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Re:"Schneir"? by hritcu · 2007-05-03 21:32 · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a Security Industry?

Just a warning: Don't question Bruce Schneier. by Shatrat · 2007-05-03 08:26 · Score: 1 · on Do We Really Need a Security Industry?

Bruce Schneier proved the infinitude of primes...by enumeration.

Obligatory by Zonk+(troll) · 2007-05-01 01:10 · Score: 1 · on SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen

Eric S. Raymond's GUN/Linux.

("Everybody Loves Eric S. Raymond" always cracks me up)

Re:As if by squiggleslash · 2007-04-30 23:14 · Score: 1 · on SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen

Erm, yeah... ;-)

Honestly, I doubt RMS has that much affection for ESR given the degree to which he apparently feels betrayed by what the open source movement (which, as a project, was initially most associated and enthusiastically supported by, ESR) did. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Re:Secustick by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-19 02:48 · Score: 0 · on Bad Security Driving Out the Good

I'm a $600/hr security consultant - you'd know my name, I used to work at - well I probably shouldn't say. I've FORGOTTEN more than Bruce Schneier knows about crypto, and I think the Secustick is a VERY secure product.

But are your abs NP hard?

Re:Oh I see how it is by ceroklis · 2007-04-17 11:56 · Score: 1 · on Interview With Mark Shuttleworth

No, more like El Che.

Re:I'm a big fan of Canonical's business model by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-12 21:10 · Score: 0 · on New Ubuntu Project Code Named 'Gutsy Gibbon'

Well, the February 22nd, 2006 issue of my favorite web comic, "Everybody Loves Eric Raymond", explains the business model:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/cancomical -lynchpad

Re:I'm a big fan of Canonical's business model by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-12 21:10 · Score: 0 · on New Ubuntu Project Code Named 'Gutsy Gibbon'

Well, the February 22nd, 2006 issue of my favorite web comic, "Everybody Loves Eric Raymond", explains the business model:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/cancomical -lynchpad

Well... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-09 06:23 · Score: 0 · on Learn How UNIX Multitasks

Linux users are communists. Here's some proof.

Re:Question by Briareos · 2007-04-06 08:56 · Score: 1 · on EBay Hacker's Conviction Upheld

I thought Bruce Schneier was the latest fact rage, and isn't he much more suited to the task?

Re:A True Linux User by Anonymous Coward · 2007-04-02 13:20 · Score: 0 · on Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash

All geeks must engage in Hacking for St IGNUcius and the Church of Emacs.

Re:Yikes! by Zonk+(troll) · 2007-03-23 06:09 · Score: 1 · on White House Specifies And Mandates Secure Windows

If at first you don't succeed at breaking a cipher, you're not Bruce Schneier.

Bruce Schneier can decypher line-noise.

Anybody can invent a cryptosystem he cannot break himself. Except Bruce Schneier.

When God needs a new secure certificate, he uses Bruce Schneier as the signing authority.

(Bruce Schneier Facts).

Re:I loved how core was... by Aim+Here · 2007-03-14 20:34 · Score: 1 · on Remote Exploit Discovered for OpenBSD

Maybe they're gloating because it's not easy to get an OpenBSD vulnerability, unlike certain other OSes we can mention. Moreso, even, because their work will hit the front page of an Operating System's website. That doesn't happen every day if you're a security professional. Well, not unless you're Bruce Schneier of course...

Maybe we should see the same thing on the Microsoft website: "Welcome, users. It has been 43 hours since our last remotely exploitable vulnerability in the default installation

if a geek was the next president... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-08 07:40 · Score: 0 · on 'Gates for President' Group Gives Up

I would vote Knuth as my Homeboy http://geekz.co.uk/shop/

Cathedral and Bazaar... by Nicolay77 · 2007-02-24 07:11 · Score: 1 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

... counseling business, of course.

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code

Who is this guy? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-23 06:37 · Score: 0 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

For those who don't know who ESR is:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code

Re:He was also using an UNSTABLE version by crush · 2007-02-23 03:39 · Score: 1 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

Of course all of the above makes the mistake of taking ESR too seriously. Everybody Loves Eric Raymond has the right take on him.

Re:Realism by doti · 2007-02-22 23:52 · Score: 1 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

No, no, no!

This best describes ESR:

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code

(aside from him being an uber idiot)

obligatory... by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-22 10:55 · Score: 0 · on Human Nature Trumps Homeland Security

Bruce Schneier Fact

Re:s/Fedors/ESR/ by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-22 10:51 · Score: 0 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code

News by Sloppy · 2007-02-22 10:29 · Score: 3, Funny · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

I guess I can see how it's big news that such an important person has switched distributions. No wait, actually I don't see at all.

Re:This just in... by bigredradio · 2007-02-22 10:12 · Score: 1 · on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu

Except Me http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/

Re:Please take care of Linus by TheDreadSlashdotterD · 2007-02-17 02:13 · Score: 1 · on Godwin's Law Invoked in Linus/Gnome Spat

Here's a good link for that:

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

Political Wiki preview by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-13 05:39 · Score: -1, Troll · on Wikipedia Founder Introduces Wiki Magazine Sites

Democ-rats suxxxxxx0rz, confederacy rules OK!!!!!!11!!!

NO YUO

GEORGE BUSH IS TEH DEBEL!!!!!!!!!!eleventy-one!!

In Soviet Russia, Bruce Schneier facts yuo!!!

That man gets everywhere by hawkinspeter · 2007-02-12 01:42 · Score: 4, Funny · on Schneier On the US Crypto Competition

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

Re:Less FUD by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-10 07:22 · Score: 2, Insightful · on New Community Site Offers Views From the Trenches

This may well be a good thing, but ultimately it's just a slashvertisement for some lame website... consumerist.com does a pretty good job with this sort of stuff anyway, and "community" is just so 2003...

So, for something more interesting and relevant... how well do yuo know your BRUCE SCHNEIER FACTS ?

Bruce Schneier Facts by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-07 13:06 · Score: 0 · on Schneier Mulls Psychology of Security

How well do you know your Bruce Schneier Facts?

Random Bruce Schneier fact! by Anonymous Coward · 2007-02-01 12:43 · Score: 0, Redundant · on Bruce Schneier Talks Brain Heuristics and Security

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

Bruce Schneier is my homeboy by bigredradio · 2007-02-01 12:41 · Score: 5, Funny · on Bruce Schneier Talks Brain Heuristics and Security

More facts about Bruce. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Re:And the best part is... by Workaphobia · 2007-01-28 14:00 · Score: 1 · on Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD

I remind you that the universe exists because Bruce Schneier needed a reference platform. Anyway, http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/126.

Re:And the best part is... by Baricom · 2007-01-24 18:05 · Score: 1 · on Interview with Developer of BackupHDDVD

Hehe, I didn't realize there actually was a Bruce Schneier Facts page.

There goes my evening. :)

stallman vs torvalds by reconn · 2007-01-16 05:42 · Score: 1 · on Torvalds Describes DRM and GPLv3 as 'Hot Air'

That's not fecal matter. It's unprecedented choice, and flexability.

Re:Hackers? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-01-03 13:02 · Score: 1, Funny · on Five Hackers Who Left a Mark on 2006

Hans Reiser certainly "left a mark", and I guess you could call him a "hacker". But you can't prove it!

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

Re:cipher.exe is overkill for flash memory by Bill,+Shooter+of+Bul · 2007-01-03 02:42 · Score: 1 · on Memories of a Media Card

Your going to take the dod recomendation over Bruce Schneier? Fool! Have you not read the facts of this amazing man? Click Here for elightenment

So I married a kernel programmer by CortoMaltese · 2006-12-21 20:04 · Score: 2, Funny · on Hans Reiser to Sell Company

So I married a kernel programmer

Bruce Schneier by BESTouff · 2006-12-18 09:30 · Score: 1 · on Detecting Rootkits In GNU/Linux

Bruce Schneier once wrote a kernel module just by cut'n'pasting 0s and 1s in an xterm.

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

We had to kill the kernel to save it by Sloppy · 2006-12-14 06:43 · Score: 1 · on Linus Puts Kibosh On Banning Binary Kernel Modules

The Good News: Linux can be successful. The Bad News: many Linux users will stop caring whether it's successful or not, because its biggest advantage will be lost.

Sometimes I wonder why Linus doesn't just take a job at Apple. He would be a perfect fit, there. They'd love him; he'd love them, and he'd get to work on great proprietary projects.

Also featured on ELER by Bazman · 2006-12-11 02:11 · Score: 1 · on Hans Reiser in Court Today

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

mmmm tasteless....

Re:Sheesh by monopole · 2006-12-05 10:51 · Score: 1 · on Linux Desktops Catching On In Education

I put in the CD that came with my iPod, but the computer isn't working.
I didn't know ESR was in the Indiana School system:
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys- an-ipod

Re:What now? by doti · 2006-11-14 06:40 · Score: 1 · on Linus Torvalds Officially a Hero

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/show-them- the-code

Bruce Schneier is my homeboy by bigredradio · 2006-11-03 14:06 · Score: 1 · on Bruce Schneier On Perceived and Real Risks

More facts about Bruce. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/

Please make sure not to tell... by Bismillah · 2006-10-26 09:06 · Score: 1 · on When Stallman is Attacked

... Daniel Lyons about ESR http://geekz.co.uk/.

Re:Top 10 Facts about Stephen Hawking by Briareos · 2006-10-16 07:20 · Score: 1 · on New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works

The same goes for Bruce Schneier Facts. They just aren't funny with Chuck Norris...

np: Uusitalo - Musit Irti / Huutaa (Tulenkantaja)

Re:But more important by Briareos · 2006-10-16 07:08 · Score: 1 · on New Stephen Hawking Movie in the Works

Old meme -_- Like, almost as old the web itself.

You mean like Bruce Schneier Facts?

np: Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Get Things Strait (Cant Cool)

Re:The Slashdot Way... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-14 23:48 · Score: 1, Funny · on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS

There's a logical explaination for everything

Old news by lintux · 2006-10-14 23:44 · Score: 5, Informative · on Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS

This news comes shortly after Hans Reiser's arrest

That news was this week. This news from SuSE, however, is very old already and apparently they indeed decided about this before Reiser got arrested.

It's also interesting how people now explain the blood on Reiser's shirt in this comic, while this comic also predates this whole arrest story. :-)

Re:Bullocks by tomhudson · 2006-10-14 02:27 · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Agrees to Changes in Vista Security

Just like I test the waters before I dump the bodies...

Is that you Hans? http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-marri ed-a-kernel-programmer

Re:Reiser4 by Profane+MuthaFucka · 2006-10-13 00:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Ext4 Filesystem Enters Experimental Kernel Tree

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

Re:RIP Cory Lidle by Twisted64 · 2006-10-11 10:22 · Score: 1 · on IE Market Share Drops to Lowest Level in Years

Is that funny? I'm ready to laugh, but I don't understand the joke. I much prefer this guy's sense of humour.

Everybody loves Eric Raymond by slyall · 2006-10-10 19:16 · Score: 1 · on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder

The cartoon "Everybody loves Eric Raymond" had a take on the affair:

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

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