I've been reading about the issue and maybe games won't be as impacted as some other workloads because they don't rely heavily on syscalls. Ars has a good article about the probable culprit.
As CPUs get more and more complex we are introducing more attack surface like that case where Intel stuff was running an entire OS with full access to the system core functions. I expected unintended consequences like this to be a lot more common in the future. I'd love to say criminals around the world are thrilled but I don't think they are as thrilled as our authoritarian govts...
"it's willing to do the same on behalf of world governments"
That said, even when they don't bow to governments, the absurd influence they have over the masses is concerning because what it is worth moderating may not be years ahead and we may be building roadblocks to new ideas and general society evolution. I'm not quite sure if there's a solution for that.
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Or rather they'll decide it's worth to keep the revenue and err in excess so when you mention your teacher is a nazi because kids do that you will have your account terminated. Of course, in the long run it will mean social networks that don't have operations inside of Germany will gain much more traction. I wonder if they'll go full Godwin and start the Great German Wall to deal with it...
Ah Germany, why won't you learn from your history?
I'd like to see platforms pulling their physical presence from Germany just to avoid the insane burden this will put on them. But what's probably gonna happen is they will set their filtering algorithms to "North Korea" and turn the experience for Germans into a big, warm wasteland.
"We the consumers are the only ones with the power (aka: $$$) to fix this"
Yeah, because everybody has a myriad of options to choose from when signing up to an ISP. Of course, you may be talking about going without which fits squarely into the impossible territory nowadays.
I think the bright part of all this shitty show is that people are voicing their opposition and it's gaining mainstream traction. The govt shenanigans and general bigotry are rightfully enraging people. The results can be seen already. Heck, Virginia (if memory serves) elected a transgender. I was honestly surprised Americans could pull this. That along with the millions of comments supporting NN that could only be beaten in numbers by lousy bots gave me hope that even if the doomsday scenario materializes (because this goddamned government still has plenty of time to cause serious damage) there will be tons of resistance and reverting things won't be as hard as we may be inclined to think.
" next January we will finally have works published in 1923 enter the public domain in the US"
Just a question: how many people from 1923 are alive *and* in shape to produce more wonderful stuff?
Copyright is virtually infinite for works created within anybody's productive lifetime.
"the United States Congress shall have power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for ****limited Times**** to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
I read one 'blog' from a guy here and he says we are in the "Screw-it Era". Governments and people in general just don't care even with looks anymore. Hope it's a short-lived era for sure.
The executive has given up any pretense of caring about the Constitution or citizen rights.
Sure, they may have the upper hand while "A Shit Pie" is in the FCC and Republicans control and destroy everything while at it. The topic is getting mainstream and it's clear that it has bipartisan support so this may come back to bite them in the ass sooner and harder than we expect. And I'm not even mentioning municipal broadband.
It seems to be somewhat of a pattern. Become filthy rich or powerful and your skin gets considerably thinner. Then again in most thin-skin cases there is plenty of valid criticism and shady practices.
This is particularly funny to me because in Portuguese the word 'mula' refers to another type of animal used to transport cargo. And it is a slang for 'idiot' as well.
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As CPUs get more and more complex we are introducing more attack surface like that case where Intel stuff was running an entire OS with full access to the system core functions. I expected unintended consequences like this to be a lot more common in the future. I'd love to say criminals around the world are thrilled but I don't think they are as thrilled as our authoritarian govts...
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"it's willing to do the same on behalf of world governments"
That said, even when they don't bow to governments, the absurd influence they have over the masses is concerning because what it is worth moderating may not be years ahead and we may be building roadblocks to new ideas and general society evolution. I'm not quite sure if there's a solution for that.
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And I really need to oil my comedy gears. Although it's hard to compete with lunacy ;)
Ahem.
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I'd like to see platforms pulling their physical presence from Germany just to avoid the insane burden this will put on them. But what's probably gonna happen is they will set their filtering algorithms to "North Korea" and turn the experience for Germans into a big, warm wasteland.
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Yeah, because everybody has a myriad of options to choose from when signing up to an ISP. Of course, you may be talking about going without which fits squarely into the impossible territory nowadays.
And where does Amazon fit in this specific issue?
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Just a question: how many people from 1923 are alive *and* in shape to produce more wonderful stuff?
Copyright is virtually infinite for works created within anybody's productive lifetime.
"the United States Congress shall have power "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for ****limited Times**** to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
Emphasis mine.
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The executive has given up any pretense of caring about the Constitution or citizen rights.
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I fail to see the connections... /s
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Ahem.
Most of what I would say has been preempted by the community, which by the way is one of the most awesome parts of TD.
So I leave my best wishes to this awesome community and to all TD staff that makes it possible. May 2018 be an awesome year!
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Jealousy. He'd love to wield power just like that piece of turd in Turkey.
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