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France, Germany, Israel, Austria - Are Not Free Speech Zones
by grarpamp 25 May '17

25 May '17

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/21/revealed-facebook-internal-rul… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/05/25/0134227/how-facebook-flouts-holoca… https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/may/24/how-facebook-flouts-holocaust-… Facebook's policies on Holocaust denial will come under fresh scrutiny following the leak of documents that show moderators are being told not to remove this content in most of the countries where it is illegal. The files explain that moderators should take down Holocaust denial material in only four of the 14 countries where it is outlawed. One document says the company "does not welcome local law that stands as an obstacle to an open and connected world" and will only consider blocking or hiding Holocaust denial messages and photographs if "we face the risk of getting blocked in a country or a legal risk." A picture of a concentration camp with the caption "Never again Believe the Lies" was permissible if posted anywhere other than the four countries in which Facebook fears legal action, one document explains. Facebook contested the figures but declined to elaborate. Documents show Facebook has told moderators to remove dehumanizing speech or any "calls for violence" against refugees. Content "that says migrants should face a firing squad or compares them to animals, criminals or filth" also violate its guidelines. But it adds: "As a quasi-protected category, they will not have the full protections of our hate speech policy because we want to allow people to have broad discussions on migrants and immigration which is a hot topic in upcoming elections." The definitions are set out in training manuals provided by Facebook to the teams of moderators who review material that has been flagged by users of the social media service. The documents explain the rules and guidelines the company applies to hate speech and "locally illegal content," with particular reference to Holocaust denial. One 16-page training manual explains Facebook will only hide or remove Holocaust denial content in four countries -- France, Germany, Israel and Austria. The document says this is not on grounds of taste, but because the company fears it might get sued. Free speech, free thought, free analysis, free association... look elsewhere.

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US Vermont Ignores Own Laws to Violate your Face and other Bio / Data
by grarpamp 25 May '17

25 May '17

http://www.vocativ.com/432762/vermont-dmv-facial-recognition-aclu/ https://www.acluvt.org/en/press-releases/aclu-demands-immediate-end-dmv-fac… http://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/009/00634 The Vermont Department of Motor Vehicles has been caught using facial recognition software -- despite a state law preventing it. Documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont describe such a program, which uses software to compare the DMV's database of names and driver's license photos with information with state and federal law enforcement. Vermont state law, however, specifically states that "The Department of Motor Vehicles shall not implement any procedures or processes that involve the use of biometric identifiers." The program, the ACLU says, invites state and federal agencies to submit photographs of persons of interest to the Vermont DMV, which it compares against its database of some 2.6 million Vermonters and shares potential matches. Since 2012, the agency has run at least 126 such searches on behalf of local police, the State Department, FBI, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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British Cunts to Invade All Sense of Internet and Personal Privacy over Manchester, Others to Censor
by grarpamp 25 May '17

25 May '17

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/manchester-at… https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/05/24/2045238/manchester-attack-could-le… https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/30/investigatory_powers_act_backdoors/ The UK government looks to be about to put the most egregious parts of the Investigative Powers Act into force "soon after the election" (which is in a couple of weeks) in the wake of the recent bombing in Manchester. "Technical Capability Orders" require tech companies to break their own security. The Independent reports: "Government will ask parliament to allow the use of those powers if Theresa May is re-elected, senior ministers told The Sun. 'We will do this as soon as we can after the election, as long as we get back in,' The Sun said it was told by a government minister. 'The level of threat clearly proves there is no more time to waste now. The social media companies have been laughing in our faces for too long.'" Government officials appear to have briefed newspapers that they will put many of the most invasive parts of the relatively new Investigatory Powers Act into effect after the bombing at Manchester Arena. Govt News Briefings - verb - Injecting FUD and Propaganda into Sockpuppets Don't forget... while the US workslave populace isn't, the US Govt and Elites were and are a direct fork of the British Imperialist scum... that was never lost. Magna Carta is firewood to Govts. And the Special Relationship between Govts is bidirectional... a mutual enablement. This invasion is coming to the US, beyond what is already in place. Related, looking at what two massive "arms" deals between Special Relationship Partners does.... http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-censorship-idUSKBN18K307 https://www.buzzfeed.com/magedatef/egyptian-journalists-say-the-government-… Egypt has banned 21 websites, including the main website of Qatar-based Al Jazeera television and prominent local independent news site Mada Masr, accusing them of supporting terrorism and spreading false news. The blockade is notable in scope and for being the first publicly recognized by the government. It was heavily criticized by journalists and rights groups. The state news agency announced it late on Wednesday. Individual websites had been inaccessible in the past but there was never any official admission. Reuters found the websites named by local media and were inaccessible. The move follows similar actions taken on Wednesday by Egypt's Gulf allies Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which blocked Al Jazeera and other websites after a dispute with Qatar. "This is not the typical Egyptian regime attitude," Lina Attalah, the editor-in-chief of Mada Masr told BuzzFeed News in an interview in Cairo. "We are used to facing troubles with the regime since we have always chosen to write the stories they don't like to hear. We are used to being arrested or have cases filed against us, but blocking us is a new thing." Mada Masr, since its founding in 2013, has regularly published critical stories of the regime in both English and Arabic.

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malware increasing salaries
by Georgi Guninski 25 May '17

25 May '17

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/ciso_salaries/ Salaries for chief information security officers (CISOs) at leading European firms have hit €1m (£850,000) as the threat of data breaches grows, City AM reports.

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4th Circuit: Wikimedia Has Standing to Challenge FISA Sec. 702 Upstream Surveillance
by Razer 25 May '17

25 May '17

Also see: Three Reasons Why You Should Care About the Fourth Circuit’s Wikimedia Ruling: https://www.justsecurity.org/41374/reasons-care-fourth-circuits-wikimedia-r… > > In a major ruling handed down this morning, the Fourth Circuit has > reversed a district court ruling from last year and held that > Wikimedia has Article III standing, at least at the motion to dismiss > stage, to challenge “upstream” collection under section 702 of the > Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Judge Diaz wrote the 39-page > majority opinion (which also affirms that the other plaintiffs lack > standing); Judge Davis concurred, but wrote separately to suggest that > the other organizational plaintiffs have also alleged enough to > establish Article III standing. > > I hope to have more to say later about the analysis and its > implications, but this is a big deal–and, at first blush, the right > result, methinks. If left intact, this means we’ll finally have > meaningful adversarial litigation (outside the context of a motion to > suppress in a criminal case) over the legality and constitutionality > of “upstream” collection. With links: https://www.justsecurity.org/41302/fourth-circuit-holds-wikimedia-standing-…

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[RUS] shock: Tucker Carlson admits to being "agent for Russia that I am" !
by Zenaan Harkness 24 May '17

24 May '17

The usual dry cynicism from Carlson for those who just can't get enough of the usual dry cynicism from Carlson :) ** The Lies About Russia Are a Great Big Gift for Fox's Tucker Carlson (Video) http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Oscar Platt on Wed, May 24, 2017 Much of the alternative media is in chicken-little mode, moaning and groaning about the special counsel development - with ominous talk of a 'soft-coup' underway, worries of impeachment, etc. Funny, you wouldn't get that impression watching Fox's most important news slot, Tucker Carlson's 8pm news and political analysis show. It has almost become a daily ritual, where he laughs at and ridicules the baloney coming from the 'Russiagate' conspiracy theory. Carlson's is the biggest and most influential news show in America. His colleague Sean Hannity, who comes on at 10, is the second, and Hannity is no less scathing about the Russiagate story. And from the stating the obvious for those of us (like inglorious me) who missed it: ** NATO Annexes Montenegro to Paper Over the Disaster West's Balkan Colonialism Has Been http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Marko Marjanović on Wed, May 24, 2017 As NATO prepares to devour Montenegro, most commentators in the mainstream and alternative media claim that Russia now has egg on its face. The former are giddy about it, while the latter are worried, but both agree this has something to do with Russia. They could not be more wrong. Supposedly Montenegro joining NATO will pain Russia because it is a country which has been traditionally in the Russian sphere of influence. Nothing could be further from the truth. Montenegro has never been in the Russian sphere of influence. And finally an update on one of our latest, most favouritist, hissing weasels: ** Mounting Evidence Suggests Nikki Haley Has Absolutely No Idea What She's Doing http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Riley Waggaman on Tue, May 23, 2017 Most Americans have rewarding careers sitting behind computer desks or McDonald's drive-thru windows—and usually these tenure-track professions end with an OxyContin overdose, a hernia, death, or all three at the exact same time. But not everyone is so fortunate. Some people have extremely tedious, soul-crushing jobs. Take, as a tragic example, Nikki Haley. As the US ambassador to the United Nations, Haley's only responsibility is to transmit State Department policy to her colleagues at the United Nations. Sometimes she's allowed to transmit State Department policy to a television news host. But that's it. A major, boring bummer.

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Snowden defends Comey
by Dr. Carl W. Greer 24 May '17

24 May '17

Snowden defends Comey > Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Fri May 19 05:48:35 PDT 2017 > > please respect her choices, her freedom, her life. > The same about all transgenders, please. If you cared at all about mannning's life, you would not defend the path that he has taken. Unless you think it is a good thing when a "white" male cuts his dick off. Is that what you want C&Canon, to have Bradley cut his dick off ? >>>/b/

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LSP - Language Server Protocol - was [newsletter@eclipse.org: Eclipse Newsletter - Language Server Protocol (LSP) 101]
by Zenaan Harkness 24 May '17

24 May '17

Can anyone speak to the Language Server Protocol or "LSP"? Every time I read "protocol" and "micro services" I hear hefty TCP stacks and latency that would never work for a per-token IDE colorizer :) But, I can also imagine an array of function pointers being the "protocol". And this LSP thing does sound like a good separation of concerns/ sane foundational design for end user programming language tools (Vim falls over here and there on certain more complex Bash-isms for example - reusing a standard back end does sound kinda right). Anyone know what LSP really is and why it is justified to call it a "micro service"? TIA Zenaan ----- Forwarded message from Eclipse Foundation <newsletter(a)eclipse.org> ----- From: Eclipse Foundation <newsletter(a)eclipse.org> To: eclipse.org(a)freedbms.net Reply-To: Eclipse Foundation <newsletter(a)eclipse.org> Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 09:18:51 +0000 Subject: Eclipse Newsletter - Language Server Protocol (LSP) 101 Eclipse Newsletter - 2017.05.24 ** Language Server Protocol ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Editor's Note ------------------------------------------------------------ In this month's newsletter we will re-thinking how advanced editor support for all kinds of languages is built. The current state of the art is implementing support for each language like Java, PHP or C++ independently for every IDE. This labor-intensive and error-prone approach is about to change with the introduction of the Language Server Protocol (LSP). The more advanced the tooling you are developing, the closer you are to writing a full-blown compiler/interpreter for the language. This is a huge waste of time, as the developers of the language have already written these tools, but often not with IDE requirements in mind. They are usually designed to only handle complete, valid source files, while an IDE usually has to handle source files that are currently being edited and thus by definition incomplete. Another caveat about the traditional approach is attracting contributors. Let's say your IDE is written in Java and provides PHP support and some PHP developers are pointing out bugs. Many of them would probably love to fix those bugs themselves, but the completely different language creates a high barrier for contribution. Last but not least, language tooling developers not only have to support a broad range of IDEs, but they also need to chase after new languages features/versions. What about Java 10 features? PHP 8? Swift 4?... The LSP developed by Microsoft for Visual Studio Code, aims at fixing these shortcomings. It is a language and IDE agnostic protocol which clearly separates language semantics from UI presentation. Language developers can implement the protocol and benefit from immediate support in all IDEs, while IDE developers who implement the protocol get automatic support for all these languages without having to write any language-specific code. This way both parties can focus on what they do best; language developers can ensure that auto completion proposals and error markers match the language specification perfectly, while IDE developers can focus on providing a great user experience. Even better, both parties can implement the protocol using the technology of their choice. The Eclipse IDE can consume the protocol with a Java API, while a PHP language server might be implemented in PHP. Did we just find the Holy Grail? Not quite yet. The Language Server Protocol is still limited. You do not yet get all the wonderful Java tooling that Eclipse JDT provides. But it's a paradigm shift. As I see it, IDEs will become a set of UI clients for several tooling services, all communicating via standard protocols. Microservices are everywhere, and they are coming to your IDE very soon. Read the 8 great articles below to learn more! Mikaël Barbero (@mikbarbero (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) ) http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85… Language Server Protocol (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) What is the Language Server Protocol? How was it created? All your questions are answered by the Microsoft team in this article. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&… Implementing a JSON-RPC Protocol with Eclipse LSP4J (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) Get a introduction to the core concepts of Eclipse LSP4J and learn how to implement a JSON-RPC protocol. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85… Using Language Servers to Edit Code in the Eclipse IDE (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) Learn how the Eclipse IDE is able to consume language servers to provide rich editor features and interact with them without having to learn anything new. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&… Eclipse JDT Language Server Project (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) What is Eclipse JDT Language Server (jdt.ls)? It's an open source Java language specific implementation of the Language Server Protocol. Find out more! http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&… Building & Running a Language Server with Eclipse Xtext & Theia (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) Learn how to implement a Language Server for an arbitrary domain-specific language (DSL) using Eclipse Xtext and then run it in an IDE. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85… LSP Support in Eclipse Che (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) Eclipse Che, a developer workspace server and cloud IDE, now offers support for the Language Server Protocol. Read this article to find out more. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&… Getting Started with LSP in Eclipse Orion (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) Read this article to discover how to get started with the Language Server Protocol in Eclipse Orion. http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&… Sourcegraph, Code Intelligence, and the Language Server Protocol (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) How is the Language Server Protocol being used by companies like Sourcegraph? ** Eclipse Announcements ------------------------------------------------------------ * It’s time to organise Eclipse Oxygen DemoCamps (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) * Case Study: Deploying Eclipse IoT on Germany's DB Railway System (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) * EclipseCon Europe 2017 | Call for Papers Open (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) * Program Ready for EclipseCon France 2017 (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) * New Eclipse IoT Open Testbeds (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) ** Eclipse Community News ------------------------------------------------------------ * Devoxx4Kids comes to Ottawa June 2017 (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) * Eclipse IoT Group Unveils New Eclipse Kura and Eclipse Kapua and Open Testbeds (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) * Recap on Eclipse ToolMakers’ Day (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…) * Mini-book about Reactive Microservices with Eclipse Vert.x (http://eclipse.us6.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85…) http://eclipse.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=eaf9e1f06f194eadc66788a85&…

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[RUS] Russian Tsar-overthrow recap for the history desprived, w/ comparo to today
by Zenaan Harkness 24 May '17

24 May '17

Russia Insider seems to be lifting their game again (not that I don't find biting sarcasm entirely humorous most of the time :) The Same Psychos Who Crucified Tsarist Russia Are Now Gunning for Putin http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/same-psychos-who-crucified-tsarist-ru… In today’s crises centered around Russia, world historians seem to have forgotten that it was American President Woodrow Wilson who made it possible for Leon Trotsky to enter Russia with an American passport. ...

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Re: [tor-relays] Legal Status of Relays Worldwide [was: kittens seized]
by grarpamp 24 May '17

24 May '17

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Nagaev Boris <bnagaev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Unfortunately rarer things happen. The ongoing case in Russia: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/13/tor_loses_a_node_in_russia_after_a… > "According to TASS, he’ll be held for two months pending investigation." > > Recent update on the story: students of MSU petitioning in support of > Dmitry Bogatov during a public event in the university were asked to > leave the event. The text (in Russian): > http://newstes.ru/2017/05/20/studentov-sobiravshih-podpisi-v-podderzhku-mat… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14096625 > It seems to be the first such severe case in Russia. There are ususally three parts, 1) Digging up what laws are on the books. 2) Divining what they mean philosophically / technically. 3) Determining what any respective govenment cares about them. News reports for RU linked above might mean 3) is very little. The reports also seem to say nothing about 1) 2) a) b). Which doesn't help make the legal status of relays there any clearer than mud. >> If you know of places where... >> a) relays themselves are illegal >> or >> b) ISP style exceptions do not exist >> ... you should definitely reply with such a list.

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