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On Tuesday Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 7.5.

An anonymous reader writes:

Serving as a consistent foundation for hybrid cloud environments, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 provides enhanced security and compliance controls, tools to reduce storage costs, and improved usability, as well as further integration with Microsoft Windows infrastructure both on-premise and in Microsoft Azure.

New features include a large combination of Ansible Automation with OpenSCAP, and LUKS-encrypted removable storage devices can be now automatically unlocked using NBDE. The Gnome shell has been re-based to version 3.26, the Kernel version is 3.10.0-862, and the kernel-alt packages include kernel version
4.14 with support for 64-bit ARM, IBM POWER9 (little endian), and IBM z Systems, while KVM virtualization is now supported on IBM POWER8/POWER9 systems.

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the detailed release notes here

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USA – -(Ammoland.com)- On Friday, April 6, 2018, U.S. District Judge William Young said assault weapons are military firearms and aren’t protected by the constitutional right to “bear arms.” However, he couldn’t be more wrong.

First and foremost, the term “Assault-Weapon” is a made up term by the gun control lobby to strike fear into the hearts and minds of Americans. Gun control activists rely very heavily on fear-based language to pursued Americans that guns are naturally evil, and that the only solution is to pass stricter gun control laws.

Assault is an action; it’s a verb, not a noun. Firearms have no soul, they’re not living objects, and they are not inherently evil. You could put a loaded firearm on a table, leave it there, and unless somebody picks it up, aims it, and pulls the trigger; the firearm will remain harmless. Which settles the debate of “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

The origin of this term “Assault-Weapon” is not one hundred percent clear. According to the Nexis News database, the first mention of “assault weapons” appears in a 1980 New York Times story. Over the past several decades, gun-control proponents have heavily relied on this terminology and have blanket-applied it to any firearm that looks scary.

Secondly, gun-control proponents now slap on the term “assault” to any firearm they don’t like or want to be restricted from public use. The public mistakes the “AR” in AR-15 to mean “assault rifle,” while fake news headquarters CNN, frequently refers to AR-15’s as “assault rifles.” The “AR” in “AR-15” stands for “ArmaLite,” the company that first manufactured the AR-15 in December 1959.

Thirdly, addressing the issue of the “AR-15” and how dangerous it is. These semi-automatic rifles, not “fully automatic machine guns” as some gun control puppets, like Whoopi Goldberg, would have you think. Semi auto firearms have been in public circulation for more than 60 years. It wasn’t until almost 50 years later that we saw one used in a mass shooting.

Furthermore, if we look back at the recent mass murders committed with an AR-15, we see a trend that these criminals should not have had access to a firearm in the first place or law enforcement failed to act upon credible information.

Nikolas Cruz – Parkland massacre. Police visited Cruz’s home more than 30 times since 2011. Even worse, the FBI had received to tips about Cruz before he committed his horrible act. The first on September 24, 2017, when Cruz posted the comment “I’m going to be a professional school shooter” on a YouTube video, and the second on January 5, 2018, when an anonymous person called the FBI to warn them about Cruz. The FBI admitted to not following established follow up protocols. “Under established protocols, the information provided by the caller should have been assessed as a potential threat to life,” the FBI said.

Devin Patrick Kelley – Sutherland, Texas Church massacre. Kelley should not have had access to firearms, according to Texas Governor Abbott and current federal law. Kelley was dishonorably discharged from the military, which automatically bars someone from ever purchasing firearms again.
Omar Mateen – Pulse Nightclub massacre. Mateen had been on the FBI’s suspected terrorist list, investigated twice by the FBI for terrorism, and convicted of misdemeanor hate crimes.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik – San Bernardino massacre. According to then FBI Director James Comey, both were “radicalized” before they started dating each other and that they were “homegrown violent extremists” who were “inspired by foreign terrorist organizations.” Farook and Malik did not purchase their firearms. The firearms used in the massacre were a “straw purchase” bought by Enrique Marquez Jr., who pleaded guilty in February 2017.
Fourthly and finally, an “assault weapons” ban certainly violates the Second Amendment. In 2008, Justice Scalia handed down one of the most historic, landmark decisions in the history of the United States Supreme Court. DC v. Heller held that “the Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia.”

In the majority’s opinion written by Justice Scalia, he states that the second amendment protects firearms that are in “common use.” The National Rifle Association estimates that there are more than eight million AR-15’s and its variations in circulation. The AR-15 has been in circulation and readily available for purchase by law-abiding citizens since 1959. And if you’re still not sold on the fact that AR-15’s, and its variations, are in “common use” you can read these self-defense stories from 2013 – 2018, in which an AR-15 saved lives and stopped crime.

About Tyler Yzaguirre

Tyler Yzaguirre is the co-founder and president of the Second Amendment Institute, which promotes gun rights through education and activism. Follow him at www.sainational.org .

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For the first time in twenty years, as the Atlantic points out, a whole year’s worth of copyrighted works will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2019. Under the terms of the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, works first published in 1923 will enter the public domain, meaning anyone can re-publish them, or chop them up and use them in other projects, without asking permission or paying the old rights holders. You can record new versions of the musical compositions; you can show the movies for a profit; you can even remake them. Amazon can sell you the ebook and keep all the money, and Project Gutenberg can give you the ebook for free. The Atlantic has a short list; we have a longer one below.

You can even make new copyrighted works based on the old works—the way Disney made all its cartoons based on public-domain fairy tales—and people can’t copy any of the new parts you include. (That’s why anyone can make movie about the fairy tale of Snow White and the seven dwarves, but only Disney can make new things where the dwarves are named Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Happy, Bashful, and Doc.)

Speaking of Disney, they’re the ones who lobbied for such long copyright terms, because in 1998 Mickey Mouse’s first appearance (in the 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie) was close to losing its copyright. But after the Sonny Bono Act, Now that first Mickey Mouse appearance will enter the public domain in 2024. Walt Disney had just started his company in 1923, but they hadn’t produced anything major. So we won’t get any free Disney stuff in January.

But here’s what we will get:

Movies

All these movies, including:

• Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments 
• Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!, including that scene where he dangles off a clock tower, and his Why Worry?
• A long line-up of feature-length silent films, including Buster Keaton’s Our Hospitality and Charlie Chaplin’s The Pilgrim
• Short films by Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, and Our Gang (later Little Rascals)
• Cartoons including Felix the Cat (the character first appeared in a 1919 cartoon)
• Marlene Dietrich’s film debut, a bit part in the German silent comedy The Little Napoleon; also the debuts of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Fay Wray

Music

All this music, including these classics:

• “King Porter Stomp”
• “Who’s Sorry Now?”
• “Tin Roof Blues”
• “That Old Gang of Mine”
• “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
• “I Cried for You”
• “The Charleston”—written to accompany, and a big factor in the popularity of, the Charleston dance
• Igor Stravinsky’s “Octet for Wind Instruments”

And these songs I picked purely based on their titles:

• “Back To Croa-Jingo-Long”
• “I’m Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City”
• “Come On, Spark Plug!”
• “Dizzy Fingers”
• “I’ve Got The Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues”
• “When It’s Night-Time In Italy, It’s Wednesday Over Here”
• “Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly I’m In Love”
• “Old King Tut”
• “Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up”

Note that these are published songbooks, not recordings, meaning you can record a cover version without permission or payment, but you can’t just steal any post-1923 recording. So Connie Francis’s version of “Who’s Sorry Now?” is still under copyright.

Even worse, rights over music recorded until 1972 is governed by state law, and if its copyright was registered and renewed, it doesn’t automatically enter the public domain until 2067.

Literature

This is the real good shit. All these books, and these books, including the classics:

• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
• Cane by Jean Toomer
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• Bambi by Felix Salten, illustrated by Barbara Cooney—the source of Disney’s animated film, and the first in a series
• The Ego and the Id by Sigmund Freud
• Towards a New Architecture by Le Corbusier
• Whose Body?, the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Emily of New Moon, the first book of L.M. Montgomery’s Emily trilogy
• The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse
• Two of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot novels, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and The Murder on the Links
• The Prisoner, volume 5 of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (note that English translations have their own copyrights)
• The Complete Works of Anthony Trollope
• George Bernard Shaw’s play Saint Joan
• Short stories by Christie, Virginia Woolf, H.P. Lovecraft, Katherine Mansfield, and Ernest Hemingway
• Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Sukumar Ray, and Pablo Neruda
• Works by Jane Austen, D.H. Lawrence, Edith Wharton, Jorge Luis Borges, Mikhail Bulgakov, Jean Cocteau, Italo Svevo, Aldous Huxley, Winston Churchill, G.K. Chesterton, Maria Montessori, Lu Xun, Joseph Conrad, Zane Grey, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs

Art

These artworks, including:

• Constantin Brâncuși’s Bird in Space
• Henri Matisse’s Odalisque With Raised Arms
• Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)
• Yokoyama Taikan’s Metempsychosis
• Work by M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, and Man Ray

Many 1923 works, like the blockbuster film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, are already in the public domain, as the owners failed to renew their copyrights. Until 1963, a rightsholder had to manually renew their copyright after 28 years.

According to the LibraryLaw Blog, not everything published in 1923 will be public domain; only works with an authorized publication in 1923. The distinction came up in the legal fight over the rights to “Happy Birthday to You,” whose current owners maintained that the song had only been published by unauthorized sources, without the permission of the original owners. (The bad song was eventually ruled public domain for other reasons.) So if you’re worried about litigious rightsholders, make sure the 1923 publication isn’t considered some stolen unauthorized version.

Remember, the works above only lose their copyright on January 1, 2019. Double-check before you use anything listed above, and watch out for all the many ways that works can enter, or not enter, the public domain. Remember that certain uses of copyrighted works are protected as fair use. And check out the many existing collections of already rights-free works, and freely available copyrighted works.

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Percona announces the release of Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.1. PMM (Percona Monitoring and Management) is a free and open-source platform for managing and monitoring MySQL and MongoDB performance. You can run PMM in your own environment for maximum security and reliability. It provides thorough time-based analysis for MySQL and MongoDB servers to ensure that your data works as efficiently as possible.

This release contains bug fixes only and supersedes Percona Monitoring and Management 1.9.0. This release effectively solves the problem in QAN when the Count column actually displayed the number of queries per minute, not per second, as the user would expect. The following screenshot demonstrates the problem. The value of the Count column for the TOTAL row is 649.38 QPS (queries per second). The total number 38.96 k (38960) is only sixty times greater than the reported value of QPS. Thus, queries were counted for each minute within the selected time range of Last 1 hour.

Query Analytics in PMM version 1.9.0.

The corrected version of QAN in PMM 1.9.1 shows that queries are now counted per second. The total number of queries is 60 * 60 greater than the value of QPS, as should be expected for the chosen time range.

Query Analytics in PMM version 1.9.1.

Bug fixes

• PMM-2364: QPS are wrong in QAN

Help us improve our software quality by reporting any bugs you encounter using our bug tracking system.

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Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “You can’t ‘manage’ men into battle. You have to lead them!” ~ Rear Admiral Grace M Hopper,

The eldest son of President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt was Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Theodore Roosevelt Jr’s cousin was Franklin D Roosevelt, who became president, and was Commander-in-Chief when Theodore Jr, then a brigadier general, was the only flag-grade officer to land at Normandy during D-Day as part of the First Wave, and at age fifty-six, the oldest person to participate in the Invasion. He was the second American to step off the boat and into the water at Utah Beach (Captain Leonard T Schroeder Jr was the first).

Theodore Jr’s younger brother, Quentin, at the rank of 2nd Lt, was a pilot during WWI and was killed in action during that War. During that same War, Theodore Jr had been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

Theodore Jr’s son, also named Quentin (the 2nd), and also an officer (captain), also landed at Normandy on the same day as his father, also in the First Wave! Theodore Jr and Quentin II were the only father/son team to land at Normandy.

Between wars, Theodore Jr was involved in politics, and held the post of Assistant Secretary of the Navy. It was during that time that the acrimonious (and more or less permanent) family schism between the “Oyster Bay” Roosevelts (Teddy’s side) and the “Hyde Park” Roosevelts (FDR’s side) took place, precipitated by foul political maneuverings on the part of FDR’s wife, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Theodore Jr had no kind words for FDR, nor Eleanor, thereafter, considering them unworthy of the Roosevelt family name.

Eleanor later apologized for her less-than-honorable political activity, describing it as “below my dignity.” But, the damage was done, and was, as is so often the case, irreparable.

Captain Leonard T Schroeder Jr

A durable and versatile commander, Theodore Jr also served as Governor of Puerto Rico, and Governor-General of the Philippines. While in the Philippines, he earned the nickname “One-Shot-Teddy,” due to his expert marksmanship while hunting local water buffalo.

During WWII and back in the Army, now at the rank of colonel, and soon brigadier general, Theodore found himself ADC of the 4th ID, stationed in England.

Theodore Jr’s requests to personally land with the First Wave during the D-Day Invasion were repeatedly denied. Never in good health, Theodore Jr was now fifty-six, gaunt, and required a cane. From his father, Theodore Jr had inherited abject bravery and an unselfish spirit of service to his Country, but not his robust health.

Major General Raymond “Tubby” Barton, commanding the 4 ID, exhausted with his requests, eventually conceded to Theodore Jr’s request, never expecting to see him alive again.

Hours later, when he stepped off the landing craft on Utah Beach, Theodore Jr immediately knew his entire First Wave (8th Infantry Regiment), owing to strong cross-currents, had landed at least a half-mile away from their intended landing zone.

Subordinates pointed-out, during a hasty beach-meeting, that the Second and subsequent waves, with the rest of the regiment and most of their heavy equipment, might land on the “right” beach.

Theodore Jr then made his famously audacious statement, for which he would be known ever thereafter:

“The rest of the Regiment will just have to catch up with us. We’ll start this war from right here!”

Contemptuously oblivious of hostile fire, for hours thereafter Theodore Jr personally greeted commanders of each succeeding wave (including General Barton himself), on the beach as they arrived, briefing them on the current situation and directing them to their assigned areas. He light-heartedly encouraged them with jokes, even poetry.

On 12 July 1944, after being involved in continuous fighting since the Invasion started 35 days earlier, Theodore Jr died, of all things, from a heart attack! He was eventually buried at the Omaha Beach American Cemetery, next to his younger brother, Quentin, who had died in France so many years earlier.

Theodore Jr was posthumously awarded the CMH for conspicuous bravery.

Throughout his military career, during both WWI and WWII, Theodore Jr had the reputation of always being personally up front with his troops. He was usually found sharing a fox-hole with front-line soldiers. Rarely was he found “in the rear with the gear.”

In fact, George Patton and Omar Bradley both criticized him for being “too close to his men.” However, in his notes, Patton referred to Theodore Jr as “one of the bravest men I’ve ever known.”

Omar Bradley described Theodore Jr’s actions at Utah Beach to be, “… the single most heroic action I’ve ever seen in combat.”

Paradoxically, both Patton and Bradley would be pallbearers at Theodore Jr’s funeral.

And from the other end of the rank-spectrum, an unnamed PFC, under Theodore Jr’s command at Utah Beach, said that he witnessed the general confidently walking around the battle area, apparently unconcerned with enemy fire (which was continuous).

“His conspicuous gallantry gave me the courage to get up and get on with the job.”

That’s what real leaders do!

/John

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(NSFW: Mature) Looks like Byron & Dave have hit the nail on the head about some of the people we have known in our past work lives. After watching this dark comedy about socializing outside the office, nothing pleases us more than to be self-employed.

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New research links so-called “good” HDL cholesterol with infectious diseases such as gasteroenteritis and pneumonia.

“Surprisingly, we found that individuals with both low and high HDL cholesterol had high risk of hospitalization with an infectious disease. Perhaps more importantly, these same groups of individuals had high risk of dying from infectious disease,” explains Børge Nordestgaard, professor and chief physician at the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital.

The results are based on data from 100,000 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study whom researchers followed for more than 6 years using national Danish health registries. The findings appear in the European Heart Journal.

“Numerous studies in animals and cells indicate that HDL is of importance for the function of the immune system and thereby the susceptibility to infectious disease, but this study is the first to examine if HDL is associated with the risk of infectious disease among individuals from the general population,” explains PhD student, physician, and study coauthor Christian Medom Madsen.

The authors cannot, based on this study, conclude that very low or very high HDL is the direct cause of the increased risk of infectious disease, but conversely they cannot rule out a direct causal relationship either, as data from the genetic part of the study indicate that this might be the case.

“Our findings indicate that, in the future, research into the role and function of HDL should not narrowly focus on cardiovascular disease, but rather focus on the role of HDL in other disease areas, such as infectious disease,” says Nordestgaard.

Could statins shield us from malaria and typhoid?

The 21 percent of the population with the lowest concentrations of HDL cholesterol and the 8 percent of the population with the highest concentrations of HDL cholesterol had high risk of infectious disease.

Individuals with very low HDL cholesterol had a 75 percent higher risk of infectious disease as compared to the reference group and the risk was 43 percent higher in those with very high HDL cholesterol.

Source: University of Copenhagen

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