Linux requires an MMU, and this ARM chip does not have one.

That is how the American energy markets work. It's interesting that the European energy markets are so different.

https://www.ferc.gov/introduct...

In NYC, Uber played by the rules. In the outer boroughs where taxis rarely roam there have always been livery car services, which are licensed by the TLC. Call the dispatcher (on the nearest payphone, of course), they give you a price and send a livery car to pick you up. You wave down the car and off you go, paying the driver in cash once you reach your destination. The drivers are (TLC licensed, registered to a particular base) independent contractors. Uber registered itself as a livery car base, claimed that arranging a ride through its app was the same as calling a dispatcher, and of course there's no requirement that the driver accept payment in any particular form for prearranged rides.

There is a dead polio vaccine which is less effective and harder to administer (it's injected). Once the only strain circulating is the vaccine-derived one, vaccination efforts can switch to the dead vaccine and as long as enough people have had the vaccine (either version), the vaccine-derived polio will stop circulating and no new vaccine-derived strains will appear.

When there's still wild polio circulating, it's best to use the most effective vaccine.

Satellite navigation doesn't require the satellites to be in any particular orbit. Beidou is similar but not identical to GPS and includes geostationary, inclined geosynchronus, and MEO satellites for improved coverage over Asia.

In New York, all ride hailing services are required to be licensed (and their drivers need a hack license). Before Uber came along there were plenty of car services, you just needed to call them instead (or hail a driver illegally).

True, and lead isn't the only problem. I have family in a small midwestern town that occasionally still has "boil orders". Coming from the 'burbs it was somewhat shocking to realize, no, the US does NOT in fact have consistent universal potable water supplies to all of its citizens after all...

Not even remotely true. Income inequality resulting in public educational inequality is one of the biggest problems in the US today.

But I think your point was that Internet access should be a basic utility (more like electricity or water, which as long as you don't live in Flint, are much less variable than education) which I totally agree with.

How do you know? It's entirely possible that the same vulnerabilities exist in different software doing very similar things. How do you know it's in the rendering engine and not one of the common libraries they use, etc? You don't, because no one has made the exploits available to you.

Because it's open source?

The real question is, if Mozilla has "already received" this information, why would they not share it with the other browser developers in the name of security?

Is one of Wikileaks' terms that they not disclose "secret information"? That would be pretty fucking hypocritical...

Except my link already said just that:

"Starting in 2014, Intel introduced "Refresh" cycles after a tock in form of a smaller update to the microarchitecture. It is said that this is done because of the expanding times to the next tick... In March 2016 in a Form 10-K report, Intel announced that it had deprecated the Tick-Tock cycle in favor of a three-step "process-architecture-optimization" model..."

Did you even read it?

Two excellent points in this comment - the obvious one about breakthroughs not being a planned project, and the other, also important: there just isn't a huge financial motivation for a company like Intel to make a chip an order of magnitude faster right now.

That's especially true if you look at the inevitable tradeoffs - if they could make a chip 10x faster using 10x more power, would they bother? Or 10x more power with 10x cost? Probably not, since the market would be so limited. These days - both in mobile devices/laptops and datacenters - most consumers would prefer a chip with the same performance and 1/10 the power usage and/or cost. Performance is only one of many optimizations being worked on, and today it's not really even the most important one.

In fact, process improvements are critical as a valid source of performance gains.

That's pretty much Intel's entire chip development model...

You know what, I think we are basically in agreement.

Stupid /. filter showed your response as being to mine when it was in fact a reply to the AC after mine. I am assuming your comment "you have yet to provide even a weak argument to the contrary." was not actually directed at my post, and if not, I apologize.