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Followed immediately by "But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other."

Halderman continues though: "But I don’t believe that either one of these seemingly unlikely explanations is overwhelmingly more likely than the other."

I'm shocked to read this post by Cyrille Rossant, a respected member of the Python community. He and his wife have had their baby taken away by the French government (most unjustly and cruelly as far as I can tell). Anyone out there who can help reunite him and his wife with their baby?

thanks especially for the tip about restarting the system, just in case.

As a non-professional in the area of Linux security, let me share what I figured out while patching Ubuntu 12.04 servers for GHOST. In my situation at least, I got confused by looking for glibc and eglibc, which are listed as packages to be patched in http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20....

I wanted to know what version of glibc and eglibc my servers were running so that I could check that they were getting updated. Running

   dpkg -s glibc 

and

   dpkg -s eglibc 

turned up nothing. How could that be since there had to be a C library?!

Answer: there are indeed compiled C libraries on my servers. I found that the key packages to update were related to libc6 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libc6), which were compiled from eglibc.

At any rate, I patched my servers with a typical procedure:

    sudo apt-get update 
    sudo unattended-upgrades

BTW, it helped me to understand that Ubuntu 12.04 uses eglibc and not glibc: http://askubuntu.com/questions/372864/why-ubuntu-uses-eglibc... to make sense of the charts at http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-20..., especially the reason for the "DNE" (does not exist?) for Ubuntu 12.04 and glibc.

Hope this is clarifying to someone out there. Would love to hear confirmation or refutation of my reasoning here.

Thanks for posting the video on archive.org. Ever since I read http://boingboing.net/2014/06/19/aaron-swartz-documentary-th..., I've been looking for a place to download the CC-licensed video. If I want to send money to the producers of the video, how should I do so? Buy a copy of the video from vimeo?

Although Evernote does its share of problems, I want to throw in my generally positive view of the company and the software. I've been a premium user since 2010, and despite its problems, Evernote remains the central program I use to organize my thoughts and tasks. I'd be glad to expand on what I like about Evernote if anyone wants to know. (I'm just a bit surprised by the high level of criticism for Evernote here.)

[later edit: as I reread the thread, I now see the discussion as less negative than I originally thought. Others are pointing out positives about Evernote. If Jason Kincaid (the OP) does manage to get Phil Libin to focus his company on improving the quality of the various clients, then I'd be quite happy. For the time being, I still with Evernote because it's the best solution I've found for what I do.]

The folks at MarkLogic must be unhappy with being singled out in the following paragraph:

Some of the companies building the system opposed an early decision by the Medicare agency to use database software from a company called MarkLogic, which handles data differently from systems by companies like IBM and Oracle. Some suggest that its unfamiliar nature slowed their work. By mid-November, more than six weeks after the rollout, the MarkLogic database -- essentially the website's virtual filing cabinet and index -- continued to perform below expectations, according to one person who works in the command center.

The company's response is recorded as:

In interviews, MarkLogic’s executives faulted inadequate computing power and instability at the site’s data center, as well as the failure to properly integrate their product, problems repeatedly cited by other website vendors.

Any insight on what is meant by how MarkLogic "handles data differently"?

At the moment, the most info on the crash on the Wikipedia seems to be at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214

The radio/tv program was the first time I heard the theory that the NSA is tapping the routers upstream from the 9 companies mentioned in the PRISM slides. If so, this could conceivably make the public denials by the companies of any knowledge of PRISM be truthful, while simultaneously allowing for the ability of PRISM to tap into the traffic going into the internet companies.

I think the ACLU is also an important organization in the fight to rein in NSA overreach. http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-li...

I signed the petition and told my friends about it. Fixing the DMCA is key.

Good point!

I see that http://api-status.com/ is accurately reporting problems in the Google APIs whereas the Google API console (https://code.google.com/apis/console/b/0) says there are no known issues.

Choice quote from article: "So the drum languages seem to put importance on uniquely identifying individuals, something that our Internet is just starting to figure out. (See ORCID.) Reputation of individuals was important; I wonder if creators of particularly compelling drum poems were identified by custom, as we're starting to learn how to do with Attribution licenses."

I have a Nook tablet and like it except for the fact that I can run only B&N blessed apps (of which there are so few).

The fact that Amazon payments powers Kickstarter led me to think that Amazon would allow other crowdfunding sites such as unglue.it.

(I work for Gluejar on unglue.it) We've struggled with the issue of finding the right payment processor. We went originally with PayPal, but 7 months after we submitted our application, we still don't have a decision (see http://blog.unglue.it/2012/05/03/unglue-it-payment-options-a...). Amazon FPS was easy to get started with, and we got what seemed to be approval very quickly. So it was a bit surprising to then get shut down by Amazon after running for a while and demonstrating unglue.it works in practice.

We'd love to hear of alternative payment systems. I'm looking at using subscriptions in https://www.braintreepayments.com/docs/python/subscriptions/ to simulate conditional payments. http://www.quora.com/Online-and-Mobile-Payments/What-payment... leads to https://www.wepay.com/ and https://www.balancedpayments.com/ I'd love to hear of people's experiences with these payment systems and any others we should look at for unglue.it

Besides the studio recording of the Goldberg Variations is the new score, "engraved" in Musescore: http://musescore.com/opengoldberg/goldberg-variations -- "source code", if you will, that can be used. I'd love to see work done on integrating the video display of the score with the actual recording, using the "page turning recognition" technology shown in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLYCWFboieM&feature=plcp

The Kickstarter campaign that funded the opengoldbergvariations: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...

The combination of an award-winning concert pianist + people who really understood the computational issues of music representation + the emphasis on high production value are a winning combo. My wife and I contributed a small amount to the Kickstarter project.

I'd definitely like to know what happened to Mark Pilgrim and hope he is well. It's still reassuring to know that his websites are still archived by the Internet Archive. (e.g., http://web.archive.org/web/20110726001953/http://diveintohtm...)

The sale is exciting to those of us who want to buy the ebooks, which are not available from Amazon. (I'm thinking about now buying Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages on Friday.)