* Posts by Fourcheeze

4 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jun 2014

Intel alerted Chinese cloud giants 'before US govt' about CPU bugs

Fourcheeze

Re: "We certainly would have liked to have been notified"

"Patriotism doesn't come into it unless you actually see the rest of the planet as your enemy."

Exactly this. Ideally all vulnerabilities should be posted to the same place for all to see, but you can't blame Intel for looking after their biggest customers.

Google's driverless car: It'll just block our roads. It's the worst

Fourcheeze

Re: The Disabled, Sitting at Home

Clearly there could be limitations, but there's a lot between a simple program and debugging hex dumps. I class myself as a serious programmer but I rarely need to debug hexdumps. In a team you use the person best suited to each task.

Fourcheeze

Re: Platooooooon - HALT!

People saying "A computerised car can't do X, Y or Z" are missing the point - in order for such cars to operate the computer will have to be able to do these things, if it can't it wouldn't be allowed on the road and nobody will buy it!

In the long run, computer technology will get to the point that it can drive a car, if it has not already happened.

Fourcheeze

Re: Platoooooo0n - HALT!

Clearly they are over-empahsising the value to different people that would use their product. That's just called 'marketing'. Every brand does this.

Isn't it condescending to say "Blind or disabled people don't need cars, they have taxis"? As an able-bodied person I'm happy that I can make the choice to drive or take a taxi. Why shouldn't a blind person have that same choice? The only thing currently standing in the way is availbility of technology.

The point is that this technology is a step towards equality of transport options.