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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by netcraft on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:46PM (#16073402)
If this analogy was apt I think I would be on their side - but we're talking about "wood" they designed and the "fire" is not some new phenomenon but an actual thing theyve supposedly designed against (unauthorized access of memory). [from my reading as a lay-person, please let me know if this is incorrect]
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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by jandrese on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:28PM (#16073762)
The analogy is a bit tortured, but in this case both companies build houses out of wood because it has the be performance and both cover them with fire retardant materials. One company discovered that they could make better houses if the fire retardant material was held on with glue instead of screws, but failed to account for the fact that the fire might melt the glue.

Probably best to just defenstrate this analogy.

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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by ionforce on Thursday January 04, 2018 @03:51PM (#16073971)
I didn't know you could defenestrate abstract things. I thought it was just for people.
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Re:Intel Issues Updates to Protect Systems from Security Exp... by sandyarmstrong on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:55PM (#16074895)
Anything can be thrown out a window!
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