ClamAV is ripe for creating a FOSS disruption in this arena. If I were in a position of governmental power I would be pushing for foss solutions instead of proprietary black boxes that can't be audited.
Security today is very much about blind trust, certifications and not paying too much attention to the man behind the curtain. If your security software is open source anyone can point out its weaknesses.
Even then we still have the issue of binary blobs of firmware. Also hardware it's self may be exploitable. For a truly secure system everything would have to be audit-able. Also as soon as you run or insert anything into system you did not audit that whole system might as be treated as un-audited as well. Since what ever that was may have modified firmware or software.
That also exclude any subtle bugs that people may miss.
Where do you think the CIA fucking learned it from? MI6 (who learned it in opium wars 1&2) taught to OSS (CIA) how to get funding off books so congress couldn't pull the purse strings and they could do whatever they wanted... and this has indeed been proven multiple times...
You are the same kind of person who called us talking about NSA pre-Snowden "tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists" and then post-Snowden came out with all kinds of variations of "why are you surprised" and "we all already knew this whats the big deal", and "if you've nothing to hide you have nothing to fear" type of bullshit.
In the conspiracy theory arena, the main sticking point is that people far too often fail to understand the difference between inductive and deductive logic. In many cases we have very little evidence to go on, so we are forced to transition to inductive logic from deductive... but inevitably those decrying the lack of evidence the loudest tend to ignore the very real legitimacy of inductive logic and it's process when one is presented with a lack of hard evidence.
Isn't that being a tad overly-sensitive over what is, essentially, a technicality?
I agree that the tone borders on uncivil maybe crosses over with some vulgar language, but the only part that could be construed as ad-hominem is the phrase "You are the same kind of person" and, even then, the rest of the sentence goes on to accuse the commentor of making an argument by providing an analogy.
No name-calling occurred.
Threatening to ban someone for posting a comment that does, overall, make an important point, even when phrased awkwardly or not in the most civil way possible, is likely to have a chilling effect and "destroy intellectual curiosity", to borrow from the guidelines.
It's a trope of getting personal on the internet to say "you are the kind of person who". Both aspects are bad, not just the personalness but also the tropiness, because by definition it repeats very easily. It's important to nip that in the bud. And it's not like it's necessary to make any substantive point.
But what is getting personal? Other than the use of the word "person", there is no actual reference to anyone's person.
The personal aspect would be bad, except it doesn't exist.
The tropiness of the phrase I'll take your word for, as I don't frequent any other online discussion sites. It certainly doesn't add to the discussion.
Is a phrase that is extraneous, currently popular/cliche, and merely possibly offensive because it's typically used ad-hominem elsewhere, really cause for threatening to ban a user?
Anyone who was paying attention before Snowden knew there was mass surveillance happening. See Room 641A, Stellar Wind, Quest Communication's refusal to cooperate, etc. These were all reported well before Snowden in major media such as the NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, etc. I remember many of these were first reported back in 2006.
On the other hand, no reports on CIA programs selling crack cocaine to the inner city have ever been described or verified by any major media outlet, as far as I am aware[1]. Nor have I seen any convincing evidence of such a program.
But I'm open to any evidence you can show me, if you have any.
Also, as someone else pointed out, MI6 wasn't founded until a half century after the Opium Wars.
1. Despite many major media outlets—the same ones who outed programs like Stellar Wind—investigating the claims that the CIA smuggled drugs into black communities, they all found that there was no evidence of such a program.
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. Wikipedia
The major news outlets for the most part did not dispute his facts, just used former cia reporters to discredit his conclusions. Which led to Gary Webb "committing suicide" by shooting himself twice in the head with a revolver
So MI-6 learned it from wars they were never involved in, then taught it to the US intelligence service during WWII in case they needed it to jail black people? Which the CIA then decided it needed to do 20 years after the Civil Rights movement? Ok.
I worked as a sysadmin at DNA sequencing and analysis company for a while, and one of the things the boss was adamant about was how important in all factors the microbiome was, and he was repeatedly proven correct. For example, we were doing some work with a leading Chrons researcher... and doing microbiome sequencing was leading to some very promising progress. This happened in many fields, for example wound recovery biofilm.
I am very happy to have gotten the opportunity to work there, and sometimes I wish I hadn't left. My non-compete is finally up at least!
As someone with Crohn's disease, I follow a diet specifically designed to alter the microbiome. It is very effective in eliminating symptoms, though it does require very strict adherence, which can be very difficult.
The amazing thing is this diet (The Specific Carbohydrate Diet) has been successfully used by people for several decades. Unfortunately, despite recent progress in terms of scientific studies validating its effectiveness, many gastroenterologists still say that diet has little to no effect on Crohn's disease.
Fortunately, not everyone is in denial, and it is finally starting to gain acceptance in the medical and the research community.
I would caution you with attributing your good health with solely this diet rather than just paying attention to what you eat. I have UC and it only made me sicker and lose weight and nearly ended up in the hospital. I concluded that perhaps this diet is not for all IBD.
Really great to hear you're doing well though.
One of the things that is so fascinating about the gut's response is that it varies so dramatically from individual to individual. The current diagnostic and restorative tools we have are extremely blunt.
SCD carries a lot of psuedoscience baggage so I don't blame doctors for not heeding its advice. It does seem to have a positive effect though. Hopefully one day we'll figure out exactly why it works (and doesn't work).
Is there any good research for dealing with biofilms inside the body? I know Acne and dental plaque are well known as is some links with arterial diseases, but I have not heard of much outside of that.
very anecdotal/personal and speculative. I was a SIBO sufferer for years. GP didn't really have a clue what it is. I thought candida, tried diet, remedies - with very moderate temporary success. Got actually diagnosed with SIBO - by breath test - only few months back. The GE was very pessimistic and skeptical about my prospects of getting rid of it. First round of antibiotic (Xifaxan) - very mild improvement (may be 30% based on a major symptom - gas generation). I pressed the GE for another round of some other antibiotic. With one more lecture on low chances to cure, he gave me another, a wide spectrum one - amoxicillin. This time it hardly budged a needle.
So, what to do? I remembered reading some research which connected the cases of low antibiotic efficiency with bacteria organization into biofilms. Given that both - Xifaxan, which acts mainly in the internal space of the intestine, and the amoxicillin, which acts from the blood, ie. from the inside of intestinal wall, didn't work well, it suggested to me that the bacteria is probably biofilmed upon and inside the mucous layer. So basically i needed to scrub clean the surface of my intestines. High skilled yoga practitioners do self-cleaning by chewing on a length of cloth and passing it that way through the body - well, now i understood why they would do it :) Not having yoga skills and thinking engineering way - i needed something like a laxative which would be sucking the water through and off the intestinal walls (i.e. washing the biofilms/colonies off the walls and down) and would start doing it right in the upper small intestine (the breath test shown that i had the bacterial overgrowth starting in the upper small intestine). The first Google search brought it right away - salt water flush. Once i saw it, i didn't even have the patience to go to store for the recommended pink Himalayan salt as it was pretty obvious that salt(ie. NaCl) itself is the key here as the salt acts exactly the way i needed. I just rushed to the kitchen (i got so tired of SIBO for all those years) and used the regular one. 3 hours later the effect on the SIBO was stronger than that from a round of antibiotic. That week i repeated it 4 more times (with the recommended pink Hymalayan salt as actually it tastes better :). For several weeks after - 1-2 times/week. Last week didn't have to do it at all. SIBO is known to have high return rate, and i'm absolutely not bothered by it as the procedure can easily be repeated if/when it becomes needed and not that bacteria can develop resistance to it.
Don't have anything near this bad, but anecdotally I've felt alot better/cleaner less 'clogged' stomach wise after drinking lemon water (like 1oz lemon juice+water, no sugar) regularly and eating pickles - I had a similar 'cleaning the gut' theory.
oh, yes, acidic stuff, like vinegar dressed salads and straight supplementation with HCl (stomach acid), have helped me to somewhat soothe the condition during those years. From what i read, my understanding is that in normally healthy gut the "good" bacteria do maintain slightly acidic environment which prevents the "bad" bacteria overpopulation and biofilm formation.
Something has to go if you don't have time to sleep. That is the most important thing you do, you can't function or stay sane without sleep. I'm not kidding. Priority should be something like 1. Sleep, 2. Drink and eat, 3. Work, 4. Leisure.
If you have to, use the train ride to sleep. That is two hours per day of sleep if you can fall asleep fast.
James Clapper is strong evidence of the point: "don't lie" laws are predominantly used against the (non-powerful) innocent because the difficulty of proving anything means the executors of the law have too much impunity. If Clapper had gotten convicted, it would have been reasonable to suggest that the law worked. As it stands it doesn't work, but it still introduces the risk of abuse. The head of the NSA and Joe Nobody should be under the same laws. It's not practical to prove that someone is lying as opposed to making a mistake if they are careful in their wording (and have good legal counsel), so there is only one thing left to do.
If congressional perjury laws were repealed, the only effect would be making the level of scrutiny that is necessary now obvious (in addition to protecting people from false accusations.) In a world where disingenuous speech can accomplish everything lying can, laws against lying are winking security theatre.
How does anyone in this whole goddamn rotten system even pretend to serve justice anymore. Laws are literally being used selectively to persecute the weak, and look the other way for the powerful.
You know, I'm not sure where I got that from. Maybe I was confusing prolog with the ladder logic, or other languages from IEC 61131-3? I'm really not sure... but after some duckduckgoing I've come to the conclusion I was wrong in my previous statement... sorry.
Before hybrid apps where a thing I would build HTML/CSS/JS web apps and put them in an android web-view with no controls. Easy peasy.
You can use local storage to cache for offline use. TBH I don't think most apps really need the overhead of these new libraries. Half of the apps on the app store just display and update data from a DB.
I'm not surprised since the day I got into an argument with the guardians senior tech editor and he tried to argue Foss didn't matter and Linux was a fanboy fad...
If you're a software developer that's certainly a valid gripe but what if you're part of the 99.999% of people who use computers but don't run servers? Linux doesn't run your desktop or iOS devices and if Google swapped the kernel on Android the users wouldn't notice.
It might be true in case of the Linux kernel, but I think that most software that one is using is made of many many FOSS libraries. Imagine that all libraries and compilers are either from the OS vendor or proprietary. We would see much less software. People may not run servers, but they are surely using the software running on them - same thing applies. Android has much more FOSS than only kernel, and I'm not talking about AOSP.
Chrome, Safari, OS X, Firefox are standing upon millions of lines of open source code.
Now FOSS is at least a crankshaft of software world. Even if that would be all there is to it, you couldn't say that it doesn't matter.
I would think this would be a perfect application of a deep, full keel (which offers the maximum stability and self-correction, but in a manned sailboat tends to be too deep to bring into certain places which is why so many sailboats don't have full keels.)
That said, I don't know much about sailing other than it being on my bucket list of things to learn so I've been reading up on it, and I've been actively searching for a good simulator that works on gnu/linux... (anyone know of one?)
Not GP, but the tone is that everyone else is stupid and emotional, especially those who want to pursue non-STEM (for a very narrow definition of STEM)/finance degrees, and that everyone obviously had the same advantages the average HN poster had.
Unfortunately I'm old enough that I'm now looking at putting my kids through college, and the answer of 'you have to stay in town and take CS' seems ridiculously narrow. Even state schools run around $40K a year if you're out of state, and unfortunately my state college system is overrun with trust fund stoners. I was lucky in that I went to school before higher education in the US was turned into a money tit, and it kills me that I cannot offer my daughters the same opportunities I had.
"She has a bachelor's and a master's in comparative literature from The American University of Paris and Trinity College Dublin, respectively."
My daughter's in college, so I know personally how expensive college is in the US. I know of many kids who did have to make tough choices due to financial constraints, even for middle-class families.
And you simply don't choose comparative literature as a major and study in a private school in Paris and then Dublin, if you can't afford. There are clearly cheaper (but possibly inferior) options. This person clearly chose more expensive option and now complain that the choice was too expensive. It's like buying a Mercedes and then complain that auto loan payment is too high.
In theory, the Mercedes can be reposessed if she starts missing payments, and she can file bankruptcy to protect herself from spiraling debts.
In this situation, "a degree can't be repossessed", so the IRS and banking system will squeeze every penny they can out of her since she can't declare bankruptcy to get rid of these loans (that she's paying!)
What she really should do is negotiate a refinance, put the loans on a credit card, and then go bankrupt. She won't have good credit for 7 years, but she will also lose the $65,000 worth of debt hanging around her neck too.
Unfortunately we don't know what her overall tuition was- $95000 would be cheap for BA&MA pretty much anywhere. And that's another part of the problem- the universities price themselves like airlines. You hand the school all of your financial information and they set a tuition price just enough out of reach that a loan seems reasonable.
And while comparative literature seems extravagant, she could have gotten her degrees in physics and be facing basically the same problem.
