Trolling, for the truth. Linux advocates: learn to laugh at yourself, or you'll just get made fun of even more.

(RedHat->CentOS user since Halloween.)

Either you're lying or nobody is listening. I've mentioned this on the ISSA forums, on linkedin lists and on Slashdot multiple times. Wikileaks has an agenda. Cryptome, read it, learn it, love it. And for the hate of Cthulu if I see a stereotypical "Cryptome is a lying pack of liars" I'll scream.

This is exactly the sort of thing they want to happen, it's not an accident. To put on the WL hat: It's a horrific display of global politics, built on lies. To look at it from the outside in, it's a terrible setback to a slow development of what might someday have been a democratic upheaval. Now bloodshed may be the only option. See: the Ivory Coast.

ROFLMDAO the image is the epitome of the Ubuntu install. Get it loaded up, try to play your music off your mp3 player while finishing it up and you get the damn codec error.

We need to learn from the pragmatists. Shuttles don't work.

The buran was mothballed after 1 successful, UNMANNED!!!!, re-entry. CLUE BAT MEET NASA.

I'm actually incredibly proud of our nation's ability to get shit into space without NASA.

My father in law works for one of these companies, guess what, they care about budgets and maximizing profit and still get to space on a schedule.

Nasa was something to behold when we threw hundreds of billions at it to develop technologies nobody was sure about. It's place is now as a pillar of what not to do, since NASA managed to do what it did in spite of itself.

Stallman Eats his Keyboard, sounds like a few million hits on Youtube.

Halloween was 1994 wasn't it? I mean, even if you only take into account attempts to monetize Linux the OSS movement started to become popularized at least 16 years ago. RMS wrote the Gnu manifesto 25 years ago, one could argue it all started then....

I wrote a letter to my congressman saying as much.

It's still a last mile problem. How many people have more than a Duopoly to choose from?

Does it really cost $70 a month to service my traffic?

I know it doesn't. The cable infrastructure I'm running over hasn't been upgraded in several decades, how bout you? When is the last time you saw a truck pulling new infrastructure in your neighborhood?

Jeezus mod parent up, this is a legitimate question that needs to be covered in any Net Neutrality agreement. This is how it all fucking started, it's like everyone forgot about Mae West.

It's a twist on the old "Transistor radio" bit. Most of em only needed the one transistor (or two on the "modern" designs) but they had 7 or 8 for advertising purposes. The upshot for the geeky customer was they could desaughter the transistors and use em for hobby work.

The expectation is that there will be a witness to the 4th ammendment specified exception. Whether or not you're told, well that's where wiretapping (and keylogging etc) come into play, i'm not certain of any precident in this area but I'd imagine there has to have been a few that made it to trial.

Yeah, not like you can read the information off the registers or anything.... or snoop L1/L2 cache if it's that tightly integrated....

Risk management is exactly what the TSA isn't doing. They are taking a past threat and building security they *think* would protect the current system from it. Only, that's not really what they're doing.

If we had learned anything from 911 planes would takeoff manually, land and fly on autopilot with a remote operator ready to take over in case of automation failure. A co-pilot who can only take control if the remote override is toggled would suffice to prevent the entire situation of flying bomb. Now you think we can't do that? We can put a missile through a window at 500 feet above the ground, we can fly a large lumbering bird through clear skies to a known destination safely and eliminate the threat. We don't want to do that, since it would mean "the terrists" won. Instead we put on a kindergarden play and let strangers touch our no-no places.

And WWII warfare was not security theater, it was misdirection. Totally different. The TSA is telling the world what they're doing is real security, they're buying real security devices and creating completely irrelevant measures.

And yes there is nothing currently in place to stop another rectum bomber. And yes, we know what the risks are without these measures. We flew hundreds of thousands of flights since air liners started to be used as a weapon of terror in the 70s.

As a security professional I must say what the TSA does is a mockery of real security.

It's a painful thing for an overly Nationalistic American to do, but if you look at the history of the Pajaro valley you would see that prior to WWII the Japanese businesses funded the Berry Farming that created such a huge demand for Strawberries. My family's ranch was funded primarily by Japanese investors before FDR stole their property and imprisoned their families.

And you've never been moderator censored? Bullshit. The GP is dead on.

We are serfs, and the political elite are as well. We are all beholden to the infrastructure owners, and they could give two shits about one customer.

One need only attend Security conferences to know the hardware and software vendors are required to provide this sort of (audited mind you) access to LE. They can do pretty much whatever they want by contacting their internal liason. Do a little research on "lawful" interception.