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  1. Re:And now we see the true Intel on Intel's Reworked Microcode Security Fix License No Longer Prohibits Benchmarking (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    AMD was lucky and IBM was lucky and ARM was lucky... or simply Intel done some shit design

  2. Re:We have technology to validate such claims. on Intel x86s Hide Another CPU That Can Take Over Your Machine -- You Can't Audit it (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    This method would not discover a dlink-like backdoor, a backdoor that needs to be activated with a specific procedure and do nothing in other cases.

  3. Re:Dream on: a standard GPU instruction set on Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    so you kill the innovation, like the x86 standard tied down the CPUs evolution until the born of amd64 instructions set

    you need a standard graphic stack, not locked hardware: even on the same brand, the architecture completely changes quickly as more power and new features needs different technology to be accomplished

    if the graphic stack continues to be supported and compatible, you got no problems (yes this is not the case of ms-windows drivers as they are never updated, like 32 bit devices on 64 bit ms-windows)

  4. best science fiction by John Maynard Keynes on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    in the 1930 he said: "Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to use his freedom from pressing economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely and agreeably and well."

    he was so innocent! the human appetite is infinite and we will consume everything we can: there is no limit, so more we produce more we consume and there is no room for downshifting

    so it's obvious that money will never disappear

  5. Re:Change the channel, Marge on New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment · · Score: 1

    where a normal DE feels to me harmful, I found LXDE really useful: fast, usable and completely customizable

    it is essentially a windowmanager (openbox) + a filemanager (pcmanfm) + a panel (I'm using fbpanel as substitute) + some small utils (editor, login screen, network manager, etc)

    every single piece of the environment can be changed with another that you like more, letting you revive the old days "build your linux"

  6. Re:superuser on Systemd Absorbs "su" Command Functionality · · Score: 1

    systemd is really a broken concept. I've made a full replacement, in early development, but it should work for now and the API will be granted to be stable. main () { printf("hello world\n"); }

  7. Re: Need a new browser. Not Chome, not IE, Not FF. on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 1

    I never found the time to share and explain my firefox configuration, but this thread had the incentives to do it. Now you can check http://www.trek.eu.org/text/fi... with a downloadable user.js tuned just for security and privacy in mind.

  8. Re:Fed up on Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Advertisers are becoming increasingly harmful. They must find a balance between capturing the user interest and the degradation of the user experience. If they became too annoying, the user shut them up, with ad-block or simply the mute button.

    Personally I don't use ad-block as I completely disable javascript, that automagically blocks 99% of ads (and other stupid messages) and let instant loading of web pages.

  9. Javascript is Evil on New Javascript Attack Lets Websites Spy On the CPU's Cache · · Score: 1

    Simply don't use it!

  10. Modular Debian on Devuan Progress Report Published · · Score: 1

    I see another good project starting, Modular Debian, that aims to integrate the pid 1 freedom in the main distribution, without forking https://www.freelists.org/arch...

  11. Re:Forbit all HFT on Adaptation From Flash Boys Offers Inside Look at High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    It's look like the opening and closing auctions. They are already implemented and you can use them if you want.

  12. systemd: broken by design on Ubuntu To Switch To systemd · · Score: 3, Interesting

    a really interesting reading: http://ewontfix.com/14/

  13. Re:I see a lot of discussion about systemd on Debian Technical Committee Votes For Systemd Over Upstart · · Score: 1

    You get the point. No one seems to care about servers vs. desktop clients, even if most Debian install are servers, not desktops as they use Ubuntu for that.

  14. Re:Comparison in slightly bad taste... on CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame · · Score: 1

    Do you really think that the major problem for the USA in the 9/11 was the death of many people? I don't think so, it's not logic:

    * 9/11

    http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/vict ims/main.html
    USA civilian deaths: 2'898
    USA military deaths: 125

    Total: 3'023

    * Afghanistan war

    USA military deaths: 184 http://icasualties.org/oef/
    Afghanian civilian deaths: 3'000 http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm

    Total: 3'184

    * Iraq war

    USA military deaths: 1'651 http://icasualties.org/oif/
    Coalition military deaths: 180
    Coalition contractors: 238
    Iraq old military deaths: 9'200 http://www.comw.org/pda/0310rm8exsum.html
    Iraq civilian deaths: 21'795 http://www.iraqbodycount.net/database/
    Iraq police deaths: 2'115 http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx

    Total: 35'179

    * Conclusion

    Total USA deaths in 9/11: 3'023
    Total USA deaths in war: 1'835 (60% of 9/11)
    USA military injured: 12'384 (409% of 9/11)
    Other deaths: 30'321 (1003% of 9/11)

    Probably for the CIA and the highests USA political institutions, the main problem of the 9/11 cannot be the death of many people, but it should be searched in economic and image loss, political instability and other things, but not for the deaths, at all.

    If you keep in mind these things, the interest of the CIA and others defence agencies in massive network attacks is simply logic.