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y November 12, 2015 @06:56PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist?
The NSA have set up a hotline for this. The number is +49 174 276 6483 and you'll be added to the watchlist with no further fuss. More details here:
http://hop3.de/konzept_en.html
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y October 29, 2015 @06:24PM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
It's not a general programming book, but it's actually similar in style - working through lots of small examples to learn about programming (programming Go in this case). In true slashdot tradition, I didn't read the post, just the headline ;)
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y October 29, 2015 @07:34AM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
Sure, here's one from Russ Cox:
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
Ultimately, those criticisms are not very interesting, because as a Go programmer these are tools you use as an end-user, not something which dictates how you program, and can and will be improved behind the scenes.
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y October 29, 2015 @07:30AM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
Here's a book by Brian which might interest you:
The Go Programming Language
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y October 29, 2015 @07:29AM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
One of the creators of forking unix are offering to take questions, and multiple people are asking about the branding. Slashdot, 2015.
PS Consider the C and C++ programming languages.
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y October 29, 2015 @07:22AM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
Got a plan for this? You should.
As a matter of fact they do. Go 1.5 Vendoring experiment
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y October 29, 2015 @05:31AM
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Attached to: Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
Now that Go has been in the wild for some time, which parts of the language would you change, and which bits have been an unexpected success?
Are there any plans for Golang version 2, and what might that include?
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y January 16, 2014 @04:04PM
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Attached to: Google Releases Dart 1.1
What I would like to see is a virtual machine.
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ay November 27, 2013 @12:59AM
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Attached to: Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache
"Threatening visits" would indeed cause problems. By detain; I meant detain, as in "make quietly disappear", at least for a while.
You'd do really well in the Stasi or a similar police state. Perhaps you'd also like the people you disagree with tortured as well? If you're going to start disappearing people, why don't you just advocate killing them instead.
Tell me, just where would you draw the line when defending your country, what barbarity would you not stoop to, or is there no line?
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ay November 27, 2013 @12:52AM
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Attached to: Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache
The NSA subverted American communications deliberately, and have introduced vulnerabilities into encryption via NIST. AES may or may not have been broken or subverted, but yes they are that stupid:
https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15531
Given that one of their other mandates is not to lie to congress, to abide by the rulings of the FISA court, and not to spy on Americans (all of which they have breached), I think you can assume that they don't care what their legal restrictions are and do not respect them.
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November 22, 2013 @08:05AM
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Attached to: Review: Puppet Vs. Chef Vs. Ansible Vs. Salt
unfamiliar with all so i did some quick research. Ansible least transparent Chef not bad, it comes down to Puppet Vs. Salt.
You're seriously presenting your quick google search and no actual knowledge of these products as something we should pay attention to? And your criteria for a deployment system is that they have online support??!?!? Are you even in the market for these products, have you ever used one, and do you know what they do?
I've used Ansible and it's pretty good, really straightforward, plenty of examples and docs and there is a freeware version as well as the commercially supported version. It doesn't require you to run a separate server as puppet does either, you can deploy with recipes from your local machine. To those thinking about using them, I'd say it's the simplest, the most effective and overall the best, though I haven't tried Salt so can't really comment on that.
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October 18, 2013 @01:09AM
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Attached to: British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care
Yeah, I'll just take the first order of treatment from my doctor and not ask for a second opinion, even if it means lifetime impairment or a high risk of death. Yeah...no.
1. You can have a second opinion in the NHS or change doctor quite easily.
2. Your doctors will lay out the choices for you (depending on your condition), and let you choose from whatever is available, but at the end of the day you have to trust healthcare professionals, because they know an awful lot more about treatments than you do.
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October 18, 2013 @01:00AM
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Attached to: British NHS May Soon No Longer Offer Free Care
It's still way cheaper that *public* healthcare in the US alone (medicare and medicaid), let alone the full costs of US healthcare, which are astronomical in comparison, but funding has been massively cut the last few years in real terms.
The conservatives have strangled funding for the NHS deliberately for ideological reasons, while funding several expensive wars abroad, because they want to undermine it and then get rid of it piecemeal, as they did with dentistry in the 80s. This sort of story is the precursor to farming out care contracts to private companies, not because it's cheaper, but because of their belief in the free market and connections between the Conservative ministers and private industry, here are some of our recent health secretaries:
Andrew Lansley - bankrolled by a private healthcare company.
Jeremy Hunt - in his previous role had deep connections with the Murdoch companies he regulated.
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y October 10, 2013 @01:08AM
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Attached to: TEPCO Workers Remove Wrong Pipe Get Splashed With Radioactive Water
There's a long term cost here which isn't just measured in lives (though hundreds will die eventually of related cancers from the clean up crews due to incompetence, coverups and negligence in exposing them over accepted limits). While the tsunami is over, the costs of the nuclear plant problems are still climbing, with no end in site, and 20km of land is now unusable, including several towns.
The Fukushima cleanup costs are 5 trillion yen and climbing (50 billion USD), likely to hit hundreds of billions of dollars long-term.
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September 20, 2013 @09:28AM
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Attached to: Snowden Docs: Brits Hacked Accounts of Belgian IT Admins
1. This is not a government spying on another government.
2. Economic espionage is illegal
3. Breaching trust like this will lead to all sorts of blowback when partners find out, it's hardly a good idea.
GCHQ has strayed well over the line from protecting British interests against our enemies to economic and political espionage. This op was probably ordered at the behest of some American service anyway (to whom GCHQ are in hoc to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars), who knows why or who it benefits, but it certainly isn't the people of the UK.
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