Errr...WTF are you talking about? Linux plays directly from network shares just fine. I do it all the time. In fact, I've been doing it for years. I can't remember the last time I had to wait for it to copy the entire file before it would start playing. (Although I do remember that happening, but it was YEARS ago. Maybe even a decade.)

FTFY. We're talking Ballmer here, after all.....

Well, that's what you get for running Ubuntu in a dev environment. It's a distribution that's meant to be installed from Ubuntu's repositories, only updated from those same repositories, and never really used for any third party software. I've got a 75+ year old guy using it, because he kept getting infected when he was running Windows. Hasn't had any problems with it at all, other than when a stick of memory went bad, and it started crashing all the time.

For stable servers (and even workstations) I've been running Debian since at least as far back as 1997. There were some issues like you describe in the first 5 years or so, but honestly, the only thing I've run across in the last 5 years was when I tried to do a database server upgrade, and uninstalled the old postgreSQL version 7 before migrating the data to the new version 8 server. That was a relatively easy fix, though, and it only happened because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. Other than that, every Debian machine I maintain (and there are A LOT of them...) just runs perfectly.

I have a customer who installed an Ubuntu server because "it has a GUI and it'll be easy for me to use". I stuck with it for a while because they liked it, solving problem after problem that cropped up because we kept needing to add third party software to it, which broke on literally EVERY SINGLE kernel upgrade.
Finally, I figured out the amount of time I'd spent fixing shit that wouldn't have broken if we'd been using Debian, and how long it would take me to back up, blow away, install Debian, and restore data. Turned out the customer would have been 4 figures richer if I hadn't had to fix all the Ubuntu screwups over a couple of years. Recommended migrating to Debian, they agreed, and that machine hasn't had a problem since. That was 6 months ago.

Israel army (on phone to Gaza officials): We're going to be bombing this building, so make sure you get all the children, women, and others out.
Hamas terrorist: HA! Children! Stay where you are! You are safe here from the Jewish infidels! Don't move!
---- bombs drop ----
Hamas terrorist (to foreign media): That accursed Israeli army! They bombed children! How could they!

What other military actively warns the enemy ahead of time that they're going to be bombing a specific target? It's Hamas that makes sure civilians stay there, so they can use their deaths in the propaganda war against Israel. And you've fallen for it.

Of course. That would require a Ford that actually runs in the first place.
Buh dum, crash!
Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week. Try the fish; it's delicious!

(I don't really have anything against Ford, other than their miserable first gen Sync system, but it was just too good to pass up....)

Well, aren't you just the smartass? :)

Because if you didn't, when (he he....maybe "if") the entire Internet finally switches to IPv6, you'd have to run 4to6 hacks on your router, and probably have large swathes of the Internet unreachable, because your IPv4 internal network doesn't have the capability to properly address the IPv6 address space.
Much easier to just use IPv6 internally to begin with.

You 'ave a complaint!? Look at these shoes! I've only 'ad 'em three weeks and.....

A snail mail letter can be dropped into a bulk, anonymous mailbox outside a variety store miles from your home/workplace, with no return address, and still get to where it needs to go. That makes the connections between sender and receiver impossible to track.

This isn't possible for email, as it needs an email account to be sent from.

Without all those insignificant lives, society is nothing.

So I guess that means you use unauditable, backdoored, closed source garbage then, huh?

So, let's see what else is classified as "pollution" by this idiotic definition:

- 100% pure water? Check.
- 100% pure nitrogen? Check.
- Grandma's homemade apple pie? Check.
- the natural marble countertops in my kitchen? Check.

Wow. I guess just about every piece of matter in the entire universe is pollution, huh?

Of the 186 billion or so tons of carbon that are dumped into the atmosphere on an annual basis from various sources, human activity - ALL human activity - is responsible for less than 10 billion of those.
Historically, we're at the tail end of an interglacial period, which happens every 100,000 years (and have for millions of years), give or take, and last between 15,000 and 20,000 years, on average. When this interglacial period ends, we're going to be dumped back into an ice age, just as has happened every single time the earth has had an interglacial period in the past. Reducing carbon emissions will do nothing to encourage or prevent this, as warming and cooling cycles have happened consistently for millions of years, despite CO2 ppm ranges from the current 380 or so, up to over 7000 in the Cambrian period. Late in the Ordovician Period was actually an ice age, even though atmospheric CO2 was over 4000 ppm. Anti-carbon global warming proponents typically state that 450-500 ppm is a "tipping point" after which there will be no way to stop a runaway greenhouse effect. If this was true, we wouldn't be here, and the earth would already be a second, uninhabitable Venus.
Right now, we're roughly 18,000 years into an interglacial that, historically, should last between 15,000 and 20,000 years. When the current trend of global warming started, 18,000 years ago, it was (obviously) well before industrial pollution, smokestacks, automotive exhaust, etc. Despite this, the average earth temperature climbed by approximately 9 degrees Celsius, and sea levels rose by 300 feet. The 1 or 2 degrees for the last century or so that we're panicking over right now isn't even close to the limit of natural temperature changes due to these cycles, so it's absolutely impossible to state that human activity is causing any temperature changes at all. The last 120 years of temperature changes aren't even statistical noise in the history of the earth. Incidentally, right now is not even the warmest global average temperature in recent history. During a period extending roughly from AD 1000 to 1300, there was a period called the "Medieval Warm Period" which was slightly warmer than it currently is today. This was followed by a "mini ice age" for about 650-700 years, which we are currently emerging from. The currently slight warming trend is almost guaranteed to be due to this, rather than atmospheric CO2. This Medieval Warm Period isn't the warmest recent period that we know of, though. From approximately 7500 years ago to 4000 years ago was a period known as the Holocene Maximum, which is the hottest period in human history.

Now, when the current interglacial ends - and it will - we'll be dumped into another ice age, as I've already stated. During the last ice age, the entire land mass of what is now Canada was completely covered in glaciers. These extended to large parts of the northern US. Similarly, large swathes of Russia and China were buried under ice, as well as England, Scandinavia, etc.
The amount of water tied up in glaciers during this period made the rest of the warmer part of the earth very dry and barren compared to today. Forested areas were very limited, and what wasn't forested was pretty much inhospitable. Today, thanks to natural global warming, the earth is a relative paradise, with plant and animal life in huge areas that were nothing but ice 20,000 years ago.
This is what we're headed back towards, within, at absolute most, 2000 years. With the severe reductions in arable farmland, there is absolutely no way that an ice age earth could support the 7 billion people currently living on this rock. We're concerned about a few thousand deaths and a fair amount of economic damage if sea levels rise a few feet, but completely ignoring the billions of starvation and disease deaths that will happen when the earth enters its next ice age. If it's true that increases in atmospheric CO2 will cause significant global warming (despite all the geological evidence to the contrary), then it might be the only thing that could prevent the next ice age. We should be dumping as much CO2 into the atmosphere as we can, to try to stave off this eventuality.

So, to answer your question of what governments should do to limit CO2 emissions:
Absolutely nothing.

I know that.

This thread/discussion is about using GPS to figure out which network connection(s) to look for and connect to, so this statement, while true, is not even remotely applicable to the topic.

Also true. However, most people have apps installed on their Android phone. Too many Android apps request fine location permission for no legitimate reason. I assume a lot of the free ones that display ads want location so they only display ads for brick and mortar businesses that are geographically relevant. Even for this, though, the coarse, network-based location service would be much more accurate than necessary.

See my response to your sibling post, as well.

Because way too many programs on Android request fine location permission. Yes, this is a problem with the programs themselves, but that's why I said "potentially." However, every time your phone turned on the GPS momentarily to determine location and therefore which probes to send, any or all of these programs, if installed, would be able to snag your exact location, and send it off to the developer on the next network connection.