The answer is simple: The technology has to BE ON YOUR COMPUTER. It has to work offline as well. Otherwise this is just the usual "giving away your most private information for free".
In our lovely caring environments, every once in a while, we read something about an elderly person being found dead in the apartment only because after a couple of months the stench had become unbearable and flies manifested themselves all around... I wonder how long it will take until we will read stories like "senior drives 400 miles in automated car while dead"? Do we have to pronounce this "progress"?
You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
Agreed. However, I suspect that we haven't seen the end of it yet. The 'Meltdown' bug is a straight forward problem. I somehow doubt they didn't see this. IMHO this raises the question if there aren't more issues related to caching, speculative execution and multiprocessing just 'waiting to be found'. Therefore, what would they be replacing your faulty processors with?;-)
It speaks volumes that Intel CEO Krzanich (illegally) sold as many shares 'as legally possible' before this was released to the public.
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"simply to Superior" indeed. Good work Google.
Next they find out how easy it is to obtain your distribution's secret keys for signing packages... :-(
The answer is simple: The technology has to BE ON YOUR COMPUTER. It has to work offline as well. Otherwise this is just the usual "giving away your most private information for free".
In our lovely caring environments, every once in a while, we read something about an elderly person being found dead in the apartment only because after a couple of months the stench had become unbearable and flies manifested themselves all around... I wonder how long it will take until we will read stories like "senior drives 400 miles in automated car while dead"? Do we have to pronounce this "progress"?
You know, he's not wrong. This is, in impact, way bigger than Intel's FDIV fiasco and that ended up in recalls.
Agreed. However, I suspect that we haven't seen the end of it yet. The 'Meltdown' bug is a straight forward problem. I somehow doubt they didn't see this. IMHO this raises the question if there aren't more issues related to caching, speculative execution and multiprocessing just 'waiting to be found'. Therefore, what would they be replacing your faulty processors with? ;-)
It speaks volumes that Intel CEO Krzanich (illegally) sold as many shares 'as legally possible' before this was released to the public.