derpmaster

Just because places aren't hiring doesn't mean you don't send them a portfolio of work anyways. Find a place you want to work at and harass them gently for a job.

If you need extra money troll the bitcoin forums for posts of people looking for small store software to be built or other forums. Troll local craigslist in the 'gigs: computer' section, write and sell ebooks, write android or ios apps for the thousands of entrepreneurs looking to get into the game for enough change to buy a ticket and flee

Maintainers left and somehow the decision was to start integrating LLVM with base instead. I think openbsd devs prefer pcc but there is just too much work to do on it and no motivation right now, so LLVM it is

The CEO of Steam Gabe Newell disagrees with you. They (and Blizzard) are moving away from Windows 8 entirely.

Steam is coming out with it's "steam box" which is a linux run gaming and home entertainment system. You can also run windows on it if you want it's not a proprietary console device apparently.

There are articles everywhere how Windows 8 completely killed the PC gaming scene

I am forced to use mysql for an experimental homomorphic encrypted db. Now that I know there's actual pro support for PostgreSQL that have commits I'm never going to use mysql ever again as I was just hung up on a few things while porting to Postgre. Great success I can't wait to nuke mysql from my system forever

The cult of the cloud is great business for me since I specialize in finding VMM and KVM bugs.

Since corporations want to cheap out and host their previously secure physical boxes all on one server with a wide open console and management system to get into this has made pentesting much easier.

I especially like projects like Whonnix, where fools construct this complex layer of virtual machines on top of virtual machines. It's like taking the shit sandwich of blobs and bugs that is x64 architecture and ethernet drivers, and building a whole mountain of shit right on top then calling it secure.

The cloud definitely has some benefits, but if you're handling finance or require serious privacy better shell out for some OpenBSD racks, virtualize the routing table and set up pf firewalls to isolate the network with real actual isolation and not pretend magic isolation. Best of all there's just one operating system, not three of them piled on top of each other.

Lol hilarious.

The .biz site is cookie cutter bullshit full of buzzwords I wouldn't want to pay for it either but I applaud these guys screwing over their stingy boss anyways. Every web designer I've met has plenty of stories of not being paid or being asked to build a megasite for an insultingly low figure by cheapskate startups

It's also a huge prison sentence to change the IMEI on phones, or be in possession of IMEI changing software in most countries.

Only phones I use are unlocked samsung phones like Nexus S and Galaxy so I can custom build android source I refuse to buy a locked phone anymore

This is the corporatist way. Everything is measured so it can be 'tweaked' by managers and technocrats because school is a business now.

Having a bad teacher to me doesn't matter when any kid can turn on his phone or laptop and watch free MIT lectures, free Stanford lectures, free Khanacademy lectures, free Android and iOS developer courses all over youtube, ect.

Gates obsession with teacher metrics would be better spent on building an entirely free university with worldwide standardized credits, so somebody in Pakistan can have their education credentials accepted should they start working overseas instead of being forced to drive a cab around Montreal while spending thousands to retake what he/she already learned.

Walking around campus I still see an endless sea of Apple products, though it's more of a fashion accessory now.

I am a pariah with my IBM Thinkpad running openbsd. When I spot the other heathens using Thinkpads we nod at each other like it's some underground secret club.

As for tablets the new google nexus tablets will be in the $99-150 range and you can manipulate the source to custom build whatever you want.

Hah, I had the same problem using latest Debian Iceweasel browser to look that page. It almost filled up my 32G of Ram and crashed too.

Outdated Google Chrome displayed it perfectly, hell even Lynx did a better job than iceweasel

I couldn't use a 6 digit pin in Italy. Some ATMs in London,UK didn't like it either.

Singapore it's mandatory for a 6 digit pin so have no idea if a 4 digit pin will work, anybody been there?

Its not just France, try all of Europe/Russia.

There's a good reason people left Europe to build new lives in Canada and USA, because they left behind the old world entrenched hatred, corruption and religious intolerance.

US may be responsible for institutionalized modern slavery with their insanity prison system, but at least you don't have mainstream political parties calling for the death of romani and jews like they do in France, Greece, Italy and Hungary.

Even the Netherlands has seen it's fair share of ultra fascist political parties that used soccer jingles to rally hooligans to their cause and beat immigrants in the streets. That these fascist parties would now use Twitter to further organize their members is not surprising but at least on Twitter there's a diaspora of people to refute their bullshit racism and scapegoating. Simply censoring it will not make it go away.

Speaking of Italy Berlusconi used Holocaust Memorial Day a few hours ago to praise the leadership of Mussolini. No I didn't make that up. That's how screwed Europe is right now.

Games are already being ported to other operating systems because of microsoft greed.

MS wants to copy everybody with an app and game store, which will be the only authorized way to download and install anything on to windows 8+

They also want to charge 30% to any vendor that wants to sell in their store. Since game makers like Steam have their own content delivery system which will be blocked by MS they already panicked and announced a new linux client and have claimed to be committed to switching everything over the next few years and dumping windows

Bill Gates eradicating disease is pretty awesome. His weird school ranking system in the US is pretty bizarre and utilitarian.

"Students would be better served by measures of which colleges were best preparing their graduates for the job market." is total corporatist bullshit. How about more free courses online like what MIT and Stanford are doing.

>Ubuntu that gave the world its first decent free operating system

lol what

some problems with this

-authorities won't care msgs are anonymous and will assume you wrote them or know who did if your phone is seized, you will get rubber hosed anyways

-just having the app on your phone means guilty of dissent if arrested the erase function pretty useless. should camoflauge the app

-wandering around with bluetooth enabled while your adversary is a despotic regime with money to buy corporate intelligence contractor provided sophisticated malware and spyware is dangerous. hey here's my phone wide open for you to exploit even better, create spyware that jumps from phone to phone as we pass msgs you can create a virtual listening network to spy on the entire revolution

-intel can be changed by agents or censored before being passed on

to pass the app between devices could use nfc or wifi but that would also be dangerous to leave on all the time should agents get close enough to you and exploit your nfc to copy contacts or inject spyware, or wifi.

that said this is better than nothing which is the alternative

rasberry pi is a mess of firmware they won't release full documentation for. enjoy your enormous binary blobs

no they objected to the entire idea of bitcoin as an 'intermediate currency'

nobody will miss gcc when it dies. too bad pcc went unmaintained

I hope to god my doctor's office isn't using iOS to secure my medical data. Elcomsoft has a product out to bypass iOS encryption

These guys are releasing free software why the hell aren't they coding for android. Make your own stripped down android builds that are heavily focused on SECURITY then just port over all the medical billing tablet software. No telecom installed operating system should be trusted with holding confidential medical information when backdoors like carrierIQ were discovered.

Get android source for nexus tablets. Strip them down, include SEandroid modifications. Encrypt the device, write a small firewall program for it with notification should something go wrong (like bluetooth being turned on) and include other freely available foss that encrypts files and pics should somebody want to transfer them off the device securely.

It's much cheaper than any ipad or iphone too. What's the point of free software to 'change humanity' when you're making some guy in Nigeria get an iphone which probably costs 6x what it does here. Cheap Samsung older phones and Nexus tablets are everywhere in the world, you could buy them off wholesale from carriers who discontinued them, flash the android build with the software and ship it around the world or just provide the image for free and let doctor's flash their own devices. Tip: the new nexus tablets coming out will be $99-150

http://hothardware.com/News/Rumor-Next-Nexus-7-Price-Could-B...