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No I'm not saying that at all. What gives you the impression?

Yes, but to solve them it is more fruitful to learn programming rather than "mathematics" as is likely to be taught in schools. Which is what I was saying.

E.g. Olympic archery events can be analyzed by mathematics - one can say each shot IS a mathematical equation. But one practices archery rather than learn mathematics to do well in such events. Their being mathematical equations is a useless but interesting trivia.

Virus has been created artificially, over a decade ago. Arguments why virus is not "life" are all "artificial".

I would not have thought intelligence is information how to process information.

Programming is becoming the new mathematics. Increasingly, scientific models are in computer programs rather than mathematical equations. Even the ones that are in mathematical equations, solving them is less practical than modeling those questions themselves in computer programs.

You're having to resort to plain lies - what does that suggest?

I never said you were right about run levels. Actually you didn't mention run levels at all, at least in the post I replied to are any that I remember.

Run levels strictly were a concept in sys V init. Most distributions don't even use that init any more, so 2 out of 3 distributions using run level 2 is laughable. Clearly you have no clue what you're talking about.

So where resume from hibernate is set to appear with a locked screen, closing the lid means hibernate + lock screen. Closing the lid, to be not "defeated by if it's function is complex / unreliable from an end user point of view"[sic] needs to make sure that hibernate + lock screen "reigns supreme" once lid is closed. But it doesn't. So MS windows isn't any better from your own perspective.

Same is the case where closing the lid means suspend+lock. Or someone going away from the system after Start -> shutdown, or Start -> shutdown -> restart assuming autologin is not enabled. A short lived bug which you lived with for a long time doesn't make it the expected behaviour rather than a bug.

And you are wrong about ctrl-alt-backspace not logging out the user from X. In run level 3 + startx, it doesn't log out from the text terminal which started startx, but that is a well known security reason to run in run level 5, where user X session is always logged out unless auto-login is enabled.

Ever since run-levels stopped being that important, ctrl-alt-backspace has been by default disabled by most distributions. Still *DM login has this security advantage over text login + startx as is well known.

Typical Chromebooks aren't powerful enough to run VMs nicely. The limitation is quite hard in the RAM department, one may not want to spend money in upgrading it when performance will be bad even after RAM upgrade - why not run proper Linux distribution on bare metal and save the expense and performance hit?

The malfunctioning of the noise making device may not be illegal (or less illegal) than not having the noise making device. So nobody ever services noise making devices, car manufacturers attach progressively worse noise making devices which are more and more prone to failure.

Eventually people get used to silent fast moving large hard solid objects moving about the streets.

Read http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

You claimed this by hiding behind this Vik Khanna's article, who does claim this.

Because the article you point to keeps repeating that fitness correlates with health must mean standing desks do not correlate with health. You misinterpret the studies it cites to mean standing desks do not corelate with good health whereas they say nothing of the sort.

Nope, that article assumes an option between (standing work + no exercise) and (sitting work and lots of exercise). The studies it cites all relate fitness to health - which no one is denying. But they DO NOT relate standing work to health.

And telling it to you for the 5th time - standing work does NOT prevent you from exercising.

And yet lots of people consume lots of more calories than they spend in a day. Which adds up to very unhealthy amounts of fat over time in their bodies. Which they could have prevented/reduced - in this regard the calorie burn is equivalent to a 1.5-2.5 hour workout.

But you claim erroneously that there is no benefit of spending this extra 320 kilocalories, equivalent to 5 such cheese slices per day.

Which also doesn't prevent them from performing other forms of exercise - as I keep reminding you falling on deaf ears.

One would hope their activities DO SOMETHING about their fitness level, not just indicate something about their fitness level.