Let's call it what is is: murder of innocent US citizens.

(don't think they are innocent? They are innocent until proven guilty!)

If I had mod points I'd totally mod this up. BWAHAHAHA! The last point reminds me of the issue with the sign language interpreter at Mandela's funeral who apparently was totally bonkers and gee, the company he worked for "disappeared".

As a Tucsonan I have to say "monsoon"!

Maybe we need to bring back a modernized, encrypted UUCP?

You don't think we won the first Gulf war? Well, it probably depends both on your definition of "war" and "win". We haven't declared war since 1941.

OpenVMS?

You aren't understanding correctly. It means if you want to install from UEFI (e.g. you need a 3TB boot disk) you need to use the 64bit Ubuntu, as 32bit won't work. That doesn't mean 64bit won't work on a non-UEFI BIOS. I have it running here.

To the best of my knowledge (and I work on this stuff daily), it's not possible for the OS to enable the TPM (it would make testing way easier if this were true!). The TPM has to be enabled and activated in BIOS before it's available to the OS.

vPro is a function of the processor, not the chipset. That is the processor must support vPro to use it. And vPro and TPMs are not at all comparable. A TPM is not something that does anything on its own; it is used by the FW and/or OS to enable security but doesn't itself do anything. TPMs are built in accordance with a open spec from the TCG. Every motherboard I've ever seen ships with the TPM disabled, and many of them that support a TPM don't have it down on the board, it must be installed separately. vPro requires a fair amount of setup to use, so claiming that it's going to backdoored is really just silly. While it may be that there are legitimate concerns about TPMs (or vPro), I've not seen any /. discussion yet that seemed to be particularly well informed on the specifics, here.

Yes, valley fever is hardly news. Growing up in Arizona it was common knowledge. Most people get it and it's no big deal, just like a cold or mild flu. It's true that for some it's far worse, but that's rare. This is news?

I'll grant you it's marginal... but why is it weird? FreeBSD works quite well on the desktop. If you want a Unix-y system where you have more control over what goes in it's an excellent choice.

HA! I worked for Artisoft from '92 to '98. It was a great place to work, and the whole development group and corp offices ran LANtastic.

Um, the Alpha is considerably newer than Ethernet. We were using Ethernet (yes the thick version) in the mid-80s with our MicroVAXen.

OMG the UYK-7. I think you and I are the only ones here who know what the hell those were. Ah the stories I could tell!