't support 60 FPS on YouTube back when it had the app. If you like video games or other 60 FPS content it's no good.

    Google Chromecast and Kodi work fine.

  14. Re:No on Can We Replace Intel x86 With an Open Source Chip? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of open source cores out there. Unfortunately we lack good enough free tools to synthesise really good ones into viable hardware. Basically we don't have a good free compiler.

  15. Re: No, it's a blatant re-branding. on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You consider random internet trolls be more definitive than the mainstream movement?

    Unfortunately you are not alone, and there is little anyone can do about the trolling.

  16. Re: We all know the reason why on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sorry, there is no freedom from *consequences*. You can exercise your freedom of speech as much as you like, but if you start a nuclear war that's on you.

    The first amendment isn't an effective ICBM countermeasure, and even though you have a constitutional right to say what you like people are still gonna blame you for the fallout.

    If you really want to ditch that responsibility, maybe resign as POTUS.

  17. Re:This Will Go Nowhere on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    They run like ass.

    Buddy, there's a pill for that.

  18. Re:Because they are waffling on own standards on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    https://twitter.com/realDonald...

    "Just heard Foreign Minister of North Korea speak at U.N. If he echoes thoughts of Little Rocket Man, they won't be around much longer!"

    Of course there is always another tweet from Trump's past that is worth remembering:

    https://twitter.com/realDonald...

    "Be prepared, there is a small chance that our horrendous leadership could unknowingly lead us into World War III."

  19. Re: No, it's a blatant re-branding. on Ex-NSA Hacker Is Building an AI To Find Hate and Far-Right Symbols on Twitter and Facebook (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that's the very thing that intersectionality avoids doing! Being white intersects with being male and being Slovakian and being a factory worker. The whole point of it is to consider those other factors and differing experiences.

  20. Re:This is great! on What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why wait? Just look at Europe.

  21. Re:Trump's public statements aren't tha to underst on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So tasteless and narcissistic, but lacking any actual business skills or leadership qualities beyond people hoping to get rich by association.

  22. Re:Becasue Gab.ai & people are sick of censors on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Not many because Gab is still invite only and not indexed by search engines. You can't link to Gab posts, they are only visible to logged in users.

    That won't charge any time soon either, due to the content they host and the lack of funding options because of it.

  23. Re: We all know the reason why on Why Twitter Hasn't Banned President Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The problem with his tweets are that his unfiltered, unpresidential and undiplomatic outbursts might start a war or have some severe economic consequences. It's a perfect demonstration of why people with that much power are usually more restrained and careful about what they say.

  24. The people who are in denial are the ones who think that arbitrary biological factors determine gender.

  25. Re:Escalation of Terms to Justify Censorship on How Do Americans Define Online Harassment? (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    So your logic is that because she complains about people calling her a liar without justification, she must be a liar...

    Sounds like heads I win, tails you lose.