At some point we are either going to have to have massive retraining efforts, instill some sort of strong, robust social safety net (UBI, strong unemployment, whatever), or face the horribly destabilizing and violence-producing effects of massive numbers of idle, frustrated, unemployed people. It's your choice.
The USA is built on the freedom to make your own way in life, whether that's upwards or downwards. If you make it, great. If you don't, too bad - I've got mine so FOAD. Your country is not prepared to maintain universal medicare, let alone a 'strong, robust, social safety net'. Until you sort out your overall corruption at all levels of government - and the mess that brings, your country will continue to spiral down into irrelevance & oblivion. Lucky for you that you have such a massive base to keep you propped up for quite some time. Fingers crossed my US friends and family will have passed before huge disruption occurs, OR that someone somehow gets into power that actually makes a lasting difference.
and the auto-shut-off kettle. And dishwasher, dryer, vacuum cleaner. Heck even the fridge used to be a basement with a block of ice brought down from the mountains didn't it? Taxing robots is useless, and would require a heap of regulation.
Hands-on care for the under aged and elderly. Obviously if you're male then don't bother with the childcare aspect - you simply won't be allowed to be near children unless the place has 24/7 CCTV. So look to elderly care.
Of course, if your country doesn't care that much for the elderly, perhaps you're SOL. If you're in the US, maybe prison guard. You incarcerate a lot of your population, and I doubt that's going to reduce anytime soon (well, unless you get you're War on Drugs under control).
"At least one" could refer to one air-gapped PC in the whole department that runs a particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system at a reasonable or any price.
Not health related, and yes we have these. Quite a few actually. *Not* spending tens to hundred of thousands on new hardware just so you can upgrade the OS of an airgapped device to a newer version of Windows is good sense.
I would expect the source is all that oil that is being pumped out the ME and sent wherever to be burnt and end up as CO2 & more (about half a billion tonnes a year)
There's a lot MORE coal production elsewhere though, so blaming the ME for the majority seems incorrect. China as the highest coal 'producer' was around 3.8 gigatonnes of coal annually, so just on that scale is more than 7.5x as destructive. All those stats are highly rounded and not current anymore, but the scale should be a nice indicator that the ME is not the worst (best?) at CO2 production.
By "exporting" education, America earns billions of dollars and generates jobs for hundreds of thousands of university employees. Portraying this as a "bad thing" is idiotic. We should be working to make it far easier for foreign students to study in America.
It's good in that it addresses trade deficits, provides jobs & funding for local infrastructure.
What is "bad" is administration intervening in marking students to the same standard across the board, and reducing pass requirements for full-fee paying internationals. Turning a blind eye to plagiarism and cheating.
This reduces the reputation of the university and affects those that have graduated from it. Internationals don't care as they have their degree.
This is happening everywhere where exporting education is a big part of university revenue.
I just did. My 4790k was released in 2014 and runs at 4GHz. It took Intel 2 CPU generations to equal that single core speed (with only the 6700k in Aug 15), then the 7700k finally beat it (just) @ 4.2GHz a year ago - Jan '17. The 7740X @ 4.3 followed in June '17 (and pulls 25% extra power to get that less than 10% increase...).
The 8 series tops out at 3.7Ghz. They are all still running the 4 cores.
Sure it's "older". It's certainly no-where near obsolete.
If they could they would - this is a PR disaster larger than the FDIV & FOOF bugs of yesteryear.
The fix requires permanent disabling of performance enhancing functionality, and is required a lot faster than BIOS updates could bring - hence the OS inclusions.
It will take over a year before Intel has new silicon out that does not have this flaw baked into their CPUs.
You missed the part where you run terminal services / VCD and have the full power of whatever you are connected to displayed via your phone to your connected high-res monitor. I'm quite positive you can rent more cores/ram/storage from a cloud service at a cheap price when you need it. Nvidia is releasing their game streaming service with a dedicated GPU per user so even that is getting closer. If I can stream from my steam-playing gaming device to my dock-connected mobile device that's pretty much the same thing. Sure it may not be quite as quick as local services, but it's a pretty large step forward.
When Samsung update their Dex dock firmware to support >1080p external monitors I'll give it another crack.They should look at display port chaining too for multiple displays, but I guess they're already working on that.
tl:dr There are plenty of current use cases where a desktop can be replaced with a docked mobile device.
I just read the memo (I'm not American so it wasn't really a priority) and I found it intriguing, and extremely careful in how it was written.
What I think he meant: the different genders are inherently biased towards certain things regardless of how they were raised, plus cultural expectations will add bias towards the jobs / fields that people may undertake. His argument is that discriminating for underrepresented groups is discriminating against highly represented groups, so perhaps Google should be looking at the underlying reasons for current under representation and modify job requirements so that representation becomes more evenly matched to your population.
IIRC the proof of concept had JS in a web browser that can read your kernel memory, dump any credentials or authorisation keys plus the urls used in conjunction with that data. Pretty handy to get account details for your online banking, social media, webmail blah blah blah.
Bit like all that mining in a browser controversy happening, but instead of using your PC to mine currency, their trawling your RAM for anything useful.
Oh, yeah all that hypervisor stuff, where a VM running this malware can obtain the credentials to other VMs running on the host. That's pretty bad.
Is there a compelling reason to believe that AMD processors are less likely to be vulnerable in the future than Intel processors?
Right now only Intel is massively exposed on one security issue where other manufacturers are not. So yes - this makes it appear that AMD design philosophy values security over performance. Whether that is proved out remains to be seen.
If one manufacturer is cutting corners with the engineering and the other isn't, then there's a logical reason.
Intel seems to be the one cutting corners - for decades. You do remember the FDIV and FOOF bugs in early Pentiums? I don't recall other manufacturers having such severe problems (sure, mainly PR with FDIV) that a recall was required.
Otherwise, there isn't a logical basis for using that as a reason to change your behaviour in the future.
Intel cannot provide CPUs to retail without this flaw for another 18 months or so. That should most certainly influence short-term future behaviour IF the fix causes significant performance issues with your workload.
It's also entirely possible that, faced with backlash and distrust, the manufacturer might take additional steps to ensure that no such similar issues occur in the future. If there was demonstrable evidence of this, it might be a good reason not to switch.
Sounds strange to not switch to a vendor that doesn't suffer from this vulnerability, in the hope that Intel will fix it's processes to ensure this doesn't happen again. Right now though, there's no good reason to specify Intel for your CPUs.
The important question is whether there is any reason to believe Intel processors will be more vulnerable in the future.
Why is that important? All manufacturers will have problems. You make plans with known data today. Intel messed up big time, and until the problem is fixed they should absolutely have this issue in the 'known problems' pile when consideration of CPU choice is done.
It is all "renewable". The timescales vary somewhat however.
The development of lignin & cellulose eating biota around 300 million years ago means all those coal and oil fields are not really 'renewable' any more.
.the people who could afford it would just hire a repairman.
The repairmen are a target audience - much easier to have repair manuals aligned with the work you are doing, in your field of view, showing you what to do, than having to either remember it or look away at a book. There are many jobs where not needing to use your hands to see a reference would be very useful.
I can see there being several dozen or more of these in our business already, for bridge inspectors - and that's my first thought, we have a lot of others where it could be useful.
America is rich beyond belief. The US government is not trying hard enough to get access to those funds. For some reason, spending vast sums on the MI complex propping up non-US territories for access to resources is seen as a better strategy than developing your own access to uncontested resources in space.
I know this situation all too well. Thankfully the pointy eared set are cottoning on to the inefficiencies that re-sellers add and we are on our way towards direct relationships with manufacturers where possible.
The internet as we know it in the US has existed for a very long time with limited laws and regulations. Most laws and regulations simply do not work as technology finds ways around them. I understand technology has evolved to grant ISP's the ability block and throttle specific connections, but vice versa the free market approach along with technology like tunneling and encryption also work around most anything ISP's can do. This is why the internet is so great.
With the repealing of NN, ISPs are quite capable of throttling all packets that are not in their priority paid list.
I would rather governments create laws to open up telephone poles, wireless spectrums and enable municipality built networks vs laws which really do not mean much and are easily circumvented. If there were more competition in the free markets companies that throttle, block or have fast lanes will lose to those companies that do not. Again free market.
You seem to think you live in a Communications 'free market'. If Google can't do it, startups won't be able to either. Until there is tangible benefits to your politicians, they won't bother doing anything about that - and current donations by incumbent telcos could be quite hard to beat.
+That's exactly what we were doing in Australia. Paying off the incumbent Telcos, taking over their networks, and building a brand new, Fibre to the premise network to 90+% of premises, with the rest wireless or satellite.
Was going ok until the conservative party that got in when the fibre rollout was just ramping decided that the old copper networks were too good to just throw away, so changed to using the old cable networks and replacing fibre with copper based VDSL.
The copper based rollout is becoming a disaster with high costs to re mediate problem sections, a significant % of premises can't even get >50Mb at all.
So in theory a good idea, that will be wrecked by one side of politics at least:/
Yep I have had good times with Blizzard downloads maxxing 100Mb connection, especially for larger downloads. Reinstalling 16+GB of D3 when it had a problem was not an issue, less than 20 mins IIRC.
Just iron my shirts, that's all i really want. I know there's a thing out there that does it in concept, but I have yet to see it in my local store.
I'm happy doing pretty much everything else, it doesn't take much time at all. Though maybe a Roomba to do the floors would be nice.
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At some point we are either going to have to have massive retraining efforts, instill some sort of strong, robust social safety net (UBI, strong unemployment, whatever), or face the horribly destabilizing and violence-producing effects of massive numbers of idle, frustrated, unemployed people. It's your choice.
The USA is built on the freedom to make your own way in life, whether that's upwards or downwards. If you make it, great. If you don't, too bad - I've got mine so FOAD.
Your country is not prepared to maintain universal medicare, let alone a 'strong, robust, social safety net'. Until you sort out your overall corruption at all levels of government - and the mess that brings, your country will continue to spiral down into irrelevance & oblivion. Lucky for you that you have such a massive base to keep you propped up for quite some time.
Fingers crossed my US friends and family will have passed before huge disruption occurs, OR that someone somehow gets into power that actually makes a lasting difference.
Taxing robots is useless, and would require a heap of regulation.
Just keep your company taxes high...
Hands-on care for the under aged and elderly. Obviously if you're male then don't bother with the childcare aspect - you simply won't be allowed to be near children unless the place has 24/7 CCTV. So look to elderly care.
Of course, if your country doesn't care that much for the elderly, perhaps you're SOL. If you're in the US, maybe prison guard. You incarcerate a lot of your population, and I doubt that's going to reduce anytime soon (well, unless you get you're War on Drugs under control).
"Even if no goods were sold or transported across state lines, the Court found that there could be an indirect effect on interstate commerce."
It's a pretty long bow to draw, but has apparently worked previously - though that was related to agriculture...
"At least one" could refer to one air-gapped PC in the whole department that runs a particular application or device driver whose publisher refuses to make available a version compatible with a more recent version of Windows or a competing operating system at a reasonable or any price.
Not health related, and yes we have these. Quite a few actually. *Not* spending tens to hundred of thousands on new hardware just so you can upgrade the OS of an airgapped device to a newer version of Windows is good sense.
There's a lot MORE coal production elsewhere though, so blaming the ME for the majority seems incorrect. China as the highest coal 'producer' was around 3.8 gigatonnes of coal annually, so just on that scale is more than 7.5x as destructive.
All those stats are highly rounded and not current anymore, but the scale should be a nice indicator that the ME is not the worst (best?) at CO2 production.
By "exporting" education, America earns billions of dollars and generates jobs for hundreds of thousands of university employees. Portraying this as a "bad thing" is idiotic. We should be working to make it far easier for foreign students to study in America.
It's good in that it addresses trade deficits, provides jobs & funding for local infrastructure.
What is "bad" is administration intervening in marking students to the same standard across the board, and reducing pass requirements for full-fee paying internationals. Turning a blind eye to plagiarism and cheating.
This reduces the reputation of the university and affects those that have graduated from it. Internationals don't care as they have their degree.
This is happening everywhere where exporting education is a big part of university revenue.
It took Intel 2 CPU generations to equal that single core speed (with only the 6700k in Aug 15), then the 7700k finally beat it (just) @ 4.2GHz a year ago - Jan '17.
The 7740X @ 4.3 followed in June '17 (and pulls 25% extra power to get that less than 10% increase...).
The 8 series tops out at 3.7Ghz.
They are all still running the 4 cores.
Sure it's "older". It's certainly no-where near obsolete.
The fix requires permanent disabling of performance enhancing functionality, and is required a lot faster than BIOS updates could bring - hence the OS inclusions.
It will take over a year before Intel has new silicon out that does not have this flaw baked into their CPUs.
Nvidia is releasing their game streaming service with a dedicated GPU per user so even that is getting closer.
If I can stream from my steam-playing gaming device to my dock-connected mobile device that's pretty much the same thing. Sure it may not be quite as quick as local services, but it's a pretty large step forward.
When Samsung update their Dex dock firmware to support >1080p external monitors I'll give it another crack.They should look at display port chaining too for multiple displays, but I guess they're already working on that.
tl:dr
There are plenty of current use cases where a desktop can be replaced with a docked mobile device.
What I think he meant: the different genders are inherently biased towards certain things regardless of how they were raised, plus cultural expectations will add bias towards the jobs / fields that people may undertake.
His argument is that discriminating for underrepresented groups is discriminating against highly represented groups, so perhaps Google should be looking at the underlying reasons for current under representation and modify job requirements so that representation becomes more evenly matched to your population.
IIRC the proof of concept had JS in a web browser that can read your kernel memory, dump any credentials or authorisation keys plus the urls used in conjunction with that data. Pretty handy to get account details for your online banking, social media, webmail blah blah blah. Bit like all that mining in a browser controversy happening, but instead of using your PC to mine currency, their trawling your RAM for anything useful.
Oh, yeah all that hypervisor stuff, where a VM running this malware can obtain the credentials to other VMs running on the host. That's pretty bad.
Is there a compelling reason to believe that AMD processors are less likely to be vulnerable in the future than Intel processors?
Right now only Intel is massively exposed on one security issue where other manufacturers are not. So yes - this makes it appear that AMD design philosophy values security over performance. Whether that is proved out remains to be seen.
If one manufacturer is cutting corners with the engineering and the other isn't, then there's a logical reason.
Intel seems to be the one cutting corners - for decades. You do remember the FDIV and FOOF bugs in early Pentiums? I don't recall other manufacturers having such severe problems (sure, mainly PR with FDIV) that a recall was required.
Otherwise, there isn't a logical basis for using that as a reason to change your behaviour in the future.
Intel cannot provide CPUs to retail without this flaw for another 18 months or so. That should most certainly influence short-term future behaviour IF the fix causes significant performance issues with your workload.
It's also entirely possible that, faced with backlash and distrust, the manufacturer might take additional steps to ensure that no such similar issues occur in the future. If there was demonstrable evidence of this, it might be a good reason not to switch.
Sounds strange to not switch to a vendor that doesn't suffer from this vulnerability, in the hope that Intel will fix it's processes to ensure this doesn't happen again. Right now though, there's no good reason to specify Intel for your CPUs.
The important question is whether there is any reason to believe Intel processors will be more vulnerable in the future.
Why is that important? All manufacturers will have problems. You make plans with known data today. Intel messed up big time, and until the problem is fixed they should absolutely have this issue in the 'known problems' pile when consideration of CPU choice is done.
The next quarter, expected production is 15,000, though potentially only 5,000 will be made.
Looks to me that Tesla are less than 3 months behind schedule. So why the anxiety?
It is all "renewable". The timescales vary somewhat however.
The development of lignin & cellulose eating biota around 300 million years ago means all those coal and oil fields are not really 'renewable' any more.
They need to change the working culture such that more than a 40 hour working week is *shameful* to both employer and employee.
.the people who could afford it would just hire a repairman.
The repairmen are a target audience - much easier to have repair manuals aligned with the work you are doing, in your field of view, showing you what to do, than having to either remember it or look away at a book.
There are many jobs where not needing to use your hands to see a reference would be very useful.
I can see there being several dozen or more of these in our business already, for bridge inspectors - and that's my first thought, we have a lot of others where it could be useful.
America is rich beyond belief. The US government is not trying hard enough to get access to those funds. For some reason, spending vast sums on the MI complex propping up non-US territories for access to resources is seen as a better strategy than developing your own access to uncontested resources in space.
I know this situation all too well. Thankfully the pointy eared set are cottoning on to the inefficiencies that re-sellers add and we are on our way towards direct relationships with manufacturers where possible.
The internet as we know it in the US has existed for a very long time with limited laws and regulations. Most laws and regulations simply do not work as technology finds ways around them. I understand technology has evolved to grant ISP's the ability block and throttle specific connections, but vice versa the free market approach along with technology like tunneling and encryption also work around most anything ISP's can do. This is why the internet is so great.
With the repealing of NN, ISPs are quite capable of throttling all packets that are not in their priority paid list.
I would rather governments create laws to open up telephone poles, wireless spectrums and enable municipality built networks vs laws which really do not mean much and are easily circumvented. If there were more competition in the free markets companies that throttle, block or have fast lanes will lose to those companies that do not. Again free market.
You seem to think you live in a Communications 'free market'. If Google can't do it, startups won't be able to either. Until there is tangible benefits to your politicians, they won't bother doing anything about that - and current donations by incumbent telcos could be quite hard to beat.
Was going ok until the conservative party that got in when the fibre rollout was just ramping decided that the old copper networks were too good to just throw away, so changed to using the old cable networks and replacing fibre with copper based VDSL.
The copper based rollout is becoming a disaster with high costs to re mediate problem sections, a significant % of premises can't even get >50Mb at all.
So in theory a good idea, that will be wrecked by one side of politics at least :/
Yep I have had good times with Blizzard downloads maxxing 100Mb connection, especially for larger downloads. Reinstalling 16+GB of D3 when it had a problem was not an issue, less than 20 mins IIRC.
Just iron my shirts, that's all i really want. I know there's a thing out there that does it in concept, but I have yet to see it in my local store.
I'm happy doing pretty much everything else, it doesn't take much time at all. Though maybe a Roomba to do the floors would be nice.