mandatory cameras that will check if you're not taking pictures of the screen and call a SWAT team to your location if you do.
Isn’t that why we have all been switched over to laptops with the little camera right at the top of the screen? Easily defeated with a piece of tape isn’t it?
merely shrinking the existing architecture then that means they still haven't fixed the fundamental issue behind the Meltdown vulnerability.
That fundamental issues won't be changed in the next ten years, if ever. They can either keep playing whack-a-mole with different hardware and microcode side-effects, or you can add a very simple (and slow) separate CPU for security-sensitive operations.
Does this mean I should dig out that Acer Netbook from the closet? Atom CPU, no speculative executive, simple straight through execution!
Corporations haven't been accountable for anything in this country for years, because those in power (yes, Democrats AND Republicans) are in their pockets. If you want to see what happens when Government actually tries to strike back at corporations with these assholes in power, look no further than the CFPB, which has had its power castrated and is currently in the process of being de facto dismantled because it ruffled too many powerful feathers by actually punishing a company (Wells Fargo) for breaking the law.
What would have been news is if Equifax or its top brass received any actual meaningful punishment.
Try to remember that it was Democrats that created the CFPB in the first place and Republicans that are dismantling it. Every time the Republicans get the White House they gut the regulatory agencies, from the EPA to the SEC. There are corrupt Democrats but establishment Republicans are the worst.
Last I read there was at least a couple dozen class action law suits pending against Equifax. These sort of things take time to process through the system and its obviously not over or the end to litigation penalties for Equifax.
...and for our next trick, we restrict the filing of those pesky class action suits!
QUOTE: "representatives said that the throttling was only exhibited under fairly specific, highly intense workloads"
Sure, exporting video from Adobe Premiere Pro. Clearly an unusual workload.
I used FreeBSD until recently when they went full on libtard with their new social contract. NetBSD doesn't act that way and neither does OpenBSD. IT companies/organisations need to stay out of politics as much as possible, as it pollutes their mission. FreeBSD has seemingly jumped on the political bandwagon to their own detriment. NetBSD just quietly does what they do best and it shows.
Was FreeBSD suddenly less efficient or more bug-ridden? No? Your "full on libtard" characterization makes it fairly obvious. So, you too made a politically based decision rather than technical.
I understand completely. I no longer use Koch brothers products. I strongly disagree with the Koch brothers using corporate money to push their "con" agenda in our elections and public institutions. Besides other people's paper products are just as good.
I used FreeBSD until recently when they went full on libtard with their new social contract. NetBSD doesn't act that way and neither does OpenBSD. IT companies/organisations need to stay out of politics as much as possible, as it pollutes their mission. FreeBSD has seemingly jumped on the political bandwagon to their own detriment. NetBSD just quietly does what they do best and it shows.
Was FreeBSD suddenly less efficient or more bug-ridden or did you allow your own politics to intrude on a technical decision?
At least I did not have to read the usual trite quantum computing explanation again. You know the one, “quantum bits can be 1 and 0 at the same time,” which explains something and noth ng at the same time if you ask me.
People talk like that but at least custom drivers don't break constantly in Windows.
Hmm. Reports of Windows 10 borking people's factory custom drivers are frequent. Just had a customer bring in his quite expensive HP EliteBook following the double whammy of the Windows 10 1803 upgrade and an update to his Intel graphics driver. The laptop would not light up the screen when waking up from sleep mode.
It's not Artificial Free Will. Is artificial sugar sugar? No, but it is sweet like sugar. Is artificial intelligence intelligence? No, however, it looks as thought it is intelligent to an ignorant observer. For example, playing a game.
Some sugar substitutes are not artificial and some are sugars. So there’s that. Anyway, I call the game playing computer/program an expert system.
I wish they'd quit with the AI and Artificial Intelligence monikers being applied to everything in tech these days. The day one of these AI's tells me that, no, it won't brew my coffee this morning because it is taking the day off is the day I might buy in to this nonsense.
I think they forgot about a thing or two. For one, after like 50 years, commercial fusion power is still 50 years off. For two, returning mass to the earth going to be cheap. For three, building a mining infrastructure on the moon will be exorbitantly expensive. There are already simpler, cheaper options here on earth.
Yeah, good plan, people have been saying the same thing about the media and Trump. The trouble is that media companies like money as much as anybody. Get a few outlets to stop covering nVidia (or Trump) and that will just leave the traffic for competitors to hoover up. You grand plan fails if even a few miscreants won’t go along.
I don't think there is anything they can do. Eventually, they will share the x86 market with AMD about even and maybe even some additional manufacturers. And they will come under increasing pressure from ARM, or at least Intel will. AMD does make ARM chips, even if not at volume at the moment.
It is the typical way giants fail: By sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, until they find that they are not very relevant anymore.
Intel has not been sleeping. They have engaged in one failed project after another. There's a difference.
in a world where 99% of the people using a mobile device simply have no ability to manage digital security, you just can't continue to allow these ignorant people to operate mobile devices without a license..
ftfy
I think I might prefer ignorant people to arrogant. Anyway, it definitely should be possible for kids to Pokemon and mlilenials to Instagram with portable networked devices without worrying about how it all works. Smartphones have become, and should be, ubiquitous nearly world-wide because of their simplicity. You want complexity, go back to your PC.
But the world also absolutely needs Apple-level closed off system like the App Store that protects people who cannot protect themselves from remote exploitation and harm.
Agree completely.
This current proposal might not get us there by itself but it looks like Google is headed in the right direction.
Smaller the pool, the easier it is for wealthy parties to manipulate it. I wish I could remember the actual events, but I can recall years ago in class we went over case studies of firms or even individuals able to manipulate the currencies of small/poor nations. Cryptocurrency, even all the coins put together, is still well within the range of what well financed individuals can screw with and fleece other investors.
My point is that in the modern age, with electronic coins, people can manipulate the exchanges directly via hacking, exploiting the coin's algorithms, etc. Yes, it is clear that many of the crypto-currencies are basically closely held by a few individuals or organizations and can be easily manipulated by old-school brute force financial trickery too,
It was clear to me from the outset that Crypto-Coins were even funnier money than government fiat currency. Now we see that the eCoins are rather more susceptible to all sorts of fudgery.
I still don't like the fragile tongue inside a USB socket. Why have a relatively easy to break connector on a hard to repair $500 device. Apple got it right. The lightning connector socket on iDevices is a simple hole and is relatively indestructible.
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mandatory cameras that will check if you're not taking pictures of the screen and call a SWAT team to your location if you do.
Isn’t that why we have all been switched over to laptops with the little camera right at the top of the screen? Easily defeated with a piece of tape isn’t it?
merely shrinking the existing architecture then that means they still haven't fixed the fundamental issue behind the Meltdown vulnerability.
That fundamental issues won't be changed in the next ten years, if ever. They can either keep playing whack-a-mole with different hardware and microcode side-effects, or you can add a very simple (and slow) separate CPU for security-sensitive operations.
Does this mean I should dig out that Acer Netbook from the closet? Atom CPU, no speculative executive, simple straight through execution!
Corporations haven't been accountable for anything in this country for years, because those in power (yes, Democrats AND Republicans) are in their pockets. If you want to see what happens when Government actually tries to strike back at corporations with these assholes in power, look no further than the CFPB, which has had its power castrated and is currently in the process of being de facto dismantled because it ruffled too many powerful feathers by actually punishing a company (Wells Fargo) for breaking the law.
What would have been news is if Equifax or its top brass received any actual meaningful punishment.
Try to remember that it was Democrats that created the CFPB in the first place and Republicans that are dismantling it. Every time the Republicans get the White House they gut the regulatory agencies, from the EPA to the SEC. There are corrupt Democrats but establishment Republicans are the worst.
Last I read there was at least a couple dozen class action law suits pending against Equifax. These sort of things take time to process through the system and its obviously not over or the end to litigation penalties for Equifax.
...and for our next trick, we restrict the filing of those pesky class action suits!
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QUOTE: "representatives said that the throttling was only exhibited under fairly specific, highly intense workloads" Sure, exporting video from Adobe Premiere Pro. Clearly an unusual workload.
I used FreeBSD until recently when they went full on libtard with their new social contract. NetBSD doesn't act that way and neither does OpenBSD. IT companies/organisations need to stay out of politics as much as possible, as it pollutes their mission. FreeBSD has seemingly jumped on the political bandwagon to their own detriment. NetBSD just quietly does what they do best and it shows.
Was FreeBSD suddenly less efficient or more bug-ridden? No? Your "full on libtard" characterization makes it fairly obvious. So, you too made a politically based decision rather than technical.
I understand completely. I no longer use Koch brothers products. I strongly disagree with the Koch brothers using corporate money to push their "con" agenda in our elections and public institutions. Besides other people's paper products are just as good.
I used FreeBSD until recently when they went full on libtard with their new social contract. NetBSD doesn't act that way and neither does OpenBSD. IT companies/organisations need to stay out of politics as much as possible, as it pollutes their mission. FreeBSD has seemingly jumped on the political bandwagon to their own detriment. NetBSD just quietly does what they do best and it shows.
Was FreeBSD suddenly less efficient or more bug-ridden or did you allow your own politics to intrude on a technical decision?
I remember using NetBSD and FreeBSD back in the day for my first web servers. Good stuff. The only thing I use it for now is my NAS.
At least I did not have to read the usual trite quantum computing explanation again. You know the one, “quantum bits can be 1 and 0 at the same time,” which explains something and noth ng at the same time if you ask me.
People talk like that but at least custom drivers don't break constantly in Windows.
Hmm. Reports of Windows 10 borking people's factory custom drivers are frequent. Just had a customer bring in his quite expensive HP EliteBook following the double whammy of the Windows 10 1803 upgrade and an update to his Intel graphics driver. The laptop would not light up the screen when waking up from sleep mode.
It's not Artificial Free Will. Is artificial sugar sugar? No, but it is sweet like sugar. Is artificial intelligence intelligence? No, however, it looks as thought it is intelligent to an ignorant observer. For example, playing a game.
Some sugar substitutes are not artificial and some are sugars. So there’s that. Anyway, I call the game playing computer/program an expert system.
Do you also complain when people say their dog is intelligent, while it can't even speak decent English, brew coffee, or take the day off ?
Depends on whether it was willing to fetch the morning paper in the dog's case.
I wish they'd quit with the AI and Artificial Intelligence monikers being applied to everything in tech these days. The day one of these AI's tells me that, no, it won't brew my coffee this morning because it is taking the day off is the day I might buy in to this nonsense.
". For two, returning mass to the earth going to be cheap."
Huh? I guess you're a schwanker and forgot to proofread?
Oooh. Oooowwiiieee. You got me good. Used my name in a funny way and everything!
In fact, I noticed it right away. I blame an overly affectionate cat demaning my attention as I attempted to type more or less one handed.
I think they forgot about a thing or two. For one, after like 50 years, commercial fusion power is still 50 years off. For two, returning mass to the earth going to be cheap. For three, building a mining infrastructure on the moon will be exorbitantly expensive. There are already simpler, cheaper options here on earth.
Yeah, good plan, people have been saying the same thing about the media and Trump. The trouble is that media companies like money as much as anybody. Get a few outlets to stop covering nVidia (or Trump) and that will just leave the traffic for competitors to hoover up. You grand plan fails if even a few miscreants won’t go along.
I don't think there is anything they can do. Eventually, they will share the x86 market with AMD about even and maybe even some additional manufacturers. And they will come under increasing pressure from ARM, or at least Intel will. AMD does make ARM chips, even if not at volume at the moment.
It is the typical way giants fail: By sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, until they find that they are not very relevant anymore.
Intel has not been sleeping. They have engaged in one failed project after another. There's a difference.
in a world where 99% of the people using a mobile device simply have no ability to manage digital security, you just can't continue to allow these ignorant people to operate mobile devices without a license..
ftfy
I think I might prefer ignorant people to arrogant. Anyway, it definitely should be possible for kids to Pokemon and mlilenials to Instagram with portable networked devices without worrying about how it all works. Smartphones have become, and should be, ubiquitous nearly world-wide because of their simplicity. You want complexity, go back to your PC.
But the world also absolutely needs Apple-level closed off system like the App Store that protects people who cannot protect themselves from remote exploitation and harm.
Agree completely.
This current proposal might not get us there by itself but it looks like Google is headed in the right direction.
The way things are going these days perhaps the cosmos hitting the reset button on earth would be a good thing.
Smaller the pool, the easier it is for wealthy parties to manipulate it. I wish I could remember the actual events, but I can recall years ago in class we went over case studies of firms or even individuals able to manipulate the currencies of small/poor nations. Cryptocurrency, even all the coins put together, is still well within the range of what well financed individuals can screw with and fleece other investors.
My point is that in the modern age, with electronic coins, people can manipulate the exchanges directly via hacking, exploiting the coin's algorithms, etc. Yes, it is clear that many of the crypto-currencies are basically closely held by a few individuals or organizations and can be easily manipulated by old-school brute force financial trickery too,
It was clear to me from the outset that Crypto-Coins were even funnier money than government fiat currency. Now we see that the eCoins are rather more susceptible to all sorts of fudgery.
They left off one more option in the answers:
C) I watch TV and surf the web simultaneously.
I still don't like the fragile tongue inside a USB socket. Why have a relatively easy to break connector on a hard to repair $500 device. Apple got it right. The lightning connector socket on iDevices is a simple hole and is relatively indestructible.