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"quite possibly," and yet not for any apparent or adequately-explained reason.

They faked a sign-off-by from Christoph Hellwig. Harsh punishments must follow.

Hans Reiser

Obligatory:

This ELER might help answer your question.

It's actually Eric Raymond's own distro: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gun-linux

My next e-peen's machine will have CPU-integrated graphics, very likely made by Intel due to the current driver situation. (I don't totally rule out AMD but if the decision were made today Intel is the clear winner.) "Integrated graphics in an e-peen machine?" you ask? Yes, because my peen is about stability, freedom, long-term maintenance, security, not a one-trick-pony single metric which costs you pretty much everything else.

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/mundane-name

Yeah, he's with those guys.

OTOH he's entitled to his opinion as much as anyone else, and at least he bothered to write a letter to Dodd, unlike 99% of the people here on Slashdot. I'm not saying he's better than me because he got off his ass, but rather, he's better than me because he lifted a finger. You might say the bar is low, but he's over it.

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer

That reminds me of this brilliant comic. I wish the authors had kept working on it, it was consistently hilarious.

i thought the comic sucked ass

That reminds me of this brilliant comic. I wish the authors had kept working on it, it was consistently hilarious.

there's this one http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/ghost-in-the-root-shell

Bruce Perens? I thought you were dead?

I agree with everything in your post, but just for reference it was Richard Stallman who had the problem with the printer driver, not (Everybody Loves...) Eric Raymond.

[ you're not ERIC RAYMOND. You're...] A nobody nothing that has never done anything useful with his time or life, and now you waste others time here on slashdot

Actually that does sound a lot like Eric Raymond..

Maybe they don't think it's worth it.

No, every day is the day we take the piss out of ESR.

hell with that, i use GUN/Linux

Then he starts getting emails from Paypal about charges from his skype account for phone calls to somewhere in eastern Europe.

I had this happen to me as well about a year ago. It looks like somebody is running a big scam in Eastern Europe. The strange thing is that I don't have a skype account, nor did I think I had a paypal account. In the end, I found out that at one point I bought an ELER t-shirt where the guy required that I create a paypal account and then I forgot I had created that. It took a frustratingly long time to get my paypal account canceled, and skype is still bugging me about returning their e-mails about getting my "skype account" (which never existed) straightened out. The nice thing about this whole shenanigan was that my credit card company immediately contacted me and in short order created a different account number for me. I'll think twice before ever creating either a skype or a paypal account ever again though, that's for sure.

Good God, man! Haven't you heard about the facts!

Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Sacred document: GPL

Amen to that

Everybody loves him.

(Except me.)

So I guess we have to tell Bruce Schneier that his "Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO" book is simply useless.

We? Who is this 'we'? You tell him, I'm not going anywhere near Bruce while you're in the process of making him angry.

Oblig. link to Schneier Facts

Bruce is a robot

And that's not all...

I'm pretty sure that you mean Bruce Schneier http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/
Black holes don't scare Bruce Schneier... he uses black holes as his own personal toilet.

Yeah, and how is he supposed to decrypt it, in his head? I'm assuming of course, that he's not Bruce Schneier.

Simple. Obama represents a larger set of AMERICA than /. Some of those people are rich and make large campaign donations.

When I voted for him I knew I was compromising. I knew he'd do all kinds of things I wouldn't like. But I also knew that the alternative was going to fuck up everything at least as badly, if not far worse. Even this included, and with the AG appt, I like Obama more now than I did before the election. He'd have to appoint Jack Valenti* to the Supreme Court or AG or Copyright Czar or something for me to dislike him too much, and what would it take for him to suck as much as McCain or, god forbid, Dubya?

Sure. Politicians sell out. They support bridges to nowhere (Obama did vote for it, after all. Riders suck). They make compromises and cut deals to get things done. Some of those deals suck for some people.

* It's funnier if I wait for someone to point out he's dead first, but I'm going away after I post this. http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eler-highlights-2008

Nice thought, but the Windows Driver Foundation(WDF) that is built to support the protected path has to be able to check the entire path BEFORE you run ANY DRM videos, otherwise you could just pull an Alcohol 120% and install the "screw u" driver BEFORE playing the DRM and it's bye bye DRM. But don't believe me, read about it at Forbes in an article written by the great Bruce Schneier.

If I wanted to troll Vista I would have put down something like "worst OS ever!" or some crap like that. Put working in the PC sales and repair biz I can say that anything less than a dual core with 2Gb of RAM, which is higher specs that a good 50% or so that is sold at Walmart and Best Buy, and Vista generally equals=giant HDD thrashmonster. That is simply what I have seen with my own eyes. But to quote the above article "And Vista continuously spends CPU time monitoring itself, trying to figure out if you're doing something that it thinks you shouldn't.". That extra CPU time is being sucked up by the DRM and that is CPU time you simply can't get back with Vista.

But don't blame me, I was so jazzed about a new MSFT OS I was a Beta tester for the first time ever. I tried RC1, RC2, RTM, and SP1. And I just never could get it running fast enough to make it worth switching from XP. Aero just isn't a compelling enough feature for me, especially when I can add the same "oooh pretty" in about 3 minutes and a reboot to XP. I just hope they keep the crazy DRM crap out of Win7. Because trying to find Windows XP licenses for my customers next year will probably prove difficult, not to mention drivers for all those Dells and eMachines.

That would be Bruce Schneier not Chuck.
Chuck has another Fist under his beard.

Here are the Chuck Norris Facts: http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

And here are the Bruce Schneier Facts: http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Please dont get confused people!

I browse the web using telnet. Sometimes I do have to break out my calculator to handle https sites.

Bruce Schneier doesn't have to.

For more info about bruce: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/bruce-schneier-facts

There are no finite state machines. There are only a series of states that Bruce Schneier allows to exist.

Bruce Schneier can tell you where to find your GPG key into the digits of PI.

Bruce Schneier owns a chicken that lays scrambled eggs. Whenever he wants a hard-boiled egg, he just unscrambles one.

SHA = "Schneier has access" SHA2 = "Schneier has access - and a spare too"

When transmitted over any socket, Bruce Schneier's public key causes libpcap to enter an infinite malloc loop.

Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.

Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.

Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat

When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.

Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

That painting looks like Chuck Norris to me.

"Geologists recently discovered that "earthquakes" are nothing more than Bruce Schneier and Chuck Norris communicating via a roundhouse kick-based cryptosystem."

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/58

That deserves to be in the Top 10 Bruce Schneier Facts.

If Chuck Norris tried to break Bruce Schneier's security, what would happen?

Shut your mouth!

I think you need to read some facts about Bruce Schneier!

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

There's still the possibility of a backdoor in the underlying encryption schemes of course which would be far beyond most people's ability to detect no matter how many people see it or how long they look.

not for Bruce Schneier! he finds backdoors to encryption algorithms while drinking his morning Tea! (c.f. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ )

Well that suxs for Bruce. Now he has to change the combination on his luggage again.

I've got a picture of him right here.

Yeah, this was just made for Everybody Loves Eric Raymond... which of course means the site will never be updated ever again... or did my saying that just cause the site to be updated? I better go check, just to be sure.

Everyone loves Eric Raymond

Classic.

Some of you may not be aware of the stature of Bruce Schneier in the field of computer security, so here is some background information:

http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/facts/top

Bruce Schneier once decrypted a box of AlphaBits.

Most people use passwords. Some people use passphrases. Bruce Schneier uses an epic passpoem, detailing the life and works of seven mythical Norse heroes.

Bruce Schneier knows Alice and Bob's shared secret.

Vs lbh nfxrq Oehpr Fpuarvre gb qrpelcg guvf, ur'q pehfu lbhe fxhyy jvgu uvf ynhtu.

Bruce Schneier's secure handshake is so strong, you won't be able to exchange keys with anyone else for days.

Bruce Schneier knows the state of schroedinger's cat

Bruce Schneier writes his books and essays by generating random alphanumeric text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.

When Bruce Schneier observes a quantum particle, it remains in the same state until he has finished observing it.

If we built a Dyson sphere around Bruce Schneier and captured all of his energy for 2 months, without any loss, we could power an ideal computer running at 3.2 degrees K to count up to 2^256. This strongly implies that not only can Bruce Schneier brute-force attack 256-bit keys, but that he is built of something other than matter and occupies something other than space.

Though a superhero, Bruce Schneier disdanes the use of a mask or secret identity as 'security through obscurity'.

under the petunias, of course!

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-married-a-kernel-programmer

Great comic strip who didnt believe him HERE.

Got any lime?

Do you really want to know Ubuntu's plan?

The message content is just pasted Chuck Norris jokes

You're doing it wrong

Yes, everything is relative. For example, imagine what ESR would give to have Levelord's or Hans Reiser's track record of concrete accomplishments! (Furthermore, say what you will about how Levelord spends his free time, but at least he has an attractive moustache which doesn't make him look like a child molester. Come on, PageRank, do your thing.) And neither Romero nor Levelord nor Reiser are confirmed cranks. See, John, the dude is right: the more you look, the more you find to be grateful for, because one man is minus-infinity on anyone's scale of personal relativism!

P.S. Feel free to lash out at your own favorite Slashdot pincushions, everybody!

A floppy drive? You had it easy. In my day we had to use write our ones and zeros on a giant blackboard and programmed directly in electricity.

I guess this is called for now :P