Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck”

Re:Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck” by carapace on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:44AM (#16086003)

This is a recurring pattern that just blows my mind: typically some small, often academic, group knows about some problem or potential problem that everybody else is ignoring until it becomes un-ignorable.

Anthopogenic climate change falls into this category.

I have to wonder, first, what sort of obvious stupid self-destructive things am I doing right now but ignoring. And second, how can we build systems that systematically take this into account? Is there some way to short-cut the process and find and fix problems in the early stages? Or better yet, design our systems so that they don't have the problems from the start?

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Re:Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck” by mannykannot on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:42PM (#16086416)

It is not really comparable to climate change - people have been assuming that everything is OK, but there is no well-organized campaign to persuade people that these exploits don't exist now there is good evidence that they do.

There is one attitude that exacerbates those problems that are real - the tacit assumption that concerns do not count for anything until an exploit has been demonstrated.

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Re:Meltdown, aka “Dear Intel, you suck” by Strom on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:34PM (#16086359)

The key thing to take into account here is that for every one of those early warnings that turn out to be true there's also a plethora of speculation that never amounts to anything.

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