@innocent_white_lamb: "The last time I tried that I spent TWO SOLID DAYS at Staples trying to find a laptop that would boot with my Linux "live cd" flash drive."

@Kjella: "You need to go into the BIOS and disable secure boot, then it should load on all of them. If it would boot your Linux distro it'd also boot whatever malware was trying to trojan Windows and that's exactly what they're trying to avoid"

Microsoft: "Secure Boot is a security standard developed by members of the PC industry to help make sure that your PC boots using only software that is trusted by the PC manufacturer."

I don't understand why these members of the PC industry didn't include the Linux makers in the design stage and instead made Secure Boot Windows only. I also understand that UEFI doesn't play nice with dual boot, purely a coincidence no doubt.

@ Applehu Akbar: "The first local settlers walked into a war between the invading Navajo and the agrarian Hopi, a conflict which moved through centuries of war into the American court system, and continues in muted form to this day."

Massive Population Drop Found for Native Americans, DNA Shows

"The number of Native Americans quickly shrank by roughly half following European contact about 500 years ago, according to a new genetic study.

The finding supports historical accounts that Europeans triggered a wave of disease, warfare, and enslavement in the New World that had devastating effects for indigenous populations across the Americas."

@NostalgiaForInfinity: "misguided views like these are responsible for the long periods of stagnation and weakness that China has experienced."

The Economic Importance of Indian Opium and Trade with China on Britain's Economy

The First Opium War

Sugar, opium and cotton

'the editorial board at the New York Times has suggested that the most constructive approach to reducing the spread of cyber threats would be to "accelerate international efforts to negotiate limits on the cyberarms race, akin to the arms-control treaties of the Cold War."'

I would have thought the solution is to built 'computer' that can't so easily be hacked. DDOD attacks only being feasable because of all those hacked Windows desktops out there in cyberspace.

IRAN -- Current Topics, Interaction with GCHQ

" Iranian Cyber Attacks: Iran continues to conduct didtribituted denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against numerous U.S. financial institutions and is currently in the third phase of a series of such attacks that began in August 2012."

Will NVIDIA be paying the Microsoft Tax?

"Cyber-based threats to federal information systems such as those that FAA relies on for its ATC systems are evolving and growing .. Further, the growing interconnectivity among different types of information systems presents increasing opportunities for such attacks."

Just who in their right minds connect an Air Traffic Control system to the Cybernet?

@BarbaraHudson: 'Yet another report that doesn't give hard numbers either in the summary or the article. And of course, the pdf is walled behind a "give us your information and we'll let you download it" page.'

If you haven't downloaded it, how do you know it doesn't gave any hard numbers. Besides, you can fill in any ole name and download it.

Key findings from the 2015 Linux Jobs Survey and Report show that:

"The 2015 Linux Jobs Report reveals and analyzes the responses from more than 1,000 hiring managers at corporations, small and medium businesses (SMBs), government organizations, and staffing agencies across the globeâ"as well as responses from more than 3,400 Linux professionals worldwide."

@BarbaraHudson: "I doubt we will ever have an unbiased set of numbers to work with - that would require someone who doesn't have a vested interest in the outcome."

Yes - of course - you're absolutely right - the Linux foundation obviously have a hidden agenda here ..

"Microsoft has tried and repeatedly failed to take the mobile space by storm"

What Microsoft should do is - get the hardware manufacturers to pay Microsoft for each handset sold - whether they have Windows on them or not.

"The so-called FREAK attack - short for Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys - is possible when an end user with a vulnerable device - currently known to include Android smartphones, iPhones, and Macs running Apple's OS X operating system - connects to an HTTPS-protected website configured to use a weak cipher that many had presumed had been retired. At the time this post was being prepared, Windows devices were not believed to be affected, and the status of Linux devices was unknown"

Threaten to sue them and if they fail to act post details of the vulnerability. What's the name of this 'partner web site' again?

@ShanghaiBill: "The reason we have ISIS is because we defeated Saddam Hussein without thinking much about what would come next."

@hcs_$reboot: "Not true. There were people talking in front of the UN audience, warning exactly what would come next in 2003."

I think what ShanghaiBill meant is that no one in the Bush administration did much thinking, if indeed they were capable of rational introspection.