Redundant summary is redundant

Lenovo x series have phenomenal battery life, my x240 gets over the advertised 13 hours depending on how I use it.

removing the BTB entirely. I've seen libraries rip out faster routines or add some nondeterminism to the latency just so that it could mask such a "hot cache" vulnerability. It seems a bit backward to rip out a performance enhancing capability in the architecture just because of ASLR bypass.

the only way to do large scale and wide testing is to write code that performs the tests. Be they runtime or libraries at compile time, that task is best left to a machine. If you are turking those tests out I would even argue you are bad at your job.

I mean the compiler binary itself, though after reading some other comments it appears that the compiler toolchain itself may be compromised of 64 bit binaries, anyway.

ultimately benefit from being 64 bit as it allows for things like better vectorized string comparisons? I mean if anything it'd be a measurable improvement in speed. You get more GPRs and larger/wider vector registers. And it wouldn't shock me if a templated piece of c++ managed to make the compiler, optimizer, preprocessor and linker manage to consume a fair bit of that 32 bit address space for a given single compile process.

Amazon won't directly sell internal hard drives anymore? I always seem to have to get them from a third party Amazon storefront, prime or not. Why are they so reluctant to house and store hard drives themselves anymore?

You must be new to Slashdot, that was tradition pretty much forever.

stranger than fiction. Except for the Google part.

Nonredundant power supplies I'd agree is kind of a showstopper, but honestly the other two things you mentioned wouldn't have been relevant then or today. Architecture doesn't much matter for a server app built on Posix APIs that isn't FLOPs critical or GPU dependent. And software raid really hasn't been a hamper to performance or reliability since 2001 or so.

I do believe that they made Intel xserves toward the end of the lifespan of the product.

a proposal for something that decreases the reliability of mechanical disks even more. I don't want higher bit rates to deal with in addition to the stream of other unpredictable failure modes associated with these things.

Sandisk has an mlc based SSD of an identical $/capacity price point. The title is a bit misleading as it implies OCZ is somehow the first flash manufacturer to do this.

that fits this bill. Code that I swore up and down covered all corner cases for input but with enough fuzzing could be coaxed into crashing.

has some weird psychological warfare going on there.

That is a somewhat harsh requirement but probably a commendable one. I guess this also means ASLR may be turned on by default for their binaries. The stack protection is probably well worth the performance hit. It also means though that the a third party little utility I wrote to inspect values at specified memory addresses for a certain game will probably no longer work once it's recompiled.