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Comment Re:That secure feeling. (Score 1) 18

If they're using the enclaves built into Intel and AMD, there may be side-channel issues to deal with. ARM is closer to what Apple is trying with their enclave.

ARM's TrustZone is definitely more secure than the alternatives on Intel/AMD, but TrustZone is also subject to side-channel attacks. To a first approximation, it's impossible to run two workloads on the same CPU and keep them perfectly isolated from one another.

However, I don't think any of these secure enclave concepts are relevant in this case. The way you'd build a private AI cloud is not to run it in enclaves (which are essentially just security-focused VMs) on CPUs that are running other tasks, the way you'd do it is to devote a bunch of CPUs solely to running the private AI workloads. Then your isolation problem becomes the traditional ones of physical access control to the secure machines and securing data flowing into and out of those machines over network connections.

Comment Re:There is no unmet demand in the US (Score 1) 132

If we were to get vehicles at near China's prices its hard to argue that demand for evs wouldn't improve.

Not necessarily.....most of the folks that want and EV, have one.....there just is NOT the demand for them here in the US that you have in other parts of the world.

A lot of this is due to the recharging infrastructure not being in place unless you live at the extreme west and maybe the east coast too.

I live in the New Orleans area....and from the maps and charging station finders I've seen we Still have precious few public charging stations anywhere in this area....

This is typical for most of the US.

With that comes range anxiety, and there's a TON of people, about 1/3 of the nation's populace that can't charge at home due to being in apartment complexes with large parking nots and no chargers or renting homes without chargers out side or no off street parking.

Unless you own your home and can charge at home, it's just a PITA to deal with and EV over here for a significant % of the populace.

I don't want one.....wouldn't work for me.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 66

Why the hell would someone go open a terminal window and paste random shit in from a web page?

Because it leads them to what they want?

You can advertise "free pr0n!" and have people copy and paste random text into a terminal window if they believe it'll get them to what they want. Your random script can even pop open a website to make it look legit.

It's the whole Dancing Pigs means of security. If you offer a user a video of dancing pigs, they'll do anything to see it.

Comment Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score 1) 31

Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

Comment Re:The headline is wrong (Score 1) 63

You can't call something a "serious bid for top talent" when you don't even know what the terms are. Applications haven't opened, and the details about eligibility haven't been released. It's premature to make conclusions about what they are trying to do (let along what they will do) without those details.

Comment Re:There is no unmet demand in the US (Score 1) 132

If the gate to production is lithium batteries, then you might as well use the batteries you have in luxury cars instead of cheap cars. At least, that is optimal from the manufacturer's perspective.

If you can get batteries for both (which will eventually happen as production increases and prices come down), then you will make both luxury and cheap cars.

Comment Re:Are people this ignorant of basic online securi (Score 1) 66

Yes, but half the people have below-average intelligence.

We won't have a stable society if they're constantly scammed.

And I know some High-IQ people with no street smarts who got scammed by "Raj from Microsoft Support".

Really some dude from a trailer park might have a better BS detector, having lived a less coddled existence.

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