I'll go one further: have it run off of a Live USB that's mounted inside the box where the users can't get at it and no persistent storage. That way, even they leave personal data behind, it goes away at reboot. Not only that, but if you set it up in kiosk mode, with Firefox opening at boot, they'll never even know they're using Linux.
If you think that this is new, watch the 1941 cartoon, The Henpecked Duck. Daffy Duck can only avoid being hit over the head repeatedly with his wife's umbrella by mindlessly responding, "Yes, my love." to everything she says.
I haven't used Windows for over a decade, now, running a strictly Linux household, so I'm in no position to judge the relative merits of different versions of Windows. I understand that some people have to use Windows 10 at work, because their company mandates it, or in a home office because they need to use software that insists on it. However, what, if anything, is so great about Windows 10 that would make you prefer it over any other version of Windows if you're able to decide for yourself which version to install?
Using multiple VMs with different distros won't help a bit here, because when you come right down to it, they're all using the same hardware, and that's what this is exploiting. Now, if you had multiple graphics cards and let different distros use different cards, that might throw them off.
No, Asimov never set out to prove that his three laws are worthless. He did, however, write many stories showing under the right circumstances those laws could interact in unexpected ways causing problems that only a human could solve. One of the best examples is the story Runaround, where a robot is confused by a conflict between the Second and Third Laws, and is only brought back under control by use of the First Law to override the other two.
You can probably reduce the stress in the workers monitoring the porn by giving them two extra breaks to work off some of the physical tension their work leads to and a private fapping room so that other workers don't have to watch them. It probably won't help much with those watching the violent videos, but then again, we all know about people who get turned on by that.
I wasn't trying to suggest that the damage was, or was likely to get as bad as those battlefields. I just wanted to remind people that the damage adds up over time and gave the most extreme example I knew of. I've been at Ground Zero in Nagasaki, and it's safer there than in the Zone Rouge because the radiation level has dropped so much over the years.
The Army knows from history just how badly the environment can be devastated by combat, or in this case by being used as a training range. Small parts of northern France have been sealed off since the end of WWI as the Zone Rouge both because of the huge quantity of unexploded ordinance and the amount of other toxic materials in the ground, and it may take up to 700 more years before some parts become safe to use. In fact, there are two small pieces of ground where soil samples are up to 17% arsenic, and 99% of all plants that sprout there die. They're trying to find a way to prevent creating more dead zones by using practice ammo that's not made of toxic materials, and I think that's a Good Thing.
There's a lot of people out there on a metered connection, or who have to pay extra if their downloads exceed a specified cap. I can't imagine a plan like that having enough bandwidth per month to cover a 53 GB download without extra cost. What I'd like to know is, who's getting stuck with the bill? Are the customers going to have to fork out or is Playground Games going to Do The Right Thing and cover the expense?
What I'd like to know is what percentage of the machines running Windows 10 were stealth upgrades, and how many of those weren't reverted because the users either didn't know that they could go back to their old system or were afraid to try.
Simply saying "too much work" over and over doesn't answer my question. However, having to share files with 900 other users who don't use Scribus is a good reason on its own.
Too much work to get anything done, too much of a learning curve, too many habits to change, or what? I've been using it for years for newsletters and flyers, and if there are problems with it, I'd be glad to pass them on to the devs. After all, it's still a work in progress, and they can always use constructive feedback.
I take it, then, that you've never looked at Scribus a cross-platform, FOSS page layout program that's being used by professionals to create newsletters, periodicals and books. And, if you're having trouble with it, there's an active and helpful mailing list full of people ready to advise you. Check it out; you might just be surprised by how good it is.
Sometimes a flash drive is easier, especially if the data's going to be used on somebody's computer down at headquarters. What works best depends on circumstances.
...you're asked the insulting question, "What issue were you trying to resolve by updating the firmware?"
I spent over seven years doing tech support for an ISP. We didn't have to worry about firmware upgrades, because that was something to be discussed with the OEM, not us. However, if I did, that question would have been routine, because our first step would have to be to restore the status quo ante, and if you were having trouble before, I might have to take it into account in rolling things back. Being told that there wasn't anything wrong before would actually make my job easier because whatever instruction set (or cheat sheet) I'd be using would have been written by somebody who assumed that the device was working correctly before and I wouldn't have to make any adjustments to the procedure.
If you're setting up a full-sized home office in its own building, why are you limiting yourself to a laptop? Set yourself up with a proper desktop computer with a nice, big monitor, good speakers and as much RAM and disk space as you want. If you need to take things into your company's offices, you can always either use a flash drive or transfer what you need to your laptop, but if you're going to this much expense, there's no reason to pinch pennies here. And, while I'm thinking of it, put in a good floor safe; not just for added security, but to protect your records in case of fire or flood.
They're a watchdog group. Their whole reason for existence is to spot things like this and call attention to them, even if there isn't really a problem. I'm not saying that they're making this up, but I'd take any claims like this with a grain of salt until there's some outside confirmation.
Granted, I'm a slashdotter and I didn't RTFA, but TFS was enough to tell me that this is just another way for liberal crybabies and poor sports to blame somebody other than their candidate.
If Steam and gaming are a major part of what you do with your computer, you're right. If you're using it for work, that doesn't matter. And, if for some reason you need access to the latest versions of various libraries, or want to help test the latest and greatest versions of various projects, you're better off with Fedora. It all depends on what you're looking for.
Think of all the things a normal fourteen-year-old girl has to look forward to. Now, think of what this girl's future held: death. Knowing that her body would be frozen and that she might come back some day gave her hope, and maybe made her fate easier to accept. It doesn't really matter that we can't bring her back now, or that we may never be able to; don't you all think that she knew it? All that matters is that it allowed her to end her life in hope instead of dispair, and what we think about her chances doesn't matter in the least.
You can disable it. The original factory-installed version will still be sitting on your read-only data partition, but Android will act as if it doesn't exist.
Live and learn. Thank you. Of course, if you do disable it, Android uninstalls any and all updates for it, meaning that if you ever change your mind, the updates need to be downloaded and installed again. With luck, that will be one, big cumulative update, instead of having to do them all, one after the other.
The one and only reason that Google can claim this is because every Android device comes with Chrome installed and you can't remove it. Sure, you can install Firefox or some other browser instead, but even if you never ever use Chrome, it will still be there, wasting bandwidth on updates that will never get used. And, even if you select another browser as your default, you'll still get asked which browser to use every time you click on a link in an email, with Chrome selected instead of whatever you've picked as your default. (And, the checkbox to make it the default will also be checked.)
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I'll go one further: have it run off of a Live USB that's mounted inside the box where the users can't get at it and no persistent storage. That way, even they leave personal data behind, it goes away at reboot. Not only that, but if you set it up in kiosk mode, with Firefox opening at boot, they'll never even know they're using Linux.
If you think that this is new, watch the 1941 cartoon, The Henpecked Duck. Daffy Duck can only avoid being hit over the head repeatedly with his wife's umbrella by mindlessly responding, "Yes, my love." to everything she says.
I haven't used Windows for over a decade, now, running a strictly Linux household, so I'm in no position to judge the relative merits of different versions of Windows. I understand that some people have to use Windows 10 at work, because their company mandates it, or in a home office because they need to use software that insists on it. However, what, if anything, is so great about Windows 10 that would make you prefer it over any other version of Windows if you're able to decide for yourself which version to install?
Using multiple VMs with different distros won't help a bit here, because when you come right down to it, they're all using the same hardware, and that's what this is exploiting. Now, if you had multiple graphics cards and let different distros use different cards, that might throw them off.
No, Asimov never set out to prove that his three laws are worthless. He did, however, write many stories showing under the right circumstances those laws could interact in unexpected ways causing problems that only a human could solve. One of the best examples is the story Runaround, where a robot is confused by a conflict between the Second and Third Laws, and is only brought back under control by use of the First Law to override the other two.
You can probably reduce the stress in the workers monitoring the porn by giving them two extra breaks to work off some of the physical tension their work leads to and a private fapping room so that other workers don't have to watch them. It probably won't help much with those watching the violent videos, but then again, we all know about people who get turned on by that.
I wasn't trying to suggest that the damage was, or was likely to get as bad as those battlefields. I just wanted to remind people that the damage adds up over time and gave the most extreme example I knew of. I've been at Ground Zero in Nagasaki, and it's safer there than in the Zone Rouge because the radiation level has dropped so much over the years.
The Army knows from history just how badly the environment can be devastated by combat, or in this case by being used as a training range. Small parts of northern France have been sealed off since the end of WWI as the Zone Rouge both because of the huge quantity of unexploded ordinance and the amount of other toxic materials in the ground, and it may take up to 700 more years before some parts become safe to use. In fact, there are two small pieces of ground where soil samples are up to 17% arsenic, and 99% of all plants that sprout there die. They're trying to find a way to prevent creating more dead zones by using practice ammo that's not made of toxic materials, and I think that's a Good Thing.
Except for the so-called "quick breads," you don't use baking soda to make bread, you use yeast.
There's a lot of people out there on a metered connection, or who have to pay extra if their downloads exceed a specified cap. I can't imagine a plan like that having enough bandwidth per month to cover a 53 GB download without extra cost. What I'd like to know is, who's getting stuck with the bill? Are the customers going to have to fork out or is Playground Games going to Do The Right Thing and cover the expense?
What I'd like to know is what percentage of the machines running Windows 10 were stealth upgrades, and how many of those weren't reverted because the users either didn't know that they could go back to their old system or were afraid to try.
Simply saying "too much work" over and over doesn't answer my question. However, having to share files with 900 other users who don't use Scribus is a good reason on its own.
Too much work to get anything done, too much of a learning curve, too many habits to change, or what? I've been using it for years for newsletters and flyers, and if there are problems with it, I'd be glad to pass them on to the devs. After all, it's still a work in progress, and they can always use constructive feedback.
However, there's zero alternative to Acrobat.
I take it, then, that you've never looked at Scribus a cross-platform, FOSS page layout program that's being used by professionals to create newsletters, periodicals and books. And, if you're having trouble with it, there's an active and helpful mailing list full of people ready to advise you. Check it out; you might just be surprised by how good it is.
Sometimes a flash drive is easier, especially if the data's going to be used on somebody's computer down at headquarters. What works best depends on circumstances.
...you're asked the insulting question, "What issue were you trying to resolve by updating the firmware?"
I spent over seven years doing tech support for an ISP. We didn't have to worry about firmware upgrades, because that was something to be discussed with the OEM, not us. However, if I did, that question would have been routine, because our first step would have to be to restore the status quo ante, and if you were having trouble before, I might have to take it into account in rolling things back. Being told that there wasn't anything wrong before would actually make my job easier because whatever instruction set (or cheat sheet) I'd be using would have been written by somebody who assumed that the device was working correctly before and I wouldn't have to make any adjustments to the procedure.
I use Linux with Xfce and have four workspaces on one monitor, and I don't work in graphics programming or design. Why do I need a second monitor?
If you're setting up a full-sized home office in its own building, why are you limiting yourself to a laptop? Set yourself up with a proper desktop computer with a nice, big monitor, good speakers and as much RAM and disk space as you want. If you need to take things into your company's offices, you can always either use a flash drive or transfer what you need to your laptop, but if you're going to this much expense, there's no reason to pinch pennies here. And, while I'm thinking of it, put in a good floor safe; not just for added security, but to protect your records in case of fire or flood.
They're a watchdog group. Their whole reason for existence is to spot things like this and call attention to them, even if there isn't really a problem. I'm not saying that they're making this up, but I'd take any claims like this with a grain of salt until there's some outside confirmation.
Granted, I'm a slashdotter and I didn't RTFA, but TFS was enough to tell me that this is just another way for liberal crybabies and poor sports to blame somebody other than their candidate.
If Steam and gaming are a major part of what you do with your computer, you're right. If you're using it for work, that doesn't matter. And, if for some reason you need access to the latest versions of various libraries, or want to help test the latest and greatest versions of various projects, you're better off with Fedora. It all depends on what you're looking for.
Think of all the things a normal fourteen-year-old girl has to look forward to. Now, think of what this girl's future held: death. Knowing that her body would be frozen and that she might come back some day gave her hope, and maybe made her fate easier to accept. It doesn't really matter that we can't bring her back now, or that we may never be able to; don't you all think that she knew it? All that matters is that it allowed her to end her life in hope instead of dispair, and what we think about her chances doesn't matter in the least.
The U.S. government is very weak at helping citizens, in my opinion.
The current administration certainly is. What the next one will be like is anybody's guess.
You can disable it. The original factory-installed version will still be sitting on your read-only data partition, but Android will act as if it doesn't exist.
Live and learn. Thank you. Of course, if you do disable it, Android uninstalls any and all updates for it, meaning that if you ever change your mind, the updates need to be downloaded and installed again. With luck, that will be one, big cumulative update, instead of having to do them all, one after the other.
The one and only reason that Google can claim this is because every Android device comes with Chrome installed and you can't remove it. Sure, you can install Firefox or some other browser instead, but even if you never ever use Chrome, it will still be there, wasting bandwidth on updates that will never get used. And, even if you select another browser as your default, you'll still get asked which browser to use every time you click on a link in an email, with Chrome selected instead of whatever you've picked as your default. (And, the checkbox to make it the default will also be checked.)