Samsung has announced it will soon become possible to run actual proper Linux on its Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones -- and even Linux desktops. Yeah, yeah, we know Android is built on Linux, but you know what we mean.

So you mean GNU/Linux? Or a GNU/Linux distribution (often referred to as "Linux distro")?

Is it really that difficult to use the right terminology? Android is a modified Linux with components around them (I think -- I don't know Android that well). Then there is GNU/Linux, again Linux, but with a different userland around it, namely GNU. Especially when speaking about Android, GNU/Hurd, GNU/kFreeBSD and so on, it brings clarity if you call the system GNU/Linux.

One will not be 100% accurate, because there may be all kind of other modifications and additions that you would not always mention. But it is a hell of a lot more precise than just calling everything "Linux".

There are other important reasons why it should be called GNU/Linux, e.g., often iterated by Richard Stallman, it is technically and philosophically right, but here we have a very practical reason for calling it GNU/Linux: it disambiguates.

It is not difficult.

upsetting many consumers who still rely heavily on wired headphones

Then don't buy it.

Coding is an experts-only game and it will remain that.

No, there is sadly a lot of bad software written, which suggests that coding is not an experts-only game (anymore).

Don't confuse idealism with reality.

Maybe, but now you get both advertising and mining.

corporate death penalty
I am sick of this term. It pretends that it is as controversial as killing people.

From Equifax' website:

Equifax is ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified by a reputable independent third party.

It is difficult to imagine now that ISO/IEC 27001 (information security management) means anything.
Who is this "reputable independent third party"?

Equifax is the only company deemed capable ...

Since Equifax has shown to be very incapable (of exactly the things they should be capable of), what does this say about all other companies in this business?

Exactly.

To illustrate, I am an ocean modeller (or climate modeller). Climate models are typically large and complex. But most of the time I am very aware of what problem I want to solve. Of course, there is a whole lot more in the code than the basic equations that you may and should have written down at some time before actually implementing your model, but you work on a small part of the code, a part that you understand thoroughly. Sometimes numerical and system design schemes go above my head, but luckily there is support for that at my institute. But you should know how the variables and code structures you work on apply to the real world (or the thing that you intend to describe).

700 mi/h = 1127 km/h

Yes, more or less, but, from my experience in (open access) publishing

- 2000 $ is a bit much. Typically I publish a paper for around 1000 $.
- One must be aware that paying a lot does not mean quality from the publisher: I once published in an Elsevier journal and they managed to completely mess up the typesetting (it was quite clearly the result of underpaid Indians who typed over the TeX source)! I payed 3500 $ for this.

Then I signed thecostofknowledge.com .

People are stupid.

Furthermore, Sarahah is not free software (which is claimed in the abstract).

Exactly, which is why knowledgeable users of Bitcoin do not claim anonymity as a feature of Bitcoin. Moreover, Bitcoin itself cannot claim anonymity, it simply has not the property of being anonymous. A red car has the property of being red; it cannot claim that it is blue or red.

Android is Linux. They want to put GNU/Linux on the smart phone. This is not new either. I find it quite uninteresting.

Don't play this game. You are the one who will get played. They say docx is Office Open XML (OOXML), an open format (an ISO standard indeed, but let us set aside how that came about), but it isn't. Usually it isn't. You are thinking you are receiving or saving a publically documented format but it is actually that plus proprietary extensions such that you cannot interact normally with the rest of the world.

This is great! Free the information!