There's still some theoretical exploits. They require incredibly precise timing and are unlikely to ever be used. Maybe if I was in a high security environment I'd worry about it. I'm playing video games. If the KGB or the CIA decides they want access to my Street Fighter V profile I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to get it with or without spectre/meltdown. Jokes on them, I suck.
this is correct. That's more or less where/.ers are. You put in your 40, occasionally 50 and that's that. But at the higher end in fields where the person is doing it because they want to/obsess over it (video games, high end STEM fields and the like) most of those folks are really putting in that much work.
Just ask John Carmack how much he works in the lead up to a new game/engine. It's a lot.
because the Ds at least have a small wing of the party that refuses corporate PAC money. There's gonna be at least 30 of them in the House after the election, maybe 40. I know of no such wing in the GOP. Even Rand Paul seems to be bought and paid for lately, having fallen in line with Trump on the various wars we're fighting (none of which have proper authorization or are even against countries that attacked us).
The Dems also have some folks who support issues that matter. I want single payer healthcare because I've got friends and family that need medical care and who are in medicine. I want a $15 min wage because I want demand side economics instead of supply side. I want to end the wars and stop selling arms to the Saudis. There's a lot of Dems that won't do that (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) but there are some that will. Again, I don't know of any Republicans that support these policies.
What I do know is they all poll in the mid to high 70s. Given that you'd think both sides would support them, but, well, now we circle back to the real problem, corporate PAC money. You can't serve two masters.
We all complain about this crap, but we also elect the same sorts of folks who allow it. Over and over again. There were plenty of viable primary challengers this time around who refuse corporate PAC money. Most lost. For all the talk nobody shows up to vote, or if they do they vote the incumbent because they want to be safe, stay the course.
and don't get any further. To make good use of the micro code bugs you usually need root/admin. And if somebody's got that you're already boned.
Spectre/Meltdown are a problem because they enable a bunch of exploits that let you get out of a hypervisor and into the host OS. If you're in a data center that's a huge deal. If you're a gamer it's, well, not.
You'll notice that there's been no gaming apocalypse. No massive class action lawsuits because of lost performance. And no big exploits. No big wins from AMD tied to better security. Spectre/Meltdown turned out to be a nothing burger for desktop users. Enterprise is a different kettle of fish, but the i9 is desktop chip.
That said, if money is at all an object during a build the Ryzen 2700 is the chip to go with. You can get one, with a board and cooler for $350 bucks on newegg right now as I type this. Worst case It's about 17-24% slower than the i9 but it's literally half the price. I'll keep my $350 bucks and spend it on a better GPU.
Also, I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but when Kavanaugh was up for SCOTUS you'd be hard pressed to find anyone on/. that would defend or even humor his accusers but with Assange folks are piling on to hate on him. That's a pretty big change too. Post this story a few years ago and he's be loaded with defenders.
Has/.'s opinion of Assange changed or did we have Russian trolls modding pro-Assange posts up back then that are now gone (or just don't support him anymore)? Either way something's definitely changed.
If folks are mad at Assange because he helped give us Trump you'd expect their anger to show up in the discussions about Kavanaugh. That makes me think/.'s modding system is being manipulated. It might also be/.ers themselves are being manipulated.
since he helped give us Trump, but the US has most certainly _not_ withdrawn from the world stage under Trump. Not even a little. We've expanded our troop deployments, we've threatened Iran without provocation or cause, we've continued to assist Saudi Arabia in their war in Yemen (our bombs just blew up a school bus there) and we keep dicking with South America (there's evidence we're helping prop up that right wing insurgency in Brazil since the leftists are threatening US corporate economic interests down there).
I'm not saying this is on Trump per se. Obama did the same thing. So did Bush (both of 'em). So did Clinton. But I _am_ saying Trump loudly promised to stop this crap and then kept doing it.
but letting him go would send the wrong message. The goal is to wreck his life, which we've done and will continue to do.
That said, he's part of what gave us Donald Trump. I don't think he thought that one through. Hillary was no friend of his, but neither was Trump, and by helping Trump slide into the whitehouse he's pissed off the lefties who defended him. I've certainly noticed that they've made themselves scarce on/. since the election. Pre 2016 there were a ton of his defenders around here. Nowadays they're no where to be found...
it was a study to prove microplastics were there, not the health impacts. Asking for a paper on the presence of microplastics to comment on their effects is not ho science works. That's like saying there's something suspicious about/. because there's no articles monetary policy. Ok... given what the mods have been greenlighting lately maybe that's a bad example:).
yes, given enough time your body will break down. But a few things
a) Cancer isn't the default killer, heart failure is. Sorta. Lots of folks make it until their 100s without cancer. They're effectively immune. They die of heart failure. You're right it's one or the other though.
b) Just because something will eventually kill us doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop things that will kill us sooner.
c) If you can't fathom how Microplastics would cause issues go look up the "wonder material" that is asbestos.
d) the trouble with being an expert in one field is it can make you feel like an expert in _all_ fields. I'm a pretty good JavaScript programmer but you wouldn't want me doing your differential calculations. OTOH I probably wouldn't put you in charge of a large scale website's code base. Now, if I spent 8 years learning math and you spent 8 years learning web programming we could switch places, but we'd have to put the work in first.
99.99999% sounds good unless it's in everything I ingest. Then it's possible for it to become an issue. More so if the contaminant is something that accumulates. There's all sorts of nasty things like lead and mercury that can be a probably at ridiculously small doses because of that.
Not saying "Everybody Panic!" but it does warrant further study.
all they got out of it was a few decades of violence and change of masters. Things didn't get better until post WWII and that was mostly because of advances in science that made our food supply a lot more reliable.
Yeah, the ruling class sometimes lets things get out of hand and it bites them, but it bites _everyone_. It's the whole "too big to fail" effect. They've set themselves up as a linchpin in the economy. You can't just whack them out willy-nilly. It's got to be done with care, precision and above all without violence.
If things get crazy enough that the aristocracy loses control you'll lose out in the resulting chaos unless your both lucky and fantastically brutal. Mao and Stalin didn't win because they were the best. They won because they were the most violent and sadistic at a time when those traits were the path to victory. Personally I don't want to see those kind of "interesting times".
the ruling class has for centuries tried to goad the working class into violence so they can use it as an excuse to crack down and get "tough on crime". So go ahead. Go nuts. They'll send the National Guard in (or maybe just a militarized police), put you down and then run a bunch more of those tough on crime candidates who incidentally favor everything the aristocracy does.
Seriously though, don't use violence. It doesn't work. The right wing are better at it. Best case scenario you get your teeth kicked in. Worst case you go full circle and become the right wing. How do you think so many "communist" countries turned into fascist dictatorships?
both sides seem to favor the Federal government. The difference to me seems that the Dems favor consumers and workers while the Republicans favor businesses and CEOs. Did I say "seems"? Seriously, they GOP isn't even trying anymore. They're actively attacking Medicare and Social Security in an effort to pay for their last round of tax cuts for the rich. And you know what, their poll numbers aren't going down. They're winning.
it's just not funny anymore. The Republicans have long since made it very, very clear that the end justifies the means. That's not a question anymore. The question is, is anyone going to do anything about it? So far the answer has been a resounding, "meh, probably not. I mean, both sides are bad amiright?"...
growing up to be a violent neo-nazi. They _do_ worry about them getting knocked up or knocking somebody up. Plus if you're religious birth control often isn't an option. So when your only tools a hammer...
companies pay for "leads" which are generated by robo calls. When they get sued by the local Attorney General they say "We had no idea our vendor was engaging in Robocalls, such shock. You'll have to take it up with them as we did nothing wrong".
Europe has lots of laws that require businesses to police their vendors. In America folks say the laws are unfair and they don't pass. This is the result.
and not having to pay for it. People figured out right quick that open floor plans suck. Shared desks mean people get sick all the time and the noise is terrible. But a lot of companies have people working from home 2-3 times a week and it's annoying to see all those open cubes.
which is that in any state I've been you never have the right of way when it would cause an accident.
e.g. cops can and will still site you for dangerous and aggressive driving even if you had right of way. Most states will punish both drives in an accident because, well, most of the time it's a little from column a and b...
when I was a lad my bro got a Gateway PC. Specs said it had a Rage II. Not a great chip for the time, but it can run Quack 1/2 & Duke Nuke'em respectably. But his ran like crap. Sub 20 fps.
He figured that out when he installed Linux and mod probe told him it was really a Mach 64. For a more modern example Dell has been caught selling 570s with way fewer cores than a "real" 570.
of clinical depression whatsoever? It means being depressed even when you have hobbies. The problem is that _nothing_ makes you happy. Even things that should. Even things that are going well.
The point of studies like this is to try and tell the difference between somebody going through a rough patch like "work sucks" or "my kid wakes me up at 3am crying every morning" and "I've given up on life".
We'd have a lot less problems in the world if we'd stop telling folks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps (a literal impossibility, the irony of which always seems lost on the folks who favor the phrase) and actually, you know, tried to solve problems.
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There's still some theoretical exploits. They require incredibly precise timing and are unlikely to ever be used. Maybe if I was in a high security environment I'd worry about it. I'm playing video games. If the KGB or the CIA decides they want access to my Street Fighter V profile I'm pretty sure they'll find a way to get it with or without spectre/meltdown. Jokes on them, I suck.
this is correct. That's more or less where /.ers are. You put in your 40, occasionally 50 and that's that. But at the higher end in fields where the person is doing it because they want to/obsess over it (video games, high end STEM fields and the like) most of those folks are really putting in that much work.
Just ask John Carmack how much he works in the lead up to a new game/engine. It's a lot.
because the Ds at least have a small wing of the party that refuses corporate PAC money. There's gonna be at least 30 of them in the House after the election, maybe 40. I know of no such wing in the GOP. Even Rand Paul seems to be bought and paid for lately, having fallen in line with Trump on the various wars we're fighting (none of which have proper authorization or are even against countries that attacked us).
The Dems also have some folks who support issues that matter. I want single payer healthcare because I've got friends and family that need medical care and who are in medicine. I want a $15 min wage because I want demand side economics instead of supply side. I want to end the wars and stop selling arms to the Saudis. There's a lot of Dems that won't do that (Pelosi, Schumer, etc) but there are some that will. Again, I don't know of any Republicans that support these policies.
What I do know is they all poll in the mid to high 70s. Given that you'd think both sides would support them, but, well, now we circle back to the real problem, corporate PAC money. You can't serve two masters.
We all complain about this crap, but we also elect the same sorts of folks who allow it. Over and over again. There were plenty of viable primary challengers this time around who refuse corporate PAC money. Most lost. For all the talk nobody shows up to vote, or if they do they vote the incumbent because they want to be safe, stay the course.
and don't get any further. To make good use of the micro code bugs you usually need root/admin. And if somebody's got that you're already boned.
Spectre/Meltdown are a problem because they enable a bunch of exploits that let you get out of a hypervisor and into the host OS. If you're in a data center that's a huge deal. If you're a gamer it's, well, not.
You'll notice that there's been no gaming apocalypse. No massive class action lawsuits because of lost performance. And no big exploits. No big wins from AMD tied to better security. Spectre/Meltdown turned out to be a nothing burger for desktop users. Enterprise is a different kettle of fish, but the i9 is desktop chip.
That said, if money is at all an object during a build the Ryzen 2700 is the chip to go with. You can get one, with a board and cooler for $350 bucks on newegg right now as I type this. Worst case It's about 17-24% slower than the i9 but it's literally half the price. I'll keep my $350 bucks and spend it on a better GPU.
in case anyone's wondering what's being referred to here.
Also isn't there evidence that one or more of the girls has ties to the American CIA?
/. that would defend or even humor his accusers but with Assange folks are piling on to hate on him. That's a pretty big change too. Post this story a few years ago and he's be loaded with defenders.
/.'s opinion of Assange changed or did we have Russian trolls modding pro-Assange posts up back then that are now gone (or just don't support him anymore)? Either way something's definitely changed.
/.'s modding system is being manipulated. It might also be /.ers themselves are being manipulated.
Also, I know we're not supposed to complain about the Mods, but when Kavanaugh was up for SCOTUS you'd be hard pressed to find anyone on
Has
If folks are mad at Assange because he helped give us Trump you'd expect their anger to show up in the discussions about Kavanaugh. That makes me think
Either way something's not right.
since he helped give us Trump, but the US has most certainly _not_ withdrawn from the world stage under Trump. Not even a little. We've expanded our troop deployments, we've threatened Iran without provocation or cause, we've continued to assist Saudi Arabia in their war in Yemen (our bombs just blew up a school bus there) and we keep dicking with South America (there's evidence we're helping prop up that right wing insurgency in Brazil since the leftists are threatening US corporate economic interests down there).
I'm not saying this is on Trump per se. Obama did the same thing. So did Bush (both of 'em). So did Clinton. But I _am_ saying Trump loudly promised to stop this crap and then kept doing it.
but there are laws about how you disclose that speech. Especially for non-citizens and people who work with and interact with non-citizens.
but letting him go would send the wrong message. The goal is to wreck his life, which we've done and will continue to do.
/. since the election. Pre 2016 there were a ton of his defenders around here. Nowadays they're no where to be found...
That said, he's part of what gave us Donald Trump. I don't think he thought that one through. Hillary was no friend of his, but neither was Trump, and by helping Trump slide into the whitehouse he's pissed off the lefties who defended him. I've certainly noticed that they've made themselves scarce on
it was a study to prove microplastics were there, not the health impacts. Asking for a paper on the presence of microplastics to comment on their effects is not ho science works. That's like saying there's something suspicious about /. because there's no articles monetary policy. Ok... given what the mods have been greenlighting lately maybe that's a bad example :).
yes, given enough time your body will break down. But a few things
a) Cancer isn't the default killer, heart failure is. Sorta. Lots of folks make it until their 100s without cancer. They're effectively immune. They die of heart failure. You're right it's one or the other though.
b) Just because something will eventually kill us doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop things that will kill us sooner.
c) If you can't fathom how Microplastics would cause issues go look up the "wonder material" that is asbestos.
d) the trouble with being an expert in one field is it can make you feel like an expert in _all_ fields. I'm a pretty good JavaScript programmer but you wouldn't want me doing your differential calculations. OTOH I probably wouldn't put you in charge of a large scale website's code base. Now, if I spent 8 years learning math and you spent 8 years learning web programming we could switch places, but we'd have to put the work in first.
99.99999% sounds good unless it's in everything I ingest. Then it's possible for it to become an issue. More so if the contaminant is something that accumulates. There's all sorts of nasty things like lead and mercury that can be a probably at ridiculously small doses because of that.
Not saying "Everybody Panic!" but it does warrant further study.
all they got out of it was a few decades of violence and change of masters. Things didn't get better until post WWII and that was mostly because of advances in science that made our food supply a lot more reliable.
Yeah, the ruling class sometimes lets things get out of hand and it bites them, but it bites _everyone_. It's the whole "too big to fail" effect. They've set themselves up as a linchpin in the economy. You can't just whack them out willy-nilly. It's got to be done with care, precision and above all without violence.
If things get crazy enough that the aristocracy loses control you'll lose out in the resulting chaos unless your both lucky and fantastically brutal. Mao and Stalin didn't win because they were the best. They won because they were the most violent and sadistic at a time when those traits were the path to victory. Personally I don't want to see those kind of "interesting times".
the ruling class has for centuries tried to goad the working class into violence so they can use it as an excuse to crack down and get "tough on crime". So go ahead. Go nuts. They'll send the National Guard in (or maybe just a militarized police), put you down and then run a bunch more of those tough on crime candidates who incidentally favor everything the aristocracy does.
Seriously though, don't use violence. It doesn't work. The right wing are better at it. Best case scenario you get your teeth kicked in. Worst case you go full circle and become the right wing. How do you think so many "communist" countries turned into fascist dictatorships?
both sides seem to favor the Federal government. The difference to me seems that the Dems favor consumers and workers while the Republicans favor businesses and CEOs. Did I say "seems"? Seriously, they GOP isn't even trying anymore. They're actively attacking Medicare and Social Security in an effort to pay for their last round of tax cuts for the rich. And you know what, their poll numbers aren't going down. They're winning.
it's just not funny anymore. The Republicans have long since made it very, very clear that the end justifies the means. That's not a question anymore. The question is, is anyone going to do anything about it? So far the answer has been a resounding, "meh, probably not. I mean, both sides are bad amiright?"...
growing up to be a violent neo-nazi. They _do_ worry about them getting knocked up or knocking somebody up. Plus if you're religious birth control often isn't an option. So when your only tools a hammer...
companies pay for "leads" which are generated by robo calls. When they get sued by the local Attorney General they say "We had no idea our vendor was engaging in Robocalls, such shock. You'll have to take it up with them as we did nothing wrong".
Europe has lots of laws that require businesses to police their vendors. In America folks say the laws are unfair and they don't pass. This is the result.
and not having to pay for it. People figured out right quick that open floor plans suck. Shared desks mean people get sick all the time and the noise is terrible. But a lot of companies have people working from home 2-3 times a week and it's annoying to see all those open cubes.
just start a tape company. I mean, with so little competition wouldn't it be instantly profitable?
Dole? Juice? Maybe I've been reading too many Arstechnica articles from that Beth gal.
which is that in any state I've been you never have the right of way when it would cause an accident.
e.g. cops can and will still site you for dangerous and aggressive driving even if you had right of way. Most states will punish both drives in an accident because, well, most of the time it's a little from column a and b...
when I was a lad my bro got a Gateway PC. Specs said it had a Rage II. Not a great chip for the time, but it can run Quack 1/2 & Duke Nuke'em respectably. But his ran like crap. Sub 20 fps.
He figured that out when he installed Linux and mod probe told him it was really a Mach 64. For a more modern example Dell has been caught selling 570s with way fewer cores than a "real" 570.
of clinical depression whatsoever? It means being depressed even when you have hobbies. The problem is that _nothing_ makes you happy. Even things that should. Even things that are going well.
The point of studies like this is to try and tell the difference between somebody going through a rough patch like "work sucks" or "my kid wakes me up at 3am crying every morning" and "I've given up on life".
We'd have a lot less problems in the world if we'd stop telling folks to pull themselves up by their bootstraps (a literal impossibility, the irony of which always seems lost on the folks who favor the phrase) and actually, you know, tried to solve problems.