What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit

Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by littlestymaar on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:14AM (#16104952)

A taxidermist could argue that dead animals are better than living ones : they are indeed more convenient, less dangerous and cheaper to feed. But they aren't animal anymore, are they ?

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by letsgetphysITal on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:33AM (#16105030)

Absolutely true. However, I'm not also not likely to find my stuffed cat slowed to a crawl and using all my electricity by mining Bitcoin because some 3rd party advertising network got compromised.

Any other daft analogies you want to use?

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by littlestymaar on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:42AM (#16105071)

Your stuffed cat could not, but a living cat could bring you rabies if some third party in your neighborhood got infected, that's my point ;).

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by zingmars on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:59AM (#16105144)

So your point is that we _should_ JavaScript?

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by PuffinBlue on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:08AM (#16105194)

Who knows! This comment thread is so wrapped up in its own analogy i just stuffed my cat full of JavaScript.

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by optimuspaul on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @10:00AM (#16106586)

I think it's obvious that the point was no javascript... but a live cat is way more fun, so I'm not on board with that.

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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by UncleEntity on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:32AM (#16105975)

> However, I'm not also not likely to find my stuffed cat slowed to a crawl and using all my electricity by mining Bitcoin because some 3rd party advertising network got compromised.

You obviously need to upgrade your stuffed cat...

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