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> we don't all run ECC RAM either ...because Intel placed profit above user's needs and choose not to allow ECC on desktops. Similarly, many other things have
by goodpoint 4y ago
> we don't all run ECC RAM either
...because Intel placed profit above user's needs and choose not to allow ECC on desktops.
Similarly, many other things have been made insecure by plain greed.
- gambiting 4y agoThe other way of looking at it is that a huge portion of the market is running non-ECC ram and it hasn't resulted in any measurable reduction of security or stability of operating systems worldwide. So maybe it really isn't necessary for your average user, and manufacturing ECC ram for users who ultimately don't need it would be just a waste(both financial and environmental).
- goodpoint 4y ago> hasn't resulted in any measurable reduction of security or stability of operating systems worldwide Except it did.
- hunterb123 4y agoBy how much?
- goodpoint 4y agoMore than zero.
- hunterb123 4y ago> in any measurable reduction
- int_19h 4y agoHow do we know that it didn't?
- HappyTypist 4y agoHow many consumer OS crashes can be attributed to RAM errors? How many corrupt files, strange bugs, or quirks can be attributed?
- doublepg23 4y agoGoogle researched the topic over 2.5 years last decade and did find a notable amount [1]. "Bitsquatting" has also been seen in the wild in the past decade [2]. [1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/35162.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting
- gambiting 4y agoI stand corrected then. Thanks for the links.
- irjustin 4y agoI'll argue the opposing side. Can you imagine how little progress there would be if all CPU/Ram development were a government program?
- goodpoint 4y agoThe same government programs that funded almost all the initial research on semiconductors and early computers for the first 4 decades? The programs who funded the research for telephones, lasers, aeronautics, satellites, CDs, fiber optics, GPS, GSM, LCDs using tax money? I can imagine how little progress there would be if they didn't.