Wow... just wow. In every conflict on earth you have a side that opposes covering aspects of the conflict at one time or another. According to your bizarre logic journalists could never get any footage from any war zone anywhere without 'taking sides' and 'no longer being journalists'. The world does not work the way you think it does.
By the way, in many cases war correspondents who miscalculate their risks can be happy if they end up in prison. Often they are killed. But I guess the beheading of James Foley by ISIS was just alright from your point of view, because he was 'taking side'. Retard.
You're presenting a false dichotomy and are apparently completely ignorant of the profession. Journalists reporting from crisis & war zones, on violent crime and from regimes with undue process have always been taking risks, and they have always weighed them against the obligation to report the story. It's part of the job, but only a small number of journalists work in this field and are willing to take the risks. Despite all that, dozens of journalists are killed every year while doing their work, just so you can get their news in your comfy living room. You should to tone down your attitude and show respect where it's due.
Talking about ignorants... Journalists weigh personal risks vs. getting the story out since the profession exists and you think it's all a super-easy choice and you always should just obey the authority.
It's also quite likely that additional vulnerabilities will be found in AMD processors, now that everybody is looking at these types of vulnerabilities.
We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA bragged about being able to piggyback on others exploits and 3rd party security software, so of course the Russians would do the same. You have to bear in mind that any kind of approach they are using must be tested for being undetectable by all known antivirus programs anyway, so hijacking these programs in the first place is a reasonable approach. Whether Kaspersky colluded with Russian intelligence to facilitate that is unknown, but it seems reasonable to assume that Kaspersky are willing to and also couldn't decline even if they wanted.
Just in case you have forgotten, the election is long over and Clinton will not run again. It's the current president of the United States the people are rightly worried about.
*sigh* Always the same. I was about to buy a 1600X or 1800X based Ryzen System today, and now I'm unsure again. Should I buy or not? Will the motherboard change with Zen 2?
Well, there are "some people" and "some people". Some people want something lightweight and don't care about processing power or screen size. I used to use a EEE900 before it was stolen, now I'm using an Asus Transformer T-100. The reasons are: small, long battery life, usable outside, cheap enough to be replaced swiftly - you don't want to wait longer than a day until you get something new and don't want to loose a lot of money. I use the machine for writing novels. Android is useless for writing, the relevant software doesn't even run on it, e.g. I use Papyrus Autor on Windows and Wine, others use Scrivener on the Mac.
The biggest problem are the screens. The EEE had a decent non-glare screen but the Transformer has a glare screen that just sucks even with special non-glare cover. We need screens that are easy to read in bright sunlight.
Doubtful. There is no expression of a creative idea and the work is also not original. Both are requirements for copyright. Otherwise I could just copyright the word "and" and get my free income for the rest of my life.
Security assessments need to be based on evidence, not speculation. In that respect GP's advice was perfectly sound. However, this may be a case where waiting a bit might help to get a better picture.
This is really interesting. Could someone in-the-know provide a rough calculation... how many nukes do we need to blow up earth into tiny fragments? And how do they need to be positioned?
This has nothing to do with security, it's all about hiding nefarious plots and preventing more of Trump's idiocy from leaking outside. (Not that this would make any sense, given that he writes patently stuopid tweets on a daily basis.)
I don't understand this talk about 'dramatically reducing the problem'. Either there is an exploitable flaw or not. If the fix only makes implementing the type of exploit harder, then it's not going to help at all. Some assembler freak and malware author somewhere in the world will still make it work.
I'm not claiming that there is no fix, only that mere workarounds may be of limited value. What I've read so far hasn't really reassured me. The same can be said about rowhammer, btw. What's so worrying about these types of attacks is that best practices will not help you against them.
Sure, I could have malware that no existing anitivirus is able to detect. Clean install is out of question, though, because that would mean having to manually install hundreds of VST audio plugins, each with its own shitty proprietary DRM. I'm buying a new machine within the next few weeks anyway - or at least that was the plan. Now with these bugs, I'm wondering whether waiting even longer might not be worth it. I'd expect there will be updates to the current chip families soon? Maybe I should wait.:/
All Windows updates have failed on my machine since 2015 or so, and I have tried every assistant, hot fix and third party assistant on earth trying to fix this issue.
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Wow... just wow. In every conflict on earth you have a side that opposes covering aspects of the conflict at one time or another. According to your bizarre logic journalists could never get any footage from any war zone anywhere without 'taking sides' and 'no longer being journalists'. The world does not work the way you think it does.
By the way, in many cases war correspondents who miscalculate their risks can be happy if they end up in prison. Often they are killed. But I guess the beheading of James Foley by ISIS was just alright from your point of view, because he was 'taking side'. Retard.
You're presenting a false dichotomy and are apparently completely ignorant of the profession. Journalists reporting from crisis & war zones, on violent crime and from regimes with undue process have always been taking risks, and they have always weighed them against the obligation to report the story. It's part of the job, but only a small number of journalists work in this field and are willing to take the risks. Despite all that, dozens of journalists are killed every year while doing their work, just so you can get their news in your comfy living room. You should to tone down your attitude and show respect where it's due.
Talking about ignorants... Journalists weigh personal risks vs. getting the story out since the profession exists and you think it's all a super-easy choice and you always should just obey the authority.
Common, the article is about professional photographers. They also need to sell their photos on a highly competitive market.
The story is not about the CIA but about a suspect who is said to have had links to the CIA. Huge difference.
Lots of sick psychopaths on /. recently...
That happened to me, too, after more than 8 years of not using FB. There was even a pending friend request from then.
Not very likely in this case. Advertisement companies like Facebook have no real product and are easy to replace once they're gone.
It's also quite likely that additional vulnerabilities will be found in AMD processors, now that everybody is looking at these types of vulnerabilities.
Because it's true....
You forgot to mention Adolf Hitler and pink unicorns, though.
We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA bragged about being able to piggyback on others exploits and 3rd party security software, so of course the Russians would do the same. You have to bear in mind that any kind of approach they are using must be tested for being undetectable by all known antivirus programs anyway, so hijacking these programs in the first place is a reasonable approach. Whether Kaspersky colluded with Russian intelligence to facilitate that is unknown, but it seems reasonable to assume that Kaspersky are willing to and also couldn't decline even if they wanted.
Just in case you have forgotten, the election is long over and Clinton will not run again. It's the current president of the United States the people are rightly worried about.
*sigh* Always the same. I was about to buy a 1600X or 1800X based Ryzen System today, and now I'm unsure again. Should I buy or not? Will the motherboard change with Zen 2?
Well, there are "some people" and "some people". Some people want something lightweight and don't care about processing power or screen size. I used to use a EEE900 before it was stolen, now I'm using an Asus Transformer T-100. The reasons are: small, long battery life, usable outside, cheap enough to be replaced swiftly - you don't want to wait longer than a day until you get something new and don't want to loose a lot of money. I use the machine for writing novels. Android is useless for writing, the relevant software doesn't even run on it, e.g. I use Papyrus Autor on Windows and Wine, others use Scrivener on the Mac.
The biggest problem are the screens. The EEE had a decent non-glare screen but the Transformer has a glare screen that just sucks even with special non-glare cover. We need screens that are easy to read in bright sunlight.
The problem is that you cannot replace that many chips world-wide that easily. Manufacturing would be the least of their problems.
Doubtful. There is no expression of a creative idea and the work is also not original. Both are requirements for copyright. Otherwise I could just copyright the word "and" and get my free income for the rest of my life.
Security assessments need to be based on evidence, not speculation. In that respect GP's advice was perfectly sound. However, this may be a case where waiting a bit might help to get a better picture.
How many do we need?
This is really interesting. Could someone in-the-know provide a rough calculation ... how many nukes do we need to blow up earth into tiny fragments? And how do they need to be positioned?
I'm asking for a friend.
This has nothing to do with security, it's all about hiding nefarious plots and preventing more of Trump's idiocy from leaking outside. (Not that this would make any sense, given that he writes patently stuopid tweets on a daily basis.)
I don't understand this talk about 'dramatically reducing the problem'. Either there is an exploitable flaw or not. If the fix only makes implementing the type of exploit harder, then it's not going to help at all. Some assembler freak and malware author somewhere in the world will still make it work.
I'm not claiming that there is no fix, only that mere workarounds may be of limited value. What I've read so far hasn't really reassured me. The same can be said about rowhammer, btw. What's so worrying about these types of attacks is that best practices will not help you against them.
Did you come up with this eloquent-sounding bullshit or is it copy&paste?
Sure, I could have malware that no existing anitivirus is able to detect. Clean install is out of question, though, because that would mean having to manually install hundreds of VST audio plugins, each with its own shitty proprietary DRM. I'm buying a new machine within the next few weeks anyway - or at least that was the plan. Now with these bugs, I'm wondering whether waiting even longer might not be worth it. I'd expect there will be updates to the current chip families soon? Maybe I should wait. :/
All Windows updates have failed on my machine since 2015 or so, and I have tried every assistant, hot fix and third party assistant on earth trying to fix this issue.