Linus has seen Wargames and knows that sometimes
the best way to win is not to play the game

He does it just for fun.

So why do they want to enforce making it more expensive to have secure computers ?

Why only on computers ? why not a sales tax on for example plumbing ?
Cause everyone needs to take a dump so should be a profitable tax.

However since its only on standard software and open source is nonstandard
I'm gonna presume its just a tax on those selling Microsoft software admin services.

Thats why the poster said "Release the secure boot key..."

Facebook servers in Sweden are expected to use 1TWh/year when fully operational - in 3 data centers located next to each others. So looks like Facebook will use something around 100 000 cpu per center.

Assuming the calculations is corrent.

Actually many of them is Linux servers. So they are cheap :)

Given that patents has already been sent to the patent office and are public accessable from there; patent are never a reason for not open up specs.

For article. Sadly you can't moderate an article.

So they could install the programs on their corporate computers.

Easy 8 is 4 by 2 and 16 is 4 by 4.

So to get 1/8 just take the value and half it 3 times and to get 1/16 half it 4 times.

Its not hard.

Actually no its 97% of published paper who mentions AGW - a majority of the papers dont check for it and are for other metherological research that don't involve looking into AGW.

Actually humanity fixed global cooling by better air regulations that banned sulphor from being released uncontrolled into the atmosphere.

Humanity stopped the acid rains. But instead the more damaging global warming, that had been repressed by the acid environment, showed its ugly face.

So global cooling was fixed. Now its the time to fix global warming.

PS Yes, you can stop global warmning by spreading sulphor, but it will instead make this a world full of acid rain.

No because real sysadmins use curl.

Not possible. Toot is the same as full access to everything - root has no access restrictions whatsoever. being root is being god on that computor.

Thus no one sane accept ssh to root.

Xbox sales is very small in comparison. Microsoft have sold a total of about 70 million units of Xboxes since 2005. Currently they sell like half a million each month - basically neglectable compared with total sales of windows; its even less then windows mobile.

As for Windows CE its hard to find data of number of licenses but its also small given that Linux is comming along and many are already using Linux or switching too it. Microsoft has tried to relauch WinCE as WIndows Compact 8 during 2013. Doubt it will get alot of success. WinCE is the basis for Windows Mobile who don't sell good either.

So I would not think about them alot. They don't really matter.