I'm currently battling stage 3 cancer at a young age. Medical cannabis has definitely made the last couple months more bearable. It helps you eat, sleep, and passes the time. I can see how it may also help with pain and depression. I've been off it for a couple weeks now and haven't noticed any withdraw. Mostly edibles but some flower. The system is kind of convoluted in my state (you and doc have to register) but the process is overall pleasant considering the alternative. You don't need much either. I started at 5mg a day half-an-edible and bumped to 10mg a couple weeks later.

Bill Gate's success in both business and philanthropy revolve around "you not having a choice." I'm sure there is a worse word for that than monopolist but I don't know it. Predatory opportunist? I really don't know. He made computers more ubiquitous. Sure some people made a fraction of the fortune that he made in his wake. Sure Microsoft provided (insecure and broken) services to small business and organizations. But it all seems very begrudgingly. And people with 1% of the resources and 100% more moral compass still exist and are producing value in directly competeing industry despite Bill Gates shitty business practice which honestly says a lot about humanity in general.

Bill Gates is one of those people you can't just "ignore." His objective in every endeavor is to pervade your life as deep as he can for personal gain. I don't know how you can "just ignore" someone like him.

How long are people going to keep lying? It's UNIX. It has almost every unix service that you can ask for. It has superior and secure network services. No one is saying it has everything but to say it doesn't provide secure unix services is just disengenous lying. Its basically a swiss army knife of network engineering tools for free.

Who created SELinux? The government. Whose policy requires MAC on their system? The government. Who has the time and money to pay beaurocrats to configure all that mess. The government.

You might say this is a fallacy because other ACL technology exists that wasn't created by NSA but you really have to wonder why this stuff exists and who uses it. Plus it doesn't scale to all use cases. Are you going to apply ACL to every node (IOT, whatever) that exists or are you going to build it off something like OpenBSD. Are you going to apply SElinux to your $20k printer (a computer that can be pivoted off in attacks) are system developers going to finally get a clue and implement secure coding practices like OpenBSD has been calling for for decades.

Just because OpenBSD doesn't have SELInux or MAC is not a flaw. It's just different. If you don't find value in it keep doing security the way that it's superior. Even Windows has MAC and all the checkmark features for decades. None of this discussion is new.

When I read the headline I immediately thought college "anti cheating" software. I'm suprised no slashdotters mentioned this. My how it has changed. Criminals aside, students and low level work-from-home employees are increasingly required to install monitoring software on their personal devices. This is an injustice that should not be tolerated. Sadly it will be because students are young, naive, and don't want to rock the boat on their way to "success". Employees of low financial status will not object in fear of losing not being able to pay their bills. It's really up to management and administration respectively to refuse these things but I don't see that is going to happen. It's pure evil.

I think conservatives are just tired of the hypocrisy. Bill Gates writes a book climate change yet has one of the largest private residences in the United States and has commissioned a huge billionaire yacht. John Kerry commissioning private flights around the world will earning the title "climate czar". Yes conservative ties to big oil are suspect but some of the richest people in the world are pivoting their wealth around climate change. The hypocrisy of the left is astounding and the cognitive dissonance they project will filter any honest, simple minded, clear seeing individual who just wants to live their life. When you start imposing separate rules for these two classes of people friction develops especially in the west. There is a moral failing among leadership in this country even if there is scientific consensus. If you want people to change their behavior you have to lead by example. Slashdot should know this.

You're going to kill a lot of poor people through sheer poverty in this timeline. When things stop trickling down, people who are hustling everyday for rice will die. Granted those people will probably be the last to receive vaccine and adequate care in their particular localized outbreak. It's not so cut and dry. I get it, it's selfish that first worlders can't go out to Cheesecake Factory but if you shut down the economy there are terrible effects down the line.

The fact that international inspectors haven't been on ground in wuhan is an injustice. International action has been taken for far less. There should be an investigation, reports, trials and minimally media pressure.

Maybe instead of glorifying people like Bill Binney who built the apparatus we should look for heros in the silent professionals who secure software with little to no reward. For every infosec gathering filled with swag toting groupies sitting around eating expensive korean barbecue there is one person making an honest effort to secure the internet, and they may get one free laptop, like if ever.

Microsoft routinely copies Apple's business model. Which a decade ago was "hey OS X is UNIX." You barely hear that outside of FANG developer circles anymore. Apple doesn't care they aren't even technically a "computer" company anymore. Microsoft is following suit with the same avenue as the 80s and 90s: let's acquire everything than profit by control. Look at Apple now. Already essentially banned FOSS apps, disrupted communities, on the path to banning "sideloading apps." And they're "the good guys." MS isn't going to kill Linux but it will disturb it deeply as Apple has done to several communities: FreeBSD, KHTML, GCC.

What could Microsoft replace in Linux from an OS perspective? File system? Shell & userland? Network stack? Compiler? Microsoft has made minuscule lasting contributions to OS development over the years. They are good at running a business and satiating share holders. Choose wisely which you value.

The problem I have with FreeBSD ports is the policy is basically if it builds it ships. Where with an OS like Debian their is a policy and process and testing, I know that things are going to work together and features I need will be their. Even the FreeBSD shell is so barebones and the community praises this. Great it's a clean OS but you have to bootstrap everything yourself for minimalism sake. Whereas OpenBSD is minimal it is very feature-rich. I honestly don't understand the focus of FreeBSD.

I think they are just too lazy to do their jobs, meaning get a warrant for investigations. Devils advocate, maybe they really don't understand how to traverse technology for legit investigations and need some sort of outsourced easified portal and the main key to making this work would be cleartexting everything. So basically they want to use technology to make their jobs easier like everyone else. However the caveat is their governemnt so no one gets fired and they have to justify their growth somehow (boogymen) while the rest of us remain in the dark about their actual capabilities.

Why do people think you can just buy a company then revolutionize the internet?