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Which begs the question why Amazon Prime costs 99 dollars when clearly it should either be 97 or 101...I won't even eat a prime steak unless it weighs 17 ounces, or watch primetime tv unless the channel is a prime number and that is only during the 7 o'clock hour which is also 19 o'clock military time. Call me a math purist.
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Hang on - that's my PIN isn't it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Begs the question, what are they going to do with it?
This space for rent
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- Multiply by the second largest prime number
- Add 1 and try to prove it is even bigger
- If that fails, subtract 1 and try again.
That should eat up a few clock cycles
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is currently en route to Bennu, a carbon-rich asteroid that could contain the basic building blocks of life. Late last year it collected some images to remind us how small and insignificant we really are. Fortunately it didn't put its thumb over the lens
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... not the adjective I'd have chosen. It's the result of science - the exact opposite of "bonkers".
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Yeah, nice photo, lousy title.
TTFN - Kent
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Forrester breaks down functional programming and why tech developers should care about it. And by "mainstream" they mean, "we just heard about it"
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Quote: The customer-facing software development world is outgrowing stateful, object-oriented (OO) development.
Sounds like BS.
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Not just BS, it's Forrester BS(tm)! 
TTFN - Kent
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"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?"
With most programmers not having understood the object-oriented paradigma despite believing to use it since decades, we can be sure that we will soon have new beautiful functional stuff for the Weird & Wonderful.
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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We should have a contest to see which ZDNet author can use the most number of words to say absolutely nothing useful.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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While Google championed web standards that worked across many different browsers back in the early days of Chrome, more recently its own services often ignore standards and force people to use Chrome. This news item best read on Netscape Navigator
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Who said the bigger fish that gorged the smaller fish is better than it?
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Quote: An US government-backed cybersecurity team says the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerability can only be fixed by removing the affected CPU. Such an action would take a massive toll on the industry.
[^Winbuzzer]
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A comprehensive guide for choosing and setting up secure Wi-Fi. epoxy?
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The software update is part of a number of fixes that will protect against a newly-discovered processor bug in Intel, AMD, and ARM chipsets. ... for Windows 10
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Is the update Windows 7?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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TTFN - Kent
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The relevant quote from Intel is here...
"Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a "bug" or a "flaw" and are unique to Intel products are incorrect. Based on the analysis to date, many types of computing devices - with many different vendors' processors and operating systems - are susceptible to these exploits.
Intel is committed to product and customer security and is working closely with many other technology companies, including AMD, ARM Holdings and several operating system vendors, to develop an industry-wide approach to resolve this issue promptly and constructively. Intel has begun providing software and firmware updates to mitigate these exploits. Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time."
Note that the bug is present in "many types of computing devices" bit is quite separate from "is working closely with". Many suspect this is carefully drafted to avoid saying the bug is on AMD processors, while allowing readers to make that association. Is so, it has been entirely successful, AMD's share price has dropped while Intel's has risen.
AMD still state that the bug does not affect their CPU's, so this could well be foul (but legal) play by Intel.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The comments beneath the following article are probably more informative about the issue than the article itself...
The Verge - Intel Security Bug Response[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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There're two vulnerabilities.
Meltdown is a bug that affects Intel and some ARM CPUs that AMD claims doesn't affect them. This is the more serious one that there're performance eating work arounds for.
Spectre affects all vaguely modern CPUs (anything with speculative execution and a cache, ie anything with the minimum sophistication of a desktop chip from ~25 years ago or later). The only good news is that this side channel is much harder to exploit effectively. The bad news is that mitigating it is going to be a lot harder.
The best soundbyte I've seen for how bad Meltdown is is that Linus who's known for massive rants anytime a security change is proposed that has even a minor performance regressions hasn't said a word opposing these changes.
The second is that the linux kernel devs were sufficiently disgusted that they considered naming their fix for Meltdown "Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines" (aka ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) WIT)
Ars's article gives a solid rundown of what each bug is, The Register has a breakdown of what the platforms successfully exploited so far for each are:
“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws | Ars Technica
Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs • The Register
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have yet to see anything (including the articles you linked) suggest that Meltdown affects anything other than Intel CPUs, correct me if I'm wrong. ARM stated that some of its CPUs may be vulnerable, but as yet this has not been proven.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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From the Register article, the 4th and 5th bullets from the end of the meltdown section:
Quote:
It also affects Arm Cortex-A75 cores. Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 845 is an example part that uses the A75. There are Linux kernel KPTI patches available to mitigate this. The performance hit isn't known, but expected to be minimal.
Additionally, Cortex-A15, Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A72 cores suffer from a variant of Meltdown: protected system registers can be accessed, rather than kernel memory, by user processes. Arm has a detailed white paper and product table, here, describing all its vulnerable cores, the risks, and mitigations.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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