All that said, I personally believe the difference between Manning as a pawn of Wikileaks, and Snowden being a true whistleblower isn't intent, because they both had good intent. The difference lies in that Manning was not only working as a naive pawn for Julian Assange, who the US government hates, but in his effort to quickly become what he thought was a hero, he neglected to scrub the names of innocents from the cables and files he released, potentially threatening people in the US and abroad.
Aside from that, he has sociopathic tendencies and I hope he can get the help he needs, as well as parole - it's always sad to see a young man lose a large portion of his life for something that amounts to a crime on paper - that's not to discount the potential consequences of what he released.
Considering today news is breaking about the NSA monitoring 75% of all domestic US internet traffic, and logging all domestic emails, as well as their plans for a national facial recognition system (as in live video feeds), it seems obvious to me that they sentenced him today and announced it in this way in an effort to distract us from what really matters.
If it's a real representative government, the average folks of NZ could band together and stop this. Same goes for the USA. Instead of yelling about it, people need to take action and continue yelling about it.
http://getnightingale.org/ seems to be coming along nicely. I'm a bit biased but it really is a nice multiplatform player. We've even got feature/bug bounties setup now (we don't handle the money, it's through this site, which tracks our github issues:https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/230233-nightingale-media-player-nightingale-hacking).
We almost have gstreamer 1.0 and xulrunner 9 working with it...from there it's upgrading some other stuff and getting it stable, and we'll be golden. All of you are free to join and help us develop!
Just wanted to say I don't have a stake in this either way, and I'm not contributing anywhere. I read Hackaday and live near Caleb Craft, and thus enjoy taking a peek from time to time.
So, we're going to start trying to nix the primary way we generate electricity...and not go nuclear even though we can recycle buried waste into power...and instead we're going to cut down a bunch of trees on public land and toss up solar and wind farms? Yeah, that's logical.
This is purely political and not about the environment or climate change. The climate changes naturally, and adapts to the creatures (us and everything else on earth) and their affects on it. If anything we should be burning less coal from switching to nuclear plants.
Just wanted to clarify a couple of things. The Songbird SVN has been down for some months now, but they did put up the link mentioned in the comments above fairly recently.
As for Nightingale, we're still staying around even though we're not perfect yet, we have a handfull of devs still owrking on things - right now we're working or way to using a modern xulrunner instead of 1.9, which is what Songbird and Nightingale have used up until now. We're also going to ask POTI if we could get the source code to their closed source addons, such as MTP and DLNA support, and for the source to their addons platform with it's database, and the source to the mobile versions. We're game to maintain and improve upon all they offered, it's just going to be interesting to see how they respond.
These machines shouldn't have been connected to the internet... They also shouldn't have been running OSX or Windows. From there, freaking use LUKS to prevent physical threat and otherwise don't allow Chinese nationals to come into rooms with sensitive data.
I wish my country would come up with a decent security policy...of course, this could've all been a trick, and they could have potentially placed these in a convenient location with compromised plans designed to just cost money and explode...but I don't give the bureaucrats that much credit.
I understand their efforts to relate it to the Iron Man and Star Trek suits, and while this may contribute to the development thereof, it's not quite there yet...and I think it's nuts, but would be fun if the freefall works.
I'm waiting for nanotube muscle fibers that, with EEG, operate as a part of the body. From there, armor and flight capabilities.
My git repos, some of which just mirror other projects, others which are private to me, would be opened up to the public, except for code that isn't mine to relicense as GPL. Other data released publically via webservers would include archival data of various rare tv, books, etc that I have collected.
Emails, banking stuff, and all that would go to the appropriate family members.
With the kernel it's almost always fairly mainstream changes - security patches, upstream stuff, BFS, whatever. With the userland, I see patches only when necessary on something like Gentoo or Arch... With Ubuntu though, it's a nightmare.
Real world example: I develop with the Nightingale Media Player. While setting it up to use the current taglib, we managed to get it to work just fine with the taglib shipped with about every distro you can imagine...except Ubuntu. Some patch they have going on there completely breaks the build, as well as playback and tag parsing.
Linux is in fact, fairly standard, short of the init system and sometimes the system layout you use. Ubuntu is a bit of an exception since it follows Shuttleworth's whims instead of established norms. Furthermore, it's size on disk doesn't matter if it runs 50 daemons and eats up a bunch of CPU time at idle.
If you really want lightweight and have a specific purpose in mind, just use something that only gives you what you want/need based on what you install. Then, localepurge.
This and all other research should be privately funded. This, just like the treadmill for shrimp, is a waste of my and many other people's tax dollars.
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All that said, I personally believe the difference between Manning as a pawn of Wikileaks, and Snowden being a true whistleblower isn't intent, because they both had good intent. The difference lies in that Manning was not only working as a naive pawn for Julian Assange, who the US government hates, but in his effort to quickly become what he thought was a hero, he neglected to scrub the names of innocents from the cables and files he released, potentially threatening people in the US and abroad.
Aside from that, he has sociopathic tendencies and I hope he can get the help he needs, as well as parole - it's always sad to see a young man lose a large portion of his life for something that amounts to a crime on paper - that's not to discount the potential consequences of what he released.
Considering today news is breaking about the NSA monitoring 75% of all domestic US internet traffic, and logging all domestic emails, as well as their plans for a national facial recognition system (as in live video feeds), it seems obvious to me that they sentenced him today and announced it in this way in an effort to distract us from what really matters.
Sources: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/nsa-has-access-75-percent-us-internet-traffic-says-wsj-6C10967780
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/us/facial-scanning-is-making-gains-in-surveillance.html?_r=0
If it's a real representative government, the average folks of NZ could band together and stop this. Same goes for the USA. Instead of yelling about it, people need to take action and continue yelling about it.
http://getnightingale.org/ seems to be coming along nicely. I'm a bit biased but it really is a nice multiplatform player. We've even got feature/bug bounties setup now (we don't handle the money, it's through this site, which tracks our github issues:https://www.bountysource.com/trackers/230233-nightingale-media-player-nightingale-hacking).
We almost have gstreamer 1.0 and xulrunner 9 working with it...from there it's upgrading some other stuff and getting it stable, and we'll be golden. All of you are free to join and help us develop!
Are you by chance Mark Shuttleworth?
Especially on servers... Not only is all the crap installed by default annoying, but it probably leaves a lot of nice security holes too.
Using other distros not related to Ubuntu, but based on Debian or really anything else is always a better option.
Just wanted to say I don't have a stake in this either way, and I'm not contributing anywhere. I read Hackaday and live near Caleb Craft, and thus enjoy taking a peek from time to time.
Seems appropriate, since Microsoft seems to be borrowing this trick from Canonical.
So, we're going to start trying to nix the primary way we generate electricity...and not go nuclear even though we can recycle buried waste into power...and instead we're going to cut down a bunch of trees on public land and toss up solar and wind farms? Yeah, that's logical.
This is purely political and not about the environment or climate change. The climate changes naturally, and adapts to the creatures (us and everything else on earth) and their affects on it. If anything we should be burning less coal from switching to nuclear plants.
I'll just leave this here. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/MIT-Develops-Meltdown-Proof-Nuclear-Waste-Eating-Reactor.html
Up to $12,000 or so you can consider it hobby income, as long as you can prove you're in it more for the curiosity/hobby of it.
Just wanted to clarify a couple of things. The Songbird SVN has been down for some months now, but they did put up the link mentioned in the comments above fairly recently.
As for Nightingale, we're still staying around even though we're not perfect yet, we have a handfull of devs still owrking on things - right now we're working or way to using a modern xulrunner instead of 1.9, which is what Songbird and Nightingale have used up until now. We're also going to ask POTI if we could get the source code to their closed source addons, such as MTP and DLNA support, and for the source to their addons platform with it's database, and the source to the mobile versions. We're game to maintain and improve upon all they offered, it's just going to be interesting to see how they respond.
Where's Eliza Dushku when you need her?
Isn't this how Dollhouse got imprints?
These machines shouldn't have been connected to the internet... They also shouldn't have been running OSX or Windows. From there, freaking use LUKS to prevent physical threat and otherwise don't allow Chinese nationals to come into rooms with sensitive data.
I wish my country would come up with a decent security policy...of course, this could've all been a trick, and they could have potentially placed these in a convenient location with compromised plans designed to just cost money and explode...but I don't give the bureaucrats that much credit.
Legislate this crap into guns and I'll start a business removing them.
I understand their efforts to relate it to the Iron Man and Star Trek suits, and while this may contribute to the development thereof, it's not quite there yet...and I think it's nuts, but would be fun if the freefall works.
I'm waiting for nanotube muscle fibers that, with EEG, operate as a part of the body. From there, armor and flight capabilities.
Just considering that this will be abbreviated XBONE...so errors are XBONERS, and if you get an RROD, wouldn't that make you XBONED?
My git repos, some of which just mirror other projects, others which are private to me, would be opened up to the public, except for code that isn't mine to relicense as GPL. Other data released publically via webservers would include archival data of various rare tv, books, etc that I have collected.
Emails, banking stuff, and all that would go to the appropriate family members.
Agreed. Also, https://github.com/damentz/zen-kernel
With the kernel it's almost always fairly mainstream changes - security patches, upstream stuff, BFS, whatever. With the userland, I see patches only when necessary on something like Gentoo or Arch... With Ubuntu though, it's a nightmare.
Real world example: I develop with the Nightingale Media Player. While setting it up to use the current taglib, we managed to get it to work just fine with the taglib shipped with about every distro you can imagine...except Ubuntu. Some patch they have going on there completely breaks the build, as well as playback and tag parsing.
Unfortunately not.
Linux is in fact, fairly standard, short of the init system and sometimes the system layout you use. Ubuntu is a bit of an exception since it follows Shuttleworth's whims instead of established norms. Furthermore, it's size on disk doesn't matter if it runs 50 daemons and eats up a bunch of CPU time at idle.
If you really want lightweight and have a specific purpose in mind, just use something that only gives you what you want/need based on what you install. Then, localepurge.
It's also nonstandard in terms of all the stupid patches and daemons it comes with.
Mod parent up! Ubuntu sucks.
This and all other research should be privately funded. This, just like the treadmill for shrimp, is a waste of my and many other people's tax dollars.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/federalbudgetprocess/a/How-Much-Shrimp-Treadmill-Study-Cost-Taxpayers.htm