ShanghaiBill - since the drone would be carrying explosives in your example, the illegal drone would be further in violation of the law as no 4 digit ID numbered placard or 4 digit ID placard with orange label was displayed as required by the Dept of Transportation (Emergency Response Guide) for the explosives on board. But we know already no ill intended individual would abide by that law either - right!!!! That begs the question how many attacks have been by drones to warrant such intrusion into a hobby of radio controlled pilots? I no of none! Is this the case of blaming the "tool" rather than the "individual"? If a person kills another with a baseball bat, do we want to have all baseball bats registered and have a chip to identify who and where the owner of said baseball bat is? Oh, maybe we should ban the sale of certain baseball bats like they are doing with firearms. As a radio controlled pilot, putting a wifi broadcasting system in an engine powered plane MAY be doable, but trying to get on in a Dynaflite "Bird of Time" glider with a 117" wings span requiring micro servos or a 2M size glider is a whole different area. There will have to be a database of some kind for all the data collected and who will maintain it and have access? It is just another case of the government getting into things in the private sector that they have no business getting into.

It was not my first, but l eventually found Slackware through a man named "Wes" at the Tacoma Linux Users Group (TACLUG) in 1996. Slackware was a few years old in those days. It really helped me get myself "under the hood" so to speak in a Linux distro. I still use it today and have Slackware 14.2 installed in my full tower PC, an old Dell Optiplex, and my 2 laptops

Couldn't agree more. Been a Slackware user since 1996!

It may also motivate some people to go back to Slackware! It is still my go-to distro since 1996. I have installed Devuan 2.0 on a spare hard drive and I do like it!

The statement from Intel is translated as follows: "We really don't want the public to know how bad we screwed up so we are prohibiting you or anyone else to benchmark the issue before this patch and especially after the patch as we do not want our bottom line ($$$) tarnished by the bad publicity. Therefore since you are using cloud services and require speed this fix is supplied to you to keep your mouth shut about how bad we actually suck at providing quality code for our products. If you are not satisfied with this solution, go somewhere else. BTW good luck with that too!"

It was not my first, but l eventually found Slackware through a man named "Wes" at the Tacoma Linux Users Group in 1996. Slackware was a few years old, but it got the job done! It really helped me get myself "under the hood" so to speak in a Linux distro. I still use it today and have Slackware 14.2 installed in my full tower PC, an old Dell Optiplex, and my laptop! I loved Slackware back then and still love it today! Happy Birthday Slackware and I wish you many, many, more too!

I too have used Slackware since 1996 when a fellow Tacoma Linux User's Group member by the name of "Wes" introduced me to it. I have used it ever since. It is currently on by laptop and my main PC. Oh I have used other distros too, but I always came back to favor Slackware. I did upgrade to XFCE from Windomaker! I sure like the copy and paste feature of the XFCE4 terminal. I am looking forward to the next release!

To ensure the most success in this endeavor, I read code left to right and top to bottom. It is a lot easier this way than any other. I'm sure people have tried to read it backwards for spelling errors, but reading code must be on the KISS principle - Keep It Simple Stupid! May the source be with you! Byte on! IMHO!!!!

As for games, I have an alternative to Micro$oft Flight Simulator and that is X-Plane. It says it installs in a Linux distro, but I have yet to get that accomplished. It is not an easy task as they make it out to be either. Yes, I read the documentation and the Forum stuff on X-Plane regarding installation, but the bottom line is that it works (X-Plane 9.x) on a IMac but not on Linux for me. BTW, the IMac doesn't have the hardware my custom built box does to be running a graphic intensive program like Micro$oft FSX so X-Plane 10.x is out of the question for the IMac in my mind.

I too run mainly Linux, specifically Slackware for the most part. I only use Win$ows for playing flight sim. The way I view it is when Micro$oft decides it better controls your operating system updates than the user does, it's time to rethink keeping it. For the longest time Micro$oft has been pushing the upgrade to Win$ows 10. They discontinued the annoying messages "Get your free upgrade". Since all updates will be bundled into one update per month, what's to prevent the updates to contain and upgrade to Win$ows 10 without the user's consent. The only option the user has is to A. not upload any updates, B. do not connect a Win$ows PC to the internet, C. accept all updates whether you want them or not, or D. use an alternative operating system. Micro$oft is being a bully and that behavior should not have to be accepted or tolerated. This "dictating" by Micro$oft to it's users is not helping the consumer, but sure does help Micro$oft. I think the users need to speak with their wallet's and maybe the dictatorship will come to a quick end and put the users first. My personal decision for me is that after this is posted, in about the time it will take me the time to delete the Win$ows partition and create an EXT3 partition to install a Linux distro over the Win$ows partition I currently have, I will be no longer running any Win$ows operating system until Micro$oft changes this policy at a minimum.

I have Slackware 14.2 on both my custom built PC and my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Great distro! The wife uses Linux Mint though.

In typical fashion, Microsoft responds with something better than no response to gauge where the French government will go from here to see what they can get away with without ruffling too many folks. They will litigate to the point where they'll pay a small amount of money to appease the French and all will be back to normal. The unacceptable behavior by Microsoft continues and I'm sad to say I see no end in their methods. They continue to trounce on the privacy and freedom of its users.

SimCity2000 I would also agree was the best. Playing that game on My AST Adventure Advantage! 6066d (MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11) was so much fun. I put alot of time and effort in building those cities. Putting all those water pipes was a chore! It was a great game and it sure brings back alot of memories. Remember, if you will, we also had Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1 on floppy disks that also came out! Great times and great games!

Agreed. Leave the site the way it is and just "clean up" what needs to be cleaned up and be done with it. It is fine. Don't try to invent the wheel all over again!

Not funny at all and if this is the kind of stuff I will continue to find on Slashdot, I guess I will have to go somewhere else. This "encrypted post" was over the top and unacceptable. Someone needs to ensure these kinds of things are not allowed. This is suppose to be a site with credibility and I see today it had been lowered by this example.