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  1. Yes and no. You could with new model cars that they knew they were going to be applying the fix to in the coming months but sold under the old numbers. Specifically that would be fraud, so anyone who bought Coffee Lake before the fixes were published is arguably entitled to a full refund.

  2. Re:Public Domain on Congress Is Looking To Extend Copyright Protection Term To 144 Years (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    Oh how funny, you seem to think that there aren't just as many big businesses supporting net neutrality as opposing it.

  3. Re:If I owned Nat Gas Turbines.... on Tesla Unveils New Large Powerpack Project For Grid Balancing In Europe (electrek.co) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In terms of responsiveness, coal and oil plants are like 7200 rpm 3Gbps SATA HDDs, Nuke plants are like 5400 rpm IDE HDDs in RAID 0. Gas plants are like SSDs. Batteries are like L3 cache. Solar and wind are network connections, the former giving a relatively fixed amount of data over the day which changes by the hour, and the latter shoving random amounts of data down the pipe.

  4. Re:First they ban guns, then they ban money on Australia To Ban Cash Purchases Over $10,000 (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No, next is cash payments of $5000, then $1000, then they force people to a cashless economy for any purchase over $100.

  5. Re:Well which is it? on Eight New Meltdown-Like Flaws Found (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Good program design severely limits the total access of a SPECTRE type flaw. However the access granted by a standard SPECTRE exploit will still give out some information. Thus through good program design you can avoid giving away important information like passwords or cryptography keys even if someone is using a SPECTRE type exploit on your system. Whereas there is no real protection against a MELTDOWN flaw once it is exploited. At that point the person running the exploit has access to everything going on in the system.

  6. Well which is it? on Eight New Meltdown-Like Flaws Found (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MELTDOWN or SPECTRE? Because the effects of SPECTRE flaws that aren't like MELTDOWN can be almost completely mitigated through good program design. MELTDOWN class flaws however mean that once exploited anything the computer is doing can be exploited and program design doesn't matter.

  7. Because apparently a mike with a wire to the outside of the tank is impossible technology.

  8. Re:not buying any more new computers & gadgets on 'Next Generation' Flaws Found on Computer Processors (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Except they won't. At least not till quantum computers actually become usable by the regular consumer. Until then all processors will be vulnerable to some extent to SPECTRE class attacks(not however meltdown, that was purely Intel's fuckup) because you lose way too much performance dropping speculative execution entirely. There will merely be mitigation in place to make exploiting such attacks as difficult as possible.

  9. Re:What kind of human? Who watches the watchmen? on Parents Can Now Limit YouTube Kids To Human-Reviewed Channels and Recommendations (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The real question being how much will an expedited review of your channel cost.

  10. Yeah, it's not like I walked 5 miles every saturday(more often during summer break) starting at the age of 8 down and back to the local library during spring, summer, and fall or anything. It's not like the lack of lead in gasoline and paint has precipitously dropped crime rates from their heights in the late 80's early 90's and the idea that children are in more danger than ever before is complete and utter shite. No, the real answer is that I'm an internet tough guy.

  11. No... just no. What's causing the obesity epidemic is the combination of helicopter parenting restricting kids from any significant outdoor activity and sugar intake(probably HFCS intake but until someone follows up on the rat study with pig and monkey studies that one's unconfirmed).

  12. Poaching for their horns to sell in the Chinese woowoo medicine market is what killed the rhinos off. Not people going out to hunt them for the purpose of hunting them.

  13. Well... he pretty clearly had something to do with illegal immigration and North Korea. ISIS would have gone much the same way with either Hillary or Trump, and Hillary probably would have taken the same actions regarding chemical weapons. The other stuff is hard to say.

  14. Yeah, no. The DNC was corrupt long before. Bernie being railroaded was part and parcel of the devil collecting her due for stepping down and throwing her full support behind Obama in the 2008 general election along with her getting the Secretary of State position in the first place.

  15. He's also the investigator who hounded one completely innocent man with no real evidence whatsoever for quite a few years before going okay, maybe we should look at this other guy and hounding him publicly till he commits suicide, all without any hard evidence that he was the one who sent anthrax to anyone.

  16. Bernie "might" have won. Certainly not guaranteed. Moreover, if Clinton had won in that scenario, then even with her fuck ups like not visiting Wisconsin she probably would have won the general election because there would have been a lot less bad blood in the Dem camp.

  17. Re:Bringing competition back to the market on AMD 2nd Gen Ryzen Processors Launched and Benchmarked (hothardware.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, that and they froze AMD out of the market entirely so they had no revenue stream to commit to R&D. Combined with the fact they pushed for their own foundry too early and AMD was fucked.

  18. Re:If the leaked benchmarks are to be believed on AMD Makes 2nd Gen Ryzen Processors Official With Availability Starting Next Week (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    There is no SPECTRE fix coming. There is only hardware level SPECTRE mitigation. A full SPECTRE fix would require dropping out of order execution entirely. That ain't happening except for maybe the most secure of systems.

  19. Re:Ignoring the obvious on NTSB Boots Tesla From Investigation Into Fatal Autopilot Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    The fact of the matter is is that if this were a fire started by an electrical short and the fire marshal learned that the person who died in the fire had complained multiple times to his bosses about the light switch that tossed sparks and smoked every time he flipped it and had him on video flipping the switch a bunch of times, the fire marshal would assume arson and not accident.

  20. Are you an idiot who didn't read the court filings in question where plaintiffs admitted the defendants were willing to sell the couple any of their premade cakes or a blank sheet cake? Yes, yes you are. What the cake shop in question was not willing to do was sell a custom piece of edible art that exists solely as a symbol for something they consider sacred for an event they believe is immoral and wrong.

  21. We got Trump because the leftist media made him their darling during the primaries, the GOPe backed that milksop Jeb when republicans really don't like dynastic tendencies, and the democrats fielded possibly their worst and most unlikable candidate ever.

  22. No, the barrier was damaged the entire time. That's why the autopilot was failing.

  23. No, he had complained about the autopilot swerving towards this exact area more than once before. The probability that he just happened to take his hands off the wheel when he would have known the divider was coming up is rather suspect. Personally I'd want his internet search history for the three weeks or so before the crash.

  24. Re:Sounds like a CYA distraction statement on Tesla Issues Strongest Statement Yet Blaming Driver For Deadly Autopilot Crash (abc7news.com) · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is that Huang had very specifically complained about the autopilot swerving towards this area of the divider multiple times before. So either he forgot about it and just happened to take his hands off the wheel 6 seconds before coming upon the divider, or knew it was coming up and took his hands off purposefully in order to get in what he though would be a minor accident and subsequently sue Tesla.

  25. That presumes that Facebook bans all instances of those things. Which was never claimed. Instead you get things like the banning of Diamond and Silk, which Facebook claims was "an accident of enforcement". That is, to put it lightly, complete bullshit. It was done quite purposefully by whoever pulled the trigger on it.