I used w3m for a long time (test-base cli browser with image support on a framebuffer), but eventually swapped to links. i see a lot of talk about adblockers and such.. addons are just MORE bloat. I block ads at the dns level, it takes care of 90%. For the other 10%, those are just sites i don't go to. That said, as an IT consultant, i have pretty much every browser on my work systems and vms simply because I never know what kind of shitshow webapp a client will have and which browser will work properly with it.

it is what it is. The minute there's a light browser (original edge? no addon support? was pretty fuckin quick..) ppl complained about lack of features, now it's chromium..

In terms of very poor choices, I would pick windows because while I think linux would be much nicer for ME to sysadmin, I don't want to deal with "users" bitching about it every day, so I would give them what they're used to.

The question is poorly worded either way though. manage large user groups: you dont manage users with "linux" or "windows" you manage users with user management tools; like perhaps
"manually" (whether this is /etc/passwd or users & groups)
"Active directory domain" (this is regardless of what OS hosts it)
"open LDAP"
"sssd" (which i suppose would include freeipa)
"novell edirectory" (which, when i did a rip and replace of windows AD and moved everything to edirectory on SUSE, worked very nicely)

I disagree. I used hangouts to call my wife and kids frequently from Afghanistan over a 2Mbps satellite connection and never experienced a hangup. in fact, the voice and video quality was FAR superior to any other voice/video offering on the market. It worked for me in 2007-8 and 2011-12 without a hitch. I have also leveraged it for years in my asterisk pbx without issues on hours long conference calls. that being said, hangouts itself is not being retired (thankfully), the API is.

i've been on 10565 since release.. never seen anything abnormal.

So, I enjoyed my dividend check while I maintained residency. However, that money was offset by my 6$/gallon milk and other ridiculous expenses. The nearest McDonalds, wal-mart, or movie theatre were a hundred miles away, although you could get free weed at school all day long.. hell i didn't know people paid for weed until i moved to the lower 48!

That being said, the real benefit to living in Alaska isn't the dividend fund, it's the top-rate education system. I moved from Alaska to Kentucky my Junior year of HS and went from being a solid c student to straight A. The junior/senior classes in HS covered topics from JR High in Alaska. The state dumps tons of money into education.

most vehicles in the modern army have a 'datacenter' in them with satellite terminals towed. they all shoot back to a centralized location via satellite and from there go elsewhere, be it via fiber, satellite or high speed line of sight connections.

During an exercise, we brought in an air-droppable hmmwv that had a slim dish on top (used for campers), 2 gutted cisco routers and 2 gutted cisco switches with a POE NSA Type 2 encryption devices (all packed in to a very small form factor) to provide secure video telephony capabilities aswell as command and control capabilities from the site of an airborne insertion, which would typically be surrounded by enemies trying to defend their airfield.

I participated in the standing up of an MPLS blackcore network with 5+ other "internets" (the one you know as the internet is one of many) using this mpls black core as a transport network. The amount of IT infrastructure in the middle of nowhere rivals that of many fortune 500 companies.

while heat and reliable electricity remain issues, cisco gear can run at temperatures up to 130F reliably.

Every movie i've ever purchased from a hadj in afghanistan or some little old lady in the back of a restaurant in New York has done one of two things.
1)It's either completely turned me off of the movie because it was horrible. This doesn't cost a thing because now the money never changed hands; in the case of ultraviolet, i had to go get my money back for the movie being so terrible.
2)Has been awesome enough that i either simply want to see it on the theater screen with their lovely DTS surround or I want to watch it in 3D on a huge screen.

I'm a huge supporter of try before you buy. I had frozen MONTHS before it released on dvd and still ended up taking my daughters to the movies multiple times to see it.

Many trips to Afghanistan, no issues. stay up all day/night first day, crash at the appropriate time the next day, adjusted.

so, just like your data communications in your house, if you don't want someone eavesdropping on your conversation toss a type1 encryption device in front of it, like every other security conscious satcom user.

You will see this behavior pretty frequently if you SSL offload with an f5 or if you filter ssl websites with bluecoats. Im sure there are a slew of other legit apps that also do this. Eg. we blocked youtube, but everyone knew to bypass this you could goto https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2F so we started intercepting ssl certificates to block the traffic. In our case; we only intercepted SOME ssl traffic depending on destination to avoid the issue you're discussing but presumably if we just intercepted all and filtered after the fact, you would have seen the same issue.

I get that core subjects are required, it helps to avoid Americans further embarrassing themselves by being idiots when they can't do simple math. Why would you ever REQUIRE a computer science class? Should we also require multiple anatomy/Sociology/psychology classes? No. I didn't take AP anatomy in high school because it didn't interest me. I did attend a community college at night to take computer science courses I enjoyed. Make those classes available in high school but don't require them. Let people decide what they are interested in and pursue it, schools shouldn't be here to force feed specializations.

If one trusted the government prior to the revelations provided by the NSA leaks, why would they not still trust the government? Think about it, we provide the information to the government, the government therefore has access to this data and presumably are the only ones who can view it. the NSA is the government... i would expect that government agencies can view data i provide to a different agency... therefore, knowing that the NSA is logging you changes nothing.

the only significant difference is now, we know that if you put data on another carrier, the NSA will still see it... so regardless of location, your data is going to be viewed by the government.