Ubuntu isnt the only linux distribution. You can suggest a lot of ubuntu compatible ones (if you want i.e. the same packages or repositories) like Mint, or go to other easy distributions like opensuse, mageia or fedora. Or even make your own distribution for your friends using ubuntu builder or suse studio if don't like any of the options.
Don't particulary hate Unity neither, but as is simple is good for a first contact while getting used to the main apps, and if asking for something better pointing that the app installer also have alternative desktops to try.
As hard as installing other desktops environments. Installing gnome 3 was just that, and had it enabled at the login as option. For KDE wanted to try the 4.10, so had to search how to enable the repository to install that version that was newer than the distribution. Mate, Cinnamon are already available or installing them is just enabling a new repository for doing so. No, is not like getting clippy dancing around there asking if you want another desktop environment as soon you login, but is not that hard neither.
Seem that there is absolutely no problem on using drones in the rest of the world. US should have more right to use it in their soil than doing it anywhere else.
That you use ubuntu don't mean that you must use Unity. You can complain all you want about the only possible desktop environment in windows or mac, but in linux you have plenty of options.
Our "software" have a lot of vulnerabilities that are hard to be aware of at all times. If i tell you that a coin have 50% odds of heads or tails, and tell you that the last 10 tries were heads, wouldnt you think that it will be almost sure than next try will have far more than 50% of odds in one direction or another? Even being aware of the fallacy that is behind?
If you aren't sending generic mails, but something tailored for the recipient (and in particular, the weakest link between the possible ones) this gets worse. Phishing has gotten very good
Is hard to teach common sense. Is easy with enough internal information (usually kindly provided by you in social networks) to trick someone onto opening an email, an attachment, a java applet, or visit a "safe" website (that could be a hacked real one, even a government one, with "extra" content targetted at you).
Unless the email have a pdf attachment with a good enough name and you open it with Acrobat. Or a link to a website related with your company or from the government (if anonymous could hack the doj website, other can do it too, maybe in a not so obvious way), and get injected with a malicious java program (and you know the record of recent java 0day exploits, no matter which is your OS). You are far safer in Linux, but is no guarantee.
Also, if we are talking about social engineering an IT department mail ordering you to apply some updates from a repository for new security measures or functionality you asked for in some moment is a good way to get root or at least run programs with your user, the vulnerability there is not the mail client but the mail user.
I know my english is not good, but try to read it again. Choosing good cop over bad cop, but choosing cop anyway, is the same wrong reasoning in both cases. You can choose another ISP, you could had voted for an alternative or express your opinion for no alternative, or just go elsewhere. But in both cases, if you choose punishment, ok, respect the consequences of that choice.
I sell you this dumb phone at $1000, and tell you that at retail is selling at 5000, would you buy it? Putting that your only choices are punishment and strong punishment means that you take out of your mind that you couldn't be doing anything wrong. So you have to accept the lesser evil because could be a worse one, instead of considering that should not be any or that are more alternatives.
But probably is ok in US, after all they choose Obama instead of Romney because the very same reasoning, so they explicitely wanted all that is coming after, including this.
Surely they will do the same as with Kim Dot Com, they ordered him to not delete some files they put and then got jailed for storing those files. If google spying is "fbi ordered us to keep track of this" and then condemned for doing so, which one is the criminal?
Depend if your definition of wrong matches with the one of the government or their representatives or what they want the public to believe, you know, there are examples.
The voices that tried to warn were shut down by the government (i.e. threatening with 30 years of jail for something that should not be a crime) of as a warning for everyone else. Anyway, mass/media control is in order, is not just advertisers the ones that can make people in numbers do or not do things in subtle ways. Even here you can see what happen with people trying to raise awareness.
Even unicellular life will make a difference. Still most people things that Earth is the center of the univese, and that the rest is just background to make the sky less boring at night.
If they are doing it for that reason, why not ban all works from authors, musicians, scientists, etc that had some in some moment a belief or attitude that goes against current stablishment? Even the Bible would be banned that way.
Email MUST not have an illusion of privacy. SMTP travels unencrypted between mail servers, and probably is stored and scanned by keywords by your truly US government security agencies just in case you do a bad taste joke, so forget about it if you send a mail that touches the US internet backbone, no matter where you have hosted your mail. That google or even microsoft could so statistical targetting of ads based on mailbox contents or recent mails that passed thru their smtp servers is small cookies compared with that.
That Google is somewhat public on what they do, and Microsoft is public in what they think Google does (but don't say a word about what they do), is not a guarantee that they are behaving right or wrong, but in the big picture there are far more players to worry about.
The "stuff that matters" is that Americans elected that kind of people to make laws based on his knowledge. Don't worry, probably have more clue than the rest.
You mean that already the percent of linux users that is subscribed to steam is the same as windows users subscribed to steam? For something that was out for a couple of months, only works for some new distributions, is closed source and commercial? Those are 2 different communities, numbers must be pretty different.
That linux already got 2.2% is a strong signal that the "single-digit market share" is a stupid measure, as usually linux is not sold in the market, just downloaded and installed in as much computers you want.
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is called Ingress.
Unless they meant killer in another context, an augumented reality FPS should work too.
Ubuntu isnt the only linux distribution. You can suggest a lot of ubuntu compatible ones (if you want i.e. the same packages or repositories) like Mint, or go to other easy distributions like opensuse, mageia or fedora. Or even make your own distribution for your friends using ubuntu builder or suse studio if don't like any of the options.
Don't particulary hate Unity neither, but as is simple is good for a first contact while getting used to the main apps, and if asking for something better pointing that the app installer also have alternative desktops to try.
As hard as installing other desktops environments. Installing gnome 3 was just that, and had it enabled at the login as option. For KDE wanted to try the 4.10, so had to search how to enable the repository to install that version that was newer than the distribution. Mate, Cinnamon are already available or installing them is just enabling a new repository for doing so. No, is not like getting clippy dancing around there asking if you want another desktop environment as soon you login, but is not that hard neither.
Seem that there is absolutely no problem on using drones in the rest of the world. US should have more right to use it in their soil than doing it anywhere else.
That you use ubuntu don't mean that you must use Unity. You can complain all you want about the only possible desktop environment in windows or mac, but in linux you have plenty of options.
If you aren't sending generic mails, but something tailored for the recipient (and in particular, the weakest link between the possible ones) this gets worse. Phishing has gotten very good
Is hard to teach common sense. Is easy with enough internal information (usually kindly provided by you in social networks) to trick someone onto opening an email, an attachment, a java applet, or visit a "safe" website (that could be a hacked real one, even a government one, with "extra" content targetted at you).
Unless the email have a pdf attachment with a good enough name and you open it with Acrobat. Or a link to a website related with your company or from the government (if anonymous could hack the doj website, other can do it too, maybe in a not so obvious way), and get injected with a malicious java program (and you know the record of recent java 0day exploits, no matter which is your OS). You are far safer in Linux, but is no guarantee. Also, if we are talking about social engineering an IT department mail ordering you to apply some updates from a repository for new security measures or functionality you asked for in some moment is a good way to get root or at least run programs with your user, the vulnerability there is not the mail client but the mail user.
They should move to Antigua. Even will be approved by the WTO.
I know my english is not good, but try to read it again. Choosing good cop over bad cop, but choosing cop anyway, is the same wrong reasoning in both cases. You can choose another ISP, you could had voted for an alternative or express your opinion for no alternative, or just go elsewhere. But in both cases, if you choose punishment, ok, respect the consequences of that choice.
I sell you this dumb phone at $1000, and tell you that at retail is selling at 5000, would you buy it? Putting that your only choices are punishment and strong punishment means that you take out of your mind that you couldn't be doing anything wrong. So you have to accept the lesser evil because could be a worse one, instead of considering that should not be any or that are more alternatives.
But probably is ok in US, after all they choose Obama instead of Romney because the very same reasoning, so they explicitely wanted all that is coming after, including this.
There is no law protecting them, so fbi/cia/whatever could ask their records too. why not release those numbers too?
Surely they will do the same as with Kim Dot Com, they ordered him to not delete some files they put and then got jailed for storing those files. If google spying is "fbi ordered us to keep track of this" and then condemned for doing so, which one is the criminal?
Depend if your definition of wrong matches with the one of the government or their representatives or what they want the public to believe, you know, there are examples.
The voices that tried to warn were shut down by the government (i.e. threatening with 30 years of jail for something that should not be a crime) of as a warning for everyone else. Anyway, mass/media control is in order, is not just advertisers the ones that can make people in numbers do or not do things in subtle ways. Even here you can see what happen with people trying to raise awareness.
Even unicellular life will make a difference. Still most people things that Earth is the center of the univese, and that the rest is just background to make the sky less boring at night.
Streetlight effect anyone? Leaving it for later don't mean that then we will be able to do it, we could be in the same situation as today or worse.
Yes, the main difference is that the odds of intelligent life in USA are pretty low.
If they are doing it for that reason, why not ban all works from authors, musicians, scientists, etc that had some in some moment a belief or attitude that goes against current stablishment? Even the Bible would be banned that way.
Email MUST not have an illusion of privacy. SMTP travels unencrypted between mail servers, and probably is stored and scanned by keywords by your truly US government security agencies just in case you do a bad taste joke, so forget about it if you send a mail that touches the US internet backbone, no matter where you have hosted your mail. That google or even microsoft could so statistical targetting of ads based on mailbox contents or recent mails that passed thru their smtp servers is small cookies compared with that.
That Google is somewhat public on what they do, and Microsoft is public in what they think Google does (but don't say a word about what they do), is not a guarantee that they are behaving right or wrong, but in the big picture there are far more players to worry about.
The "stuff that matters" is that Americans elected that kind of people to make laws based on his knowledge. Don't worry, probably have more clue than the rest.
Better go with a bang. If that supervolcano decides to explode life will suck in most of the world anyway.
You mean that already the percent of linux users that is subscribed to steam is the same as windows users subscribed to steam? For something that was out for a couple of months, only works for some new distributions, is closed source and commercial? Those are 2 different communities, numbers must be pretty different.
That linux already got 2.2% is a strong signal that the "single-digit market share" is a stupid measure, as usually linux is not sold in the market, just downloaded and installed in as much computers you want.
They should had realigned the dilithium crystals, that would had been an easier fix.
They have no concern on killing people, so killing the language was just collateral damage.