New Hampshire is a 5-minute drive from my house in No. MA. New Hampshire has no sales tax. I haven't bought anything online since I moved here. I just go to Salem. It's all one big strip mall, anyway.
I wouldn't bother printing everything out because the cheap, wood pulp paper we use today won't last all that long in any useful condition. Note that most of the really old books that survive today weren't done on cheap materials. They were done on animal hide paper (parchment, vellum), etched in stone, or in some rare cases, rag paper (which is mostly plant fiber but sturdier stuff than wood pulp: hemp and cotton).
When you don't have the source code, and when you can't understand the source code that you do have, you live at the mercy of the vendor. Those are just the added risks that you run with binary software.
We use pseudo-random strings for passwords that can't be remembered and have to be written down. We each have a copy of the password book, a small, black notebook, and they are kept locked when not on our person.
We use a little proggie that I wrote in C to generate these pseudo-random passwords.
Yeah, I know all about the dangers of writing passwords in books, but when you have close to 100 machines that you need to keep passwords for, you've really got no other choice. You need to make sure that security policy (keeping the password book locked up) is maintained at all times, which isn't so hard when there's only 2-3 admins who need the passwords.
Whenever somebody leaves, we change all the passwords for root and our admin user on all the machines. A bit tedious, but necessary.
What do you expect from an Attorney General who LOST an election to a dead guy. Yep, that's right he ran for Senate against a guy who died too close to the election for his name to be removed from the ballot, and the dead guy one. It says something when the people would rather have a literal corpse in the Senate instead of you. Then Shrub goes and appoints the loser A.G. Guess it helps to have powerful friends.
Actually, what the entertainment industry wants is impossible. Once the code is cracked and the watermark is removed, there's nothing to stop someone from making illegal copies distributing it or even "re-protecting" it with a bogus watermark.
People who pirate content online are already breaking the law. What's going to stop them from breaking this one?
No, the problem here isn't a question of insufficient law. It's an intractable problem of enforcement. I can the "War on Content" looming in the future, just like the long forgotten wars on drugs and terrorism.
Sheesh! This law is already out of date and it's not even a bill, yet!
The authors of the article totally miss the point of evolution. They operate under the mistaken conceit that the purpose of evolution and all existence is to create the "perfect" organism, i.e. man. It is not. The universe doesn't give a crap about us, and that's reality. Evolution is our word for a process that we observe in nature whereby a multitude of species appear and disappear over time. They differentiate themselves from each other and the ones that are better matched to the current conditions or better able to adapt to changing conditions survive while others don't. The mistake that people always make is to assume that their is some intelligent motive behind this process, that their is some "end goal" in view from the beginning. There is not.
Humans are not exempt from the "laws" of nature. Just because we have the hubris to believe that we can "control" our environment, we are not exempt from the laws of survival no more than we are exempt from the laws of gravity, aerodynamics, and thermodynamics.
The real danger is not that we become exempt from evolution, because we will not. The real danger is that we drive our species into extinction by spreading our "Western" lifestyle throughout the world.
All govt. is evil. Not having govt. is evil. You make a compromise between one evil and another, and you decide which evil you prefer. (Using a traditional Western definition of "evil.") That's the way most people see it.
BTW, all governments fall eventually. Maybe not in your lifetime, but they have all fallen in the past and there is no reason to believe that trend will not continue into the future. Heck, some govts fall so often that we don't bother to count.
I've had many misdirected shipments that went via UPS.
We received a package from NASA that was shipped via UPS and it looked like someone had driven the blade of a forklift into it! This thing was very well packed with a heavy gauge box and several inches of foam sprayed into the bottom and around the equipment and then on top. This is how they pack very sensitive equipment and you couldn't possibly imagine that it could get damaged in all the packing material. The foam is wet when sprayed in, fills in every nook and cranny so nothing can move, and hardens quickly. Yet, somehow the industrious folks at UPS will find a way to smash anything! It wasn't even labeled fragile, but I guess they knew it had to be if it came from NASA! This wasn't the only damaged shipment we've received from UPS where I work. It seems that every third shipment or so from UPS arrives broken.
I only ship FedEx or Airborne Express when I have a choice these days. I've never had a damaged or lost shipment with either.
Why bother with braking at all? Why not just design the thing to survive smacking into the surface of the planet at 4,000 kph or whatever it's going to be doing when it gets there?
So, what's the deal? Why do you need carnivore in the first place?
Say you're an ISP and the FBI shows up with a warrant and their carnivore doo hickey. They want Joe Blow's email and Internet traffic. OK. You tell them, since you got a warrant I have to comply, but you aren't using carnivore. I'll just dump all of Joe's email with a forward file that gives his email to him and puts it in a file for you guys to get. Since you want everything he does on the Internet. I'll just make sure that he always gets the same IP address when his modem dials in and his account authenticates, and just dump all of his packets to disk for you. This way you get what's in your warrant and nothing more than whats in your warrant.
I don't see why we need crap like carnivore just to get one suspect's email.
There is something else going on here, and you don't have to look too hard to find it!
There is one thing that Congress seems to overlook. If someone is already going to commit suicide by flying an airplane into the World Trade Center, do you honestly think that they are going to give a fig about using encryption that would become illegal under some proposed bill? Strong crypto, with no backdoors, is already available for free download on the Internet. IF terrorists are already using it, what makes anyone think that passing some law in the United States banning the use of such crypto is going to make them stop? Such laws will do NOTHING to impede the use of such technologies by criminals or terrorist organizations, but will do everything to criminalize otherwise innocent persons, or will reduce the level of privacy enjoyed by law-abiding persons.
The only thing that matters is how well these babies can handle Starcraft.
I haven't tried any of the others, but I can say that Wine does an excellent job of running Starcraft on Red Hat 7.1. I've played for four hours straight and no crashes!
Now, if I can just get it to work with Wine on FreeBSD!
This is slightly off-topic, but when I visit that page with Netscape Navigator 4.76 on my FreeBSD system, the page appears blank in my browser window. I've noticed this happening on a couple of other Microsoft pages, but not all. I guess if they don't want me to view their pages, that's cool. I mean, I wouldn't have gone to this page if it hadn't been linked from/.
If you combine the recent comments from Microsoft's Mundie with those made by Allchin a few months ago, Microsoft is really sounding loopier than the loopiest Linux defenders. Allchin as much as said that it is un-American to make something and give it away. He said that it ought to be illegal and that Congress was being informed. You want to talk about loopy?
I'm very, very concerned about the mental state of Microsoft's top executives and about that corporation's future being run by people who hold such psychopathic views.
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New Hampshire is a 5-minute drive from my house in No. MA. New Hampshire has no sales tax. I haven't bought anything online since I moved here. I just go to Salem. It's all one big strip mall, anyway.
I wouldn't bother printing everything out because the cheap, wood pulp paper we use today won't last all that long in any useful condition. Note that most of the really old books that survive today weren't done on cheap materials. They were done on animal hide paper (parchment, vellum), etched in stone, or in some rare cases, rag paper (which is mostly plant fiber but sturdier stuff than wood pulp: hemp and cotton).
> Sheesh, are people that fucking ignorant and
retarded???
Yes, apparently.
Time may not even exist at all. It could just be an artifact of a limitation in our sensory experience of existence.
When you don't have the source code, and when you can't understand the source code that you do have, you live at the mercy of the vendor. Those are just the added risks that you run with binary software.
My other favorite lie: "You're receiving this because you signed up at our site." Bullshit!
We use pseudo-random strings for passwords that can't be remembered and have to be written down. We each have a copy of the password book, a small, black notebook, and they are kept locked when not on our person.
We use a little proggie that I wrote in C to generate these pseudo-random passwords.
Yeah, I know all about the dangers of writing passwords in books, but when you have close to 100 machines that you need to keep passwords for, you've really got no other choice. You need to make sure that security policy (keeping the password book locked up) is maintained at all times, which isn't so hard when there's only 2-3 admins who need the passwords.
Whenever somebody leaves, we change all the passwords for root and our admin user on all the machines. A bit tedious, but necessary.
Jacking in on the weird but true port:
What do you expect from an Attorney General who LOST an election to a dead guy. Yep, that's right he ran for Senate against a guy who died too close to the election for his name to be removed from the ballot, and the dead guy one. It says something when the people would rather have a literal corpse in the Senate instead of you. Then Shrub goes and appoints the loser A.G. Guess it helps to have powerful friends.
The phrase "Open Source Intelligence" has been around since before ESR was in diapers.
Pro is the opposite of con. You do the math.
Actually, what the entertainment industry wants is impossible. Once the code is cracked and the watermark is removed, there's nothing to stop someone from making illegal copies distributing it or even "re-protecting" it with a bogus watermark.
People who pirate content online are already breaking the law. What's going to stop them from breaking this one?
No, the problem here isn't a question of insufficient law. It's an intractable problem of enforcement. I can the "War on Content" looming in the future, just like the long forgotten wars on drugs and terrorism.
Sheesh! This law is already out of date and it's not even a bill, yet!
What they do in Washington is irrelevant to the real world anyway.
The authors of the article totally miss the point of evolution. They operate under the mistaken conceit that the purpose of evolution and all existence is to create the "perfect" organism, i.e. man. It is not. The universe doesn't give a crap about us, and that's reality. Evolution is our word for a process that we observe in nature whereby a multitude of species appear and disappear over time. They differentiate themselves from each other and the ones that are better matched to the current conditions or better able to adapt to changing conditions survive while others don't. The mistake that people always make is to assume that their is some intelligent motive behind this process, that their is some "end goal" in view from the beginning. There is not.
Humans are not exempt from the "laws" of nature. Just because we have the hubris to believe that we can "control" our environment, we are not exempt from the laws of survival no more than we are exempt from the laws of gravity, aerodynamics, and thermodynamics.
The real danger is not that we become exempt from evolution, because we will not. The real danger is that we drive our species into extinction by spreading our "Western" lifestyle throughout the world.
All govt. is evil. Not having govt. is evil. You make a compromise between one evil and another, and you decide which evil you prefer. (Using a traditional Western definition of "evil.") That's the way most people see it.
BTW, all governments fall eventually. Maybe not in your lifetime, but they have all fallen in the past and there is no reason to believe that trend will not continue into the future. Heck, some govts fall so often that we don't bother to count.
We still get junk faxes, despite the laws. Most laws passed by the U.S. legislature aren't worth the effort that they take to pass.
You know the old joke? "If con is the opposite of pro, then what's the opposite of progress?"
I've had many misdirected shipments that went via UPS.
We received a package from NASA that was shipped via UPS and it looked like someone had driven the blade of a forklift into it! This thing was very well packed with a heavy gauge box and several inches of foam sprayed into the bottom and around the equipment and then on top. This is how they pack very sensitive equipment and you couldn't possibly imagine that it could get damaged in all the packing material. The foam is wet when sprayed in, fills in every nook and cranny so nothing can move, and hardens quickly. Yet, somehow the industrious folks at UPS will find a way to smash anything! It wasn't even labeled fragile, but I guess they knew it had to be if it came from NASA! This wasn't the only damaged shipment we've received from UPS where I work. It seems that every third shipment or so from UPS arrives broken.
I only ship FedEx or Airborne Express when I have a choice these days. I've never had a damaged or lost shipment with either.
And the meeting takes place in January!
We don't need no steenking brakes!
Why bother with braking at all? Why not just design the thing to survive smacking into the surface of the planet at 4,000 kph or whatever it's going to be doing when it gets there?
So, what's the deal? Why do you need carnivore in the first place?
Say you're an ISP and the FBI shows up with a warrant and their carnivore doo hickey. They want Joe Blow's email and Internet traffic. OK. You tell them, since you got a warrant I have to comply, but you aren't using carnivore. I'll just dump all of Joe's email with a forward file that gives his email to him and puts it in a file for you guys to get. Since you want everything he does on the Internet. I'll just make sure that he always gets the same IP address when his modem dials in and his account authenticates, and just dump all of his packets to disk for you. This way you get what's in your warrant and nothing more than whats in your warrant.
I don't see why we need crap like carnivore just to get one suspect's email.
There is something else going on here, and you don't have to look too hard to find it!
There is one thing that Congress seems to overlook. If someone is already going to commit suicide by flying an airplane into the World Trade Center, do you honestly think that they are going to give a fig about using encryption that would become illegal under some proposed bill? Strong crypto, with no backdoors, is already available for free download on the Internet. IF terrorists are already using it, what makes anyone think that passing some law in the United States banning the use of such crypto is going to make them stop? Such laws will do NOTHING to impede the use of such technologies by criminals or terrorist organizations, but will do everything to criminalize otherwise innocent persons, or will reduce the level of privacy enjoyed by law-abiding persons.
As for me, I say, "Give me Liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
Benjamin Franklin answered your post over 200 years ago:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
The only thing that matters is how well these babies can handle Starcraft.
I haven't tried any of the others, but I can say that Wine does an excellent job of running Starcraft on Red Hat 7.1. I've played for four hours straight and no crashes!
Now, if I can just get it to work with Wine on FreeBSD!
This is slightly off-topic, but when I visit that page with Netscape Navigator 4.76 on my FreeBSD system, the page appears blank in my browser window. I've noticed this happening on a couple of other Microsoft pages, but not all. I guess if they don't want me to view their pages, that's cool. I mean, I wouldn't have gone to this page if it hadn't been linked from /.
If you combine the recent comments from Microsoft's Mundie with those made by Allchin a few months ago, Microsoft is really sounding loopier than the loopiest Linux defenders. Allchin as much as said that it is un-American to make something and give it away. He said that it ought to be illegal and that Congress was being informed. You want to talk about loopy?
I'm very, very concerned about the mental state of Microsoft's top executives and about that corporation's future being run by people who hold such psychopathic views.