There's no need for a full blown PAM if you're just out to centralize logins. nsswitch was designed for this and doesn't have the bloat that PAM has. padl.com is your friend.
One of my favourite consipracy theories (and one that I personally believe to be true) is that the U.S. offered protection from prosecution for the Nazi scientists in exchange for their medical data for what they did during the Halocaust -- medical data that has launched our understanding of our species decades ahead of where we would otherwise be. Does that qualify?
I noticed you neglected to mention the sentence immediately following this quote. I would make no distinction between "full" and "incomplete" humans. What is absurd, sir, is the fact that calling a mass of cells, which will inevitably and irrevocably become a living, breathing member of society, "stem cells" when they are in fact human. An adult is human. A child is human. A baby is human. It stands to reason that the developmental stages preceding birth are therefore undertaken by humans and not some amoebus or fuzzy creatures which will somehow metamorphose into humans.
I didn't neglect to mention it; to me you are treading on logical fallacy by not differentiating between "partial human" and "full human". I see you neglected to reply about my masturbation comment -- they're "partial humans" -- by your definition they're a "pre-developmental" (if you will) stage preceding birth.
It's all on a continuum; do you consider the joining of an egg and sperm a human? I think that you do, and this is why I can't agree with you. There is at some point along the way between a single-cell with aspirations to become a baby and a screaming newborn a transition to a sentient being. I see no problem whatsoever in experimenting or performing research on this "pre-sentient-human" form. You're not hurting anything, and you can ultimately further mankind's knowledge and ability to help himself.
Your argument about an adult being human, a child being human and a baby being human and then concluding that everything before then is human as well doesn't make sense to me. Birds are birds, lizards evolved into birds, fish evolved into lizards; does this mean that fish are birds? Hell we all evolved from earlier life forms, does that mean that the earlier lifeforms were also human? Of course not. The timescales are different but the idea is the same. It's only time.
And no, I won't be taken into an argument about comatose people or anyone who's been born but isn't sentient. I'm talking pre-birth, sometime between fertilized egg and foetus. I would imagine it is somewhere along the zygote stage, but I am not sure. (there is an interesting debate in there about whether a person born without a brain is fair game for experimentation, but again, another discussion perhaps.:-)
Do you at least agree with my point about the scientists' lack of ethics in regards to using their own reproductive tissue in their research?
Absolutely. I didn't say I condoned the scientists' use of cells without permission from the donors. If the scientists felt that strongly, they should have used their own cells.
I find this attitude absolutely terrifying. There's not much of a leap from harvesting "stem cells" to harvesting embryos. How far does it go? Do you support "reproductive and cloning technology" to grow babies whose sole purpose is to grow organs?
Of course not. I said I am very keen on stem cell research, not growing full humans for the purpose of harvesting their organs. Reducing the argument to absurdity doesn't do anything to help your side.
I just want to nitpick : 10 months ago it was a heckuva lot more than an undifferentiated lump of cells. In fact, at that stage (~4 weeks) you're already well into the embryo stage, with a good number of organ systems derived and developing (CNS, cardiovascular, some of the sensory organs, etc) and is not terribly useful for ES harvesting.
I have three children. I support stem-cell research and the use of reproductive and cloning technology to the extent of providing 100% compatible stem cells for people.
That seven week old was nothing more than an undifferentiated pile of cells 10 months ago. You'd have no more feeling for your child back then if it were an aborted 3 week pregnancy in your toilet. Come off this "I don't support cloning and reproductive research because dammit we were all a handful of cells once" bullshit. Do you feel bad about masturbating, too?
I'm sorry but SLOX sucks ass. I evaluated it and it does nothing even remotely nicely compared to something like oGo or my personal favourite, Exchange4Linux.
We use substation-class arrestors to protect or industrial motion controls from direct strikes. Not cheap, you're right, but they do work.
Something else to keep in mind is that unless you're talking about spark-gap or gas discharge type arrestors (i.e. anything like that will be SPECIFICALLY mentioned on the box), you're dealing with Metal Oxide Varistors (MOVs) and the protection should be REPLACED after every major storm since you cannot practically test if the MOVs will clamp properly again. The only way to test them is to hit them with enough voltage to cause them to clamp, but you just hit them and now don't know if they'll clamp again next time.:-)
Oh, and MOVs, when hit with sufficient Joule energy will turn into a beautiful plasma cloud. Plasma is conductive. We used to get units back that would have survived a nearby strike if the plasma cloud hasn't bridged two phases and caused a line-to-line short which blew the shit out of the unit since the short happened before the fusing.:-)
KDE works well with 128MB memory? I beg to differ. I'm running KDE3.2 (and 3.1 before that) on a P4m/2G with 512M and it's very snappy. I find that just like XP, KDE wants a lot of memory to be happy.
So you have the machine suck it in/spit it out face down and hold the paper by the last 1" or so so you have to pull it out (to prevent it from falling on the floor) -- I fail to see the issue...
Actually I believe a block from a slashdot.org referer would be quite effective. Yes most know how to get around it, but most are also lazy as hell.:-)
I dunno, I wish people wouldn't bury the letter of the TLA inside the word... "AIE" sounds kind of interesting, especially if they could throw another E on that.:-)
Non-toxic doesn't mean it can't kill you. I was ripping apart a freezer back in my youth and cut one of the tubes on the low-side of the compressor. 15 years later I still do not have feeling in the tip of my left ring finger.
So I am quite positive that if you inhaled enough freon you'd either die of shock or asphyxiation. Or both.:-)
Out of curiousity, how exactly is building packages not in either LFS or BLFS different from building packages not on the Slackware CD?
No difference at all. I guess it was a bit of a reversal in my point of view -- I was saying to grab Slack and start your descent into the bowels of Linux, so to speak... Slack gives you a good grasp of the fundamentals without holding your hand like most other distros. LFS is a step below that, then truly rolling your own.
Set up your mail server to use SpamAssassin (can be painlessly hooked in through fetchmail) -- this has given me very little problem, I'd say maybe one false positive in over 10000 (ten thousand) emails or more. The trick is not ot have it too agressive and to use the bayesian filtering and to continuously train it as the spam patterns (and ham patterns) change.
The far bigger trick though is to use a couple of blacklists. I use cbl.abuseat.org and rbldns-list.dsbl.org's blacklists -- combined with rblsmtpd they turn away the vast majority of spam at the door (legitimate users get a bounce from THEIR SMTP server, not mine), and then SA handles whatever gets through. I am very pleased with this solution. I run it for an entire domain with lots of sales critters who sign up to all kinds of legitimate but spammy-looking lists and as I said, with some Bayesian filter training it works great.
To train it I just have two additional folders in my MUA -- AASpam and AAClean -- whenever spam comes through I toss it into AASpam, and then every so often I'll take a whack of regular mail (and especially whenever I get a spammy but legit email) and copy them into AAClean. Then once a week or so I'll save those folders and train SA with them. Easy enough instructions for the sales critters and it's nonintrusive.
If you're dead-set against doing it on your MTA, I believe SA has commercial products too for your Win32 box.
I use the same old trick for anywhere I have to use my email address: qmail-aliases.
With qmail (and probably postfix, haven't checked), user-alias@domain will resolve to user@domain automatically and without any additional configuration. So for example myname@domain is my "real" account. myname-sd@domain is for slashdot, myname-kde@ is for kde's lists, myname-vexi@ is for the Vexi development lists, etc., etc., etc.
When the spam starts coming in you can check where it came from easily and either change the alias to continue getting email from that source or simply add an explicit.qmail-myname-alias file which nullroutes the spam. People who want to email me directly email the myname-alias@ and I still get it -- no problem.
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There's no need for a full blown PAM if you're just out to centralize logins. nsswitch was designed for this and doesn't have the bloat that PAM has. padl.com is your friend.
One of my favourite consipracy theories (and one that I personally believe to be true) is that the U.S. offered protection from prosecution for the Nazi scientists in exchange for their medical data for what they did during the Halocaust -- medical data that has launched our understanding of our species decades ahead of where we would otherwise be. Does that qualify?
I noticed you neglected to mention the sentence immediately following this quote. I would make no distinction between "full" and "incomplete" humans. What is absurd, sir, is the fact that calling a mass of cells, which will inevitably and irrevocably become a living, breathing member of society, "stem cells" when they are in fact human. An adult is human. A child is human. A baby is human. It stands to reason that the developmental stages preceding birth are therefore undertaken by humans and not some amoebus or fuzzy creatures which will somehow metamorphose into humans.
I didn't neglect to mention it; to me you are treading on logical fallacy by not differentiating between "partial human" and "full human". I see you neglected to reply about my masturbation comment -- they're "partial humans" -- by your definition they're a "pre-developmental" (if you will) stage preceding birth.
It's all on a continuum; do you consider the joining of an egg and sperm a human? I think that you do, and this is why I can't agree with you. There is at some point along the way between a single-cell with aspirations to become a baby and a screaming newborn a transition to a sentient being. I see no problem whatsoever in experimenting or performing research on this "pre-sentient-human" form. You're not hurting anything, and you can ultimately further mankind's knowledge and ability to help himself.
Your argument about an adult being human, a child being human and a baby being human and then concluding that everything before then is human as well doesn't make sense to me. Birds are birds, lizards evolved into birds, fish evolved into lizards; does this mean that fish are birds? Hell we all evolved from earlier life forms, does that mean that the earlier lifeforms were also human? Of course not. The timescales are different but the idea is the same. It's only time.
And no, I won't be taken into an argument about comatose people or anyone who's been born but isn't sentient. I'm talking pre-birth, sometime between fertilized egg and foetus. I would imagine it is somewhere along the zygote stage, but I am not sure. (there is an interesting debate in there about whether a person born without a brain is fair game for experimentation, but again, another discussion perhaps. :-)
Do you at least agree with my point about the scientists' lack of ethics in regards to using their own reproductive tissue in their research?
Absolutely. I didn't say I condoned the scientists' use of cells without permission from the donors. If the scientists felt that strongly, they should have used their own cells.
I find this attitude absolutely terrifying. There's not much of a leap from harvesting "stem cells" to harvesting embryos. How far does it go? Do you support "reproductive and cloning technology" to grow babies whose sole purpose is to grow organs?
Of course not. I said I am very keen on stem cell research, not growing full humans for the purpose of harvesting their organs. Reducing the argument to absurdity doesn't do anything to help your side.
I just want to nitpick : 10 months ago it was a heckuva lot more than an undifferentiated lump of cells. In fact, at that stage (~4 weeks) you're already well into the embryo stage, with a good number of organ systems derived and developing (CNS, cardiovascular, some of the sensory organs, etc) and is not terribly useful for ES harvesting.
You're absolutely right, I blew the math. :-)
I have three children. I support stem-cell research and the use of reproductive and cloning technology to the extent of providing 100% compatible stem cells for people.
That seven week old was nothing more than an undifferentiated pile of cells 10 months ago. You'd have no more feeling for your child back then if it were an aborted 3 week pregnancy in your toilet. Come off this "I don't support cloning and reproductive research because dammit we were all a handful of cells once" bullshit. Do you feel bad about masturbating, too?
What about Darcs? It seems to do the distributed-repository-merge-between-anything-danc e pretty good, too.
What about Darcs? We're using it for the Vexi project and it seems to be VERY good.
I'm sorry but SLOX sucks ass. I evaluated it and it does nothing even remotely nicely compared to something like oGo or my personal favourite, Exchange4Linux.
We use substation-class arrestors to protect or industrial motion controls from direct strikes. Not cheap, you're right, but they do work.
Something else to keep in mind is that unless you're talking about spark-gap or gas discharge type arrestors (i.e. anything like that will be SPECIFICALLY mentioned on the box), you're dealing with Metal Oxide Varistors (MOVs) and the protection should be REPLACED after every major storm since you cannot practically test if the MOVs will clamp properly again. The only way to test them is to hit them with enough voltage to cause them to clamp, but you just hit them and now don't know if they'll clamp again next time. :-)
Oh, and MOVs, when hit with sufficient Joule energy will turn into a beautiful plasma cloud. Plasma is conductive. We used to get units back that would have survived a nearby strike if the plasma cloud hasn't bridged two phases and caused a line-to-line short which blew the shit out of the unit since the short happened before the fusing. :-)
KDE works well with 128MB memory? I beg to differ. I'm running KDE3.2 (and 3.1 before that) on a P4m/2G with 512M and it's very snappy. I find that just like XP, KDE wants a lot of memory to be happy.
Why in the hell would you use ext2 for a RAM filesystem? What's wrong with shm?
At a UFO-watching party, people staring at Venus...
I dunno, sounds like a better time than everyone sitting around staring at Uranus.
Doesn't synthetic aperture RADAR give you enormous increases in accuracy?
You're an idiot. He specifically states it's an Apple laptop. :-)
So you have the machine suck it in/spit it out face down and hold the paper by the last 1" or so so you have to pull it out (to prevent it from falling on the floor) -- I fail to see the issue...
Actually I believe a block from a slashdot.org referer would be quite effective. Yes most know how to get around it, but most are also lazy as hell. :-)
I dunno, I wish people wouldn't bury the letter of the TLA inside the word... "AIE" sounds kind of interesting, especially if they could throw another E on that. :-)
In the mail -- Offical looking envelope from "Human Resources" in Ottawa, and inside was a single glossy "pink slip" saying "seewhogotfired.com".
Cute, but I won't be spending any money on an office suite that isn't multiplatform. Sorry guys.
Non-toxic doesn't mean it can't kill you. I was ripping apart a freezer back in my youth and cut one of the tubes on the low-side of the compressor. 15 years later I still do not have feeling in the tip of my left ring finger.
So I am quite positive that if you inhaled enough freon you'd either die of shock or asphyxiation. Or both. :-)
Noisy, drunken parties are always cooler than hoity-toity affairs.
He's the one saying the configure process was different, not me.
Out of curiousity, how exactly is building packages not in either LFS or BLFS different from building packages not on the Slackware CD?
No difference at all. I guess it was a bit of a reversal in my point of view -- I was saying to grab Slack and start your descent into the bowels of Linux, so to speak... Slack gives you a good grasp of the fundamentals without holding your hand like most other distros. LFS is a step below that, then truly rolling your own.
Set up your mail server to use SpamAssassin (can be painlessly hooked in through fetchmail) -- this has given me very little problem, I'd say maybe one false positive in over 10000 (ten thousand) emails or more. The trick is not ot have it too agressive and to use the bayesian filtering and to continuously train it as the spam patterns (and ham patterns) change.
The far bigger trick though is to use a couple of blacklists. I use cbl.abuseat.org and rbldns-list.dsbl.org's blacklists -- combined with rblsmtpd they turn away the vast majority of spam at the door (legitimate users get a bounce from THEIR SMTP server, not mine), and then SA handles whatever gets through. I am very pleased with this solution. I run it for an entire domain with lots of sales critters who sign up to all kinds of legitimate but spammy-looking lists and as I said, with some Bayesian filter training it works great.
To train it I just have two additional folders in my MUA -- AASpam and AAClean -- whenever spam comes through I toss it into AASpam, and then every so often I'll take a whack of regular mail (and especially whenever I get a spammy but legit email) and copy them into AAClean. Then once a week or so I'll save those folders and train SA with them. Easy enough instructions for the sales critters and it's nonintrusive.
If you're dead-set against doing it on your MTA, I believe SA has commercial products too for your Win32 box.
I use the same old trick for anywhere I have to use my email address: qmail-aliases.
With qmail (and probably postfix, haven't checked), user-alias@domain will resolve to user@domain automatically and without any additional configuration. So for example myname@domain is my "real" account. myname-sd@domain is for slashdot, myname-kde@ is for kde's lists, myname-vexi@ is for the Vexi development lists, etc., etc., etc.
When the spam starts coming in you can check where it came from easily and either change the alias to continue getting email from that source or simply add an explicit .qmail-myname-alias file which nullroutes the spam. People who want to email me directly email the myname-alias@ and I still get it -- no problem.