The point is that by making it draw the correct amount from the motherboard, and not changing its power draw at all, they will cause it to draw too much from the 6 pin PCIe power connector. Those connectors are *also* only specced to deliver 75W. This software update is just shifting the problem to a different connector.
As you rightly observe, the correct solution is to include an 8 pin connector on the card, but it's too late to do that on all the shipped cards now.
Right - but they also state that the compatibility mode is optional. The assertion that in non-compatibility mode, it still only draws 75W from the motherboard implies it draws all the rest straight from the 6 pin power connector. 6 pin power connectors are only specced to deliver 75W.
There are multiple things referred to as PCIe connectors... 1) The slot on the motherboard 2) The 6 pin PCIe power connector 3) The 8 pin PCIe power connector
It says so right there in the article, you get a choice of keeping the same performance, or dropping power draw. That means that if you don't lower the power draw, these cards are going to continue to draw 190W in some cases, and in doing so, draw 115W of that over a 75W 6 pin PCIe connector instead of over the motherboard PCIe connector. Burned out PSUs instead of motherboards, here we come!
So it's going to draw to much directly from the PSU instead then?
I mean, if the default mode doesn't reduce overall power draw, but it does reduce draw from the motherboard, that means it must increase draw from the 6 pin PCIe connector. If the card can draw up to 190W, and only 75W of that is coming from the motherboard, that means 115W is being drawn over a 6 pin PCIe connector which is only designed to have 75W pulled from it. I fully expect the issue to simply move from burned out motherboards to burned out power supplies.
Huh? I mean, are you trying to claim that old, screwdriver fixable cars would not be vulnerable to this attack? I mean sure, they didn't even have an ECU to trick... on the other hand, that meant that just futzing with a few wires would start them.
I'd much rather someone needed complex software to steal my car than just being able to fiddle with some wires, and be done.
The "old school" of hotwiring where you simply connect the right wires in the cab and spark away does not work on any modern vehicle, no matter how much time you have. In fact, hot wiring at all pretty much doesn't work on those vehicles. The reason is that modern engines don't really work unless they have a computer giving them all kinds of information about fuel flow, air mixtures, valve timing, etc. They just need an ECU working in order for them to work. Getting the ECU to work involves convincing it that there actually is an ignition key present, which is not just a matter of connecting some wires. Hence the need for a more complex hack here (note, that doesn't mean the hack was actually complex, just more complex than connecting some wires). You do actually need to convince the ECU firmware that a key is present.
Why would he suspend trials - the current version is already safer than a human. The US average death rate when driving on a freeway is 1.08 deaths per 100,000,000 miles. Tesla autopilot's current death rate is 0.769 per 100,000,000 miles.
Not true. The current US death rate for highway driving is 1.08 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Tesla's average at the moment is 0.769 deaths per 100 million miles driven on autopilot.
The lack of serifs comes down to one thing - beauty. Sans-serif fonts are generally much better looking than serifed ones, while the readability benefits are very small. The readability benefits of variable width fonts though are huge.
Yes, you can in theory use OpenGL on a PS4 (or a variant of it), no, no game author actually does. What they actually use is GNM, Sony's proprietry low level 3D API. Similarly, on the XBox, yes, you can in theory use earlier versions of DX. In practice, everyone uses DX11, which is pretty low level. DX12 is even lower level (on a par with GNM).
Every single vendor with any interest at all in 3D is adopting these lower level APIs (AMD: Mantle; Apple: Metal; Kronos: Vulkan; MS: DX12;...)
While I agree that spending half your annual income on a new car is pretty insane, you're misinterpreting the parent. He's saying that he spends 50% of his annual income every $TIME_UNTIL_CAR_REPLACEMENT, not 50% of his annual income per year. He presumably does not replace his car every year.
Buying a new car is actually usually pretty good value if you buy low end. Buying a $15k car brand new saves you huge amounts in... 1) 3 years of the thing "just working" with no issues (and warranty if it doesn't) 2) 3 years longer before the car starts developing serious issues that cost thousands to fix.
Sure, you spend an extra $6k ish for those first 3 years, but that can be well worth it. 3 years of paying for high maintenance costs at the end of a cars life can easily cost you that much.
Right, if you need to borrow to buy a $50k car, you should instead just be spending $15k on a perfectly serviceable car, and not taking any loans at all.
It's also just a flawed place to use the average of any kind. If you want to assert that people can't afford a new car, you need to compare the cost of low end new cars to the median income. Including $80,000 Mercedes' and $60,000 trucks in the calculation makes no sense at all. No one on the median income cares about $80,000 Mercedes', they care about $10,000 Kias.
That's not the landlord though. That's just the Bay Area. AT&T's "broadband" sucks balls everywhere here, meaning that Comcast is your only choice. If you work for one of the big tech companies many of them have deals that let you get teleworker service from Comcast, which is a lot better than the normal consumer grade crap they shovel.
It's also a great example of something I've been saying for a while.
IT needs to take much more account of what their users actually need and want. In a hospital, it reaches a really obvious head, because what the users need and want is for their patients not to die, but the same applies across pretty much every company I've worked at bar one. The IT department universally will try to bias things towards security (because thats their mandate) and will want excessive justification for anything at all that a user needs/wants to do.
The result almost always is that users will end up going "fuck IT" and trying to find work arounds (*cough* like putting top secret emails on their own personal mail server *cough*). Seriously, I would bet big money that the only reason that Hillary had emails on her own server was because IT refused to accommodate her needing to access work somewhere other than where they deemed the correct place was.
Actually, it's much much much more likely to happen in an automatic. Most automatics will stop themselves when placed in park, unless placed on a steep enough slope. That makes it far more likely that you'll forget, and fuck up in an automatic.
They *may* have suitable footage in the most recent film to include Chekov's death in the film. If so, some script changes, and minor reshooting later...
It turns out that if you build a system deliberately with exactly no regulation, hoping that it'll all magically work based off the magical hand of the market, that everything goes tits up.
Well, they've already asserted that their end goal is to be the place that rents out all the autonomous cars. Getting people relying on paying fees each time they borrow a car (with an 'autonomous' driver) is just step 1 towards that goal.
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Several Corsair and Cooler Master PSUs *are* Seasonics rebadged. And no, EVGA power supplies are not at all common choices.
The point is that by making it draw the correct amount from the motherboard, and not changing its power draw at all, they will cause it to draw too much from the 6 pin PCIe power connector. Those connectors are *also* only specced to deliver 75W. This software update is just shifting the problem to a different connector.
As you rightly observe, the correct solution is to include an 8 pin connector on the card, but it's too late to do that on all the shipped cards now.
Because (according to them) the card only draws 150W - 75 from the mobo, 75 from the 6 pin connector. It turns out it doesn't only draw 150W though.
That's the thing - the RX480 isn't really a high end card. It's pretty firmly low end to mid range.
Right - but they also state that the compatibility mode is optional. The assertion that in non-compatibility mode, it still only draws 75W from the motherboard implies it draws all the rest straight from the 6 pin power connector. 6 pin power connectors are only specced to deliver 75W.
There are multiple things referred to as PCIe connectors...
1) The slot on the motherboard
2) The 6 pin PCIe power connector
3) The 8 pin PCIe power connector
It says so right there in the article, you get a choice of keeping the same performance, or dropping power draw. That means that if you don't lower the power draw, these cards are going to continue to draw 190W in some cases, and in doing so, draw 115W of that over a 75W 6 pin PCIe connector instead of over the motherboard PCIe connector. Burned out PSUs instead of motherboards, here we come!
So it's going to draw to much directly from the PSU instead then?
I mean, if the default mode doesn't reduce overall power draw, but it does reduce draw from the motherboard, that means it must increase draw from the 6 pin PCIe connector. If the card can draw up to 190W, and only 75W of that is coming from the motherboard, that means 115W is being drawn over a 6 pin PCIe connector which is only designed to have 75W pulled from it. I fully expect the issue to simply move from burned out motherboards to burned out power supplies.
Huh? I mean, are you trying to claim that old, screwdriver fixable cars would not be vulnerable to this attack? I mean sure, they didn't even have an ECU to trick... on the other hand, that meant that just futzing with a few wires would start them.
I'd much rather someone needed complex software to steal my car than just being able to fiddle with some wires, and be done.
The "old school" of hotwiring where you simply connect the right wires in the cab and spark away does not work on any modern vehicle, no matter how much time you have. In fact, hot wiring at all pretty much doesn't work on those vehicles. The reason is that modern engines don't really work unless they have a computer giving them all kinds of information about fuel flow, air mixtures, valve timing, etc. They just need an ECU working in order for them to work. Getting the ECU to work involves convincing it that there actually is an ignition key present, which is not just a matter of connecting some wires. Hence the need for a more complex hack here (note, that doesn't mean the hack was actually complex, just more complex than connecting some wires). You do actually need to convince the ECU firmware that a key is present.
Why would he suspend trials - the current version is already safer than a human. The US average death rate when driving on a freeway is 1.08 deaths per 100,000,000 miles. Tesla autopilot's current death rate is 0.769 per 100,000,000 miles.
Not true. The current US death rate for highway driving is 1.08 deaths per 100 million miles driven. Tesla's average at the moment is 0.769 deaths per 100 million miles driven on autopilot.
The lack of serifs comes down to one thing - beauty. Sans-serif fonts are generally much better looking than serifed ones, while the readability benefits are very small. The readability benefits of variable width fonts though are huge.
Consoles didn't adopt high-level 3D APIs. Desktop PCs adopted low level ones.
Yes, you can in theory use OpenGL on a PS4 (or a variant of it), no, no game author actually does. What they actually use is GNM, Sony's proprietry low level 3D API. Similarly, on the XBox, yes, you can in theory use earlier versions of DX. In practice, everyone uses DX11, which is pretty low level. DX12 is even lower level (on a par with GNM).
Every single vendor with any interest at all in 3D is adopting these lower level APIs (AMD: Mantle; Apple: Metal; Kronos: Vulkan; MS: DX12; ...)
While I agree that spending half your annual income on a new car is pretty insane, you're misinterpreting the parent. He's saying that he spends 50% of his annual income every $TIME_UNTIL_CAR_REPLACEMENT, not 50% of his annual income per year. He presumably does not replace his car every year.
Buying a new car is actually usually pretty good value if you buy low end. Buying a $15k car brand new saves you huge amounts in...
1) 3 years of the thing "just working" with no issues (and warranty if it doesn't)
2) 3 years longer before the car starts developing serious issues that cost thousands to fix.
Sure, you spend an extra $6k ish for those first 3 years, but that can be well worth it. 3 years of paying for high maintenance costs at the end of a cars life can easily cost you that much.
Right, if you need to borrow to buy a $50k car, you should instead just be spending $15k on a perfectly serviceable car, and not taking any loans at all.
It's also just a flawed place to use the average of any kind. If you want to assert that people can't afford a new car, you need to compare the cost of low end new cars to the median income. Including $80,000 Mercedes' and $60,000 trucks in the calculation makes no sense at all. No one on the median income cares about $80,000 Mercedes', they care about $10,000 Kias.
That's not the landlord though. That's just the Bay Area. AT&T's "broadband" sucks balls everywhere here, meaning that Comcast is your only choice. If you work for one of the big tech companies many of them have deals that let you get teleworker service from Comcast, which is a lot better than the normal consumer grade crap they shovel.
It's also a great example of something I've been saying for a while.
IT needs to take much more account of what their users actually need and want. In a hospital, it reaches a really obvious head, because what the users need and want is for their patients not to die, but the same applies across pretty much every company I've worked at bar one. The IT department universally will try to bias things towards security (because thats their mandate) and will want excessive justification for anything at all that a user needs/wants to do.
The result almost always is that users will end up going "fuck IT" and trying to find work arounds (*cough* like putting top secret emails on their own personal mail server *cough*). Seriously, I would bet big money that the only reason that Hillary had emails on her own server was because IT refused to accommodate her needing to access work somewhere other than where they deemed the correct place was.
Actually, it's much much much more likely to happen in an automatic. Most automatics will stop themselves when placed in park, unless placed on a steep enough slope. That makes it far more likely that you'll forget, and fuck up in an automatic.
They *may* have suitable footage in the most recent film to include Chekov's death in the film. If so, some script changes, and minor reshooting later...
It turns out that if you build a system deliberately with exactly no regulation, hoping that it'll all magically work based off the magical hand of the market, that everything goes tits up.
Who'dathunkit?
Well, they've already asserted that their end goal is to be the place that rents out all the autonomous cars. Getting people relying on paying fees each time they borrow a car (with an 'autonomous' driver) is just step 1 towards that goal.
If the farmers market was dictating at what price the farmer could sell his cabbages... Yes ;)