What socket will this ' free fantasy CPU' use? What chipset will it use? Are we talking about a volunteer clone effort to reverse-engineer the X86 processors, or something wholly new, so that we require new drivers, OS, BIOS, etc?

Only by being ignorant of what's involved can someone make such a proposition.

This is really an over-sized reaction to a minor problem that will be resolved in the next generation of silicon from every chipmaker.

Of course it's much more complex that that. But to say that IC design - especially CPU design - "isn't something you can do in your spare time" is clearly not true. At least substantial portions of the design process are something people could do in their spare time. Skills and education are a much more prominent entry barrier there. The lower level details, yes, that's still a problem. Physically dependent lower-level details such as voltage and power control even worse. I guess it all depends on your expectations. For some designs, the latter things may not matter so much.

Because you can afford a truck.

It's not surprising that someone who doesn't seem to know that "the cloud" *is* private data centers also knows nothing of IC fab.

This is a good point: people who care about security (like AWS) have different requirements, and may be willing to forgo some performance in exchange for security.

You are an idiot.

User code cannot read the content of protected kernel memory. If it does, the chip will raise the appropriate signal as defined by the ISA. Neither Spectre nor Meltdown change that. What they do is show that user code can create measurable effects on the state of the L2 cache based on the state of arbitrary memory. Those are two very different statements.

Finally, the Intel documentation is about what's guarantee by the chip -- specifically, that if speculative execution takes a 'wrong path', then the results are never visible in registers/memory. In other words, the chip guarantees that the code running on the CPU has the same result as in the abstract machine model (note, this is the same guarantee that OOO makes: that the program runs as if it was run in the order specified, not that it will be run in the order specified).

If not that, there's always the billboards.

It won't prevail. Because PROFIT. Because MONEY. Because CAPITALISM.

I know a guy whose entire job is to build clocks in CPUs. That's all he does. He's really good at it.
I mention that to give you an idea of the specialization that has taken place in the hardware industry. In Software, you can still be a full-stack developer. In Hardware, those days are past.

If my 'car' (I'm a truck guy) starts 'serving' me ads, I will go ballistic. A man's truck is his own private kingdom. We live in a broken world. Surely there can be somewhere that we can be free of FUCKING ADS! I was in a pretty foul mood before I read this article, but now I am really depressed. Why can't they leave me the fuck alone?

He knew he could, but every other person out there considering it must know that they will get caught.

America doesn't need or want an occupying army of paramilitary police in every city. Restore civil government. Disband all SWAT teams now.

As far as I'm aware you can't do any of that in Bitcoin specifically. Other blockchain systems, yes.

How did a single person who knows how to tie their own shoes mod you up for this nonsense? "Scientific consensus" means that the majority of research supports a certain conclusion. This is a real fucking thing. There's nothing unscientific about that.

Sure, you can point to things that were at one point "scientific consensus" but were wrong but ultimately consensus is what leads us to the best understanding of reality we have, Sure, evolution as a means of understanding the development of life itself could turn out to be completely wrong but as of right now it has shown itself to be correct. The community that studies such things has reached a consensus on the topic and that is that evolution is must likely the source of all modern life.

What other industry?

Off the top of my head:
- Cell phones
- Internet assistants
- many IOT devices
- computers
- internet routers
- ISPs
- TVs
- Radio broadcast
- many web pages

That's just off the top of my head, and just the ones that do it in large bulk at the moment, however just wait, because almost EVERY industry is salivating at exactly this possibility, and the list of ones actually doing it is growing longer by the minute.

If your Honda can get software upgrade when you're at the dealer or at other times, then yes. Only requires the car to have connectivity. I work on the car infotainment systems (though by no means a stable genius!), so can't not know this. The thing that bugs me is how I need to pay for seeing/listening to what *I* want when *I* am in *my* car! If this isn't paying ransom, I don't know what is.

So you're simply not going to drive any more. That's ok with them, you don't have enough market share on your own to influence anything.
The issue is that it won't be one company doing it, they'd get creamed in the market, it will be all the big companies doing it, so people will just accept it as if it's normal (see TV, the internet, etc)

Makes you pay more to avoid services you didn't want in the first place? Coming next, car seats lined with spikes - you pay extra to reduce the frequency of their springing out and jabbing you in the spine. I hope car buyers will avoid vehicles tricked out like this - spiked seats AND advertisements - and Telenav vanishes quickly.

I've had d3o armor in my motorcycle clothing for years. It doesn't feel that revolutionary different from the ordinary armor. It is slightly more flexible in the warmer weather, but stiffens when cold. I couldn't detect change in the softness when hitting the armor with my fist.

Is that why they project stuff on your windshield now?
Personally, I find that very distracting.

To say nothing about non-red/amber lights. Some newer cars make you feel you're sitting in a christmas tree.

AC re "foiled" or "caught"
Why would any nation tell the world of their new methods and years of law enforcement parallel construction.
Let the wider world keep guessing as to US security and its new methods? No trial, no methods have to be given to human rights lawyers to tell faith groups and cults about changes to US investigative methods.
The methods just keep working and the media can keep guessing at US security.
An airport is a digital and an investigative trap. Chat downs, questions, searches and investigations before been allowed to enter the USA.
Images of every face, voice prints, chats about needing a rental car, chats at hotels, motels, taxi/car services with camera/mic? Free wifi at different locations. Cell phones been linked to voice prints, faces and what phone service.
Images and digital collection on all the people with people arriving/leaving the USA. Their voice prints, faces, licence plates.
Why tell people about what is done by informing their lawyers after been "caught"?
Nobody would have to know about what was done in the USA or before getting to the USA. Let the interesting people keep asking their human rights lawyers and keep reading the media for hints of US methods AC.
Nothing will be in court or published about how US security really works. Anything mentioned will be fake/bait/a trap/part of an investigation to see who repeats/shares/links the "released" news on US security methods.

You already seemed to understand, "one" != "hit". "hit" for more than one.

Username checks out.
On another note: fuck that, my car is my private oasis of tranquility (when I'm not yelling at other drivers) and I intend to keep it that way. Screw your naviSPAM system, TeleSPAM, keep this garbage to yourselves.

ARM does sell synthesizable cores. What synthesizable means is that you can convert that code into logic gates. So you need at least a standard cell library with the fine detail of those logic gates. Memories are not included, as memories are not synthesizable code if you really want a high bit density and low power usage. In order to get data in and out of the chip, you will also need a DDR interface (this is not synthesizable) with also a DDR memory controller (this one is). Add to this one that you need to generate internal clocks, so you might also want to get a few phase locked loop blocks. Recent CPUs also include some sort of dynamic voltage scaling, frequency scaling, thermal protection, etc. You also want to have peripherals connected through SPI, I2C, maybe UART, and maybe you want an interconnect fabric so that the CPU can talk to them. I am sure I am missing a lot of these things.

So, it is not just the CPU core, you need a lot more of things in order to get some product. FPGA manufacturers give you both the hardware and the software to translate the code into something you can upload to that FPGA, and usually give you some freebies like DDR and PLLs. However, there are limitations on what you can get from an FPGA. ICs are the way to go if you want to be on the bleeding edge on either performance, price or power efficiency. And as far as I know, the tools to do ICs in advanced processes like 10nm are not either free to use or open source. They are probably also a patent field. At the end of the day, you do not want to spend over one million dollars with tools that tell you "USE AT YOUR OWN RISK".

Depending on the country. Most have abandoned AM and some are turning off FM now. Some new cars don't have FM radios anymore. Between mobile phone streaming, satellite, digital broadcasts and good old USB sticks, analog radio is on the way out.

Waze does this today (sometimes), which I find pretty annoying. If it happened in a car that I purchased I think I would be tempted to take the car back. If the car were free, maybe I'd accept it.

I can definitely see this happening in subscription cars though. Still might put up with in in that case, tape cardboard over the screen.

You can if your kid's school district doesn't get enough money. Even if you can't demonstrate any damages to your kid.

You can also sue if the state screws up and releases an inmate early, causing you subsequent harm.

If I test drive a car that serves up an ad, not only am I not buying that car - I'm black-listing that brand forever.

Bring it on punk - see how fast you can drop market share.

Bill Hicks was popularizing social critiques that no other comedian (in the 1980s) was touching. Lenny Bruce was dead, and George Carlin was still fighting the long-dead culture wars of the 1960s. You are right, though, Hicks wasnâ(TM)t actually funny, just perceptive.

I have a paper on Open Cars, written with Lother Determann (a Boalt Hall [Berkeley Law] professor). One of the issues I go over is just how fast the hardware in your car goes obsolete, compared to your phone. Manufacturers want embedded net features because they can have a continuing income after you have purchased the car, from wireless fees (the cellular company kicks back fees to the auto manufacturer) and from advertising and content. But you will end up plugging in a phone less than 2 years old instead of the built-in device.

The problem is worse with self-driving computers. Who wants one more than 2 years old? Not even the state authorities who will license them.

Auto manufacturers would like to solve this by having everyone lease their car. An alternative is for the car to have plugs for self-driving and network features, allowing the user more control. The paper has more detail on the social and legal issues.

I have a 2007 Prius, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee, and a Trailmanor travel trailer. Obviously I commute in the Prius and save the big SUV for tasks that need it. When I bought the Jeep, I rejected the connected version and went for a model with a dumber radio. I doubt I'm alone in making that choice.

Designing bug free hardware that is extremely fast and efficient is so easy i'm surprised people aren't already building this stuff in their kitchen in their spare time. It's not in Intel's interests to make hardware with bugs. Unless it comes out that they were grossly negligent or were working with the NSA, i think this just falls into one of those unfortunate categories. Besides every few years people need to buy new CPUs anyways, so the problem will resolve itself, just in time for another issue to make its appearance.