Another example, I work in scientific high performance computing. The worst that can happen with my work (although people in more defense oriented research migh

Another example, I work in scientific high performance computing. The worst that can happen with my work (although people in more defense oriented research might care) is someone might see my data before I publish it...woopy doo, and I guess if they do, they'll have to spend the few hours needed to process TBs of data I make so they can what, scoop me? Oh and they have to access to the same supercomputer too... the risk I face of anything bad happening to me is minuscule. On the other hand, removing modern processor features like speculative execution and frequency scaling would mean my increase in execution time would mean going from 3 weeks or so to 4 weeks or more per simulation? No, I am NOT okay with that at fucking all, it's hard enough dealing with the multiweek delay I have before I can iterate, making that even longer for very little risk is not worth it.