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I haven't read the paper but do they define what they mean by "westernized"? China is very much the east, does acne vulgaris have the same prevelance in countries in Asia and the middle east?

This is... scary. The potential applications of this technology extend far beyond porn. How long until intelligence agencies are using this sort of technology to sabotage political opponents?

Finally I can play my favourite game without worrying about how Intel has fucked me!

I think that automation is going to contribute massively to wealth inequality in the next few decades, and I think that not considering the destabilising risks of such centralisation of wealth is short sighted. People will only for so long tolerate getting the short end of the stick whilst the massive amounts of wealth for the wealthy balloons.

I don't know if a "redistribution of wealth" will ever be seen, but I do think the fundamental system we operate on in this day and age will need to be radically altered to prevent discontent

I don't think the word "took" implies what you said, and I think your offence at the title is unwarranted

That's kind of the point though, even if the army and police didn't revolt, they're crippled by the lack of services produced by the civilians. Major upheaval like this hypothetical have multiple times in history crippled even the most well equipped amred forces because of the nature of the revolt. Guns are only 1 part of defence, and every time there has been a populace under the rule of a government/system that they refuse to exist under it has either been overthrown or in the process of being so. This is an easily verified fact by looking through history, governance requires at least a majority of the populace to consent to it.

It's silly to say that the 1% are there from hard work, family fortunes apparently don't exist in that fantasy. Also you're forgetting that the armies of the 1% are made up of the 99%, all the money in the world has done nothing to stop the most powerful people in the world in history once the 99% have revolted, by definition there's no power stronger than that. See every revolution in history.

No you're conflating two different issues here. An open architecture with a copyleft license would be resistant to the abuse you just identified. An open architecture that allows closed changes would do what you're saying, and is the major fault of Android.

I don't know why this was downvoted, it's a very reasonable assumption given the scale and spread of people who knew. Sure there's no evidence of any actual attacks exploiting this vulnerability, but that doesn't mean we can discount the chance that it was known to malicious parties before the wider public.

The only way you can know if a protocol is secure is if you have a lot of eyes on it trying to break it nine ways from sunday. This is nothing but a good thing.

No.

Source: writing code using openSSL

Well seeing as the criteria that they used to pick the OpenSSL project is:

"for dramatic improvements to the code quality of OpenSSL"

I think there is a question around why LibreSSL was not chosen seeing as it has done exactly that...

You can make up all these outrageous examples which don't correlate to what I said in any way shape or form at all as much as you like, but just know you aren't convincing anyone or making a compelling argument.

Skin cancer and heart disease are major issues as is the elderly falling over, and if there were predatory organisations which were peddling products that abused human weakness to capitalize on addiction, or running around pushing old people over, I think we should look into handling those organizations. However salt and sunshine are absolutely vital to the proper functioning of the human body, whereas eating a bag of skittles and downing six bottles of coke is not. And corporations are out there peddling sugar because it sells, and that is predatory behaviour and the bill is footed by the Australian public for the profit seeking of a tiny minority. That is what this recommendation seeks to stop.

Your comment would be relevant if this post was about the US, but it's not, it's about Australia. I recommend you read the link

> I'd prefer to see taxation and education be the sole solutions

The market is incapable of self-regulation, that much has shown itself to be true. Removal of marketing towards children and easy access to vending machines will go a long way in improving public health in Australia. The days of avoiding a nanny state in Australia are pretty much gone, the government regulates everything, and for the most part it hasn't actually been bad at all.

> but they need to pay their own healthcare costs somehow.

Terrible idea, Medicare is one of Australia's shining institutions (even with all it's bureaucratic flaws). The American healthcare model has literally 0 chance of ever being adopted in Australia. The simple fact is we live in a socialised society, and so when burdens are placed on the public infrastructure from profit hungry corporations, the natural response is to regulate and deal with it. We saw it with cigarettes, hopefully we see it with sugar, and one day with alcohol too.

Good. Sugar is a horribly addictive substance, and the outcomes of it's consumption and abuse are a massive drain on Australia's public health infrastructure. Hopefully however the sugar tax is coupled with some form of subsidy or relief from high prices of healthier alternatives (the groundwork exists with a GST exemption for fruit & veg) because obesity has a disproportionate affect on people in lower income brackets due to how cheap and easy it is to buy some processed garbage.

What about meltdown?

>They can a handle a bit of criticism from a bunch of nerds on HN.

What a reductive and shortsighted evaluation of the situation.

Can they handle the loss of faith from big companies? Can they handle the loss of faith from the entire tech community? Seems to me that AMD et al have now got the perfect opportunity to erode intels market share and build up a large market base amongst cloud providers etc (not to mention security minded users) that require technology that is both resistant to meltdown and not underperforming hardware.

It's silly to act like this is a storm in a teacup because the HN community is up in arms over it. Monopolies fall, and the loss of trust and key clients tends to precipitate that fall.

>But if it needs help drafting a better PR release, someone is welcome to point them to HN's comments section.

Their PR was shocking, but on the order of things people are upset about over this incident, this is literally at the bottom.

If your news only aligns to a political ideology it is not news.

>Vote with your dollars.

I hate this saying. It's such a bullshit saying. a) There is no viable competition and b) It's incredibly profitable to lock people into an ecosystem, so even if you do "vote" with your dollars (hint: you're not voting) every company that you've now "voted" for has an interest in locking you into their ecosystem. The very act of "voting with your dollars" is part of the problem. This requires a principled stand and a demand, not more consumerism.

Wow what a deceptive defensive response by intel. Nobody is concerned about data being deleted, it's the unprivileged access thats the issue here.

At this point articles like this are stale. They don't convince anyone not already convinced, and are really just echo chambers. The thing is, making posts and articles isn't going to change a damn thing, there's such a disconnect between the people in power and your average person that it's hard to see how any real change will come about from writing, airing your criticisms and petitioning. Especially since 21st century activism seems to be more focused on retweets than praxis, which ultimately means that unless people take to the streets and force change, all that's ever going to happen is more articles and more silence from the top.

Do something if you believe in change.

Actually given the horror stories that have been told about the windows source code over the years, I'd be very, very surprised if there wasn't 20 year old code in a lot of places.

Hell there's still 20 year old code running in the Linux kernel

Right but they're not saying they don't trust regulators and legislators as a concept, they're saying they don't trust them when they're basically writing what lobbyists tell them to. It's right they don't trust the law, but their criticism isn't of law and regulation. It's of lobbyists.

Their criticism wasn't of the law but of the undue influence of lobbyists in the American political system.

I would dare say the majority of unsolved problems are solvable by an individual with a unique perspective and set of skills. Having those people find those problems seems like a case of serendipity more often than not.

This is crazy but I'm pretty similar, is this a documented effect that I could read more about?

Almost always after a night of heavy drinking I wake from anywhere between 5am - 8am and have a rough time getting back to sleep for at least a few hours. Knowing my drinking patterns, those times would tend to correlate to about 4 hours earlier passing out.

Is there anywhere we can read the responses? I would be interested in hearing how they justify their actions and attitudes

Nitpick but shouldn't it be read code on Github, rather than read code at Github?

Wiping earth clear of humans and still having a habitable planet left over would require far more resources, risk, lives of your own and time then simply building a few colonies on planets like Mars.