I think these sort of things will come but in the short term they need to shift boxes with more margin to build their business.

I love what System76 are doing - taking Linux and integrating it properly with good quality hardware and then giving some style. Apple for people who know what they are doing, and could spend time building their own system, but actually want a solid platform that is science and data focussed which they can use as an appliance. Turn it on and it just works.

I have been using Linux since RedHat 6.2 but never on the desktop until I got hold of POP_OS.

After having used POP for six months then I decided to make the leap and now I can just fire up tensorflow and it 'just works' . I bought a Thelio and a Oryx laptop and they have been excellent. Solid and well made, and I am glad to be supporting a good company that is putting out such a solid product. I ditched apple because the hardware is now crappy and tried windows and was shocked at the crapware they include that you cannot delete and Microsoft's complete ownership of all my data / thoughts etc.

Agree - POP OS is a game changer.
Have been using it for six months and decided I wanted to go over to use their hardware, partly because I believe in what they are doing.
I went to visit them in Denver the other day to pick up my systems - cool set up - great graphics and some people who know what they are doing.

I ran Linux on server and (as a secondary system) on desktop from RedHat 6.2

Then, thoroughly fed up with MS, I went to Apple with their first Intel systems in 2005, and have been a loyal customer until I got fed up with shoddy hardware e.g. keyboards, price gouging and software 'incompatabilities' e.g. making it difficult to integrate other software.
I then tried windows10 and was horrified by the sign up process of complete handover of data to MS. Also I could not delete the crapware apps on a 'professional system'- they kept coming back onto the desktop and menus! And I have been with windows since 3.1 on my 286,

I still keep an apple system for media but have now gone completely over to POP-OS on system76 hardware. The main reason was I got fed up trying to configure machine learning and this just does 'install tensorflow GPU latest' and it is done.

All the main packages are available on a (free) apple-type 'store'.
so I get decent hardware, decent software which does not phone home with all my data. There is even support if I need it, and I am pleased to be supporting a shop that is making a decent fist of marketing linux.

I agree
I read what I had to agree to on Windows 10 and while I ticked the boxes, I also resized my W10 partition and installed POP-OS.

Haven't booted up W10 in a couple of months now.
Exchange / Office 365 working
Doesn't BSOD on me
found Zotero for references

only remaining issue is running video in presentations but will get there.

I will scrub my W10 partition next week.

That may be so but at least this opens the door to alternatives as defaults

I have recently migrated from being an Apple OSX user for the last 14 years to POP-OS, and so am interested in doing the same with my Android phone - currently a WileyFox.

For the first time the OS community now has a robust and user-centric portfolio of user-facing products with which to challenge Google / Microsoft / Apple / Facebook.

The question is whether the snowflakes will see past their short term interest and make the effort to change? I suspect not.

Even doing something as easy as installing AdNauseum at least poisons the well of the Orwellian forces so we ought to get more people doing that.

How long before they get C-Beams - now those would be worth seeing!

So while I think that might be overkill, maybe it is simpler than my solution:

Main Browser
Firefox browser with random agent spoofer, noscript, privacy badger and adnauseam so that I am actively obfuscating tracking.

Secondary Browser
Secondary browser (chrome) that I use to book tickets, use web outlook or do anything that the main browser will sometimes break.

Tertiary browser
Use Torbrowser on the rare occassion that you really don't want to be tracked.

IAAD and I work in this area.
ISO 13485 has very specific standards for any medical device that touches patients.
To get an ISO 13485 + ISO 27001 (data security) rated product with software is going to take $500k to get to the stage where you can pilot and go for second round funding.

There are all sorts of really good sounding projects out there
http://www.oxehealth.com/
http://intelligentultrasound.c...

I have found that it is easy to show that a product works in optimum conditions e.g. with people who will stay still and not move about, but put a lot of these technologies into real life situations and the data they output is landfill quality.

This is one of the really annoying things - we have politicians who think that Joe average is going to upload the data from their heart monitor and we are going to stop him going to the Emergency Department.
The diagnosis I make is only as good as the data I base that on. That is why Apple has pulled all its apps with medical claims. The consequences of misdiagnosis due to poor data mean a PR disaster on the scale of Volkswagen diesels.

I am not saying that some of this stuff is impossible, but don't expect too much too soon, and if the device and software are not certified, I cannot use them in my practice so they are just shiny paperweights.

I agree. IAAD but not in US and not involved in this case.

When you practice medicine you are always surprised at what you find and you would not believe some of the things we see.
Patients in wheelchairs who are physically and neurologically normal. Patients who present with strange and catastrophic conditions who then turn out to be known Munchausens.

In the case of adults if someone chooses to do strange things we do not have any interest or right to stop them, providing they are not harming others.

However in the case of children, if we believe that illness is not present, and therefore that the child is being harmed by the presumption of illness, then we have a duty of care to the child to prevent it. It is not negotiable - we have legal and moral duty to do this. An example of this is children whose parents poison (and sometimes kill) using salt. These situations are very rarely immediately obvious.

This guy has taken on himself to judge this difficult and messy situation, and unless you are directly involved in the case and have some expertise to bring to the table, a lot of people would agree with you that this indeed makes it likely to be a jerk.

I foresee a good market in mobile Faraday cages.

While I am honoured that they try this technology in London, really Liverpool is the ne plus ultra of the retailing world challenge.

They would need to replace all the phones every hour at the rate they will get scoused there.

In medical research when we are comparing groups it is normal to specify the power/ do a power calculation

power is a measure of the risk of finding a result when none exists (falsely rejecting the null hypothesis)

the null hypothesis is that your two treatments are equal

more here:
http://powerandsamplesize.com/...

The obvious use case that might make this viable, and also the BRAVE browser

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

would be porn, which tends to power most great IT advances.

This is good news and I was worried that Australia was stitched up by TPP.

As an Australian and British citizen in an IP creating industry I want something that gives me reasonable protection for my IP (and 20-25 years is about right) but at the same time gives me protection against patent trolls.

I voted for Brexit on the grounds that the EU is sleepwalking into TPP and I don't want my intellectual property to be governed by East Texas.
Maybe I should move back to Aus?

I decided not to post anything interesting or relevant.

I had exactly the same sentiments, but went with the iphone 6 but if there had been the option for a large capacity 5s then would have been quite happy with that.

Not sure about 'the loop bit' - I am sure this is a Malcolm Tucker reference - now that would be a product launch I would go to.

For those that do not know 'In the Loop' then judging by 'house of cards', our last great political drama, you should get your version of Malcolm in about 10 years time.
NB Malcolm is very occasionally NSFW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUky4_A7Zw4