"While we believe that AMD's processor architectures make it difficult to exploit Variant 2, we continue to work closely with the industry on this threat," AMD's CTO said.
However, the issue here wasn't if it can be patched -- it pretty much can -- but what the performance penalty will be. Buying more CPU grunt to compensate is cheaper on the AMD side, up to the point where it's no longer possible. (There are chips in the Intel stable for which AMD has no match, but they are far from the bulk of the market.)
If I were driving (not "safety driving"), I might have chosen the "brake hard but don't dodge" option. Sucks for her if I can't stop in time, but I'm not going to put myself directly in someone else's path, to get tossed around like a pinball, to avoid someone who should not have been there. Now if I was sufficiently situationally aware (as I try to be) to already know that an adjacent lane was open, then I would have taken it. But if, as far as I knew, there was no place safe to dodge, then I wouldn't have dodged. I'd rather hit one person than start a chain reaction.
The safety driver simply can't be vigilant for the durations necessary for road tests. Maybe the first time they hit the road on any given day, they can, but that will last all of about fifteen minutes before focus exhaustion sets in. Humans are simply not up to the task of monitoring a computer and reacting only after they realize it has failed to do so. By the time that realization sets in, it's far too late to avert the disaster. Even if the driver had been watching attentively, it still would have taken time to realize the computer was somehow planning to drive straight through the obstacle, come up with a better plan, and enact it. By that time, it would be too late.
Lesson: safety drivers are only useful for the situations where the machine gives up, and stops or pulls off to the side of the road. They are not useful at all as an emergency hand-off while the car is in motion.
I want to know how long the car had been driving since the last time the safety driver had to do anything. If this is more than a few minutes, then I can't blame the driver because constant attentiveness without action is incredibly difficult for a human to achieve for any length of time. The fact that there was no perceived better alternative than a human safety driver indicates a systematic problem in testing procedures (expecting humans to note, evaluate, and properly respond to an emergency faster than the computer would have -- because you can't tell that it didn't respond until the opportunity has passed) rather than failure on the part of the human. She was improperly deployed and was not capable of what she was being asked to do. Very few, if any, people are equipped to do so.
Replacing an older Intel CPU and board with an AMD CPU+board of equal performance may actually be cheaper than replacing with fixed Intel parts, if the end user is the one paying. But of course, Intel would rather take the bigger hit on paper and hand out its own products, rather than funnel one thin dime to AMD, so unless any payouts are in cash, the replacements for anything are going to be more Intel.
Oh, you posted "All men are scum. Kill all men! Whites are the devil. We need a new genocide!!" all over Twitter, Facebook etc.? Well, obviously you're entitled to express your feelings.
Nope, Twitter at least will suspend your account for doing so. Even if #killallmen is satire, they don't want to be in the business of trying to discriminate between satire and fanning the flames of lynch mobs.
Allowing the stability of YOUR system to be dependent on remote hosts coding correctly is folly. Even if most sites comply, some won't. A fraction of those may even be malicious. Browsers need to be able to detect when something is going off the rails and kill a thread -- or at least suspend it and ask the user -- because expecting not to encounter intentional abuse is tantamount to wearing a big "pwn me" sign.
Also some chips are notorious for breaking the BGA connections that let them talk to the circuit board under them. This is fixable, but not by your average home user. Just baking without properly resoldering might get you six months or so of service.
Like Madoff, the crime isn't that she stole a bunch of money. It's that she stole a bunch of money from rich people. This pierces the "one rule for me, and another for thee" veil.
I also drove a Subaru with failed power steering. You get used to it, and the car is still drivable. Once moving, it hardly makes a difference. If anything, I felt more connected to the road (and enjoyed driving it more) after the power assist failed -- other than the annoying moments of trying to turn the wheels while stopped, that is.
It's not trivial if it spans VMs, and one client of a hosting service can eavesdrop on another via this side channel. That has been the fear with Spectre and Meltdown, and it is most likely the fear here as well.
That's why I said "measure", not "see". But of course a Flat Earther isn't going to trust measurements if he can't see it with his eyes directly, so that's a meaningless distinction.
At least he actually followed through and did what he promised, but wouldn't it have saved everyone a lot of time, effort, and aggravation if he had just visited the Burj Khalifa? There is not enough development around it to hide the horizon, and it would actually have gotten him higher off the ground.
It is sometimes said that "shrooms are analog, acid is digital", but they do take you in the same general direction. So does alpha-methyl tryptamine. I haven't been lucky enough to get DMT. Phenethylamines have a considerably different feel than tryptamines, but they're not a completely different thing. There's less ego loss on psychedelic phenethylamines, as far as I can determine, but I can't possibly control for all variables and I've heard peyote will break a person down pretty much the same way as LSD does.
Nobody can keep their attention focused for hours at a time when there is nothing to do. This is the fundamental problem with expecting a human to remain alert and focused on being ready to intervene in driving. When yesterday was eight hours of nothing to do, and the day before that, and the day before that, people are going to let their guard down. Either the human needs to remain involved in driving the vehicle directly, or they are just a meat ornament because we humans just aren't good at that sort of thing.
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Everyone doing speculative execution is vulnerable to Spectre. That includes ARM.
Papermaster said AMD believes the threat from Spectre Variant 1 "can be contained with an operating system (OS) patch and we have been working with OS providers to address this issue." The company additionally expects to offer "a combination of processor microcode updates and OS patches" to address Spectre Variant 2, he said.
"While we believe that AMD's processor architectures make it difficult to exploit Variant 2, we continue to work closely with the industry on this threat," AMD's CTO said.
However, the issue here wasn't if it can be patched -- it pretty much can -- but what the performance penalty will be. Buying more CPU grunt to compensate is cheaper on the AMD side, up to the point where it's no longer possible. (There are chips in the Intel stable for which AMD has no match, but they are far from the bulk of the market.)
Moore's Law says it eventually will be. If it's not affordable now, it just means you're too early in the game.
If I were driving (not "safety driving"), I might have chosen the "brake hard but don't dodge" option. Sucks for her if I can't stop in time, but I'm not going to put myself directly in someone else's path, to get tossed around like a pinball, to avoid someone who should not have been there. Now if I was sufficiently situationally aware (as I try to be) to already know that an adjacent lane was open, then I would have taken it. But if, as far as I knew, there was no place safe to dodge, then I wouldn't have dodged. I'd rather hit one person than start a chain reaction.
The safety driver simply can't be vigilant for the durations necessary for road tests. Maybe the first time they hit the road on any given day, they can, but that will last all of about fifteen minutes before focus exhaustion sets in. Humans are simply not up to the task of monitoring a computer and reacting only after they realize it has failed to do so. By the time that realization sets in, it's far too late to avert the disaster. Even if the driver had been watching attentively, it still would have taken time to realize the computer was somehow planning to drive straight through the obstacle, come up with a better plan, and enact it. By that time, it would be too late.
Lesson: safety drivers are only useful for the situations where the machine gives up, and stops or pulls off to the side of the road. They are not useful at all as an emergency hand-off while the car is in motion.
I want to know how long the car had been driving since the last time the safety driver had to do anything. If this is more than a few minutes, then I can't blame the driver because constant attentiveness without action is incredibly difficult for a human to achieve for any length of time. The fact that there was no perceived better alternative than a human safety driver indicates a systematic problem in testing procedures (expecting humans to note, evaluate, and properly respond to an emergency faster than the computer would have -- because you can't tell that it didn't respond until the opportunity has passed) rather than failure on the part of the human. She was improperly deployed and was not capable of what she was being asked to do. Very few, if any, people are equipped to do so.
Replacing an older Intel CPU and board with an AMD CPU+board of equal performance may actually be cheaper than replacing with fixed Intel parts, if the end user is the one paying. But of course, Intel would rather take the bigger hit on paper and hand out its own products, rather than funnel one thin dime to AMD, so unless any payouts are in cash, the replacements for anything are going to be more Intel.
The drones did exactly as told. It's just a case of half the display being mojibake due to an iOS update two hours before the show.
Oh, you posted "All men are scum. Kill all men! Whites are the devil. We need a new genocide!!" all over Twitter, Facebook etc.? Well, obviously you're entitled to express your feelings.
Nope, Twitter at least will suspend your account for doing so. Even if #killallmen is satire, they don't want to be in the business of trying to discriminate between satire and fanning the flames of lynch mobs.
Allowing the stability of YOUR system to be dependent on remote hosts coding correctly is folly. Even if most sites comply, some won't. A fraction of those may even be malicious. Browsers need to be able to detect when something is going off the rails and kill a thread -- or at least suspend it and ask the user -- because expecting not to encounter intentional abuse is tantamount to wearing a big "pwn me" sign.
Last I checked, Alkergoifa didn't have its own top level domain so they can just butt right out of this. :)
There are 58 countries on the list, and around 200 countries in the world. >25% is not "a small handful", and neither is 58.
Also some chips are notorious for breaking the BGA connections that let them talk to the circuit board under them. This is fixable, but not by your average home user. Just baking without properly resoldering might get you six months or so of service.
Like Madoff, the crime isn't that she stole a bunch of money. It's that she stole a bunch of money from rich people. This pierces the "one rule for me, and another for thee" veil.
Where do you draw the line on "Will nobody rid me of this meddlesome priest?" type dog whistles and Pizzagate conspiracies?
I also drove a Subaru with failed power steering. You get used to it, and the car is still drivable. Once moving, it hardly makes a difference. If anything, I felt more connected to the road (and enjoyed driving it more) after the power assist failed -- other than the annoying moments of trying to turn the wheels while stopped, that is.
He should thank his lucky stars he was slammed in the butthole by linear time, rather than a Time Cube.
It's good to be king, at least for a while.
It's not trivial if it spans VMs, and one client of a hosting service can eavesdrop on another via this side channel. That has been the fear with Spectre and Meltdown, and it is most likely the fear here as well.
At least (some) Chromebooks can be made to run real operating systems that aren't walled gardens.
Doesn't the Real APK require that you do everything with hosts files?
That's why I said "measure", not "see". But of course a Flat Earther isn't going to trust measurements if he can't see it with his eyes directly, so that's a meaningless distinction.
But it's tall enough to measure the curvature of the horizon just by looking out the window at/near the top, isn't it? That was the whole point.
At least he actually followed through and did what he promised, but wouldn't it have saved everyone a lot of time, effort, and aggravation if he had just visited the Burj Khalifa? There is not enough development around it to hide the horizon, and it would actually have gotten him higher off the ground.
It is sometimes said that "shrooms are analog, acid is digital", but they do take you in the same general direction. So does alpha-methyl tryptamine. I haven't been lucky enough to get DMT. Phenethylamines have a considerably different feel than tryptamines, but they're not a completely different thing. There's less ego loss on psychedelic phenethylamines, as far as I can determine, but I can't possibly control for all variables and I've heard peyote will break a person down pretty much the same way as LSD does.
Nobody can keep their attention focused for hours at a time when there is nothing to do. This is the fundamental problem with expecting a human to remain alert and focused on being ready to intervene in driving. When yesterday was eight hours of nothing to do, and the day before that, and the day before that, people are going to let their guard down. Either the human needs to remain involved in driving the vehicle directly, or they are just a meat ornament because we humans just aren't good at that sort of thing.