https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

^ Did any one catch this hint from weeks past? :)

Now, I love huffing the FB hate fumes as much as y'all, (reminds of the the good ol' days with fuss-beta campaign), but there's really nothing to worry about. This will be an open technology, as it would have to be. It's not as though Occulus will be the only provider of VR hardware -- the many eventual brands and variants are going to be purchased for the purposes of playing Steam games with the OpenVR/SteamVR libraries. You're first kit could be a Sony.

It's all good! YES, there will be a Facebook Matrix/SecondLife, and it _will_ require an account. I imagine like Facebook generally, it will be loosely about dating and sex. That could very well turn many of you into FB account holders, don't lie. If you can feel somewhat assuaged now, maybe it will seem good to you that they now have all them dollars.

I'm mainly upset that they didn't sell out to Valve, the cool company. How much gold did they offer Occulus?

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!!

The thing I really want to know is if he translated it while retaining the poetic form, which would be fabulous. Anglo-Saxon alliterative meter was the dominant form of Northern European poetry for almost a thousand years, as near as we can tell. It died out in England in the centuries after the Norman invasion (the last significant poem in English using it was published in the first decade of the 1500's--Willian Dunbars "The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Wemen and the Wedo")

My own belief is that the more rounded, smooth and flowing sound of Middle English was increasingly inappropriate to the staccato, strong, plosive rhythms of this form, but I've experimented with it and it's not impossible to write, even in modern English. It would be wonderful if Tolkien was able to retain that aspect of the ancient ur-language of English.

This technique works best when combined with cold fusion. Also, don't forget about step 3.

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.

At one point or another, you have to believe someone. Greenwald & Snowden are, to me at least, a lot more credible than anything the NSA and GCHQ may say or do.

Fact: we know Snowden worked for NSA. The NSA has admitted as much.

Fact: we know Snowden has left NSA with a cache of several thousands of classified NSA/GCHQ documents. The NSA has admitted as much.

Fact: we know Snowden has communicated most of these classified documents to Glenn Greenwald and associates. They have both said so many times.

The fact that the presentation is amateurish does not diminish its value or disproves its origins - after all, GCHQ boffins are not required to take PowerPoint courses... or are they? (We won't know either way - don't bother replying to that question).

Reasoning just five minutes shows that the quality of the presentation or the smartness of its content is irrelevant to the information it imparts to us: that we are under surveillance, and subjected to relentless secret "psy-ops". That information alone is chilling.