China's (likely) false story is being paraded by Washington so defense contractors can make more money. When three liars lie, it must be true!

I predict that [company] computers were downloading patches and updates from Broadcom's computers, using login credentials of [company].

True. But Multilib is unlikely to be yanked from Slackware, making it LTS viable.

Slackware is the stable distribution they're looking for.

As in Old Yeller retired.

Sill Windows 10 Build 1903.
Hardware Firewall also prevents upgrades.

France: Hey Germany! Want your clay back?

Slashdot posts actual science, not a "study / grant request".

25 years of useless data = Useful Information?

Twinspeak.
   

This is Slashdot. Readers prefer short answers, not Wall of Text (TM).

Intelligence is resource expensive, so it needs to be a net benefit to the animal. If an animal can manipulate and improve its local environment, intelligence will help it make better changes. Thus, Intelligence is an emerging property of manipulating the local environment. Language allows an animal to share complex ideas with others, complex ideas require intelligence to create and understand.
Language, then, is an emerging property of intelligence.

CTRL_ALT_F2
Login
top or ps -e -f | grep [program name] to find the offending program
kill -9 [procID of offending program]
exit
CTRL_ALT_[usually one of F5 F6 F7 or F8] to get back to GUI.

Computer is happy.
Yes, this is more intimidating than "reboot computer".
But it does show you can fix problems in Linux without rebooting.
And if the above doesn't work, it's almost guaranteed to be a hardware problem (so stop blaming Linux for faulty hardware).

HOW TO REDUCE CAR DEPENDENCY
1) Find high density cities.
2) Find locations in those cities where lots of people want to go on a daily basis.
3) Eliminate parking anywhere near those locations.

At least the Navy didn't offer to make him a Commander.