I set up a Type C corp for my business. With it, the company can pay for all my employees (just me and my wife) medical expenses. For health insurance, in NC, I pay out the nose: $1,200 a month. It's a good, but not great, Blue Cross plan. In NC, that's really the only company that will look at you.
This article presumes that Windows 8.x was a great tablet OS. Since Windows 8 failed on mission one: Getting people to switch from Android and iOS. Objectively some people may love it--I'm not one--but from a business viewpoint it failed on tablets and it was hated on the desktop. The only real surprise isn't that MSFT is returning to an Aero style desktop, it's that it took them so long to do so.
When an article about technical problems with a protocol starts whining about how the protocol will increase CO2 pollution I know it's BS. WTH was the ACM thinking by wasting out time with this crap?
I worked for NASA, the budget cuts alone helped bring it to where it is today. In the 1980s, we were still using technology from the 1950s because we couldn't afford to replace it. Things have only gotten worse since then.
Lxd will Not be competiting with Docker. It's meant to complement it. As for the rest of your questions, I'm digging around to see what else I can find.
You know for being a toxic element, Linus's has done a hell of a job with Linux. Is there anything else that's even come close to it in terms of technical or business success? I don't think so.
This is news? Come on! You give anyone a link to your data and you expect security! Hello! If I gave folk a key to my house I doubt I'll have any my A/V equipment or computers when I come back after a long weekend. Why should I expect my data to be any safer!?