CS Lewis commented on this in one of his books, and posed a rather startling question: If society determines that proportional punishment and justice are no longer relevant in the legal system, and that all that matters is rehabilitation, what prevents a petty thief from being deprived of his freedom until society determines that he is cured? What limit is there on his detention? If society determines that he is not yet cured, can they hold him indefinitely?
Heres a country that has legalized prostitution and still has a rather sizeable problem with human trafficking.
There isnt a silver bullet to this, but you damn sure cant blame society when a person commits a crime. People make their own choices, and to have any sort of a legal / justice system we need to assign responsibility to whom it belongs.
No, silly you for thinking that society can fix the problem of crime:
and finally a failure of the economy for creating an environment where crime pays way better than any proper career this Dears twit could ever possibly sustain.
Name a society that has ever come close to creating an environment where crime does not pay. Bonus points if you do manage to come up with one thats not a nightmarish police state.
And the point of a legal / justice system isnt to rehabilitate, its to punish and dole out some mediocre degree of justice.
My only recent pro-ms comments are pro-exchange comments. I happen to hate a large number of MS technologies. AD + Exchange happen to be, IMO, their best solutions.
In all honesty Im far more pro-google than I am pro-MS.
If youre a car maker, and your boss demands a truck that goes fast, you can either produce one or find a new job.
When youre an IT person and tasked with making a collaboration solution and you offer up postfix, dont be surprised when you get canned because everyone is pissed off that they can no longer send conference invitations.
IMHO, you CANNOT use straight dictionary words (regardless of language, and yes, I do mean Klingon and Sindarin!) in your passwords without some sort of numeric or symbolic character replacement pattern.
I disagree.
Number of combinations for an 8 character, upper / lower alpha-numeric passwords: 218,340,105,584,896 Number of combinations for a series of 4 english dictionary words (using the conservative guess of 25,000 words in the dictionary): 390,625,000,000,000,000
That is, the 4 easy-to-remember words are more secure as a passphrase than an 8 character password by an order of magnitude, and as secure as a 10 character password (actually a bit less, but "whether spaces are used" makes up for that detriment).
Certainly adding a single symbol to the mix will help, but it will come at the expense of "ability to remember", which is where the real fight is. How many users use really crappy passwords just so they can remember them? Id much rather they pick 3 dictionary words and use that.
A good rule of thumb is that a single dictionary word is worth about 3 alpha-numeric characters.
Theres some internet law about how sarcasm is basically impossible to detect, primarily because there are a LOT of people who think that GP was making a true statement.
It was modded informative or insightful when I left my comment, I really doubt it was intended as a woosh.
Most business clients are a lot more happy to put up with the shenanigans of Exchange + Outlook than they would be with Postfix + thunderbird.
YOU may be OK separating email from contacts and calendar, but that happens to be one of the biggest complaints I remember that thunderbird got. The few times I've offered it as a free replacement, it was immediately rejected by the customer because they WANT to be able to use Outlook as a planner+rolodex.
For those who think Im upset or shaken that someone wants to be denigrating towards a former president, Im not. Im just pointing out that when people talk like that, theyre not being clever; despite what a small niche might tell them, it doesnt grant their position a lot of credibility.
Hes free to keep talking like that, if he wants, its just unlikely that people (especially in the real world) will take him seriously. If my comment can get him to grow up and start contributing, great! If not, well, the internet already has loads of immaturity and ignorance, a little more wont sink the ship.
And those nicknames help me differentiate right off the bat which comments are likely to be insightful, and which are likely to be immature rants by politically ignorant armchair commentators.
Just a tip, if you ever want people (outside of a small echochamber) to take you seriously, you may want to grow up and stop referring to GW Bush as "Dubyah"-- its about as mature as calling Microsoft M$, or someone you dont like a doo-doo head.
Comparing Exchange to Postfix is ridiculous. Exchange can be used as a POP / IMAP server if you really want, and the maintenance goes into the ground.
Of course if you tried to convert to IMAP or POP (whether it be Postfix or Exchange), you would likely be fired when your employer realizes he can no longer use the groupware that was the center of most of his work....
23% down sounds about average for MSExchange servers.
Only on slashdot could such ignorance get modded up.
On a bad bad day as a consultant, I have to fix scenarios with Exchange where everything blew up and theyre down for a single day-- MAYBE 2-- out of several years uptime.
Thats with the clients who have no full time IT staff whatsoever and a shoestring budget.
Possibly if you have no idea what youre doing, or dont know anything about exchange, then yea 23% might be an OK guess.
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Despite prostitution being legal in Amsterdam, this indicates that they have a rather large problem with human trafficking.
How do you explain this?
CS Lewis commented on this in one of his books, and posed a rather startling question:
If society determines that proportional punishment and justice are no longer relevant in the legal system, and that all that matters is rehabilitation, what prevents a petty thief from being deprived of his freedom until society determines that he is cured? What limit is there on his detention? If society determines that he is not yet cured, can they hold him indefinitely?
Heres a country that has legalized prostitution and still has a rather sizeable problem with human trafficking.
There isnt a silver bullet to this, but you damn sure cant blame society when a person commits a crime. People make their own choices, and to have any sort of a legal / justice system we need to assign responsibility to whom it belongs.
No, silly you for thinking that society can fix the problem of crime:
and finally a failure of the economy for creating an environment where crime pays way better than any proper career this Dears twit could ever possibly sustain.
Name a society that has ever come close to creating an environment where crime does not pay. Bonus points if you do manage to come up with one thats not a nightmarish police state.
And the point of a legal / justice system isnt to rehabilitate, its to punish and dole out some mediocre degree of justice.
The FBI is not allowed to spy on US citizens, that's what the CIA was created for.
Except that the CIA is forbidden from operating within our borders, while the FBI is not.
In this case, they use "human trafficking" as a scare term; it appears he's actually a run of the mill pimp.
What is it that you suppose a pimp does, exactly?
My only recent pro-ms comments are pro-exchange comments. I happen to hate a large number of MS technologies. AD + Exchange happen to be, IMO, their best solutions.
In all honesty Im far more pro-google than I am pro-MS.
since those functions on both platforms rely on ActiveSync, which isn't available anywhere but Microsoft platforms.
AFAIK there are non-ms solutions that DO work with ActiveSync. I believe ActiveSync is just OWA with some extra bits bolted on anyways.
If youre a car maker, and your boss demands a truck that goes fast, you can either produce one or find a new job.
When youre an IT person and tasked with making a collaboration solution and you offer up postfix, dont be surprised when you get canned because everyone is pissed off that they can no longer send conference invitations.
It should be 2048^4, since youre taking one out of 2048 elements four times.
Out of the dictionary of 25,000 words that people commonly use, however, the 4 words approach does win.
IMHO, you CANNOT use straight dictionary words (regardless of language, and yes, I do mean Klingon and Sindarin!) in your passwords without some sort of numeric or symbolic character replacement pattern.
I disagree.
Number of combinations for an 8 character, upper / lower alpha-numeric passwords:
218,340,105,584,896
Number of combinations for a series of 4 english dictionary words (using the conservative guess of 25,000 words in the dictionary):
390,625,000,000,000,000
That is, the 4 easy-to-remember words are more secure as a passphrase than an 8 character password by an order of magnitude, and as secure as a 10 character password (actually a bit less, but "whether spaces are used" makes up for that detriment).
Certainly adding a single symbol to the mix will help, but it will come at the expense of "ability to remember", which is where the real fight is. How many users use really crappy passwords just so they can remember them? Id much rather they pick 3 dictionary words and use that.
A good rule of thumb is that a single dictionary word is worth about 3 alpha-numeric characters.
Changing from m0n0wall to pfsense and back wont fix the issues with the racoon ipsec daemon.
You cannot however be sued for HAVING that name, and the having of the name is not what makes it commercial.
Im not convinced its intentional, I think they just really suck at IMAP for some reason :P
I hear Outlook 2010 is finally able to properly use IMAP, FWIW..... Not like they havent had enough time to get it working...
Theres some internet law about how sarcasm is basically impossible to detect, primarily because there are a LOT of people who think that GP was making a true statement.
It was modded informative or insightful when I left my comment, I really doubt it was intended as a woosh.
Its not "kitchen sink" when theyre all features that a user wants, and would fire you for leaving off.
Most business clients are a lot more happy to put up with the shenanigans of Exchange + Outlook than they would be with Postfix + thunderbird.
YOU may be OK separating email from contacts and calendar, but that happens to be one of the biggest complaints I remember that thunderbird got. The few times I've offered it as a free replacement, it was immediately rejected by the customer because they WANT to be able to use Outlook as a planner+rolodex.
My level of amusement rarely registers on the meter, except when I am called "LordLamecat". For whatever reason, that DOES leave me amused.
For those who think Im upset or shaken that someone wants to be denigrating towards a former president, Im not. Im just pointing out that when people talk like that, theyre not being clever; despite what a small niche might tell them, it doesnt grant their position a lot of credibility.
Hes free to keep talking like that, if he wants, its just unlikely that people (especially in the real world) will take him seriously. If my comment can get him to grow up and start contributing, great! If not, well, the internet already has loads of immaturity and ignorance, a little more wont sink the ship.
G-Dubs is acceptable simply because its fun to say.
And those nicknames help me differentiate right off the bat which comments are likely to be insightful, and which are likely to be immature rants by politically ignorant armchair commentators.
Just a tip, if you ever want people (outside of a small echochamber) to take you seriously, you may want to grow up and stop referring to GW Bush as "Dubyah"-- its about as mature as calling Microsoft M$, or someone you dont like a doo-doo head.
Youre free to pretend we still live in a day where it is unnecessary to do group scheduling through email, but you would be wrong.
Comparing Exchange to Postfix is ridiculous. Exchange can be used as a POP / IMAP server if you really want, and the maintenance goes into the ground.
Of course if you tried to convert to IMAP or POP (whether it be Postfix or Exchange), you would likely be fired when your employer realizes he can no longer use the groupware that was the center of most of his work....
23% down sounds about average for MSExchange servers.
Only on slashdot could such ignorance get modded up.
On a bad bad day as a consultant, I have to fix scenarios with Exchange where everything blew up and theyre down for a single day-- MAYBE 2-- out of several years uptime.
Thats with the clients who have no full time IT staff whatsoever and a shoestring budget.
Possibly if you have no idea what youre doing, or dont know anything about exchange, then yea 23% might be an OK guess.