Posts by Bob Whitcombe 13 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Aug 2019
By cutting Cyber rules and regulation - particularly for crypto companies that are recognized as money laundering vehicles and operating sources for major scams. This only emboldens that effort - which, as we saw the banking de-regulation by Bush, will have deleterious impacts later in the not too distant future.
I appreciate your concerns for risk consolidation into units that may fail, but the reality is that the very hyperscalers you cite have already shown how to scale density for profit. And they want more, not less. I am with them. Your argument boils down to - don't even think about using more than 64K Ram. Think of the huge numbers of transistors, each of which could suffer a fatal flaw and kill the integrity of your memory systems. Given we now buy Terrabyte devices for under $100 - that does seem silly.
Note how Bill Gates did much the same with his MSFT shares after their many splits as part of a coordinated wealth diversification plan. You need to think of stocks in context of waves and NVDA has all the makings of a multi-wave stock and company. We look at AI - but seem to forget the next generation products will involve an array of acceleration production, integration with the network, especially in the Data Center and NVDA is on top of all of this initiatives. You don't just sit there with a potential cash cow, you take money off the table and invest in other areas.
The first step in a National Cyber-Defense is to create a cyber priority for business operations. Right now it is an externality. If I am the service member whose data is released, I become the target of phishers, swishers and other attacks. Change Health has no fiscal liability for the costs I incur to get my cyber-slate cleaned. They may offer a useless insurance warranty for the "next" attack - but currently have no legal obligation to make me whole. Nothing changes until that loophole is closed.
With exposure to social media content ubiquitous and omnipresent, if the social media defendants can't "prove" they did not in anyway contribute to the shooter's "radicalization" then it would follow that social media radicalization is responsible for ALL shootings since all shooters have been exposed. And thus all robberies, drug use and violent crime. So how do we square the First Amendment with a proven social harm to humanity?
Ah, they say - "Only in America". When I was working for Intel I was in Asia twice a month, South Korea, Malaysia, Japan, China. Used to get 100M Internet for $20 in Japan in 2004. And the US is still rationing Internet Bandwidth and people are fine with that? Unbelievable.
Sadly Intel went from being 2 generations ahead on process technology to 1.5 to 2 generations behind more advanced Semi-conductor firms like TSMC in the past decade. Oh, and isn't TSMC the world's largest third-party Foundry? Expanding operations with a Mega Factory in Arizona? I see the hand of Intel's impeccable timing once again. Just as their Crypto Chip arrived DoA due to the Crypto-Winter, Intel will have to use price to snag business from a US based TSMC operation. With what? As ex-Intel I do not blame Pat for the state of affairs Intel finds itself in today. In fact I wish him the best of luck for the future. But we need to be realistic about turn-around timing. First objective, relearn how to float.
Not as bad as Mississippi, where a black construction worker was found decapitated with his limbs severed and strewn about after his mother got a disturbing call saying his foreman wanted him dead and the cops there found nothing suspicious about his death. At least the SFPD identified this as a murder. Have to think it was actually a hit.
It is clear that Trump will have a lovely retirement village in Brighton. Obviously if they object to pulsed microwave radiation - then neither 4G, 3GPP or 2G signals are safe. Guess then new employment model will be scribes and runners to fetch messages. Clearly Brighton will become a very safe "No Social Media Zone". Not sure what they are going to do with telly broadcasts. Take down those antennae now.
While I accept that a flat panel UI does not provide the level of feedback of a haptic throttle with reinforcing feedback - these are $250M ships. Don't we train the heck out of a helmsman before they get placed in grade to helm a ship?
I saw the kind of job Sulu (John Cho) did on the Enterprise using touch screens - and actually expected to have progressed a fair way with the UI for modern subs, destroyers etc. Obviously not. But I am drawing the line at steam donkey's and cable winches.
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