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  1. the fab side of AMD was always looking for another buck. nothing has changed.

  2. IBM loses, too on GlobalFoundries Stops All 7nm Development: Opts To Focus on Specialized Processes (anandtech.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    IBM's fab in Vermont was sold to GF, and believe it continued to be defense-rated for (nobody's talking) type chips. so folks doing things they shouldn't in places they are not supposed to be are going to be scampering for product nobody should know about. look for Intel to suddenly get its 7nm act together.

  3. I have two smart TVs, so-called. they are not connected to the Internet. doing so exposes them to worms, viruses, and malware that the makers do not correct via updates. it also exposes "partner content" to my life. I get my content from $30 Roku boxes that are as replaceable as fuses if they get punked. I'm still smarter than my TVs.

  4. the old "reference design" trick on VPNFilter Can Also Infect ASUS, D-Link, Huawei, Ubiquiti, UPVEL, and ZTE Devices (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    hardware is pretty much all the same, and apparently the core software is also a reference design, with the brand tricks all of the include.something variety.

  5. but routers hack you on Ask Slashdot: Which Is the Safest Router? · · Score: 1

    I would also recommend using carbide bits, as a 98 year old might not be able to change them easily, holding the shaft lock while torquing on the latching nut.

    yes, this was off-topic. but it's a nice giggle.

  6. the Mark of Desperation on Facebook Plans To Create Its Own Cryptocurrency: Report (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    not going to fall for the Zucker, or AngryCoin, or whatever bilious nonsense scheme they are into here. all cryptocurrency is a scam, existing only to buy crap on the darknet. I don't intend to friend Tor, either.

  7. noooooo Dongles! on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    just.... no.

  8. aka "failure." you broke the user experience in Win 8 and plowed it under and used it as an artillery range in Win 10. get rid of the idea that big-screen PCs and little-screen phones are the same thing, they aren't, and stop trying to graft Presentation Manager or Quantum on top of Windows.

  9. a cell would not impact the AM station much on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    unless and until a strap failed and the cell hardline shorted to the tower. then, whack, everything off the air.

    however, the strong omnidirectional AM field might well be fatal to the cell system's electronics. whoever has control of the former RCA antenna test site, then Cetek, then who knows who, can make a little coin here setting up tests.

  10. US AM radio band 540-1610 KHz on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    and that's the truth.

  11. let them walk a site. on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    this is probably still at the conference-room-table stage. I will bet you two germanium transistors nobody has talked to an AM station engineer or walked to the base of a tower that is off the air (too much RF exposure to walk up when it's fired up.) look at the arc rings. see the tower legs bolted to the insulators. discover reality.

  12. no, the tower is NOT grounded, it's hot on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 1

    AM towers are resonant antennas, isolated from ground, on giant load-bearing glass or ceramic insulators. you haven't seen one. tipoff is the arc rings at the base of at lease one tower leg, two non-connected circles, one to the tower leg, one to a grounding field. the occasional contesting ham radio operator will have a live tower, but everything else is grounded. not AM radio and some specialty systems around the medium wave band.

    if you were to run a vertical antenna isolated from the tower, it would be subject to significant weather damage, and the tower would shield it for an appreciable section of its radiation. you could get away with it in the days of the wooden tower, but they are long gone, and usually held the ends of folded dipoles or zepps.

  13. AM towers are RF hot, folks on Old AM Broadcast Towers Get a New Life · · Score: 4, Interesting

    unlike TV and FM towers, the AM tower > IS the antenna. the tower is hot. they are isolated by placing them atop large ceramic insulators. if the station is still on the air, this poses gigantic grounding and potential RF coupling into a cell service.

  14. they just want oxy, no big deal on New Attack Group Orangeworm Targets Healthcare Sector in US, Asia, and Europe: Symantec (symantec.com) · · Score: 1

    probably end up face down in a ditch

  15. not surprising on Microsoft Has Run Out of Windows Phone Stock (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    guess nobody wanted a mobile phone that required a nearby Xbox to work....

  16. forget Google, partner with Amazon on The US Military Desperately Wants To Weaponize AI (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    "Alexa, blackhole China and Russia internet. Alexa, root Russian satellites. Alexa, 14 pizzas and 20 Diet Cokes, 2 Poland water, for the War Room."

  17. and the funny naming is more BS on Intel Says Some CPU Models Will Never Receive Microcode Updates (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    processors do not identify to an operating system as "FurTongue Hyper," they identify with some alphanumeric code. so it does no good to say FurTongue45 is supported and DirtyTail6 is not. the whole thing is a load of nonsense that hides what's under the hood. a pox on all chipmakers' houses.

  18. back to books, to hell with the Internet on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If Everything On the Internet Was DRM Protected? · · Score: 1

    and, you know, it would take me until I die to read through my shelves again and the stacks in the library.

  19. wait, mozilla advertises? on Mozilla Pulls Advertising from Facebook (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    guess that means they have a hit/recognition factor of 0. save your money.

  20. http://spaceweather.com/ blank as paper on Media Reports About a Massive Geomagnetic Storm Hitting Earth on March 18 Are Inaccurate, NOAA Says (newsweek.com) · · Score: 2

    worst case an A3 flare, which won't even color the sky in Norway, is the 24 hour prediction.

  21. ha, ha. "do what I say, not what I do" on Spyware Seller Shuts Down After Hack (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    looks like the karma wheel had an I'beam strapped to it. >whack!

  22. HP had to have that silly "not for treatment" note on 'Repeatable Sanitization' is a Feature of PCs Now (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    otherwise, FDA might consider it a medical device, and 8 years of tests would follow. I'm serious.

  23. We're Number 7! We're Number 7! on Countries that Are Most Highly Invested in Automation (ifr.org) · · Score: 0

    make America meh again

  24. so, if matter is smashed into antimatter... on Do Particles Have Consciousness? (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    is that murder, with the eggheads as accomplices?

  25. so... the patches are as bad as the processors? on Intel Urges OEMs and End Users To Stop Deploying Spectre Patch As It May 'Introduce Higher Than Expected Reboots' (intel.com) · · Score: 1

    Intel Doeshide.