ARM is releasing some Server Grade processors. Will be interesting to see what their impact is. especially after this latest fubar. That is 2 big fubars by intel in one year.... On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Victor Odhner wrote: > This is just another result of monoculture. When Apple gave up on Motorola > CPUs, it occurred to me that we would have basically a single computer > structure. It appears that this “management” thing (actually a very cute > name for something that manages everybody, if true) would go around a lot > of this anyway. But while Linux is fine for bypassing things we might not > like about Windows or OS X, the fact is that the hardware world has become > very uniform, so some things we may not like are kind of universal. > > Not that someone couldn’t develop a whole new computer architecture. But > another fact is that the hardware and firmware logic have so many layers, > and so many of those layers are so 1960s and how they work is so totally > forgotten, coming up with a different architecture would be a 30-year > project! > > The original Space Shuttle had at least two versions of software, and I > think they also tried to build more than one hardware system, so that a bug > wouldn’t take the whole thing down. Pretty hard to do something like that, > back then, but quite impossible today. > ______________ > > On 20180110, at 12:15, Matthew Crews wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: Post : INTEL’S SECURITY FLAW IS NO FLAW > Local Time: January 10, 2018 10:33 AM > UTC Time: January 10, 2018 5:33 PM > From: retro64xyz@gmail.com > To: Main PLUG discussion list > > > I thought we all knew that intel has hardware level access points baked > into the system specifically for the INTELigence agencies. > > See what I did there? Hah! > > But seriously... If its not baked in, they just intercept devices in the > mail and solder in their own goodies. So what does it REALLY matter if they > just do it blanket instead of one at a time? Maybe cpu prices will go down. > ... > > On Jan 10, 2018, at 9:39 AM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Who knows if this is true, however here it is: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/comments/7pb7pv/intels_ > security_flaw_is_no_flaw/?st=jc9a2mp7&sh=7ef2e2c1 > > > I'm leery to buy into conspiracy theories like this, nor posts on 4chan as > fact (the reddit post is clearly a screenshot of a 4chan post), but in this > day and age this would not surprise me in the least if this is true. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen