Great question... and the best answer I can give is that it does, but possibly because they've been using it for so long that they accept its shortcomings as compared to the shortcomings they experience on linux.

You've triggered my PTSD. Well done.

I've tried linux on my spouse's machine. It is not a desktop OS that my family can use. Either Windows or MacOS are the only thing that works reliably and intuitively enough to perform the common tasks my family uses their computers for.

Windows was my go-to desktop on their machines as MacOS has the Apple Tax on hardware and they very much own the machine due to the need for appleID. But now Microsoft has basically done the same.

At this point, on slashdot, this will sound like I'm trolling, but I truly am not... I want to know what distros of Linux ACTUALLY are stable enough, and intuitive enough to have the non-technical-savvy (aka normal/average) person use it without being frustrated? So far, every attempt to switch to linux has resulted in violent rage from one or more of my family members because something just doesn't work.

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Aegis equipped ships have successfully hit ballistic missiles and satellites in testing (and probably under operational conditions as of last weekend), and both of those are, by definition, hypersonic targets. While the US Navy doesn't comment on what weapons a ship might be carrying, it's almost a certainty that all of them have some SM-3s in the magazines at this point.

The biggest current problem with the carrier groups projecting power is that their air wings have less combat power than they have had in the past due to both being smaller and composed entirely of strike fighters with relatively short ranges. Using half the Hornets as tankers solves the range problem but makes the availability problem worse in both the short and long terms. The F-35 appears to improve the range situation, shockingly (thought not by enough) and I would expect that, in war time, the Navy would probably augment the air wings significantly (there is definitely room on the decks).

As far as not getting close to anything that can harm them, any nation would be stupid to put its carriers any closer to anything that can shoot at them then it needs to. With that said, Ike is currently operating in the Red Sea where Iran's proxies can shoot at her and TR is currently in the East China Sea where China can shoot at her directly.

Is it?

I mean, I have no doubt that (barring something like Pearl Harbor) the US military would take the opening rounds of any US-China conventional war, but the but the supply of equipment possessed by the US Navy and US Air Force is relatively small, will attrit fairly quickly, and the relative industrial capacity and resource availability of the US and China today is very much in China's favor. It's doubtful that the US could execute a building program like it did from 1940-1945 (and especially 1942-1944) because it would take years to build the tools just to build the tools.

If you are a nation-state, it's prudent to assume any unfriendly nation-state is doing whatever it can to prepare for conflict, including laying the groundwork for a future attack that may or may not ever happen.

Because modern search engines (not just google) have decided that they know better than you and will often ignore your specific search terms to return the shit that they think you should know instead. Quoted search terms, exclusions, etc, are all cheerfully ignored to return a result set that is utterly useless for your purposes and somewhere there is a design team patting itself on the back for what a great job they've done.

Sensitive data should be hard to steal in bulk.*

Put the data warehouse behind a slow-speed link - one that's just fast enough for normal, expected traffic. "Slow speed link" may vary by time-of-day or other circumstances.

The goal is that if there's a big rush of traffic, requests will get queued or dropped and someone will notice and be able to hit the "emergency stop" button.

Sensitive data that will never be needed "in real time" should be stored in a system that can only be accessed by a few people (or robots serving the same purpose) who have the job of taking requests, copying the data to temporary storage, then moving the temporary storage to someplace where the person who needs it can get to it. Think of it as a cache with a 5-minute loading time.

If industry does this, some things will be less convenient and more expensive to run, but the risks of large-scale, hit-and-run data thefts will go way down. This won't fix small-scale thefts or slowly-drain-the-data-warehouse attacks, but it will help.

* Sensitive data should be hard to steal, period, but that may be too much to ask.

We're now one step closer (at least in the UK) to thought crimes. "The creation of a deepfake image will be an offence regardless of whether the creator intended to share it" So what's the difference between an artist drawing/painting something based on a person, but clearly imagined, and a computer doing it? We call one a deepfake, and the other art? This is a terrible slippery slope, well on our way to punishing artists' with thought crimes.

Really?

IIRC, Roku Channel has some paid options. I am sure that it offers the same "subscribe to HBO/Paramount/whatever" features that Amazon/Google offer. So yes, they have a need to process recurring payments.

If I were an arbitrator or judge, I would be asking "how long would a reasonable consumer who purchased the game expect it to be playable" then order pro-rated refunds. Absent any reason to think otherwise, "how long" would probably be the supported life of the hardware it was designed to run on if it's tied to a particular device (serial #) or type of device (make/model), which is rarely more than 10 years these days, considerably less for some types/genres of software-as-a-service (which is what this game is).

Fully remote, I have all my equipment at home. Fully in-office, all of my equipment in the office. Hybrid, I'm lugging around equipment most days. Why?! Don't have equipment? Just a laptop? Great! So fully remote, I'm on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully in-office, I can actually meet people face to face in meeting rooms! Hybrid? I get to commute, be in the office, but still sit on zoom/webex/teams meetings most of the day. Fully remote, or fully in office (with allowance for special one-off days where you need to WFH). This 'hybrid' of X days a week in the office is killer. It really is the worst of both worlds, I wish companies would stop entertaining it.

Sounds reasonable to me. If some state agency or state court says forcing providers to lower rates is against state law, the court should rule that providers in that state are ineligible for the aid until the state law is changed.

That would put all providers in that state on the same playing field: None would get the aid, but none would be forced to lower rates.