or get an American Express Platinum card which gives you all those benefits for nothing.

Every other distro is illegal.

Google itself will rocket through development like an adderall fueled college developer mainlining 4 loko's (blue raspberry old school of course) roll it out with maybe 60% of it done, get a few publisher's on board with sweet deals and throw tons of money at them, and users login for their Beta (it's always BETA) service.

Then the adrenaline haze wears off, Google actually has to support clients, wrangle in contracts from publisher's to put more games on the system, figure out how to get around bandwidth caps that your lovely ISP's enforce on you, roll out development updates while slashing the team and budget until 18 months later Google walks away for the next OOOHHH SHINEY! thing and we are left with a stillborn service that makes the Phantom console look like Steve Jobs christened it from Heaven.

Points of Reference:
Gmail
Hangouts
G+
Whatever their Photo Service is
Google Glasses
ChromeOS
etc
etc
etc

The only way to win Pong is not to play. /WOPR

This is the thing most people don't realize they HAVE to do. I put on office clothes even though I've moved 20' from my bed to my office work area. This makes me FEEL like I still am in a work environment and productive even though I'm nowhere near the office.

My nearest collegue is 100miles away, we all work remote, we get together once every 6 months for a 'company' meeting to recall who everyone is.

Beyond that there is NO reason to be in the same office as everything we work on is scattered globally and we couldn't even PHYSICALLY touch the systems if we want to (READ: CLOUD), if the systems fall offline we call one of the big 3 and they go look at down systems. Other than that we keep the systems running and go on about our day.

Golfclap?
Golfclap

*GOLFCLAP*

You mean like Ikea?

Do these fixes mitigate the threat AND the performance loss?

I think I'm beginning to understand the update process.

1. Flaw found in infrastructure. Devs scramble for solution.
2. Devs find a way to fix this but the fix requires OS patching to mitigate the risk first, then the hardware needs an update.
3. Software players send out notifications they are doing Stuff and Things, OS vendors send out updates, people start rebooting servers.
4. Cloud vendors who control their hardware platform deploy CPU/BIOS level updates as they've already patched their systems at the Software Level
5. Intel releases a statement about sending out Microcode updates to vendors who will then patch the BIOS in the hardware to mitigate these vulnerabilities at the hardware level and to remove performance concerns at the OS level.
6. Asus, HP, Dell, IBM, Lenovo send out BIOS updates to consumers and business' to upgrade their BIOS with new microcode given to them by Intel which then assists in the patching done prior.

We have 2 steps here that are needed to be fully patched:

1. OS is patched to take advantage of new and upcoming microcode
2. The BIOS/Microcode itself by Intel.

Step 1 will get rid of the security problems, Step 2 will get rid of the performance problems.

Newegg is selling them right now.

/typing on my ipad

I'll be neg repped into oblivion but it was NOT the Trump Administration that repealed net neutrality, there are 5 people who are in charge of this and they voted down party lines. You want to go after someone, go after these folks. Trump didn't make this happen, these folks did:

Name Position State of Residence Party Term Expires†
Ajit Pai Chairman Kansas Republican June 30, 2021
Mignon Clyburn Commissioner South Carolina Democratic June 30, 2017
Brendan Carr Virginia Republican June 30, 2018
Michael O'Rielly New York Republican June 30, 2019
Jessica Rosenworcel Connecticut Democratic June 30, 2020

There ya go, enough content for several years worth. May have to go through the wayback machine to find it but there is a litany of stories that still resonate to this day.

You forgot most of the grognards on here are barely scraping by on retirement checks they got when they were installing punch card machines. They can't be bothered to spend $500 on shiney things that won't interface with their Green Screen mainframe AS/400 terminal.