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Bruce Perens Calls For Open Source, Security, and Data Rights In IBM Ad (youtube.com)
Bruce Perens co-founded the Open Source Initiative with Eric Raymond -- and he's also Slashdot reader #3872.
Bruce Perens writes: Here's the IBM ad used to open their Think 2019 conference, featuring Buzz Aldrin, Arianna Huffington, Janelle Monae, Miaym Bialik, and astonishingly: me. Interesting of IBM to have an ad including Open Source, security, and data rights as human rights!
Web version with subtitles. Version used to open the Think conference, on Youtube..
"I would like to make open source software the standard..." Perens says in the video, adding "Let's champion data rights as human rights," and asking "How do we bake security into everything we do?" But it's a montage of different speakers who each begin their comments by saying "Dear Tech," offering open letters with their hopes for the entire industry.
"Let's use blockchain to help reduce poverty."
"Let's use IoT to help victims of natural disasters."
"I feel like you have the potential to do so much more."
"Are you working for all of us, or just a few of us?"
Bruce Perens writes: Here's the IBM ad used to open their Think 2019 conference, featuring Buzz Aldrin, Arianna Huffington, Janelle Monae, Miaym Bialik, and astonishingly: me. Interesting of IBM to have an ad including Open Source, security, and data rights as human rights!
Web version with subtitles. Version used to open the Think conference, on Youtube..
"I would like to make open source software the standard..." Perens says in the video, adding "Let's champion data rights as human rights," and asking "How do we bake security into everything we do?" But it's a montage of different speakers who each begin their comments by saying "Dear Tech," offering open letters with their hopes for the entire industry.
"Let's use blockchain to help reduce poverty."
"Let's use IoT to help victims of natural disasters."
"I feel like you have the potential to do so much more."
"Are you working for all of us, or just a few of us?"
So, I did this just for fun. It's the first and probably the last time in my life that I would be cast for a commercial. I got the limousine treatement to and from the airport on both sides, a stay in the Fairmont Bungalows in Santa Monica, a few hours costuming, and a 4 AM wake-up and 4:30 AM pick-up to shoot the commercial. I got the full make-up thing and we were finished shooting by 9:30 AM. I am being paid screen actors guild scale, and would get some residuals if they use the spot a lot.
Bruce Perens.
Those weren't in my lines. My lines were all stuff I would have said anyway. I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
IoT for natural disasters I can understand. For example, sprinkle sensors through a forest to detect when fires start.
I haven't read the proposal about using blockchain to reduce proverty, and that sounds a little unlikely. At least they weren't proposing to use cryptocurrency to reduce poverty. That would be like using alchemy to make gold so everyone could be rich.
Bruce Perens.
Sheesh -- the proliferation of unsecured IoT devices *IS* a natural disaster!
Yeah, but sensors for fires really do make sense. And although the rivers here in California are reasonably well instrumented, I suppose that can use improvement in a lot of places.
Bruce Perens.
The other Bruce said it well about blockchain.
Blockchain and trust
Yeah but your two comments with detecting fire examples are to detect potential disasters. The commercial says victims, meaning it already fucking happened. So sure, put IoT stuff out after a disaster instead of, you know, fucking giving people water and shelter. I am sure they will appreciate Roombas everywhere.
The best way to help a victim is indeed to avert the disaster. But if you google for it, there are papers on using IoT during the disaster.
Bruce Perens.
Go talk to people about this in real life Bruce.
I think people in tech who are not literally responsible for implementation of software and other technologies have got to be the dumbest people around.
You don't know what you're talking about Bryce Pearson. Carry a bucket to the fire like a real hero.
Cool, buy an army of ring doorbells to deploy during the next hurricane.
The answer to any of these questions ought to be just looking for nails, thank you
It's so important to be earnest, particularly while appearing in commercials for multinational corporations like IBM.
Here's what I would have like to have seen in the commerical:
Dear Tech, I'm a 57 year old longtime employee of IBM, and I'm afraid I'm going to get laid off along with the droves of other over40 employees the corporation has already axed in recent years. What can you, Tech, do for me? Can you make a difference in job security (jobs not being a societal subject mentioned in the commerical)?
p.s. I already know how code, so stuff it with that "Learn to" bullshit.
IoT for natural disasters I can understand. For example, sprinkle sensors through a forest to detect when fires start.
Yeah, let's strip mine the rest of China for the rare-earth minerals needed to build that cheap linux shit that will end up in the ocean.
Makes complete sense.
... There couldn't be better proof that this site is dead.
Congratulation on finding your purpose in life. To be the cancer of Slashdot. Better than your actual own life, 'eh?
Funny to me they mention his slashdot id in a article that involves data privacy on an open-source platform.
"I would like to make open source software the standard..."
"Let's champion data rights as human rights,"
"How do we bake security into everything we do?"
"Let's use blockchain to help reduce poverty."
"Let's use IoT to help victims of natural disasters."
"I feel like you have the potential to do so much more."
"Are you working for all of us, or just a few of us?"
TRANSLATION (IMHO):
"Let's screw all private companies spending so much time/labor/money to develop proprietary software!"
"Let's turn whole internet to an encrypted DARK WEB!"
"Let's make it absolutely impossible to government to catch any criminals using Internet! (By keep screaming DATA RIGHTS & PRIVACY!)"
"Let's try to find any good use for blockchain, so public would think cryptocurrencies are not really a GLOBAL INTERNET SCAM!"
"Let's try to find any good use for IoT, so the public would be okay, when we use IoT to collect all kinds of data from them & their children!"
"Let's join us ANTI-GOVERNMENT ANARCHISTS!"
(PS: Always wear a thinfoil hat because EVIL GOVERNMENT is always trying to read/control your mind!!!)
Gonna give you an ass kicking, bitch boi.
I rejected some as just being awkward and rewrote them, but they didn't make it into the ad.
. . . like the one where you made a shameless plug for Slashdot . . .
Now that would have been über-geek: Planting a Slashdot plug in an IBM ad!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
OK motherfucker, now you done gone and pissed me off. Where do you live? Gonna drive there and kick your dumb ass
Funny to me they mention his slashdot id in a article that involves data privacy on an open-source platform.
Well 4177615, I'm pretty sure nobody gives a flying fuck about anyone's Slashdot ID. If an Indian robocalling scammer can't use it to steal money from you, there really isn't anything to worry about.
LMAO - "sure, sure" you will (not): Everyone KNOWS where I live & you're too STUPID to find it apparently & IF you want to come over & TRY it? I'll shoot you, dead (try it, nothing like number 6 shot to do the job on you, JOWIE (Jealous "Lil' Jowie")).
* You've been FAIRLY WARNED whimp...
(& no, you wouldn't be the 1st idiot that's been SHOT @ here either (last time I had to do it was to a thief @ 3 a.m. more than a decade++ ago - funny that hasn't happened AGAIN, since then). Did it cause some legal "hassles"? A bit but I was free & clear of it, easily).
APK
P.S.=> I'd be doing SOCIETY a HUGE FAVOR ridding the PLANET of SWINE like you WEEZIL whimp... apk
ibm is so full of shit.
#3872 is the IBM slashvertisement affiliate ad referral id. Go self pontificate elsewhere Bruce.
I am a name - not a number.
My name is Anonymous Coward.
Dear Bruce, we won't solve what are essentially political problems, e.g. poverty & climate change, with IT solutions. In fact IT solutions are more commonly being used to augment current neoliberal political policy by making employment lower paid, more precarious, & under-regulated, e.g. Uber & Amazon. "Making the world a better place"?
if you avert the disaster, there is no victim
So, logic follows that averting the disaster does not help the victim.
See subject: For me, I work for ALL OF US w/ out question to speed up users 3 ways (adblocking, faster local resolution vs. DNS + vs. DNS requestlog tracking OR being downed OR redirect poisoned) & to protect them vs. myriad threats online via my hosts program.
* No, I won't open the source to it (had threats of trolls on /. saying they'd make a malicious copy & I will NOT have a Google EFast MALWARE VERSION OF CHROME https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... done off of MY work - NO MALWARE will be made of it by opening it's sourcecode - no way).
APK
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APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... (DL link @ bottom)
Soon for MacOS too (I just got a NEW Mac-Mini to port it there)... apk
Per Mr. Peren's sentiments? "Make a Wheel" https://isc.sans.edu/forums/di... which, as you all know (many here being users of mine w/ by now, 200k++ users worldwide), I've been doing for YEARS...
* A truly GREAT New Year's "resolution" IS that above, from SANS (good security site) for 2019...
APK
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APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... (DL link @ bottom)
Soon for MacOS too (I just got a NEW Mac-Mini to port it there)... apk
Bruce,
When you said
Let's champion data rights as human rights.
I smiled as it made me think of Free/Libre licensing.
Good job!
LMAO: Like I always KICK YOURS in? No way. Keep blowing yer "downmodpoints" until I run ya DRY of 'em https://slashdot.org/comments.... by my REPOSTING easily NULLIFYING your DO-NOTHING unskilled uneducated LOWBROW lame "ne'er-do-well" ass.
* THIS (& you're MAKING me just HAVE to say it again, as always, this is tradition vs. WHIMPS like you)? This was just "too, Too, TOO EASY - just '2ez'" & always IS vs. LAZY no-mind ZEROS (like you who downmodded me & is "trolling me" now (such an 'accomplishment' for you, not (only to have ME easily SMACK YOUR WHIMP ASS DOWN, beyotch!)).
APK
P.S.=> Hahahahahaha @ U, chump - you WISH you were ME doing good things but since you've WASTED your "so-called 'life'" being a troll, THAT "ain't happenin'" for you or "your kind" ever (& you KNOW it, lol)... apk
Support Free Software, not just Open Source. Forget trying to make Free software corporate friendly. Look what happened when the OSI did that, it backfired and now we live in a closed digital ecosystem built on open source fuondations. Bruce was wrong and RMS is right.
Wow, you sound insane!
You prove you're insane stalking apk by unidentifiable anon and downmodding him when he just reposts nullifying your 'weapon' easily. That makes you insane since repeating your same mistake over and over expecting different results vs. apk on your part never works. He always overrides your downmods easily making you look like an obsessed dumbass trying to get the best of him and you never do.
It is good they didn't start their advertising describing how they provided the machine used during the holocaust. What they did was much better.
for Ginni Rometty.
I was thinking of something along the lines of a carpet-bomb mesh-network deployment for restoring networking for existing communications devices in disaster areas. I heard that a big problem getting relief to survivors after hurricane Maria was just finding them. Getting in contact with people now isolated in densely forested areas after the existing infrastructure had been destroyed isn't a problem that should have taken weeks to solve. That could have been fixed in a couple hours of flyovers, with "IoT" technology we already have.
2376 here, yikes, and I did my IBM webmercials back in the Peace Love Linux days. I made the big time!
I'm gonna toddle off to my internet retirement home now ;)
Since, while they certainly talk about open & inclusive technologies they seemed to have forgotten the community driven-data and engagement that the Weather Underground essentially fostered on the Internet.
The surest way to guarantee emergency exits are used is if they're commonly used. The surest way to have a mesh-network in a potential disaster area is to have that mesh-network constantly deployed. When disaster comes, it'll be about, as you say, carpet-bombing in the units to fill in holes in the mesh. None of this really has to to do IoT technology per se.
Bruce Perens finds yet another occasion to plug Bruce Perens. Because Bruce Perens starts feeling unhappy when nobody talks about Bruce Perens for more than five minutes.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
See my subject: I'll kick YOUR FUCKING ASS for stalking & harassing me you unidentifiable little cowardly cunt - tell me your REAL name, address, & phone # so I can verify it's REALLY you & we can settle this once & for all, fucker...
APK
P.S.=> Everyone SEES you constantly stalking & harassing me bitch, so WHO ARE YOU FOOLING but yourself - & IF I ever get to you? You'll WISH you were dead cocksucker... I shit you not! apk
Hohohohoho see the CLASSIC proof of that here soyboys as you DRINK the golden wine https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12921202&cid=57664602 straight from MY tap (of GOLDEN piss), all natural ingredients, naturally filtered (of ME pissing right into your shitbag mouths & funniest part is, you help me DO it - you LIKE it, lol!).
Do you LIKE the taste? Obviously yes - just like folks like my hosts engine, anything I put out, even piss, is GOOD (unlike "your kind").
Above all else though? Hey - MOMMY LOVES YOU!
APK
P.S.=> Hahahahaha (I think this is the BEST overall letting you SHEMALE soyboys destroy yourselves for GOLD (ask SuckerBERG about that - he's the expert as is all his kind are - heading into ZylonB & Furnace time again judging by what's happening - the PRICE of it is that, always, they don't learn)... apk
rare-earth minerals
Hahahaha....nope. Nothing rare about silicon.
Ezekiel 23:20
I hear this a lot lately, and every single time it happens to mean humans *introducing* bias in disguise. AI itself is incapable of creating bias that does not exists in the training data; it just learns them and reproduces what it learned. The only way to "remove" the perceived bias in the AI output is to bias the training data the other way, and that is precisely what the pretense of "removing" bias gives the excuse to do. Frankly, that is something everyone should be conserved about regardless of one's personal views.
How is the lawsuit progressing?
Will the source of the patch that is being proxy-fought over ever be freed again?
Is the GPL enforceable or is it fairly toothless when it comes to the predominant open-source operating system?
It's called pax and grsecurity.
Oh, we don't have those anymore because it seems someone torpedoed their income.
"Open-source" != Free software
Has Sir Richard Stallman approved of this ad?
It was OK until the word âblockchainâ(TM). After that it was obvious that its just clueless joes talking.
See subject: Cut/paste copying my posts BUSTIN YER TROLL BALLS again only proves 1 thing: You WISH you were ME!
Imitation IS the sincerest form of FLATTERY after all (but your imitation is POOR, a paper rose).
WHY NOT DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE & MAKE A WHEEL instead as I have https://slashdot.org/comments.... instead?>
(One I did that 100's of 1,000's like & use INCLUDING registered /.ers by the DOZENS!)
APK
P.S.=> Oh, yea - I know WHY you don't do that - it's FAR BEYOND your skillset OR intelligence to do something good/useful - all "your kind" KNOWS is how to be BOGUS, LAZY & WASTES OF LIFE, lol... apk
See subject: Like I said - you try come to me face to face & I'll END you - it's THAT simple you PUSSY BITCH stalking me on /. ...
* You TRY it motherfucker - try it.
APK
P.S.=> I'll BLOW A HOLE into your SORRY ass cocksucker... apk
Lollerz!!1!
See my subject line & take your OWN advice: I'm not going anywhere chump - I've always "held my mud" + will be true to myself & continue to do so... & your kind, trolls STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts OR even IMPERSONATING me libeling me & telling lies, can't do a DAMN thing about it... lol!
* Period!
APK
P.S.=> ... & you KNOW it so why don't YOU just give up already - you're wasting your time w/ your bs, especially vs. me, but then again seeing as you haven't done anything in your WASTED LIFE? Being a waste is nothing NEW to you... apk
Having a miller beer now & watching "The Alternative Factor" in Star Trek (original series): This quote fits (by Lazarus) "Is it such a large price to pay, for the safety of 2 universes?"
APK
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APK Hosts File Engine 10++ SR-1 32/64-bit for Windows https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... (DL link @ bottom)
Soon for MacOS too (I just got a NEW Mac-Mini to port it there)... apk
I stop the BIGGEST SPAMMERS: Advertisers & the big scammers (malware of all kinds makers) & I do what I want (the right things) indiscriminately - no stopping me, no problem supplying me the means to prove that, every time, coming up like roses! That's me, not you.
YOU stalk ME by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous (like now), lol - & start it every time!
YOU DON'T post anonymously? WTF?? LMAO!
HILARIOUS you ADMIT you have a registered 'luser' account & yet you STALK me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous too https://hardware.slashdot.org/... - YOU have ISSUES, lunatic!
APK
P.S.=> You should take your own advice & apply it to yourself, lol... apk
You need a stable currency to acquire savings that in turn can serve as capital in a market economy.
Parts of the developing world has cell phones yet no stable currencies. I think cryptocurrencies can very well play a role there once you have a protocol that doesn't require resource heavy mining to facilitate transactions.
Yes, but any stable currency could serve that role, and the demand for dollars was very clear the last time I was in Brazil, when their own currency was pegged to an unrealistic exchange rate.
Bruce Perens.
Heh.
Today I learned that I joined Slashdot before Bruce did. I did business with Bruce and the Open Source Initiative in 2006-2007, back when I was the director of platform technologies for Walmart.com. That was before we launched Walmart Labs (which was the outgrowth of an acquisition and a skunk works project I led at the time, Walmart Global). Bruce's guidance and input were spot on, and helped us steer the giant toward embracing an open source culture and leaving behind Big Blue.
Happy to see that IBM came so far in the intervening 12 years. At the time our biggest challenge came from IBM and the internal teams using mainframes at Walmart. We faced serious pressure to not adopt open source, and instead embrace zSeries mainframes and underpowered SuSE-based, IBM flavored bastardized virtual Linux servers. Sanity prevailed and, thanks to Bruce, we came up with a good open source policy that appeased the old timers and, at the same time, helped us look toward the future.
Reminiscing...
pr3d4t0r
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No doubt. Problem is, these kind of borrowed currencies can introduce additional problems when there is no infrastructure in place to disperse the physical, non-legal tender.
For NGOs that operate in remote areas this can be a pressing security concern.
Met an activist once at a blockchain tech event, who came with a handful of what were essentially locally issued IOUs, they served as currency in remote Amazon villages. He used them to illustrate the need of the unbanked.
Why is that funny?
Apparently he thinks Slashdot IDs are some kind of secret??