I think it did a pretty good job of portraying a programmer as a hero. At worst, he's a little shy, but that makes him all the more human. Whether you agree with his means (and to be honest was there any other way given those who tried to do it through legal channels were quickly silenced) or not, you gotta admit it took brains and guts. For a real person he's also rather charismatic. Seems perfect movie hero material to me.
"study by google finds". That alone should start causing ears to perk up. Companies always look for reasons to pat themselves on the back to the public, even if it is misleading or outright wrong in some cases. Show me an independent (and shown untainted by Google's influence) and maybe I'll be interested.
Basically it's like branding cattle. Of course this could be done through rings, bracelets, or even simple rfid's in wallets, but the point is you CAN'T remove it when you want. I suspect this is a test/beginning in getting people to be branded just like livestock. The trouble is, like livestock, we'll have zero privacy (see the movie "Minority Report": the possibilities there (knowing what to market to you while passing through a mall) are similar to what is already happening now to quieter degree). People need to recognize the purpose of a design, and when they see it it works against them, say "no". People aren't vocalizing their concerns enough on this one. We all want to be a part of the A future. The question is, which future do we really want long term.
While I'm not a Trump fan, our immigration laws regarding H1-B visa applications have been ignored by the Obama administration in the interests of big business (especially Google and Disney). We are supposed to be protecting American jobs and we have plenty of qualified IT professional (some unemployed). Companies were illegally hiring foreign (Indian in particular) professional to replace IT workers at a reduced salary. It's not to say that foreign IT workers are bad, but citizens come first. The procedures are clear: Show you are unable to find someone in the USA (you are supposed to show job postings and let a reasonable amount of time and show lack of qualifications of the applications) before you apply for a foreign worker visa.
Uh...have you heard of Windows 10? It's a spyware + ad trojan. Has a total ad server through it's panes, and info from every file heard is sent to MS (Or more specifically forwarded to the NSA). If anything, Windows 10 is doing MORE data mining, and worse, you cannot control the updates in Home edition without stopping the internal services (so it's pre-hijacked). and even Windows 10 Professional has limited control (again short of killing the windows update service)
Historians, socialists and social commentators have shown and illustrated many times how mass media has and will continue to have huge impact on how many people think. It's not glamour, it's the basic inner need by most of use to simply feel we fit in and accepted.
Your analogy is interesting but there is a flaw:It's about social acceptance, not necessarily fashion (appearance is but a part of the whole formula on what makes a person acceptable to their social circle). And it's not that boys don't "give a shit". Studies indicate the actually do, as do people in generally. Itt's that it was considered more socially acceptable for boys to be geeks, and be less social by society as a whole, especially with the rise in their demand and financial success.
Our media for the most part is slow in changing two aspects: The portrayal of socially adapt geeks (there are many), and double so of socially adapt female geeks. We have these big portraits of Bill Gates (a moderate geek, but more of marketer) and Steve Jobs (who although portrayed as a geek wasn't in fact one at all, but an aggressive amoral marketer with a good instinct on user interfaces and had no technical/engineering participation).
So the public is razze/dazzled yet again by marketing and media. This is changing but far too slow in my mind. Perception has been proven to be capable of altering reality, at least in controlled environments. (which ours is make no mistake). The same elements that drove parents to push their sons be doctors and lawyers decades ago, push tech on their kids (and mostly male, history repeats itself). Glad you enjoy "The Big Bang Theory" but when we play to stereotypes, I feel we all lose as an overall society. (but many people make tons of money on stereotypes, which is maybe why some old stereotypes have remained so long).
At least not in a way likely to be noticed without a lot of scrutiny. Of course when I get a call from a telemarketer quoting details only know by my ISP and ask how that is possible, they will say they sold data, but not on me specifically. Kind of like the NSA doesn't necessarily target anyone in particular. Trump may have a point (and hate to say it..). While Trump may have been incorrect (and irresponsible) to say that Presdident Obama specifically ordered a wire tap on his communications (presidents don't do that officially) in theory he could have arranged to troll the data (as Trump knows full well he can now), by access the data that was recorded in the information dragnet. that of course is the constitution violation of such a dragnet. It treats everyone as a criminal until you prove they are not. (and in whose eyes I wondeR). In this case, ISP can sell "bulk data" without selling "you" as an individual. Just watch, it will happen. What I wonder is how they will use this loophole (in their lawyer's eyes) with a straight face. I'll be using VPN for ALL my surfing on principle as Snowden advised awhile ago.
I'd spoken to my few female students in my classes using Minecraft to teach programming/server administration as well as my robotics classes. The general reason girl don't get into STEM is a social sigma. One new student at MIT said many girls felt being in tech was "anti-social" or "unfeminine" . It's not lack of knowledge availbility, it has more to do with media brainwashing that often creates a negative feel to participants in the tech industry, especially for young women. The show "The Big Bang Theory" didn't exactly help matters in my opinion. People see people in robotics and programming in particular as people who do nothing but plan, diagram and code. People still think techies don't talk to people, are shy and have no friends. Many girls think it's "uncute" to be a techie or doing stuff with "tech guys". While SOME progress has been made in removing the anti-social stereotype that still follows the "geeks" and "nerds" we need to teach people the social aspects of the creation process in STEM fields.
It's common practice in a secret organization that presumably everyone knows about for your actions so they look in the wrong direct. I'm not justifying anything, just point out the basic "what do you expect". When China attacks us, they blame home grown hackers either domestic or foreign. Russia does the same, why are we any different. What would be interesting is if they did something original, like said it was a rouge employee within their own ranks when they were caught hacking someone. Or have they done that already? Anyone see anything like that from the NSA or CIA?
"Extremism" basically means anyone with an "extreme" view, but extreme against what? It's a vague meaning description. What they are really saying is, "take away privacy so know what everyone is saying like in 1984". Which makes free independent thought less likely to be expressed to anyone else. Anyone who disagrees with the "Status quo" could be considered an "extremist" (doesn't go with the flow) in the eyes of the government. Not necessarily related to physical violence. Someone who disagrees with, say the lobbying practice with politicians, or an election process that takes the vote away form the public (see USA Electoral College Vote), could be quitely silenced. This sounds very similar the style of government employed by, say Chairman Mao (who invited people to express their views to him, and any who disagreed mysteriously disappeared) or Nazi monitoring: you disagree you are an enemy of the state, and again you disappear. Or even McCarthism. (George Bush Jr. said it best, you are with us or against ). It has been shown that the crazy monitoring programs in the USA for example,have no significant impact of violent acts of terrorism. It's not about protecting the public, it's about protecting the status quo of the government.
Many VPN services have a no log policy. Always review the policies of a VPN when you join. Here is a fairly good list to start from: I'm rather fond of VPN services in Sweden and Italy myself.
https://torrentfreak.com/anony...
Virtually everyone I've suggested or installed Linux Mint (including my young students and Mom) were very happy with with Linux Mint (or haven't called to complain so I assume that is a thumb's up, hence the word "virtual"). It's updates are easy/peasy. If you need to install anything not already in the Linux Mint repository, any Ubuntu compatible package should work in Linux Mint including Steam (A gaming purchase/DRM platform I avoid on principle of being anti-DRM). With lots of games (especially though (I hate to say) Steam), office apps, and Netflix being compatible on modern Chrome/Firefox browsers. There is no reason I can imagine you will ever need to go back to M$ (dirty) Windows. You may want to do a little checking into adding new repositories you trust if there are any apps you need and want regular updates for that are not part of the Linux Mint repository.
Problem with that is MS Updates sometimes as bad or worse than no update at all. There are at least 3 instances where the update actually compromised or killed the OS. There are also reported incidents where an update was marked as "critical" but had nothing to do with security. Even the experts can't tell if an update is valid, potentially breaks something, or even creates vulnerabilities. (some do). So, even professionals can't tell without a test environment which no user is going to have. But by taking away the choice, MS is free to wreak havoc on "your" OS as well as compromise your data and privacy. That is an overall negative not just for the user, but potentially for the entire Internet community.
Okay, the Home edition still tries to prevent you from shutting off the crumy updates, and even the pro edition limits your ability to control the OS compared to Windows 7. What good is this decorative entertainment nonsense when the OS controls you. Hopefully people will wake up and get of Windows 10 before the next updates starts telling you what you are allowed to install. That is how bad this OS is. (See class action lawsuit over update mechanism)
Okay, this is a serious questions and all us who know the power and importance of Linux should be give more complete answers. I see a few hear but none that feels complete so I'll give it a go:
For pure ease overall I would second the anonymous posting for Linux Mint. https://linuxmint.com/ It is overall the easiest to use for a newbies. The reason being that it has the best software package wizard/interface of the any distro I've seen to date. Runs virtually the entire Ubuntu spectrum, doesn't have odd experiments that we sometimes see in Ubuntu. I tend to prefer Mate (it's a bit older and uses fewer resources) but people wanting a more "slick" look will prefer Cinnamon. This is what you want if you are a pure desktop user. Especially for gaming. Plus Ubuntu has been caught doing desktop search data "deals" with Amazon (you can turn it off but it's not easy to find) so if privacy is a big concern, Linux Mint has to the best of my knowledge never given/sold data to Amazon. (see this link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...). One thing I should point out, the Linux Mint team was until recently a bit laid back on security leading to their website being hacked. They are more diligent now but just something to bear in mind. But Linux mint is in my opinion the best distro for Windows Die hard users to look at to make the switch. (you have TONS of games from Gog.com and Steam.com for you gamers..) I'm not suggesting Ubuntu simply because Mint is more usable and when Ubuntu starting quietly selling user data to Amazon (they may not be doing it now, but once bitten), I felt they betrayed the community as they did not announce it openly but started doing it quietly and made the "off switch" as tricky to find as MS does with changing the default extension save option in MS Word/Excel.
That said, if you want similar ease but want to be able to do moderately easy admin style tweaking with a wide community help base, you use Mint Debian which uses a pure Debian file directory/location layout (Ubuntu and Linux Mint are Debian BASED but have a few tweaks/customizations that don't entirely match pure Debian specs but are compatible with the vast majority of Debian Linux packages/software).
once your are comfortable you can tweak the User interface to look like whatever you want. But...if you want a more Mac look/feel out of the box I'd suggest ElementaryOS. https://elementary.io/
ElementaryOs has the slickest look out of the box and while it says "for Windows users" I feel it's even easier for MacOS users making a switch. However, it is less mature which is probably why the packages are fewer and to expand that you need some knowledge a beginner would probably not have and the community base is significantly smaller (newer so this is to be expected.)
If you want a more server set of functions and flexibility, I'd suggest using Debian (http://www.debian.org) and set the login mode to Gnome Classic. It will disorient MS windows users at first but the transition is still easy and I've had office use it with no real complaints (just that it looks different but staff figured it out quite fast). The advantage that Debian has is it's a true server level OS (even with GUI) and the being the base of more "user friendly" distro has a HUGE community base that can get you through almost anything. I may be digressing a little but it's important to distinguish what you are using Linux for. others will say CentOS but for Windows users I'd say the Debian package system is more like what MS windows users are accustomed to as opposed to the RedHat package system which will feel more alien to MS windows users. Lots of business big wigs will say go RedHat based (CentOS, paid RedHat or Oracle Linux) and for some business solutions with specific business needs it is in some cases the only way to go. If you ever decide to uas a RedHat Pac
As someone who teaches kids in tech I second that. I've had students tell me that Mint Linux is easier and much more stable than any version of Windows they've ever used. Didn't even have to show them the basics, they just picked it up and off they went. A few questions on particulars on modules with Minecraft servers, a few on web server configuration, but any adult would have question there too.:D
In other words, it wasn't a priority for Firefox to address. Wonder if the priorities shifted, or whether it was something to do now that they have time..
Agreed. Of course Microsoft doesn't really have a monopoly anyway. We can all use Linux and BSD (or MacOS, but why pay such a high price tag when Linux does the job?), and with the Windows 10 security/invasive behaviour/hijacking, hopefully we'll all wake up.
Most products released these days aren't really ready to be released. (A trend made popular by our friends at Microsoft). It's sad that AMD in all likelihood rushed this CPU release. I'm going to way 3-6 months before trying out this CPU.
Okay, we've seen this drama before. It keeps people scared and nervous. But there is a detail that everyone including the media seems to miss (on purpose?). Why are we such targets if the threat is real? Why are other countries, like Japan and Korea, less picked on?
The UK and US seem to be the most frequent targets. Rather than trying to scramble to anticipate every possible method of attacking a plane (which is impossible), perhaps we should be talking about the motives and reduce attacks by addressing those. The UK had to constantly worry about Ireland until the actual issues finally got discussed. The US (and UK to lessor extent) had a way of saying "we do what we want where we want, and if you don't like it, too bad". We've probably hit some nerves. Airline threats have constantly escalated since our little invasion into Iraq (it should be noted, against UN vote) under the false pretence of their having weapons of mass destruction and created a mess. If we dropped the "Never give up, never surrender" stance we seem to have taken and ask "have we been unreasonable" maybe we'll find better answers than "react mode/keep people frightened (and potentially trigger happy)".
I know of no better way to piss off the best talent than to say, you have to move to our preferred location to keep your job because, well no particularly great add, just because.....Probably IBM wants to lay off people but this will backfire. The best who don't want to move will simply say, "Bye" and get offer from a variety of companies, even IBM competitors (who are most likely to hire them in a heartbeat on whatever terms they want within reason, including telecommute). The benefits of working together in office over telecommute are less and less with improving video phones, chats and cheaper availability of cell phones, unless there are specific company secrets you don't want in cyberspace perhaps. The end result will be the best of IBM's staff being "Exceptions" or the best leaving, and the most insecure moving, only to be let go later because they were the bottom of the crop anyway. This will be a no win in a series of non-winning actions.
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I think it did a pretty good job of portraying a programmer as a hero. At worst, he's a little shy, but that makes him all the more human. Whether you agree with his means (and to be honest was there any other way given those who tried to do it through legal channels were quickly silenced) or not, you gotta admit it took brains and guts. For a real person he's also rather charismatic. Seems perfect movie hero material to me.
"study by google finds". That alone should start causing ears to perk up. Companies always look for reasons to pat themselves on the back to the public, even if it is misleading or outright wrong in some cases. Show me an independent (and shown untainted by Google's influence) and maybe I'll be interested.
Basically it's like branding cattle. Of course this could be done through rings, bracelets, or even simple rfid's in wallets, but the point is you CAN'T remove it when you want. I suspect this is a test/beginning in getting people to be branded just like livestock. The trouble is, like livestock, we'll have zero privacy (see the movie "Minority Report": the possibilities there (knowing what to market to you while passing through a mall) are similar to what is already happening now to quieter degree). People need to recognize the purpose of a design, and when they see it it works against them, say "no". People aren't vocalizing their concerns enough on this one. We all want to be a part of the A future. The question is, which future do we really want long term.
They want to sell less for more...
Good idea. I wasn't even aware that online job applications systems were made to enable that.
While I'm not a Trump fan, our immigration laws regarding H1-B visa applications have been ignored by the Obama administration in the interests of big business (especially Google and Disney). We are supposed to be protecting American jobs and we have plenty of qualified IT professional (some unemployed). Companies were illegally hiring foreign (Indian in particular) professional to replace IT workers at a reduced salary. It's not to say that foreign IT workers are bad, but citizens come first. The procedures are clear: Show you are unable to find someone in the USA (you are supposed to show job postings and let a reasonable amount of time and show lack of qualifications of the applications) before you apply for a foreign worker visa.
Uh...have you heard of Windows 10? It's a spyware + ad trojan. Has a total ad server through it's panes, and info from every file heard is sent to MS (Or more specifically forwarded to the NSA). If anything, Windows 10 is doing MORE data mining, and worse, you cannot control the updates in Home edition without stopping the internal services (so it's pre-hijacked). and even Windows 10 Professional has limited control (again short of killing the windows update service)
Historians, socialists and social commentators have shown and illustrated many times how mass media has and will continue to have huge impact on how many people think. It's not glamour, it's the basic inner need by most of use to simply feel we fit in and accepted.
Your analogy is interesting but there is a flaw:It's about social acceptance, not necessarily fashion (appearance is but a part of the whole formula on what makes a person acceptable to their social circle). And it's not that boys don't "give a shit". Studies indicate the actually do, as do people in generally. Itt's that it was considered more socially acceptable for boys to be geeks, and be less social by society as a whole, especially with the rise in their demand and financial success.
Our media for the most part is slow in changing two aspects: The portrayal of socially adapt geeks (there are many), and double so of socially adapt female geeks. We have these big portraits of Bill Gates (a moderate geek, but more of marketer) and Steve Jobs (who although portrayed as a geek wasn't in fact one at all, but an aggressive amoral marketer with a good instinct on user interfaces and had no technical/engineering participation).
So the public is razze/dazzled yet again by marketing and media. This is changing but far too slow in my mind. Perception has been proven to be capable of altering reality, at least in controlled environments. (which ours is make no mistake). The same elements that drove parents to push their sons be doctors and lawyers decades ago, push tech on their kids (and mostly male, history repeats itself). Glad you enjoy "The Big Bang Theory" but when we play to stereotypes, I feel we all lose as an overall society. (but many people make tons of money on stereotypes, which is maybe why some old stereotypes have remained so long).
At least not in a way likely to be noticed without a lot of scrutiny. Of course when I get a call from a telemarketer quoting details only know by my ISP and ask how that is possible, they will say they sold data, but not on me specifically. Kind of like the NSA doesn't necessarily target anyone in particular. Trump may have a point (and hate to say it..). While Trump may have been incorrect (and irresponsible) to say that Presdident Obama specifically ordered a wire tap on his communications (presidents don't do that officially) in theory he could have arranged to troll the data (as Trump knows full well he can now), by access the data that was recorded in the information dragnet. that of course is the constitution violation of such a dragnet. It treats everyone as a criminal until you prove they are not. (and in whose eyes I wondeR). In this case, ISP can sell "bulk data" without selling "you" as an individual. Just watch, it will happen. What I wonder is how they will use this loophole (in their lawyer's eyes) with a straight face. I'll be using VPN for ALL my surfing on principle as Snowden advised awhile ago.
I'd spoken to my few female students in my classes using Minecraft to teach programming/server administration as well as my robotics classes. The general reason girl don't get into STEM is a social sigma. One new student at MIT said many girls felt being in tech was "anti-social" or "unfeminine" . It's not lack of knowledge availbility, it has more to do with media brainwashing that often creates a negative feel to participants in the tech industry, especially for young women. The show "The Big Bang Theory" didn't exactly help matters in my opinion. People see people in robotics and programming in particular as people who do nothing but plan, diagram and code. People still think techies don't talk to people, are shy and have no friends. Many girls think it's "uncute" to be a techie or doing stuff with "tech guys". While SOME progress has been made in removing the anti-social stereotype that still follows the "geeks" and "nerds" we need to teach people the social aspects of the creation process in STEM fields.
It's common practice in a secret organization that presumably everyone knows about for your actions so they look in the wrong direct. I'm not justifying anything, just point out the basic "what do you expect". When China attacks us, they blame home grown hackers either domestic or foreign. Russia does the same, why are we any different. What would be interesting is if they did something original, like said it was a rouge employee within their own ranks when they were caught hacking someone. Or have they done that already? Anyone see anything like that from the NSA or CIA?
"Extremism" basically means anyone with an "extreme" view, but extreme against what? It's a vague meaning description. What they are really saying is, "take away privacy so know what everyone is saying like in 1984". Which makes free independent thought less likely to be expressed to anyone else. Anyone who disagrees with the "Status quo" could be considered an "extremist" (doesn't go with the flow) in the eyes of the government. Not necessarily related to physical violence. Someone who disagrees with, say the lobbying practice with politicians, or an election process that takes the vote away form the public (see USA Electoral College Vote), could be quitely silenced. This sounds very similar the style of government employed by, say Chairman Mao (who invited people to express their views to him, and any who disagreed mysteriously disappeared) or Nazi monitoring: you disagree you are an enemy of the state, and again you disappear. Or even McCarthism. (George Bush Jr. said it best, you are with us or against ). It has been shown that the crazy monitoring programs in the USA for example ,have no significant impact of violent acts of terrorism. It's not about protecting the public, it's about protecting the status quo of the government.
Many VPN services have a no log policy. Always review the policies of a VPN when you join. Here is a fairly good list to start from: I'm rather fond of VPN services in Sweden and Italy myself. https://torrentfreak.com/anony...
Also remember that you can customized the Look/Feel of any of the Linux distros. Specifically for Mint:
This will make LInux Mint look like Windows 7:
http://www.noobslab.com/2014/0...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
More on cusotmizing the look/feel of Linux Mint:
https://community.linuxmint.co...
https://www.linuxmint.com/rel_...
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201...
https://delightlylinux.wordpre...
https://drive.google.com/file/...
Virtually everyone I've suggested or installed Linux Mint (including my young students and Mom) were very happy with with Linux Mint (or haven't called to complain so I assume that is a thumb's up, hence the word "virtual"). It's updates are easy/peasy. If you need to install anything not already in the Linux Mint repository, any Ubuntu compatible package should work in Linux Mint including Steam (A gaming purchase/DRM platform I avoid on principle of being anti-DRM). With lots of games (especially though (I hate to say) Steam), office apps, and Netflix being compatible on modern Chrome/Firefox browsers. There is no reason I can imagine you will ever need to go back to M$ (dirty) Windows. You may want to do a little checking into adding new repositories you trust if there are any apps you need and want regular updates for that are not part of the Linux Mint repository.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
Hope I've been helpful.
Problem with that is MS Updates sometimes as bad or worse than no update at all. There are at least 3 instances where the update actually compromised or killed the OS. There are also reported incidents where an update was marked as "critical" but had nothing to do with security. Even the experts can't tell if an update is valid, potentially breaks something, or even creates vulnerabilities. (some do). So, even professionals can't tell without a test environment which no user is going to have. But by taking away the choice, MS is free to wreak havoc on "your" OS as well as compromise your data and privacy. That is an overall negative not just for the user, but potentially for the entire Internet community.
Okay, the Home edition still tries to prevent you from shutting off the crumy updates, and even the pro edition limits your ability to control the OS compared to Windows 7. What good is this decorative entertainment nonsense when the OS controls you. Hopefully people will wake up and get of Windows 10 before the next updates starts telling you what you are allowed to install. That is how bad this OS is. (See class action lawsuit over update mechanism)
Okay, this is a serious questions and all us who know the power and importance of Linux should be give more complete answers. I see a few hear but none that feels complete so I'll give it a go:
For pure ease overall I would second the anonymous posting for Linux Mint. https://linuxmint.com/ It is overall the easiest to use for a newbies. The reason being that it has the best software package wizard/interface of the any distro I've seen to date. Runs virtually the entire Ubuntu spectrum, doesn't have odd experiments that we sometimes see in Ubuntu. I tend to prefer Mate (it's a bit older and uses fewer resources) but people wanting a more "slick" look will prefer Cinnamon. This is what you want if you are a pure desktop user. Especially for gaming. Plus Ubuntu has been caught doing desktop search data "deals" with Amazon (you can turn it off but it's not easy to find) so if privacy is a big concern, Linux Mint has to the best of my knowledge never given/sold data to Amazon. (see this link: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...). One thing I should point out, the Linux Mint team was until recently a bit laid back on security leading to their website being hacked. They are more diligent now but just something to bear in mind. But Linux mint is in my opinion the best distro for Windows Die hard users to look at to make the switch. (you have TONS of games from Gog.com and Steam.com for you gamers..) I'm not suggesting Ubuntu simply because Mint is more usable and when Ubuntu starting quietly selling user data to Amazon (they may not be doing it now, but once bitten), I felt they betrayed the community as they did not announce it openly but started doing it quietly and made the "off switch" as tricky to find as MS does with changing the default extension save option in MS Word/Excel.
That said, if you want similar ease but want to be able to do moderately easy admin style tweaking with a wide community help base, you use Mint Debian which uses a pure Debian file directory/location layout (Ubuntu and Linux Mint are Debian BASED but have a few tweaks/customizations that don't entirely match pure Debian specs but are compatible with the vast majority of Debian Linux packages/software).
once your are comfortable you can tweak the User interface to look like whatever you want. But...if you want a more Mac look/feel out of the box I'd suggest ElementaryOS. https://elementary.io/
ElementaryOs has the slickest look out of the box and while it says "for Windows users" I feel it's even easier for MacOS users making a switch. However, it is less mature which is probably why the packages are fewer and to expand that you need some knowledge a beginner would probably not have and the community base is significantly smaller (newer so this is to be expected.)
If you want a more server set of functions and flexibility, I'd suggest using Debian (http://www.debian.org) and set the login mode to Gnome Classic. It will disorient MS windows users at first but the transition is still easy and I've had office use it with no real complaints (just that it looks different but staff figured it out quite fast). The advantage that Debian has is it's a true server level OS (even with GUI) and the being the base of more "user friendly" distro has a HUGE community base that can get you through almost anything. I may be digressing a little but it's important to distinguish what you are using Linux for. others will say CentOS but for Windows users I'd say the Debian package system is more like what MS windows users are accustomed to as opposed to the RedHat package system which will feel more alien to MS windows users. Lots of business big wigs will say go RedHat based (CentOS, paid RedHat or Oracle Linux) and for some business solutions with specific business needs it is in some cases the only way to go. If you ever decide to uas a RedHat Pac
Okay, let's not be mean to the newbies. LOL the question was "easiest" not "easiest to get lost in".
As someone who teaches kids in tech I second that. I've had students tell me that Mint Linux is easier and much more stable than any version of Windows they've ever used. Didn't even have to show them the basics, they just picked it up and off they went. A few questions on particulars on modules with Minecraft servers, a few on web server configuration, but any adult would have question there too. :D
In other words, it wasn't a priority for Firefox to address. Wonder if the priorities shifted, or whether it was something to do now that they have time..
Agreed. Of course Microsoft doesn't really have a monopoly anyway. We can all use Linux and BSD (or MacOS, but why pay such a high price tag when Linux does the job?), and with the Windows 10 security/invasive behaviour/hijacking, hopefully we'll all wake up.
Most products released these days aren't really ready to be released. (A trend made popular by our friends at Microsoft). It's sad that AMD in all likelihood rushed this CPU release. I'm going to way 3-6 months before trying out this CPU.
Okay, we've seen this drama before. It keeps people scared and nervous. But there is a detail that everyone including the media seems to miss (on purpose?). Why are we such targets if the threat is real? Why are other countries, like Japan and Korea, less picked on?
The UK and US seem to be the most frequent targets. Rather than trying to scramble to anticipate every possible method of attacking a plane (which is impossible), perhaps we should be talking about the motives and reduce attacks by addressing those. The UK had to constantly worry about Ireland until the actual issues finally got discussed. The US (and UK to lessor extent) had a way of saying "we do what we want where we want, and if you don't like it, too bad". We've probably hit some nerves. Airline threats have constantly escalated since our little invasion into Iraq (it should be noted, against UN vote) under the false pretence of their having weapons of mass destruction and created a mess. If we dropped the "Never give up, never surrender" stance we seem to have taken and ask "have we been unreasonable" maybe we'll find better answers than "react mode/keep people frightened (and potentially trigger happy)".
I know of no better way to piss off the best talent than to say, you have to move to our preferred location to keep your job because, well no particularly great add, just because.....Probably IBM wants to lay off people but this will backfire. The best who don't want to move will simply say, "Bye" and get offer from a variety of companies, even IBM competitors (who are most likely to hire them in a heartbeat on whatever terms they want within reason, including telecommute). The benefits of working together in office over telecommute are less and less with improving video phones, chats and cheaper availability of cell phones, unless there are specific company secrets you don't want in cyberspace perhaps. The end result will be the best of IBM's staff being "Exceptions" or the best leaving, and the most insecure moving, only to be let go later because they were the bottom of the crop anyway. This will be a no win in a series of non-winning actions.