Which was the first out of order x86 processor in ~1995-1996, along with the changes to support bios updatable microcode (the pentium and possibly 486s had microcode, but it was supposedly not updatable. There were mentions that at least some pentium cores might have had an undocumented microcode update mode after either the fdiv or f00f bug, but I haven't found corroboration of that rumor.)
As a result every Intel processor and operating system since the mid 90s is susceptible to these two flaws
No, that does not follow. The CPUs released before the speculative execution became part of the pipeline processing would not be affected. That means that anything before P4 Willamette is likely unaffected (plus PIII and mobile versions based on the PIII pipeline even if released after the P4).
Red Hat just came out with a new kernel and microcode update.
Only three Intel processors have updates so far: Family 6, model 63, stepping 2 (Xeon E5-1650) Family 6, model 79, stepping 1 (i7 6950X) Family 6, model 85, stepping 4 (i7 7820X)
Huh? From my point of view It's too high level and needs more technical details at a lower level. Instruction examples with stepped register and pipeline tracing would be useful to understand the issue, and not just the impact.
I think it's the other way around. Men's genetic material can clone both boys and girls without a woman, because men have both X and Y chromosomes. Eradicate the Y and duplicate the X, and you get a female. But a woman can never clone a boy from her own genetic material.
Similar for gay couples - once technology allows it, two men can sire both boys and girls from their combined DNA, but two women can only ever have girls. Given that more women want boys than girls, men will still be needed as donors.
Of all the things humanity doesn't have a shortage of, spermatozoa have got to be right up near the top of the list:)
Really. A normal ejaculation has enough live sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the continent. Even those with really really bad sperm count, you'll probably never find one that only has one live wriggler, thus requiring it to be cloned.
Actually, you do have a right to listen to any music you want, any way you want. Copyright is supposed to be a limited period where your right is suspended, so the creator can seek compensation.
Yes, you are free to listen to "any music you want" as long as any music you want is past the copyright protection period. That's a rather limited definition of "any".
When I make music, I control it, in perpetuity unless I choose to publish it. There are songs in my recording studio you will never hear, and never have the right to hear either. If I choose to publish it, I retain control for the copyright period in exchange for donating the music to the public domain at the expiry of the copyrights. Until then, you have no rights to it unless I (or someone acting on my behalf) grants you a right, whether it be through purchase, rental or otherwise.
Choosing not to vote is considered to be a sign of a healthy democracy- otherwise people would vote to change what was broken.
If only it were a choice for everyone. Finding the time and money to go get a voter ID and register is far harder for some than others. And then being harassed at the polling station by people far less interested in a fair election than reducing the number of votes for their opponents. If the "concerned citizens" challenged as many republican voters as they challenged democrat voters, it would be a different story, but they do not. It is obvious what their goal is, and a fair election is far from it.
Healthy democracies make sure that everybody has a chance to vote, whether they are rich or poor, healthy or sick, have a permanent address or not, or have been convicted of a crime. It's an inalienable right in most democracies.
Abolish "voluntary" voter registration and party registration, and instead register everyone who is eligible automatically, sending them a voter ID card whether they choose to use it or not, far enough in advance that any stolen cards can be invalidated and replaced. Other countries manage to do so.
The left opposes voter ID laws simply because they depend on ineligible voters to be competitive in national elections. It's that simple. It's why they challenge in court and in the media any attempt to cleaning up voter rolls or any other measure that would limit their ability to bus illegal voters in to swing elections.
Except that all investigations into this show that citizens being prevented from voting occurs orders of magnitude more than illegal voting. There's absolutely no evidence of "bus[ing] illegal voters" has ever occurred, but plenty of evidence of citizens being blocked from voting. The two problems are not even in the same ballpark.
No, you know perfectly well that the purpose of stricter voting regulation is to block more potentially democrats from voting. Plain and simple. Claiming otherwise is disingenuous.
It is not illegal to format shift your cds into flac or mp3s with so long as you keep your cds.
You don't need to keep your CDs. The right to listen to the music is linked to the license you obtain by purchasing the CD. If a CD becomes unplayable, whether it's through deterioration or you destroying it, you still own a license to listen to the music from the CD.
They seem to want people to stop listening, well fuck em.
Why? You don't have a right to listen to any music you like, any way you want. If they don't want to deliver music to you on your terms, that is their right. If you don't like that, vote with your wallet. Or go bang two rocks together and stomp your feet to make music.
You can't legally be employed in the US without a valid social security card.
This is not true. An employer can refuse to hire you, but can also accept an affidavit that you refuse to obtain or disclose a social security number. People without a social security number, and thus certainly without a card include but are not limited to some Amish and Native Americans.
If working legally without a social security number, you obviously don't accrue any social security benefits.
FWIU, you go to DMV with something like a birth certificate or SS card and you get a voter ID free of charge. What's the problem?
How do you get to the DMV if you live 30 miles away from the closest one, and have to work two jobs just to put food on the table? And if you don't have a birth certificate or SS card, what then? A trip to the social security office with two witnesses, if both you and them have the time and the resources?
This is discriminatory, and is intendedt to be so. It's not about what's fair, it's about getting more votes for your candidate by any legal means.
Why does the i7-8809G have only 4 cores? I thought new CPUs had at least 6 cores.
It's 4 cores with hyperthreading, so 8 virtual cores, and not a lot slower performance than 6 cores. A benefit of fewer cores is that you can generally clock them higher - this one runs at 3.1 GHz before turbo mode or overclocking, which is fairly decent. If you mainly run programs that doesn't scale well to more cores than 4, like most games, that's going to be more beneficial than say a 2.6 GHz 6-core CPU.
Many of us have to support operating systems that are still sold and supported, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, where net-tools is still actively used and relied on by the system itself, or Red Hat Entprise Linux 7, where it is still provided and patched as needed. If you have a choice to do otherwise, good for you, but in the mean time let us admins try to follow the Unix philosophies like multiple small tools that each do one thing well, have stable APIs, and provide the least amount of surprise.
No i don't think that explains it. Government propaganda made the people tolerant of government policies, and complicit, and the state made sure to obfuscate the worst parts of those policies. But you make it all about the hate aspect of the propaganda. You can engineer the explicit hate part out of it and remain effective
Without hate speech, Kristallnacht could never have happened. Many of us think it must never happen again.
And what I see is the same rhetoric and hate speech happening again, and the ones doing it not realising what ugly tools they are becoming. Back in the 20s and 30s, there were jews that were terrorists, unscrupulous money lenders who cared little about whos lives they ruined, and showed contempt for non-jews. But there were also many good and fine people. Hating jews instead of the actions of individuals was horribly terribly wrong, but is paralleled today in the hatred of moslems. We're not terribly far away from Kristallnacht happening again, this time innocent middle eastern and moslem shop keepers being attacked by people who think their fury is justifiable. It is not. Unless we step up and say "enough", it will happen, by those the current fuhrer calls "fine folks".
I largely agree but would suggest that copyrights be transferable exactly once (idea stolen from another/. poster a long time ago). If I create something but cannot fully realize it for financial reasons, I could at least sell the copyright to a large organization that could fully realize it while I still profit from the invention
You would still profit if you licensed it to them instead of sold it. With the difference that if it really takes off, you have very good bargaining chips for a better deal when the license is up for renewal. If you sell it, you get zilch more.
Agreed. Furthermore what goes up must come down and if it went up that fast in one year it will not take it long for it to crash. Problem is BC may crash hard, and if/when it does the rest of the stock market might go with it
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Which was the first out of order x86 processor in ~1995-1996, along with the changes to support bios updatable microcode (the pentium and possibly 486s had microcode, but it was supposedly not updatable. There were mentions that at least some pentium cores might have had an undocumented microcode update mode after either the fdiv or f00f bug, but I haven't found corroboration of that rumor.)
As a result every Intel processor and operating system since the mid 90s is susceptible to these two flaws
No, that does not follow. The CPUs released before the speculative execution became part of the pipeline processing would not be affected. That means that anything before P4 Willamette is likely unaffected (plus PIII and mobile versions based on the PIII pipeline even if released after the P4).
Red Hat just came out with a new kernel and microcode update.
Only three Intel processors have updates so far:
Family 6, model 63, stepping 2 (Xeon E5-1650)
Family 6, model 79, stepping 1 (i7 6950X)
Family 6, model 85, stepping 4 (i7 7820X)
Of course, more may be coming.
Saw that. It needs an executive summary.
Huh? From my point of view It's too high level and needs more technical details at a lower level. Instruction examples with stepped register and pipeline tracing would be useful to understand the issue, and not just the impact.
In vitro yes.
Via intercourse not so much.
Since we're talking cloning sperm, I would presume that intercourse does not come into play anyhow?
I think it's the other way around. Men's genetic material can clone both boys and girls without a woman, because men have both X and Y chromosomes. Eradicate the Y and duplicate the X, and you get a female.
But a woman can never clone a boy from her own genetic material.
Similar for gay couples - once technology allows it, two men can sire both boys and girls from their combined DNA, but two women can only ever have girls. Given that more women want boys than girls, men will still be needed as donors.
Of all the things humanity doesn't have a shortage of, spermatozoa have got to be right up near the top of the list :)
Really. A normal ejaculation has enough live sperm to impregnate every fertile woman on the continent.
Even those with really really bad sperm count, you'll probably never find one that only has one live wriggler, thus requiring it to be cloned.
Actually, you do have a right to listen to any music you want, any way you want. Copyright is supposed to be a limited period where your right is suspended, so the creator can seek compensation.
Yes, you are free to listen to "any music you want" as long as any music you want is past the copyright protection period. That's a rather limited definition of "any".
When I make music, I control it, in perpetuity unless I choose to publish it. There are songs in my recording studio you will never hear, and never have the right to hear either.
If I choose to publish it, I retain control for the copyright period in exchange for donating the music to the public domain at the expiry of the copyrights. Until then, you have no rights to it unless I (or someone acting on my behalf) grants you a right, whether it be through purchase, rental or otherwise.
after all, cod just wants to be free
Those pesky fishing nets...
Choosing not to vote is considered to be a sign of a healthy democracy- otherwise people would vote to change what was broken.
If only it were a choice for everyone. Finding the time and money to go get a voter ID and register is far harder for some than others. And then being harassed at the polling station by people far less interested in a fair election than reducing the number of votes for their opponents. If the "concerned citizens" challenged as many republican voters as they challenged democrat voters, it would be a different story, but they do not. It is obvious what their goal is, and a fair election is far from it.
Healthy democracies make sure that everybody has a chance to vote, whether they are rich or poor, healthy or sick, have a permanent address or not, or have been convicted of a crime. It's an inalienable right in most democracies.
Abolish "voluntary" voter registration and party registration, and instead register everyone who is eligible automatically, sending them a voter ID card whether they choose to use it or not, far enough in advance that any stolen cards can be invalidated and replaced. Other countries manage to do so.
The left opposes voter ID laws simply because they depend on ineligible voters to be competitive in national elections. It's that simple. It's why they challenge in court and in the media any attempt to cleaning up voter rolls or any other measure that would limit their ability to bus illegal voters in to swing elections.
Except that all investigations into this show that citizens being prevented from voting occurs orders of magnitude more than illegal voting. There's absolutely no evidence of "bus[ing] illegal voters" has ever occurred, but plenty of evidence of citizens being blocked from voting. The two problems are not even in the same ballpark.
No, you know perfectly well that the purpose of stricter voting regulation is to block more potentially democrats from voting. Plain and simple. Claiming otherwise is disingenuous.
It is not illegal to format shift your cds into flac or mp3s with so long as you keep your cds.
You don't need to keep your CDs. The right to listen to the music is linked to the license you obtain by purchasing the CD. If a CD becomes unplayable, whether it's through deterioration or you destroying it, you still own a license to listen to the music from the CD.
They seem to want people to stop listening, well fuck em.
Why? You don't have a right to listen to any music you like, any way you want. If they don't want to deliver music to you on your terms, that is their right.
If you don't like that, vote with your wallet. Or go bang two rocks together and stomp your feet to make music.
You can't legally be employed in the US without a valid social security card.
This is not true. An employer can refuse to hire you, but can also accept an affidavit that you refuse to obtain or disclose a social security number.
People without a social security number, and thus certainly without a card include but are not limited to some Amish and Native Americans.
If working legally without a social security number, you obviously don't accrue any social security benefits.
And it should be apparent that the problem isn't overvoting anhow, but undervoting. That's the problem that should get priority.
FWIU, you go to DMV with something like a birth certificate or SS card and you get a voter ID free of charge. What's the problem?
How do you get to the DMV if you live 30 miles away from the closest one, and have to work two jobs just to put food on the table?
And if you don't have a birth certificate or SS card, what then? A trip to the social security office with two witnesses, if both you and them have the time and the resources?
This is discriminatory, and is intendedt to be so. It's not about what's fair, it's about getting more votes for your candidate by any legal means.
Why does the i7-8809G have only 4 cores? I thought new CPUs had at least 6 cores.
It's 4 cores with hyperthreading, so 8 virtual cores, and not a lot slower performance than 6 cores.
A benefit of fewer cores is that you can generally clock them higher - this one runs at 3.1 GHz before turbo mode or overclocking, which is fairly decent. If you mainly run programs that doesn't scale well to more cores than 4, like most games, that's going to be more beneficial than say a 2.6 GHz 6-core CPU.
ifconfig has been depreceated
Many of us have to support operating systems that are still sold and supported, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, where net-tools is still actively used and relied on by the system itself, or Red Hat Entprise Linux 7, where it is still provided and patched as needed.
If you have a choice to do otherwise, good for you, but in the mean time let us admins try to follow the Unix philosophies like multiple small tools that each do one thing well, have stable APIs, and provide the least amount of surprise.
No i don't think that explains it. Government propaganda made the people tolerant of government policies, and complicit, and the state made sure to obfuscate the worst parts of those policies. But you make it all about the hate aspect of the propaganda. You can engineer the explicit hate part out of it and remain effective
Without hate speech, Kristallnacht could never have happened. Many of us think it must never happen again.
And what I see is the same rhetoric and hate speech happening again, and the ones doing it not realising what ugly tools they are becoming. Back in the 20s and 30s, there were jews that were terrorists, unscrupulous money lenders who cared little about whos lives they ruined, and showed contempt for non-jews. But there were also many good and fine people. Hating jews instead of the actions of individuals was horribly terribly wrong, but is paralleled today in the hatred of moslems. We're not terribly far away from Kristallnacht happening again, this time innocent middle eastern and moslem shop keepers being attacked by people who think their fury is justifiable. It is not. Unless we step up and say "enough", it will happen, by those the current fuhrer calls "fine folks".
That idea doesn't handle works with multiple creators.
It already works - there are bands that won't sell out to record companies, but retain the copyrights. A cooperative is a valid business model.
I largely agree but would suggest that copyrights be transferable exactly once (idea stolen from another /. poster a long time ago). If I create something but cannot fully realize it for financial reasons, I could at least sell the copyright to a large organization that could fully realize it while I still profit from the invention
You would still profit if you licensed it to them instead of sold it. With the difference that if it really takes off, you have very good bargaining chips for a better deal when the license is up for renewal. If you sell it, you get zilch more.
It's not like he proposed a plan of his own.
Actually, he did.
(He has since removed the plan from his own web site, in typical Trump Minitru manner.)
Offtopic, as no one would ever mistake apk for a Linux Admin.
Agreed. Furthermore what goes up must come down and if it went up that fast in one year it will not take it long for it to crash. Problem is BC may crash hard, and if/when it does the rest of the stock market might go with it
And nothing of value will be lost.
No, just because the supply of something is limited does not mean its value will increase.
I know people who still cling on to their Beanie Babies, believing they one day will recover their losses and come out ahead.
That's utopia. More realistic: Ship it to Wales.