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There have been a number of articles out there about Mint being a fairly insecure distro so... buyer beware: https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

Mod up. Finally we have a realist on slashdot. Not someone who just take Elon at his word and vague definitions used to cheat people.

Thanks for the kudos, but I think that you got some bits wrong (probably like the people who down-modded some of my posts above for no clear reason). None of my posts was about Elon Musk or Tesla, but about lies (or marketing or promotion or whatever you prefer to call it) regarding self-driving cars; in fact, Volvo was the only manufacturer which I expressly mentioned. The quoted autonomy level definitions come from the article linked by other AC up this thread referring to the US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) classification. Again, nothing to do with Musk/Tesla. The intention of my original post wasn't even critising these levels, but "Level X technology" as a perfect example of expression apparently meaningful but really meaningless. And as per Musk/Tesla critics, it seems that you can find quite a few of them here in Slashdot.

So and although I am certainly a very realistic person who is completely opposed to any dishonest, empty-words, etc. attempt and much more when dealing with issues about which I have a relevant knowledge (the case with mechanical/industrial engineering, automation approaches or software development), this wasn't a direct critic to Elon Musk, Tesla or this exact article. I am not a Musk fan, but I don't hate him either. Honestly, I don't even care about him, what he does, his wins/losses/truths/lies. I care about openly and objectively discussing about whatever issue which, eventually, might refer to Musk or Tesla.

*Gasp!* Does this mean . . . 2019 will be . . . the year of Raspberry Pi on the desktop!?!?!

Only when the Raspberry Pi supports Windows, oh wait!

There has been more discussions about monetization of open source projects. While coding as a hobby and helping projects as a philanthropy work is very good, long term stable projects need continuous funding.

This has worked for RedHat and other enterprise oriented companies with their support contract offerings. It also worked nice for existing companies -- including even Microsoft -- which uses open source partially. However if you only have a single offering, like MongoDB the situation was not as clear.

And it is not AWS's fault that they don't want to pay per-seat licensing fees: https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

If your solution to problems that businesses have is to run to regulators to solve...

Where did I say or imply that?

The correct "free-market" control on capitalist monopoly is for the "consumers" to refuse to buy these product and to start up competing businesses...

They can spend billions of dollars to keep the little guy little. It's like fighting a fire-hose with a squirt-gun. It's a wonderful ideal, but often fails in practice. I can convey dozens of historical Microsoft/IBM/AT&T/etc. shannegins (and there's probably many more under-table activities that are unknown to the public).

People like you are the exact reason why Google Fiber failed

I made Google screw up?

The rest of your argument seems to be, "regulation leads to crony capitalism, and therefore we should do nothing". If that's an incorrect summary, feel free to provide specifics and evidence.

Regulation is rarely perfect, I agree, but often better than no regulation when dealing with oligopolies/monopolies. Just because something is not perfect is not by itself a reason to throw it away.

They do matter, but you still have to get a way in.

You still have get the user to somehow run this script. Considering that scripts aren't even executables as such to begin with, and the considerably better average computer literacy among Linux users, this doesn't sound like too much of a threat. This doesn't preclude that some "user-friendly" applications muck things up, ofc. Stupid will always find a way, no matter what you do, but that's no different from things have always been.

From the parent comment: Why did they go out of their way to call this one "free"?

Microsoft has, apparently deliberately, been releasing Windows 10 updates that cause problems.

Apparently, if you pay a monthly fee, in the future Microsoft will remove the problems. Three of the articles:

Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee. (July 27, 2018)

Windows 10 Leak Exposes Microsoft's New Monthly Charge. (Aug. 4, 2018) Quote: "Ever since its creation, Microsoft has described Windows 10 as a service. The fear has always been that this meant Microsoft would start charging users a monthly fee to maintain the operating system, and now a new leak has confirmed this is exactly what will happenâ¦"

Windows 10 SHOCK: Is Microsoft about to start CHARGING a monthly fee? Stunning claims made. (Aug. 6, 2018)

Some of the many articles about Windows 10 update problems:

Windows 10 Essential Updates Have Serious Problems (Jan. 10, 2018)

Windows 10 April 2018 Update could break a ton of critical features on your PC (May 3, 2018)

Microsoft Admits July 10 Patches Caused Skype and Exchange Server Problems. (July 18, 2018)

Windows 10 April 2018 Update problems: how to fix them. (Aug. 23, 2018)

This article says that Microsoft should pay users:

Windows 10 update 'fail' -- Microsoft MUST pay out as users still 'plagued with problems' (June 13, 2018) Quote: "Windows 10 users should be compensated after Microsoftâ(TM)s updates have caused havoc with PC owners 'plagued with problems' and some facing huge bills to fix software issues."

Windows 10 is Spyware:

Windows 10 is possibly the worst spyware ever made. "Buried in the service agreement is permission to poke through everything on your PC." (August 4, 2015) Microsoft and Microsoft employees have full access to everything on every computer? I don't know of anyone or any company that should allow that.

2 issues, IMO:

A huge social problem: Conflict of interest. People who do Windows OS support make more money if there are many problems.

Microsoft employees and managers seem to me to lack social ability.

Will that prevent them from colluding? DRAM prices have been insane for the past two years. I don't remember we've ever had such a situation in the world of RAM ever before: RAM became twice as expensive as it had been earlier.

They're sniffing for triphenylphosphine oxide, which is found on all circuit boards, even microSD cards, and hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone, found on CDs/DVDs/BluRays/Floppies. Link

Why do employers discriminate based upon age? Study after study has shown that older workers perform just as well as younger workers for most tasks. Ageism bias is ignorant.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda...
https://www.techrepublic.com/a...
https://www.recode.net/2016/10...

The only logical reason to discriminate against older workers is because health insurance costs in the US are far higher for older people.

Is age discrimination less of a problem in countries that have single payer heath care?

Let's be honest, "iOS or Windows 10" is basically "turd burger or shit sandwich".

Look at this one - Windows 10 use is dropping!!

https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

Maybe schools could get windows 7 computers? I've had to get a lot of W10 computers running properly again when Windows screws the pooch on them. Windows 7 at least works well. But it's hard to imagine after all this time that we'd see a drop in W10 and an increase in W7 OS use.

I have W7 running in Bootcamp on my Mac and it's been 100 percent uptime. My Windows basic breakfast computer will update over insecure connections - ridiculous to have that little control - and my much more capable HP envy laptop has had update issues when W10 pro delayed updates decide to uninstall my drivers and replace them with non-functional ones they think are better. Only problem with my iOS device updates was one battery use problem that was fixed in a coup[le days.

can i run windows 95 on it?

yes

not for much longer, its automating fast https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

There was another city (Munich) that did this years ago and showed up on Slashdot saying after years of trying to make Linux work they are switching back to Windows. What did they learn it was impossible to completely get rid of Windows and the software they used could not be ported to Linux. I guess Barcelona does not have the Internet to do some searches and find out this is a bad idea ??? https://fossbytes.com/city-tha... https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

"since 2006 when the POR started using LiMux and OpenOffice, later switching to LibreOffice, that "the efficiency and productivity of the POR-supported workplaces has decreased noticeably" - referencing crashes, display and printing errors"

Nice, they won't get those problems on windows.

"The use of the open-source Thunderbird email client and LibreOffice suite across the council would also be phased out, in favour of using "market standard products" that offer the "highest possible compatibility" with external and internal software."

One thing windows does well. Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

Our main goal was to become independent

Microsoft Germany moves into a new headquarters

Report by Microsoft partner Accenture

And another article last year:

https://www.techrepublic.com/a...

Android is completely open source

Android, in a practical sense, is not Open Source. AOSP is but there is more to an Android system than that, in fact in the linked article RMS himself calls out Android as a non-free operating system:

"...Making a non-free system, such Windows or MacOS or iOS or ChromeOS or Android, more convenient is a step backward in the campaign for freedom.""
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/will-microsoft-love-linux-to-death-shuttleworth-and-stallman-on-whether-windows-10-is-free-softwares/

It already does: http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

But more importantly, smart AI-powered systems reduce the need for custom code. We will not have Terminator-style humanoid robots replacing programmers in their cubicles. We will just need fewer programmers.

macOS does not have write support for NTFS out of the box. And it has neither read nor write support for ext2, ext3, or ext4.

BZZT! Wrong! Thanks for playing!

Recent versions (I think at least as far back as OS X 10.8) DO have NTFS write support. You just have to Enable it using a Command-Line incantation:

http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

As far as ext goes, you appear to be correct. The article I consulted was wrong, and thus I was wrong for claiming NATIVE support for ext in OS X/macOS.

HOWEVER, you CAN use MacFUSE/OSXFUSE and get at least read support for ext 2/3/4, plus, you should be able to use SMB fileharing to access ext volumes on a Linux server, right? :

https://github.com/osxfuse/osx...

If you care about having a cross platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) file system for that last resort backup/archive, with a built-in driver on those platforms, that also supports large file sizes, you'd use UDF. If you're more of a storage geek, you might consider NTFS by enabling write support. And if you're even more of a storage geek you'd look at OpenZFS.

I'd LOVE to consider OpenZFS; however, the lack of a GUI manager (at least the last I looked), and an ongoing list of rather scary bugs and limitations (still!!!) has me understandably gun-shy about it.

As for the rest, they are really no better than using HFS+, and are significantly worse and APFS.

Usually has been the best bet for USB sticks you don't know where they will be used. That's what I have always told my Mac-owning friends, if they think there is event the slightest possiblity that there USB stick will end up in a computer other than a Mac.

That's not Apple's fault. FAT is just the lowest-common-denominator Filesystem.

You can use NTFS if you're willing to install something on your Mac. Most drives (I know seagate does, and I assume WD does too) are NTFS formatted, and the "mac software" they provide (either on disk or downloadable) include the Paragon NTFS driver which will get you read-write access to NTFS partitions.

It's not the cleanest driver in the world (Paragon really created a FUSE-like driver and plugins for it - so you can read NTFS and ext3/4 too) but commercially supported and easily had for free.

More daring individuals can use MacFUSE and ntfs-3g, which I hear is really stable nowadays as well. And at one point, Apple actually supported ext3 as a mountable filesystem type.

You can use MacFUSE; or, in more-recent OS X/macOS versions, you can simply enable full R/W NTFS support:

http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

Well, ya know, the patents on NTFS are surely running out by now, and Linux knows NTFS inside and out too. MS just doesn't feel comfortable without some kind of lock-in.

macOS has had Read support for NTFS since at least version 10.1, and "experimental" R/W support since, IIRC, 10.8 or so, if not earlier.

"Experimental" means you have to flip a config option in Terminal. Since NTFS is undocumented, Apple pretty much HAS to call their support "Experimental".

http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

This is the same topic as for the Intel Management Engine, for example Is the Intel Management Engine a backdoor?

Basically, they're finding there's a lag between new hardware being released and the OS getting updates to support it, and it's a huge PIA for support staff.

Every torrent client I've ever used includes configuring it to work only during specified hours

I was referring to the lack of such a setting for things other than torrent clients, such as operating system updaters. See, for example, how caps affect users of Windows.

It's not legal either place for very good reasons because it isn't safe and cannot be made safe.

Then how do you rationalize why it is even legal to purchase such hardware? There are undoubtedly more firearms than 500+hp cars in America. Firearms are regulated extensively regulated for public safety. High-powered street cars are not. If they are such a public safety risk as you assert, why is this the case?

Spend 20 seconds on google if you need actual examples.

I already supplied multi-year traffic accident data for Japan and the US. That's a far larger data set than looking at individual examples on Google.

Considering that automation/robots/AI are making human labor obsolete...

Umm, what kind of bullshit are you talking about now? This has nothing to do with the topic at hand nor is it actually true.

I'm not sure if you are trolling or just plain ignorant, but I'm feeling generous enough to contribute to your enlightenment.
Japanese insurance firm replaces 34 staff with AI: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
IBM's Watson edits an entire magazine on its own: https://futurism.com/will-ibms...
Automation arrives at restaurants: http://www.computerworld.com/a...
"The result of their agitation will be more jobs for machines and fewer for the least skilled workers," it wrote.
Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots: http://www.bbc.com/news/techno...
Chinese factory replaces 90% of humans with robots, production soars: http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

Now, here's why all of that is relevant. What are we supposed to do with potentially billions of low-skill or even medium-skill human beings whose labor is no longer a cost-effective means of production? They will still consume resources and produce pollution, just by existing. Your posts indicate that protecting the environment is a priority for you, yet you have a myopic focus on high-powered passenger vehicles while ignoring the elephant in the room of unchecked global population growth. Hence why I countered that cutting the population in half would leave us still able to sustain (if not improve) our First-World living standards across the board, AND do the environment a big favor. We can have 800HP cars and pristine national parks if we just had 4 billion fewer people, who we won't need to manufacture said 800HP cars in the near-future anyway, so no loss there......Are you finally picking up what I'm putting down now?

Holy off topic batman. I think we are done here.

Well, I've laid out my thoughts in a clear manner with numerous references, and you've only contributed vapid one-liners, so I have no qualms about accepting your concession in this debate.

Yeah, this is a choice between the possibility of malware vs. the certainty of it.

(The real right answer is "Linux," of course. And the other right answer is to avoid the newer Intel chips that are infected with the Intel Management Engine backdoor and the newer AMD chips that are infected with the Platform Security Processor backdoor to begin with.)

I void warranties every day of the week... and twice on Sundays!

But seriously, I don't care. I can't remember the last time I used a warranty, especially since half the stuff I buy (especially mechanical things, rather than electronics) is bought used long after the warranty expired anyway.

Now, you do have a larger point, which is correct: Chromebooks are certainly not an ideal choice since Google's intent is for them to be locked-down. I agree, it would definitely be better if they were designed to run arbitrary traditional applications by default. However, I am not convinced that they're any worse than the average Windows 10 laptop since there's no guarantee that the malware that is Windows 10 would be allowed to be removed at all. At least with a Chromebook it's guaranteed that the damn thing runs Linux and that it's possible to remove the untrusted stuff (give or take things like IME, anyway).

Sorry, you are mistaken.

Incorrect, you are the one who is mistaken.

Come back and post when you actually know what you are talking about. Until then I'll ignore all other points you make, since they come from a profound base of misunderstanding.

Fair enough.

But let's also note that in January 2016 Microsoft announced the end of support of Win 7 / 8 on Skylake ... a processor that was available months earlier in 2015

Sure, they reversed that stance. But what the heck ?!?!

It's disturbing how that company oscillates between being friendly one minute (e.g. open sourcing stuff, etc) and being horribly monopolistic the next (crap moves like these, spying on users, etc).

Not just the headline, the article is chock full of statements like, "After all, no one expects to pay for an OS anymore."

The problem is that our industry, unlike every other single industry except acting and modeling (and note neither are known for "intelligence") worship at the altar of youth. I don't know the number of people I've encountered who tell me that by being older, my experience is worthless since all the stuff I've learned has become obsolete.

This, despite the fact that the dominant operating systems used in most systems is based on an operating system that is nearly 50 years old, the "new" features being added to many "modern" languages are really concepts from languages that are between 50 and 60 years old or older, and most of the concepts we bandy about as cutting edge were developed from 20 to 50 years ago.

It also doesn't help that the youth whose accomplishments we worship usually get concepts wrong. I don't know the number of times I've seen someone claim code was refactored along some new-fangled "improvement" over an "outdated" design pattern who wrote objects that bare no resemblance to the pattern they claim to be following. (In the case above, the classes they used included "modules" and "models", neither which are part of the VIPER backronym.) And when I indicate that the "massive view controller" problem often represents a misunderstanding as to what constitutes a model and what constitutes a view, I'm told that I have no idea what I'm talking about--despite having more experience than the critic has been alive, and despite graduating from Caltech--meaning I'm probably not a complete idiot.)

Our industry is rife with arrogance, and often the arrogance of the young and inexperienced. Our industry seems to value "cowboys" despite doing everything it can (with the management technique "flavor of the month") to stop "cowboys." Our industry is agist, sexist, one where the blind leads the blind, and seminal works attempting to understand the problem of development go ignored.

How many of you have seen code which seems developed using "design pattern" roulette? Don't know what you're doing? Spin the wheel!

Ours is also one of the fewest industries based on scientific research which blatantly ignores the research, unless it is popularized in shallow books which rarely explore anything in depth. We have a constant churn of technologies which are often pointless, introducing new languages using extreme hype which is often unwarranted as those languages seldom expand beyond a basic domain representing a subset of LISP. I can't think of a single developer I've met professionally who belong to the ACM or to IEEE, and when they run into an interesting problem tend to search Github or Stack Overflow, even when it is a basic algorithm problem. (I've met programmers with years of experience who couldn't write code to maintain a linked list.)

So what do we do?

Beats the hell out of me. You cannot teach if your audience revels in its ignorance and doesn't

They've already started to automate, so it's pretty unlikely that they'll have that problem for much longer. Unless Chinese robots are cheaper than U.S. robots, we should probably invest more heavily in our own robotic manufacturing base just because when human labor is no longer a large part of the cost of the goods, China doesn't have anywhere near as much advantage.

If you think that's bad don't even think of having your PC repaired in Texas http://www.techrepublic.com/bl...

The FCC opened up the 57-64 GHz range for unlicensed use. These frequencies are right around the resonance frequency of O2 so suffer severe attenuation. Range is expected to be about 30 feet. Devices supporting this frequency are expected to roll out later this year. In addition to the high attenuation, the higher bandwidth (about 600 Mbps to 1.2 Gbps of real transfer speed) means devices won't be transmitting on it as long as they do at 2.4 or even 5 GHz, resulting in much less interference. Mhe beam pattern of those little whip antennas on most routers is omnidirectional in the horizontal axis - their vertical range is limited. And most of the technology uses beam-forming as well, meaning even less interference (highest signal strength is only in one direction).

They're also opening up the 64-71 GHz band for unlicensed use in the future. So there's going to be plenty of short-range bandwidth for devices to use. The bigger question is going to be should these devices be interconnected. I think it's stupid to add WiFi to a refrigerator, toilet, garage door opener (makes some sense for a washer, dryer, and window blinds). But congestion isn't going to be a problem unless you insist on using 2.4 GHz.

In the long gone '60s, Sony's researchers found out how to simulate 3D as we know it nowadays. A comprehensive study on how it worked and any side effects was ordered. The results were disturbingly negative and social responsibility prevailed over profit & greed. The technology was buried and disappeared. 40 years later someone rediscovered the tech or simply came across the old files. It was the same old dangerous shit. But times, they are a'changing, and the old responsibility was long gone. Everyone jumped on the 3D bandwagon, public health be damned. But it failed in the marketplace as the old Sony researchers had predicted: it was bad for you and the effect wasn't worth the risk.

I guess if true 3D laser holography doesn't evolve to an accesible level, in 20-30 years we'll see this shit rise again like an immortal coackroach. A few links for your enlightment:

http://www.audioholics.com/edi...
http://www.strabismus.org/all_...
http://www.techrepublic.com/bl...
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/08...
http://www.livescience.com/496...

Oh please stop with the "source equals security" bullshit which is trivially proven false, ready? You have the source, kindly list for us the vulnerabilities in the Linux networking stack...what, you can't? How about any lousy code in the audio stacks? What you HAVE vetted the code, yes?

The "source equals security" fallacy is a fallacy of assumption, you assume because the code is there someone has done the work for you and vetted these millions of lines of code with zero actual evidence that it has actually occurred and in fact vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, Bash weaknesses that have sat there for years and the plethora of Linux targeted malware including commercial attacks give plenty of evidence that the opposite is true and the majority of code isn't looked at beyond whomever is actually working on the thing.

I think Windows 10 is a giant POS where the only thing that runs reliably is its baked in spyware (which makes it similar to Android so if Nutella is trying to copy Google? Mission accomplished.) but I also hate OS flag waving bullshit when it has no evidence to back it up, from "OSX doesn't get malware" which Macheads simply changed the definition of what malware was until that statement could still prove true and in the same vein with Linux based Android beating Windows several years in a row when it comes to malware growth and major Linux exploits coming out of the woodwork claiming source equals security is no different than claiming Santa Claus protects your OS, you have the same level of evidence for both statements.

They better not upgrade to the newest CPUs that will require Windows 10 (or Linux).

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-10-the-10-biggest-controversies-and-surprises-in-2016/

> OS/2 when you need it???

It's ba-a-a-a-a-ck; or at least coming soon. I realize you might be asking the question sarcastically, but anyhow... http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

> From 'Blue Lion' to ArcaOS 5.0
>
> When the Blue Lion project was announced at the American WarpStock in
> October 2015, the name was only temporary. Following the close of events at
> WarpStock Europe, Arca Noae managing member Lewis Rosenthal noted
> in an interview that the final product name for the new OS/2 distribution is
> ArcaOS 5.0. The significance of the version number relates to IBM OS/2 4.52
> -- the last maintenance release of the platform released by IBM in 2001.
>
> ArcaOS 5.0 is expected to be released in the fourth quarter of 2016, but
> Blue Lion remains as a code name, in much the same way "Wily Werewolf"
> is the code name of Ubuntu 15.10.

When people are making external graphics cards to connect to your laptops, you're not updating your laptops often enough.

Apparently you think the only two smart phones in existence are the iPhone and the Galaxy Note 7. Boy are you in for a surprise if you ever crawl out of your basement and actually visit a store that sells cell phones.

To freeze or to still be vulnerable after more than a year?

Same mentality. You will take what we tell you to.

What gets people really annoyed is that Redhat / Poettering have hijacked mainstream linux. Yes, I understand that Redhat runs "services in the cloud". And that having VM's spin up a few seconds faster means they can run fewer VM's in reserve, and therfore save RAM/CPU/electricity and, most importantly for their shareholders, MONEY.

If Redhat had offered systemd/pulseaudio/avahi/dbus as "extra features" on their distro, no-one would've complained. The complaints come from the fact that Redmondhat is trying to push their crud down the throats of all linux users. They took advantage of the fact that some of the voting members on the Debian council were Redmondhat employees. When the Debian council voted on standardizing on one startup system, guess which way the Redmondhat employees voted? Since Debian is the base from which Ubunti+variants, plus a lot of other distros, build on, Redmondhat now brags about "widespread adoption" of systemd.

I run Gentoo, but even there, I can't totally escape Redmondhat. I stopped using GNOME long ago, because it was too bloated. So the fact that GNOME now has a gratuitously hard-coded dependancy on systemd didn't affect me. But I do use GNUMERIC, which seems to be the best spreadsheet. In Gentoo, you can see dependancies being pulled in. Years ago, GNUMERIC did not require harfbuzz and ghostscript, but now it does. And it requires GTK+3 which now requires dbus.

Years ago, OS/2 was my first love. When it flopped, I looked around for another non-Microsoft alternative. I fell in love with lightweight, snappy, modular GNU/Lin-ux. But now it has degenerated into bloated, slow, monolithic GNOME/Lenn-ax. Coincidentally, Arca Noae is expected to release ArcOS 5.0 later this year. http://www.techrepublic.com/ar... The 5.0 is the next version after OS/2 4.52, the last maintenance release by IBM. I may have no choice, but to go back.

We have all these promises of what AI is going to accomplish (here's an explanation of driverless levels, level 4 means you'll be able to sleep in the back seat of the car. Our technology isn't close to that point yet). Even if driverless technology existed at that level right now (it doesn't), it would still take them a couple years of engineering before everything worked well enough to release.

But with all these promises, if they aren't delivered, there could easily be another AI backlash into winter.

You need to expand your world view more. Piracy is common in China.

* http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

BitCoin is a red herring.

Ubuntu is further.

That's the amazing thing...

They placed ONE BET and it was done in response to a challenge by a reporter at TECH REPUBLIC, who published their pick in advance - ONE PICK.

This is the article that Tech Republic published 2 days before the race:

http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

No, what's really amazing is that this is your first post as a Slashdot user and that all your posts are only discussing this particular topic. Another AMAZING thing is that you're calling a blogger on Tech Republic an actual reporter. Yeah, that's a good one.

Now never mind that you can edit your blog on Tech Republic anytime you want without changing the publishing date, or that this Yahoo quote is completely made up:

According to Yahoo, "Unanimous spent the last two years building a swarm intelligence platform called UNU that enables groups to get together as online swarms -- combing their thoughts, opinions, and intuitions in real-time to answer questions, make predictions, reach decisions, and even play games as a unified collective intelligence."

Who is this "Unanimous" anyway? Is that a play on words with "Anonymous"? Seriously?

And who is this particular "Yahoo" anyway, a blogger friend of yours on Yahoo? Your friend obviously forgot to publish his blog on Yahoo because it's not indexed anywhere. Also, thank you very much for confounding the terms "swarm intelligence" or "AI" with "wisdom of crowds".

That's what the world needs right now, more misinformation layered unto more misinformation. Congratulations on your click-baiting skills.

That's the amazing thing... They placed ONE BET and it was done in response to a challenge by a reporter at TECH REPUBLIC, who published their pick in advance - ONE PICK. This is the article that Tech Republic published 2 days before the race: http://www.techrepublic.com/ar...

NTFS

OS X has had built-in read-only NTFS support since I think day one. I have definitely read NTFS drives with OS X. And since MS has never published the specs for Write or Format for NTFS, they can hardly be blamed. But apparently, you actually can enable NTFS WRITE (don't know about Formatting) on a per-Drive basis. Or, if you just want to pull out your wallet, these guys offer full NTFS support in OS X for the princely sum of $16.95.

But MacFuse brings supposedly full NTFS support (disclaimer: Never tried it) to at least Userland on OS X.

Android

Seriously?

NFS3

Not out-of-the box; but it supposedly can be fairly easily done with a little Terminal witchery.

NTFS

OS X has had built-in read-only NTFS support since I think day one. I have definitely read NTFS drives with OS X. And since MS has never published the specs for Write or Format for NTFS, they can hardly be blamed. But apparently, you actually can enable NTFS WRITE (don't know about Formatting) on a per-Drive basis. Or, if you just want to pull out your wallet, these guys offer full NTFS support in OS X for the princely sum of $16.95.

But MacFuse brings supposedly full NTFS support (disclaimer: Never tried it) to at least Userland on OS X.

Android

Seriously?

NFS3

Not out-of-the box; but it supposedly can be fairly easily done with a little Terminal witchery.

as long as you have shell access (doesn't even need to be root level) to an outside unix box running ssh, the great firewall is doomed. Its so easy to use putty to tunnel HTTP traffic, that almost anyone can do it.

http://www.techrepublic.com/bl...