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.