If you bothered to ask the almighty google overlords you would find out that they launched at least two commercial payloads on refurbished rockets. And have more scheduled already.
And what, pray tell, is stopping someone from gaining root > clobbering the binary log to corrupt the last few kb of logging time to force a split of the log file ( and maybe eve turn off logging so a new log isn't written), exactly the same as hiding your tracks in a text based file?
If someone has root / full admin privs. already you are screwed. That means they have full access to logging - as well as everything else on the system - to hide tracks, it doesn't matter what type of logging is being used. Any file that can be written to on disk can be subverted, it doesn't matter if it is a binary file or text file.
Last time I checked, which was in January, every damn truck stop still had Rand Mcnally maps and atlases. The big ones like Love's, Pilot, and Flying J are almost always a great place to stop. Clean bathrooms and decent food, as well as pretty much anything you may need for Phone / tablet / maps / or quite a lot of other things. Including magnifying glasses for his apparently decrepit eyes, since he claims to have had an atlas but "couldn't read the small print". Either buy a decent atlas for emergencies or deal with being lost...
Whose fault was it that the dude who decided to take a trip wasn't even smart enough to stop at the places completely designed for people navigating the damn country?
What cities have had to make laws about not reading while crossing the streets? When was this golden age of literacy when 70-80% of the population was constantly reading books / comic books while walking / driving?
Remind me again, when was the time that people were falling off cliffs from taking selfies with books?
A distributed risk essentially dissolves into the background noise that is the risk of being a human on this planet.
No. Not even close. It CAN mean that, but rarely if ever does. Especially in this case, and especially with solar, you are concentrating risk at: 1: Rare earth element mines - both with working conditions ( hint in many, many countries they are horrible death traps ) as well as broader environmental issues with tailing spoils and acid mine drainage contaminating the environment a la Gold King mine in Silverton CO. 2: toxic waste production and disposal from manufacturing - If you think the waste is being disposed of properly by the companies trying to produce panels at bottom dollar prices you really should check into a mental health facility... because that is insane.
A heavy equipment operator stands a far greater chance being killed in their personal vehicle driving to a "dangerous" work environment, and sadly suicide is what often kills humans in high places, not accidents.
Sources? What heavy equipment are we talking about? Bulldozers that stay on the ground in low risk areas or equipment in high risk areas like heights / depths.
Also I would LOVE to see the source of suicide VS. accident ratios in work places that include heights. I.E. Not random jumpers that had jobs that were not on bridges / buildings. Also, ignoring saftey regulations and equipment while extremely stupid can't be counted as suicide.
In the same manner, I believe that your argument is simply one of selfish convenience and less of stupidity. You think that other people should stay home so you can have a smoke whenever and wherever you want. I believe your right stop when you start infringing the rights of others, and unless you can inhale without exhaling you should keep your poison to your own environment.
And you think it is perfectly OK to tell a business owner what he can allow or not on his premises by forcing laws against something you personally dislike to be adopted instead of either: 1 - making informed choices and voting with your business / employment by going places that are like minded, or 2 - choosing to not go to a completely optional place, after all you can drink with friends at your own home just as easily ( and significantly cheaper to boot ) as you can at a bar. You could also go to a bar that the owner felt the same way as you do, and voluntarily didn't allow smoking. Hypocritical much? Sounds just like selfish convenience on your end, affecting more people and their livelihoods.
You just want to force your ideals on a place that didn't force you to not go. You were welcome to go, but chose not to due to thinly veiled dislike of the chosen atmosphere covered up by an argument that is just as bad as "think of the children".
But no, you would rather force your ideology on business owners and their patrons while crying about how you are entitled to go to the places that obviously didn't want to support the ban on patrons being able to smoke.
I poked at it a bit in one of my VMs, and it seems to work pretty decent... the only real complaints I had were the sliders being harder to grab, the mause grab area on each slider seems to be much smaller and more finicky than lightroom. I haven't tried importing, but if your camera is supported for USB transfer I would think it should be able to be poked enough to work.
The only jumping to conclusions here is you. You don't seem to have even read the abstract and methodology portion of the very paper you linked.
Examination of museum collections has revealed four specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex that bear tooth marks made by large, carnivorous dinosaurs.Because Tyrannosaurus is the only large carnivore known from the Late Maastrichtian of western North America, we infer that Tyrannosaurus made these tooth marks.
Hmm, four instances, not one. Kinda makes what you look not the greatest right from the start.
Pretty solid inference if you ask me. At least it is much better than inferring that there is some mysterious unknown predator that was making the bite marks.
The marks are interpreted as feeding traces and these fossils therefore record instances of cannibalism. Given that this behavior has a low preservation potential, cannibalism seems to have been a surprisingly common behavior in Tyrannosaurus, and this behavior may have been relatively common in carnivorous dinosaurs.
Again, pretty easy to support this inference. We see a larger proportion of cannibalized fossils, said trace fossils are hard to preserve even when the bone is fossilized, therefore cannibalism was likely to be common. You might also note that nowhere does the paper say cannibalism was a 100% concrete fact, as science doesn't do that. Period.
Yes you did actually, and no, you did not *only* say or even intimate that people are ethically responsible for paying debt.
You simply attempted to shove the book keeping aspect from the lender, who should be all rights have to be kept to much stricter standards, to the borrower. Being as you can't prove a negative - I.E. Some random lender claims someone borrowed $X, that person doesn't have to prove they didn't borrow the money, the lender has to prove that the person did in fact borrow the money.
This is all beside the fact that unless the transfer of the debt was in the original contract the borrower should not be ethically bound to repay the second party that the debt was sold to. In the case of no selling clause being in the contract the borrower only has the ethical obligation to give money to the original lender, and the original lender only has the obligation to take the money from the borrower if they still hold if the original loan.
You want to sell in the case of no "we can sell to anyone, anytime" clauses? Make sure that I agree to have the debt moved to a different agency, one that will have to give me better terms for accepting the move. Otherwise I have no ethical obligation to give the new lender any payment as they are not the ones contracted to me originally. I also do not have any ethical obligations to keep paying the original lender since the can't ethically accept the payment anymore due to not holding the loan.
We, as a people in america, generally laud corporations for finding and exploiting every loophole possible to make as much profit as possible ( go capitalism rah rah rah ). We should also shower individuals with the same respect when they can do the same thing, whether intentionally or not, and boo the corporations for not protecting themselves and doing due diligence - thus losing money.
Yeah, I'm a "noon" whatever that is, because I don't see something as being a great attack vector. Or ad vector for that matter. The only thing slightly worrying is the useragent it sends to get the tailored MOTD data, no compelling need for exact CPU type and uptime.
Do tell me, how exactly is this so called attack that you worry about supposed to work? Magic text stored in the MOTD file that executes when cat'ed? Maybe you should learn how computers ( and logic for that matter, your post history indicates either a mind filled with fallacies or retardation ) work yourself.
If you are just trying to get a rise out of people, try harder. I've met better trolls than you could ever hope to be... you have no subtlety at all.
Plenty of people use Ubuntu who could not simply fix this.....
Yep, plenty of noobs are going to be logging in on the CLI console instead of into a greeter, all day, every day. Not like the default install a newbie would do includes full desktop and greeter on whatever flavor they have downloaded.... You are aware that MOTD is only displayed in a console TTY yes?
That's right, the only people who wouldn't know how to fix this are the one who will never even see it. Kind of a really shitty way to deliver ads if you ask me. Almost makes you think that it isn't really an ad delivery service doesn't it? Unless these so called "ads" are being targeted at noob sysadmins ( well may be, I wouldn't voluntarily put Ubuntu on any of my servers ) who need a bigger penis mortgage or whatever, I really don't see this as a huge deal since it only requests a text file.
Do your own research. You should not need to be spoon fed to do your own research, especially since you are in essence claiming to be educated about the topic.
Nope, that's what studies that aren't done in the U.S. are saying, and have been for the last year or more. Current consensus is ~95% harm reduction compared to traditional cigarettes, confirmed in studies from several different countries. Correlation does not cause causation blah, blah, blah; but it is quite interesting that the only studies saying these are super horrible bad come from the U.S., where there is the huge tobacco lobby....
You will note that the studies did NOT say they were completely harmless, as anything inhaled can cause harm, just that there is a dramatic reduction in the harm that is done. This reduction sometimes even lowers harm to levels to at or below risks from NO3 compounds from fossil fuel burning in large cities.
I'm technically very savvy.
I'm technically very savvy.
I'm technically very savvy.
Uhhh, yeah, sure. 1: Can't be bothered to read free online documentation for the tool you are using. 2: can't figure out that the host doesn't matter when the problems are related to the tools installed on the guest OS.... 3: can't figure out what to do "since I use Ubuntu with a different default desktop, when everything else is quite literally the same" 4: open-vm-tools is recommended all over the forums from the little I have glanced at them. 5: same as #4 except it is all over the forums AND knowledgebase / ask Ubuntu places for all of the Ubuntu based releases AND any half braindead search with your favorite search engine for these issues... 6:??????
7: revel in own ignorance.
So yeah, that bit of "esoteric" knowledge seems to have been disseminated quite far. Even a half-assed search that takes 2 minutes would have gotten you the information to make your life easier for quite some time.
It's do-able, and you have a wonderful example right in front of you - responsive web pages. It's all one page of HTML / CSS, and JS that displays and acts differently depending on the screen size and inputs available.
It shouldn't be too excessively difficult to have the OS / application know what it is being displayed on / has inputs available. You still get your custom tailored experience for the device you are using it on, but have one basic codebase that supports all - I.E. the same binary can have one display on a desktop / laptop, a different display that works with VR headsets, and even a third display that works on smaller screen touch tablets / phones ETC... all with the user never knowing that the other interfaces are there when using the device.
Weather MS will do this in a sane way is another matter entirely to mull over, the track record doesn't look so well for them. But it isn't some monumental impossible task like you make it out to be.
Seriously? Breaking vmware-tools is your complaint? Who uses those anymore?
Install the open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages and let DKMS handle rebuilding the kernel modules for you. Even VMWare recommends using their open source tools over the vmware-tools from their CD images these days.
I use all three, but there is one, read ONE killer feature on macs that I wish Windows / Linux would have: quicklook. Want to look in your Illustrator / photoshop / jpg / docx / xlsx / pdf / ppt / mp4 / mp3 / whatever document to see the contents without firing up the whole program just to see if it is the one you wanted, or to grab a bit of info? just hit space on a Mac and it pops up pretty much instantly... much faster than opening the dedicated program.
You do have to suffer the drawbacks though, namely the finder file browser is a steaming turd.
I get coverage from T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular, so you really have to be in the middle of bum fuck nowhere to not have anything.
The only downside would be to people who are heavy mobile data users, as it is strictly pay for what you use on data. With WIFI being everywhere I only use a small amount of mobile data these days, so paying ~$24-25/ month for phone + data is pretty sweet, especially after years and years with VZW and USC.
I installed it on a supported Nexus10 tablet.... it was a completely counter-intuitive shitshow. Waaaay too late to the market, everyone had used Android / iOS by the time they decided to bumble out the Ubuntu OS for phones and tablets - that didn't work in any way, shape, or form like a sane ( or even logical ) person would expect them to. Couple that with trying to sell shit tier phones that were 1-2+ years out of date, and were weak even when they were released....
That is even after looking past the fact that their market thingy had: 1: almost no applications ( the windows phone market looked like a wholesalers warehouse compared to the Ubuntu Market ) that anyone would need / want, and 2: the "scopes" that were the "desktop / icon view" replacements were also prety much non-existent.
Yeah... because the guy setting up that system wouldn't be able to hide anything he wants outside of the system on those servers. You know, like hiding a backdoor, I mean it's not like he was the ADMINISTRATOR, and had full unlimited access to the servers for a long time or anything....
You can make all the damn rules and regulations you want, but in the end you are bound to having to trust the people who have full access to the systems to implement those rules properly. There will always be someone somewhere in the setup chain that will not be bound to those rules yet, as the settings and rules won't exist on the servers yet.
I would love to be able to repeat some of my experiments for confirmation...
Tell me though, are you willing to pay for it? I need some more drill core from very specific depths, and the boring is right around a million dollars or more per hole - depending on the depths needed and how remote each location is. How many can you pay for? How soon can you get someone out there drilling?
Once you get the result you *want*, you then spend 100% of your time writing, publishing, hyping, funding, and publishing some more.
I can't deny that there are people like that in the sciences, but please, do tell me in what field are there NOT some kind of leech like people doing as little as possible for as much money as they can milk? MOST scientists are in it for the science, not glory / money / everything else you accuse us of.
The cost of replacing that old machine is minimal. Live with it. It's part of the price of progress.
Some of us quite literally can't. Your "minimal" cost is over $150K for one of the machines I use, with the actual machine being maybe $600, the rest being software licenses to work on OS's newer than the mid 90's and interface adapters to work with machines more advanced than a Pentium II.
OSX has its own recent problems: namely the rootless crap that is in El Crapitan and Sierra.
Even when completely disabled this breaks several portions of very, very common software like xtrafinder. Tons of people rely on xtrafinder to make the finder application not utter and complete crap. After Yosemite the only other option is to shell out an additional $30+ for a finder replacement that may or may not get updated for the next release. There are plenty of other software packages that are broken as well, some have been updated, and others haven't.
All of this is beside the point anyways, ROOT is supposed to have full access to everything. With the updates past Yosemite, unless you reboot and disable the security "feature" ROOT is not allowed to do very much. "Oh, you want to edit a "system" file? Nope, not even ROOT can do that...."
At least Apple doesn't force you update to higher OS versions.... and is still actively supporting Yosemite, at least for now.
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If you bothered to ask the almighty google overlords you would find out that they launched at least two commercial payloads on refurbished rockets. And have more scheduled already.
And what, pray tell, is stopping someone from gaining root > clobbering the binary log to corrupt the last few kb of logging time to force a split of the log file ( and maybe eve turn off logging so a new log isn't written), exactly the same as hiding your tracks in a text based file?
If someone has root / full admin privs. already you are screwed. That means they have full access to logging - as well as everything else on the system - to hide tracks, it doesn't matter what type of logging is being used. Any file that can be written to on disk can be subverted, it doesn't matter if it is a binary file or text file.
Last time I checked, which was in January, every damn truck stop still had Rand Mcnally maps and atlases. The big ones like Love's, Pilot, and Flying J are almost always a great place to stop. Clean bathrooms and decent food, as well as pretty much anything you may need for Phone / tablet / maps / or quite a lot of other things. Including magnifying glasses for his apparently decrepit eyes, since he claims to have had an atlas but "couldn't read the small print". Either buy a decent atlas for emergencies or deal with being lost...
Whose fault was it that the dude who decided to take a trip wasn't even smart enough to stop at the places completely designed for people navigating the damn country?
What cities have had to make laws about not reading while crossing the streets? When was this golden age of literacy when 70-80% of the population was constantly reading books / comic books while walking / driving?
Remind me again, when was the time that people were falling off cliffs from taking selfies with books?
A distributed risk essentially dissolves into the background noise that is the risk of being a human on this planet.
No. Not even close. It CAN mean that, but rarely if ever does.
Especially in this case, and especially with solar, you are concentrating risk at: 1: Rare earth element mines - both with working conditions ( hint in many, many countries they are horrible death traps ) as well as broader environmental issues with tailing spoils and acid mine drainage contaminating the environment a la Gold King mine in Silverton CO. 2: toxic waste production and disposal from manufacturing - If you think the waste is being disposed of properly by the companies trying to produce panels at bottom dollar prices you really should check into a mental health facility... because that is insane.
A heavy equipment operator stands a far greater chance being killed in their personal vehicle driving to a "dangerous" work environment, and sadly suicide is what often kills humans in high places, not accidents.
Sources? What heavy equipment are we talking about? Bulldozers that stay on the ground in low risk areas or equipment in high risk areas like heights / depths.
Also I would LOVE to see the source of suicide VS. accident ratios in work places that include heights. I.E. Not random jumpers that had jobs that were not on bridges / buildings.
Also, ignoring saftey regulations and equipment while extremely stupid can't be counted as suicide.
In the same manner, I believe that your argument is simply one of selfish convenience and less of stupidity. You think that other people should stay home so you can have a smoke whenever and wherever you want. I believe your right stop when you start infringing the rights of others, and unless you can inhale without exhaling you should keep your poison to your own environment.
And you think it is perfectly OK to tell a business owner what he can allow or not on his premises by forcing laws against something you personally dislike to be adopted instead of either: 1 - making informed choices and voting with your business / employment by going places that are like minded, or 2 - choosing to not go to a completely optional place, after all you can drink with friends at your own home just as easily ( and significantly cheaper to boot ) as you can at a bar. You could also go to a bar that the owner felt the same way as you do, and voluntarily didn't allow smoking. Hypocritical much? Sounds just like selfish convenience on your end, affecting more people and their livelihoods.
You just want to force your ideals on a place that didn't force you to not go. You were welcome to go, but chose not to due to thinly veiled dislike of the chosen atmosphere covered up by an argument that is just as bad as "think of the children".
But no, you would rather force your ideology on business owners and their patrons while crying about how you are entitled to go to the places that obviously didn't want to support the ban on patrons being able to smoke.
You sir are a hypocrite. Plain and simple.
Check out "darktable", it's a lightroom clone.
I poked at it a bit in one of my VMs, and it seems to work pretty decent... the only real complaints I had were the sliders being harder to grab, the mause grab area on each slider seems to be much smaller and more finicky than lightroom. I haven't tried importing, but if your camera is supported for USB transfer I would think it should be able to be poked enough to work.
The only jumping to conclusions here is you. You don't seem to have even read the abstract and methodology portion of the very paper you linked.
Examination of museum collections has revealed four specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex that bear tooth marks made by large, carnivorous dinosaurs.Because Tyrannosaurus is the only large carnivore known from the Late Maastrichtian of western North America, we infer that Tyrannosaurus made these tooth marks.
Hmm, four instances, not one. Kinda makes what you look not the greatest right from the start.
Pretty solid inference if you ask me. At least it is much better than inferring that there is some mysterious unknown predator that was making the bite marks.
The marks are interpreted as feeding traces and these fossils therefore record instances of cannibalism. Given that this behavior has a low preservation potential, cannibalism seems to have been a surprisingly common behavior in Tyrannosaurus, and this behavior may have been relatively common in carnivorous dinosaurs.
Again, pretty easy to support this inference. We see a larger proportion of cannibalized fossils, said trace fossils are hard to preserve even when the bone is fossilized, therefore cannibalism was likely to be common. You might also note that nowhere does the paper say cannibalism was a 100% concrete fact, as science doesn't do that. Period.
Yes you did actually, and no, you did not *only* say or even intimate that people are ethically responsible for paying debt.
You simply attempted to shove the book keeping aspect from the lender, who should be all rights have to be kept to much stricter standards, to the borrower. Being as you can't prove a negative - I.E. Some random lender claims someone borrowed $X, that person doesn't have to prove they didn't borrow the money, the lender has to prove that the person did in fact borrow the money.
This is all beside the fact that unless the transfer of the debt was in the original contract the borrower should not be ethically bound to repay the second party that the debt was sold to. In the case of no selling clause being in the contract the borrower only has the ethical obligation to give money to the original lender, and the original lender only has the obligation to take the money from the borrower if they still hold if the original loan.
You want to sell in the case of no "we can sell to anyone, anytime" clauses? Make sure that I agree to have the debt moved to a different agency, one that will have to give me better terms for accepting the move. Otherwise I have no ethical obligation to give the new lender any payment as they are not the ones contracted to me originally. I also do not have any ethical obligations to keep paying the original lender since the can't ethically accept the payment anymore due to not holding the loan.
We, as a people in america, generally laud corporations for finding and exploiting every loophole possible to make as much profit as possible ( go capitalism rah rah rah ). We should also shower individuals with the same respect when they can do the same thing, whether intentionally or not, and boo the corporations for not protecting themselves and doing due diligence - thus losing money.
Yeah, I'm a "noon" whatever that is, because I don't see something as being a great attack vector. Or ad vector for that matter. The only thing slightly worrying is the useragent it sends to get the tailored MOTD data, no compelling need for exact CPU type and uptime.
Do tell me, how exactly is this so called attack that you worry about supposed to work? Magic text stored in the MOTD file that executes when cat'ed? Maybe you should learn how computers ( and logic for that matter, your post history indicates either a mind filled with fallacies or retardation ) work yourself.
If you are just trying to get a rise out of people, try harder. I've met better trolls than you could ever hope to be... you have no subtlety at all.
Plenty of people use Ubuntu who could not simply fix this.....
Yep, plenty of noobs are going to be logging in on the CLI console instead of into a greeter, all day, every day. Not like the default install a newbie would do includes full desktop and greeter on whatever flavor they have downloaded.... You are aware that MOTD is only displayed in a console TTY yes?
That's right, the only people who wouldn't know how to fix this are the one who will never even see it. Kind of a really shitty way to deliver ads if you ask me. Almost makes you think that it isn't really an ad delivery service doesn't it? Unless these so called "ads" are being targeted at noob sysadmins ( well may be, I wouldn't voluntarily put Ubuntu on any of my servers ) who need a bigger penis mortgage or whatever, I really don't see this as a huge deal since it only requests a text file.
Do your own research. You should not need to be spoon fed to do your own research, especially since you are in essence claiming to be educated about the topic.
Nope, that's what studies that aren't done in the U.S. are saying, and have been for the last year or more. Current consensus is ~95% harm reduction compared to traditional cigarettes, confirmed in studies from several different countries. Correlation does not cause causation blah, blah, blah; but it is quite interesting that the only studies saying these are super horrible bad come from the U.S., where there is the huge tobacco lobby....
You will note that the studies did NOT say they were completely harmless, as anything inhaled can cause harm, just that there is a dramatic reduction in the harm that is done. This reduction sometimes even lowers harm to levels to at or below risks from NO3 compounds from fossil fuel burning in large cities.
At least SOMEONE is using the feature, MS certainly doesn't seem to use it... ever.
I'm technically very savvy.
I'm technically very savvy.
I'm technically very savvy.
Uhhh, yeah, sure.
1: Can't be bothered to read free online documentation for the tool you are using.
2: can't figure out that the host doesn't matter when the problems are related to the tools installed on the guest OS....
3: can't figure out what to do "since I use Ubuntu with a different default desktop, when everything else is quite literally the same"
4: open-vm-tools is recommended all over the forums from the little I have glanced at them.
5: same as #4 except it is all over the forums AND knowledgebase / ask Ubuntu places for all of the Ubuntu based releases AND any half braindead search with your favorite search engine for these issues...
6:??????
7: revel in own ignorance.
So yeah, that bit of "esoteric" knowledge seems to have been disseminated quite far. Even a half-assed search that takes 2 minutes would have gotten you the information to make your life easier for quite some time.
It's do-able, and you have a wonderful example right in front of you - responsive web pages. It's all one page of HTML / CSS, and JS that displays and acts differently depending on the screen size and inputs available.
It shouldn't be too excessively difficult to have the OS / application know what it is being displayed on / has inputs available. You still get your custom tailored experience for the device you are using it on, but have one basic codebase that supports all - I.E. the same binary can have one display on a desktop / laptop, a different display that works with VR headsets, and even a third display that works on smaller screen touch tablets / phones ETC... all with the user never knowing that the other interfaces are there when using the device.
Weather MS will do this in a sane way is another matter entirely to mull over, the track record doesn't look so well for them. But it isn't some monumental impossible task like you make it out to be.
Seriously? Breaking vmware-tools is your complaint? Who uses those anymore?
Install the open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop packages and let DKMS handle rebuilding the kernel modules for you. Even VMWare recommends using their open source tools over the vmware-tools from their CD images these days.
It's even worse than that, they say it runs W10 "S" which is locked down to only** be able to install software from the MS app store.
** With MS's security history, anyone want to take bets on how long before this is blown wide open so you can install normal programs from anywhere?
I use all three, but there is one, read ONE killer feature on macs that I wish Windows / Linux would have: quicklook. Want to look in your Illustrator / photoshop / jpg / docx / xlsx / pdf / ppt / mp4 / mp3 / whatever document to see the contents without firing up the whole program just to see if it is the one you wanted, or to grab a bit of info? just hit space on a Mac and it pops up pretty much instantly... much faster than opening the dedicated program.
You do have to suffer the drawbacks though, namely the finder file browser is a steaming turd.
Same here, no regrets.
I get coverage from T-Mobile, Sprint, and U.S. Cellular, so you really have to be in the middle of bum fuck nowhere to not have anything.
The only downside would be to people who are heavy mobile data users, as it is strictly pay for what you use on data. With WIFI being everywhere I only use a small amount of mobile data these days, so paying ~$24-25/ month for phone + data is pretty sweet, especially after years and years with VZW and USC.
Did you actually try their tablet / phone OS?
I installed it on a supported Nexus10 tablet.... it was a completely counter-intuitive shitshow. Waaaay too late to the market, everyone had used Android / iOS by the time they decided to bumble out the Ubuntu OS for phones and tablets - that didn't work in any way, shape, or form like a sane ( or even logical ) person would expect them to. Couple that with trying to sell shit tier phones that were 1-2+ years out of date, and were weak even when they were released....
That is even after looking past the fact that their market thingy had: 1: almost no applications ( the windows phone market looked like a wholesalers warehouse compared to the Ubuntu Market ) that anyone would need / want, and 2: the "scopes" that were the "desktop / icon view" replacements were also prety much non-existent.
It was completely DOA.
Yeah... because the guy setting up that system wouldn't be able to hide anything he wants outside of the system on those servers. You know, like hiding a backdoor, I mean it's not like he was the ADMINISTRATOR, and had full unlimited access to the servers for a long time or anything....
You can make all the damn rules and regulations you want, but in the end you are bound to having to trust the people who have full access to the systems to implement those rules properly. There will always be someone somewhere in the setup chain that will not be bound to those rules yet, as the settings and rules won't exist on the servers yet.
I would love to be able to repeat some of my experiments for confirmation...
Tell me though, are you willing to pay for it? I need some more drill core from very specific depths, and the boring is right around a million dollars or more per hole - depending on the depths needed and how remote each location is. How many can you pay for? How soon can you get someone out there drilling?
Once you get the result you *want*, you then spend 100% of your time writing, publishing, hyping, funding, and publishing some more.
I can't deny that there are people like that in the sciences, but please, do tell me in what field are there NOT some kind of leech like people doing as little as possible for as much money as they can milk? MOST scientists are in it for the science, not glory / money / everything else you accuse us of.
The cost of replacing that old machine is minimal. Live with it. It's part of the price of progress.
Some of us quite literally can't. Your "minimal" cost is over $150K for one of the machines I use, with the actual machine being maybe $600, the rest being software licenses to work on OS's newer than the mid 90's and interface adapters to work with machines more advanced than a Pentium II.
OSX has its own recent problems: namely the rootless crap that is in El Crapitan and Sierra.
Even when completely disabled this breaks several portions of very, very common software like xtrafinder. Tons of people rely on xtrafinder to make the finder application not utter and complete crap. After Yosemite the only other option is to shell out an additional $30+ for a finder replacement that may or may not get updated for the next release. There are plenty of other software packages that are broken as well, some have been updated, and others haven't.
All of this is beside the point anyways, ROOT is supposed to have full access to everything. With the updates past Yosemite, unless you reboot and disable the security "feature" ROOT is not allowed to do very much. "Oh, you want to edit a "system" file? Nope, not even ROOT can do that...."
At least Apple doesn't force you update to higher OS versions.... and is still actively supporting Yosemite, at least for now.