Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-16 Thread Peter Hessler
Please stop.

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-16 Thread Eric Furman
Yes, the US government has a long history of abusing its Constitutional powers. That's why we must all hide all of our personal data from them as much as possible. Of course Google, Bing, Facebook and all those selfies we take are excepted. BWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH morons! On Wed, Oct 16, 2013,

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-16 Thread Boudewijn Dijkstra
Op Wed, 09 Oct 2013 00:01:13 +0200 schreef Scott McEachern : On 10/08/13 16:41, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Back in the pre-WW2 days, Belgium (or was it the Netherlands? I forget.) kept detailed census and medical data on their citizens, including their religious affiliation. It was useful data

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Peter Hessler
Please stop -- There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying. -- Josh Billings

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas
John Long writes: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 12:41:07PM +0100, sbienddr...@googlemail.com wrote: >> Am I being monitored for receiving these emails? > > No, you're being monitored for using google, stupid. Please follow Peter's advice: >On 10/09/13 12:18, Peter Hessler wrote: >> This has gotten

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread John Long
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 12:41:07PM +0100, sbienddr...@googlemail.com wrote: > Am I being monitored for receiving these emails? No, you're being monitored for using google, stupid. Did anybody consider the possibility Theo didn't start this thread? The email headers looked ok at a quick glance but

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread sbienddr...@googlemail.com
Am I being monitored for receiving these emails? On 10/09/13 12:18, Peter Hessler wrote: This has gotten massively off topic. Can we please let the thread end here?

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Richard Thornton
You're right! I am outa here! Bye! On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Peter Hessler wrote: > This has gotten massively off topic. Can we please let the thread end > here?

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
It might come as a shock for you all. But we don't give a flying fuck for what you guys think about X where X is not related to OpenBSD. Try #ihavetheurgetoexpressmyfeeelings in irc.disney.com

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Peter Hessler
This has gotten massively off topic. Can we please let the thread end here?

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Richard Thornton
I am not stupid & midwestern enough to believe that all Muslims are a terrorist threat. My son is half jewish and I am not even reflexively pro-israel. I find that when I enter a church or a temple, its a bit of mental torture; over the weekend I was at a bat mitzvah and believe me, it was tortu

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/09/13 05:08, Zé Loff wrote: (Quite) a few years ago, the Dutch government wanted to make sure everyone had a proper burial, according to each one's beliefs and rituals. So they asked people to state their religious beliefs. This is a good idea right? Everyone's wishes get respected even

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Zé Loff
On Oct 9, 2013, at 3:44 AM, Benjamin Heath wrote: > But, people have given up this information. They weren't even paid or > coerced. Why so naive? (Quite) a few years ago, the Dutch government wanted to make sure everyone had a proper burial, according to each one's beliefs and rituals. So the

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-09 Thread Zé Loff
On Oct 9, 2013, at 12:15 AM, Scott McEachern wrote: > On 10/08/13 17:38, Richard Thornton wrote: >> I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter, >> but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is >> real and we need to be able to stop them anyway

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Benjamin Heath
On Oct 8, 2013 8:21 PM, "Scott McEachern" wrote: > > On 10/08/13 22:44, Benjamin Heath wrote: >> But that's just it, isn't it? People are naive. They go to public schools >> where they are taught to accept what is popular and reject all else, and >> that's where much of it starts. Computers must r

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 22:44, Benjamin Heath wrote: Adding to your previous thoughts, it became clear to me some years ago that the best way to gather information on someone is to find information which they've volunteered. The US Army, namely D/arpa and the Navy, invented the Internet and onion routing.

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Benjamin Heath
Adding to your previous thoughts, it became clear to me some years ago that the best way to gather information on someone is to find information which they've volunteered. Facebook and other social networks have a space to select your religion, sexual identity, location, school, work, and contact

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 22:35, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: My favourite O/S is also OpenBSD. Theo and his guys protect the world. so they are naturally protected. Almost, but not quite. Theo actually has a devoted core of followers around the globe, highly trained in gung-fu, krav maga, and ninjitsu. The

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Richard Thornton
The NSA is just a backdrop against the real corruption, which guys like Sen. Ted Cruz, who intentionally manipulate the markets by threatening to default on USA debt. Only an idiot would not assume these Senators are selling their stocks before this stupid debate, drive the markets down, buy on th

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Scott McEachern wrote: > On 10/08/13 20:42, thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: > >> I love OpenBSD, seriously, and developers of it are clearly geniuses. And >> any chance I get I promote it. >> > > Excellent, and I applaud you for that. > > My favourite O/S is also

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 20:42, thornton.rich...@gmail.com wrote: I love OpenBSD, seriously, and developers of it are clearly geniuses. And any chance I get I promote it. Excellent, and I applaud you for that. You should take a look at the papers/presentations the devs have given. The stuff Theo wrote on

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread thornton . richard
, been a bit busy On 10/08/13 17:38, Richard Thornton wrote: > I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter, > but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is > real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. > > All it takes

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/06/13 20:48, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Now, why do I mention this in relation to OpenBSD? Well, at the end of 2007 someone decided to open an impersonation account on twitter in my name, and start sending a mix of things I have said (see wikiquote for instance), with things that I wou

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 17:38, Richard Thornton wrote: I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter, but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart i

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Chris Cappuccio
Martin Schr?der [mar...@oneiros.de] wrote: > 2013/10/8 Kyle R W Milz : > > I guess if the NSA has coerced with CSIS or whatever the Canadian > > equivalent is then there might be cause for worry there (quite likely as > > we parrot almost everything the US does). > > YYCIX is subject to canadian l

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Zé Loff
> The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is > real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. > > All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart in the neighborhood, > buy every pay-as-you-go phone they have, then pass them out to their > friends in every Mosque. Well fuck you and your

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread thornton . richard
ThorntonCc: Scott McEachern; misc@openbsd.orgSubject: Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy > The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is > real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. > > All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart in the neighborhood, > buy every pay-

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 16:41, Kevin Chadwick wrote: As I say I am far more concerned about 'modern' incompetent ISP's. Uncaring ISPs or ISP's that can only care about profit (and so advertising) or they are out of business and tasking them (perhaps to their delight) with layer 7 filtering which requires gr

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Richard Thornton
I am not flippant enough to say that the NSA revelations do not matter, but what are we supposed to do? The Middle Eastern terrorism threat is real and we need to be able to stop them anyway necessary. All it takes is one of them to hit every Walmart in the neighborhood, buy every pay-as-you-go p

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 16:36, Martin Schröder wrote: YYCIX is subject to canadian laws. It likely must have a lawful interception interface for the canadian police/whatever. Americans are subject to the highest law of the land: The US Constitution. You know, that document the President and damned near

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Food for thought for everyone, but like I said, he doesn't care and > won't think about it. As I say I am far more concerned about 'modern' incompetent ISP's. Uncaring ISPs or ISP's that can only care about profit (and so advertising) or they are out of business and tasking them (perhaps to the

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Martin Schröder
2013/10/8 Kyle R W Milz : > I guess if the NSA has coerced with CSIS or whatever the Canadian > equivalent is then there might be cause for worry there (quite likely as > we parrot almost everything the US does). YYCIX is subject to canadian laws. It likely must have a lawful interception interfac

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 10:33, Kyle R W Milz wrote: Now here is where things get interesting, from the data centre to my home: [...] Take a look at the 5th and 6th hops, they are in the US. The data goes from Calgary to Vancouver down into the US to Seattle and then all the way back to Calgary. So long wi

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Kyle R W Milz
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:20:32AM -0400, Scott McEachern wrote: > I didn't want to bring this up before, but it might be an > interesting discussion, even though off-topic. Feel free to ignore > this part of the thread. > > After reading Theo's post, I wondered what effect an IX had on what > we

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/08/13 07:20, Kevin Chadwick wrote: So has your internet access (ISP) improved too since a while back or just locally and what resistance did you encounter - pro surveillance? The UK broadband speeds have shot up and become more of an asset but they are also becoming far more of a liabilit

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> Why? With a group of others, I started setting up an Internet > Exchange in Calgary, and this has taken much time because it is highly > politicized and has encountered some resistance. So has your internet access (ISP) improved too since a while back or just locally and what resistance did you

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-08 Thread hruodr
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, James Griffin wrote: > [...] But when people don't listen, or continuosly repeat themselves > unnecessarily, the discussion digresses and becomes irrelevent and/or > annoying for those of us subscribed to the list. That's the point I > tried to make. Anyway, this is digressi

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Indunil Jayasooriya
> Yes, let the people spend their time and energy for nothing. It's > absolutely not interesting to spend yours on this, It's a kid game. I > appraciate much more the work you do all on awsome project like OpenBSD > and YYCIX :) > > > I also agree with you. This is a useless topic. Let's discard

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Jean Lucas
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 8:48 PM, wrote: > Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, > starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. > > Most OpenBSD developers have known for a while, but I think it is > important to tell the greater community that I've been a

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread noah pugsley
Thank you both for answering my question. On 10/7/13, Scott McEachern wrote: > On 10/07/13 21:57, noah pugsley wrote: >> Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, >> what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for? > > YYC is the International Air Transport Association airport

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Letcher Ross
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:57 PM, noah pugsley wrote: > Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, > what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for? > > On 10/6/13, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > > Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, > > starting an

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Scott McEachern
On 10/07/13 21:57, noah pugsley wrote: Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for? YYC is the International Air Transport Association airport code for the Calgary International Airport. Eg. YYZ is Toronto's Pearson airport, Lo

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Brad Smith
On 07/10/13 9:57 PM, noah pugsley wrote: Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for? It is not YY it is YYC. It is an airport code. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believ

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread noah pugsley
Slander aside, pretty cool news. I do have one stupid question though, what does the 'yy' in yycix stand for? On 10/6/13, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, > starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. > > Most OpenB

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread eric oyen
well, Twitter does have its useful purposes. There is plenty of information on there of a technical nature. The major problem is just filtering out all the noise. Unfortunately, the idiots know about twitter and try to use it to their advantage. SOmetimes that works, and other times it backfires

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Gilles Cafedjian
Le 2013-10-07 12:30, Marko Cupać a écrit : > I don't see a reason why Twitter is given that much attention. It surely > gets a lot of hype from all around, but I did not excpect it will get more > from OpenBSD mailing lists. Yes, let the people spend their time and energy for nothing. It's abs

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Marko Cupać
I don't see a reason why Twitter is given that much attention. It surely gets a lot of hype from all around, but I did not excpect it will get more from OpenBSD mailing lists. -- Marko Cupać

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Richard Thornton
I am glad to know that it is a "parody" account; You can easily go to court, in order to force Twitter to give up the names & contact info of those responsible for the parody account if you would like to sue, but then any off-color public remarks you have actually made could be turned against you.

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Gregor Best
On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 11:10:36AM +0200, mxb wrote: > I'd turn this to police > [...] That might however generate a Streisand effect, where the slanderous statements are spread even more. > and tried to make Twitter to shut down this account. Since it's marked as a parody account, I don't think

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread James Griffin
* InterNetX - Robert Garrett [2013-10-07 11:04:56 +0200]: > People who attack each, other with nothing but the defamation of the > other individual, at heart are idiots. Sometimes, in the course of > normal discussions.. things get out of hand, I really dont care > about this. I prefer people to

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread mxb
I'd turn this to police and tried to make Twitter to shut down this account. On 7 okt 2013, at 02:48, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > Well, at the end > of 2007 someone decided to open an impersonation account on twitter in > my name, and start sending a mix of things I have said (see wikiquote

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread InterNetX - Robert Garrett
People who attack each, other with nothing but the defamation of the other individual, at heart are idiots. Sometimes, in the course of normal discussions.. things get out of hand, I really dont care about this. I prefer people to attack ideas, not each other. RG On 10/07/2013 10:43 AM, Jame

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread James Griffin
* hru...@gmail.com [2013-10-07 08:36:04 +]: > dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > > > > Layers of hurt being thrown around. Why? > > This is a legitim question. > > Since I am here, I think I received twice an Email from you: I > remember you as a polite person. But I did read a little of w

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread hruodr
dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: > > Layers of hurt being thrown around. Why? This is a legitim question. Since I am here, I think I received twice an Email from you: I remember you as a polite person. But I did read a little of what people write about you arround. Some weeks ago a question of

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-07 Thread Gregory Edigarov
Then again, I would find that rather offensive, given what he is saying on the header: Since the OBSD people are basically fucking dumber than a single sack of hammers THIS IS A PARODY ACCOUNT. On 10/07/2013 03:48 AM, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it stran

Re: Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-06 Thread InterNetX - Robert Garrett
Because people, are idiots, and like to attack others who do useful things. Keep your head up. RG On 10/07/2013 02:48 AM, dera...@cvs.openbsd.org wrote: Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. Most OpenBSD d

Sorry OpenBSD people, been a bit busy

2013-10-06 Thread deraadt
Hi, yeah, it is really me. I find it strange posting to misc, starting an email thread. Normally I finish the threads here. Most OpenBSD developers have known for a while, but I think it is important to tell the greater community that I've been a bit busy for about the last year. I have not bee