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Quick work by smart people. ciaweb writes "The OpenSSH group has revised its security advisory about the recent OpenSSH vulnerabilities. In it, they describe their decision-making process for releasing the bug information. It is interesting to contrast their procedure, which appears designed to maximize user protection, against Microsoft's, which appears to maximize Microsoft's protection."
Pardon me, sir, would you mind if I SLAMMED THIS HAMMER ON YOUR FINGERS?! D0wnsp0ut writes "I thumbed through my mail today and found what appeared to be a renewal notice for my domain. This one came from "Domain Registry of America." Verisign attempted something similar back in March and Bulkregister.com fought back and won an injunction, against the mailings. So watch out if your domain is getting close to expiring. I talked to my registrar (Register.com) and they're aware of it.
I'll scan the letter but have no place to post the pictures. Can anyone lend some bandwidth?"
Half the world has never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut, either. cshirky writes "I've just written an essay on the phrase ' Half the world has never made a phone call'. It's more 'voice telephony-y' than the usual telecom stories here, but after seeing the interest in media and the market that surfaced during my /. interview, I thought it might be of some interest."
Please stop sending my money to Redmond, OK? TrumpetPower! writes "All that brouhaha over Maricopa County's policy prohibiting companies or persons convicted of antitrust violations has had an effect. I just received the following note announcing a public forum scheduled for this coming Monday.
You recently inquired about the County's use of Microsoft products and the manner in which we license their software. We appreciate your interest in the County's technology plans. To provide a forum in which to discuss our technology direction and address any questions you may have, we will have Information Technology staff members available to meet with citizens at 8:30 am on Monday July 8th. The meeting location will be the County Administration Building at 301 W. Jefferson in Suite 420. Please RSVP your attendance so we can ensure that adequate facilities are available for the meeting.Thank you for your inquiry,
Paul Allsing
Deputy CIO
Maricopa County
301 W Jefferson, Suite 420
Phoenix, AZ 85003"
Ah, but what about the first annoying family photographer? 7h3_B055 writes: "Contrary to this article on Slashdot claiming the first photograph was created in 1826, much evidence is pointing to the fact that the Shroud of Turin may have been an earlier example (substantially earlier) of photography using ingredients as basic as egg-white for treating cloth (the photopaper) and urine for developing it. The camera itself could have been a simple box with a hole in it and the exposure time would have been lengthy."
Of course, there are a lot of theories about the Shroud of Turin, and a google search is likely to intrigue you for days.
i certainly wouldn't have my offices in suite 420.
or maybe i would.
Well, unless they decide to use MacOS. Or just change the rule. But honestly, with all the Linux users that probably live in that county, they'd be stupid not to take advantage of it.
I've gotten both the Verisign and the DRA letter, and after reading both in light of the Veresign suit, the DRA letter is VERY clear that submitting the form back to them will switch your registry to them; this is printed on the front of the letter in the same type as the rest of the page. In the Verisign case, the transfer statement was printed on the back of the letter in fine print (with no indication there was something on the back). While somewhat tacky, I don't think DRA is in the wrong here, compared to Verisign.
"Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
"I can see my house from here!" - ST:
Wrong: it doesn't imply hopelessness, but rather encourages us to take action to change. Do you think that Kofi Annan wants us to throw up our hands and not care about the rate of improvement? No! By recognizing the magnitude of the problem, we can realize how important <i>more</i> improvement is. Just because things are improving doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about the huge inequalities that exist.
-Brendan
From the linked evidence website...
One theory is that Jesus became pure energy and the radiation burned the image into the cloth. This isn't a far fetched theory really. We don't know how He resurrected. As the theory suggests, He could have transformed into a form of energy. Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 tells that matter can become pure energy. In fact this is the same concept of an atom bomb - matter becoming pure energy using radioactive material as a catalyst.
This is evidence???????
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
Maricopa California. "Gateway to the sea."
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
It'll also be pretty sweet when all that GPL'd, SouthWest-oriented county management software can finally get used. It's been ramping up in usability on SourceForge for literally months and it's time to give that stuff a spin around the block!
It's a great time to be a Linux fanatic!
From that crucifixion photography link, the site shows us a very modern, very clear, very unrealistic (in my opinion) photo of an actual crucified foot (near the bottom of the page). Is it just me, or does that just look too nice and neat with carefully arranged (but not too messy) bright red blood? Thankfully I'm no expert on the subject, but it just looks so 'perfect'. Nice clean, attractive foot, nice rustic piece of timber (artistically angled for composition), artsy clouds in the background, carefully spread bloodflow on feet and wood, etc.
One obviously questionable assertion that they try to pass off in the details makes for a whole site of suspicion.
You want spam?
Every other week, since the beginning of May, I've received a snail-mail letter from them whining about how my domain name is about to expire. (It's already been reregistered for a good six years. *chuckle*) I was with VeriSign at the time, but switched to buydomains.com.
I expected problems from VeriSign as my friend had some issues with them and transferring a domain awhile back. I was quite surprised, pleasantly, I might add. VS only sent me two snail-mail letters. One was a good deal away from the expiration date, reminding me that my domain would be up for renewal soon. The other was the same, but sent out before I transferred the registration. Got it the day after the transfer went through. *chuckle* I had no problems doing the transfer, either.
Two letters, both nice and not trying to 'pull' anything, and zero issues. Aside from the price, I'm almost sorry I left VS, they seem to have gotten their act together a bit over the past few months.
Now, register.com. Every other freaking week, as I've said. I mean, c'mon. VeriSign, I expected, after all, they were my registrar at the time, and they only sent me *two* letters!
Spam is spam, be it via e-mail or snail-mail. I wouldn't recommend register.com for the sole fact that they obviously support spam.
Urea, a component of urine, can be mixed with sodium carbonate, sodium sulfite, catchetol(?), and ascrbic acid to make developer for film. I found the recipe on a holography site. I'm not sure about it's uses, though, as I'm no photographer. http://members.aol.com/gakall/holopg.html
-J
If a mass as large as a human body were converted into energy you would *not* burn an image into a piece of cloth. You'd probably turn the planet into a big cloud of rock and dust.
Nuclear weapons convert only a very small percentage of their reaction mass into energy, and the reaction mass is only a few kilograms to begin with. Now imagine 60 or 60 kilograms of mass being converted entirely into energy.
BIG badda boom.
Also, I can really see why you'd look forward to re-writing all your software for free on a platform with no support, that's gonna rock!
I'd like to formally apologize to Sears Photo Studio for ever having complained while sitting through those family portraits back in the '70s. In retrospect, you were surprisingly gentle with me.
"Internet Registry of Canada"
"Internic.ca"
These (among others) send nice official looking letterhead and such to make it look like they're the place you normally have your domain with, whereas 'renewing' with them is transferring over to them. They also have this annoying habit of sending 'renewals' about six months before it's due, hoping I'll accidentally renew with them instead of when the normal Verisign renewals start coming (which is still about three months before it ends).
I also get a variety of registrar renewal spam. However, I don't think Verisign helps their case by sending me renewals with these bizarre domains in the urls to click on (which do turn out to be actual verisign places). Since I don't click on urls without looking at them even the 'authentic' ones look phoney.
My normal method is: I wait for the last couple of weeks before the domain expires. I go directly to the Versign site that I know, I do the renewal through the steps there. No fussing with mail or email they've sent me.
no, that would be from the "theory" page. at least report what the site actually says in context.
"Yea. I knew Jesus. Nice guy. Real concern for his fellow man. Kinda quiet. But boy... once you set him off... what a temper!"
Let's not forget that the amount of energy in a chunk of matter as large as an adult male human is greater than any nuclear bomb detonated yet.
So instead of just leaving a face imprint, if JC turned into energy, he would have left a gigantic crater. Unless, of course, he turned into energy at a nice, controlled slow rate. But then he'd probably be burning away for a few centuries.
i find the equation "E=mc2" extremely funny.
...if Jesus were the energy source that etched this image on the linen, he wouldn't cast a shadow, now would he?
Jesus is a vampire? Does that mean if you take communion, you become a vampire? I can't believe the church doesn't advertise this. I'm on my way to mass.
...or perhaps first "camera"
I recently saw a TV segment about research showing that he quite likely projected an image onto canvas using a lens, then painted or sketched the projected image.
He probably wasn't the inventor of the technique. I believe it was called a 'camera obscura'.
Just found a link, thanks to Google:
Vermeer's Camera
Wow, that's really inane. Now I know why people some peole call some Christians morons... I'm a Christian myself, but I have had little awareness of all the hilarious "evidence" out there... Amazing that people think a big ball of radiation could walk out of the tomb and talk to Mary Magdalene...
A solution to the problem with music today
Maricopa County stretches for miles and miles, but a lot of people live in the Phoenx metro. I recently decided not to move there, after a week's worth of R&R and recon in the area. Too many people, too many cars, too much smog, too much haze. Last there in the mid-nineties, I left disappointed this time.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
seems like the xians are starting to lose faith and need to justify their blind beliefs through crackpot science. A fucking man turning in to energy? Thats absurd. Oh wait, I forgot, he's the son of god, or wait, he is god, or, maybe the holy spirit. Yeah... maybe he changed from jesus, to the holy spirit, kinda like one of those unexplained and baffling Star Trek 'energy beings' that we see in 3 out of every 5 episodes of TNG. Perhaps the equation should be revised: E = J C ^ 2? They can make one of those WWJD trinkets out of it.
Actually the mass used for the Little Boy bomb was approximately 50lbs. Not much volume but uranium is damned heavy. And you're correct about the inefficiency of the fission, and that was even with an ideal sphere. Imagine the inefficiency of fission given a geometry like the human body.
"Secrecy is the Beginning of Tyranny" "No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law" -Robert Heinlein
So, the fanatics that believe in this shrowd BS, are now suggesting that Jesus, while in the grave, was egged and pissed on?
BRAWWWWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Ohhh, Ohhh, let me answer:
I will leave it to you to work this part out (or look it up yourself): The conversion of mass to energy via Einstein's famous E=mc2 yields one megaton (like a nuke) per 46.58 grams of mass converted. Sooooo, if Jesus is a normal dude of say, 65 kilograms, his little "resurrection" act would have released just short of 1400 megatons of energy.
I'm just guessing here, but I think that someone might have noticed.
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If your answer is Microsoft, you obviously didn't understand the question.
Disclaimer: I don't want to know this so I can run around and r00t a bunch of machines. I'm genuinely interested, since the flaw wasn't immediately apparent to me when I glanced at the patch a few days ago.
:)
With that said - does anyone have an analysis/description of where in the source the overflow was actually exploitable? I followed the auth_chall2.c call path fairly far, and didn't manage to find where nresp > 100 would actually overflow. It doesn't seem to be exploitable in the xmalloc() immediately following the patch, unless I really missed something. I didn't trace into openssl, so if it's an interaction between the two libraries, I wouldn't have hit it.
Hints, pointers, source snippets? All are appreciated.
You're absolutly correct. Actually, he was atomized by radiation somehow, according to an earlier post.
I think the first thing(s) i would try to clone if i could would be anything resembling human DNA in the shroud. It would be hilarious if some blond/black chinese guy(or even girl) come out of the clonation!
I think your missing the point of religon itself. The ability to believe in something even though all evidence points away from it.
Now I know why those creation science people can believe in some science but not all.
So did he have any broken bones, or not?
In "Carrying the cross" --
Christ's broken nose is attributed to the impact of his face hitting the ground as he fell while carrying the cross.
In "Death" --
The Gospel of John concludes that paragraph saying, "this was done so that scripture would be fulfilled that not one bone of His body be broken." And indeed, throughout the entire passion of Jesus, despite the extraordinary atrocities done to him, not one of his bones were broken.
I's like to touch on a point not raised by the Shroud site. It stands to reason that Jesus was circumcised, being Jewish. so, when he rose to heaven, did he leave his foreskin behind?
Napster-to-go says "Fill and refill your compatible MP3 player", which is a lie. It's not MP3. It's WMA with DRM.
Mom! Quit talking about me on slashdot!
...And you never even tried to teach me manners. That was just an excuse to flog me with a beavertail.
-sjb
Anyone who runs SuSE Linux from version 6.4 through version 8.0 inclusive may be interested in this.
SuSE's "SuSE-Security-Announce" mailing list released this post today regarding their response to the OpenSSH vulnerability. It contains a ton of information, and FTP links to update your OpenSSH packages for the aforementioned versions of SuSE's distribution.
Why naturally Sherman, you have heard of "Critical Mass" haven't you?
-Peabody
"Perhaps the equation should be revised: E = J C ^ 2? "
Now that's funny.
Ah, but what about the first annoying family photographer?
I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say they probably originated at about the same time.
-- I prefer the term "karma escort."
is the answer, and Medivh is the cloaked prophet in WC3.
No need to find someone to host a scan of the DRA "renewal notice" - domainscams.com beat you to the punch a long time ago. They have scanned samples of these notices from VeriSign, Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of Canada, and (just recently added) Register.com.
Corporate Jenga: You take a blockhead from the bottom and you put him on top...
This is assuming that the shroud even depicts Jesus. It seems one has to use circular logic to prove this (i.e. assume it is Jesus to prove it is Jesus, much like the problem with proving the existence of God.)
Besides, everyone knows we only discovered nuclear fusion in the 1940s. Sillies.
Ah, the finest flowery of slashdotterie, waxing indignant about a registrar sending out an advert that makes it quite clear that (1) they are not his current registrar, and (2) they're trying to interest him in switching to them in order to save money. Perhaps Our Indignant Correspondent hasn't ever seen that masterpiece of misdirection and outright lies that VerySlimy sent out. I did. I've also seen DRAs advertisement, and there's no comparison.
Oh, BTW, dude, your darling register.com sent me one of those adverts, too. Arrived in the mail the exact same day as DRA's. You'll be pleased to know that on the slimy attempt to prey on the ignorant scale, they were no worse than DRA. They might even have been a bit better about making it really really clear that they were trying to sell you on switching to them, but they lose those points for their attmept to drop the names of their Great Big impressive clients without - ah, here's the rub - without ever actually naming them. Nope, not one name out of millions of businesses, organizations and individuals. Maybe they couldn't get permission from any of them?
No wonder the rock rolled aside...
"It's overkill, of course. But you can never have too much overkill." - Anonymous Slashdot Coward
isn't the nose only cartilaginous, rather than true bone?
;)
...
Seems like a technicality either way, but still
My mom's nose was once broken by (someone else's) ski pole. They didn't even stop to apologize, which did not please her.
Best book I've read on the SoT is the one by (iirc) John Heller, quoted on some of the sites I've seen today
timothy
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I talked to my registrar (Register.com) and they're aware of it.
That's interesting, I have a letter from Register.com asking me if I want to extend my domain name term. But my registrar is easyDNS.com.
I'm not kidding, I have it right here.
"First you gotta do the truffle shuffle."
Now we know how the phrase "Jesus Christ" came to be a term of awe, or frustration or anger, as in... "Jeesus Christ! Look at the guy explode !" :-)
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My domains are registered through Go Daddy. I used them because they were cheapest and a friend recommended them to me. To date (several months), I have recieved no spam from them other than a notice warning me about Verisign's nasty renewal notices, and a recent notice about how they're making domain transfer free. Also, my normal flow of spam didn't noticeably go up after registering. So while I'd agree that most registrars are scumbags, I gotta say I'm very happy with Go Daddy. So far, at least.
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Is that Easter or Christmas?
Well, that article sure wasn't convincing. It makes a big deal about cell phone usage going up by orders of magnitude, and then gives us an unimpressive figure: 342 million subscriptions. And we don't know how many of them weren't already land-line serviced. I would like to have a good figure on how much of the world is serviced by land-lines or cell-phones. This article simply didn't have enough facts.
OK...
:) ... the problem when applying human logic to Devine events...
if a pure matter to energy conversion took place...
Energy = Mass(Speed of light)^2
Assume a 90kg person, and C= 2997992458 m/s
Energy = 90kg(299792458m/s)^2
Energy = 90(8.9876e16)
Energy =5.3925e18 kg-m/s or 163,410,032,498,000,000 kilowatts
SO in short, that shroud wouldn't have an image burned in, the shroud (along with a good deal of the surrounding tomb and Pilate's Guards would have been vaporised.
No it is pretty clear the shroud of turin was constructed in a similar (but more complicated) manner as rubbing a pencil over a sheet of paper held on top of a credit card. In other words they put the shroud on top of some statue and then imprinted that on the shroud.
The only reason someone would claim the shroud was a photograph is because it is a negative image like negatives are. In no way shape or form was a picture taken involving pinhole cameras and the like. I mean good photosensitive materials were a long way in coming still.
If you liked this thought maybe you would find my blog nice too:
As someone who regularly consults at the county , city and AZ state agency level, I hate to inform ya'll that this is very much a Microsoft kinda town. Yep, you heard it here first.
Further, Maricopa county is small potatoes when compared to the state and city agencies/IT budgets. Scottsdale's (one of the valley's cities) CIO probably has four times the dough than the dude that runs the county's boxen. Not to mention Phoenix city proper. And Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, etc. etc. Oh, and the state government.
And of course, government agencies are the least prepared to transition an existing employee base to a brand new technology paradigm, regardless of the cost benefits this might theoretically bring (or how supposedly easy it is to switch to Linux/KDE/OSS Office suite).
Sorry, I had to break the news.
When will people realise that the way to help your child grow up safely is not to forbid things Gee, maybe the same time they realise that if a pair of minors wants to have unprotected sex, then that's their business. I.e., NEVER, HOPEFULLY, BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING FUCKING STUPID.
Hey Genius, we're talking about minors here, doing illegal things. It's one thing if you want to try and make a point about the futility of the war on drugs among adults, and the government's assault on civil liberties by trying to regulate activites exclusive to one or more consenting grown ups, but geez, kid, get your head out of your ass and use some common sense. We're talking about kids here. I know in your little fantasy world it's the 10-year-olds who are hacking out the planet-saving patches keeping this fragile society together, while the Ph.d educated engineers at Microsoft scratch their heads in awe, so this may surprise you: kids DON'T know it all. Kids need guidance. They need discipline. And, to borrow a phrase from my father, as long as you're living under my roof, eating my food, and using my phone, you're going to follow MY RULES
Good Lord man, you take this all kids are good and can be trusted thing too far.
Like woodworking? Build your own picture frames.
If you live in the Phoenix Metro area, this is your big chance to make a great impression, show interest in your local government, and learn something too -- I mean, this is great-- the people who make important decisions about the county's technology are going to be LISTENING to you-- aside from the inevitable rips on Microsoft (easy to do), be sure to play up the cost-benefits and reliability of Linux and *bsd as viable alternatives. Have some printed materials (or CD-ROMs?) to give out.
;) A well-thought out, reasoned discussion about the benefits of open source software may make a tremendous difference if you can reach the right people and they are truly open to change.
If you seem too fanatical or "out there", you may scare them off-- it's easy to dismiss a lunatic, even when they're right. So please don't dress like Obiwan
Good luck everyone! Let us know how it works out Monday! Someone call the Arizona Republic and New Times. (And be on the lookout for a counter-offensive from Microsoft).
W
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This is my SIG. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
if Jesus were the energy source that etched this image on the linen, he wouldn't cast a shadow, now would he?
No, but he could have left burn marks...
Granted this makes their explanation of shadows and Hiroshima completely unfounded, but it still doesnt' eliminate the possibility. Personaly the image looks rather unasthetic to me.. is it proportional? Has this been measured?
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
Therefore, since we "know" Jesus spent 40 days in a fiery hell between his resurrection and his ascent to heaven (Lesson 7 of the Baltimore Catechism), it's reasonable to assume that he may have used nuclear fusion to slip away undetected. And used a force field to contain the explosion. And protected the shroud from being incinerated, but exposed it just enough to leave his shadow. After all, God created fusion "thousands" of years before man discovered it. It stands to reason he would be able to control it better than we do.
Another -- more plausible -- theory is that Jesus "miracled" himself up to heaven.
Personally, I believe the guards were drunk and didn't notice him slip out the back and hop a ship to the Bahamas. Hey, I'm entitled to my beliefs.
Does anyone know if Pima County has similar policies?
Slashdot is a waste of time. I enjoy wasting time.
I got a letter for some of my .ca domains last year and it was very mis-leading. The registrar had purposefully used a Canadian flag logo and a Helvetica-variant font to make it almost indistinguishable from a letter that the Canadian government (specifically CCRA, equiv. of IRS) would send out. Canadians are very respectful of the government and have a "sign first, ask questions later" attitude with correspondence from the government. I think the scam got blown open when someone got wise and informed someone in the gov. and they came down on the registrar hard not because he was scamming people but he had violated Canadian government copyright (look and feel, and all that)
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
;)
Yep... that Mediterranean Sea's looking a lot more suspicious now...
Yeah, that's right, register.com may be "aware" of other slams, but they are at least as bad. In fact, they are the only registry that has attempted to trick me into a "renewal" slam. I got the official-looking notice referring to my 5 domains just last week.
...Nothing interesting here. Just move along...
Are you talking about the Shroud of Turin or the Shroud of Urine?
Don't forget to remind them to rip out their phone systems, after all, AT&T, the Baby Bells and all that.
Good job, lets now re-train the end users. Then lets fire or re-train the IT dept. Boy, it's a good idea to make broad sweeping decisions, isn't it?
Whoops, did the county go bankrupt yet? Good thing that they saved all this money throwing out all their software. Oh, Tax increase? No problem! We have a new OS, and it's not Linux, it's Sun.
I'd like to change my register from Verisign, but one thing I like about their service is that you can manage your accounts from SSL-protected pages. Does anyone know of other registrars with similar security measures for managing accounts?
Now while I'm wondering how someone decided that oysters were edible, I can wonder how someone figured out 2000 years ago that urinating on an egg-white soaked cloth would produce an recognizable image. I know that things like gun cotton and Bakelite were discovered by accident but this egg-white thing I'm finding a bit hard to believe. But I would sure like to see a Mel Brooks bit on that historic moment.
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So, with Paul Allsing being the CIO for the county, wouldn't it make sense that if they were to go with a future MS contract, we could hold him responsible and sue him for breaking the law? I'm not sure on all of the legalese here, any lawer types want to help on this one? I would certainly contribute several hundred dollars to a legal fund to enforce current law in my County, and plan on it if given the opportunity!
Half the world has never eaten a Krispy Kreme donut.
;-)
Is that by weight?
I was lucky to have parents who never intruded - dad, sometimes wanted to "help" me clean my room, but mom will always escort him out. I turned out to be the least problematic kid among my friends - and the most mature one. Same for my brother and sister. And my friends where always dropping by to talk to my mom and dad to ask for advice.
My son is just born, but that how I will raise him
Now for the previous poster - go and try to earn reputation - so that your kid and his friends will come to you and ask for advice - and follow it, without pressure, without EVER sneaking into their affairs. My bet they will obey you in public, and either drug themself silly or/and grew up a pricky dick, just like yourself.
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I'm glad there's going to be a hearing (re: Maricopa) but I believe that everyone there will simply be clarified on the spirit of that law, which is to give the County a means to unilaterally sever a contract IF THEY WANT TO, and establishes some reasonsble grounds to do so, probably limited by what's appropriate to the State constitution.
I don't read the statute as a binding mandate on the county to stop doing business with a contractor, but rather, as an escape valve that they may exercise if they so choose.
I suspect that everybody who shows up Monday will be told as much, if the matter is even addressed. I'll try to be there...
-fb Everything not expressly forbidden is now mandatory.
Now I'll believe that many people haven't made a phone call, I mean African and rural China are huge as are the number of small children who haven't learned yet, but I bet every one of 'em has enjoyed the delicious flavor of Krispy Kreme's wonder of innovation.
-Ben
Boy I hope this is the FP!
---PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE---
"Now, where's the damn 'any' key?"
Don't you xtians go to school? One gram of Jesus converted to energy could boil an olympic pool dry. More than once. If the whole lot upped and converted to energy at the same time, there sure as hell would be no fucking easter.
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If Jesus went critical, WWJD could mean Where Would Jesus Detonate.
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Yeah, but isn't the image on the shroud a negative?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Hello, I am a member of PLUG and have RSVP'd for the meeting and was going to post a request to the slashdot community for documentation on successful conversions from M$ to Linux, including articles or links to sites, so I can go armed with some facts on government conversions including military, local, state, federal, school systems (many of our school systems in AZ use the same rules for contractors as the county does), etc. For instance, about those schools in the northwest that converted their labs recently. thanks, just reply to this thread and i will keep an eye out for it, or email me at the above address.
How much different is that from the Moses talking to a burning bush?
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
"I thumbed through my mail today and found what appeared to be a renewal notice for my domain.... I'll scan the letter but have no place to post the pictures. Can anyone lend some bandwidth?"
Um, how about at your domain?
Oh, you're just hanging onto it for a rainy day? Naughty, naughty!
You know what else is amazing? Some people think there is an invisible man in the sky watching and keeping track of everything they do. :|
My theory is that the bushes where really huge skunk plantations. Hence the talking to no one part.
Jesus suffered from obesity. He ate far too much radioactive fish. The evidence: the lake was so polluted that you could walk on it.
The Drowned and the Saved - Primo Levi
please do consider that getting Operating System is not always the right answer right now (a week is a very long time in politics, never is ...)
keep in mind there is crossplatform software available most notably StarOffice/OpenOffice.org from Sun Microsystems.
TheKompany.com do some QT based cross platform software.
Abiword is also Cross Platform, the first and second points in this old FAQ say nicely what i mean.
http://www.abisource.com/dev_faq.phtml#1.1
I like Linux and BSD too but I am not going to force anyone to use them but i aint gonna do free Windows Tech support, friends dont let friends hurt themselves (unless they are into that sort of thing which is a whole nuther story).
Well it sounds the maker of the shroud predated Andres Serrano by 600 years.
I recieved one of these exact letters from them yesterday, and they are NOT my registrar. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
as an Austinite, it's my duty to profess the truth: Round Rock donuts are better.
And now, back to your regularly scheduled surfing...
-l
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I don't believe you. :-P
You regularly consult for my ass.
I used to for for santa in his workshop,
and they all used linux
Check out all the comments this guy has posted.
He claims 90% of mexican congressmen can barely read and write.
Imagine the chaos when a Ten Pound Pussy shows up in church. Of course, the priests won't notice...
Ba DA dum
And are you a cannibal because you are eating the flesh of Jesus, the human body of God?
That explains why so much of that area is desert. A huge thermonuclear explosion.
Find a toilet paper manufacturer visionary enough to enrich their product with a weekly /. hardcopy.
After all... everyone has one.
I am not so sure about their patch for the problem. Instead of checking after every call, they should change packet_get_int() itself to packet_get_int(int min, int max) that calls fatal() if number our of range. Otherwise, there are probably lots of other cases that can choke on strange values. If nresp is signed (not obvious from the patch), there might be fun with sending negative numbers as well. Similar, xmalloc should have a check for allocating blocks of ridiculous size. Also, look at the second patch. If they still need to check for nresp > 100, how does context_pam2.num_expected come to be over 100? Shouldn't they check it as well at the time they create it?
I scrounged up a local reporter in charge of investigating government waste and both emailed and left voice mail about the Maricopa County meeting.
Will also invite the local muck-raking weekly to the shark tank.
Who is bringing the popcorn?
Assuming, of course, that Jesus had mass.
If you posit a divine creation ex nihilo, which violates the principle that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, then it's not too hard to question whether the mass of one Jesus could be unequal to the mass of an ordinary human.
Of course, if you believe God created matter out of nothing, it's also not out of line to assume that God has the potential to etch any image he wants onto any material surface, whether that surface existed prior to his etching it or not, and to assign to the surface receiving the image whatever ratio of carbon molecule he so desires, just to fuck with people who feel like carbon dating it. Who knows... maybe it amuses Him.
How much different is that from the Moses talking to a burning bush?
One does not necessarily need to beileve in the spiritual to believe that Moses was lacking in the mental health department. Talking to himself while facing in the direction of a bush someone lit on fire? Heck, for all we know Moses himself lit the thing on fire.
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I also live in Arizona, and I've worked for several county governments here over the last thirty years. You don't want Microsoft to be a software vendor in Maricopa County? Then sue the Board of Supervisors. No, I'm not kidding... look at their track record in defending themselves against past lawsuits... they always settle, and sometimes even when they could clearly win. The County Attorney is notoriously understaffed, overworked, and inexperienced. Past performance says they'll fold up and wave a white flag if you wave a discovery motion in front of them. Shit, you could probably get Microsoft off their vendor's list for less than the cost of the celebration kegger afterward.
Lawyers. That's the way Microsoft would do business, it's only fair that we should use the same tools.
(Posting anonymously because I'll still need to eat.)
You recently inquired about the County's use of Microsoft products and the manner in which we license their software.
You got my ass raked over the coals by the Board of Supervisors. Goddamned Linonuts.
We appreciate your interest in the County's technology plans.
I'm damned tired of you taxpayers poking your nose into how I waste, errr I mean spend, your money. If you'd all just die now, it would make my career that much easier.
To provide a forum in which to discuss our technology direction and address any questions you may have, we will have Information Technology staff members available to meet with citizens at 8:30 am on Monday July 8th.
I'm gonna have enough MCSEs at that meeting to outnumber you commie hippy Linonuts two-to-one. And Microsoft plans on having every OEM and VAR in the valley there too.
Please RSVP your attendance so we can ensure that adequate facilities are available for the meeting.
I'm making sure that most of the audience will be Microsoft shills, and the place will be so crowded by sunrise you won't even get inside. There'll be enough of us make you look pretty stupid if this gets on TV. But it probably won't.