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I too thought Lennart's diatribe was a little awkward. It's not that Lennart didn't have valid concerns (though I personally think all this drama over Linus is getting cliched), but he just seemed to have a total lack of self-awareness. Imagine if Ulrich Drepper wrote a rant on sloppy management back when he was still maintaining glibc. He may or may not have been correct, but it'd be very hypocritical if he didn't acknowledge that to an extent, he's a part of the problem.

Moreover, some of his examples left me unconvinced. I could only find one petition sardonically suggesting for him to stop developing "useless" software, however... another counter-petition later ended up emerging in his support (https://www.change.org/p/lennart-poettering-continue-writing...). In addition, Ulrich Drepper has received plenty of bug reports that all scolded his behavior, and even Linus Torvalds was the subject of a petition concerning removing RdRand from /dev/random. Point is: controversial people are controversial.

He then goes on to mention the website about boycotting systemd. It's fairly obvious that systemd is a highly controversial piece of software, so arguments against it are expected. I agree that the presentation is pretty off-putting and confrontational, but I didn't see any "personal attacks".

However, the part about hiring a hitman through Bitcoin really caught my attention. That does sound awful, so I decided to look into it a bit.

As it turns out, the story is actually much more tame. What happened was that a few Maemo developers on IRC were angry over the Consistent Network Device Naming feature of udev, trash talked a bit and then went on to different technical topics. After some irrelevant fare, the topic was raised again with the timestamps between 18:21:51 and 20:04:59.

There is no grand plot to kill Lennart. In fact, the word "Bitcoin" was mentioned only once. It's a bunch of developers acting facetious and trash talking, and it's all absolutely baseless. I have no idea why Lennart brought it up. Logs can be found here: http://logs.nslu2-linux.org/livelogs/maemo/maemo.20130215.tx...

Ultimately, I think the whole thing is blown out of proportion, and what worries me is that all this will pretty much end up silencing criticism of systemd even further.
Interesting quote you put there. Did I say that?

But sure, i'll be happy to do your homework for you. Grab your book, an look up the following words:
"You"
"Right"
"Remain"
"Silent"
"Attorney"
"Afford"
"Understand"

Those would probably be a good start for you. You'll learn they don't mean what you think they mean.

Afterwards, might I suggest a book on offer and acceptance? The "Examples and Explanations" series has a great book on Contracts, and might get you to a deeper understanding of the meaning of silence.
It's even worse in some places. Here in Atlanta, there is a law against impeding the flow of traffic. The I-285 perimeter highway around the city has a posted speed of 55 for most of it, yet traffic constantly flows at about 70-80mph. Theoretically, if you are going 65mph in the leftmost lane while people are flying around you and backed up behind you, you can be stopped and cited for both impeding the flow of traffic and speeding.

Who knows if it would get thrown out in court, but most people plead guilty to traffic citations by just paying the fine anyway, and the system knows that.
Cuba did much better than all the Latin American countries that allowed the US to dominate them; it’s quite amazing, considering the economic strain put on by the embargo.

Though the Cuban regime was hardly friendly to dissidents, journalists, or activists, and hardly democratic (to say the least), their actions are nothing compared to the fascist police states backed by the US up through the 1980s throughout Latin America.

It’s really not until the 1990s when the US stopped worrying quite so much about Communism and focused our attention elsewhere in the world that most of Latin America was able to start acting more autonomously and solving their own problems. US relative non-involvement for the past 25 years has seen the growth of democracy, checks on the power of militaries, de-escalation of border conflicts and increasing economic cooperation.

One can only wonder what would have happened if the US government hadn’t spent the several decades before that installing and propping up puppet dictators, and overthrowing democratic governments.
No flame war intended; just calling out what I've seen in my work in the past.
Not sure about that, there should have been about 50 if so and from the readme provided by the census "To safeguard privacy, we restrict our list of names to those with at least 5 occurrences."

usa$ grep -i bacon yob????.txt | wc
0 0 0
That sounds like a terrifyingly bleak way to live.
If the discussion is about the general topic of publicly airing private employee information, it could stay as it could be something founders could learn from. If this topic goes into drama mode about specific people or this specific instance, it should probably end up getting moderated.
No, it's the exact same thing (although it appears to be the cheapest in Estonia), it's the exact same EU-wide law. The only difference is they market it for foreigners.
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The main point is that the beacons were installed in secret, without any public notice or consultation. And that, time after time, many "opt-in" services prove to be not so "opt-in" after all (thanks to technical backdooring and/or murky service agreements).

It isn't Luddite paranoid, or cheap sensationalism to point this out; it's good journalism, coming from a surprising source (BuzzFeed, which for years seemed to have cheap sensationalism written into its very DNA).
Here is a codepen example, this code was thrown together.
You can add modify the fence line in the colorFence array

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/ycqpI?editors=101
I'm reminded of the UCLA lab death in 2008.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/30/a_young_lab_wor...

I believe UCLA is taking safety more seriously now, although I've heard some grumbling about the new layers of bureaucracy, too.
I don't think 'high clarity' requires the use of verbally abusive language.
In many areas, yes. But from Europe at least, the US healthcare system seems so obviously broken that it's relatively rarely used for comparisons. Sweden is more common, I'd say.

Now if we're talking about innovation, technology, culture -- THEN there will be wistful comparisons to the US
> Interesting quote you put there. Did I say that?

No. I used the quotation marks to indicate my paraphrasing of what I believed you were implying, not your actual words.
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I think this very much depends on your own attitude. Sure, there are assholes who will say things about how useless is your project and how they hate you for it, but this is not the norm in open source. And it's definitely not the norm when it comes to developers, not users. I have worked with various people in open source, including some that are known to be "not good at dealing with people", but I never had a serious problem with them.

In fact, just a few weeks ago I had a wonderful experience contributing a patch to cairo. You meet a new person and you are working together with the goal of the best quality code. I was not doing much open source development for some time and it was amazing how great it felt again.
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The regular stock market deals with this by separation of functions. The NYSE doesn't own stocks; it's just a matching service. Mt. Gox performed the functions of an exchange, a broker, a custodian, a transfer agent, and a depository institution. In the real world, those are usually separated.
I believe this has huge implications for someone who would want to operate a company from a business friendly country, as opposed to say a country where the individual is located physically but is otherwise corrupt or war ridden.

My understanding is that this status allows you to form companies, open bank accounts and sign binding documents just like someone living in Estonia. And that is pretty impressive.

Add cryptocurrencies into play, and whole new world of companies is now suddenly possible.
Do you have a link to a story? A cursory search reveals people complaining about being duped by a video that was posted two years after some event.
I've been using Storm for a few years in production. Thanks for all the hard work Nathan.

You and Kyle Kingsbury are two "younger" guys that I always enjoy reading whatever you write.
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I don't know enough about your proposal to comment meaningfully.

I can speak to my experience as an election integrity activist.

A very large fraction of people who care about our elections (in the USA) would respond poorly to your proposal of not using real names when voting. You may be aware of the recurring "voter fraud" kerfuffle that gets trotted out every cycle. Scandal worthy shenanigans such as dogs registered to vote and renown critic Ann Coulter falsifying her voter registration.

The only current partial exception to using real names that I'm aware of protecting the identity of vulnerable persons, such as witness protection, victim of domestic violence, and maybe public figures like judges. The idea being to enfranchise those who would be endangered if their identity and location were freely available. So there's separate handling of these person's voter registration and ballot processing. More I can't say, because that's not an aspect that I studied in depth.

Also...

I learned the hard way that any critic of the current system (e.g. proposing alternatives) will be dismissed out of hand by administrators and policymakers if they don't have complete mastery of the current system. Conspiracy theorist, gadfly, crank, kook, paranoid, etc. And you will be tested.

If you develop your idea further, please cc me. Protecting voter privacy is very important to me, and I'd welcome a solution.
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This is silly.

{Event_Nonexist, "Does not exist", "Exists", "Existence changed", "Existence not changed"},

ProcessDoesNotExist EventType = "ProcessDoesNotExist"

These are not particularly similar, except that they express some of the same concepts, which are the concepts of the domain. A user of monit would be aware of these concepts.
Are you saying it's resistant to penetration by Russian security services? Sorry if I don't take your word for it. They have just successfully hacked into several of the top financial institutions in the world: http://www.networkworld.com/article/2691902/security0/russia...

They got away with customer data and who-knows-what-else. I'm pretty sure JP Morgan has a bigger cyber-security budged than the whole state of Estonia, many times over. And then check the laundry list of these: http://cybercampaigns.net/

The basic truth is: we still don't quite know how to design digital information systems that can resist attacks from very persistent or nation state level actors. Even if these are air-gaped (as demonstrated by Stuxnet).
Hi. I'm not on the market at the moment, but there's a reasonable probability I will be by March at the latest (if not earlier due to various things being really messed-up). I'm guessing you need web developers?
So, because I haven't seen it mentioned, go check out anything by Harlan Ellison. I will strongly suggest the Shatterday or Stalking the Nightmare anthologies. Those stories have some fucking teeth.

Science fiction (or speculative fiction, if you're feeling highbrow) is probably one form where I still regularly buy "Year Best <whatever>" anthologies...it's a form that is benefited heavily from short stories, because scifi is about the ideas, not so much the characters. Good science fiction has both, of course, but must have good ideas--lots of stories happen that have decent character development but the ideas stink.

I also would strongly recommend the Pump Six anthology by Paolo Bacigalupi; it's biopunk, I suppose, but pretty solid and plays well with the ideas of being past Peak Energy.
Thanks for the link at the end, but--

> People mustn't expect everything to ever work straight out of the box on anything.

--Why?

> Much like you have to install the Lenovo PM driver on windows, you have to config apm on OpenBSD.

I don't for my Hackintosh. And I don't install the Lenovo PM driver on Windows. Windows update may, but I don't.
Can you elaborate on why this is a concern for you now as opposed to 10 years ago? As far as I'm aware, nothing significant about licensing, best practice, or case law has changed. (Linux didn't adopt GPLv3, so...)

Developers in the Linux space the developers get nervous when vendors want to take it and graft DRM/black box components on the side and not document them or allow others to do the same. You can do this under GPL with a hardware-assisted solution, but not in pure software. If you treat your firmware as part of a black box where the keys to the kingdom are baked into the firmware, then you're probably better off with something that isn't copyleft.
You realise that there are large, commercial projects that are just as high stakes as the Linux kernel or arguably even higher stakes, and they manage to operate with reasonable team dynamics?

I wonder about those projects sometime. If we took all of the conversations that ever took place at their office and stuck them online and in public. What would that be like? How many journalists and bloggers would find inflammatory quotes that can be published out of context to shame the person who spoke those words? How would Linus stack up next to John Doe of the Foo project?

Or, think about everything you read, said, wrote or heard at work over the last month. Now imagine hand wringing blogposts about all of it. Especially the things that you want to exclude from this thought experiment because they would have never been said if your only communication method was a public mailing list.
I'm a big believer in 'spectrum of gray areas'. This particular quote from Linus is particularly bad.

What I want to firmly point out is the general community's level of acceptance of verbally abusive language.

There could be a debate about what constitutes verbal abuse, on a case by case basis. And that would turn into a mess.

What I'd love to see is the community acknowledge that using and even encouraging such language is bad for everybody, and it's bad for the open source movement, big time.
Maybe it's a regional thing, but around here the question is always "Do you know why I pulled you over?" to which I've answered, "no, sir." To answer anything else is to incriminate yourself, and officers will write in the comments section of the ticket (for the judge to see) that you affirmed your offense, essentially pleading guilty on the spot.

For example, let's say you're going 10mph over the speed limit and you're aware of that, but you don't know your tail light is out. The officer pulls you over for the tail light, asks the question, and you answer "because I was speeding, I guess". Now he can not only write you the ticket for the tail light, but you just gave him a confession for the speeding too. Now you've guaranteed that you'll get two citations when you might have just gotten off with a "fix that tail light" warning.
Is this legal? Where I live, I'm pretty sure this kind of public disclosure isn't allowed due to privacy laws.
one of the great things about bacon in the US is the huge variety available. at my local market they have the following types always available:

* cured, thin cut

* cured, thick cut

* smoked, with 3 or 4 types of wood

* uncured, thick and thin and smoked

* cured with lower sodium

* flavored with some kind of liquid smoke type stuff

* pre-cooked

also i've seen bacon clubs (like they do with wine) popup on the internet lately. so great.
Can somebody enlighten me on where HP's high-end server business is going in the long run?

I read recently that they announced they would stop developing VMS in about 2020 and sold the VMS business off to some other company (which in turn might port VMS to x86_64 eventually). So at the high end, what remains after killing off HPPA, the Alpha, Tru64?

HP-UX and NonStop on Itanium? I am not being sarcastic, I am seriously asking. My impression so far is that Itanium is either slowly going down (Microsoft and Red Hat stopped porting their systems to IA64 a couple of years back) or simply replacing what HPPA used to be - but in that case it would appear they burnt a whole lot of money for nothing, except that now they are depending on an outside vendor. And Intel, as far as I can tell, does not seem to like Itanium too much, HP seems to be the only company buying them in substantial numbers, and there were already rumors Intel would cease development of IA64.

So where is all this going? Would it make sense for HP to buy the Itanium from Intel and continue developing and building them on their own? Could they pull it off as far as engineering and manufacturing go? Would it make sense to port HP-UX and NonStop to some other architecture?
"When an employee is dismissed from employment at a company, the policy of almost every company (including reddit) is not to comment, either publicly or internally. This is because companies have no desire to ruin someone's future employment prospects by broadcasting to the world that they were fired. In return, the polite expectation is that the employee will not go shooting their mouth off about the company especially (as in your case) through irresponsibly unfounded speculation. Signing a non-disparagement indicates that you have no intention to do this, so the company can then say "Ok, if anyone comes asking for a reference on this guy, we needn't say he was fired, just give a mildly positive reference." Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement, the company will give you the benefit of the doubt and not disparage you or make any negative statements first. Unfortunately, you have just forfeited this arrangement." -Yishan to former employee
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Forcing employees to sign a non-disparagement agreement? -- Screw that. (Edit: force, compel, persuade, strongly hint: semantics.)

Saying that a former employee violating a non-disparagement agreement means that it's now a good idea for the company to take use an eye-for-an-eye policy in return? -- What.

No (American) non-executive employees should ever be forced to sign anything. I never have for any job. Employers are in too powerful of a position by default.
>There is no concept of "clean room" in copyright law, the only issue is whether or not substantial copying has occurred. While it may be easier for the author to avoid accidental copying if he has never looked at the Monit source code, having seen it, being inspired by its design, or deliberately building a compatible system do not constitute copying.

I'm far from a copyright expert, but I think there is. The equivalent of a clean room implementation would be "I read your cover text, and then wrote my own book". What Monit claims what happend would be the equivalent "I read your book in language $x, I translated it to language $y and change a few details to better target audience $z". (What Disney did, but with public domain works). That latter is relevant for copyright.
You'd be surprised, probably negatively, by how few people actually know we still have an active embargo on them.
Forgive the lack of a link. This was discussed at a lunch with fellow bankers a few years back, and one of my acquaintances had a rather detailed run-down. I figure it was more publically-discussed. As I have no citation, take this with as large a grain of salt as you'd like. :-)
Thanks, this should be absolutely perfect for a project I've been procrastinating on :)
Via http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Marriott-Blocked-Hotspots....

Also, Marriott's response at http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/marriott-internation... and http://news.marriott.com/2014/10/marriott-internationals-sta....

In summary, this was specific to one single property in Nashville, Tennessee; however, the ruling appears to be specifically against Marriott (it's unclear whether it applies to all the franchise locations, though).

They were basically sending de-auth packets for any foreign hotspots; something that's very easy to do; you can send these http://bxr.su/o/net80211/ieee80211.h#IEEE80211_FC0_SUBTYPE_D... via OpenBSD's hostapd (see http://mdoc.su/o/hostapd.conf.5). There's even a way to cycle through all the channels from 1 to 14 (`hopper` keyword), sending these `deauth` packets to everyone; I've tried it as a test years ago --- it works (I think Reyk had a talk about it years back, which was what spiked my interest back then).

Allegedly, as per DSLR, some such `deauth` feature was available as an option in some Cisco equipment (which, allegedly, has since been removed from newer versions of said equipment).
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I don't think you're forced to sign. That point is also lightly touched on in the comment - "the non-disparagement we asked you to sign" and "Even if you don't sign the non-disparagement".

I've signed these before, and I was under no impression that I was being forced.
Can't fix it, can't sell it: HP gives PC business to investors
And how many programmer sweatshops are there in the US? Just because you can legally pay above minimum wage, and not pay benefits, doesn't mean you'll get programmers. Businesses offer higher wages and benefits because they need to compete with other businesses to attract workers.

You don't see the contradiction here? The US is a huge investment, but you can open a 'programmer sweatshop'?

The US creates 500,000 startups a month, across every industry; there are basement startups everywhere.
Just for interest sake, blender recently added such functionality.
It's only bleak if you lose. :-)
I listed the alternatives already. They're all built in.

CCleaner's registry cleaner is the main issue (aside from the fact it makes computers literally slower by clearing every single cache it can find). Some of the issues it has caused:

- Registry damage: Windows 8 store was damaged/corrupted by a previous version (you had to run DISM to repair it), Windows uninstaller corruption (this impacted Mcafee anti-virus around 2009, the uninstaller would become unusable), deletes preferences for unconnected devices (USB sticks, external drives, network drives, etc) so if you have any software installed externally the drive letter may shift and the software will break, deletes unmounted but valid COM objects, and so on...

- Damage: http://features.en.softonic.com/the-dangers-of-using-ccleane....

- Article: https://bitsum.com/regcleanerfacts.php

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registry_cleaner

- Microsoft support article ("serious issues can occur when you modify the registry incorrectly using these types of utilities"): https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2563254

- Microsoft Article: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/are-registry-clea...

Everyone is saying the same thing. Registry Cleaning is unnecessary, won't improve performance, and really only offers you a chance of doing damage. Registry cleaning hasn't been important since XP, and XP shipped over ten years ago.

Everyone else CCleaner does is either stupid (clearing caches) or duplicated of internal functionality (IE cache clearing, Recycling Bin emptying, etc). Plus Disk Cleanup isn't a new addition to Windows.
There is a good collection of information here:

https://github.com/PharkMillups/beautiful-docs
HP has thrown in its printer business to give its PC spin out some cover while it restructures.

Hewlett-Packard’s breakup into two companies in a tax-free distribution of shares, as reported by the Wall Street Journal yesterday, was the company's third choice to save itself. The first two – a turnaround and the sale of the business – haven’t worked. According to Re/Code, HP approached both Dell and Lenovo to acquire the business and were rebuffed.