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Of the variants of the attack that can leak privileged memory, AMD is only impacted if a non-default kernel configuration is enabled: "BPF JIT"

I can't seem to find any information on how or if this was disclosed to AT&T. Does anyone know how the blogger proceeded here?

> "cops are disproportionately killing black kids", then that was disproven Was that disproven? The studies that I've read have shown disproportionate police shooting fatality rate…

Yes, they have pre-built images for RPi: http://www.minocacorp.com/download/

I'm on the slow ring and recently received it. They have a blog here which details each of their releases on each of the release "rings": https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperienc…

For me, the full-measure solution would be to provide a native port of Visual Studio for Linux. I understand that this is not practical on many, many levels, but if Microsoft were …

I have a new XPS 15 and you can completely disable the touchscreen in the BIOS. I did this pretty much the first week I got the machine.

Has anyone spent a lot of time with VS Code? I tried it a while back when it was first announced and have not found a reason to re-visit it yet. At the time it felt like a sublime-…

I've been having some good discussions about this exact topic lately. I'm glad you brought it up. After mulling it over with some friends, I think it would be awesome to have a com…

What they're saying is that their underlying hardware has been selected such that it can be used with the Arduino programming environment to target it as if it were a regular Ardui…

Rdio is probably one of the bigger success stories for Xamarin/Mono You can see a list here: https://xamarin.com/apps

I wish that first chart extended back to say... 1996. I think it would have given a better scale to indicate how much the rise of the internet has effected traditional mail deliver…

Disclosure: I'm an XBox hardware engineer and encourage you to try the new kinect before writing it off. It is completely re-engineered with new time-of-flight technology that achi…

Those are typical names for academic papers, check out pretty much any conference's list of accepted papers for similar verbosity.

"You don't have to have a certain surname to get into Waterloo. You'd be much better off just scoring well on the Fermat Contest. When nobody gives a shit what you have, and it's w…

Besides the cost advantage due to the economies of scale, specialized gaming consoles offer something that both developers and gamers want: a consistent experience due to a common …

Very interesting hardware specs: Embedded Linux (OpenWRT based) x86 compatible processor I'm curious as to why they didn't go with an arm-linux combination. In any case, it sounds …

One thing that has gotten lost in the noise of Xbox One's marketing mishap and the targeting of Mattrick is perhaps his history as a true entrepreneur. While it hasn't shown so lat…

Yes, I also would love to see some of their original IP in modern full glory. Full Throttle and Grim Fandango both have a special place in my heart...

There are tons of trades that do not require you to ever leave a machine shop or electronics lab. If said person is very capable of coding then I would also strongly encourage them…

I'm curious about this bit: Apple is within its right to send cease and desist with formal demand when it feels its patents are being violated. Naturally, part of a demand is agree…

Tangentially related: http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine... An account of Richard Feynman's time at the company.

I had asked a question on stack-overflow a while ago asking for some guidance on parsing this exact kind of stuff. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8198923/natural-language-...

While I wouldn't exactly phrase it like that, it is an important question to ask: Where did he do most of his charging and how does the electric utility in that area produce their …

>doing projects by myself. Probably not given that limitation. I didn't go to UofW but I spent about a year in Waterloo on an internship. In terms of the experience that you'll get…