QA is part of the problem with the Ryzen CPU issues.
ANY CPU YOU BUY FROM AMD right now is subject to the bugs of an onboard PSProcessor whose flash is immune from scrutiny until this is patched. No patch dates have been forthcoming, and every one of them has the same ugly bug. This is not commercial grade. This is recycling grade.
If there is an actual vetting process, it's a joke. So much for diligence, trustworthiness, and looking out for the security of their Android users, who dominate worldwide consumers of their "product".
It doesn't stop plutocracy, but it certainly helps.
Individuals should fund elections, and individuals solely the constituents of those to be elected. No outside money from anywhere.
Issues-based voting should also reveal ALL of the donors to ALL sides of the issues. Out them.
All lobbying efforts should reveal all of the payers so that we know exactly who they are. Reveal the hidden agendas. Let us know who is behind what. Make the information easily accessible the second the monies are spent, not long afterward.
The same should be done to reveal the sponsors of "research".
Everyone wants to make money on their homes, not just Californians. No one wants their home's value reduced. Looking our for #1 is an ages old proposition.
But it's bulging. It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a real issue. Those that invested must now defend their value to people paying $4K/mo for dirtbag dumps and pseudo-condos. That's not quality of life. This needn't be so, perhaps fodder for a different thread.
Poster says, "because we don't want to build them".
I don't believe this is the case.
New home construction requires either a retrofit, or new land. Before permits are issued, there has to be infrastructure available, and that infrastructure has to extend to the site(s). This is why subdivisions are often a popular way to do new housing. Streets have to go there. There needs to be support for basic necessities, like food, fuel, and much more.
The housing needs to be placed in an area where people can tolerate a commute somehow. Schools, public safety, and other pieces are hopefully nearby, as well as sufficient utility resources.
Water run-off needs to be decided, depending on the locale. Fire hazards and other insurance considerations come into the picture.
There is no short supply of people that can actually construct homes, and do all of the aforementioned infrastructure. What it takes is money, and must support a profit for the builders. The newly built homes will also be taxed, perhaps mightily.
Californians do want housing, but it's not a simple binary decision where one snaps fingers, and magically, housing appears.
The supply is kept down for natural and artificial reasons is my point. The capital expense of solar is small change compared to the rest of the equation. People want new housing, but many factors inhibit housing growth, very real reasons.
Disinformation doesn't mean doodley, even if you come out of a Tor node exit. They characterized your browser long ago, and by probing your browser's state, they know who you are.
You surfed enough to different places to get a capture that shows your activities. They get your logon name, because you didn't use plugins that tell your browser than you're doing a cleartext post from within an otherwise https site. They look and cross-ref that ID, because you're lazy like everyone else.
They know who you are. It just takes some trivial digging.
You can do all of the sophomoric gigglies you want, but don't kid yourself. They know who you are, and can detect the signal from your noise no matter how clever you think you are.
It's not a game to the people that want to know, and while they themselves are sometimes not very clever, they have acres of spinning disks and too much cpu power to not eventually win.
This is the dismaying part. There are tricks to provide real, no-shit anonymity on the Internet, but they're short term, and like a burner phone, have to be thrown away. It just makes the trail harder to follow. Sooner or later, if they want you, they'll correlate enough interesting data to make a good guess. This isn't paranoia, this is a living for a small group of people. They like to win. Information has always had value, and until yours is worth something, be carefree.
Some areas do this-- require developers to do the upgrades necessary. Some just want more short-term tax base and look the other way.... leading to staggeringly rough strains on existing, decaying infrastructure.
There is little public policy guidance, and non-uniform implementations of it. The entire HOA debacle is a prime example of a good idea gone horribly bad. Many HOAs go bankrupt, leaving things like storm water management, sewage treatment and flow, and other basics hung on cities and counties to take care of.
The over-arching problem is greed and short-sightedness.
The hotel prices in Manhattan, just like the Bay Area, Seattle, downtown Chicago are berserk. AirBnB presence means I can spend about 1/3rd the amount of a hotel room, and spend the rest on needed things like food, transportation (expensive in all of these areas) and maybe have something leftover for a beer. Maybe.
Does that mean a NYer, San Franciscan, etc. has to pay more dough for their abode? I don't have to live there, thank heavens. This is not my problem. My problem is taking short trips to expensive cities. I'll cut my costs to suit my meager budget.
Do I empathize? No. You want avocado toast? Fine. Bagels and lox? Fine. For those that live in flyover country, you folks are insane.
That areas can't get building permits is completely understandable. The infrastructure costs are high, and politicians have cut budgets to the bone and worse. Capital investments are impossible. No one wants to shell out the money needed for upkeep and maintenance, let alone visionary spending. Everyone's in it for the moment, grab the dough and run, and the future is not our responsibility is the hue and cry of most every political hack. They never heard of sustainability and mutual responsibility. And so head to the big cities and get out as fast as we can. AirBnB is a hero to me. They help me fight the greed of the hoteliers and their insane price differentials. What differentials? That's a different story for a different thread.
Enforced? Get a state to do something that isn't bought and paid for by lobbyists and campaign contributions?
C'mon.
Organize a union? With Right To Work legislation? Nope. Sever employees that try to organize? Ask the NLRB how many complaints are on file.
This is about: Need To Eat. This is about not subsidizing businesses. This is about not having businesses pay so low that people have to use subsidies to live-- eat, get housing, medical care, and transportation to just, yes, live.
Some of them don't have your brains, motivation, whatever it was that made you work two jobs. Lots of parts of society struggle with poverty, opoid addiction, busted families, congenital or other disease. They're not all dope smokers/users living on welfare money.
But most want to work. Some can't get jobs because they have no address. They have no teeth. They have no skills, or the ones they had have been replaced by automation, or just market shifts.
Employment is high. So is under-employment. For each Walmart worker, there's a better than even chance that your state is subsidizing that worker because Walmart won't pay enough. You can't keep dividing off what's taxable and needed for basic human subsistence. The math doesn't work. They're not all as gifted or able as you. Those of us who can work, and do make money, subsidize the unemployed/under-employed through taxes and charitable generosity. This is where corporate taxes need to the job-- or a freaking living wage, salient for the cost of living in the area where paid (looking at you, Bay Area).
How ugly that it seems to pay to NOT cure something. Jonas Salk wasn't the greed-filled developer of his vaccine. He didn't develop it to reward stockholders. He did it to save lives and the fates of those infected with polio, a common disease of a couple generations ago.
So far, we don't know about the business model that might result, or even if the drug is effective and safe over the long term. So far, Truvada seems to be the best prophylactic out there, outside of abstinence. Abstinence is never going to work. The drug's vendor, Gilead, by keeping their prices at $1500+ a month for Truvada, has the blood on their hands of those that can't afford it, and get infected, and can't control it, and die hideous deaths.
It begs the question, could telecoms get much worse?
The answer is: hell yes it could get worse. The bar is so high to get investment capital that even LEO satellites with WiFi or whatever goofy next-gen GSM/LTE/gigglyBS arrives to cover the USA will be insanely expensive. Less carriers is not more.
Everyone wants a payday. The newly merged organization won't be any smarter than the old one, just more bosses and fewer actual workers. The CSRs won't get brighter, coverage won't get better, services won't be finer.
But as stated up-thread, what you or I want will make no difference. Public policy be damned, it's the campaign contribution or allies in the closet that financially benefit closest to the decision makers who will call the tune, and we'll continue to pay the piper.
Tesla psychologically owns the luxury market. It's the cool kid's ride, easily analogized to the iPhone 8 or 10. Is it a pavement pounder? Yes. Is it the fastest? No. It's the coolest, or so says the buyers, who pay a huge margin to a company that barely floats its boat.
I like Corvettes, but Bowling Green lost its way, IMHO. Still very cool. But not for the cool kids. Corvettes are like Blackberrys, or maybe an LG.
Afterthought: Isn't it appropriate to use smartphone metaphors in a car thread, instead of cars in a smartphone thread?
One might imagine that there are satellites looking down at the earth for sources of interesting, space-beamed transmissions, and their content. There are a lot of monitoring dishes up there these days, pointing directly at that person with a yagi antenna spewing iterations of hack attempts. Then there's a knock at your door.
I'll imagine if you try and hack GPS and other high-value assets, you're not only being watched but by people that play for keeps.
Like the legal profession, medicine suffers from a patriarchal hierarchy from centuries ago. Certainly the professions require training, but the work done by astutely trained individuals working strictly within guidance protocols could stanch the stark worldwide need for physicians, and yes, lawyers.
However, when they find themselves as replaceable as fast food workers, there will be hell to pay, and lobbying money to be spent, thus perpetuating the problem.
Despite pissing off Sanders voters, Hillary won the popular vote.
The popular vote does not matter, it's the Electoral College that decides who's going to be President. The GOP/Trump Campaign played this very well, losing, but still winning.
The Dems also made a horribly disorganized attempt at Congressional and state house seats. Organization, and effects like playing Cambridge Analytics-fueled targeted propaganda was the gentle breeze that the GOP/Trump needed to gain draconian control effectively. These folks play hardball, and the Dems (for better or worse) do not. They still don't, and they still have a strong possibility of losing mid-terms as a direct result. The game has changed.
Saying something specific (after LEGAL steps on it) would lead to twitter storms, facebook memes, and launching defensive verbal ballistics. Then the litigation and recriminations begin.
People in The Bay Area have mortgages and rents that are staggeringly expensive, they live packed tight as sardines, waiting on a juicy options and warrants to mature, making payments on cars, and are generally indentured servants of $startup or $current_monopoly. That they blather should be no surprise.
They say all sorts of silly stuff because they have lots of skin in their particular $game. They must protect $game and $income and $current_gig and so no one will really go out on a limb. No one also wants to start a bear market, either.
But you're wrong about the US Media swallowing it whole. Although I especially love the UK Net (Go TheRegister!) for their desire to cite the stench, the US media is pretty healthy, save the corporate media that believes they have to be "nice". Depth is where you find it; this has always been the case.
This is what reddit and other places are for, as well. There's plentiful disingenuous crap, but it's only worse now-- it's always been around. Social media makes it looks worse.... but the stench and methane has been pouring our of SillyCon Valley for decades.
Are you one of those Russian troll things? I always wondered what one of those looked like, and you sure do have all the earmarks.
Did you learn English in high school? Do they make you sit in a cubicle and write stuff in boldface, using as much English swearwords as you can think up?
Gosh. You must be one of the happiest people in the world. Have a nice day. I wonder if Slashdot got your IP address. I doubt they do anything about such rubbish. Oh well.
We're ever diligent. We go to extreme lengths not to harm each other. There is injury and loss. We have existing mechanisms, including the all-important don't-let-yourself-get-in-that-spot. The remedies have to do with people, not the pseudo-corpus of an AI, who feels no pain, no guilt, no punishment, nothing.
Slashdot Mirror
QA is part of the problem with the Ryzen CPU issues.
ANY CPU YOU BUY FROM AMD right now is subject to the bugs of an onboard PSProcessor whose flash is immune from scrutiny until this is patched. No patch dates have been forthcoming, and every one of them has the same ugly bug. This is not commercial grade. This is recycling grade.
Have a nice APU day.
If there is an actual vetting process, it's a joke. So much for diligence, trustworthiness, and looking out for the security of their Android users, who dominate worldwide consumers of their "product".
It doesn't stop plutocracy, but it certainly helps.
Individuals should fund elections, and individuals solely the constituents of those to be elected. No outside money from anywhere.
Issues-based voting should also reveal ALL of the donors to ALL sides of the issues. Out them.
All lobbying efforts should reveal all of the payers so that we know exactly who they are. Reveal the hidden agendas. Let us know who is behind what. Make the information easily accessible the second the monies are spent, not long afterward.
The same should be done to reveal the sponsors of "research".
Thanks for your thoughtful response.
Others mention the NIMBY effect. Other regions have them as well.
Long ago I lived in CA. When I traveled to OR, a similar billboard (and attitude) was seen. It's human nature in some ways, banal greed in others.
There is a set of people we'll call Californians.
There are homeowners, as a subset
There are people who desire to be homeowners as another subset.
Viewed as a different angle, there is the landed gentry and the not-landed gentry?
Everyone wants to make money on their homes, not just Californians. No one wants their home's value reduced. Looking our for #1 is an ages old proposition.
But it's bulging. It's not a pyramid scheme, it's a real issue. Those that invested must now defend their value to people paying $4K/mo for dirtbag dumps and pseudo-condos. That's not quality of life. This needn't be so, perhaps fodder for a different thread.
Poster says, "because we don't want to build them".
I don't believe this is the case.
New home construction requires either a retrofit, or new land. Before permits are issued, there has to be infrastructure available, and that infrastructure has to extend to the site(s). This is why subdivisions are often a popular way to do new housing. Streets have to go there. There needs to be support for basic necessities, like food, fuel, and much more.
The housing needs to be placed in an area where people can tolerate a commute somehow. Schools, public safety, and other pieces are hopefully nearby, as well as sufficient utility resources.
Water run-off needs to be decided, depending on the locale. Fire hazards and other insurance considerations come into the picture.
There is no short supply of people that can actually construct homes, and do all of the aforementioned infrastructure. What it takes is money, and must support a profit for the builders. The newly built homes will also be taxed, perhaps mightily.
Californians do want housing, but it's not a simple binary decision where one snaps fingers, and magically, housing appears.
The supply is kept down for natural and artificial reasons is my point. The capital expense of solar is small change compared to the rest of the equation. People want new housing, but many factors inhibit housing growth, very real reasons.
Just friends of yours, or do you have a citation?
Who is this "we" you speak of? Is it you and the mouse in your pocket?
Disinformation doesn't mean doodley, even if you come out of a Tor node exit. They characterized your browser long ago, and by probing your browser's state, they know who you are.
You surfed enough to different places to get a capture that shows your activities. They get your logon name, because you didn't use plugins that tell your browser than you're doing a cleartext post from within an otherwise https site. They look and cross-ref that ID, because you're lazy like everyone else.
They know who you are. It just takes some trivial digging.
You can do all of the sophomoric gigglies you want, but don't kid yourself. They know who you are, and can detect the signal from your noise no matter how clever you think you are.
It's not a game to the people that want to know, and while they themselves are sometimes not very clever, they have acres of spinning disks and too much cpu power to not eventually win.
This is the dismaying part. There are tricks to provide real, no-shit anonymity on the Internet, but they're short term, and like a burner phone, have to be thrown away. It just makes the trail harder to follow. Sooner or later, if they want you, they'll correlate enough interesting data to make a good guess. This isn't paranoia, this is a living for a small group of people. They like to win. Information has always had value, and until yours is worth something, be carefree.
Processing nodes, but also learning nodes, fractal analysis, curve-fitting models, and of course, trickle-down economics :-)
Some areas do this-- require developers to do the upgrades necessary. Some just want more short-term tax base and look the other way.... leading to staggeringly rough strains on existing, decaying infrastructure.
There is little public policy guidance, and non-uniform implementations of it. The entire HOA debacle is a prime example of a good idea gone horribly bad. Many HOAs go bankrupt, leaving things like storm water management, sewage treatment and flow, and other basics hung on cities and counties to take care of.
The over-arching problem is greed and short-sightedness.
There's another way to look at this.
The hotel prices in Manhattan, just like the Bay Area, Seattle, downtown Chicago are berserk. AirBnB presence means I can spend about 1/3rd the amount of a hotel room, and spend the rest on needed things like food, transportation (expensive in all of these areas) and maybe have something leftover for a beer. Maybe.
Does that mean a NYer, San Franciscan, etc. has to pay more dough for their abode? I don't have to live there, thank heavens. This is not my problem. My problem is taking short trips to expensive cities. I'll cut my costs to suit my meager budget.
Do I empathize? No. You want avocado toast? Fine. Bagels and lox? Fine. For those that live in flyover country, you folks are insane.
That areas can't get building permits is completely understandable. The infrastructure costs are high, and politicians have cut budgets to the bone and worse. Capital investments are impossible. No one wants to shell out the money needed for upkeep and maintenance, let alone visionary spending. Everyone's in it for the moment, grab the dough and run, and the future is not our responsibility is the hue and cry of most every political hack. They never heard of sustainability and mutual responsibility. And so head to the big cities and get out as fast as we can. AirBnB is a hero to me. They help me fight the greed of the hoteliers and their insane price differentials. What differentials? That's a different story for a different thread.
Enforced? Get a state to do something that isn't bought and paid for by lobbyists and campaign contributions?
C'mon.
Organize a union? With Right To Work legislation? Nope. Sever employees that try to organize? Ask the NLRB how many complaints are on file.
This is about: Need To Eat. This is about not subsidizing businesses. This is about not having businesses pay so low that people have to use subsidies to live-- eat, get housing, medical care, and transportation to just, yes, live.
Some of them don't have your brains, motivation, whatever it was that made you work two jobs. Lots of parts of society struggle with poverty, opoid addiction, busted families, congenital or other disease. They're not all dope smokers/users living on welfare money.
But most want to work. Some can't get jobs because they have no address. They have no teeth. They have no skills, or the ones they had have been replaced by automation, or just market shifts.
Employment is high. So is under-employment. For each Walmart worker, there's a better than even chance that your state is subsidizing that worker because Walmart won't pay enough. You can't keep dividing off what's taxable and needed for basic human subsistence. The math doesn't work. They're not all as gifted or able as you. Those of us who can work, and do make money, subsidize the unemployed/under-employed through taxes and charitable generosity. This is where corporate taxes need to the job-- or a freaking living wage, salient for the cost of living in the area where paid (looking at you, Bay Area).
How ugly that it seems to pay to NOT cure something. Jonas Salk wasn't the greed-filled developer of his vaccine. He didn't develop it to reward stockholders. He did it to save lives and the fates of those infected with polio, a common disease of a couple generations ago.
So far, we don't know about the business model that might result, or even if the drug is effective and safe over the long term. So far, Truvada seems to be the best prophylactic out there, outside of abstinence. Abstinence is never going to work. The drug's vendor, Gilead, by keeping their prices at $1500+ a month for Truvada, has the blood on their hands of those that can't afford it, and get infected, and can't control it, and die hideous deaths.
It begs the question, could telecoms get much worse?
The answer is: hell yes it could get worse. The bar is so high to get investment capital that even LEO satellites with WiFi or whatever goofy next-gen GSM/LTE/gigglyBS arrives to cover the USA will be insanely expensive. Less carriers is not more.
Everyone wants a payday. The newly merged organization won't be any smarter than the old one, just more bosses and fewer actual workers. The CSRs won't get brighter, coverage won't get better, services won't be finer.
But as stated up-thread, what you or I want will make no difference. Public policy be damned, it's the campaign contribution or allies in the closet that financially benefit closest to the decision makers who will call the tune, and we'll continue to pay the piper.
I think you're missing the point.
Tesla psychologically owns the luxury market. It's the cool kid's ride, easily analogized to the iPhone 8 or 10. Is it a pavement pounder? Yes. Is it the fastest? No. It's the coolest, or so says the buyers, who pay a huge margin to a company that barely floats its boat.
I like Corvettes, but Bowling Green lost its way, IMHO. Still very cool. But not for the cool kids. Corvettes are like Blackberrys, or maybe an LG.
Afterthought: Isn't it appropriate to use smartphone metaphors in a car thread, instead of cars in a smartphone thread?
Hey mommy, what's that black Escalade doing parked in the driveway?
One imagines discrete little drones..... isn't that how it's done these days?
One might imagine that there are satellites looking down at the earth for sources of interesting, space-beamed transmissions, and their content. There are a lot of monitoring dishes up there these days, pointing directly at that person with a yagi antenna spewing iterations of hack attempts. Then there's a knock at your door.
I'll imagine if you try and hack GPS and other high-value assets, you're not only being watched but by people that play for keeps.
Go ahead. Make some analyst's day.
Like the legal profession, medicine suffers from a patriarchal hierarchy from centuries ago. Certainly the professions require training, but the work done by astutely trained individuals working strictly within guidance protocols could stanch the stark worldwide need for physicians, and yes, lawyers.
However, when they find themselves as replaceable as fast food workers, there will be hell to pay, and lobbying money to be spent, thus perpetuating the problem.
Despite pissing off Sanders voters, Hillary won the popular vote.
The popular vote does not matter, it's the Electoral College that decides who's going to be President. The GOP/Trump Campaign played this very well, losing, but still winning.
The Dems also made a horribly disorganized attempt at Congressional and state house seats. Organization, and effects like playing Cambridge Analytics-fueled targeted propaganda was the gentle breeze that the GOP/Trump needed to gain draconian control effectively. These folks play hardball, and the Dems (for better or worse) do not. They still don't, and they still have a strong possibility of losing mid-terms as a direct result. The game has changed.
Saying something specific (after LEGAL steps on it) would lead to twitter storms, facebook memes, and launching defensive verbal ballistics. Then the litigation and recriminations begin.
People in The Bay Area have mortgages and rents that are staggeringly expensive, they live packed tight as sardines, waiting on a juicy options and warrants to mature, making payments on cars, and are generally indentured servants of $startup or $current_monopoly. That they blather should be no surprise.
They say all sorts of silly stuff because they have lots of skin in their particular $game. They must protect $game and $income and $current_gig and so no one will really go out on a limb. No one also wants to start a bear market, either.
But you're wrong about the US Media swallowing it whole. Although I especially love the UK Net (Go TheRegister!) for their desire to cite the stench, the US media is pretty healthy, save the corporate media that believes they have to be "nice". Depth is where you find it; this has always been the case.
This is what reddit and other places are for, as well. There's plentiful disingenuous crap, but it's only worse now-- it's always been around. Social media makes it looks worse.... but the stench and methane has been pouring our of SillyCon Valley for decades.
Are you one of those Russian troll things? I always wondered what one of those looked like, and you sure do have all the earmarks.
Did you learn English in high school? Do they make you sit in a cubicle and write stuff in boldface, using as much English swearwords as you can think up?
Gosh. You must be one of the happiest people in the world. Have a nice day. I wonder if Slashdot got your IP address. I doubt they do anything about such rubbish. Oh well.
We're ever diligent. We go to extreme lengths not to harm each other. There is injury and loss. We have existing mechanisms, including the all-important don't-let-yourself-get-in-that-spot. The remedies have to do with people, not the pseudo-corpus of an AI, who feels no pain, no guilt, no punishment, nothing.