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Comment Re: RCE Execution pathway (Score 1) 111

The biggest boys who buy the most servers provision them via netboot, which is why it's on. You are not the biggest, so you have to turn it off. Me neither, so I also have to turn it off.

But this is a good old buffer overflow fail, so this is some 90s shit they could have caught with analysis tools, and it's really not because the manufacturers leave PXE boot on. It's because components of UEFI BIOS are apparently written by amateurs.

Comment Re: Not all AI models take a lot of RAM (Score 1) 34

Anyone can see from the tone of your post that your opinion of Apple is based purely on emotion, an nothing else.

That's what a stupid fuck might think based on their Apple worship.

I have loads of experience with Apple. That's why I despise them now, that and their sucking Trump's cock with a golden icon donation on the international stage. Feel free to pay them to abuse you and shit on our country.

Comment Re:Antibiotics are going out..... (Score 1) 38

It's going to get cheaper because, as you say, it will go onto a mass produced pre-prepped chip which will be loaded by machines. Humans will only have to take the samples and the machine will do most of the prep work. But my thought is that it won't get a lot faster because it takes time for the reactions to occur.

Comment Re:Oh boy. (Score 1) 56

I suspect that this would be more tedious(and potentially less flattering); but you'd think that the metric you'd really care about for the juche-computer would be component availability.

Going by cost is interesting if you are trying to get the attention of balance-of-trade types and tariffs and dumping hawks; but it's an almost perfectly wrong measure if you are trying to catch any "oops, turns out that only the Chinese vendors so hungry they are considering offshoring to Vietnam still make a random passive or unexciting tolerances switching IC because it's a zero-margin part with no real room for differentiation that everyone who could got out of years ago" type situations.

If it's a real, drop-dead, 'national security' problem some of those are probably less serious, if there's a much fancier TI part that is overkill for the job but could be subbed in for only 3-4 factors of ten more; but if you want to keep economically viable civilian production open or it doesn't have a direct upmarket analog that could get really awkward; even if you've ensured that all the fancy logic ICs, copper, and gold are geopolitically friendly.

That's basically the Nexperia story, slightly simplified. Philips decided to private equity semiconductors generally; NXP decided to shove a bunch of the boring parts out to WingTech; then 'oops' European manufacturers who need diodes and ESD protection parts they thought were cheap jellybean stuff have cars piling up on the line because they can't get them.

Obviously losing a really cutting edge capability isn't preferred; but it's also the sort of thing that people notice because those tend to be pretty valuable; while low and middling capabilities, including ones that are sophisticated enough that you can't just throw money at restoring them fast, are things that are voluntarily surrendered because getting rid of low margin products makes line go up.

Comment Re:Antibiotics are going out..... (Score 1) 38

maybe bacteriophage (viruses that target bacteria) are the immerging technology. They are also useful in therapy for certain kinds of cancer.

Yeah, but it costs tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars and weeks of study to do that. You have to study which phage will work before it's deployed, and this is inherently expensive and time consuming. It will presumably get cheaper, but it probably can't get much faster.

Comment Re: what fer? (Score 1) 14

They will continue to use physics simulation and rendering which are actually correct, not just correct-ish-looking.

There is no such thing. The only actually correct thing is the real world. Everything else is an approximation, and this is one of them. There are plenty of minor players who will pay for cheaper training. It certainly doesn't matter to Google whether it will produce good results. Arguably no approach will, so why not just use this?

Comment Re: Servers? (Score 1) 111

You can relay DHCP.

Netbooting desktops is one of those ideas that sounds great and then isn't. The HDD isn't that expensive. AFAICT nobody does it except for clusters and POS which is worthless without the network anyway. Plus it's an opportunity for an attacker on your network to get your machine to boot another system so they get access to a whitelisted MAC.

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