Militant atheists exist... those are the ones that attack any form of religion when they see it because the very existence of religion offends them (they crop up occasionally on slashdot, and quite frequently on fark).
It's not a huge stretch to see them burning down churches - which has happened - it's just not that frequent.
Of course atheism is a belief system. There is no such thing as 'non' belief (maybe agnosticism might count, in its purest form) - once you make an assertion on anything you're stating that you believe that assertion.
Yes. In the same way that muslim leaders are expected to deal with their fundamentalist whackos (and to their credit they are making efforts to do this).
As leaders they have responsibility - if one of their members goes off on a killing spree because of something that *they* taught then part of the blame needs to lie partially on the leadership.
Do all the "environmental leaders" in the US have to be called to task for the fringe wackos that destroy labs that conduct animal research or burn down housing developments?
The leaders of those organisations do, yes. I believe some of them are already in jail.
Fundies are just as dangerous, as this article shows.
The difference is termininology - muslim extremists, christian fundamentalists.. in fact there's little difference - both prepared to kill for their beliefs.
Use physical keys (possible also with a password). If SecurID is too expensive (it's a bit pricey for small companies) it's not hard to chuck something together with a U3 key or even a simple USB key.
Indeed... I've seen a real nightmare where people have been forced to change their password monthly. Over half of them used the current month, sometimes with a digit appended.
One place I was at had enforced complex random passwords. Nobody could remember them so the admin password was on a sticky note by the admins desk, similarly for all the user passwords.
It's quite telling that the most popular podcasts on itunes are all 'mainstream' broadcasts just repackaged as MP3. Postcasting is becoming just timeshifted radio...
We have some excellent radio stations in the UK, that are better quality than 99% of podcasts, so I can't see podcasting getting popular here. In the US it's different - from what I hear they basically have no good radio at all.
Not necessarily... only works if there are an even number of statisticians, and if nobody scored the mean score.
eg. if there 100 statisticians, the mean score is 37 and 10 statisticians scored that, only 45% of statisticians are techincally in the bottom half (and 45% in the top half). 10% are exactly in the middle.
You could say that the 10% are in both the bottom and top half... in which case 55% are in the bottom half and 55% are in the top half!!
Nah it's the germans. They've covered their domains with beach towels before anyone else got a look in.
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I changed the IP address on a server and left the old one on for the changeover... checking the logs I found that people were still hitting the site *months* afterwards, usually the same ISPs. They might still be trying today.. the server is gone now.
It seems some ISPs not only ignore TTL, they aggressively cache so the first version of a domain they see is the one they always use, until someone complains.
It's actually extremely easy to wipe the BIOS on most PCs if you can get to ring 0 (not too hard under Windows). Alternatively just write garbage to nvram... same effect on a lot of bioses (especially if you manage to enable the password with a garbage value). Joe public is not savvy enough to recover from this..
OTOH a virus that did this wouldn't propogate very far because it's destroying its host. There's more to be gained by keeping the host running and infecting other machines. eg. Delete NTLDR and your box will keep working, but won't boot next time around.
Every single use of L-ion I've seen uses a *different* form factor. You have to buy the manufacturers' particular version of battery. They even change the type of battery between different *models* of product. Look at mobile phones for example... if you've had a dozen of those I bet you have a dozen slightly different batteries too.
With some laptops they even have a kind of simple DRM - if you put the 'wrong' battery in the BIOS won't boot (even if it has exactly the same specs).. I had to deal with one where there were two types, the A model and the B model.. physically identical with the same specs, but the B type was 50% more expensive and was keyed to work with the more expensive laptops.
AD is not just a bastardised LDAP. AD is LDAP+Kerberos+Extensions which needs to be *specifically* catered for. I'm assuming this DS supports AD otherwise it's just going to get nowhere in the corporate space.
Even for the 'common admin' it has to look like an AD server for the Windows workstations, otherwise it'll get passed over. That means having ldap+kerberos built in from the first install.
Common signon for Linux machines is all very well, but you've been able to do that with NIS for years.
The problem is it's too widespread to nail down at the moment
If you lookup *anything* on google you'll find dozens of sites with the same explanation, the same wording and in many cases the exact same page layout. Who was first? Certainly most of these sites are blatant ripoffs.
I did cause one site to give up - he'd created a website which was a copy/paste job from a different website, and put his own name on the copyright. He then had the audacity to start publicising his 'site' by spamming a board I was reading... I pointed out to the assembled readers the obvious plagarism, and 2 weeks later (after he lamely claimed that he hadn't really meant to claim copyright, and that ripping off someone elses site putting 'copyright 2005' on the bottom of every article was a 'mistake') it was removed, never to be seen again. Result!
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23MB here, and that's working set size (which includes shared libraries). It's hard to find actual memory usage on Win32... no 'top' :)
Militant atheists exist... those are the ones that attack any form of religion when they see it because the very existence of religion offends them (they crop up occasionally on slashdot, and quite frequently on fark).
It's not a huge stretch to see them burning down churches - which has happened - it's just not that frequent.
Of course atheism is a belief system. There is no such thing as 'non' belief (maybe agnosticism might count, in its purest form) - once you make an assertion on anything you're stating that you believe that assertion.
Yes. In the same way that muslim leaders are expected to deal with their fundamentalist whackos (and to their credit they are making efforts to do this).
As leaders they have responsibility - if one of their members goes off on a killing spree because of something that *they* taught then part of the blame needs to lie partially on the leadership.
Do all the "environmental leaders" in the US have to be called to task for the fringe wackos that destroy labs that conduct animal research or burn down housing developments?
The leaders of those organisations do, yes. I believe some of them are already in jail.
You're saying the state beat him up?????
Separation of church and state has nothing to do with this.
Definately both bad.
Fundies are just as dangerous, as this article shows.
The difference is termininology - muslim extremists, christian fundamentalists.. in fact there's little difference - both prepared to kill for their beliefs.
Use physical keys (possible also with a password). If SecurID is too expensive (it's a bit pricey for small companies) it's not hard to chuck something together with a U3 key or even a simple USB key.
Indeed... I've seen a real nightmare where people have been forced to change their password monthly. Over half of them used the current month, sometimes with a digit appended.
One place I was at had enforced complex random passwords. Nobody could remember them so the admin password was on a sticky note by the admins desk, similarly for all the user passwords.
Changing passwords is not a panacea.
So is one click shopping. Never stopped them before.
That is just what most podcasts are.
Top two on itunes at the moment:
1. The Ricky Gervais Show (Guardian)
2. The Best of Moyles (BBC)
It's nice to know that you colonials can get our british radio shows now and seem to like them...
It's quite telling that the most popular podcasts on itunes are all 'mainstream' broadcasts just repackaged as MP3. Postcasting is becoming just timeshifted radio...
We have some excellent radio stations in the UK, that are better quality than 99% of podcasts, so I can't see podcasting getting popular here. In the US it's different - from what I hear they basically have no good radio at all.
If you don't know what a webcast is that's your problem.
The mainstream media have been using the term for years. Well known pop groups have done entire concerts as webcasts.
Their solutions were kinda destructive though.
I'd like to see a way of finding a needle in a haystack that left you with a (largely) intact haystack afterwards, not a pile of ash or a wet sludge.
Huge inductive coils would be a good start... probably wouldn't find the bone one though - maybe some kind of MRI?
Not necessarily... only works if there are an even number of statisticians, and if nobody scored the mean score.
eg. if there 100 statisticians, the mean score is 37 and 10 statisticians scored that, only 45% of statisticians are techincally in the bottom half (and 45% in the top half). 10% are exactly in the middle.
You could say that the 10% are in both the bottom and top half... in which case 55% are in the bottom half and 55% are in the top half!!
Nah it's the germans. They've covered their domains with beach towels before anyone else got a look in.
I changed the IP address on a server and left the old one on for the changeover... checking the logs I found that people were still hitting the site *months* afterwards, usually the same ISPs. They might still be trying today.. the server is gone now.
It seems some ISPs not only ignore TTL, they aggressively cache so the first version of a domain they see is the one they always use, until someone complains.
I tried to setup dnssec at one point and just screwed up my working system, as the documentation didn't match the behaviour of the server.
The biggest killer is having to pay verisign for the privilege.. Domain $15, certificate to authenticate domain $100. Yeah, that'll fly..
It's actually extremely easy to wipe the BIOS on most PCs if you can get to ring 0 (not too hard under Windows). Alternatively just write garbage to nvram... same effect on a lot of bioses (especially if you manage to enable the password with a garbage value). Joe public is not savvy enough to recover from this..
OTOH a virus that did this wouldn't propogate very far because it's destroying its host. There's more to be gained by keeping the host running and infecting other machines. eg. Delete NTLDR and your box will keep working, but won't boot next time around.
It's the same as a 'lifetime guarantee'.
Once it fails, that's the life over, hence no guarantee...
You're joking, right?
Every single use of L-ion I've seen uses a *different* form factor. You have to buy the manufacturers' particular version of battery. They even change the type of battery between different *models* of product. Look at mobile phones for example... if you've had a dozen of those I bet you have a dozen slightly different batteries too.
With some laptops they even have a kind of simple DRM - if you put the 'wrong' battery in the BIOS won't boot (even if it has exactly the same specs).. I had to deal with one where there were two types, the A model and the B model.. physically identical with the same specs, but the B type was 50% more expensive and was keyed to work with the more expensive laptops.
AD is not just a bastardised LDAP. AD is LDAP+Kerberos+Extensions which needs to be *specifically* catered for. I'm assuming this DS supports AD otherwise it's just going to get nowhere in the corporate space.
Even for the 'common admin' it has to look like an AD server for the Windows workstations, otherwise it'll get passed over. That means having ldap+kerberos built in from the first install.
Common signon for Linux machines is all very well, but you've been able to do that with NIS for years.
They must, otherwise they're not really media centers, just PCs with quicktime or whatever on them.
Since it's all rumour anyway nobody knows what the specs might be if such a device ever reaches the market.
The problem is it's too widespread to nail down at the moment
If you lookup *anything* on google you'll find dozens of sites with the same explanation, the same wording and in many cases the exact same page layout. Who was first? Certainly most of these sites are blatant ripoffs.
I did cause one site to give up - he'd created a website which was a copy/paste job from a different website, and put his own name on the copyright. He then had the audacity to start publicising his 'site' by spamming a board I was reading... I pointed out to the assembled readers the obvious plagarism, and 2 weeks later (after he lamely claimed that he hadn't really meant to claim copyright, and that ripping off someone elses site putting 'copyright 2005' on the bottom of every article was a 'mistake') it was removed, never to be seen again. Result!
Series 3? Lucky b.....d!
I'd settle for a series 2. We're still on Series 1 running version 2.5.5 here, and no prospect of updates.