You know. Given the availability of hardware to run Linux I don't think holding on a PS3 to your dear life to run Linux is as good of an option as before. It is relly cheap to run Linux on Resberry Pi. If you want more processing power other hardware options are available. Unlocked phone is just another device to run Linux/Andriod. If you need to run Linux, there are plenty of hardware to run on.

Unfortunately as it is, game console is increasing becoming a splurge. I agree I won't necessarily going out there to buy a console now. The priority to buy a game console is dropping steadily as the years goes on. I still play games here and there but Apple really knows where gaming is going: to the phones and tablets.

If I am a fleet manager I would not want to spend a lot of time negotiating per vehicle, or per order. Rather it is to all parties advantage to have a set fleet price and order at the negotiated price. And yes, the negotiation is between the car manufactures and the buyers. Dealers are just there to fulfill the orders.

That might be true. But for many of us that might live until 3/4 of this century We will continue to write how much they respect one another. That should be enough to keep Steve's reputation as a tech genius and Bill as a prodigy turn hard-driving tech executive turn philanthropist. You can probably equate Bill and Steve's relationship to John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Plenty of people after them will be intrigued by their personal relationship with one another.

Better yet, we need him to remain as a federal court judge. He's pretty good at what he does. We need more good judges, not more of 15 min celebrity.

I hate to say this but for a hospital in a group of some sorts there has to be a way to get a volume licensing work out with all the hospitals in the same group. Also for upwards over a thousand machines in your hospitals (quick quesstimate), the annual license cost of a few hundreds of thousands of dollars might not be as outrageous as you think. There are technology cost associated with running an institution. All the medium to large/enterprise size company deals with it. It's simply a cost of running a business.

Looks like government needs to put forward a consortium on the approved code base to limit liabilities. Then the cost of software package will go down significantly for the specialty software, when dealing with compliance issues.

Prob not the most popular idea with the conservatives, but hey, someone has to decide we need to drive on the "right" side of the road instead of the left.

Adding to that common practice is the out-of-date software cannot be rid of due to old hardware still in service. There are still DOS based software running around. The only good thing about it is that a, script kiddies don't know DOS very well these days (not saying they cannot learn fast), b. they are limited in their usage, and c. most of the DOS based software lack ability to connect to a network, and so do the device the software to be used with.

In my line of work. If you don't properly commission your stuff, it has high consequences. Both in casualty and in economic consequences.

As a result, if someone works for me and not properly test/commission the equipment, I will make sure they don't work for me ever again, period. If they fuss then I will see to it that the rest of the company knows how incompetent you are and why your company/affiliate tolerate such unprofessional attitude and conduct. It's a fairly small circle in my line of work that eventually no one will hire them unless their attitudes change.

Geesh! You mean I can't watch a commercial on ABC with my wife late at night? Is the birth rate in Europe so low they have to resort to regulate couple's "late night activities" to promote population growth?

I dunno, maybe not order these phone being built in China in the first place? Apple is a US company after all.

I don't usually make such direct and opinionated comment but you sir, is an idiot. Many vaccinations in discussion here are well proven with plenty of track records on their effectiveness and potential side effects. This records spans multiple DECADES and all over the globe. The United States Congress is running a race to the bottom while the rest of the world is trying to vaccinate every kids in their country to improve their public health. Yet someone like you is standing behind a position with very little proven science and are very much in a position to prevent the stability of public health.

We are not just talking about funding studies here on the side effect, which most would agree to be a beneficial thing (even if they don't agree with it). In fact we are talking about STOPPING current vaccination programs, which has been proven to be HIGHLY effective as far as public health goes. This goes a farther than than the individual expression. Public health at large must be properly protected with programs well run and supported by the professionals with good knowledge and experience. Right now the majority of the experts says vaccination is a good thing. We need to trust their ability in their field. There are very little reason why would majority of medical professionals would lie together on issues such as this.

I also don't normally make this request but some with mod points please mod this post down to negative (I don't mind if you do mod mine down as well). This post has zero benefit to the readers and is nothing but flame bite.

For the record I took all the vaccination required and it has no ill effect on me.

Hence it is a standard practice to have ZERO wireless devices within the air-gapped secure network to start. You are correct the traffic monitoring and strict firewall (on an air-gapped network) are still necessary. They should be standard practice in a critical network today, even in SCADA/Control application. There are very little reason not to do so today.

Yup the new Q should have been fired on the spot if he was still a network engineer grunt at MI6 for making a rookie mistake!!! Why is he putting a non-secured machine from a hostile party into a secure network in the first place???

I'm sorry to hear this. My latest HP laptop running Windows XP (corporate build, sorry) manage to be stable after daily stand-by (not shutting down like I suppose to do) for quite awhile (a few months). Every once awhile I shutdown and reboot, but then again, I think I am suppose to do shutdown, I just don't care to. Knock on wood this will be all right for a while. I think it has more to do with the quality of the hardware than the OS itself, unfortunately. So MS is really not to be blamed.

Because like so many trivial things in life, it gets political. Worse for federal government, since not only do they have to deal with office politics, they also have to deal with the OTHER politics when it comes to how to run an agency with the appropriate ideology, down to if it fits the ideological view of certain people whether to encrypt a stupid harddrive or not.