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Quoting: PopeRigby

Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

I'd love to see RISC-V be a viable desktop architecture. We need fully open source CPUs to help with security issues like this.

For now PowerPC is your best bet. It is the only 100% open architecture, that is usable today and properly performant. Risc-V on regular consumer computers probably won't happen until we reach the year of the Linux desktop.

What about ARM stuff? Could that move up the food chain?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm sure the Chinese will now be doing a crash program

As sure as Planet Nibiru, FEMA guillotines, and the Mayan Calendar, combined , no doubt.

Among all the things I've been saying around here the last day or so, it didn't occur to me that this would be controversial. WTF?

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Quoting: Comandante ÑoñardoThis is why we need another player in the x86 CPU market: Nvidia

I'm sure the Chinese will now be doing a crash program, having noticed between the trade war and the epidemic that not making their own is a key strategic vulnerability.
At which point I suppose everyone will get their choice: Do you want to be spied on via American back doors, or Chinese ones?

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Quoting: dpanterAnother day, another Intel security disaster.
It's not like people warned about this back in 2014 [External Link] or anything. :dizzy:

Interesting article. As soon as they described just what the point of SGX was, I immediately thought "Wait, couldn't you use that to make malware that was basically unfindable and undeletable?" and, later on in the article, it indeed brings up that exact issue.
I don't really know anything about computers, at a technical level. If I could figure that out in three seconds, why couldn't the engineers at Intel?

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Sounds as confusing as being a tourist in Toledo.

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Now we need a Hud that can show you the GOverlay stuff to let you manage your Hud to overlay on the games . . . then maybe a manager to manage the Hud to . . . :D

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Quoting: dpanterI'm concerned about the arctic permafrost thawing, like the Siberia tundra. That's been frozen for hundreds of thousands of years. Besides the incomprehensibly vast amount of carbon dioxide about be released, what else might be sleeping beneath the ice? :S:
(Plenty of tacky sci-fi/horror movies with that theme around.)

Many years ago didn't they find a frozen mammoth carcass? They actually tried eating the thing. It was awful; I guess after all those years it had wicked freezer burn.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWell, I thought it was probably that lame but I thought it polite to ask.

Come on now, why 'lame'? He used such words as 'seize' and 'redistribute', which signal authentic knowledge of the subject matter.

I mean, that's the correct idiom, right? You know 'seize the means of' ... what was it ... and sure enough 'redistribute' is another of those words. Like 'free stuff'.

"production". "Seize the means of production". Not, like, the products of production. And no, while Sanders is certainly into redistribution, as are social democrats and other welfare state types, that's because they're all capitalists (including Sanders, whatever he may say). If you're going to be a capitalist, you either have redistribution or you have, in time, the third world. Capitalism + redistribution is not a bad system; the problem is that it's unsustainable because capitalists don't like it and have the power to do things about it, so the "redistribution" part keeps going away (or more often being switched from redistribution downwards to redistribution upwards).
Socialists aren't into redistribution. You don't need redistribution if nobody gets to siphon money from the proles while they sleep in the first place.
Free stuff, on the other hand, is great. While I believe in Libre software for Libre-type reasons, I'm absolutely pleased with the fact that it tends to end up also being gratis. If both lots of capitalists and some "socialists" ripped off Super Mario Whatever, I'd say it's a feature that at least the "socialists" gave away the results instead of also ripping off consumers.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: jarhead_hWhat a surprise, a bunch of actual socialists seizing & redistributing someone else's game.

. . . Fine, I'll bite. "someone else's game"?

Super Mario Bros is owned by Nintendo. This spoof is free. Bernie is a socialist. jarhead_h made a good joke.

Well, I thought it was probably that lame but I thought it polite to ask. If that's all, gosh, those socialists sure had to line up behind a lot of stacks of capitalists over the years doing the exact thing.

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Quoting: jarhead_hWhat a surprise, a bunch of actual socialists seizing & redistributing someone else's game.

. . . Fine, I'll bite. "someone else's game"?

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