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  1. It was well known that on Pentium line cpus, a speculative execution branch can access protected memory, but it will just cause page fault in the end.

    The first practical access timing exploit was discovered in 2016. Googlers just found out an even easier way last

  2. But nothing prevents a synthetic event from triggering the filling in any webkit based browser

  3. Mr. Zhang surely have good friends within China's customs office...

  4. Re: Limiting city development on China's Shanghai Sets Population at 25 Million To Avoid 'Big City Disease' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    A polar opposite of what is in China.

    I rented a room on a 38th floor in a 42 floor tower where most of my neighbours were so so people for a snob like me.

    The trick I was told is to pick flats to rent in very narrow buildings where you do not have more than two or three apartments per floor

    Only super rich there live in detached mansions within city limits here

  5. All reactionaries are paper tigers.

  6. Re:And international news organizations? on Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    China owns Pakistan 3 times over

  7. Re:Why were they ever allowed? on France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It is not about that.

    As I understood, they are doing that under influence of people saying that "cellphones give you brain cancer"

  8. True enterprise grade bugs, now not only Apple's monopoly

  9. A big step forward for Toyota on Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Making energy from dung is a big step forward from making cars out of dung

  10. >but several other manufacturers have not been able to place orders for batteries, and won't be able to order more batteries until the middle of next year.

    Chinese factory owners must be happy

  11. It has 52wh battery. It is ok, bur not much in comparison to XPC (60,) and latest Yogas (72 and more in 13 inch models)

  12. Re: They might also have a more selfish reason. on Massive Financial Aid Data Breach Proves Stanford Lied For Years To MBAs (poetsandquants.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And this is not much different from pretty much all other business schools with any much big name.

    I'm Russian, from a top 1% family in Russia. I studied in an average college in Canada on my own volition, against wishes of my clueless parents who wanted to bang big money away on a business school. It took a lot of efforts for me to convince them that "big name business school" is a waste of money if you go there for actual skills and knowledge in the best case, and a disaster when you simply gave money away to small time fraudsters in the worst.

    I know personally two other Russians few years older than me who went for Harvard MBA, and now spill bitter tears for spending a big portion of their family fortune for, at best, laughably mediocre education for such price.

    And even in the mid-tier college I was going to, I saw that very few people who were getting not even a scholarship, but a "income supplement stipend," usually given to low income students, being given to another Russian guy who was always dressed expensively and casually wore $2000 watch and few other surprisingly well off people.

    I instantly understood that they do it in anticipation that if this guy will work in his father's company and earn big buck, they can proudly put his testament and his salary on their graduate outcomes statistics.

  13. True enterprise level bugs on Apple To Review Software Practices After Patching Serious Mac Bug (reuters.com) · · Score: 0

    True enterprise level bugs, only from Apple

  14. Re:Nice idea but on NASA Funds Designs for a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rocket (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Gaseous core nuclear reactors are the future - RD-600M.

    Solid core engines are too primitive. We are almost 60 years into a space age now

  15. I mean 240000 CNY a year (in which 35000 usd translate) is kinda low for a senior. CNY 300k a year is what Tencent and Alubaba give out without much trouble

  16. Re: Contrapositive Colonialism on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    USA is a nation of convicts, misfits, slaves, fringe sect members, and other undesirables

  17. Re: China *DOES* allow immigration !! on H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There are a whoping 51 naturalized Chinese citizens who got Chinese passports through means other than marriage. ~40 of them are former Hongkongese, and I believe all of these did get Mainland citizenship in order to hoard real estate in Shenzhen

  18. >I can hire solid engineers and devs in Shanghai for $35k.

    I don't believe you. It is at least 60k CNY below market rate for an any much senior developer

  19. I stayed in Chocolate town in Guangzhou for few weeks, locals were much better people than your average Chinese. Despite the popular notion, the chocolate town is the least criminal part of the city, not the most.

  20. I congratulate Microsoft for this great achievement, they finally implemented a feature which Ericsson R520 had 17 years ago.

  21. >Twitter has 3,898 employees, according to Wikipedia, for 330 million monthly users

    Both Twitter and Facebook outsourced "user operations teams" in god forsaken places like Algiers, Albania, Tunis and so on.

    They do dirty stuff like porn filtering, and banning

  22. Re: Termite stocks on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    My ideal vision of the detached house was the same for a long time: few stories high, gfrp reinforced foamed concrete in stay-in-place protective formwork, buried in tubes for HVAC inside thicker load carrying walls, floors with panels over V-bars or light slabs with foam concrete in load sharing formwork, living roof, airtight windows with high quality insulated glass, reversable displacement ventilation, air-air heat pump plus natural gas for heat.

  23. Re: Termite stocks on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    It was sealed with oiled linen fiber. It did seal well, and was okayish in winter. Not comparable with thermos houses built with insulating panels, but that was not the showstopper.

    It was a 40 year old log house, which means it was quite new by standards of the industry, but rot was omnipresent, walls ooze out sap while being themselves over 48 years old, insects tunnel through the whole house with ease, rodents can chew through the house too in places that are not solid wood, smell of wood and chemical binders everywhere, squeaking, having to ventilate both the basement and the roof to prevent rot there meant we were venting all the heat there too.

    All of the aforesaid is dealable, but you have to deal with it pretty much every few weeks you live there.

  24. Re: Termite stocks on Timber Towers Are On the Rise in France (citylab.com) · · Score: 1

    As a person who lived in a log house with 10 inch thick wall - it sucks hard