Now that uBlock Origin is blocked, I'm wondering who still (voluntary) runs Chrome as their main browser.

I mean, it can differentiate between a user taking the watch off and having a cardiac arrest. I can just see the test scenarios...

"Besides, Europe is the only place where you can find actual fascists being elected in political offices:"

Really? As a European I'm ready to admit that fascism is on the rise but I would dare to ask you to look carefully at US politics and one party specifically.

I know the article calls it that, but can we just say 'Russian aggression', like it is?

This story fits almost perfectly in the story a few weeks ago on ZDnet to make linux a root partition for Hyper-V. (https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-these-patches-aim-to-make-linux-run-as-root-partition-on-hyper-v/)

- With linux booting Hyper-V, Windows could then run as a guest OS while it's completely transparent to the user which OS is running which application.
- Switching the core OS to linux whilst maintaining compatibility would unlock a whole new world for Microsoft, which is finding itself more and more confined in their proprietary environment.
- This proprietary nature of Windows used to be an advantage, but with 100% of the competition being on some form of unix, it no longer makes sense.
- Ironically, Microsoft virtualising Windows on top of Linux would be identical to what Apple's done 20 years ago with the introduction of Mac OS X.

FOSS has replaced the commodity proprietary operating systems such as Solaris, IRIX, Xenix, Netware and in a lot of cases also Windows. On top of that, most software has its own value proposition; where open sourcing it, does the company or the individuals that make it more harm than good. For example, Android's proprietary stuff is exactly the layer that makes Google money. If they'd open source that, how'd they make money from it?

Not sure where you get your information from, but over in the EU where incandescent lamps have now been phased out for a couple of years, you can really buy any lamp type you might need in LED form. See these links for what is just the normal assortment of LED lamps sold in the Netherlands; https://www.benelux.ledvance.c... and https://www.gamma.nl/assortime... I really thought we were past this, but apparently the Republican Party is able to not only resurrect a dead horse, but also starts riding it...

So, people wanting to get an iPhone at a lesser price point still can. It's not called the XS or XR, but you can get a perfectly serviceable iPhone 7 with 128 Gb storage for half of proverbial $1000 ($549) and $50 bucks more gets you an iPhone 8 with 64 Gb storage which is enough for most tasks.

Logging in for the first time in years to reply to this.

Why not paying from the taxes? Because the programs can then be politically influenced! That's why.

You'll hear complaints in the Murdoch owned media that the BBC is left wing and biased. Trust me, after the Netherlands did away with the license fee (because it was cumbersome and people didn't understand why they had to pay for it) and switched to a tax payer funding, the usual suspects (usually on the right side of the political spectrum) have since started influencing and outright adjusting the content.

In the Netherlands the long treasured pluriform system is now on the verge of collapsing under the weight of the ratings. I wouldn't go as far as saying the content is politically influenced, but the system is not completely without government influence either. The way the BBC is funded is actually very clever, its fee is set outside the political cycle. Here is some more info about this scheme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/entries/9637e45d-c96c-36c6-9e3f-af141e81cab4 (Sorry, don't know how to make a hotlink on Slashdot)

Quite a few people inside and outside the UK truly understand the value of the BBC. It goes far beyond Top Gear, don't believe the Murdoch owned media lambasting the BBC.

Fortunately, this kind of rhetoric doesn't work in Europe. Still, though, in essence they're saying; it's a waste of money for taxpayers and we'll help waste some more.

Nice company, but then again, we already knew that, didn't we?