Actual Nazis (not just people that SJWs dislike) are currently despised throughout the world. Should we side with them?
In other words: what if the underdog is the underdog for a reason? What if the underdog completely deserves it?
Why not just simply stand for what's right regardless of how many people are for it or against it?
But this doesn't mean there's no way to punish Intel. Here are some options:
1. Send them some nasty letters and emails. Even better: be polite but detailed and specific in explaining exactly how they went wrong and why you will no longer buy from them nor allow your company to buy from them.
2. Buy AMD chips instead. Yes, of course, AMD chips have the same thing in them-- but that is still money that Intel won't get from you and you'd be fostering competition which is a good way to motivate AMD or Intel to remedy this stuff.
3. Send a letter to your congresscritter and demand they apply the force of the federal government to safeguard the privacy and security of the citizens. Fat chance of this, by the way, because who do you think wanted Intel to build in these back doors in the first place?
4. Contribute to OpenRISC and/or RISC-V with the goal being to produce a truly open source chip for actual, useful, computing on the desktop.
5. Contribute to various projects to help hack the ME stuff out and disable it.
6. Write a seriously nasty virus that goes out and infects all Intel chips that have this thing in them. It would wake up the whole world and light a fire under Intel's ass. If you do it right you might even embarrass the government and shame them into getting the NSA to back off... unlikely, but we can dream can't we?
Once workers could communicate with their colleagues through instant messages and video chat, he reasoned, there would be little coherent purpose to trudge long distances to work side by side in centrally located office spaces.
We only need two things before most white collar people leave the crowded and expensive cities and move to the countryside:
1. The will. The bosses have to allow it. With each passing day more and more people are moving up who don't remember a world without internet and instant communication.
2. Fast rural internet. Wireless (i.e. 5G) is probably how this will happen and Spacex will no doubt play a major role. If not Spacex then some other company will probably do it.
Are non-smokers going to have to pay for smokers' healthcare too or will the smokers pay a premium to cover the extra burden they place on the healthcare system?
If this idea offends you then I suggest you think about what socialized medicine means.
I would prefer that we all simply pay for our own healthcare, but since that's not the system we have then I must start thinking about how to make what we have more fair.
That is a remarkably fast response to a systematic vulnerability by the government.
Agreed.
This tells me that they probably planned for exactly this to happen and made sure that all they had to do was upgrade a little piece of software and everything else would still be good.
But, as you pointed out, this is exactly the sort of planning and foresight one wouldn't expect from a government.
1. When were you trying to get into Javascript? I hated Javascript at first, too.
2. Were you treating Javascript like a functional language or were you trying to force object-oriented designs into it? I found that almost all of my pain came from attempting to implement OO designs; once I started treating it as a loosey goosey functional language it became much more pleasant to use.
... and is consistent with the argument that homosexuality is evolutionarily beneficial because it adds parties to the mix with a high contribution:consumption ratio.
Why not just cut to the chase? Slavery does the same thing but it's even more efficient and effective.
The point here is that, in some cases, dollars and cents is not what's right. Truth is somewhat more nuanced than how much tax money certain people are paying.
I suspect that a tribal equivalent of the Leonardo da Vinci archetype is closely related to lesser/no interest in sexual relationships, especially heterosexual.
Gay tend to be DINKs (double income no kids), so they have high household incomes and can afford nice houses. They pay property taxes to support the schools, but don't have kids, leading to higher per student educational spending. They contribute to a thriving urban culture and nightlife.
Do you have any sources or figures for that?
Exactly how much of an impact are they having and in what ways?
Do you have any evidence that proves that higher per-student educational spending leads to better educated students? I was under the impression that there was no correlation between spending and outcome regarding education.
If an increase in spending does directly improve student education, how much of that increased spending is due to the homosexual people who live there and how much better is that than typical heterosexual households in the same income bracket?
Furthermore, if there's shown to be an increase in tax dollars from homosexuals how do you compare and weight that against children born in heterosexual households? If we don't care about the continuation of our country, or even of our species, then disregard this one.
Open source is the answer.
But I don't mean that in the way that zealots commonly do these days.
I mean that when a company starts abusing its customers the answer is to beat them using open source hardware and software as a stick.
What did Microsoft fear? Linux. In fact, they probably still fear it. You try to collar a dog or leash a tiger because you know what they'll do if you don't control them.
What does Oracle fear? Free databases. So they bought MySQL and are trying their best to run it into the ground.
What would John Deere fear? Cheap tractors that people can bodge together in their shed.
The point of Open Source hardware or software isn't to make the world's best and most perfect things-- though in general I do really like open source software on its own merits.
The point is to keep a fire burning under any corporation or other kind of authority lest they get complacent or start to abuse their position.
Open source movement isn't necessarily a communistic slogan-- though some do use it that way.
It's truly about empowering the market and innovators: stand on giants' shoulders and come up with a better mousetrap!
And this is the attraction of 3D printing; the dream that a sufficiently motivated individual could earn their own living rather than enduring the rat race.
Abusive authority hates it when "the people" don't need them and can make their own way. That's the point of authority and abusive relationships after all: to have someone to right rough-shod over.
To learn who rules you find out who it is that you're not allowed to insult.
To learn how to break the power of tyrants find out what it is they don't want you to have.
"meaningful" == people are using it to do their jobs day-to-day.
I won't argue about whether those jobs themselves are useful or good.
I'm only saying that people who are doing those jobs are doing it with the help of a system they don't understand nor do they need to understand it.
If you're still on XP then you could probably just run whatever super-special-crufty-old-unsupported-program you're using under WINE on Linux.
Try it and see. If all goes well then you gain a modern, supported, OS without paying the M$ tax, without vendor lock-in, and probably without even disturbing your workflow.
Oh, and you'll gain lots of new and fully supported software... like newer versions of FF or Chrome or Vivaldi or whatever.
Your comment makes it seem to me like you care more about demonizing, ostracizing, and getting your way than about actual solutions and helping people.
Perhaps the last couple of decades of being in a continuous global war is something that is getting out of hand.
What? But we've always been at war with Eurasia!
Yes, I'm implying that the non-stop global "war" is intended to produce a situation where the free people of the West gradually yield power to their governments and thus eventually allow an oligarchy to form.
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Actual Nazis (not just people that SJWs dislike) are currently despised throughout the world. Should we side with them?
In other words: what if the underdog is the underdog for a reason? What if the underdog completely deserves it?
Why not just simply stand for what's right regardless of how many people are for it or against it?
They ALL have back doors similar to Intel's, though they're called other names.
But this doesn't mean there's no way to punish Intel. Here are some options:
1. Send them some nasty letters and emails. Even better: be polite but detailed and specific in explaining exactly how they went wrong and why you will no longer buy from them nor allow your company to buy from them.
2. Buy AMD chips instead. Yes, of course, AMD chips have the same thing in them-- but that is still money that Intel won't get from you and you'd be fostering competition which is a good way to motivate AMD or Intel to remedy this stuff.
3. Send a letter to your congresscritter and demand they apply the force of the federal government to safeguard the privacy and security of the citizens. Fat chance of this, by the way, because who do you think wanted Intel to build in these back doors in the first place?
4. Contribute to OpenRISC and/or RISC-V with the goal being to produce a truly open source chip for actual, useful, computing on the desktop.
5. Contribute to various projects to help hack the ME stuff out and disable it.
6. Write a seriously nasty virus that goes out and infects all Intel chips that have this thing in them. It would wake up the whole world and light a fire under Intel's ass. If you do it right you might even embarrass the government and shame them into getting the NSA to back off... unlikely, but we can dream can't we?
Because FF is the only major browser that respects your freedom and your privacy.
Just like they respected Brendan Eich's?
"del" on a mac is "fn + backspace" isn't it?
Once workers could communicate with their colleagues through instant messages and video chat, he reasoned, there would be little coherent purpose to trudge long distances to work side by side in centrally located office spaces.
We only need two things before most white collar people leave the crowded and expensive cities and move to the countryside:
1. The will. The bosses have to allow it. With each passing day more and more people are moving up who don't remember a world without internet and instant communication.
2. Fast rural internet. Wireless (i.e. 5G) is probably how this will happen and Spacex will no doubt play a major role. If not Spacex then some other company will probably do it.
It's obviously not that newsworthy, since the story is only a single paragraph.
What does this say about the kind of person who gets a degree in journalism?
Fallacy: tu-quoque. Please try again with a valid argument.
Are non-smokers going to have to pay for smokers' healthcare too or will the smokers pay a premium to cover the extra burden they place on the healthcare system?
If this idea offends you then I suggest you think about what socialized medicine means.
I would prefer that we all simply pay for our own healthcare, but since that's not the system we have then I must start thinking about how to make what we have more fair.
That is a remarkably fast response to a systematic vulnerability by the government.
Agreed.
This tells me that they probably planned for exactly this to happen and made sure that all they had to do was upgrade a little piece of software and everything else would still be good.
But, as you pointed out, this is exactly the sort of planning and foresight one wouldn't expect from a government.
1. When were you trying to get into Javascript? I hated Javascript at first, too.
2. Were you treating Javascript like a functional language or were you trying to force object-oriented designs into it? I found that almost all of my pain came from attempting to implement OO designs; once I started treating it as a loosey goosey functional language it became much more pleasant to use.
The ME is actually used for user functions as well. It manages the power states and allows proper remote managing for CPUs with that enabled
How do you get a dog to take medicine? You put the pill in a doggy treat.
You posted as AC but then signed your post????
So 93B light years in diameter, gotcha.
Isn't it interesting how the anonymous coward is demanding that someone keep an eye who is posting what to the internet?
We only see a sphere of about 93B light years.
Radius? Diameter? Volume?
(something something kessel run something something parsecs)
... and is consistent with the argument that homosexuality is evolutionarily beneficial because it adds parties to the mix with a high contribution:consumption ratio.
Why not just cut to the chase? Slavery does the same thing but it's even more efficient and effective.
The point here is that, in some cases, dollars and cents is not what's right. Truth is somewhat more nuanced than how much tax money certain people are paying.
I suspect that a tribal equivalent of the Leonardo da Vinci archetype is closely related to lesser/no interest in sexual relationships, especially heterosexual.
Based on what evidence?
Gay tend to be DINKs (double income no kids), so they have high household incomes and can afford nice houses. They pay property taxes to support the schools, but don't have kids, leading to higher per student educational spending. They contribute to a thriving urban culture and nightlife.
Do you have any sources or figures for that?
Exactly how much of an impact are they having and in what ways?
Do you have any evidence that proves that higher per-student educational spending leads to better educated students? I was under the impression that there was no correlation between spending and outcome regarding education.
If an increase in spending does directly improve student education, how much of that increased spending is due to the homosexual people who live there and how much better is that than typical heterosexual households in the same income bracket?
Furthermore, if there's shown to be an increase in tax dollars from homosexuals how do you compare and weight that against children born in heterosexual households? If we don't care about the continuation of our country, or even of our species, then disregard this one.
Open source is the answer.
But I don't mean that in the way that zealots commonly do these days.
I mean that when a company starts abusing its customers the answer is to beat them using open source hardware and software as a stick.
What did Microsoft fear? Linux. In fact, they probably still fear it. You try to collar a dog or leash a tiger because you know what they'll do if you don't control them.
What does Oracle fear? Free databases. So they bought MySQL and are trying their best to run it into the ground.
What would John Deere fear? Cheap tractors that people can bodge together in their shed.
The point of Open Source hardware or software isn't to make the world's best and most perfect things-- though in general I do really like open source software on its own merits.
The point is to keep a fire burning under any corporation or other kind of authority lest they get complacent or start to abuse their position.
Open source movement isn't necessarily a communistic slogan-- though some do use it that way.
It's truly about empowering the market and innovators: stand on giants' shoulders and come up with a better mousetrap!
And this is the attraction of 3D printing; the dream that a sufficiently motivated individual could earn their own living rather than enduring the rat race.
Abusive authority hates it when "the people" don't need them and can make their own way. That's the point of authority and abusive relationships after all: to have someone to right rough-shod over.
To learn who rules you find out who it is that you're not allowed to insult.
To learn how to break the power of tyrants find out what it is they don't want you to have.
"meaningful" == people are using it to do their jobs day-to-day.
I won't argue about whether those jobs themselves are useful or good.
I'm only saying that people who are doing those jobs are doing it with the help of a system they don't understand nor do they need to understand it.
So this is a triumph for the engineers that put that stuff together: it can be used by non-experts to meaningful effect.
Are they going to use open source firmware on the i.MX6 or 8 ?
Super secure? Yet they use Intel chips with TPM????
If you're still on XP then you could probably just run whatever super-special-crufty-old-unsupported-program you're using under WINE on Linux.
Try it and see. If all goes well then you gain a modern, supported, OS without paying the M$ tax, without vendor lock-in, and probably without even disturbing your workflow.
Oh, and you'll gain lots of new and fully supported software... like newer versions of FF or Chrome or Vivaldi or whatever.
Your comment makes it seem to me like you care more about demonizing, ostracizing, and getting your way than about actual solutions and helping people.
Perhaps the last couple of decades of being in a continuous global war is something that is getting out of hand.
What? But we've always been at war with Eurasia!
Yes, I'm implying that the non-stop global "war" is intended to produce a situation where the free people of the West gradually yield power to their governments and thus eventually allow an oligarchy to form.