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Quick google turns up $13-$36 a gallon (from caterers, who way overcharge sometimes) You can also get free starbucks http://www.plu.edu/~fachouse/menu&prices.htm from the PLU University Scholars Association

In 1976, Washington, D.C., enacted one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Since then, the city's murder rate has risen 134 percent while the national murder rate has dropped 2 percent.

OK, did it rise more from 76 to 77 than it rose from 75 to 76?

Japan ALSO has very strict laws about handguns and has had them a long time, but violent crime there is very low. Statistics tell both stories and the situation is now hopelessly tinged with politically charged rhetoric (worldwide! After the most recent Minnesota school shooting, I could not stand talking about firearms with any of the UK folks I know, since the response was basically FUCK USA) Instead of any sort of real analysis, we get hidden agendas, slogans, shaky statistics, worrisome journalism, and lousy science. It's a recipe for bad policy.

(Just like the Catholic Church's decision that contraceptives within marriage are a sin!)

According to:http://www.plu.edu/~gunvlnce/facts3.html

For 1998 Deaths due to guns Totalled 30,708:
17,424 were gun suicides
12,102 were gun homicides
866 were unintentional or accidental shootings
316 were of undetermined intent

Lets look at it again shall we?

From Joing Together the number for 1993-1999 are under 40K in '93 and under 30K in '99. Most gun deaths are due to suicide (58%). Intentional shooting ranks as 39% (11,071 including 270 police shootings) of gun deaths in 2000.

Your numbers are a bit off. A lot more so than I thought when I first started looking for them. In '99 there were 42,116 people killed in highway crashes More than have died from guns. Where are the people clamoring for Automotive control?

well, for windows, he's probably using pGina

for linux ... most likely a pam module

and, for the macs ... i forgot the name of the package, but it's listed in one of the SysAdmin mags from a few months ago (w/screenshots)

pGina [plu.edu] is a replacement authentication layer for Windows. In theory, I understand, a NIS/YP plugin could be written although as of now there isn't one. An LDAP module does exist though.

I don't know if this is what you mean by LSA but there is a cool looking project called pGina [plu.edu]. The about page shows:

For instance, should an administrator wish to use an existing Unix server, and its existing base of users, to authenticate access to Windows 2000 machines there are few options. The methods employed may range from using a Windows 2000 server for authentication and having the administrator maintain identical lists of usernames/ passwords on each server, to using Samba to emulate a Windows NT 4 Server. However, each method has its drawbacks and limitations. Ideally the administrator should be able to setup a standard naming service, such as NIS (Network Information Services) or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol), on ANY type of server and have all clients, regardless of OS revision, access that single repository.

Sorry for the flood but it looks interesting to anybody wanting to do this sort of stuff.

Thanks for Samba too :)

Will do that. I think in the end, I think the benefits of few less win2k servers to maintain/buy is worth the client install.

The poster illustrates the problem with examples such as bookmarks and address books ( which is a different problem than what liberty et. al tries to solve I believe) . These kinds of information can already be kept in an LDAP server and most applications can store and retrieve these from those servers. Outlook does it, mozilla does, ximian does it.

LDAP address book support is relatively mature in most email readers. Check out OpenLDAP for more info.

Single sign-on can also be done via LDAP. Or Kerberos/LDAP if you're so inclined. Netscape NTSych product, the Psynch® product, etc. can be used to sych NT or win2k with an external database. Check out projects such as pgina. There's a free general purpose NT password sync dll available from AcctSync. This DLL is nice, you can catch user passwords and pass them to an arbituary script with the username. This could be a perl script that updates LDAP to a vbscript that updates the coresponding Oracle user, it doesn't matter.

Also, it's simple to store public certs in an ldap server, making it easier to deploy PKI on a budget ( you don't want to know how much netscape and novell charges for this per user, trust me :)

In short, a lot of your problems can be solved right now by running a LDAP server and configuring your applications to rely on it for their datastore. Good luck.

Our school is in the design process right now on a new science and technology building. The architects used the Q3 engine to model a sample for us as well as providing RealVideo versions.
Checkit out here

I gotta admit - pretty cool to load a map of a building on campus during those late night LAN parties....