According to updates official reports: - All of mainland Spain and Portugal - Just a few towns in France (bordering Spain) - No official root cause provided, 'heavy fluctuations in power flux' - The Portuguese agency said it was a 'wider European issue', probably meaning 'it came from Spain' Minor typo, in case anyone is searching first hand info: it's Red Electrica, ree.es

I mean, they are making them, right?

Or custom plugins in other products, just like what you can do with Lua on nginx, or custom rules in firewalls or other similar engines. Throw in some sandboxing and you have a very powerful/dangerous tool.

So that's it then. 10 people said so.

https://youtu.be/YhcPX1wVp38

Or what the guy wants is to sell, license or market in any other way his system for people to refine their inventions before patenting, and then get a co-author status so that he gets royalties from every patent...

An email invoice coming from the right sender and with the right format IS suspicious activity, suspicious enough for me to think the merchant's systems may have been compromised.
Any communication, even if it's coming from a nonsensical address with crazy format is suspicious enough for me if it's addressing me regarding any service I have actually purchased, as it may mean they got some kind of data leak.

No less than 5 % of PEOPLE WHO TESTED POSITIVE in Italy were asymptomatic (study already posted here: https://science.slashdot.org/s...), so your "zero cases" may hide a surprise for you.

It was done some years ago: in 2002 they bought 70.000 PCs and put the first 50.000 one for every 2 high-school students (so my first information was wrong, it's not under 13 but 13 to 17 years old) and the remaining 20.000 for primary education (under 13 yo.)

Here is a blog entry (in Spanish) from 2009 in which one of the responsibles comments on the conversion of the original PCs into thin clients:
http://www.itais.net/2009/01/26/reutilizando-70000-ordenadores/

handing it to a national-level (rather than regional) free-software promotion organisation

Sorry about that. The parent author.

I don't know what the automated translation looks like, but I can tell you that

a) LinEx was not a "ridiculous incest", it made sense big time and also was more than just the distro, they put a free-software-based-PC every two under-13 school kids, they put the same PCs in every public library in the region ("Nuevos Centros del Conocimiento", New Knowledge Centers), they created elder-persons computer-literacy programs and more...

b) how can they "suck in public money" if they were the very public administration? They stopped giving away public money to (US) private companies, and created a public entrerprise to create a public-interest, publicly-available, free-as-in-beer-and-also-as-in-speech region-wide computer network with public access to the internet.

They created LinEx and migrated back then. Now they're migrating back to Debian as they end development of LinEx.

Please allow me to make a few clarifications on the subject, because there are some additional facts related than can be missed if you didn't read TFA and TF(Spanish Newspaper)A linked by TFA:

• Extremadura became pioneer in Free SW creating their own Debian-based distro 9 years ago, LinEx (Linux Extremadura)
• They implanted a PC every two school students (primary education, up to 13 yr) region-wide running LinEx, appart from the Regional Administration
• Now they're closing the LinEx development project, handing it to a national-level (rather than regional)
• The information is based in a 2011-12-31 statement by the regional CIO, saying they're migrating from LinEx to "pure" Debian as LinEx is orphaned
• I've tried to find additional info (like planning, additional commentaries, etc) in newspapers, the official regional citizen-info site, etc. on the subject but I've found nothing
• I've found some statements from LinEx project (now ex-)workers but these statements where just suppositions
• Regarding to a HW and UEFI related comment I've seen, I don't think they will replace any hardware, they will just migrate the OS in those systems already owned by the regional administration

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