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  1. Re:bitcoin is a disaster for the environment. on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    and about a third of the heating if you put the energy into a heat pump.

  2. Re:What is Bitcoin these days? on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's never going to be a transaction system. It takes too long to process transactions and there are global limits to the number of transactions per day (based on blocks mined and transactions per block) It's limited to about 10 per second.

    To contrast that with a real global payment network, Visa can do 65,000 per second.

  3. They've completed their pump-and-dump scheme.

  4. You fix it by not sharing kernel page tables and relying on memory protection to keep it hidden.
    It doesn't matter what CPU you use, you can always not share the kernel memory. Doing different things for different processors is what adds complexity.

    Looks like they tried to make it selective and broke it.

  5. Re:That'll show 'em on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel does a crap load of commits for networking in Linux as well. If Linux didn't work with the latest network cards, it wouldn't be very popular. If it couldn't use new hardware, like crypto acceleration, it wouldn't be used for web servers.

    Sponsorship in this context means the developers writing the code are getting paid to do so by a company. If you take out all other sponsored commits, Intel contributes nearly as much as every non-sponsored developer in the world.

    Like it or not, Linux is majority built by a handful of large companies - Intel, Samsung, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, Google...

  6. Re:kinda naive on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Arm A15, A57, A72 and A75 are all impacted by this as well.

  7. Re:That'll show 'em on Linus Torvalds Says Intel Needs To Admit It Has Issues With CPUs (itwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Threats from who?
    [Intel] was the largest corporate sponsor of new contributions to the Linux computer operating system, according to a report Wednesday morning from the Linux Foundation

    Intel is a big part of that community.

    They were the top corporate contributor in 2015 and 2016. Before that they were second to Redhat. Before that they were third to Redhat and Novell.

  8. Re:How could this be abused? on 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Informative

    You've confused virtual address space for swap.

  9. Re: In all fairness... on 'Kernel Memory Leaking' Intel Processor Design Flaw Forces Linux, Windows Redesign (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They didn't explicitly create a patch for AMD CPU's. They made changes that patch ALL x86 CPU's, regardless of vendor.
    AMD submitted a vendor check to disable the patch for AMD CPU's

  10. Re:No Security on Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The whole thing is only months old.
    The first RFC draft was submitted in September 2017. There's been two new versions since then.
    The github page that hosts the drafts was created in August 2017

  11. Thanks for posting a link to an expired search session.

    I am well aware that redtube.com is a porn site that has been around for many many years, long before YouTubeRed came to be.

  12. Re:Non-downloadable? Then how to play it? on Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Frame being drawn is cached by the controller of the monitor.

    When I typed that it was also cached by the USB display adapter, before it converted it to DVI.

  13. If you want Vitamin B3 on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Eat Vegemite.

  14. You mean more like a service than a repair?

  15. Re:We're glued and screwed - we can no longer unsc on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and to top it all off, at 529 euros it's going to cost more than my Moto X did 3 years ago.
    The only real differences are it has a crappier screen, FM radio, dual sim, an SD slot and no NFC so it won't even work with Android Pay.

    And they don't sell the Fairphone 1 battery in their online shop anymore, only the Fairphone 2 one.

  16. Re: Apple offers battery replacement on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's a portable device, using it while plugged in would be using it wrong.

    I wouldn't be surprised if they also throttled while it was charging. Charging a battery heats it up. High CPU/GPU usage heats up things sitting right next to it too.
    Hot batteries don't like being charged and will degrade much quicker if you do.

  17. Re:We're glued and screwed - we can no longer unsc on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't buy one.
    They don't sell the old one anymore and they haven't released the new one.
    Yet to be seen if they still sell the spare parts for the old one once the new one is available.
    The Fairphone 2 is going to come with Android 6... that's a bit shit for something not yet available.
    Powered by a SoC from 2014, one that Qualcomm doesn't provide support for Android 7, so good luck with any updates. It's the same one used in my Moto X 2014, which is why that's also stuck on Android 6.

  18. Re:We're glued and screwed - we can no longer unsc on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Except all the non-portable devices you've named are generally all repairable.
    TVs and monitors are not economical to repair if you break the screen though, since all they are is a power supply, control board and case for the panel. Replacing power supplies in them is pretty straight forward though

  19. You mean if the CPU needs more than the combined power provided by its old battery and the 10 watts provided by the charger.

  20. Re:Non-downloadable? Then how to play it? on Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the same way it's not called downloading when you copy data from a computer to a monitor, like when I use a chromecast to play videos on my phone on my TV.

    I'm not downloading what I type to my monitor.

  21. To target YouTube Red, they should trademark RedTube

  22. So you skip out parts of the show, or your TV network has 64 minute time slots for "one hour" shows?
    The regular programme time for a 1 hour time slot is 42 minutes, with 18 minutes of ads.

  23. So you watched people smoking, it had no effect.
    You started smoking then quit again
    You watched people smoking and wanted a cigarette.

    The only difference before and after was you, not what you were watching.

  24. Netflix households are also YouTube households, which bring the ads back.

  25. Re:No Security on Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Can you list a website that does have one?