It's only for the Brits, because they drive on the left.
Go to countries like India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tialand, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand just to name a few and they all drive on the left. I suppose the question to ask is why do you drive on the right?
Compared to the same number of people in a car, they're WONDERFUL for the environment.
The average bus has 7 passengers. Two people in a car use less fuel per passenger-mile, and the car doesn't obstruct traffic, doesn't need a paid driver, and gets people where they need to go much sooner.
Using a bus as an example you have to consider its size and the number of passengers it can hold. You also have to consider the fee (ie. the fare) and the convenience or inconvenience of a commuting via bus.
Now let's look at a car which is normally a very convenient form of transport. Obviously, we have to consider the overall economy of the car which takes into account the purchase price of the car, its maintenance, and fuel. Even an electric car requires fuel since you do pay for your electrical use one way or an other. Now consider the number of people a car can take (average is normally five) but take a look at the number of cars and average out the number of people per car and the answer will come out at just over one person per car.
If you are a commuter, a car can be very convenient but you also have to take into account crowded roads or even lack of them and then you have to consider parking fees (great if your place of work provides free parking) which can increase the over commuting costs considerably.
Why not look at trains? These can move the most people relatively cheaply although they are not as convenient as a bus or car since they only run on tracks while a bus (most of them) have routes which can be changed (ie. Road Works, Detours etc) if required.
Now to bicycles. Obviously, these are a cheap form of transport if the road infrastructure and the terrain support them but you don't have very much protection from the elements and other forms of transport if involved in an altercation with other vehicles on the road. Bicycles are also relatively slow but are great for short distances and maintenance costs are very low. They are also a great form of exercise.
You can even add motor bikes although running costs will increase and like bicycles, you don't have all that much protection from the elements and any altercation but they are safer than a bicycle.
We should also look at walking. This is great exercise but only for short distances unless time is not taken into consideration.
These are also other forms of transport such as ferries (fine if your city has wide rivers and not enough bridges), trams (think a bus on a train track), taxies (can get expensive over longer distances), helicopters (very expensive and very limited) and planes (great for very long or intercontinental distances).
91.5% of users on Windows isn't that surprising, the real fun stat will be how many are on 10.
Windows worked really hard to shove that down peoples throats weather they wanted it or not. I bet adoption numbers are lower than MS wants by a lot.
Currently Windows 10 is 26.8% compared to Windows 7 at 49.04%. What is surprising is Windows XP is at 6.94% while Windows 8.1 is at 6.4 and Windows 8 is at 1.37%. Check out the following site for more information on Linux (2.36%) and Mac (3.49%). Actually, the site is worth bookmarking since it can usually settle or create arguments pretty quickly.:)
This is actually still really bad news for consumers. Both browsers are designed to lock you into an ecosystem. In Chrome's case it is Google's advertising ecosystem; Edge is designed to keep you dependant on Microsoft tech. What is really needed is a move to Firefox and (yes) Opera. A diversification of browsers is good for compatibility and standards compliance and liberates users from monopolistic corporation whose motivations are unclear and convoluted.
With Chrome you can go into the settings and change what you want to be tracked or not tracked. In fact, you don't even have to log in to Google so if they are tracking for advertising purposes all they have is an IP address. There is also an "Incognito window" (Pretty well all browsers have this) although this does not stop tracking by ISP's and the target site. Yes TOR can but you have to trust that the site operators respect your privacy.
Personally, I would rather trust a browser not to be annoying with regard to privacy since you do have some control and if you are not happy you can always use a different browser or search engine. On my system (Fedora 25), I have Qupzilla installed by default and it only takes a second to launch it (SSD's are great) and by default it uses DuckDuckGo. Of course, if your operating system by default effectively ticks all the boxes of Malware then it does not matter which web browser you use.
Using spaces to indent is really kind of an OCD thing to do. There's the time and the counting and then redoing when you change something.
So maybe the real lesson is the OCD programmers make a bit more than non-OCD programmers.
If you are using a decent text editor (eg. gvim and emacs to name two) indentation is actually done by the editor and is fully customizable, all you as the coder has to do is make sure that what you are coding has as few errors as possible. If you have to worry about indentation then you are not doing it right.
This is something I have been hoping for for quite some time! This will lead to incredible resolution for VR headsets and that will make all of the difference in how immersive they are.
A 4K 16:9 aspect ratio screen would suffice for most VR applications since the human eye would be really hard pressed to distinguish the individual pixels especially when the scene you are viewing is in motion. Even 1080p on a small screen is reasonably acceptable although you will always get the purists who want a different aspect ratio and an even higher resolution.
Even TV's which air now coming out at 4K (cheaper models don't support HDR) will be superseded in a few years as 8K starts to become mainstream. If you have the money you can get 8K monitors such as Dell UltraSharp which will set you back about $5000 USD but if you want bragging rights and future proofing that could be money well spent.
Of course, with 8K displays you will need a fairly powerful graphics card or cards if you wish to game on it but personally, I don't mind waiting since IMHO 1080p/1400p at 60fps is fine for most games although that does depend on the screen's refresh rate (in Hz) and how far away you are comfortably viewing it.
What's the point of buying these devices? It's terribly trivial to buy an Amazon FireTV Stick and install Kodi on it. I did it to play with it as a frontend for my MythTV system, but setting it up for pirate streaming can't be any more difficult. It's not like it requires rooting the device or anything like that.
My desktop PC runs Fedora Linux with a KDE UI and it is very easy to install Kodi (it's part of the rpmfusion-free-updates repository). For those running a Debian based distro you just need to install the appropriate repository and install (google is your friend:-) here). Of course, you can always go to the Kodi website and install that way but for us Linux users a repository install is so much better since you will automatically get updates which you can install at your convenience.
Personally, I prefer VLC to Kodi although Kodi IMHO looks more polished but to each their own.
It wasn't that Harvard doesn't want to talk about it, but that nobody wants to listen. Nobody is curious about this and nobody cares.
Obviously Slashdot does, look at the number of replies here.
Not really. I come here for the popcorn although you are never too sure if you are getting sweet, tasty or bland. Still, with Microsoft being mentioned you can be sure of plenty of salt which in large quantities can be bad for you.:)
It's pretty easy to hit that milestone when you force people to upgrade without their consent. Don't get me wrong - I have Windows 10 on both my desktop (dual boot) and personal laptop; I have it on one of my work laptops (the other is Windows 7/Linux dual boot). I'm probably one of the few people who like it, but I don't pretend like what MS didn't wasn't disgraceful.
It is funny how Microsoft announces the Windows 10 adoption when other sites state that Windows 10 is still around 26% with Windows 7 (48.5%) and other versions of Windows including "XP", 8.0 and 8.1 taking 15.58%. It appears Microsoft only give out figures if it suits them.
The information I have given was in April 2017.
BTW. All my computing devices have a Linux kernel. I don't run Microsoft anything although to be fair I have Windows 10 in a virtual machine and all up I have run that operating system for about an hour. Windows 10 does love to chat with machines that are owned by Microsoft (Wireshark is great) and that was when I thought I had the OS locked down.
It'd take a week to download that here in Australia.
I have an Optus broadband connection (Sydney Australia) and can get burst speeds of 4MB/sec but can get sustained speeds of about 1.5MB/sec to 2MB/sec and yes the "MB" means megabytes. So assuming a sustained speed of 1.5MB/sec the total time to download a 50GB file would be nine hours and fifteen minutes.
Of course, that also begs the question of "Why would I download a 50GB file to watch a 105-minute length movie cartoon show?"
I was going to buy one but after the bad press about screen quality I asked the store to allow me to see the screen before I purchased it and they (Best Buy) refused to allow me to open one prior to purchase, so I deferred. Not that it hurt their sales at all, some lady took the one I had from my hands and bought it.
Because the Switch is a console/portable hybrid it would be a good idea to put a screen protector on as soon as you brought the device.
Most people who get a new mobile or handheld get screen protectors put on (some mobiles actually come with them) from purchase but there are always some who honestly think that there is no need for the additional small expense. Usually, these people get very upset in a few months when scratches appear on the unprotected screen when a bit of forward-planning could have prevented or significantly reduced that.
Of course, dropping (the Switch is also a handheld) is not a good idea but in many cases, it is inevitable especially if you give the Switch to kids and young teens but then again there are some adults that should not be let within five meters of any electronic device.:)
Fucking piece of shit Slashdot.
I have five moderation points and used three of them to mod "politically incorrect" posts +1; insightful and then I wrote a post explaining that posted as AC and the damn site instantly removed my moderation. It used to ask (I don't use preview because it's not my fucking task to HTML format the text, manage links or do å, ä or ö. The incompetent people at Slashdot should had fixed their shit like ten years ago.) So now I have a shit-post and didn't helped saved your comments and I can't moderate anything more in the thread thanks to that shit-post. Thank you fucking POS/..
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That's one thing I will applaud Microsoft for. We've purchased a couple of Dell notebooks from them, and there's virtually no crapware at all, not even Dell's.
You can get the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and just select the version you want (only three) and the ISO only comes with Windows 10 without additional crapware. In all fairness, I do suggest this to anyone who has a Windows 10 machine since it is useful for recovery purposes.
If you do install from the ISO don't use the quick setup which Microsoft seems to prefer you use although this is fine if you are lazy and have no real clue what you are doing. Always configure your installation and on viewing all the settings which are "on" by default you may question why you want to install Windows 10 in the first place since it ticks all the boxes in the description of Malware . Even after installation, it is always best to do some research as to locking down your operating system further.
Still, if you are an avid gamer who just has to play the latest games or someone who has locked themselves into the Microsft ecosystem then I guess Windows 10 is for you.
Role-based administration and privilege separation. Linux still sucks in this area. With windows you get a security token that gives you permission to do just what you need, on Linux you need to suid yourself to root to do just about anything, which allows you to do absolutely everything. The massive whitelist that is selinux is a backwards way of implementing security.
I suggest you read up on what sudo is capable off. You can easily setup sudo via its configuration file (/etc/sudoers) that will allow users that require elevated privileges (eg. Database and Web Administrators) to do their work without needing root access.
Unix has had Access Control Lists from early late 1980 going into the early 1990's. Linux got ACL's also in the early 1990's.
As for SELinux. I would be nice if you had a program that could understand "intent" but it is far easier to know what is required (eg files, directories and ports) and how to treat them rather than try to guess what to do about things you don't know about. In other words, what you don't know about you don't allow.
A useful site that may give you alternative to proprietary software is here but you have to keep in mind that the software that you get may not be a compleat "drop in " replacement for Microsoft Windows-centric software and you may have to do some learning depending on how complex your original software was.
As for hardware well you should always do your homework as to what is Linux compatible although as far as most modern PC's that should not be an issue but there are always exceptions. Actually, why do you need a sound card since Ryzen and Kaby Lake require different motherboards which should come with a decent sound system? My Z170 motherboard which is compatible with Skylake and Kaby Lake has a 7.1 sound system.
If you are an avid PC gamer and crave the latest Microsoft-centric games then basically you are stuck with MS Windows. Of course, there is compatibility software like Wine although you can always use a virtual machine with a version of MS Windows you trust cough! I get around this by having an original FAT PS3 and a PS4.
Just when I was planning to slack off work this morning and play Horizon Zero Dawn, along comes an update and I'm going to have to watch a progress bar crawl across the screen instead.
Wow, you must have a really unusual PS4 because mine just downloads in the background even when i am playing a game. When I am finished playing I do have the choice of installing when I want (sort of like my Linux updates) which then takes about five minutes with two reboots (Linux takes one reboot if you have a kernel update). Oh, the humanity.
Are you sure you have a PS4? and if you do are you sure you know how to use it properly?
You appear to be under the impression that Android is free software, and therefore, the royalty for putting Android on a device is zero. AOSP is free software, but Google Play Store and Google Play Services are not. Furthermore, makers of Android devices with a microSD slot that supports SDXC have to pay an exFAT patent royalty to Microsoft.
Some Android devices use ext4 (over six years ago) as the internal file system thereby avoiding the exFAT royalty.
As for removable SD cards, they normally come preformatted with FAT or exFAT which Android can read and write to which in turn avoids the exFAT royalty. Actually, the PS3 and PS4 also do this as well otherwise if they could format external devices with exFAT or NTFS they would have to pay Microsoft a royalty.
Wind generators have a finite lifespan usually in the 20 year range upon which time they need to either be replaced or refurbished in addition to ongoing maintenance, things with moving parts breakdown!
What you said is very true but that also applies to all power generating and distribution infrastructure. When considering power generation and distribution you have to consider the overall cost/benefits. In some places wind, hydro, coal, gas, nuclear, solar arrays etc are more viable long term or even short term solutions.
All energy generating plants require distribution infrastructure be it above ground or underground and there are pros and cons with each, likewise with the energy generation plant themselves. One size does not suit all so it is always best to pick the one that is best suited for the geographics area although you also have to consider politics as well.
Nobody in the US has ever been sued or charged for downloading. The media organizations have lied and called prosecuting a bittorrent uploader "a downloader" while prosecuting solely for the act of uploading. This is a deliberate lie to convince people that downloading is illegal, when it isn't. The proof of this is the fact that nobody ever has been prosecuted or persecuted solely for downloading.
How would someone upload on bittorrent if they've not downloaded first?
The way a torrent works is that the leech ( the person doing the download) in turn actually becomes a seeder ( a person doing the upload).
As an example say you decide to download a movie via torrent. You first find out via a torrent website what movie you are looking for and the torrent site will assign you tracking sites (may only be one) which in turn give your torrent program information that allows you to connect to a computer or computers that are serving that movie (these computers are called "seeders"). At this stage, your torrent program that is downloading that movie is called a "leech".
Once your torrent program has downloaded a pre-defined "chunk" (eg. 256kB, 512kB, 1MB, 8MB) of the particular file then your torrent program will make that "chunk" available to any request to upload to another site or "leech" so effectively after the first "chunk" your torrent program effectively becomes a "seeder" or uploader. Of course, the torrent program will continue to "leech" all new chunks until completion and depending on your torrent configuration it will become a full seeder until you stop it or if configured times out or reaches an upload threshold.
Chrome runs under the user id it was started from.
... and then proceeds by invoking a set-uid binary (that it conveniently set up at installation time) to become root:
# ls -ld/usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14664 Jan 30 18:39/usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
On my machine (Fedora 25):
> ls -ld/usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory
I do run Chrome, Firefox, Konqueror and QupZilla. I can run any browser I want except IE unless I am stupid enough to run a virtual machine with Microsoft Windows although to be fair Windows 10 does not run IE but it only pays attention to the "hosts" file when it suits itself to do so.
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It's only for the Brits, because they drive on the left.
Go to countries like India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tialand, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, New Zealand just to name a few and they all drive on the left. I suppose the question to ask is why do you drive on the right?
Compared to the same number of people in a car, they're WONDERFUL for the environment.
The average bus has 7 passengers. Two people in a car use less fuel per passenger-mile, and the car doesn't obstruct traffic, doesn't need a paid driver, and gets people where they need to go much sooner.
Using a bus as an example you have to consider its size and the number of passengers it can hold. You also have to consider the fee (ie. the fare) and the convenience or inconvenience of a commuting via bus.
Now let's look at a car which is normally a very convenient form of transport. Obviously, we have to consider the overall economy of the car which takes into account the purchase price of the car, its maintenance, and fuel. Even an electric car requires fuel since you do pay for your electrical use one way or an other. Now consider the number of people a car can take (average is normally five) but take a look at the number of cars and average out the number of people per car and the answer will come out at just over one person per car.
If you are a commuter, a car can be very convenient but you also have to take into account crowded roads or even lack of them and then you have to consider parking fees (great if your place of work provides free parking) which can increase the over commuting costs considerably.
Why not look at trains? These can move the most people relatively cheaply although they are not as convenient as a bus or car since they only run on tracks while a bus (most of them) have routes which can be changed (ie. Road Works, Detours etc) if required.
Now to bicycles. Obviously, these are a cheap form of transport if the road infrastructure and the terrain support them but you don't have very much protection from the elements and other forms of transport if involved in an altercation with other vehicles on the road. Bicycles are also relatively slow but are great for short distances and maintenance costs are very low. They are also a great form of exercise. You can even add motor bikes although running costs will increase and like bicycles, you don't have all that much protection from the elements and any altercation but they are safer than a bicycle.
We should also look at walking. This is great exercise but only for short distances unless time is not taken into consideration.
These are also other forms of transport such as ferries (fine if your city has wide rivers and not enough bridges), trams (think a bus on a train track), taxies (can get expensive over longer distances), helicopters (very expensive and very limited) and planes (great for very long or intercontinental distances).
Which is best for you? Well "it depends".
91.5% of users on Windows isn't that surprising, the real fun stat will be how many are on 10.
Windows worked really hard to shove that down peoples throats weather they wanted it or not. I bet adoption numbers are lower than MS wants by a lot.
Currently Windows 10 is 26.8% compared to Windows 7 at 49.04%. What is surprising is Windows XP is at 6.94% while Windows 8.1 is at 6.4 and Windows 8 is at 1.37%. Check out the following site for more information on Linux (2.36%) and Mac (3.49%). Actually, the site is worth bookmarking since it can usually settle or create arguments pretty quickly. :)
This is actually still really bad news for consumers. Both browsers are designed to lock you into an ecosystem. In Chrome's case it is Google's advertising ecosystem; Edge is designed to keep you dependant on Microsoft tech. What is really needed is a move to Firefox and (yes) Opera. A diversification of browsers is good for compatibility and standards compliance and liberates users from monopolistic corporation whose motivations are unclear and convoluted.
With Chrome you can go into the settings and change what you want to be tracked or not tracked. In fact, you don't even have to log in to Google so if they are tracking for advertising purposes all they have is an IP address. There is also an "Incognito window" (Pretty well all browsers have this) although this does not stop tracking by ISP's and the target site. Yes TOR can but you have to trust that the site operators respect your privacy.
Personally, I would rather trust a browser not to be annoying with regard to privacy since you do have some control and if you are not happy you can always use a different browser or search engine. On my system (Fedora 25), I have Qupzilla installed by default and it only takes a second to launch it (SSD's are great) and by default it uses DuckDuckGo. Of course, if your operating system by default effectively ticks all the boxes of Malware then it does not matter which web browser you use.
Using spaces to indent is really kind of an OCD thing to do. There's the time and the counting and then redoing when you change something.
So maybe the real lesson is the OCD programmers make a bit more than non-OCD programmers.
If you are using a decent text editor (eg. gvim and emacs to name two) indentation is actually done by the editor and is fully customizable, all you as the coder has to do is make sure that what you are coding has as few errors as possible. If you have to worry about indentation then you are not doing it right.
Of course, MS licensing for Windows is per core now...
That's not an issue for those that don't use Microsoft Windows.
Hmm! Let's see:
I can connect a camera and microphone via USB if I really do need to use them (which I don't). I think I am pretty much OK. :-)
This is something I have been hoping for for quite some time! This will lead to incredible resolution for VR headsets and that will make all of the difference in how immersive they are.
A 4K 16:9 aspect ratio screen would suffice for most VR applications since the human eye would be really hard pressed to distinguish the individual pixels especially when the scene you are viewing is in motion. Even 1080p on a small screen is reasonably acceptable although you will always get the purists who want a different aspect ratio and an even higher resolution.
Even TV's which air now coming out at 4K (cheaper models don't support HDR) will be superseded in a few years as 8K starts to become mainstream. If you have the money you can get 8K monitors such as Dell UltraSharp which will set you back about $5000 USD but if you want bragging rights and future proofing that could be money well spent.
Of course, with 8K displays you will need a fairly powerful graphics card or cards if you wish to game on it but personally, I don't mind waiting since IMHO 1080p/1400p at 60fps is fine for most games although that does depend on the screen's refresh rate (in Hz) and how far away you are comfortably viewing it.
What's the point of buying these devices? It's terribly trivial to buy an Amazon FireTV Stick and install Kodi on it. I did it to play with it as a frontend for my MythTV system, but setting it up for pirate streaming can't be any more difficult. It's not like it requires rooting the device or anything like that.
My desktop PC runs Fedora Linux with a KDE UI and it is very easy to install Kodi (it's part of the rpmfusion-free-updates repository). For those running a Debian based distro you just need to install the appropriate repository and install (google is your friend :-) here). Of course, you can always go to the Kodi website and install that way but for us Linux users a repository install is so much better since you will automatically get updates which you can install at your convenience.
Personally, I prefer VLC to Kodi although Kodi IMHO looks more polished but to each their own.
It wasn't that Harvard doesn't want to talk about it, but that nobody wants to listen. Nobody is curious about this and nobody cares.
Obviously Slashdot does, look at the number of replies here.
Not really. I come here for the popcorn although you are never too sure if you are getting sweet, tasty or bland. Still, with Microsoft being mentioned you can be sure of plenty of salt which in large quantities can be bad for you. :)
It's pretty easy to hit that milestone when you force people to upgrade without their consent. Don't get me wrong - I have Windows 10 on both my desktop (dual boot) and personal laptop; I have it on one of my work laptops (the other is Windows 7/Linux dual boot). I'm probably one of the few people who like it, but I don't pretend like what MS didn't wasn't disgraceful.
It is funny how Microsoft announces the Windows 10 adoption when other sites state that Windows 10 is still around 26% with Windows 7 (48.5%) and other versions of Windows including "XP", 8.0 and 8.1 taking 15.58%. It appears Microsoft only give out figures if it suits them.
The information I have given was in April 2017.
BTW. All my computing devices have a Linux kernel. I don't run Microsoft anything although to be fair I have Windows 10 in a virtual machine and all up I have run that operating system for about an hour. Windows 10 does love to chat with machines that are owned by Microsoft (Wireshark is great) and that was when I thought I had the OS locked down.
It'd take a week to download that here in Australia.
I have an Optus broadband connection (Sydney Australia) and can get burst speeds of 4MB/sec but can get sustained speeds of about 1.5MB/sec to 2MB/sec and yes the "MB" means megabytes. So assuming a sustained speed of 1.5MB/sec the total time to download a 50GB file would be nine hours and fifteen minutes.
Of course, that also begs the question of "Why would I download a 50GB file to watch a 105-minute length movie cartoon show?"
I was going to buy one but after the bad press about screen quality I asked the store to allow me to see the screen before I purchased it and they (Best Buy) refused to allow me to open one prior to purchase, so I deferred. Not that it hurt their sales at all, some lady took the one I had from my hands and bought it.
Because the Switch is a console/portable hybrid it would be a good idea to put a screen protector on as soon as you brought the device.
Most people who get a new mobile or handheld get screen protectors put on (some mobiles actually come with them) from purchase but there are always some who honestly think that there is no need for the additional small expense. Usually, these people get very upset in a few months when scratches appear on the unprotected screen when a bit of forward-planning could have prevented or significantly reduced that.
Of course, dropping (the Switch is also a handheld) is not a good idea but in many cases, it is inevitable especially if you give the Switch to kids and young teens but then again there are some adults that should not be let within five meters of any electronic device. :)
vi is best.
No! emacs is!
Yes, another emacs verses vi war.
Fucking piece of shit Slashdot. I have five moderation points and used three of them to mod "politically incorrect" posts +1; insightful and then I wrote a post explaining that posted as AC and the damn site instantly removed my moderation. It used to ask (I don't use preview because it's not my fucking task to HTML format the text, manage links or do å, ä or ö. The incompetent people at Slashdot should had fixed their shit like ten years ago.) So now I have a shit-post and didn't helped saved your comments and I can't moderate anything more in the thread thanks to that shit-post. Thank you fucking POS /..
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That's one thing I will applaud Microsoft for. We've purchased a couple of Dell notebooks from them, and there's virtually no crapware at all, not even Dell's.
You can get the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and just select the version you want (only three) and the ISO only comes with Windows 10 without additional crapware. In all fairness, I do suggest this to anyone who has a Windows 10 machine since it is useful for recovery purposes.
If you do install from the ISO don't use the quick setup which Microsoft seems to prefer you use although this is fine if you are lazy and have no real clue what you are doing. Always configure your installation and on viewing all the settings which are "on" by default you may question why you want to install Windows 10 in the first place since it ticks all the boxes in the description of Malware . Even after installation, it is always best to do some research as to locking down your operating system further.
Still, if you are an avid gamer who just has to play the latest games or someone who has locked themselves into the Microsft ecosystem then I guess Windows 10 is for you.
Role-based administration and privilege separation. Linux still sucks in this area. With windows you get a security token that gives you permission to do just what you need, on Linux you need to suid yourself to root to do just about anything, which allows you to do absolutely everything. The massive whitelist that is selinux is a backwards way of implementing security.
I suggest you read up on what sudo is capable off. You can easily setup sudo via its configuration file (/etc/sudoers) that will allow users that require elevated privileges (eg. Database and Web Administrators) to do their work without needing root access.
Unix has had Access Control Lists from early late 1980 going into the early 1990's. Linux got ACL's also in the early 1990's.
As for SELinux. I would be nice if you had a program that could understand "intent" but it is far easier to know what is required (eg files, directories and ports) and how to treat them rather than try to guess what to do about things you don't know about. In other words, what you don't know about you don't allow.
Slashdot completely mangled your URL. I had to search for "1997 Ürümqi bus bombings" on wikipedia to find it.
Maybe you mean this URL. I am only using standard HTML coding which has been arround for years, afterall this is supposed to be a tech site.
A useful site that may give you alternative to proprietary software is here but you have to keep in mind that the software that you get may not be a compleat "drop in " replacement for Microsoft Windows-centric software and you may have to do some learning depending on how complex your original software was.
As for hardware well you should always do your homework as to what is Linux compatible although as far as most modern PC's that should not be an issue but there are always exceptions. Actually, why do you need a sound card since Ryzen and Kaby Lake require different motherboards which should come with a decent sound system? My Z170 motherboard which is compatible with Skylake and Kaby Lake has a 7.1 sound system.
If you are an avid PC gamer and crave the latest Microsoft-centric games then basically you are stuck with MS Windows. Of course, there is compatibility software like Wine although you can always use a virtual machine with a version of MS Windows you trust cough! I get around this by having an original FAT PS3 and a PS4.
Just when I was planning to slack off work this morning and play Horizon Zero Dawn, along comes an update and I'm going to have to watch a progress bar crawl across the screen instead.
Wow, you must have a really unusual PS4 because mine just downloads in the background even when i am playing a game. When I am finished playing I do have the choice of installing when I want (sort of like my Linux updates) which then takes about five minutes with two reboots (Linux takes one reboot if you have a kernel update). Oh, the humanity.
Are you sure you have a PS4? and if you do are you sure you know how to use it properly?
You appear to be under the impression that Android is free software, and therefore, the royalty for putting Android on a device is zero. AOSP is free software, but Google Play Store and Google Play Services are not. Furthermore, makers of Android devices with a microSD slot that supports SDXC have to pay an exFAT patent royalty to Microsoft.
Some Android devices use ext4 (over six years ago) as the internal file system thereby avoiding the exFAT royalty.
As for removable SD cards, they normally come preformatted with FAT or exFAT which Android can read and write to which in turn avoids the exFAT royalty. Actually, the PS3 and PS4 also do this as well otherwise if they could format external devices with exFAT or NTFS they would have to pay Microsoft a royalty.
Wind generators have a finite lifespan usually in the 20 year range upon which time they need to either be replaced or refurbished in addition to ongoing maintenance, things with moving parts breakdown!
What you said is very true but that also applies to all power generating and distribution infrastructure. When considering power generation and distribution you have to consider the overall cost/benefits. In some places wind, hydro, coal, gas, nuclear, solar arrays etc are more viable long term or even short term solutions.
All energy generating plants require distribution infrastructure be it above ground or underground and there are pros and cons with each, likewise with the energy generation plant themselves. One size does not suit all so it is always best to pick the one that is best suited for the geographics area although you also have to consider politics as well.
Nobody in the US has ever been sued or charged for downloading. The media organizations have lied and called prosecuting a bittorrent uploader "a downloader" while prosecuting solely for the act of uploading. This is a deliberate lie to convince people that downloading is illegal, when it isn't. The proof of this is the fact that nobody ever has been prosecuted or persecuted solely for downloading.
How would someone upload on bittorrent if they've not downloaded first?
The way a torrent works is that the leech ( the person doing the download) in turn actually becomes a seeder ( a person doing the upload).
As an example say you decide to download a movie via torrent. You first find out via a torrent website what movie you are looking for and the torrent site will assign you tracking sites (may only be one) which in turn give your torrent program information that allows you to connect to a computer or computers that are serving that movie (these computers are called "seeders"). At this stage, your torrent program that is downloading that movie is called a "leech".
Once your torrent program has downloaded a pre-defined "chunk" (eg. 256kB, 512kB, 1MB, 8MB) of the particular file then your torrent program will make that "chunk" available to any request to upload to another site or "leech" so effectively after the first "chunk" your torrent program effectively becomes a "seeder" or uploader. Of course, the torrent program will continue to "leech" all new chunks until completion and depending on your torrent configuration it will become a full seeder until you stop it or if configured times out or reaches an upload threshold.
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Chrome runs under the user id it was started from.
... and then proceeds by invoking a set-uid binary (that it conveniently set up at installation time) to become root:
# ls -ld /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14664 Jan 30 18:39 /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
On my machine (Fedora 25): /usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox
> ls -ld
ls: cannot access '/usr/lib/chromium/chrome-sandbox': No such file or directory
I do run Chrome, Firefox, Konqueror and QupZilla. I can run any browser I want except IE unless I am stupid enough to run a virtual machine with Microsoft Windows although to be fair Windows 10 does not run IE but it only pays attention to the "hosts" file when it suits itself to do so.
I'm running 4.9.9. No systemd. The problem is your distro.
That is funny I am running 4.9.9-200.fc25.x86_64 (Fedora 25 for those that don't know) and I have never had an issue with systemd in over six years.