Relax, buddy
What we meant was: the committee hasn't been forthcoming on what its intentions are and the reasons for stalling the bill. I've reworded that sentence to reflect this.
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IMHO this is what happened: we reported upcoming OS patches to work around design flaws in today's processors -- Intel's Meltdown being the worst as it was easy to exploit.
Everyone went wild. Markets, media, analysts, vendors. Things were patched before they were exploited. It reminded me of Y2K. In the end, very little went wrong because of all the work beforehand, leading some to say it was a load of hype. I see the same for Meltdown+Spectre.
The obvious Meltdown and Spectre flaws were addressed early on. But as we wrote in early 2018, Spectre will continue to haunt the computer industry for a decade or more as the family of bug is quite large. Google's pointed out that there's still work to be done on the web front-end side, and so released this PoC exploit to make web devs wise up.
There are exploits for Spectre out there but they tend to be in expensive toolkits (Immunity Inc's Canvas IIRC). Now here's one for free.
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It's a far-right haven. It's fair comment to call it a far-right-friendly place. It may have non-far-right people on it, but it's known, well known, for being home to far-right internet outcasts.
Are there far-right people on Facebook and Twitter? Sure, but with billions of users total, that's not what they are famous for. Parler is famous for being a haven for the far-right.
Far-right isn't defamatory, anyway.
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Yes, we did proofread it and sometimes things slip through just like bugs slip through into production.
The bit at the end was boilerplate from a previous debate, and it's now fixed.
As is clear from the opening and the debate page, the second piece is going live on Friday, and the results on Tuesday. We space them out to give people a chance to read and vote -- most people read us a few times a week, not multiple times a day.
Also, please don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong.
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Yes, yes, see the note at the end of the article: we meant KeePass. Though KeyPass does exist and also has no trackers, I'm told.
Don't forget to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything that looks wrong, please, so we can fix it immediately.
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It's going to be mostly (d) all of the above. Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom, MediaTek, Xilinx, Intel etc are going to be fighting over TSMC's leading edge and not-quite-so-leading-edge, and similar fabs.
Yes, microcontrollers aren't going to be on 7 or 5nm, they will be on something more chunky, though to me it appears these are either constrained too, to a degree, due to demand - or the things they are going into (cars, etc) are being held up because the control units need the aforementioned Qualcomm, MediaTek, Nvidia, etc chips that are in short supply.
Plus also the stuff mentioned in the article about rare earths and batteries.
In other words, supply chains and manufacturing are complex, with inter-dependencies and knock-on effects.
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Apologies, we thought it was obvious that when talking about links to news articles that it includes the titles and summaries that Google, Facebook, Twitter etc automatically generate when presenting the link.
The link text has to have some part of the publisher's content in it - the headline or the opening sentence - to be simply visible on the page.
The article also did note that "both Google and Facebook feared Oz's bargaining code would embolden publishers in other nations to demand royalties for using headlines, snippets of text, and article links in search results." So, yes, it's more than just links.
BTW Microsoft etc left it open ended on what exactly should be paid for. I've now made it as clear as I can that we're talking about more than just simply a link, though.
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Thing is, VxWorks is a staple of NASA missions. It's a given that it's running on the thing.
As journalists, we're here to highlight what's new -- it's called news, right -- and what's new here is the use of customized Linux and FFMPEG. As someone above pointed out, NASA name-checked FFMPEG in their briefings, so that and the Linux side is newsworthy. We've written about VxWorks in the past on space missions.
FWIW we're working on a separate piece describing the chips and OSes on the rover in more details, and I'll add a reference to VxWorks to this article.
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Even though ERCOT has some connections to other grids, it doesn't typically use them to draw power, as it fiercely guards its independence. Instead, it exports power.
On a normal day, Texas would proudly argue its grid is independent - an electrical island, no less - and that it don't need no federally regulated network, thank you kindly. But then this storm hits, and at the suggestion it was perhaps wrong to have an entirely independent and isolated grid, suddenly here come the apologists arguing that it's not actually truly independent and could tap into other networks any time it wanted (but couldn't or didn't). Sheesh.
Ultimately, the Texas grid wasn't built to withstand the storm that hit, its power generation failed, and it couldn't or didn't use whatever links it had with the Eastern Interconnect, and people went without power.
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Edit: From CNBC: “Texas has chosen to operate its power grid as an island,” noted Rice University’s Cohan, which means the state can’t import power from other states when it’s most needed. He added that the impacts are also felt in the summer, when Texas has an abundance of power that it can’t export.
From the indictment:
"On October 27, 2018, having gained unauthorized access to the computer network of [Pakistan's] BankIslami, the hackers caused fraudulent ATM withdrawal requests to be approved, which caused requesting ATMs to dispense approximately $6.1 million to money-launderer co-conspirators, including co-conspirators acting at the direction of unindicted co-conspirator Ghaleb Alaumary."
Uncle Sam says they had money launderers in Pakistan waiting to pick up the cash.
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Yes, apparently so. The bad one got taken off the Play Store but not people's phones. So people went to the Play Store to complain about the pop ups in the software still on their device, and trash the wrong app.
Bit of a mess.
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Oops, we swapped out that tweet with one that has more context. The above comment is referring to this tweet, which was originally embedded in the article.
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I've added some extra context and a link to more info on it all by Microsoft if that helps. It's tools to manage (and monitor) work and non-work time, pool together internal documentation and training, and inject references to that corporate material into your chat conversations in some attempt to be more helpful.
Personally, this looks like Microsoft trying to add tools to make up for the fact that we can't bump into colleagues in the corridor anymore (due to the pandemic) or catch someone after a meeting or at lunch or while getting a coffee and ask a question and get an immediate answer or feedback. Asking on instant chat or email feels like you're bugging someone rather than taking advantage of a spontaneous encounter.
So instead, you, I dunno, bump into Teams and get it to answer your Qs without bothering anyone or waiting for them to reply. If possible. Also, you might see notices and posters up in the office about stuff you need to know, which you can't do if you're stuck at home all the time, so these tools fill in that gap online.
Something like that. This isn't an endorsement of it.
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Ah yes, we got the 7 right. It's easy to think the 1990s were last decade sometimes. It's fixed.
Don't forget, please, to email corrections@theregister.com if you spot anything wrong. We fixed this within a minute of someone emailing this slip-up to us just now, whereas it takes hours to get round to reading all the comments on stories after editing and writing articles etc.
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No, but we're not aware of a NetApp NAS that requires NetApp-only drives above a certain capacity. 'Cos that's the situation with Synology.
Yes, certifying drives is a thing in enterprise. But this article is about a very specific move by Synology.
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I really hope you are reading the full article. The thrust is that, according to storage world people we've spoken to, it is unusual for a NAS box vendor to insist on its own branded drives above a certain capacity even in an enterprise environment.
And as the article says: If Synology really can deliver the performance improvements it claims its drive firmware enables, being locked into Synology drives may be a sound decision.
It's a nuanced issue.
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That's not the way the FAA tells it. In an email to the media, the agency stated:
"Prior to the Starship SN8 test launch in December 2020, SpaceX sought a waiver to exceed the maximum public risk allowed by federal safety regulations. After the FAA denied the request, SpaceX proceeded with the flight.
"As a result of this non-compliance, the FAA required SpaceX to conduct an investigation of the incident.
"All testing that could affect public safety at the Boca Chica, Texas, launch site was suspended until the investigation was completed and the FAA approved the company’s corrective actions to protect public safety. The corrective actions arising from the SN8 incident are incorporated into the SN9 launch license."
This non-compliance is the reason why a January 28 test of the rocket was delayed, and why Musk went off on one on Twitter about it.
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The issue is that the link to change address for those with a BRP goes to a printed form and not the online form. Similarly, if you want to report an extraordinary change in circumstances - such as separating from your partner - you're directed to the printed form.
Whereas if you have applied for a BRP and haven't had a decision letter yet, you are directed to... an online form.
This bureaucratic maze is what this article sought to highlight.
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Well, yeah, though that doesn't contradict what we wrote. See yesterday's piece on the risk at least some people are unwittingly taking.
Some people are doing this to give Wall St a middle finger. Some are doing it to pay off medical debt or make life-changing sums of money. Some people won't get very far at all. It all amounts to a rebellion against the status quo, though, in our opinion.
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Er, yeah, that 200Gb/s figure is in no way the entire internal bandwidth of the system. It's basically the base speed per port.
As the linked-to article and this paper [PDF] and HPE's own bumf says, that's the link speed of the interconnect. You can have, eg, a 64-port switch with each port doing 200Gb/s per direction (four lanes of 50Gb/s).
NCAR also said the "HPE Slingshot bandwidth is 200 Gb/sec per port per direction."
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As I've commented before, that's disingenuous. The Trump administration massively ramped up family separations.
Under Obama, separations were rare and usually for the child's safety -- ie: they were being trafficked.
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I'm assuming you think you mean 'biased' not 'impartial'.
If there's one thing about The Reg, it's that we've never, ever knowingly shied away calling something we think is dumb "dumb".
And running a platform like Parler, in which anyone can say anything, no matter how extreme, and think there will be no consequences? That's really fkin dumb.
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