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Re:Teardown of a Failed Linux LTS Spectre Fix on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:59AM (#20876252)
Does anybody know what triggered the original fix in the first place? Just grep-ing?

If the kernel folks did what this company did . I.e have the compiler detect vulnerable code . The issue would have been avoided as well right ?

Re:OpenBSD was right to disable hyperthreading [video] on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:44PM (#20868406)
What ever incentive you create and analogy you make. The hardware / software / internet has no parrellel. I’ve been thinking about the place of software in the context of other disciplines and here is the thing. If you are thrown back to the prehistory with 50 man dream team of engineers, and are told to recreate ... something. Let’s say the train station I was just in. A rudimentary train network could be created in maybe 50 years? ( starting with, how to make steel. ) Wat ever estimate you have, the work required before they recreate the lcd screens showing the time of arrival is easily double that.

With that as a barrier to entry , the only solution I could see working for security is: public domain hardware and software.

The only solution I believe

Re:When murderers were hanged quickly (2014) on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:04PM (#20166826)
You jumped from the morality of execution to casually wanting to overhaul the sense of identity of almost every person and group.

Not that it’s not interesting. Just a little out of scope IMO.

Parsing & syntax highlighting before CRDT might give better results