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Comment Re:Damn... (Score 1) 47

the us has been fascist for a very long time

The US has been oligarchic and authoritarian all along, and has behaved towards some other nations much like a fascist nation would do, but in general has not subjected the general citizenry to full blown fascism. It's been horrible to everyone other than landed white males all along, though.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 103

If we had reasonable regulations then a data center could go anywhere and not be a problem, but since we don't, they can only go into unpopulated places with lots of water and power without causing harm. Normal DCs can just go into ordinary commercial zones because they use, while elevated, not completely obscene amounts of power and therefore water. And to return to the topic, this illustrates why AI DCs don't make sense in space, because cooling is harder in space than it is here.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 103

What I do not quite get in this context is that there are still investors around with the fundamental lack of insight

Well, you know, D-K... they don't know what survivor bias is.

Is this a case of "there is a sucker born every minute"?

They are sure they are smart because they got money, and don't understand that even if they did make an intelligent investment, there was a luck component.

Comment Re:The Ban Wasn't in the Packets (Score 1) 106

PPIN seems to mostly be a server feature. I don't feel like going into BIOS right now but I found this about a PPIN option on a Lenovo server. It shows an AMD processor so it's highly relevant. On my system I don't have /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/topology/ppin and there's nothing about ppin in dmesg, but I don't know if that's because the feature's not enabled, or compiled in, or what.

Comment Re:This comment section is pathetic. (Score 1) 106

Obligatory "Welcome to Slashdot, you must be new here."

This has been going on for literally years.

Anonymous posting is an option for logged in users, not a thing that people can do without logging in, so they know exactly who is doing this. Slashdot has removed accounts before, therefore it is clear that they want this to occur.

Comment Re:it's all about trust (Score 3, Interesting) 106

Why are you trusting anything?

That's what TPM is fundamentally about. You talked in another post about it being for separation, that's a trust function, so clearly you know it's about trust. That shows that this comment begins disingenuously.

Open Source TPM software and hardware exist, and are under the user's control in a way that any other TPM is not. Not every motherboard has a TPM slot, but boards with them are not hard to come by, so it is feasible for users to have a TPM that they actually do control. Neither the TPM in your CPU nor the average add-in TPM is actually that. Being able to remove things from it is not the same thing as being in control of it, although it's a part of being in control.

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