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Comment Let's pray Lucas Nussbaum is as prud of you too (Score 1) 419

by G3ckoG33k (#45174283) Attached to: Mark Shuttleworth Complains About the 'Open Source Tea Party'

Shuttleworth: "'So yes, I am very proud to be, as the Register puts it, the Ubuntu Daddy. My affection for this community in its broadest sense â" from Mint to our cloud developer audience, and all the teams at Canonical and in each of our derivatives, is very tangible today.'"

Read: http://www.debian.org/intro/organization

Debian's Organizational Structure

Occasionally people need to contact someone about a particular aspect of Debian. The following is a list of different jobs and the e-mail addresses to use in order to contact the people responsible for those tasks.

Please be made aware that mails sent to some of these addresses are publicly archived, especially but not limited to those with the term "lists" in the mail domain part.

        Leader
                  current Lucas Nussbaum
        Technical Committee
                  chairman Bdale Garbee
                  member Russ Allbery
                  member Don Armstrong
                  member Andreas Barth
                  member Ian Jackson
                  member Steve Langasek
                  member Colin Watson
        Secretary
                  current Kurt Roeckx
                  assistant Neil McGovern

Can we expect Nussbaum to say he is proud of derivatives, like Ubuntu?

Comment Re:Here'e the problem (Score 4, Insightful) 168

by G3ckoG33k (#45173483) Attached to: 1.8 Million-Year-Old Skull Suggests Three Early Human Species Were One

It is not exactly like that. It is rather that any given sample along one line, regardless where it is on the timeline, belongs to only one and the same species, regardless of evolutionary change! A new species is _only_ formed when one line is split into two lines. And even more surprising, to many, then is that neither is the same species as their ancestor, for solely technical reasons.

Comment Recall Ubuntu/Shuttleworth: "You trust us already" (Score 1) 199

Recall Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182):

"Your anonymity is preserved because we handle the query on your behalf. Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the open source community."

I trust Debian, even if the server breaches from ten years ago had me "worried" (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3112551):

"Within the past 36 hours, four of the Debian Project's main Web servers for bug tracking, mailing lists, security and Web searches were breached, the open-source group said. Joey Schulze, Debian Project stable release manager, e-mailed members of the organization's discussion list explaining that the machines were being taken down. The Debian Project servers run on its own operating system, version 3.0/i386, with current security updates. Some services provided by the servers have been mirrored at other sites, but Schulze told internetnews.com he doesn't expect the original machines to be running before Monday, with the possible exception of the security.debian.org and master servers."

Here is the Slashdot story http://linux.slashdot.org/story/03/11/28/050232/more-info-on-debianorg-security-breach

Maybe there have been more. How would we know?

Submission + - IE6 Finally Falls Below 5% Market Share

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The third quarter of 2013's browser war is now over. The latest market share numbers from Net Applications show Internet Explorer was the biggest winner last month, and that its most hated version finally fell below the 5 percent mark. IE7 was down 0.17 percentage points to 1.37 percent and IE6 slipped a huge 1.22 percentage points to 4.86 percent.

Submission + - Another 100 Gigabit DDoS Attack Stikes - This Time Un-Reflected (eweek.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: In March of this year, we saw the first ever 100 Gigabit DDoS attack which was possible due to a DNS Reflection Amplification attack. Now word is out that a new 100 Gigabit attack has struck, using raw bandwidth and without any DNS Reflection.

"The most outstanding thing about this attack is that it did not use any amplification, which means that they had 100 Gigabits of available bandwidth on their own," Incapsula co-founder Marc Gaffan said. "The attack lasted nine hours, and that type of bandwidth is not cheap or readily available."

Submission + - Data Broker Hackers Also Compromised NW3C (krebsonsecurity.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Security blogger Brian Krebs exposes the hackers behind National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). It is the same bad guys who compromised LexisNexis and other data brokers also reported by Krebs last week.
Do you think IC3 will file a crime complaint in their compromised system about them being compromised, I would.

Submission + - Apache CloudStack 4.2.0 released (apache.org) 2

Submitted by ke4qqq
ke4qqq writes: This release represents over six months of work from the Apache CloudStack community with 57 new and 29 improved features being provided. Many new features incorporate contributions from major corporations and support for industry standards. New integrated support of the Cisco UCS compute chassis, LXC, SolidFire storage arrays, and the S3 storage protocol are just a few of the features available in this release.

Submission + - The Next Big Fiber Showdown: Austin (slashdot.org)

Submitted by Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: Google might have big plans to wire America with high-speed broadband, but at least one carrier isn’t willing to let Google Fiber have a free run: AT&T has announced that it will deploy a “100 percent fiber” network in Austin, Texas, capable of delivering speeds of up to 1GB per second. That location is auspicious, given how Google’s already decided to make Austin the next city to receive Google Fiber. Whereas Google plans on connecting Austin households to its network in mid-2014, however, AT&T promises to start deploying its own high-speed solution in December. But there’s a few significant catches. First, AT&T’s service will initially roll out to “tens of thousands of customer locations throughout Austin” (according to a press release), which is a mere fraction of the city’s 842,592 residents; second, AT&T has offered no roadmap for expanding beyond that initial base; and third, despite promises that the service will roll out in December, the carrier has yet to choose the initial neighborhoods for its expansion. Could this be a case of a carrier freaking out about a new company's potential to disrupt its longtime business?

Submission + - Microsoft Azure Platform Certified "Secure" by Department of Defense

Submitted by cagraham
cagraham writes: Microsoft's cloud storage platform Azure received their first government certification yesterday, less than 24 hours before the official shutdown. The certification, which grants Azure “Provisional Authority to Operate," should make it easier for Microsoft to compete with rivals like IBM and Amazon Web Services for government contracts. The certification signifies that the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, and US General Services Administration have all deemed Azure safe from external hackers. Government cloud contracts are a lucrative market, as seen by Amazon's recent tussle with IBM over a $600M contract for a private CIA cloud.

Submission + - Facebook extends Graph Search to include posts, updates, comments

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Since its launch earlier this year, Facebook Graph has slowly been filled with information about users. First came the interests they had, the locations they visited, the photos they took. Facebook announced that from now on, Graph Search will include posts, status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments (still only for US English users). These new changes are being rolled out slowly to a small group of people who currently have Graph Search and Facebook says they will take in consideration the users' feedback before extending the changes to all Graph Search users.

Submission + - Patients' Heartbeat Could Work as Anti-Hacking Password for Implants (gizmag.com) 1

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: Remotely hacking a pacemaker or insulin pump should be impossible, but sadly it isn't. It puts the millions of people who use wireless medical implants at potential risk. Researchers at Rice University believe they have a solution: a touch-based device that will use a person's own heartbeat as a password to permit or deny access to their implant.

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