Not directly, but many of them contain bindings for running in GUI frameworks. gdb is a good example.

Never used emacs, but it may be more beneficial for that to have been a lesson to use version control instead of a lesson to not use emacs.

Non-Volatile Random Access Memmory

Look up the first part and you'll figure out why removing the battery won't fix it.

b!=B

UEFI is much more than secure-boot. There are a lot of "hacks" required right now to make BIOS work properly for modern scenerios. the 4 partition limit is a good example, we have to use "logical" partitions within a bigger physical partition to get around this bullshit at the moment, UEFI fixes that. It also adds a LOT of other functionality such as much more powerful configuration interfaces that can supply graphics (temperature meters, etc), handle mouse input and drive system speakers directly.

Ok, seriously. This is a SMALL piece of a HUGE country and was chosen specifically because it was A) almost 100% uninhabited B) Had high mountains so they wouldn't need as big of a quiet zone C) Out in the middle of fucking nowhere. Maybe the people that moved there and developed there should have thought about whether it was a sustainable place to develop.

I think we need a flying car analogy. Many towns and large cities are currently build near or around airports which all have "no fly zones" that extend into the surrounding developed area (ie: over peoples' homes just like the radio quiet zone). If we suddenly developed a cheap personal flying cars (usable for short-distance flight), should the airport move so that they are not affecting the surrounding houses who's occupants want to fly to work or should people that want to get flying cars move somewhere away from the airport?

They may go through it with a computer program to automatically do general heuristics and add targeting (which I block anyways), but they are much less likely to hand your information over to 3rd parties or the government like most ISPs. Just look at how many times Google has told the government to fuck off compared to the ISPs that basically OFFER the data to them and let them set up their own monitoring system in the building.

Um, no. They'd get (and be able to read) those messages whether the account is still active or not.

See my first point

I'm going to need a citation before I'll take your word on that one. They may use cookies, but that's about the only way (aside from url-embedded tracking numbers which are even worse) to keep someone logged in.

Yes, which is why I won't be able to host my own decent-traffic website on my home server in the conceivable future, which was my original point.

Yes, and neither does Android. Ubuntu Phone is not being made for the manufacturers, it is being made for the users and promoted to the manufacturers. In fact, right now they have Ubuntu Phone running on the Android kernel, so it is already 100% compatible with most Android phones.

Unless open drivers or specs are provided for the chipsets, the manufacturers are going to be on the hook for driver updates (which are required for kernel updates) no matter WHICH operating system they use.

They allowed development with the understanding that no wireless devices be used. The people that developed knew, and know, full well what they are allowed and not allowed to do there.

Which is why these applications need administrator-level permissions that let you prevent those warning and instead show an error message (without an "ok" button).

Better yet, corporations could wake up and start demanding their software and infrastructure stop requiring the use of flash player to access their services.

It's in the middle of a national park, they DO own the land. When people moved there they damn well KNEW the restrictions. These instruments are not something you load on a truck, they built directly into the mountain!

That won't do enough. It's like the difference between trying to shock-proof a cd player and trying to shock-proof a seismometer. You need a whole new LEVEL of filtering.

And I believe that BMW and Mercedes ARE working on patches for those issues.

FTFY