So, I don't trust Microsoft upgrades for shit - they tend to add telemetry, and they tend to break older OS versions to force upgrades. That said - just how bad are these exploits this time around? Will my firewall protect me if I don't browse porn sites or is opening any page in a browser guaranteed to result in infection?
There's two separate issues. One is specific to pulling things from core memory in Intel chips, the other is an architectural issue which impacts all chips made in the last decade or so and cannot be patched. They're focusing on the Intel one because that can be patched whereas the architectural issue requires a redesign that isn't in place yet, will probably take years to pass QA properly and have the masks manufactured, and will require a complete recall of every chip made after the 90's. From the Snowden and other leaks we learned that all the hacker tools can leak without issue because nobody actually cares to exploit them but governments and corporations anyway - and they're pretty quiet about it most of the time. Additionally we've known that between Intel ME and AMD's equivalent all the chips were already compromised. This is nothing new. We're already running through barbed wire naked and nobody gives a shit, if anything this revelation of a security hole which can be patched is to make people believe things will be safe if they stick some more spyware on their machine because the quality of data from people who know their spied on is lower than those that don't.
If Musk wanted to do something in Tesla's name he would put a tiny fraction of the wealth he's generated from it into making the Wardenclyffe project a reality. That was the result of Tesla's life's work. Using his name to market batteries and cars is so far from it as to be an absurdity.
Technically the US uses its own customary units, which like the British Imperial units are derived from the older English units but not exactly the same.
That may be, but we still get to call it the English system because reparations.
I'm not a fan of IP hoarding, but "Steve Jobs" implies that either Apple or Jobs (when he was alive) has something to do with the design of the Italian company's products.
If a marketing shill like Musk can denigrate the name of one of the greatest engineers of all time like Tesla then some Italians absolutely have the right to make bullshit under the name of a bullshit artist.
I wish this Tesla circlejerking would end at some point.
You don't have the right to wish that. Tesla is responsible for the electricity you are using to go on your little rant, for the remote control technology that allows people to operate the satellites which transmits the message, for the entire concept of wireless transmission of power, hell you could even make the argument that he did more for wireless communication than Marconi.
Musk has certainly done his part to drag Tesla's name through the dirt on behalf of his PR parasitism, but that doesn't change that Tesla is the individual responsible for virtually all of the modern world.
But off course, that's the thought you liberals really despise: that an individual can achieve great things. You yourself will never be great and can only know any fleeting glimpse of greatness through the combined efforts of your fellow plebeians, that doesn't mean greatness doesn't exist.
A more modern example, for which I'll likely get modded down citing, is Trump. Pre-Trump American politics descended into parasites arguing over who to take wealth from and who to give it to. Post-Trump American politics has approached and is on course to return to what made America great: making deals which create wealth.
You liberals think that wealth is inherently relative, that for someone to have it another must have less because you are incapable of that divine Human spark of creation - it's all about who to take from and who to give to (the same goes for the RINOs like McCain,) This extends to your petty self-indulgent hatred of Tesla and anyone with the audacity to attempt to create anything, it's pathetic, even you know it is pathetic, but you are so fucking delusional about it that you simply want to pretend everyone else is equally as pathetic. You are a disgusting excuse of a Human and frankly you show that if Tesla's views on eugenics had simply been accepted the world would have been a better place as it would never have had you in it.
Greatness doesn't just disappear, it doesn't get old, and you don't get to get sick of it just because you lack it and have the attention span of a consumerist gnat.
Actually, Ollie North wasn't in it for personal gain, and I don't think the arms were actually WMDs.
At the time, Russia wasn't an adversarial nation. The US was trying to engage Russia in a friendly manner in the hope of avoiding too much hostility.
A) Hapless shills are irrelevant, the Clintons profited from it. Even if it were in our best interests, which it wasn't, they had no right to gain personally from it. Doing that in the civilian would would be outright embezzlement at the least, which is still a felony carrying decades in prison.
B) Selling other nations materials which can be used to make weapons of mass destruction is never in our best interests, so it's a flimsy excuse.
A shill is someone paid to do something. As I said, I annoy people for free.
You might want to look up that word. Unpaid morons haplessly defending the interests of a party who doesn't even know their name are also shills.
You might want to look at the Constitutional definition of treason, which doesn't support your claim.
A member of the US government sold materials used to make weapons of mass destruction to an adversarial nation for personal gain. The only reason she wasn't put in front of a firing squad is because her name is Clinton. Spies have done far less and gotten far worse.
He's not a shill, you're a partisan hack. The uranium deal was a normal business deal that had to be approved by six people, including Secretary Clinton. It was non-controversial at the time.
So six corrupt traitors and it didn't get media attention because it was the Clintons taking the kickback? Shill harder.
A) Kaspersky is a foreign actor. It doesn't matter if he's nice and aiming to do good or not, you don't put foreigners in charge of government systems because the entire purpose of government is protect citizens from foreign threats. An ally today could well be an enemy tomorrow.
B) Corporations don't have the rights of people, "personhood" refers to the ability of a corporation to absorb the blowback from debt and other potential legal concerns so it doesn't destroy a person's life.
I base most of my predictions of future tech on the John Titor conspiracy story, he predicted mesh nets would take over within a few decades back in the late 90's. We're about there.
Nah, that's just when the emotion-riddled tards began weeping, the rest of America is progressing better than is has over the last several decades by every objective measure.
They'll still have access to the internet but it will be through commercial links. The mesh network is about providing options at the last mile.
That's an application of it but that's not what it's about. It's about replacing ISPs, centralized websites, the ability to spy passively across large swaths of the population, cheaper network costs, faster speeds, etc. They tend to be wireless, they also tend to have 1gbps up/down speeds. When you're talking about connecting your entire town at the rate of a LAN you are necessarily talking about a distributed P2P network over which you can share videos, host your own local sites, etc. Combine that with the cost (a one-time purchase of a meshnet router about the same price of a cable modem) and you have a recipe for everything to change for the better - sites designed more like wordpress packages (e.g. if you want a search engine you install the software yourself, people locally subscribe, maybe network to the neighboring towns to share indexes, in the meantime you cut out the large corporations bent on political domination of the world like Google.) There's virtually nothing without the potential to get better on meshnets save for connecting science research centers with enormous amounts of data, but those are already special cases for networking.
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But the governments control the world, meaning they control the porn.
Doesn't Spectre impact Intel+AMD+ARM?
So, I don't trust Microsoft upgrades for shit - they tend to add telemetry, and they tend to break older OS versions to force upgrades. That said - just how bad are these exploits this time around? Will my firewall protect me if I don't browse porn sites or is opening any page in a browser guaranteed to result in infection?
Bullshit. AMD is NOT affected by meltdown, which is the really bad one and where the fix kills performance.
Don't be disingenuous just because you own AMD stock. Spectre is not the same thing. Multiple processor bugs were revealed.
There's two separate issues. One is specific to pulling things from core memory in Intel chips, the other is an architectural issue which impacts all chips made in the last decade or so and cannot be patched. They're focusing on the Intel one because that can be patched whereas the architectural issue requires a redesign that isn't in place yet, will probably take years to pass QA properly and have the masks manufactured, and will require a complete recall of every chip made after the 90's. From the Snowden and other leaks we learned that all the hacker tools can leak without issue because nobody actually cares to exploit them but governments and corporations anyway - and they're pretty quiet about it most of the time. Additionally we've known that between Intel ME and AMD's equivalent all the chips were already compromised. This is nothing new. We're already running through barbed wire naked and nobody gives a shit, if anything this revelation of a security hole which can be patched is to make people believe things will be safe if they stick some more spyware on their machine because the quality of data from people who know their spied on is lower than those that don't.
Last year was 4 days ago, so probably not a huge number of people.
If Musk wanted to do something in Tesla's name he would put a tiny fraction of the wealth he's generated from it into making the Wardenclyffe project a reality. That was the result of Tesla's life's work. Using his name to market batteries and cars is so far from it as to be an absurdity.
Technically the US uses its own customary units, which like the British Imperial units are derived from the older English units but not exactly the same.
That may be, but we still get to call it the English system because reparations.
I'm not a fan of IP hoarding, but "Steve Jobs" implies that either Apple or Jobs (when he was alive) has something to do with the design of the Italian company's products.
If a marketing shill like Musk can denigrate the name of one of the greatest engineers of all time like Tesla then some Italians absolutely have the right to make bullshit under the name of a bullshit artist.
Brainwashed != educated. If they aren't a doctor or a lawyer they didn't get educated/certified in something necessary, they got brainwashed.
You're a buttblasted liberal, what's your point?
I wish this Tesla circlejerking would end at some point.
You don't have the right to wish that. Tesla is responsible for the electricity you are using to go on your little rant, for the remote control technology that allows people to operate the satellites which transmits the message, for the entire concept of wireless transmission of power, hell you could even make the argument that he did more for wireless communication than Marconi.
Musk has certainly done his part to drag Tesla's name through the dirt on behalf of his PR parasitism, but that doesn't change that Tesla is the individual responsible for virtually all of the modern world.
But off course, that's the thought you liberals really despise: that an individual can achieve great things. You yourself will never be great and can only know any fleeting glimpse of greatness through the combined efforts of your fellow plebeians, that doesn't mean greatness doesn't exist.
A more modern example, for which I'll likely get modded down citing, is Trump. Pre-Trump American politics descended into parasites arguing over who to take wealth from and who to give it to. Post-Trump American politics has approached and is on course to return to what made America great: making deals which create wealth.
You liberals think that wealth is inherently relative, that for someone to have it another must have less because you are incapable of that divine Human spark of creation - it's all about who to take from and who to give to (the same goes for the RINOs like McCain,) This extends to your petty self-indulgent hatred of Tesla and anyone with the audacity to attempt to create anything, it's pathetic, even you know it is pathetic, but you are so fucking delusional about it that you simply want to pretend everyone else is equally as pathetic. You are a disgusting excuse of a Human and frankly you show that if Tesla's views on eugenics had simply been accepted the world would have been a better place as it would never have had you in it.
Greatness doesn't just disappear, it doesn't get old, and you don't get to get sick of it just because you lack it and have the attention span of a consumerist gnat.
Not one used to generate sparks, but a properly tuned Tesla coil (hint: they don't produce sparks when tuned properly.)
I say it will average 1 Library of Congress to store a Library of Congress worth of data.
That depends on your temporal frame of reference.
You get even more radiation ground through the TSA screening process than you do on the whole plane ride combined.
There is no justification, just stop trying, you are a bad shill.
Actually, Ollie North wasn't in it for personal gain, and I don't think the arms were actually WMDs.
At the time, Russia wasn't an adversarial nation. The US was trying to engage Russia in a friendly manner in the hope of avoiding too much hostility.
A) Hapless shills are irrelevant, the Clintons profited from it. Even if it were in our best interests, which it wasn't, they had no right to gain personally from it. Doing that in the civilian would would be outright embezzlement at the least, which is still a felony carrying decades in prison.
B) Selling other nations materials which can be used to make weapons of mass destruction is never in our best interests, so it's a flimsy excuse.
A shill is someone paid to do something. As I said, I annoy people for free.
You might want to look up that word. Unpaid morons haplessly defending the interests of a party who doesn't even know their name are also shills.
You might want to look at the Constitutional definition of treason, which doesn't support your claim.
A member of the US government sold materials used to make weapons of mass destruction to an adversarial nation for personal gain. The only reason she wasn't put in front of a firing squad is because her name is Clinton. Spies have done far less and gotten far worse.
Actually, I'm not a shill. I annoy people for free.
You're literally defending treasonous corrupt sellouts. Not even a veil of incompetence can make you not be a shill.
He's not a shill, you're a partisan hack. The uranium deal was a normal business deal that had to be approved by six people, including Secretary Clinton. It was non-controversial at the time.
So six corrupt traitors and it didn't get media attention because it was the Clintons taking the kickback? Shill harder.
A) Kaspersky is a foreign actor. It doesn't matter if he's nice and aiming to do good or not, you don't put foreigners in charge of government systems because the entire purpose of government is protect citizens from foreign threats. An ally today could well be an enemy tomorrow.
B) Corporations don't have the rights of people, "personhood" refers to the ability of a corporation to absorb the blowback from debt and other potential legal concerns so it doesn't destroy a person's life.
I base most of my predictions of future tech on the John Titor conspiracy story, he predicted mesh nets would take over within a few decades back in the late 90's. We're about there.
Nah, that's just when the emotion-riddled tards began weeping, the rest of America is progressing better than is has over the last several decades by every objective measure.
Facebook, Twitter, and the other Silicon Valley marketing/spy tools dying is one of the positives to come out of this.
They'll still have access to the internet but it will be through commercial links. The mesh network is about providing options at the last mile.
That's an application of it but that's not what it's about. It's about replacing ISPs, centralized websites, the ability to spy passively across large swaths of the population, cheaper network costs, faster speeds, etc. They tend to be wireless, they also tend to have 1gbps up/down speeds. When you're talking about connecting your entire town at the rate of a LAN you are necessarily talking about a distributed P2P network over which you can share videos, host your own local sites, etc. Combine that with the cost (a one-time purchase of a meshnet router about the same price of a cable modem) and you have a recipe for everything to change for the better - sites designed more like wordpress packages (e.g. if you want a search engine you install the software yourself, people locally subscribe, maybe network to the neighboring towns to share indexes, in the meantime you cut out the large corporations bent on political domination of the world like Google.) There's virtually nothing without the potential to get better on meshnets save for connecting science research centers with enormous amounts of data, but those are already special cases for networking.