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Submission + - Shots fired again between CPU vendors AMD and Intel (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by Highdude702 on Monday June 18, 2018 @07:13PM

Highdude702 writes: AMD is shooting back at Intel like its easy for them. Even though 40 out of 8086 is kind of, stingy? They are acting like they have the horsepower now. I believe it is going to be an interesting time for consumers and enthusiasts coming soon. Maybe we will even get better prices.

AMD's feud with Intel took an interesting turn today as the company announced that it would swap 40 Core i7-8086K's won from Intel's sweepstakes with a much beefier Threadripper 1950X CPU. Now AMD is offering to replace 40 of the winners' chips with its own 16-core 32-thread $799 Threadripper processors, thus throwing a marketing wrench into Intel's 40th-anniversary celebration. We can't say it better than AMD's own snarky announcement:

Submission + - US programmer arrested for others misuse of his software! (thedailybeast.com) 1

Submitted by Highdude702 on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:43PM

Highdude702 writes: This is an outrage, and is a push too far, also in the wrong direction. A programmer from Arkansas was arrested for being an accomplice to a crime committed by people he had never met, let alone knew well enough to commit crimes with. If you will excuse my copy and paste skills because you can tell by now that I suck at writing and the such.

"It’s a dual-use technology case, And you typically don’t get criminal liability in dual-use technology cases unless there’s a pretty clear intent to promote the criminal use instead of the legitimate ones." Was quoted from a Cornell Law Professor.

If you decide to RTFA they do a lot better job at telling the story of a script kiddie gone big time. I don't think it's time to play jury as there are too many cases where items intended for malicious use were used by the general public for havoc and the creators were not held responsible.

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