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Submission + - AMD months behind on Server CPU Deliveries to Dell

Submitted by Jawaid Bazyar
Jawaid Bazyar writes: Totally insane — from our Dell Rep on a server that's already a month late:

"The lead times for AMD processors are as follows (keep in mind, these are because AMD is having shortagesnothing caused by Dell):

  6376 – 38 Day LT
6386SE – 20 Day LT
6328 – 20 Day LT
6344 – 45 Day LT
6320 – 25 Day LT
6380 – 60 Day LT
6348 – 20 Day LT
6378 – 38 Day LT
6366HE – 16 Day LT
6272 – 20 Day LT"

Dell claims it's all AMD's fault. What's going on over at AMD? Is AMD dead?
Or is Dell passing the buck and it's really Dell's fault?

Submission + - Former CIA chief: Snowden should be "hanged by the neck until dead" (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by Dega704
Dega704 writes: A story over at Ars reports:

At a Tuesday closed-door meeting with tech leaders, one unnamed participant suggested to Obama that Snowden be pardoned; Obama said he couldn't do that. During a 60 Minutes report on the leaks that aired Sunday, though, even an NSA official suggested it might be worth discussing amnesty—if and only if he returns the leaked documents securely, almost surely an impossibility at this point. (CBS news has been busy defending itself against accusations that Sunday's show was a "puff piece.")

Even that tiny, tentative olive branch seems to have crossed a line for security hawks. NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander dismissed the idea, comparing Snowden to "a hostage taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10, and then say[ing], 'You give me full amnesty and I'll let the other 40 go.'"

Former CIA director James Woolsey responded to the suggestion of amnesty even more strongly, saying in a Fox News interview that Snowden should be hanged.

"I think giving him amnesty is idiotic,” said Woolsey, who ran the CIA from 1993 to 1995. “He should be prosecuted for treason. If convicted by a jury of his peers, he should be hanged by his neck until he is dead."

Submission + - Eric Schmidt Tried To Get Google To Hide His Political Donation In Search Result (businessinsider.com)

Submitted by rotorbudd
rotorbudd writes: Departing Google CEO Eric Schmidt was known for some of his bumbling public statements — like saying that privacy didn't matter — but apparently he made some internal blunders as well.
One of the biggest: asking Google's search team to remove information about a political donation from its search results.

Submission + - Best arguments to defend privacy around the coffee table? 16

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I am often 20 or even 30 years younger than the people I get in discussions with over privacy. The invariable, often scoffed retort is, "Why are you so concerned with privacy? I have nothing to hide." And I would love a concise, easy-to-understand reply that will send this kind of argument in a billowing tailspin to the ground. I need something that will work across generations, across the political spectrum, and offer more than just "Well, you don't know what they'll do with the info" or "You might not have something to hide but maybe a loved one does." Anyone want to step up and offer THEIR best argument for retaining privacy in a world that seems increasingly to not see the dangers of letting the government and big business snoop at will?

Submission + - A New LOW COST Open Sourcxe 3D Metal Printer (phys.org)

Submitted by Phoghat
Phoghat writes: A new low-cost 3D printer developed by Michigan Technological University's Joshua Pearce and his team could add hammers to the list of items you can print at home. The detailed plans, software and firmware are all freely available and open-source, meaning anyone can use them to make their own metal 3D printer.
The work is described in "A Low-Cost, Open-Source Metal 3-D Printer," to be published Nov. 25 in IEEE Access

Submission + - NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show (washingtonpost.com) 1

Submitted by tramp
tramp writes: The National Security Agency is gathering nearly 5 billion records a day on the whereabouts of cellphones around the world, according to top-secret documents and interviews with U.S. intelligence officials, enabling the agency to track the movements of individuals — and map their relationships — in ways that would have been previously unimaginable.

Of course it is "only metadata" and absolutely not invading privacy if you ask our "beloved" NSA.

Submission + - Windows chief struggles to explain the consumer value proposition of Windows (citeworld.com) 2

Submitted by mattydread23
mattydread23 writes: Microsoft's new Windows chief Terry Myerson gave a presentation to financial analysts today, and one asked him a very good question: When I see all these mobile Windows devices — phones, tablets, convertibles — in Best Buy, why should I want one? What's the consumer value proposition of Windows devices? His struggle to answer the question shows that there may not BE a good answer. Back when Windows was all we had, we used it for everything. Now, a lot of functions — communication, gaming, web browsing — can be served by other platforms better, cheaper, or both. This is a tough question, but one Microsoft has to solve if the Windows brand is to remain relevant.

Submission + - Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So (techdirt.com)

Submitted by cathyreisenwitz
cathyreisenwitz writes: As you my have heard, there's a trial going on here in San Francisco about the legality of the complete lack of any sort of due process concerning the US's "no fly" list. The NY Times has a good background article on the case, which notes that somewhere around 700,000 people appear to be on the list, where there's basically no oversight of the list and no recourse if you happen to be placed on the list. This lawsuit, by Rahinah Ibrahim (who had been a Stanford PhD student) is challenging that.

Submission + - FCC Chair: it's Ok to Discriminate Traffic 2

Submitted by sl4shd0rk
sl4shd0rk writes: Remember when the ex-cable lobbyist Tom Wheeler was appointed to the FCC chair back in may of 2013? Turns out he's currently gunning for Internet Service Providers to be able to "favor some traffic over other traffic". A dangerous precedent considering the Open Internet Order in 2010 forbid such action if it fell under unreasonable discrimination. The bendy interpretation of the 2010 order is apparently aimed somewhat at Netflix as Wheeler stated: "Netflix might say, 'I'll pay in order to make sure that my subscriber might receive the best possible transmission of this movie.'"

Submission + - To Infinity And Beyond!

Submitted by tippen
tippen writes:

In the course of exploring their universe, mathematicians have occasionally stumbled across holes: statements that can be neither proved nor refuted with the nine axioms, collectively called “ZFC,” that serve as the fundamental laws of mathematics. Most mathematicians simply ignore the holes, which lie in abstract realms with few practical or scientific ramifications. But for the stewards of math’s logical underpinnings, their presence raises concerns about the foundations of the entire enterprise.

“How can I stay in any field and continue to prove theorems if the fundamental notions I’m using are problematic?” asks Peter Koellner, a professor of philosophy at Harvard University who specializes in mathematical logic.

To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic is an interesting article in Quanta Magazine exploring the disagreements among mathematicians about the continuum hypothesis.

Who wins in the ever-so-relevant showdown between forcing axioms and the inner-model axiom, "V=ultimate L"?

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