Also it's a very interesting time. Right after they find out that the recent breach by the Chinese Government got the personnel files with information for all executive employees up to cabinet level (including the security clearance data) they reveal that the Chinese (and Russia) got secret personnel information after all via the Snowden leaks. Something seems weird about this timing.
First (as stated in the summary): "Have the actions of Snowden, and, apparently, the use of weak encryption, made the world less safe?"
Second (not asked, but as important as the first): Was it worth it? Did the revelations made the world a better after the revelations?
IMO yes, it was worth it. Having secret programs authorised by secret laws and secret alliances to reduce or remove the privacy of the population as a whole for some geopolitical goal is not something that should happen in democratic countries.
This is a weird subject matter for a book review to be on Slashdot. I don't want this to be dismissed like one of those "this is not news for nerds / stuff that matter" comments so I will develop further about why this is my opinion:
1. From Slashdot's own Book Review Guidelines (emphasis mine): "In particular, we're interested in reviews of books on programming, computer security, the history of technology and anything else (including Science Fiction, cyberpunk, etc.) that fits under the "News for Nerds" umbrella."
The reviewed book doesn't seem to fit any of the name checked categories and even to fit in the more general "News for Nerds" umbrella seems to be very generous for most interpretations of what a "nerd" would be in this context (of computer, technology, science fiction and cyberpunk).
2. Here are the reviews from the past 12 months. Despite of the lack of reviewers the theme is almost always related to technology (even if as a pretext to discuss infosec, law enforcement and natsec). Curiously the same reviewer that submitted this review submitted most of the barely related ones.
However, these electronics will continue to operate normally until at least September, when the deactivations should actually begin. Until then, the system will only mount a database with information on the equipment in use in Brazil.
This is a new low, blatant lies in the summary only for cheap country based hate and some pageviews. Good job!
Three things that make this article suspicious
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· Score: 4, Interesting
1) "Java Only for now, more coming soon!"
2) "Alpha"
3) The linked article is a "product announcement" on Newsforge
This is slashvertisement for a vaporware product. Although this is promising, there is nothing concrete there to call it "what we need to unify the open-source community", not even an alternative to Google codesearch.
I wish they could take advantage of the timing and challenge other measures like national speed limit and national drinking age too, putting an end on this bastardized federalism that is not only against the intention of the Founding Fathers but very damaging to the very concept of the whole thing.
No one can wrestle the Media Cartel in the legal arena and win. They will beat him into submission, extending the suit until he has no more money (or will) to battle. What I really wish (wishful thinking, actually) is to see the DOJ getting involved, just like with Microsoft. Then we maybe can see some real action. Until them, better stick to WWE, american friends.
Brazilian people (and people from other countries) have been drinking Yakult since ever, and this kind of yogurt was (and I quote) "invented by Kyoto University pediatrics doctor Minoru Shirota in 1930". Here in Europe there is the Danone's Actimel, that is basically the same (I tasted both, I know) but with a new brand and a massive advertisement.
I'm mentioning that because IMHO this article is nothing but advertisement, passing something as a technological evolution but in fact, unless 30s technology counts as one, its nothing but another way slashdot got to sell your eyeballs.
Why comparing Brazilian murder rate to NYC instead of Baltimore? Accordingly with this wikipedia article, "murder rate per 100,000 of all U.S. cities of 250,000 or more population", being "six times the rate of New York City" and hence, bigger than Brazilian stated murder rate on the summary. I agree with that other poster, why the brazilian bashing on Slashdot recently? Got tired of bashing the usual suspects (China, Iran, North Korea) and need someone else for the axis of evil?
Anyway, at the rate things are getting better in Brasil (couldn't get any worse until we got rid of the U.S. backed dictatorship we had in the 70's and 80's), we are not that far away from U.S. anymore. The one thing we have to solve (and I agree wholeheartedly with the studies) is exactly Income Inequality. It means nothing to be the 10th GDP in the world if 50% of the population is below the poverty line. Poor people doesn't buy, poor people doesn't have motivation to excel, poor people doesn't have opportunity to improve the condition of their own homes, not to say the whole country.
Well, its simple. Punishment should fit the crime because, if punishment for child abuse is the same for murder (life in jail), instead of simply a child abuser you are more likely to get a child abuser/witness killer. They would not risk to let the poor child to live to denounce him.
That's the joy of free software and open protocol, no matter what the creator wants the software to be, its fate is in the community's hands now. Vide the protocol encryption matter, now a de facto standard in the biggest players in the field (utorrent, azureus and bitcomet).
Raul Julia as M. Bison, Van Damme and Kylie Minogue, well... Maybe I'm suspicious because I was both a teenager and addicted in the video game. The best quote in the movie in my opinion:
Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
Dee Jay: Because he paid me a freakin fortune, Man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass!
Zangief:...you got paid?
This is due less to a genotypical trait (hardcoded in the DNA) and more a fenotypical one (better food, health care and, in the athletes case, training techniques and chemistry, a lot of chemistry).
I profoundly disagree that so called "lower class" are (or will ever be) necessarily less "tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative" (or that the upper class will be more) because all these improvements are getting through the mankind via the enviromnent and not via mutations in the genes, hence, being fenotypical and not passing to the offsprings. Lamarck's theory, after all, got discredited after Darwin, didn't he?
As I mentioned, everything is replaceable, including the kernel:)
In the event of a distro effectively replacing all GNU stuff with Intel/BSD/whatever, will it still be called plain Linux as it is now? With nothing to differentiate it from (GNU/)Linux? Wouldnt we have to choose between "Debian Linux 12 with BSD userland.iso" and "Debian Linux 12 with GNU userland.iso" Or, for short, "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Debian BSD/Linux". Or, maybe, Debian (BSD|GNU)/(Linux|Hurd). Who knows?:) (Cue the "maybe we will be playing DNF on it too, with open source ATI/NVIDIA drivers provided by the factory" remarks;))
Btw, I'm playing the devil advocate here, because I don't care how it is called, as long as it is free as in speech. To quote Shakespeare's Romeo:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"
The only thing I wanna show is that despite of it being worthless, RMS have a point there.
Why is GNU singled out for more attention than the other amazing personal contributions of self-motivated non-commercialized developers?
OK, I'll bite. Maybe because the
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), the bash shell, the GNU C library (glibc), and the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) play a very important role in the operational system, as important (althought also as replaceable) as the Linux kernel? If that is not enough reason, well, I don't know what would be.
And they start to DRM it too.... Aw, wait.... Nevermind
Why you think that they would stop at basic needs is a mistery to me. We have to fight the wrong things even in the most insignificant levels (entertainment, for instance) because, if not, once we accept it there, we have no moral grounds to fight it where it really matters.
Slashdot Mirror
Also it's a very interesting time. Right after they find out that the recent breach by the Chinese Government got the personnel files with information for all executive employees up to cabinet level (including the security clearance data) they reveal that the Chinese (and Russia) got secret personnel information after all via the Snowden leaks. Something seems weird about this timing.
First (as stated in the summary): "Have the actions of Snowden, and, apparently, the use of weak encryption, made the world less safe?"
Second (not asked, but as important as the first): Was it worth it? Did the revelations made the world a better after the revelations?
IMO yes, it was worth it. Having secret programs authorised by secret laws and secret alliances to reduce or remove the privacy of the population as a whole for some geopolitical goal is not something that should happen in democratic countries.
1. From Slashdot's own Book Review Guidelines (emphasis mine): "In particular, we're interested in reviews of books on programming, computer security, the history of technology and anything else (including Science Fiction, cyberpunk, etc.) that fits under the "News for Nerds" umbrella."
The reviewed book doesn't seem to fit any of the name checked categories and even to fit in the more general "News for Nerds" umbrella seems to be very generous for most interpretations of what a "nerd" would be in this context (of computer, technology, science fiction and cyberpunk).
2. Here are the reviews from the past 12 months. Despite of the lack of reviewers the theme is almost always related to technology (even if as a pretext to discuss infosec, law enforcement and natsec). Curiously the same reviewer that submitted this review submitted most of the barely related ones.
This is a new low, blatant lies in the summary only for cheap country based hate and some pageviews. Good job!
1) "Java Only for now, more coming soon!"
2) "Alpha"
3) The linked article is a "product announcement" on Newsforge
This is slashvertisement for a vaporware product. Although this is promising, there is nothing concrete there to call it "what we need to unify the open-source community", not even an alternative to Google codesearch.
Btw, is alpha the new beta?
I wish they could take advantage of the timing and challenge other measures like national speed limit and national drinking age too, putting an end on this bastardized federalism that is not only against the intention of the Founding Fathers but very damaging to the very concept of the whole thing.
c:> Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all: Command not found
No one can wrestle the Media Cartel in the legal arena and win. They will beat him into submission, extending the suit until he has no more money (or will) to battle. What I really wish (wishful thinking, actually) is to see the DOJ getting involved, just like with Microsoft. Then we maybe can see some real action. Until them, better stick to WWE, american friends.
I, for one, welcome our energy sucking brain slaving Matrix overlords
And what is "the one"?
Brazilian people (and people from other countries) have been drinking Yakult since ever, and this kind of yogurt was (and I quote) "invented by Kyoto University pediatrics doctor Minoru Shirota in 1930". Here in Europe there is the Danone's Actimel, that is basically the same (I tasted both, I know) but with a new brand and a massive advertisement.
I'm mentioning that because IMHO this article is nothing but advertisement, passing something as a technological evolution but in fact, unless 30s technology counts as one, its nothing but another way slashdot got to sell your eyeballs.
Why comparing Brazilian murder rate to NYC instead of Baltimore? Accordingly with this wikipedia article, "murder rate per 100,000 of all U.S. cities of 250,000 or more population", being "six times the rate of New York City" and hence, bigger than Brazilian stated murder rate on the summary. I agree with that other poster, why the brazilian bashing on Slashdot recently? Got tired of bashing the usual suspects (China, Iran, North Korea) and need someone else for the axis of evil?
Anyway, at the rate things are getting better in Brasil (couldn't get any worse until we got rid of the U.S. backed dictatorship we had in the 70's and 80's), we are not that far away from U.S. anymore. The one thing we have to solve (and I agree wholeheartedly with the studies) is exactly Income Inequality. It means nothing to be the 10th GDP in the world if 50% of the population is below the poverty line. Poor people doesn't buy, poor people doesn't have motivation to excel, poor people doesn't have opportunity to improve the condition of their own homes, not to say the whole country.
Well, its simple. Punishment should fit the crime because, if punishment for child abuse is the same for murder (life in jail), instead of simply a child abuser you are more likely to get a child abuser/witness killer. They would not risk to let the poor child to live to denounce him.
That's the joy of free software and open protocol, no matter what the creator wants the software to be, its fate is in the community's hands now. Vide the protocol encryption matter, now a de facto standard in the biggest players in the field (utorrent, azureus and bitcomet).
Slashdot, the only place where a blow-coffee-through-nose remark gets modded insightful.
Wiiiiiiiii
Raul Julia as M. Bison, Van Damme and Kylie Minogue, well ... Maybe I'm suspicious because I was both a teenager and addicted in the video game. The best quote in the movie in my opinion:
...you got paid?
Zangief: General Bison is a bad guy? If you know then why do you work for him?
Dee Jay: Because he paid me a freakin fortune, Man! If you know what's good for you you'll save your own ass!
Zangief:
The pertinent article, for those who are not here that much time.
If you are going to do, at least do it right:
ha ha
This is due less to a genotypical trait (hardcoded in the DNA) and more a fenotypical one (better food, health care and, in the athletes case, training techniques and chemistry, a lot of chemistry).
I profoundly disagree that so called "lower class" are (or will ever be) necessarily less "tall, slim, healthy, attractive, intelligent, and creative" (or that the upper class will be more) because all these improvements are getting through the mankind via the enviromnent and not via mutations in the genes, hence, being fenotypical and not passing to the offsprings. Lamarck's theory, after all, got discredited after Darwin, didn't he?
As I mentioned, everything is replaceable, including the kernel :)
:) (Cue the "maybe we will be playing DNF on it too, with open source ATI/NVIDIA drivers provided by the factory" remarks ;))
In the event of a distro effectively replacing all GNU stuff with Intel/BSD/whatever, will it still be called plain Linux as it is now? With nothing to differentiate it from (GNU/)Linux? Wouldnt we have to choose between "Debian Linux 12 with BSD userland.iso" and "Debian Linux 12 with GNU userland.iso" Or, for short, "Debian GNU/Linux" and "Debian BSD/Linux". Or, maybe, Debian (BSD|GNU)/(Linux|Hurd). Who knows?
Btw, I'm playing the devil advocate here, because I don't care how it is called, as long as it is free as in speech. To quote Shakespeare's Romeo:
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet"
The only thing I wanna show is that despite of it being worthless, RMS have a point there.
Why is GNU singled out for more attention than the other amazing personal contributions of self-motivated non-commercialized developers? OK, I'll bite. Maybe because the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), the GNU Binary Utilities (binutils), the bash shell, the GNU C library (glibc), and the GNU Core Utilities (coreutils) play a very important role in the operational system, as important (althought also as replaceable) as the Linux kernel? If that is not enough reason, well, I don't know what would be.
IBM and Nazi, just to mention a notable case.
And they start to DRM it too .... Aw, wait .... Nevermind
Why you think that they would stop at basic needs is a mistery to me. We have to fight the wrong things even in the most insignificant levels (entertainment, for instance) because, if not, once we accept it there, we have no moral grounds to fight it where it really matters.
(A)bort, (E)xecute, (R)etry