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 <
vodhner@cox.net> 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 <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> 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 <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org>
>
>
> 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
---------------------------------------------------
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
(text/plain)