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Is WikiLeaks Too Full of Itself?
by Fernando Marcelo 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Es largo y pura mentira, pero vale la pena para ver como los medios alineados van armando un personaje ficticio para minimizar el hecho de que exista Wikileaks. Por lo visto no todos los yankis son soretes o estupidos [ ;-) ] como se puede leer en los comentarios. http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/2010/08/26/is-wikileaks-too-full… Have the activists behind WikiLeaks—and in particular the Web site's founder, Julian Assange—become intoxicated by their own myth? Two recent events involving the now internationally watched Assange and the Web site seem to indicate that this is the case. WikiLeaks proclaims lofty goals. "Since July 2007, we have worked across the globe to obtain, publish and defend [sensitive] materials, and, also, to fight in the legal and political spheres for the broader principles on which our work is based: the integrity of our common historical record and the rights of all peoples to create new history. We believe that transparency in government activities leads to reduced corruption, better government and stronger democracies." The personal aims proclaimed by Assange, WikiLeaks' floppy-haired face to the world, are even more grandiose: "I enjoy creating systems on a grand scale, and I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards," Assange told the German magazine Der Spiegel in an interview last month. The interview was published as a sidebar to revelations Der Spiegel published last month about a cache of secret field reports leaked from the Pentagon charting the U.S. operations in Afghanistan. While many experts said that the reports contents were quotidian or underwhelming, Assange offered Spiegel's readers a more expansive assessment of their importance: "A single body of information, they eclipse all that has been previously said about Afghanistan. They will change our perspective on not only the war in Afghanistan, but on all modern wars." By granting only the German magazine, London's The Guardian, and The New York Times advance access to its stash of Afghan war reports, WikiLeaks and Assange ensured that the material made a big international news splash, even if experts downplayed its significance. But two subsequent developments suggest that perhaps WikiLeaks and Assange—whose activities at the moment appear to be inextricably entwined—are already failing to live up to their own exalted standards for truth and transparency and could see their credibility eroded, if not ultimately destroyed, by their overindulgence in self-righteousness and hype. Let's examine WikiLeaks' most recent corporate stunt first. On Wednesday afternoon, following roughly 12 hours of Internet fanfare, the website tweeted this item: "LEAK: CIA Red Cell Memorandum on the United States as an "Exporter of Terrorism". At the link could be found a CIA paper, stamped "SECRET/NOFORN" ("no foreign nationals"), that examines the topic: "What if Foreigners See the United States as an 'Exporter of Terrorism?" What if? The paper briefly notes that some American citizens have been implicated in recent Islamic terror plots overseas (a subject Declassified examined at far greater length last spring). It also notes that the U.S. in the past has been a home for terrorists of other ethnicities, including Jewish extremists and the Irish Republican Army. Without citing any specific secret intelligence reports, the CIA document, produced by a "Red Team" of analysts whose mission is unconventional thinking, says that because foreign governments don't really expect American passport holders to be terrorists, this might make American citizens attractive recruits to terror groups seeking fighters for missions outside the United States. The paper concludes with a warning that, if foreign governments see more and more Americans implicated in terror plots outside the U.S., they might become more reluctant to help American authorities investigate terror plots directed against the U.S.—for example, by stalling on U.S. investigation requests or refusing to cooperate with U.S. extradition or rendition requests. If you don't find these observations earth-shattering or worthy of a "SECRET/NOFORN" stamp, you'll probably have a lot of company. The secret paper's revelations, while perhaps not the sort of thing a president or CIA director would want to talk about on Meet the Press, are commonplace thoughts that are voiced by pundits and bloggers every day, often with a far more ferocious tone than used by the CIA analysts. The agency's own reaction to the release of the secret paper came close to a yawn. "These sorts of analytic products—clearly identified as coming from the Agency's 'Red Cell'—are designed simply to provoke thought and present different points of view. That's the kind of thing our government ought to be doing," says George Little, a CIA spokesman. An American official familiar with the document, who asked for anonymity when discussing a document which is still technically classified, added, "This is not exactly a blockbuster paper." WikiLeaks offered a predictably grandiose reaction to the CIA's confirmation that the paper was authentic, tweeting: "CIA usually does not confirm, so CIA likely wants to use Red Cell leak to push for policy change in US." Ahem. Really? The second recent development, which is already causing some of WikiLeaks' own loyal supports to question whether the group is its own worst enemy is, not surprisingly, the widely publicized sexual-misconduct investigation of Assange in Sweden. WikiLeaks' latest tweet on that subject (at the time this story was written) portrays the most recent developments in the investigation in the most favorable light possible: "WikiLeaks founder cleared of sex allegations | AP" The reality, however, as the wire service story makes clear, and as Declassified reported in greater detail earlier on Wednesday, is that while Swedish prosecutors have indeed terminated an investigation that resulted in a warrant for Assange's arrest in connection with an allegation of rape being issued and then quickly canceled, a Swedish prosecutor is still investigating Assange in connection to an allegation of "molestation" and has determined that there is sufficient reason to order police to interrogate Assange about the allegations. Most of Assange's public responses to the Swedish investigation have been conspiracy-mongering and bluster. On Sunday, Assange told the Middle Eastern broadcast outlet Al-Jazeera, "It is clearly a smear campaign. … The only question is who was involved. We can have some suspicions about who would benefit, but without direct evidence, I would not be willing to make a direct allegation." He was quoted by Aftonbladet, a Swedish newspaper, as saying, "I know by experience that WikiLeaks' enemies will continue to bandy around things even after they have been renounced. I don't know who's behind this, but we have been warned that, for example, the Pentagon plans to use dirty tricks to spoil things for us." But the Swedish paper also quoted him as saying, somewhat cryptically, that he had "never, whether in Sweden or in any other country, had sex with anyone in a way that is not founded on mutual consent." And as Declassified reported Wednesday, a lawyer representing two women whose allegations triggered the investigation by Swedish authorities suggests that not only are his clients standing by their claims, but that he may well challenge the decision by prosecutors to close the rape probe of Assange. A person in close contact with other WikiLeaks activists around Europe, who asked for anonymity when discussing a sensitive topic, says that many of them were privately concerned that Assange has continued to spread allegations of dirty tricks and hint at conspiracies against him without justification. Insiders say that some people affiliated with the website are already brainstorming whether there might be some way to persuade their front man to step aside, or failing that, even to oust him. Given that Assange is the person who put WikiLeaks on the map, and given that no one appears more entranced by the aura surrounding WikiLeaks than Assange himself, that could certainly cause the website considerable anguish about its own practice of "transparency," "democracy," and "integrity." Update: Karin Rosander, a spokewoman for Swedish prosecutors, told Declassified on Thursday, Aug. 26, that authorities had received word that Assange had agreed to answer police questions about the “molestation” investigation of him that is still open. She said that it was unclear when the interrogation would take place, but that it would likely be within the next few days.

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[SOLAR - Software Libre Argentina] Las novedades
by inet＠solar.org.ar 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

Hola Este es el boletín de información del sitio "SOLAR - Software Libre Argentina" (http://www.solar.org.ar) Este boletín reseña los artículos y breves publicados desde 5 días. Nuevos artículos -------------------------- ** Convocatoria Asamblea General Ordinaria 2010 ** - 10 de septiembre de 2010 SOLAR - SOFTWARE LIBRE ARGENTINA Registro IGJ N° 000426/04 1era Convocatoria a Asamblea General Ordinaria para considerar el ejercicio comprendido entre el 01/07/2009 y 30/6/2010, En uso de las atribuciones que le confiere el Estatuto Social vigente, en su artículo 15 inciso c, la Comisión Directiva convoca a los asociados a Asamblea General Ordinaria a realizarse el viernes 10 de septiembre de 2010 a las 19.00 hs. en el Primer Piso de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (Of. 142), situada (...) -> http://www.solar.org.ar/spip.php?article792 ** Call for Charlas - CONURBANIA 2010 *Prórroga* ** por Verox - 26 de agosto de 2010 Llamado a Charlas para CONURBANIA 2010 Conferencias Abiertas de Software Libre y Tecnologías Libres, que se llevará a cabo los días 12 y 13 de Noviembre de 2010 en la Universidad Nacional de Lanús(UNLA). La fecha de cierre para la recepción de las charlas fue prorrogado hasta el 17 de septiembre inclusive. -> http://www.solar.org.ar/spip.php?article782 ** JRRL - Jornadas Regionales de Redes Libres ** por Verox - 23 de agosto de 2010 La comunidad de BuenosAiresLibre, red digital comunitaria desarrollada en Buenos Aires y alrededores, invita a las Primeras Jornadas Regionales de Redes Libres que tendrán lugar los días 4 y 5 de septiembre en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, con la participación especial de Ramón Roca, de guifi.net de Cataluña, España, junto con representantes de otras redes libres de la región como CasaresLibre de Carlos Casares, LUGRo-Mesh de Rosario, MontevideoLibre de Uruguay, Bogotá-Mesh de Colombia y Rede-mesh de Brasil. -> http://www.solar.org.ar/spip.php?article794 ** Propuesta programática para SOLAR ** por Pablo Manuel Rizzo - 22 de agosto de 2010 Amigas y amigos, por la presente anunciamos nuestra intención de organizar una lista de consenso para las próxima elecciones de la Asociación SOLAR, sobre la base de los siguientes puntos. -> http://www.solar.org.ar/spip.php?article793

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interesante historia
by Diego Saravia 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/08/gnulinux-finally-free-s… -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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El cuento de terror de Unix: salvar un sistema tras rm -rf /
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 27 Aug '10

27 Aug '10

jaja! Como sysadmin que soy, leo el título y me corre un escalofrío!!! :-D ___________ El cuento de terror de Unix: salvar un sistema tras # rm -rf / Un artículo clásico de Mario Wolczko cuenta cómo lograron [0]recuperar un sistema tras hacer rm -rf /. Tuvieron que escribir un programa en ensamblador, ensamblarlo, uuencodearlo, introducirlo gracias a que alguien tenía GNUEmacs abierto en un terminal (la copia del disco estaba borrada), y la historia sigue... ¿cuál es tu cuento de terror informático favorito? Enlaces: http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=10/08/21/0851243 0. http://lug.wsu.edu/node/414 -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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Fwd: [SasLibre] Paraguay: Gobierno opta por software libre para programa “una computadora por niño”
by Diego Saravia 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

---------- Mensaje reenviado ---------- De: Ramiro Castillo <ramiro(a)saslibre.net> Fecha: 26 de agosto de 2010 16:34 Asunto: [SasLibre] Paraguay: Gobierno opta por software libre para programa “una computadora por niño” Para: "GNU con Linux, Software Libre" <lista(a)mail.saslibre.info> El Gobierno paraguayo optó por la utilización del software libre con códigos abiertos para la implementación del programa “una computadora por niño”, confirmó el ministro secretario de la Presidencia, Miguel Ángel López Perito. Artículo completo en: http://www.nanduti.com.py/v1/noticias-mas.php?id=20578 -- Atentamente Ramiro Vicente Castillo Cabay Usuario GNU/Linux Registrado #328259 Registro creado: 2003-09-21 11:48:06 Email: ramiro(a)saslibre.net Pág. Web: http://www.saslibre.net Blog: http://ravicc.saslibre.net Quito-Ecuador _______________________________________________ Para enviar un mensaje escriba a lista(a)mail.saslibre.info Para información de la lista, suscribirse o anular la suscribción vaya a: http://mail.saslibre.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lista SasLibre Cia. Ltda. empresa de Ecuador de capacitación y desarrollo en software libre http://www.saslibre.com -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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Presentacion oficial de la lista
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Estimados socias y socios, miembros de la Junta Electoral Presentamos formalmente nuestra lista de candidatos para las proximas elecciones de la Asociacion Civil Solar. Cualquier comentario, critica o sugerencia es bienvenida, ya hemos comentado nuestro programa de accion. Por otra parte, cualquier persona que desee incorporarse, esta invitada a participar. Puede comunicarse con cualquiera de nosotros o a: solar(a)berazateguilibre.org Esperamos que no se intente proscribir a nadie por razones o argumentos burocraticos, y frustrar las ganas de participar de todas y todos. Esperamos que la discusion suba de nivel. Incluso estamos dispuesto a discutir una lista única, incorporando a otras personas, en base a nuestro programa. Quedamos a disposición de la Junta Electoral para los trámites de oficialización de la lista, esperamos que esto suceda lo antes posible. Y que esta accion genere un sano debate sobre donde estamos y como superar los problemas actuales. Presidente: Juan Cristobal Lopez Arrieta Vicepresidente: Luciano Lamaita Secretario: Pablo Manuel Rizzo Tesorero: Facundo Andrés Bianco Vocales: Walter Autalan Carolina Ortiz Pablo Lozano Vocales Suplentes: Diego Saravia Juan Carlos Gentile Marcos Germán Guglielmetti Organo Fiscalizador Roberto Bastos Daniel Olivera Organo Fiscalizador Suplente: Diego Saravia Junta Electoral: Roberto Bastos Daniel Olivera Walter Autalan Junta Electoral Suplentes: Diego Saravia Juan Carlos Gentile Marcos Germán Guglielmetti -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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perl6
by Diego Saravia 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud(a)pobox.com> Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 13:11 Subject: Announce: Rakudo Star 2010.08 released To: perl6-compiler(a)perl.org, perl6-language(a)perl.org, perl6-users(a)perl.org, parrot-dev(a)lists.parrot.org On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the August 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2010 release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it. In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as "Rakudo Perl". The August 2010 Star release includes release #32 of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 2.7.0 of the Parrot Virtual Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. This release of Rakudo Star adds the following features over the previous Star release: * Nil is now undefined * Many regex modifiers are now recognized on the outside of regexes * Mathematic and range operations are now faster (they're still slow, but they're significantly faster than they were in the previous release) * Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack * MAIN can parse short arguments * Removed a significant memory leak for loops and other repeated blocks This release (temporarily?) omits the Config::INI module that was included in the 2010.07 release, as it no longer builds with the shipped version of Rakudo. We hope to see Config::INI return soon. There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. Thus, we do not consider Rakudo Star to be a "Perl 6.0.0" or "1.0" release. Some of the not-quite-there features include: * nested package definitions * binary objects, native types, pack and unpack * typed arrays * macros * state variables * threads and concurrency * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints * pre and post constraints, and some other phasers * interactive readline that understands Unicode * backslash escapes in regex <[...]> character classes * non-blocking I/O * most of Synopsis 9 * perl6doc or pod manipulation tools In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are welcomed. See http://perl6.org/ for links to much more information about Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, reference materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. An updated draft of a Perl 6 book is available as <docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> in the release tarball. The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compiler(a)perl.org mailing list, or join us on IRC #perl6 on freenode. Rakudo Star releases are created on a monthly cycle or as needed in response to important bug fixes or improvements. The next planned release of Rakudo Star will be on September 28, 2010. [1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [2] http://parrot.org/ -- Víctor A. Rodríguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) Programming: love it or leave it _______________________________________________ Cafe-pm mailing list Cafe-pm(a)pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/cafe-pm -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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A montar servidores con ARM
by Pablo Manuel Rizzo 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Interesante. El coste de un centro de datos depende sobre todo de la energía que hay que gastar para alimentarlo, y para refrigerarlo tras los procesadores convierten la electricidad en calor. Los procesadores ARM siempre han consumido menos que los de arquitectura X86, pero ahora parece que también les alcanzan en rendimiento por watio de consumo. [0]Facebook es ahora pionero en montar centros de datos con servidores ARM. http://barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=10/08/25/1032237 0. http://semiaccurate.com/2010/08/23/facebook-first-jump-arm-servers/ -- Pablo Manuel Rizzo ------------------------------- http://pablorizzo.com -------------------------------

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Puerta 18
by Adrian Pardini 26 Aug '10

26 Aug '10

Zelaya 3118 - www.puerta18.org.ar No pinta tener mucho (o algo) de SL pero igualmente me pareció interesante la propuesta. Alguien sabe más de este lugar? c&p del sitio: QUÉ ES PUERTA 18? Un espacio extraescolar y gratuito de creación artística y tecnológica para chicos de 13 a 18 años. En Puerta 18 trabajamos con: * Programas profesionales de diseño para crear animaciones 2 y 3D, páginas Web, Cd interactivos, mundos virtuales, videojuegos y efectos especiales entre otros * Una sala de grabación y producción musical y programas profesionales de audio * Una estación completa de video para filmar, editar y post producir videos y cortos * Kits de Robótica que utilizan sensores de sonido, luz y tacto * Fotografía profesional analógica y digital * Programas y recursos para realizar Diseño de indumentaria y accesorios * Profesores especialistas que ayudan con las materias más difíciles usando software avanzado * Proyectos de arquitectura y 3D -- Adrian. http://ovejafm.com http://elesquinazotango.com.ar

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logica probabilistica
by Diego Saravia 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1297450 -- Diego Saravia Diego.Saravia(a)gmail.com NO FUNCIONA->dsa(a)unsa.edu.ar

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