This is all because in the 1990s the government allowed FOXTEL to goto the USA, and buy up exclusive licenses to all new and back catalogues from every major media company in America. They spent billions on it and at the time everyone thought they were overpaying.Turns out they very smartly bought themselves a monopoly position in media, one that has effectively locked out all Australian competitors (All the local media services are shit, from the PSN movies, to Xbox Live, to Quickflix.) and the government hasn't had the balls to call them out and break them up for it.

8k UHD video does exist... NHK in Japan was broadcasting the Olympics in 2012 at 8k resolution in Akihabara. There's always a need for more capacity.

May I introduce you to Gentoo, where you can block X as a dependancy across all packages and run your distro completely headless.

Frankly I don't see much in the new Gnome that makes it worth bringing to any platform. I just wish the same effort being put into making broken UI concepts work on various gnu projects was put into GNUstep and GNU projects.

I run Linux as a desktop environment at work in my job as a sysadmin, the only time I ever fire up a Windows VM is for goto assist sessions. RDP/VNC/TeamViewer work fine for remote desktop, vmware web view works fine for server admin, I use Office 365 Web and OWA for e-mail, and I have had Evolution configured for Office 365 exchange support. The groupware stuff is a total myth, it works.

Is the single most bullshit answer ever. Are you people fucking serious? When has having children ever been a hindrance to entering a field such as medicine, law, or science? Women do all of these jobs without issue. That is the dumbest answer I've ever seen. It's also sexist as hell, I'm a guy and I'm not stupid enough to follow that line of reasoning. Lack of interest maybe, social stigma, quite possibly, there's also a huge battery of people saying no no no no no don't do STEM, only guys can do it. It's the man's field. Personally I think it's a lack of parents encouragement. Guys giving up computer time to their sisters, social sexism against women, and a lack of desire due to the above from women themselves. I work for an IT company, it's honestly a hostile workplace. If we ever hired a woman we would get sued to shit for the stuff I hear every day at work.

Why would they bother to support a UN treaty? They're like the biggest rogue state on the planet.

Nope, Microsoft don't provide many drivers for most hardware. Linux is supporting far more platforms/hardware drivers directly in kernel compared to Microsoft. All the Xerox/HP/Canon/NVIDIA/ATI/Intel/Philips/NEC/Toshiba/TV Tuner/Sound drivers for windows are third party drivers. It's no longer a Microsoft vs Linux issue, it hasn't been for a long time. It's all about the apps. Windows itself is incompatible with many pieces of hardware (forced obsolescence) Mainly because third parties decided to drop support around 64-bit or a newer Windows version.(I'm looking at you HP, dropping network scanning from windows 7 64-bit on certain printers) The same manufacturers who refuse to support Linux funnily enough don't support their Windows products well either. The hardware support claim is a furphy. All the large scale corporate printers/photocopiers/POS systems I've encountered have full Linux support. The only thing holding Linux back is stuff like frontline service applications written in .NET/Win32 that aren't getting ported over. More OSS software that can drop in and take over corporate software deployments is what's needed. Samba 4 and OpenExchange server are BIG steps in the right direction and we are seriously evaluating these for corporate widespread deployments.

Isn't this just another problem for encrypted darknets to solve?

Frankly at this point, I'd rather the Chinese have my data to be honest. They won't share it with the Australian/Five eyes governments, and since I live ina Five eyes country, that works better for me. It's not like they'll put me in a prison from China for some BS they find on my phone. My own government on the other hand is much more likely to screw up my life using my own private data.

The crash scene is a crime scene and all the bodies and bits should be left in place. Russia lost all credibility the second they started moving bits around.

Clearly some rights just aren't worth protecting because they come at too much expense.

You've got it backwards dude... Unix Sysadmins have long ponytail hair... Everyone knows that. Just checkout Johnathon Schwartz to see what I'm talking about.

Follow the Herd? you must be GNU here?

Get howto program Linux games, and get a copy of the OpenGL spec. That's about all you need. It tells you howto setup the engine for proper operation. Swap out the 2D renderer from the book with a 3D renderer you write yourself. Simple enough.