Random Bytes - Skylake CPU Spectre Patch - 'Dislike' On Facebook? - Logan Paul YouTube'd Again

Random Bytes - Skylake CPU Spectre Patch - 'Dislike' On Facebook? - Logan Paul YouTube'd Again
EventHorizon1984
9 February 2018

"we released production microcode updates for several Skylake-based platforms to our OEM customers and industry partners, and we expect to do the same for more platforms in the coming days"
Navin Shenoy, 7 February 2018
Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Group at Intel Corporation

 

Richard Lawler's article "Intel releases new Spectre patch for its Skylake CPUs" noted:

"That includes those based on technology including (but not limited to) Broadwell and Haswell which had previously seen an update that the company withdrew after reports of random reboots."

Intel's extensive list of Skylake chips is located at:

https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/37572/Skylake

Expect more changes "Real Soon Now."

  

“We are not testing a dislike button.”
Facebook

The Daily Beast reported on the notion that Facebook was not “testing a dislike button.”

"A Facebook spokesperson denied that the company is “testing a dislike button” before giving information about why it is performing the test.

“We are not testing a dislike button. We are exploring a feature for people to give us feedback about comments on public page posts. This is running for a small set of people in the U.S. only.”

The feature appears to give users the ability to downrank certain comments."

For now, this is only a test.

Meanwhile, on a platform that does have a 'dislike' button; which does nothing.

 

"Logan Paul is an idiot. But your kids don't know that"
Hayley Kaufman, The Boston Globe, 5 January 2018
'never make the same mistake twice ... keep making new ones'
Ruff and Reddy (1957-1960)

Engaget's Associate Editor Steve Dent had this lovely tidbit for Paul's fans and anti-fans:

"YouTube star Logan Paul is in hot water again with YouTube, following his suspension from the service's Preferred Ad program for posting a video of a suicide victim in Japan. YouTube has temporarily suspended all ads on his channels, cutting off revenue estimated between $40,000 to $600,000 per month. On Twitter, YouTube Creators cited his "recent pattern of behavior," as reason for the suspension."

With YouTube's apparent slap on the wrist policy for big money makers, Mr. Dent ends with this warning to YouTube:

"with advertisers like Mars, HP and Smirnoff having dropped YouTube until it cleans up its act, the site might need to start wielding its banhammer."

Previously, Logan Paul suggested he'd take the Tide Pod Challenge.

"swallowing 1 tide pod per retweet"

In the article "Logan Paul's Tweet About Tide Pod Challenge Has Angered Everyone," Francesca Donovan had this to say:

"The ‘joke’ is supposedly that the pods look a little like sweets. But, funnily enough, liquids designed to clean dirt off clothes are not fit for human consumption, and some cases of kids partaking in the Tide Pod challenge have led to hospitalisations."

A significant portion of Mr. Paul's audience are "kids."

The mature video response to such feldercarb can be found here:

Rob Gronkowski  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrC_PF_3Lg

Such a potentially fatal joke stunt by Logan Paul would definitely gain him permanent worldwide recognition.

As a Darwin Award winner.

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""Hold my beer and watch this!" a teen handed Snapchat to a friend and with a whoop of glee he leapt over a foot-bridge railing, intending to land dramatically on a parapet below." ...
"Snapchat phenomenon is extending the e-trend of paying inadequate attention to one's physical surroundings"
2017 Darwin Award Winner

 

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