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Comment Re:One of the advantages of Linux (Score 2) 433

by esocid (#38229916) Attached to: Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions
Maybe entrenchment has some bearing on it. The article mentions the arguments for switching from syslog, and that you can do some of them already in syslog, but nobody does.

However, I agree with you. Let RH try it out. It's not like they can't revert if they find that it was a bad choice. If we wanted all distros to be the same, we'd run windows instead.

Comment Error prevention? (Score 3, Insightful) 433

by esocid (#38229738) Attached to: Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions
Not that it bothers me, but in forums people are quick to point out that they think Fedora's choice of kernel numbering is stupid. I mention I'm on 2.6.41.1-1.fc15.x86_64, and the first response is, "that kernel doesn't exist." (And yes, Fedora will move to the standard numbering scheme with 17 if I'm not mistaken)
I've found most of RH's decisions to do something their way is to prevent problems down the road. Same for kernel numbering, it was supposedly to prevent repo errors. I don't know for certain, but I'd expect this to also be the case here.
Google

Submission + - Google Activates Forward Secrecy SSL Feature (eff.org)

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: Google has now enabled "forward secrecy" by default on all its search-traffic. What that means is that part of the key needed to decrypt the traffic is never stored, so that in the event of a security breach at Google, older, intercepted traffic can't be descrambled.

Other web sites have implemented HTTPS with forward secrecy before [...] but it hasn’t yet been rolled out on a site of Google’s scale. Some sites have publicly resisted implementing forward secrecy because it is more CPU intensive than standard HTTP or HTTPS. In order to address that problem, Google made improvements to the open source OpenSSL library, and has incorporated those changes into the library for anybody to use.
Entertainment

Submission + - Who Made Comics Downloading Big? (comicmix.com)

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: A discussion is going on about basically how the Streisand Effect is responsible for why downloading comics got so big. It involves a comic called "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter," by Kyle Baker with Liz Glass that was stopped by DC's publisher/president Paul Levitz, who ordered the whole run of Elseworlds 80 Page Giant #1 spiked, but not before shipments hit Europe. Even though the comic was never legally published, Baker won two Eisner awards for it and it was subsequently reprinted, thanks to comics fans who heard there was Kyle Baker stuff to be had online, learned to use torrent sites and to decode CBR files.

It happened when people couldn’t get copies of Captain America #25. It’s happening now with Miracleman, one of the more popular torrents out there, because it can’t be brought back into print. It’s happening in countries where legitimate versions aren’t available yet, if ever — witness fan-subbed manga and anime, or Doctor Who episodes. It’s happening more and more as publishers try to extract every last dime they can out of the existing fan base, placing themselves on the upper half of a Laffer curve.

Comment Re:Not finished (Score 2) 272

by esocid (#38059504) Attached to: Minecraft Is Finished
It may be arbitrary, but the users on my server will bug me until I update, which I won't do, because the bukkit team will have to fix all those "arbitrary" bugs. No minecraft release is ever arbitrary.

Comment Re:Possibly not (Score 1) 536

by esocid (#38031054) Attached to: Mexican Cartel Beheads Another Blogger
The person murdered was not a moderator for (or affiliated with) the site, as many seem to report. Neuveo tweeted "Negative, is not our partner the person executed, but no doubt this attempt to silence the voices of Nuevo Laredo." At least that's what google translate says. An employee of the site was killed in September, but this appears to not be affiliated, and only some sort of scapegoat to disseminate the message to others who inform on Zetas.
Security

Submission + - EDF Fined €1.5M, 4 Jailed, For Spying On Gree (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by esocid
esocid writes: EDF, a French energy company, has been fined €1.5 million and its head and deputy-head of nuclear operations have been jailed over its use of Kargus, a private security firm run by a former member of the French secret service, for using illegal surveillance techniques against Greenpeace. Greenpeace was campaigning against two new nuclear reactors in France. The then head of Kargus, Thierry Lorho, also received three years, and information specialist Alain Quiros two. EDF maintained that it had just asked Kargus to monitor the activists, and that the consultants had exceeded their remit, but justice Isabelle Prevost-Desprez disagreed, since Kargus had compiled a dossier on Greenpeace via means that included hacking into a computer belonging to former campaigns head Yannick Jadot.

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