Comment Re:We've Given Up on Poor Kids (Score 1) 196
Middle age kids? WTF?
No one gives a fuck about your bitcoin mining problems. You must be a special kind of retard to have problems with nvidia drivers, nothing could be simpler. Don't buy shit motherboards perhaps? I don't know....except that I do. Zero problems here, ever, going all the way back to the original TNT. The same can not be said about ATI/AMD.
I don't mine bitcoins. If I did, I certainly wouldn't use nVidia GPUs. nVidia's architecture just isn't well suited for that type of workload. I participate in GPUGRID (CUDA) and World Community Grid (CPU/OpenCL). Please consider volunteering some of your excess CPU/GPU capacity to these worthy BOINC based projects.
As far as motherboards go, I'm currently running 6...all of which have been crunching DC projects 24/7 for about the last 2 years. Doesn't that indicate my motherboards aren't shitty? Or am I still being retarded?
You want to talk about heat/power problems? Fine, explain the Thunderbird to us all.
Uh, no...no I don't want to talk about heat/power problems. But you seem to, and I'd love to read your musings on the topic. I would only read, because I would never presume to engage in a debate with someone of your intellectual capacity. In any case, thanks for taking the time to grace me with your wisdom and experience. I truly feel smarter after reading your post. You must be part of Slashdot's special retard enlightenment task force.
Funny, I have the opposite experience.
Which is exactly the point I was trying to make. Your experience or my experience or the sum of
ps - would it be possible for one of you fine Slashxperts to link to documentation on how many times this blatant deficiency in AMD driver quality has been exploited?
Constantly. ASLR was designed to disable existing malware and buffer overflow shellcodes, requiring that new, smarter malware be written from scratch. Effectively, disabling ASLR ensures that the legacy of simple Win95-compatible hacks will continue to function correctly on Windows 7.
If you can point me to data showing AMD-equipped systems have higher rates of becoming compromised than non-AMD systems, please do so.
While I would agree that AMD system are more vulnerable to attack because of ASLR incompatibility, I'm certainly not convinced AMD systems are more "unsafe" than others.
Because of this deficiency in AMD driver, windows kernel cannot use ASLR. So pretty every virus/malware that depends on Address Location could have been prevented. And lot of virus and malware do.
I understand/agree with your point, but when I see a headline like the one made in the OP, I think someone's trying to convince someone else that the sky is falling.
I guess what I was trying to get at was: is there data that supports the claim made in the headline? In particular, has it been shown that AMD equipped systems have higher rates of becoming compromised than non-AMD systems? If such a premise was demonstrably proven, I think AMD might move ASLR compatibility up their priority list.
And frankly, I'm sick of people claiming one manufacturer's drivers suck and the other's don't based on their own personal experience. Amazing that so many don't realize how stupid they sound.
After owning half a dozen ATI cards over the years (currently using an AMD 7970 in my main rig), I had no idea how crappy AMD drivers were. Just because I've had more trouble with nVidia drivers on the 3 GTX275s and 2 GTX570s I currently use for GPU computing doesn't mean a thing, because that's just anecdotal evidence...right?
Luckily I came across this thread with all the hard data on AMD vs nVidia driver quality before it was too late. Thanks Slashdot!
ps - would it be possible for one of you fine Slashxperts to link to documentation on how many times this blatant deficiency in AMD driver quality has been exploited? (shouldn't be too difficult, since it's been 5+ years since ASLR was implemented in MS operating systems)
... not legal for an individual to do. [blah blah blah].
So, Rosa Parks was a criminal - right? You fucking fucking moron.
The reason nobody patented it before is that it is NOT actually more efficient and the production setup is overly complex for the job. Read my analysis above.
And the reason a 7th grader gets a provisional patent for his work is NOT because his idea leads to more efficiency - IT"S FOR FRIGGIN ENCOURAGEMENT.
What's the matter, mommie didn't love you? You weren't breast-fed?
When you die are you going to be able to look back at your life and say "job well done?" What little I know about you (this post) points to "no".
You, on the other hand, will be able to look upon a lifetime of helpful and insightful posts on
I want to live in a world where *everything* that makes me uncomfortable or might cause pain or conflict is excised from history.
Mods, please delete the post containing the above quote - and all replies to it in their entirety. Reading the post and its subsequent replies has been a very painful and uncomfortable experience for me, because of all the conflict represented therein.
Thanks in advance.
(sheesh...can't believe that guy was serious)
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