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Comment Plato ... (Score 1) 19

... was against writing. Because it would degrade the memory and reasoning skills of scholars who became dependent on it.

It's not the tools on the institutional end of the educational transaction that matter. Its what the students utilize to accomplish their end.

Comment Re:Betteridge says... (Score 1) 79

Maybe, but these figures already basically match my evaluation of the situation.

The figures can be entirely correct and still the answer can be "no". Why? Because Android might use the Linux kernel, but it isn't really a Linux distro in any meaningful sense of the word. And Steam Deck and Chromebooks *can* have some reasonable facsimile of a Linux development environment, but I'd expect maybe 0.1% of users to actually turn it on.

So most of those folks are Linux "users" in much the same way that TiVo owners were linux "users", i.e. they are using a device that deep down, at a level that the user is unaware of, runs some small subset of what a Linux distro typically contains, with a bunch of stuff on top that they mostly aren't in control over.

It's like calling Mac users UNIX users. It's technically correct — the best kind of correct — but grossly misleading.

Comment Who drives? (Score 1) 33

Once inside, the hackers used the truckers' accounts to bid on real shipments,

So the hackers enter bids in the name of real truckers. Don't these truckers "close the loop" on the paperwork? They didn't bid on that load, so why are they picking it up?

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