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

[DaveFroble]

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

Lot more people drinking at the bars than there are "malevolent actors".  Of 
course, one "actor" might affect many cars.  Maybe "ALL" cars.

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