This Twitter has been censored for a long time, at least since 2007. I know this first-hand. If you don't believe that, then obviously you've never tried to tweet anything worth censoring.
I've long wished we could find crypto libs that were well-engineered, both internally and in their APIs.
Have you looked at the Go standard library's crypto packages? I have not done any thorough examination of them and could NOT vouch for their quality - but they were written by security conscious folks (including Ken Thompson) at GOOG, and the code is fairly easy to read.
since there aren't many OpenBSD servers, probably nobody would notice that these attacks were happening
There aren't many OpenBSD hosts relative to other OSes, but there are quite a few of them out on the net. And the people who run them tend to be the kind of folks who would notice if OpenSSL crashed.
You are aware the Guardian has been editorializing in favor of legalizing and promoting incest, right?
So they're Royalists?
Should elementary school teachers be free to sleep with their students? Some do!
The fathers of Western civilization in ancient Greece would say "hell yes". Personally, I couldn't care less.
Should the state honor legal marriages between people and abstract ideas?
The state shouldn't be involved in marriage or any other religious ceremony/status. As for civil unions - well, can you tell me what it would be mean in the context of, let's say probate court, for a person to be married to an abstract idea?
people like the MPAA and RIAA, and I seriously doubt they have a digital surveillence arm.
Actually, I've seen several job ads to write digital surveillance software for the bigmedia cartels. There are also a good number of small companies (startup & otherwise) who make it their business to surveil the users of cultural data.
I've lived in SF off and on for ten years. The land is stunningly beautiful beyond compare; the food is good; and there's lots of public art. As a tenant of a rent-controlled apartment I have at least as many rights as the mortgaged owner of a condo in any other city. Unlike NYC, where rent control is an inherited privilege, here it applies to all buildings built before 1978 (~90% of the city's stock). It never snows and is often sunny. The air in many neighborhoods is clean & fresh due to the strong winds from the ocean. Californians on average are good drivers. The bike commuter lobby gets some respect from city hall.
Other than that, it sucks dogballs. The culture is smugly self-congratulatory like I've never seen anywhere else. Lots and lots of ultra smarmy trust fund man-children. The average woman is square, surly, and mannish; the average man effete and passive-aggressive. Something is badly wrong with the local education system - a fortune is spend educating the native yokels, yet they are often ignorant, aggressive, and/or openly bigoted - more so than the cheaply-educated poor folks I grew up with in the Rustbelt.
The weather is never actually "warm", the best we get is "kinda chilly". The architecture outside of downtown is hideous; and the buildings in all neighborhoods are ill-maintained. The live music scene in SF (not Oakland) is kinda lame. People from other cities - including NYC - are always shocked at how many street people we have (many/most are housed at City expense, and so not technically homeless) and how aggressive they are. The mayor is widely rumored to be a mob employee (not even the boss). The local bigmedia is crap even by bigmedia standards. Taxes are higher than Massachusetts.
And if you cannot tell whether it's well received or not then better to not start at all.
And there you have captured the real point of the new Feminist jurisprudence: To impose on the population, at the literal point of a gun if necessary, an abhorrently Puritanical anti-sex morality.
Really? So what's the point of being able to read files belonging to the owner? If the backdoor only permitted nuking of the filesystem, then it wouldn't be a big deal. This is pretty clearly an application to facilitate surveillance of citizens, and therefore can be fairly described as sinister.
environmentalists won't be happy until we're using no labor saving devices to "rape mother Gaia".
Naw dude, that's just the wingnuts who get mass media coverage.
Most environmentalists think reducing pollution is a splendid idea. However, most of them do NOT consider shutting down industrial civilization as an acceptable way to do that.
Even the Labour party dropped it's idiotic "ownership of the means of production" rubbish under Blair and nobody on the left, apart from the usual loons, are arguing to bring it back.
The bigmedia exclude most traditional "leftist" views from public discussion. It's Centrism (i.e. financialist totalitarianism) or nothing.
Human greed and selfishness is the problem, and if we don't fix that, we're fuxked
Strongly disagree. Greed & selfishness are constants throughout history. However, while no legal system is perfect, not all of them are systemically biased to the point of illegitimacy like the current American system.
GPLv3 hurts open source software developers by not having their software adopted or contributed to, entirely to avoid the patent clauses in question.
Funny.. I maintain a few small, GPLv3-licensed libraries. Every few months I receive a request from some random douche asking me to weaken the license to BSD or similar. How many of these requests come from people who have submitted Pull Requests, or at least filed some useful Issues? None, zero, nada, zilch. Just a bunch of opportunists hoping to enclose some Free Software for their own profit.
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, physical switch. Sleeping is for pets not consumer appliances. When my TV & Roku are off, they're OFF.
If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. /sarcasm
This Twitter has been censored for a long time, at least since 2007. I know this first-hand. If you don't believe that, then obviously you've never tried to tweet anything worth censoring.
TED had an interest one on this once. Turns out that over paying can be worse than under paying
VC propaganda.
I've long wished we could find crypto libs that were well-engineered, both internally and in their APIs.
Have you looked at the Go standard library's crypto packages? I have not done any thorough examination of them and could NOT vouch for their quality - but they were written by security conscious folks (including Ken Thompson) at GOOG, and the code is fairly easy to read.
since there aren't many OpenBSD servers, probably nobody would notice that these attacks were happening
There aren't many OpenBSD hosts relative to other OSes, but there are quite a few of them out on the net. And the people who run them tend to be the kind of folks who would notice if OpenSSL crashed.
Have you considered an exciting and lucrative career working for the mob?
You are aware the Guardian has been editorializing in favor of legalizing and promoting incest, right?
So they're Royalists?
Should elementary school teachers be free to sleep with their students? Some do!
The fathers of Western civilization in ancient Greece would say "hell yes". Personally, I couldn't care less.
Should the state honor legal marriages between people and abstract ideas?
The state shouldn't be involved in marriage or any other religious ceremony/status. As for civil unions - well, can you tell me what it would be mean in the context of, let's say probate court, for a person to be married to an abstract idea?
people like the MPAA and RIAA, and I seriously doubt they have a digital surveillence arm.
Actually, I've seen several job ads to write digital surveillance software for the bigmedia cartels. There are also a good number of small companies (startup & otherwise) who make it their business to surveil the users of cultural data.
Seriously, you have an iPhone and you complain about the 99%? You are the 1% globally.
That may have been true five years ago; but it no longer holds today: http://www.theguardian.com/tec...
I've lived in SF off and on for ten years. The land is stunningly beautiful beyond compare; the food is good; and there's lots of public art. As a tenant of a rent-controlled apartment I have at least as many rights as the mortgaged owner of a condo in any other city. Unlike NYC, where rent control is an inherited privilege, here it applies to all buildings built before 1978 (~90% of the city's stock). It never snows and is often sunny. The air in many neighborhoods is clean & fresh due to the strong winds from the ocean. Californians on average are good drivers. The bike commuter lobby gets some respect from city hall.
Other than that, it sucks dogballs. The culture is smugly self-congratulatory like I've never seen anywhere else. Lots and lots of ultra smarmy trust fund man-children. The average woman is square, surly, and mannish; the average man effete and passive-aggressive. Something is badly wrong with the local education system - a fortune is spend educating the native yokels, yet they are often ignorant, aggressive, and/or openly bigoted - more so than the cheaply-educated poor folks I grew up with in the Rustbelt.
The weather is never actually "warm", the best we get is "kinda chilly". The architecture outside of downtown is hideous; and the buildings in all neighborhoods are ill-maintained. The live music scene in SF (not Oakland) is kinda lame. People from other cities - including NYC - are always shocked at how many street people we have (many/most are housed at City expense, and so not technically homeless) and how aggressive they are. The mayor is widely rumored to be a mob employee (not even the boss). The local bigmedia is crap even by bigmedia standards. Taxes are higher than Massachusetts.
And if you cannot tell whether it's well received or not then better to not start at all.
And there you have captured the real point of the new Feminist jurisprudence: To impose on the population, at the literal point of a gun if necessary, an abhorrently Puritanical anti-sex morality.
Centrist tool. Republican = Democrat = Centrist = Fascist.
Really? So what's the point of being able to read files belonging to the owner? If the backdoor only permitted nuking of the filesystem, then it wouldn't be a big deal. This is pretty clearly an application to facilitate surveillance of citizens, and therefore can be fairly described as sinister.
I'm still searching the US Constitution where it says that the feds can force me to be my brothers keeper by force.
Interstate commerce. 'Cuz the Supreme Kangaroo Kourt says everything counts as interstate commerce.
Do you pay for groceries under the specter of a gun?
The grocer is mortal enemy to a starving, penniless man.
environmentalists won't be happy until we're using no labor saving devices to "rape mother Gaia".
Naw dude, that's just the wingnuts who get mass media coverage.
Most environmentalists think reducing pollution is a splendid idea. However, most of them do NOT consider shutting down industrial civilization as an acceptable way to do that.
Even the Labour party dropped it's idiotic "ownership of the means of production" rubbish under Blair and nobody on the left, apart from the usual loons, are arguing to bring it back.
The bigmedia exclude most traditional "leftist" views from public discussion. It's Centrism (i.e. financialist totalitarianism) or nothing.
Don't like the law? Get it changed.
Don't like gravity? Flap your arms and fly.
Unjust and/or unwise laws are a good argument against the unchecked rule of lawyers; not a good argument in favor of injustice.
Why would you assume SF has fast wireless? This is 'Murika, son... we don't do fast internet.
Your internet isn't already censored??
Human greed and selfishness is the problem, and if we don't fix that, we're fuxked
Strongly disagree. Greed & selfishness are constants throughout history. However, while no legal system is perfect, not all of them are systemically biased to the point of illegitimacy like the current American system.
GPLv3 hurts open source software developers by not having their software adopted or contributed to, entirely to avoid the patent clauses in question.
Funny.. I maintain a few small, GPLv3-licensed libraries. Every few months I receive a request from some random douche asking me to weaken the license to BSD or similar. How many of these requests come from people who have submitted Pull Requests, or at least filed some useful Issues? None, zero, nada, zilch. Just a bunch of opportunists hoping to enclose some Free Software for their own profit.
Actually, the purpose is to help identify dissidents
FTFY