To me as as someone who has a linux box, isn't afraid of the command line but really gets pissed of with the idea that you have to remember magic strings of characters to get the bastard working the the way you want it rather than the way 'they' have decided is the one true way I'm fully in agreeance with the OP. The trouble is the more skilfully tuned your distro is so the up-front and follow-though documentation assumes guru level of *nixism. Strange thing! I run a computer to get work done not to type "sudo foo --x y z" Hey I'll run a http server, what could be simpler, but oh dear that partition is mysteriously out of bounds. Perhaps I'd better change the start-up programs (and I'm not talking grovelling with services/daemons here) but either I can't or the system calls me a stranger and then can't make any defaultchoices that actually eanble me to get on with my life.

Admins of systems that serve serious stuff will know how to secure their systems, but the box-or-two business will be running back to Windows (with good reason) due to the horror of not wearing a bloody useless cycle helmet - oh I mean not logging ion as root.

Home-linux distros needs nil access restrictions then good advice. Security depends on people so EMPOWER PEOPLE by EDUCATING them why layers of security are good and worth worrying about. SUDO is box-ticking for Linux.

17K lives by one estimate
http://www.newrepublic.com/art...

A testimonial:
http://theweek.com/speedreads/...

I'm unsure home how that compares to the millions of lives W. saved when he invaded Iraq ;)

I suppose if you're a criminal, just not carrying a cell phone with you at all times isn't a possibility?

People got along just fine before them....

I"ll happily take any extra years these people are throwing away.

I wanna live forever...somehow....

So your saying these bozos thought that losing people who were self-motivating enough to learn on their own, and retaining those who weren't and leaving them untrained was some king of competative advantage? I guess I just don't understand how these MBAs think.

Doesn't the existence of Whopper Lab mean you can tell a computer?

Until you use a 10" screen. They were common in the netbook era but have since returned on laptops like the Transformer Book by ASUS and Aspire Switch by Acer. Some dialogs don't fit and I have to use the window manager's keyboard shortcuts to move the top of the window above the top of the screen to see the OK button. Or by "alternate" do you mean more tabs?

Reading "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" by Dr. Asimov is an excellent start at understanding scientific method.

Because it may influence whether Sega decides to port Sonic the Hedgefund Manager to Android or keep it console-only.

If you want to transfer only the subset of your MP3 collection contained in a specific set of playlists, then you may need software to construct the copy job, even if it's just a shell script that parses the m3u files. And until very recently, you needed to install software to connect an Android 4.x phone to a PC because some operating systems didn't come with MTP automounting.

But without rooting, you can't recover the gigabytes occupied by this preinstalled bloatware that you could otherwise have been using to store music and e-books.

Good luck getting any service that way if the only cellular carriers with a usable signal in your area are CDMA2000 carriers like Verizon and Sprint. I'm under the impression that they won't just sell you a CSIM for an unbranded CDMA2000 phone.

Then why doesn't Google let the Android Market decide by including a line in the CDD stating that if you include X, Y, or Z your phones won't get Google Play Store? Google already does that for certain variants of multi-window mode because Google wants to enforce an all maximized all the time use model even if your 10" tablet is as big as two Nexus 7s or four Nexus 5s.

Which "AGW denying bit" would that be? It can't be the part about observation because it hasn't gotten any warmer for the past 18 years, so there would be no warming to be observed.

Fully agree, training costs are part of the job, and if they don't support that, you should find someone who does unless those other benefits entirely dominate.