Stopped reading the conspiracy rant after this delicious gem:
Instead of a proper BIOS that can trace its origins to the first x86 computers, computers today have UEFI and Secure Boot, a measure designed to only allow signed software to run on the device.
Yeah, so because they finally abandoned BIOS, modern computers are suddenly insecure. With the implication that BIOS was somehow secure. Yeah, bullshit.
I'm not even saying that the IME is necessarily perfect, but conspiracy-theory drivel doesn't do much for me. That goes double for when it seems to be directed at one vendor and one vendor only while pretending that everybody else out there (AMD [which flat-out embeds an ARM processor in its parts to copy the functionality of IME], anything running ARM, etc.) is all magically secure.
Hrmm... why is AMD's PR department* suddenly making a giant stink about Sysmark? They aren't due to launch any new chips until the end of the year at a bare minimum... right?
Well, maybe it's because a certain company (AMD) has run some internal benchmarks with a certain chip (Zen) and they aren't necessarily coming out with miraculous results.
So what do you do? Attack the benchmark of course!
Gee, I wonder why AMD waited so long to attack that evil evil Sysmark? Maybe it's because back when the Opterons were actually much stronger than Pentium-4 Xeons, AMD actually won Sysmark benchmarks and openly bragged about it.
Here's a 13-year old example of AMD bragging about SPEC, which AMD has also attacked as being an evil conspiracy (when they don't win that is): http://www.geek.com/chips/amd-...
* Wait to call him until after Tuesday since he has to mop the hallways on Tuesdays.
All copyrights should be outlawed because I have a DAWKINS-granted right to be entertained for free!
Corporations are evil so therefore I don't have to pay!
Oh wait, is it a potential infringement of the GPL? Nevermind what I just posted, I think we can all agree that summary executions of the offenders without trial is the only fair solution.
Man, if they ban drones from that large of an area, the price of real estate is going to crash and I'll get a great deal.
To think, a completely depopulated 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! I'll convert it to a strip club to improve the property values and run a more moral operation than the previous occupants.
So one important thing to remember is that these keys don't give anyone a login or remote access to your box whatsoever. Instead, Windows 10 now turns on disk encryption by default. That's a good thing, but of only limited value since disk encryption really only helps if the disk is physically stolen from you.
So what we have here is a copy of the key that allows recovery of an encrypted disk being stored in the cloud unless you delete it. Not the greatest thing ever but it doesn't panic me all that much when the same people who scream about not upgrading to Windows 10 because OMG NSA are also running old systems without any disk encryption whatsoever.
To put it another way: The vast VAST majority of Linux systems in operation that don't use full disk encryption are actually LESS secure than this setup simply because there's no need to get your hands on a recovery key to decrypt anything. Yes, I'm well aware that Linux systems with full-disk encryption exist. So what, they did (and still do) on Windows too.
Not only that, but Obama was an adjunct faculty member who claims that he taught constitutional law at U-Chicago, so these two guys have probably met on more than one occasion.
So when people tell me to check my white privilege, what they are saying is that if I'm not white I can really bank some serious money without doing any honest work simply by accusing "society" of being [racist|sexist|homophobic|islamophobic|everythingphobic]??
... if he had said that, I dunno, Christians/cops/republicans "aren't necessarily evil"
But interestingly enough, the supposedly rabid atheists around here who "bravely" stand up to those "totalitarian oppressor" church-ladies on here have a huge blind spot / sick fetish for the most hard-core Islamic fascim you can think of.
Some Christian doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding? Government funded execution squad, no trial.
ISIS executes gays by throwing them off of buildings? How dare you be intolerant of other people's culture!
Leon, a conservative judge appointed by former President George W. Bush, has long been among the most vocal judges critical of the NSA's spying practices.
Nope, this goes against the groupthink around here and must be rewritten to keep Slashdot a Safe Space (TM):
Leon, a transgender judge appointed by future President Bernie Sanders, has long been among the most vocal judges critical of the NSA's spying practices.
The relatively low price is designed to make it too much of a hassle for the victims to contact the police, lawyers, etc. etc. in an effort to track down and stop the perpetrators.
They are probably hoping for higher volumes of payment from a lot of people instead of trying to go all Hollywood and ask for some insane amount of money that would make bringing in the cops worthwhile.
Wrong. The light-water reactors used in the U.S. are not particularly useful at making weapons grade plutonium. If they were so wonderful at churning out nukes, then places like Hanford Washington would never have existed.
You seem to be confusing the safe light-water commercial reactors used in the U.S. with the RBMK reactors that were used in the Soviet Union. They really were designed for dual-use operation and are inherently less safe than U.S. commercial reactors.
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
Linux the OS certainly has had numerous real-world security problems that need to be addressed. I don't particularly care about the semantics of "Oh it's just a kernel!" because I could play the exact same game with Windows where Windows kernel vulnerabilities aren't super common either. Guess what: Linux and Windows both run the same web browsers these days, and that's a cross-platform security hole no matter who wrote the kernel.
Additionally, the biggest security hole I see now is Android due to the fact that it's damn near impossible to actually get upgraded software to fix the numerous holes.
However, Torvalds' direct responsibility is the kernel, so in this particular context I'm not going to give him too much grief. The Linux kernel does actually include extremely sophisticated mandatory access control systems like AppArmor, SELinux, etc. However... and this goes to his point... these systems are used sparingly because they are REALLY complex and lead to all kinds of usability issues for unsophisticated users (And "unsophisticated" here could easily mean a skilled Unix sysadmin with years of experience. These MAC systems are *not* considered "normal" in UNIX).
So basically: Yeah, Linux is not perfect. Nothing out there is perfect. However, the kernel actually does have a bunch of sophisticated security facilities. Maybe more work should go into making these sophisticated security features more accessible and useful to regular people.
Despite the ignorance (or perhaps intentional clickbaityness) of the post, nobody at Intel expects this to replace a GPU to do regular graphics or play games. They haven't been investing big money in going from effectively zero GPU power in 2010 to beating AMD's best solutions in 2015 to replace it with a software gimmick now.
This renderer is designed to do all kinds of graphical visualization that doesn't make sense to do with a traditional GPU, just like running POVRay or rendering complex images in scientific applications.
It is NOT going to replace a real GPU for what a real GPU does. Nobody at Intel ever said it would replace a GPU. The Internet, however, isn't so smart.
While I'm happy that Skylake not only works in Linux but shows some very impressive performance gains over Haswell, this isn't really a news story.
It would be a news story if a widely distributed CPU designed by a company that is [pretty surprisingly] the #1 organizational contributor to the Linux Kernel wouldn't work with Linux.
Just pretend that Hillary is a Republican and that Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren have already been coronated president!
It's OK to demonize Hillary now, since she's no longer a Democrat! You can even use all those sexist slurs from the previous articles about Carly Fiorina that would otherwise be censored by the SJWs as being toxic microaggressions! Hell, just call her Carly instead of Hillary if it makes you feel better!
Dear patriarchal slimeballs who are making Slashdot a Toxic environment that is hostile to Womyn and other victim groups: We went through the list of color names and triggered on at least half of them.
Further, the very concept of segregating and discriminating based on the white male oppressive social-construct of "color" is patently offensive.
1. Harvard doesn't necessarily mean genuinely smart, believe me I have first-hand experience. Additionally, a bunch of cocky elitists from an Ivy League school probably didn't prepare in for this little shindig to the same extent as their opponents. In fact, you might say their opponents were captivated with their training....
2. Look at the position that the good left-wing indoctrinated Harvardites were asked to take: That forcing public schools to educate any and all children of illegal aliens is not necessarily a good thing.
They can use all of their technical debate skills all day long, but you know that they secretly wanted to lose. After all, they heartily approve of forcing taxpayers to pay for free schooling that teaches illegal alien kids that America is evil & racist while failing to teach them English, because English literacy == racism. After all, they go to private prep schools and don't have to see any of those kids, so it's all well and good if the the lower classes have to put up with them.
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Stopped reading the conspiracy rant after this delicious gem:
Yeah, so because they finally abandoned BIOS, modern computers are suddenly insecure. With the implication that BIOS was somehow secure. Yeah, bullshit.
I'm not even saying that the IME is necessarily perfect, but conspiracy-theory drivel doesn't do much for me. That goes double for when it seems to be directed at one vendor and one vendor only while pretending that everybody else out there (AMD [which flat-out embeds an ARM processor in its parts to copy the functionality of IME], anything running ARM, etc.) is all magically secure.
Hrmm... why is AMD's PR department* suddenly making a giant stink about Sysmark? They aren't due to launch any new chips until the end of the year at a bare minimum... right?
Well, maybe it's because a certain company (AMD) has run some internal benchmarks with a certain chip (Zen) and they aren't necessarily coming out with miraculous results.
So what do you do? Attack the benchmark of course!
Gee, I wonder why AMD waited so long to attack that evil evil Sysmark? Maybe it's because back when the Opterons were actually much stronger than Pentium-4 Xeons, AMD actually won Sysmark benchmarks and openly bragged about it.
Here's a 13-year old example of AMD bragging about SPEC, which AMD has also attacked as being an evil conspiracy (when they don't win that is): http://www.geek.com/chips/amd-...
* Wait to call him until after Tuesday since he has to mop the hallways on Tuesdays.
All copyrights should be outlawed because I have a DAWKINS-granted right to be entertained for free!
Corporations are evil so therefore I don't have to pay!
Oh wait, is it a potential infringement of the GPL?
Nevermind what I just posted, I think we can all agree that summary executions of the offenders without trial is the only fair solution.
On the eve of Dec. 23,
Or, as those of us who aren't from the 17th century would say, December 22.
Man, if they ban drones from that large of an area, the price of real estate is going to crash and I'll get a great deal.
To think, a completely depopulated 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! I'll convert it to a strip club to improve the property values and run a more moral operation than the previous occupants.
So one important thing to remember is that these keys don't give anyone a login or remote access to your box whatsoever. Instead, Windows 10 now turns on disk encryption by default. That's a good thing, but of only limited value since disk encryption really only helps if the disk is physically stolen from you.
So what we have here is a copy of the key that allows recovery of an encrypted disk being stored in the cloud unless you delete it. Not the greatest thing ever but it doesn't panic me all that much when the same people who scream about not upgrading to Windows 10 because OMG NSA are also running old systems without any disk encryption whatsoever.
To put it another way: The vast VAST majority of Linux systems in operation that don't use full disk encryption are actually LESS secure than this setup simply because there's no need to get your hands on a recovery key to decrypt anything. Yes, I'm well aware that Linux systems with full-disk encryption exist. So what, they did (and still do) on Windows too.
Not only that, but Obama was an adjunct faculty member who claims that he taught constitutional law at U-Chicago, so these two guys have probably met on more than one occasion.
So scrolling down the page there's the expected attack piece on Donald Trump's proposal to curtail internet access for jihadis.
And here's the piece about Schmidt's suggestion on how to actually implement it.
Funny how things work.
So when people tell me to check my white privilege, what they are saying is that if I'm not white I can really bank some serious money without doing any honest work simply by accusing "society" of being [racist|sexist|homophobic|islamophobic|everythingphobic]??
WHERE CAN I SIGN UP TO CHECK IT IN!?!?!?
... if he had said that, I dunno, Christians/cops/republicans "aren't necessarily evil"
But interestingly enough, the supposedly rabid atheists around here who "bravely" stand up to those "totalitarian oppressor" church-ladies on here have a huge blind spot / sick fetish for the most hard-core Islamic fascim you can think of.
Some Christian doesn't want to bake a cake for a gay wedding? Government funded execution squad, no trial.
ISIS executes gays by throwing them off of buildings? How dare you be intolerant of other people's culture!
If you actually read TFA:
Nope, this goes against the groupthink around here and must be rewritten to keep Slashdot a Safe Space (TM):
While obviously written from the typical Southerners-are-stupid-hicks point of view, the story has this interesting quote:
Looks like maybe those backwards southerners aren't quite as stupid as everybody thinks.
The relatively low price is designed to make it too much of a hassle for the victims to contact the police, lawyers, etc. etc. in an effort to track down and stop the perpetrators.
They are probably hoping for higher volumes of payment from a lot of people instead of trying to go all Hollywood and ask for some insane amount of money that would make bringing in the cops worthwhile.
Wrong. The light-water reactors used in the U.S. are not particularly useful at making weapons grade plutonium. If they were so wonderful at churning out nukes, then places like Hanford Washington would never have existed.
You seem to be confusing the safe light-water commercial reactors used in the U.S. with the RBMK reactors that were used in the Soviet Union. They really were designed for dual-use operation and are inherently less safe than U.S. commercial reactors.
Thank you so much anti-nuke extremists. Thanks to your inability to look at the bigger picture, we get to enjoy nuclear reactors using designs from the 1950's well into the 21st century instead of actually using safer, modern designs.
It's like if the safety problems with the Corvair had been used to shutdown all production of newer car models.
Linux the OS certainly has had numerous real-world security problems that need to be addressed. I don't particularly care about the semantics of "Oh it's just a kernel!" because I could play the exact same game with Windows where Windows kernel vulnerabilities aren't super common either. Guess what: Linux and Windows both run the same web browsers these days, and that's a cross-platform security hole no matter who wrote the kernel.
Additionally, the biggest security hole I see now is Android due to the fact that it's damn near impossible to actually get upgraded software to fix the numerous holes.
However, Torvalds' direct responsibility is the kernel, so in this particular context I'm not going to give him too much grief. The Linux kernel does actually include extremely sophisticated mandatory access control systems like AppArmor, SELinux, etc. However... and this goes to his point... these systems are used sparingly because they are REALLY complex and lead to all kinds of usability issues for unsophisticated users (And "unsophisticated" here could easily mean a skilled Unix sysadmin with years of experience. These MAC systems are *not* considered "normal" in UNIX).
So basically: Yeah, Linux is not perfect. Nothing out there is perfect. However, the kernel actually does have a bunch of sophisticated security facilities. Maybe more work should go into making these sophisticated security features more accessible and useful to regular people.
I'm sure you'd be on here making the EXACT SAME argument if President Trump were forcing a mandatory long-form census on every American.
Yeah, I'm totally sure of that. No hint of hypocrisy whatsoever in your post there.
If you're wondering how Matt Damon eats or breathes, and other science facts.
LALALALA
You should remind yourself it's just a show I should really just relax.
Despite the ignorance (or perhaps intentional clickbaityness) of the post, nobody at Intel expects this to replace a GPU to do regular graphics or play games. They haven't been investing big money in going from effectively zero GPU power in 2010 to beating AMD's best solutions in 2015 to replace it with a software gimmick now.
This renderer is designed to do all kinds of graphical visualization that doesn't make sense to do with a traditional GPU, just like running POVRay or rendering complex images in scientific applications.
It is NOT going to replace a real GPU for what a real GPU does.
Nobody at Intel ever said it would replace a GPU.
The Internet, however, isn't so smart.
While I'm happy that Skylake not only works in Linux but shows some very impressive performance gains over Haswell, this isn't really a news story.
It would be a news story if a widely distributed CPU designed by a company that is [pretty surprisingly] the #1 organizational contributor to the Linux Kernel wouldn't work with Linux.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org...
Just pretend that Hillary is a Republican and that Bernie Sanders & Elizabeth Warren have already been coronated president!
It's OK to demonize Hillary now, since she's no longer a Democrat! You can even use all those sexist slurs from the previous articles about Carly Fiorina that would otherwise be censored by the SJWs as being toxic microaggressions! Hell, just call her Carly instead of Hillary if it makes you feel better!
Instead of "the" put in "yet another" and it's a little more accurate.
Dear patriarchal slimeballs who are making Slashdot a Toxic environment that is hostile to Womyn and other victim groups: We went through the list of color names and triggered on at least half of them.
Further, the very concept of segregating and discriminating based on the white male oppressive social-construct of "color" is patently offensive.
Censor this entire story in the name of SJ.
Thank you.
I was pretty sure there was some click-baityness occurring here, and you just proved me right.
1. Harvard doesn't necessarily mean genuinely smart, believe me I have first-hand experience. Additionally, a bunch of cocky elitists from an Ivy League school probably didn't prepare in for this little shindig to the same extent as their opponents. In fact, you might say their opponents were captivated with their training....
2. Look at the position that the good left-wing indoctrinated Harvardites were asked to take: That forcing public schools to educate any and all children of illegal aliens is not necessarily a good thing.
They can use all of their technical debate skills all day long, but you know that they secretly wanted to lose. After all, they heartily approve of forcing taxpayers to pay for free schooling that teaches illegal alien kids that America is evil & racist while failing to teach them English, because English literacy == racism. After all, they go to private prep schools and don't have to see any of those kids, so it's all well and good if the the lower classes have to put up with them.