But it does reference the fact that Manning could have communicated his concerns to a member of Congress and be covered by federal whistleblower law.
The story we're commenting on shows how well that course of action works, except in Manning's case innocents would be dieing while the Congresscritter stonewalled. You have laws that protect whistleblowers and a president who feigned support of them in order to get elected, yet in case after case the individual trying it gets persecuted mercilously by your legal system, only to be ultimately exonorated.
Saying "fuck it, I'm moving" is the same stripe of "I've got mine, jack" that's at the root of much of what's gone wrong down there. By moving, you making it worse, twice.
Voting with his feet is all that's left to him, and likely lots more effective than trying to change anything via his nanoscopically valuable vote. The US won't be fixed short of outright revolt and revolution. It's way too far gone and has been for decades. We're just seeing the fruit of it culminating now.
Besides, Canada can always use smart people to help pay for the welfare state.
It was the Brits who stole the intact Enigma and the brightest of the Brits who cracked the code and, to a large extent, helped them win the war.
Not according to Vasili Mitrokhin. He reported that the Poles had cracked Enigma and handed it all over to the Brits and the French five weeks before WWII broke out, yet another reason why the Poles were rightfully incensed at what happened to Poland at the end of WWII.
Slashdot is famed for having an anti-Microsoft bias, so asking here is a waste of time.
I don't agree with that. The Borg Bill Gates logo was a not that funny joke. It's not even true of Linux users. I see lots of them who like Linux for its dev tools and server stuff, yet still use Windows as their desktop interface. Cf. Samba.
Besides, the vast majority are computer gamers so arguably *have* to run Windows.
I looked at that list and there isn't one company I respect.
IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Oracle?
IBM, as in 'nobody ever got fired for abusing a monopoly' IBM? Intel, as in the company responsible for price fixing, dumping, and bribing companies not to use its competitor's products? Lockheed Martin... You mean a big part of the military industrial complex? Oracle? Seriously?
IBM is not the IBM it once was. Lockheed Martin, as in the SR-71 Blackbird (Wikipedia: "Since 1976, it has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft...").
As for the others, I didn't say I liked them, but I do respect them.
if it was Linux based malware a patch would have been out within 24 to 48 hours...
The vulnerability has been patched. This is about removing the malware from infected systems.
Yeah, and how hard is that? Is this about malware that magically attaches itself to existing executables, or does it just drop itself into a system directory and run itself?
Both are pretty bloody old problems and easily mitigated. How is it that OSX can be owned by a driveby exploit trojan that adds it to a botnet? I thought its underlying guts were Unix. How is it that Windows can't notice that something new has been installed and executed without the user's instigation?
What have Apple and Microsoft OS developers been spending their time on for the last decade? Surfing pr0n? Posting "you guys suck" on web forums? Making Clicky spin more gracefully?
Meanwhile, their users are unwittingly added to botnets and their machines run keyloggers that phone home to crackers. And they get to pay for these "privileges"?!? Gee, what a great deal.
$DEITY help them if their shareholders ever wise up.
... of an article of 2009 on April 11, 2012? I mean, technically.
Some things need gestation time? Some things are cool ideas out of the box, but what's its application? I've worked with startups that had cool ideas, but no real plan as to what to do with it or how to sell it once done. Who's the eventual target market?
"Uhh,... But it's cool, yes?"
Not good enough. In this case, I see 1st day Redhat admins hypermodding their cars which end up slamming into bridge abutments.
As suggested before, TAKE A VALIUM, Jebus! Yes they use Windows as well. Show me one big outfit that doesn't these days. I had to use it when I worked there to get at the commercial Unix and now FLOSS boxes they're rolling out in their datacenters that I was working on. They use a lot of commercial software. They're huge.
I don't want to talk to you anymore. If you don't want to believe anything I write, just don't and go on your way! I don't have any other accounts and I'm not part of any presumed cabal out to mod you into oblivion. I think the stuff you write does that job much better than anything I could even contemplate.
Your paranoia is your worst enemy. Get a grip on yourself.
You know, because we certainly do: The kinds of alternaet registered user accounts used to mod yourself up with, and, to downmod others who point out your lies to hide those times they catch you do, as is shown in the link above, by your downmodding them using different registered accounts that you use to do that? It's rather obvious you do from that link above).
Wow. Vitreol and paranoia all in one post. No, I don't use multiple/. accounts, and when I do mod down, it's for stupid non-consequential one-liner (or one-worder; "^This!") posts.
I can't control what moderators that agree with me think, any more than you can. If you're convinced there's some vast/. conspiracy to manufacture the truth, why do you even bother to come here? It must be a rigged game, so you're never going to "win" no matter what you do.
It is, in some measure, the realization of the 'total information awareness' program created during the first term of the Bush administration - an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy.
Give up Penguins: U've tried it & failed 4 decades since "the year of Linux" is never going to happen on PC's + Servers combined @ both home user & corporate environs levels. U FAILED.
FOAD, dork. Approx. 80% of the net runs on FLOSS. Android scares the crap out of Apple.
In some circles the project seems to be more about pushing Linux-Global-Domination as opposed to helping educate people.
"Plus ca change,..."
It's a tool. It's not "The Enlightenment" in a box. A screwdriver manipulates screws. It doesn't build buildings. What you choose to do with it says more about you than it does about it. It's just a tool!
Stupid users do stupid things ("film at 2300h"). If they wanted it done right, they should have asked me how, damnit. When will users learn?
It's not magic! Stop thinking it is. You don't expect a car to drive itself, or a plane to fly itself. Why do you expect a computer to drive itself?!?
I think I started with something called Procom, but when I saw Telix' scripting language, I fell in love with it. It was almost indistinguishable from C. On an Amstrad PC-1640 (?); i8086, gray-scale monochrome monitor. "Sixteen bits! Wow!":-)
I'm pretty sure I paid for both Procom and Telix. I was pretty good about registering and paying for all the shareware I used. Some of it, I can't even remember the names they went by.
... Archie &Gopher.
And Veronica!:-)
Now here I sit posting this on Slashdot from my iPad while sitting in a pub.
HP Pavilion dv4 3 GB (!!!) RAM, 350 GB (!!!) disk, AMD 64 bit dual core Turion.
!@#$, we're spoiled now! Even my second hand sandbox machine is a monster compared to that first box I had.
Cool. I spent C$80 just to ship Linux books I didn't need any more to people like you (Gareth, you out there?). My favourite gig was in Sudan ("The Greater Nile Business Venture" (TGNBV)). I enjoyed it so much, I didn't want to leave.
I downloaded Linux when it was ca. 40 floppy disks
Indeed. My first Linux was Slackware 3, I had to download 40 or so disks at 2400bps.
... then you had to go get another copy of three disks that failed writing to bad floppies, and you only had a 40 MB harddrive to store it all on. Windows 3.1 *and* Linux.9X on a 40 MB harddrive. That was really pushing it. How the hell did we survive that?!?
If you could distinguish 256 different tones then a 300 baud modem could run at 300B/s (2400b/s).
What?!?
300 Baud per second? Equals 2400 bits per second? Are you trying to root my brain? Greater than 300 Baud took compression, and Baud rate became obsolete.
Ah, crap: echo "2400 / 8" | bc; # never mind.; I get it.
I remember the days of connecting to a BBS at 110bps.
Holy !@#$, you must be old!:-) I never saw anything under 2400 BPS.
I notice "MNP" doesn't mean "Microcom Networking Protocol" anymore. Instead, it's shilling for some accounting firm (Myers, Norris, Penney?). Pretty damned confusing for someone of our era to see "MNP" painted on a football field. "WTF?!?"
Hope you find your teeth, and if you run across mine while you're looking...
Man that takes me back... it must be close-on ten years since I last saw somebody mention the difference between baud and BPS in a discussion, let alone thought about it.
You know what they say about Alzheimers. The oldest memories stick the hardest.:-)
Ask me about Windows For Workgroups someday (in relation to floppy disks).
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But it does reference the fact that Manning could have communicated his concerns to a member of Congress and be covered by federal whistleblower law.
The story we're commenting on shows how well that course of action works, except in Manning's case innocents would be dieing while the Congresscritter stonewalled. You have laws that protect whistleblowers and a president who feigned support of them in order to get elected, yet in case after case the individual trying it gets persecuted mercilously by your legal system, only to be ultimately exonorated.
Saying "fuck it, I'm moving" is the same stripe of "I've got mine, jack" that's at the root of much of what's gone wrong down there. By moving, you making it worse, twice.
Voting with his feet is all that's left to him, and likely lots more effective than trying to change anything via his nanoscopically valuable vote. The US won't be fixed short of outright revolt and revolution. It's way too far gone and has been for decades. We're just seeing the fruit of it culminating now.
Besides, Canada can always use smart people to help pay for the welfare state.
It was the Brits who stole the intact Enigma and the brightest of the Brits who cracked the code and, to a large extent, helped them win the war.
Not according to Vasili Mitrokhin. He reported that the Poles had cracked Enigma and handed it all over to the Brits and the French five weeks before WWII broke out, yet another reason why the Poles were rightfully incensed at what happened to Poland at the end of WWII.
Spreading falsehoods is not the way to invalidate climate change deniers.
Perhaps if you didn't insult them with stupid epithets like "Change Deniers", you might get them to listen to you long enough to discuss the science.
Slashdot is famed for having an anti-Microsoft bias, so asking here is a waste of time.
I don't agree with that. The Borg Bill Gates logo was a not that funny joke. It's not even true of Linux users. I see lots of them who like Linux for its dev tools and server stuff, yet still use Windows as their desktop interface. Cf. Samba.
Besides, the vast majority are computer gamers so arguably *have* to run Windows.
I looked at that list and there isn't one company I respect.
IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Oracle?
IBM, as in 'nobody ever got fired for abusing a monopoly' IBM? ... You mean a big part of the military industrial complex?
Intel, as in the company responsible for price fixing, dumping, and bribing companies not to use its competitor's products?
Lockheed Martin
Oracle? Seriously?
IBM is not the IBM it once was. Lockheed Martin, as in the SR-71 Blackbird (Wikipedia: "Since 1976, it has held the world record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft ...").
As for the others, I didn't say I liked them, but I do respect them.
if it was Linux based malware a patch would have been out within 24 to 48 hours ...
The vulnerability has been patched. This is about removing the malware from infected systems.
Yeah, and how hard is that? Is this about malware that magically attaches itself to existing executables, or does it just drop itself into a system directory and run itself?
Both are pretty bloody old problems and easily mitigated. How is it that OSX can be owned by a driveby exploit trojan that adds it to a botnet? I thought its underlying guts were Unix. How is it that Windows can't notice that something new has been installed and executed without the user's instigation?
What have Apple and Microsoft OS developers been spending their time on for the last decade? Surfing pr0n? Posting "you guys suck" on web forums? Making Clicky spin more gracefully?
Meanwhile, their users are unwittingly added to botnets and their machines run keyloggers that phone home to crackers. And they get to pay for these "privileges"?!? Gee, what a great deal.
$DEITY help them if their shareholders ever wise up.
... of an article of 2009 on April 11, 2012? I mean, technically.
Some things need gestation time? Some things are cool ideas out of the box, but what's its application? I've worked with startups that had cool ideas, but no real plan as to what to do with it or how to sell it once done. Who's the eventual target market?
"Uhh, ... But it's cool, yes?"
Not good enough. In this case, I see 1st day Redhat admins hypermodding their cars which end up slamming into bridge abutments.
I looked at that list and there isn't one company I respect.
IBM, Intel, Lockheed Martin, Oracle?
As suggested before, TAKE A VALIUM, Jebus! Yes they use Windows as well. Show me one big outfit that doesn't these days. I had to use it when I worked there to get at the commercial Unix and now FLOSS boxes they're rolling out in their datacenters that I was working on. They use a lot of commercial software. They're huge.
I don't want to talk to you anymore. If you don't want to believe anything I write, just don't and go on your way! I don't have any other accounts and I'm not part of any presumed cabal out to mod you into oblivion. I think the stuff you write does that job much better than anything I could even contemplate.
Your paranoia is your worst enemy. Get a grip on yourself.
You know, because we certainly do: The kinds of alternaet registered user accounts used to mod yourself up with, and, to downmod others who point out your lies to hide those times they catch you do, as is shown in the link above, by your downmodding them using different registered accounts that you use to do that? It's rather obvious you do from that link above).
Wow. Vitreol and paranoia all in one post. No, I don't use multiple /. accounts, and when I do mod down, it's for stupid non-consequential one-liner (or one-worder; "^This!") posts.
I can't control what moderators that agree with me think, any more than you can. If you're convinced there's some vast /. conspiracy to manufacture the truth, why do you even bother to come here? It must be a rigged game, so you're never going to "win" no matter what you do.
Take a valium. You're way over the top here.
TPBFTW
Queuing Streisand Effect, in 3, 2, 1 ...
This was news, weeks ago.
That's about when I heard about it too. Still:
It is, in some measure, the realization of the 'total information awareness' program created during the first term of the Bush administration - an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans' privacy.
What changed?
See subject above, & when's that supposed to happen?
It's been the "Year of Linux" for me since '93.
Are you just slow, or what?
If Linux is "so great", how come it's in last place in terms of marketshare & user mindshare on PC's + Servers combined then???
Um, "users" are users? They don't want what's "better." They just want to "get stuff done," at their limited level of ability.
Please, just go out and play in the traffic. You'll be much more productive there. Trolls these days! Bring some facts with you next time.
BTW, ca. 80% of the web runs on FLOSS. ExxonMobil uses it, FFS!
Give up Penguins: U've tried it & failed 4 decades since "the year of Linux" is never going to happen on PC's + Servers combined @ both home user & corporate environs levels. U FAILED.
FOAD, dork. Approx. 80% of the net runs on FLOSS. Android scares the crap out of Apple.
Suck it.
In some circles the project seems to be more about pushing Linux-Global-Domination as opposed to helping educate people.
"Plus ca change, ..."
It's a tool. It's not "The Enlightenment" in a box. A screwdriver manipulates screws. It doesn't build buildings. What you choose to do with it says more about you than it does about it. It's just a tool!
Stupid users do stupid things ("film at 2300h"). If they wanted it done right, they should have asked me how, damnit. When will users learn?
It's not magic! Stop thinking it is. You don't expect a car to drive itself, or a plane to fly itself. Why do you expect a computer to drive itself?!?
Wow, Telix.
I think I started with something called Procom, but when I saw Telix' scripting language, I fell in love with it. It was almost indistinguishable from C. On an Amstrad PC-1640 (?); i8086, gray-scale monochrome monitor. "Sixteen bits! Wow!" :-)
I'm pretty sure I paid for both Procom and Telix. I was pretty good about registering and paying for all the shareware I used. Some of it, I can't even remember the names they went by.
... Archie &Gopher.
And Veronica! :-)
Now here I sit posting this on Slashdot from my iPad while sitting in a pub.
HP Pavilion dv4 3 GB (!!!) RAM, 350 GB (!!!) disk, AMD 64 bit dual core Turion.
!@#$, we're spoiled now! Even my second hand sandbox machine is a monster compared to that first box I had.
Ptheh. Money's overrated. Just slide a pizza under the door from time to time, and I'll do anything you want.
These days though - what use is network-computer style thin-clients ?
http://userful.com/ == I love these guys. They're here in my home town too. :-)
This was my baby: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=openlab
Cool. I spent C$80 just to ship Linux books I didn't need any more to people like you (Gareth, you out there?). My favourite gig was in Sudan ("The Greater Nile Business Venture" (TGNBV)). I enjoyed it so much, I didn't want to leave.
I downloaded Linux when it was ca. 40 floppy disks
Indeed. My first Linux was Slackware 3, I had to download 40 or so disks at 2400bps.
... then you had to go get another copy of three disks that failed writing to bad floppies, and you only had a 40 MB harddrive to store it all on. Windows 3.1 *and* Linux .9X on a 40 MB harddrive. That was really pushing it. How the hell did we survive that?!?
If you could distinguish 256 different tones then a 300 baud modem could run at 300B/s (2400b/s).
What?!?
300 Baud per second? Equals 2400 bits per second? Are you trying to root my brain? Greater than 300 Baud took compression, and Baud rate became obsolete.
Ah, crap: echo "2400 / 8" | bc; # never mind.; I get it.
[ATS11=65 (damnit)]
I remember the days of connecting to a BBS at 110bps.
Holy !@#$, you must be old! :-) I never saw anything under 2400 BPS.
I notice "MNP" doesn't mean "Microcom Networking Protocol" anymore. Instead, it's shilling for some accounting firm (Myers, Norris, Penney?). Pretty damned confusing for someone of our era to see "MNP" painted on a football field. "WTF?!?"
Hope you find your teeth, and if you run across mine while you're looking ...
Man that takes me back... it must be close-on ten years since I last saw somebody mention the difference between baud and BPS in a discussion, let alone thought about it.
You know what they say about Alzheimers. The oldest memories stick the hardest. :-)
Ask me about Windows For Workgroups someday (in relation to floppy disks).
9600 "baud" is gibberish. There was no such thing. 9600 BPS, yes.
Mod parent +9000 Pedantic.
History happened. It's in the books. Ignore it all you want but it's still there, whether you like it or not.
You son of a bitch! That was *my* dream job!!!111
That said - if it helps, the money was terrible.
Ptheh. Money's overrated. Just slide a pizza under the door from time to time, and I'll do anything you want. I sloughed off my pride long ago.
Pepperoni, mushrooms, and black olives please. Tooduls.