Recent content by PaulP

CBS doesn't give a damn.

They didn't mention the most important metric: competency. If you don't measure that, then everything else is worthless. But then again, they are only using this on interns, and let's face it, at that point in their lives they probably don't have a lot of competence to measure.

Part of Intel's superiority in IPC is due to the aggressive speculative execution techniques it employs in its chips. But, as we now know, some of these techniques have opened up windows for side channel attacks. The question now is whether Intel will have to roll back some of those IPC gains in...

What I am saying is that there are completely new applications for this that aren't and can't be done on a "normal stationary workstation", so it's not just a better, more portable workstation.

So, let's parse this out: "not evidence that Amazon staffers experience suicidal episodes more than other American workers, in or out of a warehouse" means they may have the same number (on averages) as other American workers. In other words, normal levels. How then does this "clearly imply that...

If you only see this technology as a replacement for monitors and keyboards for office workers, then you are missing the bigger picture. AR could be a more transformative technology than cell phones.

Someone, or multiple someones should have gone to jail over this. Our personal data should be treated just like money or anything else with great value, and if you don't protect it, you face jail time. That's the only way to solve this problem; there must be dire consequences for not securing...

I didn't know a Tesla could go 1000mph! I mean charging while moving is cool, really, where can you even drive that fast? /sarc

Must be nice to have god like powers to be able to see into everybody's future to know that they will never need to drive that fast. Say, can you get me next week's lotto numbers too?

How do we know that the NSA didn't invent block-chain and bit-coin for this very purpose?

Since this new exploit is is only useful to make other side-channel attacks for effective, deploying mitigations against those side-channel attacks is your only option right now.

Saying someone is "overpaid" implies you understand all the requirements and duties of the job and their ability to perform it. I don't see how the people that wrote the article, or anybody here, can claim that knowledge. CEOs are paid large sums of money for the same reason professional...

Nah, they aren't talking about "x-ray vision". Most likely you would be able to see the capillaries in your eyelids, but you'd get used to that eventually.

Why not 5.7 trillion? As long as you are going for a fine that will never be paid, you may as well go really big. I'm not saying that 5.7 million was the right amount either. Personally I would have set it in the 20 to 30 million range. That is a number that will hurt a company the size of...

Need a lot more this kind of enforcement action. Maybe if a 1000 more companies are fined, it would help tamp down on the review deceit, but the fines have to string; letting them off for 50 grand and some past due taxes is not enough.