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.

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?

Wall Street mode: Party like it's 1929.

... we had to blue box the chat lines.

Now get off my lawn!

For the past few years, very few /. "summaries" have been summaries. They're either the whole article or the first couple of paragraphs copy-pasta'd. The reason they read like slop is because TFA is too.

It must have found the Dilbert comic strip. And learned something about job security.

Big deal. That's only one out of four.

But he keeps falling for that gift horse statue left on the front lawn.

There were two people in the cockpit. Possibly with different agendas.

No doubt that is (part of) what the experts were called on to answer. They just didn't want to get stuck in a remote facility until their answer was deemed "correct".

Sounds like they caught a case of MCAS.

Gesundheit.

AI has its place in replacing live music. I don't really want to share an elevator with a symphony orchestra.

But that's about it.

Then the proper response should be something like:

Run the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::NTP qw(get_ntp_response);
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
my %response = get_ntp_response();

.
.
etc.

Using nukes (or even a large dose of conventional warfare) is beyond a point of no return. Where most other nations will refuse to deal with you. Some may, but then you end up with a division into two groups. Like the Axis and Allied powers during WWII. And we all know how that ended up.

It's not a situation one can step back from easily and return to the negotiating table.