[Info-vax] Intel junk...Kernel-memory-leaking Intel processor design flaw forces Linux, Windows redesign

[Ron C]

On 1/6/2018 8:27 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 01/06/2018 08:16 PM, Ron C wrote:
>> On 1/6/2018 8:02 PM, nospam wrote:
>>> In article <fbd96uF1fg9U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon
>>> <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> ...and you believe cars will reach a higher standard?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> absolutely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> all they need to do is be better than humans, which as i said, is 
>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>> that tough.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And yet we have this [many decades old] memory leak security hole.
>>>>>
>>>>> that would not cause an autonomous vehicle to crash.
>>>>
>>>> Well, we don't know that yet.  :-)  Maybe it can make the
>>>> autonomous car mistake a tractor-trailier for a billboard.
>>>
>>> yes we do. meltdown/spectre won't have any effect on the algorithms
>>> used in autonomous vehicles.
>>>
>>> nothing is perfect so there will still be collisions, but far fewer
>>> than with human drivers.
>>>
>>> human drivers make all sorts of mistakes, some incredibly stupid.
>>>
>> however, human drivers can't be hacked by malevolent actors
> 
> Go ahead, hack my MGB, I dare you.  :-)
> 
> bill
> 
LOL !!!!!

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