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RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu
An anonymous reader writes "In a post at the Free Software Foundation website, Richard Stallman has spoken out against Ubuntu because of Canonical's decision to integrate Amazon search results in the distribution's Dash search. He says, 'Ubuntu, a widely used and influential GNU/Linux distribution, has installed surveillance code. When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers. (Canonical is the company that develops Ubuntu.) This is just like the first surveillance practice I learned about in Windows. ... What's at stake is whether our community can effectively use the argument based on proprietary spyware. If we can only say, "free software won't spy on you, unless it's Ubuntu," that's much less powerful than saying, "free software won't spy on you." It behooves us to give Canonical whatever rebuff is needed to make it stop this. ... If you ever recommend or redistribute GNU/Linux, please remove Ubuntu from the distros you recommend or redistribute.'"
Mod this up. Rarely is there a response in first post that makes a shred of sense.
Get T2 drones, Hammerhead IIs are awesome.
I personally used an Ishtar droneboat with Sentries, they were tanking for me and I usually didn't even have to move. Awesome.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
You don't even need to tank with a Raven while doing missions, you spew long range missiles at rats from 100+ km away, all you need to do is know when to interrupt cycles so that you don't waste missiles on dead rats (hint: you might have as many as 3 salvos in space already when rat dies, so they go to waste).
Golem works best, unfortunately you have to train a LOT to get to fly one.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
I recently purchased a ssd for my Ubuntu computer. I searched for a means to copy my hard drive to the ssd. The results I got was a hardware device to copy one drive to another. I was looking for a software solution so I gave up and installed a new copy of Ubuntu to the ssd and reinstalled all of my programs. It took me hours to accomplish since I had to download Ubuntu and all of the upgrades and all of my programs. I now have a terabyte hard driven that will probably never be used since I doubt that the ssd will ever be filled. I do not know if Ubuntu is smart enough to store a lengthly file such as a movie on the hard drive rather than the ssd.