One point that is not in the original Guardian article is that this is a proposal only, and a proposal that only applies to French companies that are part of the "Syntec" work agreement.
- Huh?
Yes, in France, companies can adhere to negociated work agreements (named "accord") that define more precisely than the French laws what is possible and is not possible. Syntec is one such agreement, and it pretty much covers the vast majority of IT firms.
Now... What you, gentle reader, need to know, is that that the Syntec agreement is not really that nice to IT employees, as it also defines a lot of things (unpaid overtime, etc.) that are not in the interests of the workers, to say the least. And many IT firms choose not to belong to Syntec, but instead to one of the "accords" that are even more constraining. The company I work with (''it-whose-name-shall-not-ever-be-said-aloud'') belongs to an "accord" that is used to define rules... for the steel industry.
And before anyone starts foaming at the mouth about how French workers are lazy and only work 35h per week: I don't know ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE in France who works 35 hours per week, except maybe a few government employees and McDonald's workers. Yes, I know a lot of people in France who work much longer than that and, yes, I am one of them. Just so you know.
If you are a sysadmin, and you have a Facebook page, LinkedIn account, social-media-whatever thingmagajig or Slashdot account, the NSA may well come after you.
Remember: this is written in plain sight and the NSA created fake Slashdot account to get into Belgacom.
I am a sysadmin. I have a Slashdot account. Maybe it is time for me to say so long, and thanks for all the fish. What Beta was not able to do, the NSA did.
... Who thinks this whole article is written like a freaking marketing PR announcement?
I mean: "We are excited to partner with NASA" [...] "NASA has been learning and advancing the ability to leverage distributed algorithm and coding skills" [...] etc.
Don't misunderstand me: the idea is great and, if they can detect more asteroids, faster, and with a better precision, we will all be better off in the long term. But I am just tired of these shockingly stupid buzzwords ("excited", "advancing", "leveraging", "coding skills", yadda, yadda, yadda).
OK, tongue-in-cheek question: did you cash in all those bitcoins before Mt Gox imploded?
More seriously: what are your thoughts on the future of ZFS, BHyve, non big-lock SMP, SMP-enabled pf (see NetBSD npf) on OpenBSD?
Related question: what is the future of OpenSSH-based VPN functions?
Even more seriously: in light of the recent Snowden revelations on NSA spying, can you tell us more about the audits realized after a few (past) developers were accused of creating backdoors in OpenBSD for the FBI?
Finally, and this is not a question: all my thanks for a great OS. I use it daily and truly appreciate all the hard work.
AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce. (Or is it? I mean, it's been so long since I entered one of these over-priced supermarket...)
Here is another example: a lot of newspapers have an astrology/horoscope section - or even a religion section - does that make them entirely anti-science? Nope.
1) OK, has anyone - preferably someone with solid crypto/math credentials - ever audited the fscking crypto behind Bitcoin? Anyone? Not that I know of. 2) Even if the basic crypto is sound, what about the wallet software? Surprise, surprise, it seems this is how Mt Gox was attacked... And wasn't a TV talking head wallet hacked after he showed the number on the air? Oooops... 3) Any "market" where the majority of the "product"is owned by a very small group of people is not a free market - it's a cartel. And cartels usually are up to no good...
At one point or another, you have to believe someone. Greenwald & Snowden are, to me at least, a lot more credible than anything the NSA and GCHQ may say or do.
Fact: we know Snowden worked for NSA. The NSA has admitted as much.
Fact: we know Snowden has left NSA with a cache of several thousands of classified NSA/GCHQ documents. The NSA has admitted as much.
Fact: we know Snowden has communicated most of these classified documents to Glenn Greenwald and associates. They have both said so many times.
The fact that the presentation is amateurish does not diminish its value or disproves its origins - after all, GCHQ boffins are not required to take PowerPoint courses... or are they? (We won't know either way - don't bother replying to that question).
Reasoning just five minutes shows that the quality of the presentation or the smartness of its content is irrelevant to the information it imparts to us: that we are under surveillance, and subjected to relentless secret "psy-ops". That information alone is chilling.
What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." don't you understand? Here is the source of that quote.
At the very least, freedom of speech seems to apply to/. and other Internet forums. True, NSA has not made a law restricting it, but since Free Speech seems to be protected by the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, polluting Internet forums without legal authorizations to do so could open the possibility of a legal recourse for not respecting the Constitutional Rights of U.S. citizens.
As a reminder, it seems that GCHQ and NSA have created fake Slashdot sites to trap European citizens. They have violated the US Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They can, therefore, be considered as unlawful organisations engaged in unlawful activities.
This does not mean, in any way, shape or form, that other intelligence organizations are not violating basic human rights of free speech and free assembly. We are being spied on and manipulated in a panopticon way, which is designed to silence and stifle dissent and basic human rights.
kuro5shin is a festering, infected boil on the face of the Internet.
A little bit like the FBI malware program. That OpenBSD CD sure looks good now... Until we learn the Canadian CSEC ( Communications Security Establishment Canada) has also infected it...
And what is the big deal with/. beta? Please note that this not Flame Bait - from my little perch it does not look too bad - simpler modernist design and all that.
And you are conflaing two things: the aquifer situation is the western United States, which is very preoccupying, to say the least, and global warming, which is definitely not going to improve the situation of said aquifers.
Slashdot Mirror
How right you are: https://www.google-melange.com...
I would trust OpenBSD systemd replacement over the original any day.
OK, thank you for that information.
Hmm. Interesting. Could you please back this assertion with references?
I am not trolling in any way - just trying to figure out why these algorithms are not certifiable.
Or, as the fortune used to read: The good thing with standards is that there are so many of them to choose from...
LibreSSL will indeed, by used by OpenSSH.
See here for more details: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action...
One point that is not in the original Guardian article is that this is a proposal only, and a proposal that only applies to French companies that are part of the "Syntec" work agreement.
- Huh?
Yes, in France, companies can adhere to negociated work agreements (named "accord") that define more precisely than the French laws what is possible and is not possible. Syntec is one such agreement, and it pretty much covers the vast majority of IT firms.
Now... What you, gentle reader, need to know, is that that the Syntec agreement is not really that nice to IT employees, as it also defines a lot of things (unpaid overtime, etc.) that are not in the interests of the workers, to say the least. And many IT firms choose not to belong to Syntec, but instead to one of the "accords" that are even more constraining. The company I work with (''it-whose-name-shall-not-ever-be-said-aloud'') belongs to an "accord" that is used to define rules... for the steel industry.
And before anyone starts foaming at the mouth about how French workers are lazy and only work 35h per week: I don't know ANYONE, and I mean ANYONE in France who works 35 hours per week, except maybe a few government employees and McDonald's workers. Yes, I know a lot of people in France who work much longer than that and, yes, I am one of them. Just so you know.
Corporations are people. And people have a right to free speech, right? Which, in the case at hand, is a right to censor. Right?
Well, no. Corporations are legal fictions, and coporate personhood has gone too far.
Corporations are nothing more than a piece of paper, an act of incorporation, and should be treated as such.
Thank you Fyodor!!
If you are a sysadmin, and you have a Facebook page, LinkedIn account, social-media-whatever thingmagajig or Slashdot account, the NSA may well come after you.
Remember: this is written in plain sight and the NSA created fake Slashdot account to get into Belgacom.
I am a sysadmin. I have a Slashdot account. Maybe it is time for me to say so long, and thanks for all the fish. What Beta was not able to do, the NSA did.
Actually, he could not do women and candied apples.
You should have seen his latest attempt.
(Yes, I am kidding as well - I find it very sad that he was not able to do more in his life due to the stupid laws of his time).
... Who thinks this whole article is written like a freaking marketing PR announcement?
I mean: "We are excited to partner with NASA" [...] "NASA has been learning and advancing the ability to leverage distributed algorithm and coding skills" [...] etc.
Don't misunderstand me: the idea is great and, if they can detect more asteroids, faster, and with a better precision, we will all be better off in the long term. But I am just tired of these shockingly stupid buzzwords ("excited", "advancing", "leveraging", "coding skills", yadda, yadda, yadda).
And get off my lawn!
Yup, HammerFS was missing from my original questions. Very relevant.
OK, tongue-in-cheek question: did you cash in all those bitcoins before Mt Gox imploded?
More seriously: what are your thoughts on the future of ZFS, BHyve, non big-lock SMP, SMP-enabled pf (see NetBSD npf) on OpenBSD?
Related question: what is the future of OpenSSH-based VPN functions?
Even more seriously: in light of the recent Snowden revelations on NSA spying, can you tell us more about the audits realized after a few (past) developers were accused of creating backdoors in OpenBSD for the FBI?
Finally, and this is not a question: all my thanks for a great OS. I use it daily and truly appreciate all the hard work.
The HAM are already on it, bless their souls:
http://ww2.amsat.org/amsat/arc...
If they can make it (meaning: at the very least being able to get the carrier), it will be a hack of historic proportions.
I believe it is a coincidence, but Randall milked it for all it is worth. Obligatory reference to Hackers and all.
The amazing thing is that he has been able to weave this into a funny cartoon about a real thing.
AFAIK, Whole Foods main business is not quack snake oil - it's organic produce. (Or is it? I mean, it's been so long since I entered one of these over-priced supermarket...)
Here is another example: a lot of newspapers have an astrology/horoscope section - or even a religion section - does that make them entirely anti-science? Nope.
Several reasons:
1) OK, has anyone - preferably someone with solid crypto/math credentials - ever audited the fscking crypto behind Bitcoin? Anyone? Not that I know of.
2) Even if the basic crypto is sound, what about the wallet software? Surprise, surprise, it seems this is how Mt Gox was attacked... And wasn't a TV talking head wallet hacked after he showed the number on the air? Oooops...
3) Any "market" where the majority of the "product" is owned by a very small group of people is not a free market - it's a cartel. And cartels usually are up to no good...
So, no, Bitcoin IMHO is not to be trusted.
At one point or another, you have to believe someone. Greenwald & Snowden are, to me at least, a lot more credible than anything the NSA and GCHQ may say or do.
Fact: we know Snowden worked for NSA. The NSA has admitted as much.
Fact: we know Snowden has left NSA with a cache of several thousands of classified NSA/GCHQ documents. The NSA has admitted as much.
Fact: we know Snowden has communicated most of these classified documents to Glenn Greenwald and associates. They have both said so many times.
The fact that the presentation is amateurish does not diminish its value or disproves its origins - after all, GCHQ boffins are not required to take PowerPoint courses... or are they? (We won't know either way - don't bother replying to that question).
Reasoning just five minutes shows that the quality of the presentation or the smartness of its content is irrelevant to the information it imparts to us: that we are under surveillance, and subjected to relentless secret "psy-ops". That information alone is chilling.
This is precisely the reason why WE (Americans/Europeans) have to stand up for what is right.
In Russia, cross the wrong person and you may find yourself in prison for a very long time.
At least, in the US and in the EU, we can still stand up for our rights.
They may have been doing it for a very long time. That does not mean we have to tolerate it.
What part of "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." don't you understand? Here is the source of that quote.
At the very least, freedom of speech seems to apply to /. and other Internet forums. True, NSA has not made a law restricting it, but since Free Speech seems to be protected by the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, polluting Internet forums without legal authorizations to do so could open the possibility of a legal recourse for not respecting the Constitutional Rights of U.S. citizens.
Oh, it's GCHQ you say? Fine, the United Kindom (and the United States!) has signed, since 1948, the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states, in its 19th article: "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.". Here is the source of this quote. That seems to cover the British side of things.
As a reminder, it seems that GCHQ and NSA have created fake Slashdot sites to trap European citizens. They have violated the US Constitution and the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They can, therefore, be considered as unlawful organisations engaged in unlawful activities.
This does not mean, in any way, shape or form, that other intelligence organizations are not violating basic human rights of free speech and free assembly. We are being spied on and manipulated in a panopticon way, which is designed to silence and stifle dissent and basic human rights.
kuro5shin is a festering, infected boil on the face of the Internet.
A little bit like the FBI malware program. That OpenBSD CD sure looks good now... Until we learn the Canadian CSEC ( Communications Security Establishment Canada) has also infected it...
And what is the big deal with /. beta? Please note that this not Flame Bait - from my little perch it does not look too bad - simpler modernist design and all that.
OK, "Ceres Investor Group" may be biased but that does not mean their data is wrong.
As a matter of fact, most of the the time, the studies financed by Big Business are much more biased than the ones financed by environmental groups.
Hate him or love him: Richard Stallman was right! Read it and weep: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
The whole thing was written in 1997, for pete sake - when ebooks where still pretty much prototypes.
It does. End of story.
Oh, you wanted a document? What about doing your own research, you lazy slacker?
http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/questions/climate.html
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence
http://www.geosociety.org/positions/position10.htm
(etc.. etc...)
And you are conflaing two things: the aquifer situation is the western United States, which is very preoccupying, to say the least, and global warming, which is definitely not going to improve the situation of said aquifers.