'Bethany Mota' a very clever way of selling product to kids, under the guise of some Valley girl just hanging in her bedroom with her Youtube 'friends'. Marketing exec: 'We got a contract to shift some.. 'batiste dry shampoo', 'Bumble and Bumble City Swept Finish', 'white eyeliner', 'red lipstick', 'mascara', 'vests from Target', 'skirt from For-ever-21', 'boots from For-ever-21', 'tanktop', 'Blue dress from LX-Fashion', 'White shoes from American Apparel', 'Purse from Clothing Line', 'Overalls from Love Culture', 'American Flag T-shirt from Brandy Melville', 'Backpack from Target', 'White dress from For-ever-21', 'Black-&-White Wedges', 'Headband from Michaels Craftstore'. If you're a teenage girl out there, if you buy all this product, then you can also have Bethanys lifestyle.
"NSA.. are planning.. to paralyze computer networks and, by doing so, potentially all the infrastructure they control, including power and water supplies, factories, airports or the flow of money."
Did I just slip through a crack in the universe, to a place where the past decades of computer intrusions didn't take place. If so, then that would explain why people are still connecting their critical infrastructure directly to the Internet.
"LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries." ref
Comment: It's the very first question, any idea as to who asked the first question, talk about being ambushed! A classic, generate some controversy at the conference and then only report on that. I wonder did anything of a technical nature occur at the conference. --
transcript starts from 10.00:-
Q: Morning, so Linux, nice easy question to start with (laughter). Over the years there have been various people including myself who have either reduced their involvement in the kernel community or stepped away from it entirely due to the tone on LKM and especially your contribution to that. Why do you continue to argue that being really unpleasant to people is good leadership.
A: Part of it, fair question, that's not actually my real argument. My real argument is that people are different and I'm a really unpleasant person (laughter). I mean that's what it really boils down to. Some people think I'm nice and some people are then shocked when they learn different. And I'm not a nice person and I don't care about you - really seriously (laughter). I care about the technology and I care about the kernel and I really think that a lot of projects in the Open Source community sometimes care about non-technical things too much. And the reason I say that is that the only thing we can actually agree on ever tend to be technical issues. And if we start making a big deal about non-technical issues - that are important - don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they're not important, I'm saying whenever we start making non-technical issues primary issues - that just guarantees we'll never agree - right. And.. I'm not trying to really make excuses, I'm more trying to explain that this is where I come from.
And I appreciate the diversity in Open Source, but to me that diversity is not about gender, it's not about skin color, it's about - people are different. And people are different in what they are interested in. People are different in what they're good at. Skin color and gender and all these issues that get brought up as really important things - those are details. What is great about Open Source is that some people are unpleasant but they're technically really good - right. Some people are pleasant and like bring other people in and I think that's one of maybe the most important of Open Source - is that you can do what you're good at. So when you look at bringing in minorities, bringing in females, bringing in people who don't speak English. My argument has been and is, that we should look for people who are good at being the people who can be between other people - right. There are a lots of good kernel developers who are great at working with people. And they may not ever be great technically - and that doesn't matter - because we all have strengths. And this is my argument - and I refuse to change - well no - that sounds bad (comment "s'not quite true" laughter). It's not that I refuse to change, it's that I don't think I want to try to bow down to what other people think.
My personal personality is pretty abrasive, I love arguing. Appearing at the Museum of Technology I spent the whole time just arguing with people (laughter). And if you're that kind of personality - when you are on LKM - you will argue. And I know they're are other kernel developers that are like me. And I know they're are other kernel developers who are not like me - and that's all wonderful. That was a really long answer to a really simple question. But the fact is - that's how I feel. -
What Africa really needs to fight Ebola is to stop traditional burial practices, such as allowing traditional healers to wash the dead body and then travel back to their home village and spread the contagion. Where there is one case, quarantine the village and cremate the deceased. To quote: "Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease like wildfire." In Guinea, 60% of all cases had been linked to traditional burial practices."
NSA wants to further increase its surveillance of the American people, the NSA dreams up a bullshit story about terrorists using spam to hide msgs. Just who at the NSA would advise their staff to EXCLUDE spam from it's spying machine and why is slashdot posting this bullshit story on the front page?
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"The most annoying thing is that we don't have the sequence of events recorded through the radio beacon that we were intending to put on Beagle 2." @2:00m podcastColin Pillinger Dec 27, 2011
"Most operating systems designed to run on 64-bit hardware already use signed 64-bit time_t integers. Using a signed 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe: approximately 292 billion years from now, at 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596"
"The leaders have announced that their respective intelligence agencies will mount ongoing cyber-attack "war games" starting this summer in an effort to strengthen the West's tarnished reputation following the Sony hacking scandal."
"Judge Katherine Forrest.. was unhappy with its "mumbo-jumbo" explanation of the anonymizing service Tor.
More like her Honor doesn't get BITCOIN, TOR or the Internet. She should have the jury read these documents, assuming they can work out how to use the 'Internet'..
"No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this Act or operated by the United States Government"
"The key point that Wigner’s friend experiment raises is that consciousness seems necessary to determine the result of a quantum mechanical measurement process. Without consciousness, all the elements of the experiment remain in a superposition of all possible states." link
The logic here is faulty, the observer is something in the rest of the universe that is affected by the collapse of the wave function, and that doesn't have to be conscious. See also
"The XC Collaboration AddOn Software is a 3rd party product and not a default part of your installation of SMART Notebook Platform. In order to use this AddOn, you first have to download, install and activate it."
"Microsoft and CAS recently launched QuickStart Computing. With funding from Microsoft and the Department for Education, Computing At School produced the training toolkit for teachers" ref.
"Software Development – MTA EXAM
Web Development Fundamentals – MTA EXAM
Working with XML, Data Objects, and WCF
C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute
Microsoft.NET Fundamentals: MTA EXAM
Microsoft.NET Fundamentals" ref
"What is MTA,?: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) is an introductory Microsoft certification for individuals considering a career in technology" ref
No they didn't, this slashdot 'report' looks like nothing but a cynical attempt to impart positive spin to Microsofts' failure to address the patch. Since when did slashdot become a PR arm of the Microsoft organization?
"Firstly, just to make this absolutely clear, the ahcache.sys/NtApphelpCacheControl issue was reported to Microsoft on September 30. You can see this in the "Reported" label on the left hand panel of this bug. This initial report also included the 90-day disclosure deadline statement that you can see above, which in this instance has passed." ref
"The FBI's access to email and other data collected from overseas targets in the NSA's Prism program has been growing since 2008"
And GCHQ spies on Americans in England, and ASD spies on Americans in Australia, and CSEC spies on Americans in Canada, and GCSB spies on Americans in New Zealand and finally GCHQ spies on Americans in the USA...
DHS under-secretary works as strategist for Microsoft, Microsoft security chief moves to White House, White House security czar moves to DHS, DHS buys Microsoft product to run terrorist database (jeez!), Microsoft creates post of Director of Homeland Security.. no conflict of interest here:)
"The botnet is not made entirely of home routers; some of the infected hosts appear to be commercial routers at universities and companies, and there are undoubtedly other devices involved."
What would be the name of the Operating System that these other devices run on?
Would this have anything to do with both Firefox and iExplorer now using Bing as the default search engine. Not to mention Windows apps that use Bing to do searches, which cannot be changed to any other search engine.
Slashdot Mirror
'Bethany Mota' a very clever way of selling product to kids, under the guise of some Valley girl just hanging in her bedroom with her Youtube 'friends'. Marketing exec: 'We got a contract to shift some .. 'batiste dry shampoo', 'Bumble and Bumble City Swept Finish', 'white eyeliner', 'red lipstick', 'mascara', 'vests from Target', 'skirt from For-ever-21', 'boots from For-ever-21', 'tanktop', 'Blue dress from LX-Fashion', 'White shoes from American Apparel', 'Purse from Clothing Line', 'Overalls from Love Culture', 'American Flag T-shirt from Brandy Melville', 'Backpack from Target', 'White dress from For-ever-21', 'Black-&-White Wedges', 'Headband from Michaels Craftstore'. If you're a teenage girl out there, if you buy all this product, then you can also have Bethanys lifestyle.
Fourth of July Outfit ideas, DIY Treats + Hair & Makeup!
ref: Valley Speak
"NSA .. are planning .. to paralyze computer networks and, by doing so, potentially all the infrastructure they control, including power and water supplies, factories, airports or the flow of money."
Did I just slip through a crack in the universe, to a place where the past decades of computer intrusions didn't take place. If so, then that would explain why people are still connecting their critical infrastructure directly to the Internet.
"LyX is for people who want their writing to look great, right out of the box. No more endless tinkering with formatting details, “finger painting” font attributes or futzing around with page boundaries." ref
Comment: It's the very first question, any idea as to who asked the first question, talk about being ambushed! A classic, generate some controversy at the conference and then only report on that. I wonder did anything of a technical nature occur at the conference.
.. I'm not trying to really make excuses, I'm more trying to explain that this is where I come from.
--
transcript starts from 10.00:-
Q : Morning, so Linux, nice easy question to start with (laughter). Over the years there have been various people including myself who have either reduced their involvement in the kernel community or stepped away from it entirely due to the tone on LKM and especially your contribution to that. Why do you continue to argue that being really unpleasant to people is good leadership.
A : Part of it, fair question, that's not actually my real argument. My real argument is that people are different and I'm a really unpleasant person (laughter). I mean that's what it really boils down to. Some people think I'm nice and some people are then shocked when they learn different. And I'm not a nice person and I don't care about you - really seriously (laughter). I care about the technology and I care about the kernel and I really think that a lot of projects in the Open Source community sometimes care about non-technical things too much. And the reason I say that is that the only thing we can actually agree on ever tend to be technical issues. And if we start making a big deal about non-technical issues - that are important - don't get me wrong. I'm not saying they're not important, I'm saying whenever we start making non-technical issues primary issues - that just guarantees we'll never agree - right. And
And I appreciate the diversity in Open Source, but to me that diversity is not about gender, it's not about skin color, it's about - people are different. And people are different in what they are interested in. People are different in what they're good at. Skin color and gender and all these issues that get brought up as really important things - those are details. What is great about Open Source is that some people are unpleasant but they're technically really good - right. Some people are pleasant and like bring other people in and I think that's one of maybe the most important of Open Source - is that you can do what you're good at. So when you look at bringing in minorities, bringing in females, bringing in people who don't speak English. My argument has been and is, that we should look for people who are good at being the people who can be between other people - right. There are a lots of good kernel developers who are great at working with people. And they may not ever be great technically - and that doesn't matter - because we all have strengths. And this is my argument - and I refuse to change - well no - that sounds bad (comment "s'not quite true" laughter). It's not that I refuse to change, it's that I don't think I want to try to bow down to what other people think.
My personal personality is pretty abrasive, I love arguing. Appearing at the Museum of Technology I spent the whole time just arguing with people (laughter). And if you're that kind of personality - when you are on LKM - you will argue. And I know they're are other kernel developers that are like me. And I know they're are other kernel developers who are not like me - and that's all wonderful. That was a really long answer to a really simple question. But the fact is - that's how I feel.
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Keynote: Linus Torvalds Linux.conf.au 2015 -- Auckland, New Zealand
What Africa really needs to fight Ebola is to stop traditional burial practices, such as allowing traditional healers to wash the dead body and then travel back to their home village and spread the contagion. Where there is one case, quarantine the village and cremate the deceased. To quote: "Ebola victims are most infectious right after death—which means that West African burial practices, where families touch the bodies, are spreading the disease like wildfire." In Guinea, 60% of all cases had been linked to traditional burial practices."
US only and needs MS Silverlight ..
Why doesn't President Obama ban all these Apple and Linux botnets from the Intertubes ?
NSA wants to further increase its surveillance of the American people, the NSA dreams up a bullshit story about terrorists using spam to hide msgs. Just who at the NSA would advise their staff to EXCLUDE spam from it's spying machine and why is slashdot posting this bullshit story on the front page?
--
further reading ref
"The most annoying thing is that we don't have the sequence of events recorded through the radio beacon that we were intending to put on Beagle 2." @2:00m podcast Colin Pillinger Dec 27, 2011
"Most operating systems designed to run on 64-bit hardware already use signed 64-bit time_t integers. Using a signed 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe: approximately 292 billion years from now, at 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596"
@Anonymous Coward: "You know how you hear that after a customer service call? Well Poettering's statement has the same meaning."
Have you tried subscribing to the systemd Development Mailing List?
"The leaders have announced that their respective intelligence agencies will mount ongoing cyber-attack "war games" starting this summer in an effort to strengthen the West's tarnished reputation following the Sony hacking scandal."
'Inside the “wiper” malware that brought Sony Pictures to its knees Analysis of code shows it used knowledge of Sony's Windows network to spread and wreak havoc.'
"The licensing quest is largely a byproduct of Microsoft's unique position -- or perhaps more bluntly put, failure in the market" ref.
"Judge Katherine Forrest .. was unhappy with its "mumbo-jumbo" explanation of the anonymizing service Tor.
..
More like her Honor doesn't get BITCOIN, TOR or the Internet. She should have the jury read these documents, assuming they can work out how to use the 'Internet'
Guide to the Silk Road Part #1
Infographic - A Comprehensive Guide to Buying Drugs Using Silk Road 2.0
Follow The Bitcoins: How We Got Busted Buying Drugs On Silk Road's Black Market
SEC. 333. [47 U.C.S. 333] WILLFUL OR MALICIOUS INTERFERENCE.
"No person shall willfully or maliciously interfere with or cause interference to any radio communications of any station licensed or authorized by or under this Act or operated by the United States Government"
"The key point that Wigner’s friend experiment raises is that consciousness seems necessary to determine the result of a quantum mechanical measurement process. Without consciousness, all the elements of the experiment remain in a superposition of all possible states." link
The logic here is faulty, the observer is something in the rest of the universe that is affected by the collapse of the wave function, and that doesn't have to be conscious. See also
"The XC Collaboration AddOn Software is a 3rd party product and not a default part of your installation of SMART Notebook Platform. In order to use this AddOn, you first have to download, install and activate it."
"Microsoft and CAS recently launched QuickStart Computing. With funding from Microsoft and the Department for Education, Computing At School produced the training toolkit for teachers" ref.
.NET Fundamentals" ref
"Software Development – MTA EXAM
Web Development Fundamentals – MTA EXAM
Working with XML, Data Objects, and WCF
C# Fundamentals: Development for Absolute
Microsoft.NET Fundamentals: MTA EXAM
Microsoft
" What is MTA,?: Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) is an introductory Microsoft certification for individuals considering a career in technology" ref
No they didn't, this slashdot 'report' looks like nothing but a cynical attempt to impart positive spin to Microsofts' failure to address the patch. Since when did slashdot become a PR arm of the Microsoft organization?
"Firstly, just to make this absolutely clear, the ahcache.sys/NtApphelpCacheControl issue was reported to Microsoft on September 30. You can see this in the "Reported" label on the left hand panel of this bug. This initial report also included the 90-day disclosure deadline statement that you can see above, which in this instance has passed." ref
Vendor-Microsoft
Product-Windows-Kernel Severity-High Finder-forshaw
Reported-2014-Sep-30
CCProjectZeroMembers
Deadline-90
MSRC-20544
PublicOn-2014-Dec-29
Deadline-Exceeded
"The FBI's access to email and other data collected from overseas targets in the NSA's Prism program has been growing since 2008"
...
And GCHQ spies on Americans in England, and ASD spies on Americans in Australia, and CSEC spies on Americans in Canada, and GCSB spies on Americans in New Zealand and finally GCHQ spies on Americans in the USA
DHS under-secretary works as strategist for Microsoft, Microsoft security chief moves to White House, White House security czar moves to DHS, DHS buys Microsoft product to run terrorist database (jeez!), Microsoft creates post of Director of Homeland Security .. no conflict of interest here :)
Just who in their right mind connects a ICS/SCADA unit directly to the Internet. Go and read up on VPN – virtual private network.
"The botnet is not made entirely of home routers; some of the infected hosts appear to be commercial routers at universities and companies, and there are undoubtedly other devices involved."
What would be the name of the Operating System that these other devices run on?
Would this have anything to do with both Firefox and iExplorer now using Bing as the default search engine. Not to mention Windows apps that use Bing to do searches, which cannot be changed to any other search engine.
You kill half the bugs, the bugs remaining develop resistance to the antibiotic ..