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AC if you read the linked https://theintercept.com/2017/...
The word hotel is mentioned a few times ....
"You lock your laptop in a hotel safe"
"like the hotel’s network"
"phone in a hotel safe"
" considering hotel safes are not very secure"
If you want to know about the smart TV part AC try Weeping Angel "CIA, MI5 hacked smart TVs to eavesdrop on private conversations"
http://www.zdnet.com/article/h...

To be fair, you should also say Fuck Apple because they have (or at least, had) the same limitation on iOS. (They just don't have that limitation on MacOS).

And I would like to know if I can install a 3rd party web rendering engine on ChromeOS or Android. I notice there is a "Edge for Android" but this says it uses Android's Blink / WebKit engine.

Oh, wait, lets read the article... "Which just directed users to a download link to install the browser". This app wasn't really an app, it was nothing more than a hyperlink to the chrome download page. That is banning stupid apps from the store that don't deliver value (and would never have worked on Windows 10 S anyway.) This is nothing more than spamming the app store. So, as it stands, this app is RIGHTLY banned.

The SEPARATE issue is banning 3rd party web rendering engines from the Windows Store.

Tim Berners-Lee favored fast lanes which makes him support Pai's position on Net Neutrality. I quoted him 10 years ago here http://www.zdnet.com/article/a.... He said "Net Neutrality is NOT saying that one shouldn’t pay more money for high quality of service. We always have, and we always will."

Sorry but how the hell do you allow this to happen twice?

http://www.zdnet.com/article/k...

Maybe it's time for law enforcement to get involved.

Yeah, yeah I know the history of its development and how log files are binary and the whole debug kernel flag fiasco. And I don't care. By the time I used systemd, that had already long passed.

I switched from Squeeze to Jessie a couple years ago, had some growing pains as I learned how to use systemd... but that was it. No stability issues, no bugs. Can't say whether things run better, but they definitely don't run worse.

I had only really been using Linux for a few years before the onset of systemd, and honestly I think that's part of the problem. People who complain about systemd the most seem to have been using Linux for a very long time and just "don't want to change". Whether its nostalgia or sunk-cost fallacy, I can't say, but beyond that it seems much more like a philosophical difference than a practical one. It just reminds me of people's refusal to use the metric system, for no better reason than they are unfamiliar with it.

If systemd is so terrible, then why did a lot of the major distros switch over? If they didn't, it would just be a footnote in the history of open source: "Hey remember when they tried to replace sysV and init with that stupid thing with the binary log files? What was it called? SystemP?" The fact that Devaun has not overtaken Debian in any real way (at least from what I've seen, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) indicates that my experience with systemd is the norm, not the exception. The market has spoken.

I read TFA, there is not one single specific bug or instability mentioned about systemd. What is the "tiny detail" that split the community? I have no idea, because TFA doesn't say what it is. I know that part of the philosophy behind Linux is "figuring it out yourself", but if you don't explain to me these low level kernel details (if that's even what they are; again, I have no idea), then don't expect people like me to be on your side. Linux is just a tool to me, I don't have any emotional attachment to it, so if things are working OK I am not going to start poking around under the hood just because someone posts an article claiming there are problems, but never specifying what those problems are and how they affect me as a user.

Honestly TFA reads like "We are having development problems, therefore systemd sucks." I get that when major changes to the platform happens there are going to be issues and annoyances, but that's the way software development has always been and will always be. Even if systemd was perfect there would still be all kinds of compatibility issues and new conventions that developers would have to adapt to. That's what I would expect to happen whenever any major change is made to a widely used and versatile platform like Linux.

Even Linus doesn't really care:

"I don't actually have any particularly strong opinions on systemd itself. I've had issues with some of the core developers that I think are much too cavalier about bugs and compatibility, and I think some of the design details are insane (I dislike the binary logs, for example), but those are details, not big issues."

I'm not saying systemd is "better" or "the right answer". If you want to stick to distros that don't use it, that's up to you. But what I am saying is, get over it.

Trump's got very little done legislatively except for the corporation tax cut. More regulations have been repealed than have been passed

http://www.washingtonexaminer....

Which demonstrates that if you do little except cut taxes and deregulate, the US economy will tend to pick up speed.

And look at Apple. They've just paid Ireland what the EU demanded they pay, even though Ireland didn't want it

http://www.zdnet.com/google-am...

If the EU forces countries like Ireland to charge more tax, and Trump cuts corporate taxes in the US while bullying companies to invest, there's an argument that companies like Apple might decide to move some cash back. E.g. this sort of deal

http://www.businessinsider.com...

But even in this context, Apple backing a big manufacturing plant could be a significant political win for Trump. Foxconn's display plant could create 30,000 to 50,000 jobs in the US, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Apple has 80,000 US-based employees.

Where could Foxconn build factories in the US? It depends on which states give Foxconn the best incentives. Pennsylvania seems to be in the lead for either a "molding facility" or the display plant. A trade official from Pennsylvania was at Foxconn's holiday party, Nikkei reported.

"I have to tell other states to hurry up or we'll go ahead and sign with Pennsylvania," Gou said.

Tim Cook could virtue signal about how he's creating US jobs. Apple and Foxconn would get given an Ireland like tax deal by the state and federal government.

Purists will say this is rather unorthodox economics - basically Trump bulled Cook into doing it and arranged for tax breaks. Still that's the way business works, why shouldn't government?

Perhaps you think the shodan engine is simply making up all the audio and videos from the inside of people's houses?

No, poster "Scottingham" is right. These plugged in devices incur major risk of full time surveillance, and possibly not even simply by "friendly" (cough) advertising companies.

We don't know why Mozilla Foundation has changed from accepting money from Microsoft to accepting money from Google. We are, apparently, not allowed to know. One possibility is that Google is willing to pay more. Another possibility is that there was a breakdown in the relationship between the very poorly managed Yahoo and Microsoft. (Although poorly managed, one reason Yahoo has money is that Yahoo is part owner of Alibaba. See, for example, Why worthless CEOs laugh all the way to the bank. May 20, 2017)

During the time the money from Microsoft dominated Mozilla Foundation's income, Mozilla Foundation released a version of Firefox that removed the ability to use most add-ons. Add-ons are the reason people prefer Firefox. We aren't allowed to kinow why Mozilla Foundation makes its decisions.

During the time that Microsoft dominated, Mozilla Foundation changed the Firefox user interface in a way that had a negative influence on acceptance of Firefox.

During the time that Microsoft dominated, Microsoft tried other ways to dominate: Mozilla and Google accuse Microsoft of unfair browser competition (May 10, 2012)

That is, in fact, what happened, according to news reports at links I gave.

Other people who have commented and I feel uncomfortable with the fact that we aren't allowed to know how Mozilla Foundation spends its money.

The world needs a browser that is not controlled in a hidden way. At one time, I thought we had that. When Google was paying $300,000,000 per year to Mozilla Foundation, to make Google search the default Firefox search engine. it appeared that Google was not negatively influencing the development of Firefox. Of course, we don't know what actually happened.

Ubuntu, for one. And that's not the only thing. They've rolled out updates which report data back to Google, not just Amazon.

> I suspect someone got paid off big time.

The visible part is that Microsoft moved their headquarters to Munich. The somewhat less visible part is that Munich's new mayor, Dieter Reiter is an explicit Microsoft fan.

And there's another thing, an anti-pattern we free software enthusiasts *have* to learn to recognize and avoid: most of the IT problems in Munich were structural and not related to whatever the underlying operating system was. Those were exacerbated by transition stress. That's the result of an Accenture study on that very subect.

The invisible parts? Is corruption like an iceberg, where 8/9 are down there, invisible?

Probably yes.

Doubled and yet still only barely at 1% marketshare! Great success!

How about 2.98% . Sure it may not be much when compared to Microsoft's dominance but that still translates to ten's of millions. Anyway if you look at the smartphone market Android which has a Linux kernel dominates with around 85% market share and that translates to hundreds of millions.

If you look at the predominate operating system kernel for supercomputers Linux comes in at almost 100%. The main reasons why Microsoft dominates the desktop is predominately what is known as the "Microsoft Tax: and the intransigence of the average person to move to a different operating system once they have started to use the "default" operating system. A bit like some religions. :-)

Between this, the debacle of iOS 11 and the fact that the Mac lines have been languishing under him, it's clear they need to get rid of him.

WHAT "Debacle" of iOS 11? You mean the one where you have to close and reopen Messages to see the last Text? Yeah, that's some Debacle, all right... NOT!

If you want to see a Debacle, you need look no farther than the Android Bug that puts your phone into an infinite-reboot loop, the ONLY way to recover from said loop is to Factory-Reset your phone, LOSING all your Personal Data, Photos, etc.

And if you think that the Mac lines are "languishing", then please explain why the MacBook Pro sales are the highest EVER.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...

And not by a large margin: http://www.zdnet.com/article/j...

By the way if you want some real benchmarks, here. While 57 has improved performance over 56, these claims about Quantum being twice as fast as Chrome are just blatantly false. It varies depending on the benchmark.

Real courage at this point would be bucking the trend and selling a phone with all the features people want but which are being removed - removable battery, SD card, headphone jack, fingerprint scanner on the front. And stock Android. Instead it seems like all the manufacturers seem to be competing as to who can remove the most things people want while at the same time introducing things like higher display resolutions when the 1080p on a three year old phone is already fine and more pixels usually means less battery life, thinner handsets, face recognition replacing fingerprints or scanners on the back, Bixby buttons and glass front and back that no one wants.

Meanwhile of course after each release we find that they 'didn't sell as many as they hoped' and that the follow up would be 'radically different'. Which usually means more useful features being lost.

You can see Samsung's sales falling off. E.g.

First month sales for the S4 - 10 million

https://www.digitaltrends.com/...

First month sales for the S5 - 11 million

Five million S8 and S8+s in the first month

http://www.zdnet.com/article/s...

I.e. things are not going well for Samsung.

Are you stuck in 1999?

Today more than 90% of the Fortune 500 rely on Linux in some aspect

http://fortune.com/2013/05/06/...

Linux 79%, Windows 39%
http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...

Even Microsoft has given in, SQL Server can now run on Linux.

So here's a new one then. Self driving bus gets in accident two hours after starting service in Las Vegas
http://www.zdnet.com/article/s...

Agreed. It can supposedly be mostly turned off if you want to roll the dice on bricking your device.
More info here:http://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-say-intels-management-engine-feature-can-be-switched-off/
And here:https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

Much of the attention over the last month may have been around Apple's new iPhones. But Samsung recently launched a beast of a flagship smartphone that goes head to head with the best from Apple. After a couple of weeks trying it out, here's how we found the Galaxy Note 8.

As 2017 draws to a close, it's a good time to take stock of the current state of the smartphone market by examining the vital statistics of leading vendors' flagship handsets. Apple's iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, Samsung's Galaxy S8/S8+ and Galaxy Note 8. . .

Samsung Electronics said Thursday it was planning to launch in the second half of this year a new flagship phone, leading to speculation that the company is planning an alternative to the ill-fated Galaxy Note7 that had to be recalled last year.

The launch of a new flagship smartphone this year and continuing sales of the Galaxy S8 and S8+ will help Samsung counter Apple’s launch of a new version of its iPhone. Apple usually unveils new phones in September.

Samsung does announce a S series phone in the first half of the year and a Note series in the second half," said Kiranjeet Kaur, research manager for client devices at IDC Asia/Pacific.

Samsung makes 2 flagship phones a year whereas Apple only release one. It's been this way for years. Unfortunately for Samsung last year's Note 7 was problematic.

Re: "hot bag" syndrome AC
"Keep your laptop from waking up in your travel bag" (Dec 21, 2016)
http://www.zdnet.com/article/w...

Linux is fully open source and highly customizable, with default permissions hardened (the user is not in an admin state without using the sudo command) and most software also open source and coming from trusted repositories.

Equifax blames open-source software for its record-breaking security breach.

It doesn't matter what software you use, you need to actually have both the ability and the incentive to use it correctly. Otherwise, you're going to and up with crap whether it's Windows, Linux, OS X, or AmigaDOS.

In 2003, Walmart announced plans to RFID tag everything in the store and track it to the shelf it was on 24/7. So, I'll believe it when I see it.

• Supply Chain Comment: Did Walmart's Failed Case Tagging Program Set RFID Back or Move it Forward?
• Did Wal-Mart love RFID to death?

Aryeh Goretsky/ESET/NOD32: hosts = good security http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7442373&cid=49747129/

Oliver Day (SYMANTEC/SECURITYFOCUS) http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/491/ "Host file accessing the Internet - particularly browsing the Web - is actually faster... Spybot Search & Destroy offer lists of known malicious servers to add a layer of defense against trojans & other forms of malware"

OReilly hosts security -> http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/30/hosts.html/ & hosts speed -> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/winxphacks_chap1/index1.html?page=3/

Steve Gibson endorses hosts https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-045.htm/

Brocke Wilders of WILDERS' SECURITY does inferior clone of MY work http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/hosts-block.378901/

ZD NET "How to use a Hosts file to improve your internet experience" http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-a-hosts-file-to-improve-your-internet-experience/

APK

P.S.=> Want more? Ask... apk

Thus why Google started encrypting their DC-to-DC traffic four years ago. Microsoft is also doing the same. I would assume Amazon does the same, although I can't quickly find any article which they claim this.

Yeah, I know, DFTT

> People use closed source software knowing full well that the product may be discontinued, or it may go unmaintained at some point. The risks are well known and understood.

The software being open or closed is irrelevant to the discussion.

> All we need to do is look at GitHub, SourceForge, or Apache to see that most open source projects do in fact end up dead. Of course, open source advocates don't admit to this.

[[Citation]]

The _difference_ is when Vendor A goes out of business you are _completely_ fucked for future updates. Good lucking fixing bugs in a closed source program.

When an OSS project stops being maintained the source is _still_ there. You have the _option_ of hiring a competent programmer to fix bugs in it -- with closed source there is no option.

The _real_ problem is that you picked an OSS project that wasn't popular enough. What The Fuck were you doing when you _evaluated_ the software in the first place??? The _first_ thing you do when picking ANY software from a business POV regardless if it is closed, or open, is to evaluate:

a) the _community,_
b) _support_, and
c) a BACKUP plan. That is, what was your _migration strategy_ for WHEN "this software is no longer available?" What's that? You didn't _think_ of THAT scenario? Blaming OSS for your own short-sighted stupidity is a moronic attempt at trying to pass the buck for your incompetence.

> myth is probably that open source software is somehow "better".
> Open source products are just as buggy as closed source software products are.

As opposed to the FACTs that closed source is buggy-as-shit ???

In fact, the most recent report (2013) found open source software written in C and C++ to have a lower defect density than proprietary code. The average defect density across projects of all sizes was 0.59 for open source, and 0.72 for proprietary software.

It is hard the get an accurate bug count with closed source because closed source is too embarrassed to tell the truth but here are some stats:

* Windows 2000 had 63,000 bugs,
* Windows 7 had 2,000 bugs,
* Windows 10 1,300 bugs

No one pretends OSS is some silver bullet. But it has numerous advantages that closed source will NEVER have (by definition.) Every disadvantage that OSS has is _also_ the exact same closed source.

You can't put a price on freedom.

Mod parent -1 troll.

Yeah, I know, DFTT

> People use closed source software knowing full well that the product may be discontinued, or it may go unmaintained at some point. The risks are well known and understood.

The software being open or closed is irrelevant to the discussion.

> All we need to do is look at GitHub, SourceForge, or Apache to see that most open source projects do in fact end up dead. Of course, open source advocates don't admit to this.

[[Citation]]

The _difference_ is when Vendor A goes out of business you are _completely_ fucked for future updates. Good lucking fixing bugs in a closed source program.

When an OSS project stops being maintained the source is _still_ there. You have the _option_ of hiring a competent programmer to fix bugs in it -- with closed source there is no option.

The _real_ problem is that you picked an OSS project that wasn't popular enough. What The Fuck were you doing when you _evaluated_ the software in the first place??? The _first_ thing you do when picking ANY software from a business POV regardless if it is closed, or open, is to evaluate:

a) the _community,_
b) _support_, and
c) a BACKUP plan. That is, what was your _migration strategy_ for WHEN "this software is no longer available?" What's that? You didn't _think_ of THAT scenario? Blaming OSS for your own short-sighted stupidity is a moronic attempt at trying to pass the buck for your incompetence.

> myth is probably that open source software is somehow "better".
> Open source products are just as buggy as closed source software products are.

As opposed to the FACTs that closed source is buggy-as-shit ???

In fact, the most recent report (2013) found open source software written in C and C++ to have a lower defect density than proprietary code. The average defect density across projects of all sizes was 0.59 for open source, and 0.72 for proprietary software.

It is hard the get an accurate bug count with closed source because closed source is too embarrassed to tell the truth but here are some stats:

* Windows 2000 had 63,000 bugs,
* Windows 7 had 2,000 bugs,
* Windows 10 1,300 bugs

No one pretends OSS is some silver bullet. But it has numerous advantages that closed source will NEVER have (by definition.) Every disadvantage that OSS has is _also_ the exact same closed source.

You can't put a price on freedom.

Mod parent -1 troll.

Any why should it? Are you accessing or supplying anything that's top secret?

P.S. The user authentication page does submit the user credentials via HTTPS: https://secure.zdnet.com/user/...

I don't even think this is a "Microsoft bribe" situation. If you do a quick search about the Accenture report you'll see that the whole thing is a n-ring circus. They didn't simply switch to Linux, they decided to centralize IT at the same time.

IT centralization is always a fuckfest, and now of course they blame Linux for that.

Peter Ganten, a board member of the Open Source Business Alliance, told ZDNet that the organizational problems date back to around 2003, when Munich took the decision to switch to Linux. In parallel with that migration, the council also tried to centralize its IT support structure, getting rid of a system where each department had its own IT team.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...

Switching back to Microsoft won't solve this problem, unless they go full cloud with something like Office 365 which would take a big chunk of the infrastructure away from the hands of those incompetents.

Plenty of people have mentioned the Raspberry Pi and Arduino...plenty of options in the $25 - $100 range.

This poster agrees with them, but what about those that do NOT want to build hardware, they just want to explore Linux and software....this post is for you. Read on, and note, while the starting prices of their hardware starts out low, by the time you max it out with memory, disk drives, power supplies, better Graphics cards, multiple other stuff, the price will rise. In other words, do not expect this hardware to be the cheapest, just know that it will work with an distro of Linux out of the box, period! And to be honest, they are often not much more when configured similar to what you have in the big box store...just let them know which Distro of Linux you want on it, and they will configure it for you. You spend your time learning Linux, not messing with hardware and device drivers.

ZaReason is your Answer!

ZaReason has been active in the open source community since their founding days and all of their hardware is built with open source in mind. No UEFI BS chips on any of their hardware. No need to purchase a Windows OS in order to wipe Windows and install a Linux Distro.

UEFI, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface was forced on Vendors by Microsoft a long time ago. Originally they use to say it would make your computer more secure, however when you consider that the exploits it was protecting your computer against required someone to have the keys to your home, be inside, with your Linux password in order to use those exploits, well UEFI is a waste of time and is just more Vendor Lock-In by Microsoft.

First encountered the ZaReason owners at SCaLE in Los Angeles / Pasadena, California, when it was held at the hotels near LAX, now they hold it in Pasadena. If you are into Open source and have not been to SCaLE you should check it out. The things you can learn about, often from the creator is great, especially for the price. Recommend you book a room a head and stay in the hotel where the conference is hosted...but I digress.

Most of ZaReason's hardware starts in the $400 - $600 dollar range, but will quickly go up when you start adding their current maximum memory (32GB RAM) and if you add 6TB hard drives, etc.... When Windows refused to allow their Operating System to address above 16GB of RAM memory, ZaReason was putting laptops together with that amount of RAM and it was all usable. One of their laptop models had the largest screen on the market at the time, 16.3 (Bright, anti-glare 17.3" LED backlit display @ 1920x1080 pixels) versus 15" from other manufacturers.

Want to create a TV wall on a 65" or larger TV in your house, Linux will let you do it, there is software that has to be configured / built in with the kernel that will let you control the processors independently of each other, say let your 2 cores control one screen, another core control another, two other cores control yet another screen, etc... and divide your 65" TV into a TV Wall of say 3 X 3 or 4 X 4 monitors. Let the internet stream music on one screen, news on a couple of others, weather on another, you can program on four of the others and show social media on yet other screens of your TV Wall....I plan to do this in the next couple of years...software was available back in 2010 or before.

Boy will I cut the cord....can't wait and will never look back...if only I had Google Fiber in my area!

Full disclosure, I do not work at the company, but have purchased two laptops, a desktop/ser

Exactly. Both Russia and China have demanded -- and gotten -- source code reviews of code from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, and SAP. This is, and has been, standard practice for over a decade.

This isn't news, it is sensationalist headline clickbait.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/23/tech-firms-including-cisco-ibm-and-sap-allow-russian-authorities-to-review-product-source-code/ (2017)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-secret-service/ (2010)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2581562/security0/china-next-to-get-access-to-microsoft-source-code.html (2003)

Maybe he's talking about in the UK specifically, or maybe his definition of a category one cyber-attack is different from my own (confession - I didn't RTFA to find out how cyber attacks are classified!) But if you want to talk about major acts of sabotage perpetuated through "cyber" - http://www.zdnet.com/article/u... Also, that whole Stuxnet thing

Elon through a tantrum

Is he channeling his inner Steve Jobs? Jobs did the same thing to ATI when they screwed up and leaked specs of unreleased Macs.

50 percent of internet users have paid for licensed music in the last six months

Yes, I've done that.

None of it has been "pay to hear it once, then pay to hear it again, and the time after that". I've bought non-DRM files outright. I can move them to any device I own, content-shift them as my heart desires, back them up, and bring them forward to future hardware or whatever the next format-of-the-moment turns out to be.

And they're cheap to purchase outright. Some has also been creative-commons licensed which technically I don't have to pay for, but I do if I like it, to support the artist.

But then I'm pushing 5 times the age of TFS's indicated demographic, and maybe I don't get the appeal it holds for kids these days to not own things, be they games, music, software, , and generally anything that answers to someone who is not you.

That it has a dedicated button is reasonably insane. At least they graciously allow you to disable it now, but then you have a worthless button.

Apparently the upcoming Google Pixel has an active edge feature that brings up the Google Assistant when you squeeze the phone. Assuming the active edge isn't remappable, does the same argument apply?

My FOSS days started in 1995 with FreeBSD, and then in 1996 with Linux (Slackware Unleashed, I forget the Version) in the University, then I was a firm proponent on the server side... I've been hearing about the linux desktop for a loooong time...

But, that was 22 years ago. Nowadays, in a production desktop, I have some requirements, which are quite different from the requirements on a Phone, or a Kiosk, or a retail point, or a computer for Kids/Schools:

* I want the power of an OpenSource Unix (Darwin) under the Hood, wrapped in a slick GUI (sadly, propiertary) that makes my workflow Easier and does not change all of the sudden (BTW, Ubuntians, how's the Transition from MIR/Unity to Wayland GNOME going?).

* Also, is nice if the Hardware in which that software resides is well built, and all the drivers play nice (granted, thanks to things like Dell's project MIR, this is easier nowadays with Linux too). I have stuff to do. Playing decetvive with drivers and libraries was entertaining in 2002 (last time I did that). Nowadays, not so much, quite the contrary, very, very frustrating!!!

* Also, I want commonly used productivity Software available, no matter if it is FOSS or Closed. The dektop/laptop is a TOOL for Production, I want to use the most suitable tools to do my work. For instance, when I was teaching at the university, I did Everything using LibreOffice (for MAC). When I started doing technical training for Telco OpenStack Cloud (Huawei's Flavour) and Hadoop/Spark/Storm (Nokia's CEMoD 16), I pretty much had to use Office. otherwise, the powerpoints would loose all formatting, and it would take ages to fix that (and no one paid me to fix it), Macros in the Excel report sheets would be borked. Also, many iLO/IPIMI/Javascript crap would not work on Linux... You get the drift.

* But, from time to time I have to unwind. I want the available games in steam for my machine to cont in the Thousands, not in the hundreds...

* Speaking of telco clouds: What do you think those clouds used? If you guessed KVM, Redhat, CentOS, SuSE, Apache, Puppet, MariaDB, Postgres, yarn, etc, you are right, come collect your prize. The requirements for servers are different than from desktop, which in turn are different from cellphones, which in turn are different from kids/school computers, which in turn are different from ... you get the idea!!!

Now, these are the reasons why he did it. Having said that, the irony does not escape me that, he being a top dog in a linux company, he should "Eat his own dog food". Even microsoft eats their own dog food.

But, this being The Linux Foundation, and not The GNU/Linux foundation, or the FOSS foundation: how much of FOSS is "his own dog food". Certainly the linux kernel is. But neither X-free86 nor Wayland seems to be part of his dog food. Nor are KDE/GNOME/Enligthment/all other window environments out there. Is Pulseaudio/ALSA part of his dog food? What about security practices like demanding the root PW for changing the timezone or adding a printer from school? So, If the guy used a MAC with OSX instead of linux, can you blame him? perhaps a little bit, yes. If he also used PowerPoint or Keynote instead of LibreOffice, can you blame him? In my oppinion, no way!!!!

Do not believe me, well, perhaps this guy who was using a macbook on 2012 (with linux), that does not like GNOME 3 and maybe, just maybe, knows a thing or two about linux (certainly he knows more about linux than me and you), can enlighten you all, even more than I can, on why some people preffer MACs to Linux and WinPCs. Please read his rant on the link...

http://www.zdnet.com/article/l...

• Microsoft patched it in Windows back in July (Windows Phone was not affected, if you're one of the handful of people still using it).
• Apple has fixed it in iOS version 10, but is not patching older version of iOS (they want you to update to version 10).
• Google is patching all versions of Android from version 4.4.4 (Kit Kat) and newer. But whether manufacturers and carriers will pass on those patches to end-user devices remains to be seen.
• Samsung declined to comment.

Nope, it was ATI.

I found this email I got interesting - it points to some things about the Equifax breach.

---Email-----

Based upon the tremendous amount of publicity surrounding the recent data breach at Equifax, as stewards of the Central Repository we felt it was important to share our perspective on the matter:

Apache Struts: Apache Struts is a popular open-source and free Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework for Java. It is developed and maintained by an active and highly responsible community of volunteer contributors. The Apache Struts project has a long and well documented history of securing, hardening, and maintaining the software that it produces.

Struts Vulnerabilities: Last week the Apache Struts project team disclosed to the world two different critical vulnerabilities in Struts2 that would expose applications to remote execution of code and enable direct access to customer-critical data. In both cases, and in keeping with their long standing practice, the Apache Struts team made fixes available prior to publicly disclosing the vulnerabilities.

Equifax Breach Disclosed: Separately, Equifax announced last week that it had suffered a massive security breach that exposed sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers and addresses, of up to 143 million Americans. Equifax said the breach happened between mid-May and July 2017. It discovered the hack on July 29. It informed the public on September 7, and reports suggest that a security vulnerability in Apache Struts was the cause of the breach.
At Sonatype, we don't pretend to know for certain what happened at Equifax. We do know that Apache Struts has a tremendous track record for finding security vulnerabilities and making fixes available in a timely manner. Organizations such as Equifax who leverage open source to accelerate innovation are themselves responsible for practicing appropriate hygiene in a timely manner when fixes for vulnerabilities are made available. For far too long, businesses have relied on network-based cybersecurity tools to defend the perimeter of the organization. Recent events at Equifax serve as a stark reminder that perimeter defenses by themselves are insufficient to protect critical data when in fact hackers are increasingly attacking vulnerabilities that exist in the application layer. 80% to 90% of every modern application consists of open source components. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary risk, organizations MUST automatically and continuously govern the quality of open source components and third-party libraries within their software supply chains. To ignore this problem anymore is simply negligent.
Sincerely,
Team Sonatype

I hope you don't run any other Linux distribution
https://techcrunch.com/2016/11...

Even 6 years ago:

Cats and dogs; apples and oranges; Linux and Microsoft. Two of these three things do not go together. Would you believe that Microsoft—yes Microsoft—was the fifth largest contributor to the soon to be released Linux 3.0 kernel? Believe it.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/t...

Save lives, kill privacy

Exactly. Apple is consistent in preferring privacy — to a fault, such as when it chose the privacy of a dead terrorist over the potential for saving lives.

But the masses' reaction to that depends on the spin, and it is amusing to watch the crowd — even the /. crowd — flip-flop at the hands of the opinion-manipulators...

If only Apple were as heroic in other countries...

The graphic in this article shows the why nicely - http://www.zdnet.com/article/f...

with Wisconsin after this. http://www.zdnet.com/article/judge-orders-apple-to-pay-506m-to-university-for-patent-infringement/
Its a well know fact how apple holds a grudge when they get caught breaking the law. They will probably black-list the entire state.

Most of what we need the internet for is being replaced and overshadowed by graphic-heavy bells & whistles. We could use the internet safely if we applied a more minimalist approach to design and if we standardized video or dynamic UI for the internet better than we are now.

Ethics watchdogs need to step up and start really trying hard to break the current push for more javascript.

The web browser should display a page that can be interacted with effectively and efficiently, without all the added bells & whistles, because those bells & whistles are often introduced to create security vectors for black hatters.

Most people using the internet have limited safety understanding. Flash is one of those platforms that can seriously harm a computer if the Flash object is designed as malware. Couple this with the loose security in users still using IE that often utilizes ActiveX and the results are predictably negative.

MSFT can try as much as they want but I'll never trust them very much and everything they release has to be combed through by teams of 3rd party security experts in order to protect their clients.

Again, using Firefox & Noscript, coupled with a given user's paranoia, will prevent most malware type issues.

Microsoft is just depreciating a legacy version. it's new Paint 3D will be available in the appstore and will have all the basic 2d functions of old mixed with basic modeling.

Relax. Microsoft is just depreciating an older version. The new Paint is called Paint 3d and will be available in the appstore for free.

And some other sources reporting the story:
the hill http://thehill.com/policy/nati...
zdnet http://www.zdnet.com/article/u...
Yahoo https://finance.yahoo.com/news...

There's little chance this will not be extended to cover domestic air travel as well. That's how these things always go.

Related: Homeland Security says Americans who don't want faces scanned leaving the country "shouldn't travel"

Yes, you are in public, but there is a qualitative difference between randomly noticing someone's face in a public place, and a systemic collection of everyone's biometric data in a single central government database.

It's a widely propagated myth by Linux evangelists, but in fact, all stats show that Linux kernel is far more vulnerable and unsecure as compared to Windows, including various Windows components/services (but excluding software like Internet Exploder). If you include software (such as IE) which is hardly used, then sure, Windows might come to more vulnerabilities.

And what's more, Microsoft patch vulnerabilities far faster (within a couple of month), compared to Linux, which may take up to 2 years before releasing a patch.

I don't mean to rub it in, but it's quite remarkable that if we only count the Linux KERNEL (not including any of the distro's and other Linux OS components) between 2009 and 2017, had 1402 vulnerabilities; while Windows 7 (inc all components) had 792 vulnerabilities - i.e. 77% more vulnerabilities in Linux kernel compared to the entire Win7 OS!

You're going to love this: quote PM Trumble: "The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that," he said on Friday. "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia." zdnet.com. Everyone's been having a field day since that corker.

Re "No backdoors" is a nice way of saying any government gets a copy of all the crypto keys.
A US brand then has to "respect" a Communist court and hand over any and all information.
SJW or a Communist Party official finds a comment about the real history of a Communist Party leader? Thats going to get reported and the user found.

The "No backdoors" is getting traction in the free West too.
It keeps encryption that protects the message but allows the gov and SJW to see every message a user sends or gets.
Encryption is still a selling point, its just the brand, gov and both users have a access to all devices and content.
"Austria wants to spy on messaging apps" (July 11, 2017)
http://www.zdnet.com/article/a...
".. would be to install monitoring software on computers and mobile devices of suspects using messaging tools with end-to-end encryption"