Man, you've sure bought what the Fedguv is selling, haven't you? Let me try some, pass that crack pipe over here.
Obviously, brown foreigners hate our freedoms, and envy us because we are the best. They are so consumed by their need to take freedom away from people on the other side of the planet that they will never meet, they are willing to give up their lives to make ineffectual bombings that kill less people than cigarettes, alcohol or car accidents.
Sure, it's all clear to me now. How could I be so blind! All this has nothing to do with the US-funded invasion of Palestine and the increasing levels of slaughter there, or the US-funded government of Saudi Arabia's cruelty and tribal oppression, or the unprovoked destruction of the only secular state in the Middle East by the US.
It's all 'bout a bunch of half-baked, ingorant, rag heads with some kind of religious and historical nonsence for a philosophy!!!
Behold, I am enlightened!
Aaaaaah.... that's some good stuff you got there.
Let's go deport some Canadians to Syria. It'll be fun.
There's people in this world that don't like Americans and if you become complacent, bad stuff will happen.
If you refuse to acknowledge that those people might have a reason for their feelings, refuse to acknowledge that they grow in numbers as our response grows increasingly violent, and refuse to acknowledge that some solution other than arial bombardment is called for, badder and badder "stuff" will happen.
I bet a single well-placed stick of dynamite could render half the Delaware valley uninhabitable for thousands of years. Check out where the CNG tankers unload (hey, is that a cooling tower over there?) and calculate the energy contained in a single tanker. (Hint: that reactor will not withstand a force in excess of the Nagasaki bomb blast). Is increased surveillance and restriction of individual rights in this country likely to solve that problem? Seems unlikely to me!
I would argue that you yourself are suffering from complacency; it often seems to me that the terrorists and the current administration are on the same team, working towards the same goals.
The problem with your political theory is that people love war. I mean, obviously you don't, but most people do. As long as it's not their own kids getting sent to Afghanistan, and as long as they personally aren't being drafted - hey, I just described the majority of voters, didn't I?
I get pretty tired of all this ivory tower "people don't really want war" nonsense. Spend 40 hours a week on any construction job, you'll find out that most Americans absolutely love the idea of our soldiers heroically killing foreigners for some nebulous, poorly specified ideal.
Hell, read slashdot for that matter. What do geeks do for amusement? Wargames! People love war.
If the shrub gets defeated it will be because he wrecked the economy (not that he did, necessarily, but he certainly hasn't fixed it), he's hell-bent on destroying all environmental protections, his educational plans are completely unworkable, and because he is personally unscrupulous and amoral (although that didn't seem to hurt Clinton much, so don't count on that making any difference).
I bet if you shipped a dozen of those SunRays over to Jim at LTSP.org he'd have it running on them toot sweet.
If you ship one, it'll be the new door stop. If you ship lots, somebody will get interested in the problem....just be sure not to put any return address on the packaging:) .
Good point. As Nikola Tesla said in 1915 "If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."
But plastics are essentially a waste product of gasoline production, and anyway they can be synthesized from renewable resources (think of the Trabant's indestructible body panels, for example, made from farm waste). We need to save the oil for things like lubricants and industrial chemicals that we can't really synthesize efficiently from other sources.
A small diesel, constantly running at a set RPM, generating electricty should be more efficient than these on/off gasoline engines and their batteries.
You're forgetting about regen braking. My Prius actually gains energy when I drive to one particular place - through some peculiarity of the steep grades and one-way streets involved I end up with more power in my batteries than I started with. If the car's already warmed up, the engine won't kick on at all for the whole ride (unless I feel the need for sudden rapid acceleration).
Anyway, since it effectively wastes zero gas on startup (crank is already spinning with valves open, startup takes far less than one second once the valves start cycling and fuel is provided) I suspect the on/off cycle is a lot more efficient than you think. Check out some of the independent write-ups of Toyota's "hybrid synergy drive" and I think you will be quite pleasantly suprised.
I've worked on dozens of beetles, vans, and variants. I've owned three bugs, two Karmann Ghias, (and a volksy-type Porsche which I unfortunately totalled).
I've never, ever seen a VW with an electric heater. I've never even seen one mentioned in a manual or catalog.
The stock VW flat-4 air-cooled engine routes air up past the cylinders, down into ceramic-cored heat exchangers that collect heat directly from the exhaust, through the rocker panels below the doors, and up behind the dashboard into the defroster vents. The left side runs hotter because the air has to go by the oil cooler on that side, and the flapper valves regulating air passage from the heat exchangers are controlled by solid wires running from levers (in the beetle and ghia these are between the seats by the handbrake). There are typically four vents into the passenger compartment, two in the rear that always work, and two in the front that (along with the dfrost vents) direct cold air into the compartment once the rocker panels have rusted out from the combination of repeated heating/cooling cycles and the constant application of gravel, water, and road salt flung up onto them from the front tires.
The kubelwagens and vans had optional gasoline heaters which were quite excellent.
Now, my Prius has dozens of electric heating elements. But that's a whole 'nother subject.
Um, those people are not running their own mail servers they are running somebody else's mail server.:)
And typically, they are running spamblowers, not mailservers, anyway. I guess you could say that a spamblower is a sort of a optimized crippled mailserver, but it's a bit of a reach, like calling a motorcycle a type of car.
I'm a comcast customer with a mailserver. I also have an IPtables firewall and a zoned defense with an IDS (running no IP address) in the "dirty" zone.
All these things are true on my connection:
Incoming port 25 is not blocked from the outside world.
Incoming port 25 is blocked from other Comcast IP addresses.
Outgoing port 25 is not blocked to the outside world (but is often filtered out by other networks. Widespread adoption of SPF will make this problem worse).
Outgoing port 25 is blocked to other comcast addresses - except to the comcast mailservers.
The comcast mailservers will relay anything that comes from a comcast IP, unfortunately they do this without even the most cursory scanning, so there are several virii (including at least one variant of klez) that are constantly being relayed out into the world at large by the comcast mailservers.
Blocks and tarpits come and go on other ports; mostly on NetBIOS ports. I block all netbios, but occasionally nmapping from outside comcast will show those ports as "open" (needless to say, my logs at home show the nmap packets never reached me).
This is the empirical truth, based on actual observation, in my section of the comcast net. There may be different conditions elsewhere.
I offered to fix comcast's problems for them, using excessed equipment and OSS (I figure it'd take about a week to implement a permanent solution to all virii and most spam on comcast) but their phone support guys were incapable of understanding what I was saying.
I want a red swingline stapler, dammit, so I get fired.
Clever me, I long ago used my ssh key to become root, then I copied all the other admin's private keys onto my flash USB keychain fob (Root superusers can do that sort of thing, y'know. We have powers beyond the ken of mere mortals).
So, after I am forcibly ejected from the building, I just ssh back in as some other administrator.
And then, override the door locks, fire alarms, and sprinkler system so I can BURN THE BUILDING DOWN!
Realistically, large organizations can never entirely protect themselves from a disgruntled former superuser. Their best bet is compartmentalization of both functions and knowledge; don't create any systems where somebody has need of root access to everything.
(Incidentally, I meant "you" in the same generic sense that you used it in the previous post; I have no idea if you are a spammer.)
But your problems, as you describe them, are not caused by SpamCop. They are caused by the spammers who have created an environment where SpamCop is necessary.
Given the current legal, commercial, and technical environment, blacklists are inevitable, because it is impossible to manage the spamload without them.
I built my first sendmail cluster for $25 using discarded "junk" PCs. If I count my time and labor, still less than $800. It supported 400 users simultaneously with POP3 and SMTP without any problems.
So, sending lots of legitimate email might cost money, because of the overhead you've mentioned; but spamming is dirt cheap. A single sale can pay for many millions of messages!
Make the big ISPs like Comcast and Cox legally liable for the spams and virii their systems send and the problem would disappear practically overnight.
No, the system works like this: you ask the complaintant (who SpamCop easily allows you to contact) what his email address is so you can remove it from the list. You do so, and SpamCop stops blacklisting you.
Except, in reality, you are probably a spammer (therefore by definition a criminal) so you just ignore complaints anyway.
I have an archive of over 10,000 spams that I personally have recieved despite never having signed up for any. I turn away around 400 daily using SpamAssassin Bayes and various blacklists. My address was harvested from InterNIC (along with all the other domain admins) by spammers without anyone's permission.
SpamCop provides a service that people like myself can CHOOSE to take advantage of. You can easily find an ISP who does not use it. SpamCop has absolutely NO ability to "stop all bulk emailing" as you claim (god, I wish they did, though!).
If you want to take away people's right to choose whether to use SpamCop or not, you are just another amoral spam whore. If you don't think SpamCop has a right to publish lists however they choose, well, you're tempting Godwin's law.
Lots, usually. They generally aren't. No. Both are derived from logic, neither is derived from the other. Praps I'll read it if I get bored with taunting trolls. Already got one, thanks anyway.
Sasser showed me which windows machines did not have their auto-patch routines working.
Since the PC support group had recently reported that all machines were now in the auto-patch system, we were quite suprised to see almost 1% (which is a lot of machines, around here) get sasser.
Incidentally, a crude way to scan your network for sasser (let's just say you've got a linux box handy with samba,nmap,bash, grep and gawk and that your network is composed of three class C segments numbered 10.0.1.0, 10.0.2.0, 10.0.3.0 for the sake of example) is:
nmap -p 5554 -oG '-' 10.0.1-3.1-254 |gawk '/^Host.+5554\/open\/tcp/{print "nmblookup -A " $2}'|bash |grep "<00>"|grep -v GROUP
If your machines have useful netbios names (such as their location, for instance) and/or you know the names of your users, that should give you all the info you need.
Thank you Mr. Sasser author! You the man! Your non-destructive code was a public service from where I'm sitting (yes I know others feel differently - the real universe is subjective, neh?).
1) Not all rocket fuels have a "high ignition point" although the shuttle fuel certainly does. (Over 300 degrees Fahrenheit when I was working on it, and it may be better now.)
2) Not all rocket fuels are "normally quite safe" as you put it. Look up the ME163 Komet for example. There are lots of less spectacular examples as well.
3) Modern rocket fuels can't be ignited by "momentary high-energy electrical discharge" because that is a highly undesireable characteristic. Rocket bodies build up tremendous static charges while moving through the air, and it's not unheard of for arcing to occur between parts. Modern igniters are designed to survive arcing between the match and the propellant case, and fuels are designed to be electrically safe, because this was empirically determined to be a Really Good Idea (tm).
4) Some solid rocket fuels can be quenched, despite having their own oxidizers. For example, a fuel can be mixed that only functions within a certain pressure range, so that opening an additional exhaust port will decrease the internal pressure and cause the fire to go out. There is a huge problem with re-lighting them at that point, but I digress.
5) Research is ongoing into low-temperature rocket fuels, and although there are no true "cold gas generators" with any kind of decent impulse, the military is going to fund the research until somebody solves the problem, because heat signatures are a military issue.
So, all the properties you list as fixed, are actually variable... they are not ESSENTIAL to rocket fuel, despite your claims.
The only essential property of rocket fuel is the ability to propel rockets. The Hindenburg's skin would not serve that function. Therefore... well, we're both tired of my bitching and moaning, so I'll leave it at that.
Well, as I said, I've only seen this in cases where there were plenty of vendors to choose from. So the rule that aol_email_address=loser only had to be mostly true for practical purposes.
It's the same thing as immediately throwing out all the resumes that arrive on colored paper, or on slightly odd-sized paper. You break a few eggs making that omelet but it's a quick and simple first culling of candidates. If you only have two candidates, you'd not follow that rule, but nowadays you have 100 candidates (at least) for any tech job so it's more a problem of finding people to eliminate than finding the best person.
"Good business" is whatever works. Success is empirically determined without regard for academic theory or philosophical purity. Therefore, most vendors would be wise to get a high-rent email address, and redirect to the slums if necessary.
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"Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful."
--Anacharsis (to Solon the Lawgiver, as reported by Plutarch)
Man, you've sure bought what the Fedguv is selling, haven't you? Let me try some, pass that crack pipe over here.
Obviously, brown foreigners hate our freedoms, and envy us because we are the best. They are so consumed by their need to take freedom away from people on the other side of the planet that they will never meet, they are willing to give up their lives to make ineffectual bombings that kill less people than cigarettes, alcohol or car accidents.
Sure, it's all clear to me now. How could I be so blind! All this has nothing to do with the US-funded invasion of Palestine and the increasing levels of slaughter there, or the US-funded government of Saudi Arabia's cruelty and tribal oppression, or the unprovoked destruction of the only secular state in the Middle East by the US.
It's all 'bout a bunch of half-baked, ingorant, rag heads with some kind of religious and historical nonsence for a philosophy!!!
Behold, I am enlightened!
Aaaaaah.... that's some good stuff you got there.
Let's go deport some Canadians to Syria. It'll be fun.
I bet a single well-placed stick of dynamite could render half the Delaware valley uninhabitable for thousands of years. Check out where the CNG tankers unload (hey, is that a cooling tower over there?) and calculate the energy contained in a single tanker. (Hint: that reactor will not withstand a force in excess of the Nagasaki bomb blast). Is increased surveillance and restriction of individual rights in this country likely to solve that problem? Seems unlikely to me!
I would argue that you yourself are suffering from complacency; it often seems to me that the terrorists and the current administration are on the same team, working towards the same goals.
I bet the Pope has assassins on the way to my house already.
The problem with your political theory is that people love war. I mean, obviously you don't, but most people do. As long as it's not their own kids getting sent to Afghanistan, and as long as they personally aren't being drafted - hey, I just described the majority of voters, didn't I?
I get pretty tired of all this ivory tower "people don't really want war" nonsense. Spend 40 hours a week on any construction job, you'll find out that most Americans absolutely love the idea of our soldiers heroically killing foreigners for some nebulous, poorly specified ideal.
Hell, read slashdot for that matter. What do geeks do for amusement? Wargames! People love war.
If the shrub gets defeated it will be because he wrecked the economy (not that he did, necessarily, but he certainly hasn't fixed it), he's hell-bent on destroying all environmental protections, his educational plans are completely unworkable, and because he is personally unscrupulous and amoral (although that didn't seem to hurt Clinton much, so don't count on that making any difference).
I bet if you shipped a dozen of those SunRays over to Jim at LTSP.org he'd have it running on them toot sweet.
...just be sure not to put any return address on the packaging :) .
If you ship one, it'll be the new door stop. If you ship lots, somebody will get interested in the problem.
Good point. As Nikola Tesla said in 1915 "If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."
But plastics are essentially a waste product of gasoline production, and anyway they can be synthesized from renewable resources (think of the Trabant's indestructible body panels, for example, made from farm waste). We need to save the oil for things like lubricants and industrial chemicals that we can't really synthesize efficiently from other sources.
You're forgetting about regen braking. My Prius actually gains energy when I drive to one particular place - through some peculiarity of the steep grades and one-way streets involved I end up with more power in my batteries than I started with. If the car's already warmed up, the engine won't kick on at all for the whole ride (unless I feel the need for sudden rapid acceleration).
Anyway, since it effectively wastes zero gas on startup (crank is already spinning with valves open, startup takes far less than one second once the valves start cycling and fuel is provided) I suspect the on/off cycle is a lot more efficient than you think. Check out some of the independent write-ups of Toyota's "hybrid synergy drive" and I think you will be quite pleasantly suprised.
I've worked on dozens of beetles, vans, and variants. I've owned three bugs, two Karmann Ghias, (and a volksy-type Porsche which I unfortunately totalled).
I've never, ever seen a VW with an electric heater. I've never even seen one mentioned in a manual or catalog.
The stock VW flat-4 air-cooled engine routes air up past the cylinders, down into ceramic-cored heat exchangers that collect heat directly from the exhaust, through the rocker panels below the doors, and up behind the dashboard into the defroster vents. The left side runs hotter because the air has to go by the oil cooler on that side, and the flapper valves regulating air passage from the heat exchangers are controlled by solid wires running from levers (in the beetle and ghia these are between the seats by the handbrake). There are typically four vents into the passenger compartment, two in the rear that always work, and two in the front that (along with the dfrost vents) direct cold air into the compartment once the rocker panels have rusted out from the combination of repeated heating/cooling cycles and the constant application of gravel, water, and road salt flung up onto them from the front tires.
The kubelwagens and vans had optional gasoline heaters which were quite excellent.
Now, my Prius has dozens of electric heating elements. But that's a whole 'nother subject.
Hell, Frank Read did this in the 1800s.
Um, those people are not running their own mail servers they are running somebody else's mail server.
And typically, they are running spamblowers, not mailservers, anyway. I guess you could say that a spamblower is a sort of a optimized crippled mailserver, but it's a bit of a reach, like calling a motorcycle a type of car.
That's why there is more than one wire, Kapische?
I relay all my outgoing mail through comcast's mailservers with a sendmail "Smart Host" relay... all my return addressing uses my vanity domain name.
No problems!
Hell, comcast allows Klez, Swen and Dumaru through their mailservers, why do you think they'd block your legitimate domain name?
I'm a comcast customer with a mailserver. I also have an IPtables firewall and a zoned defense with an IDS (running no IP address) in the "dirty" zone.
All these things are true on my connection:
Incoming port 25 is not blocked from the outside world.
Incoming port 25 is blocked from other Comcast IP addresses.
Outgoing port 25 is not blocked to the outside world (but is often filtered out by other networks. Widespread adoption of SPF will make this problem worse).
Outgoing port 25 is blocked to other comcast addresses - except to the comcast mailservers.
The comcast mailservers will relay anything that comes from a comcast IP, unfortunately they do this without even the most cursory scanning, so there are several virii (including at least one variant of klez) that are constantly being relayed out into the world at large by the comcast mailservers.
Blocks and tarpits come and go on other ports; mostly on NetBIOS ports. I block all netbios, but occasionally nmapping from outside comcast will show those ports as "open" (needless to say, my logs at home show the nmap packets never reached me).
This is the empirical truth, based on actual observation, in my section of the comcast net. There may be different conditions elsewhere.
I offered to fix comcast's problems for them, using excessed equipment and OSS (I figure it'd take about a week to implement a permanent solution to all virii and most spam on comcast) but their phone support guys were incapable of understanding what I was saying.
See, it's like this...
I want a red swingline stapler, dammit, so I get fired.
Clever me, I long ago used my ssh key to become root, then I copied all the other admin's private keys onto my flash USB keychain fob (Root superusers can do that sort of thing, y'know. We have powers beyond the ken of mere mortals).
So, after I am forcibly ejected from the building, I just ssh back in as some other administrator.
And then, override the door locks, fire alarms, and sprinkler system so I can BURN THE BUILDING DOWN!
Realistically, large organizations can never entirely protect themselves from a disgruntled former superuser. Their best bet is compartmentalization of both functions and knowledge; don't create any systems where somebody has need of root access to everything.
(Incidentally, I meant "you" in the same generic sense that you used it in the previous post; I have no idea if you are a spammer.)
But your problems, as you describe them, are not caused by SpamCop. They are caused by the spammers who have created an environment where SpamCop is necessary.
Given the current legal, commercial, and technical environment, blacklists are inevitable, because it is impossible to manage the spamload without them.
I built my first sendmail cluster for $25 using discarded "junk" PCs. If I count my time and labor, still less than $800. It supported 400 users simultaneously with POP3 and SMTP without any problems.
So, sending lots of legitimate email might cost money, because of the overhead you've mentioned; but spamming is dirt cheap. A single sale can pay for many millions of messages!
Make the big ISPs like Comcast and Cox legally liable for the spams and virii their systems send and the problem would disappear practically overnight.
No, the system works like this: you ask the complaintant (who SpamCop easily allows you to contact) what his email address is so you can remove it from the list. You do so, and SpamCop stops blacklisting you.
Except, in reality, you are probably a spammer (therefore by definition a criminal) so you just ignore complaints anyway.
I have an archive of over 10,000 spams that I personally have recieved despite never having signed up for any. I turn away around 400 daily using SpamAssassin Bayes and various blacklists. My address was harvested from InterNIC (along with all the other domain admins) by spammers without anyone's permission.
SpamCop provides a service that people like myself can CHOOSE to take advantage of. You can easily find an ISP who does not use it. SpamCop has absolutely NO ability to "stop all bulk emailing" as you claim (god, I wish they did, though!).
If you want to take away people's right to choose whether to use SpamCop or not, you are just another amoral spam whore. If you don't think SpamCop has a right to publish lists however they choose, well, you're tempting Godwin's law.
Lots, usually.
They generally aren't.
No. Both are derived from logic, neither is derived from the other.
Praps I'll read it if I get bored with taunting trolls.
Already got one, thanks anyway.
Sasser showed me which windows machines did not have their auto-patch routines working.
Since the PC support group had recently reported that all machines were now in the auto-patch system, we were quite suprised to see almost 1% (which is a lot of machines, around here) get sasser.
Incidentally, a crude way to scan your network for sasser (let's just say you've got a linux box handy with samba,nmap,bash, grep and gawk and that your network is composed of three class C segments numbered 10.0.1.0, 10.0.2.0, 10.0.3.0 for the sake of example) is:
nmap -p 5554 -oG '-' 10.0.1-3.1-254 |gawk '/^Host.+5554\/open\/tcp/{print "nmblookup -A " $2}'|bash |grep "<00>"|grep -v GROUP
If your machines have useful netbios names (such as their location, for instance) and/or you know the names of your users, that should give you all the info you need.
Thank you Mr. Sasser author! You the man! Your non-destructive code was a public service from where I'm sitting (yes I know others feel differently - the real universe is subjective, neh?).
If you can't sell something, regardless of the name, it's either a shitty product or you are a shitty salesman.
That's the cleverest response I think I've ever gotten in a Hindenburg thread.
Naw, I worked with some A-holes, but not with the O-rings.
1) Not all rocket fuels have a "high ignition point" although the shuttle fuel certainly does. (Over 300 degrees Fahrenheit when I was working on it, and it may be better now.)
2) Not all rocket fuels are "normally quite safe" as you put it. Look up the ME163 Komet for example. There are lots of less spectacular examples as well.
3) Modern rocket fuels can't be ignited by "momentary high-energy electrical discharge" because that is a highly undesireable characteristic. Rocket bodies build up tremendous static charges while moving through the air, and it's not unheard of for arcing to occur between parts. Modern igniters are designed to survive arcing between the match and the propellant case, and fuels are designed to be electrically safe, because this was empirically determined to be a Really Good Idea (tm).
4) Some solid rocket fuels can be quenched, despite having their own oxidizers. For example, a fuel can be mixed that only functions within a certain pressure range, so that opening an additional exhaust port will decrease the internal pressure and cause the fire to go out. There is a huge problem with re-lighting them at that point, but I digress.
5) Research is ongoing into low-temperature rocket fuels, and although there are no true "cold gas generators" with any kind of decent impulse, the military is going to fund the research until somebody solves the problem, because heat signatures are a military issue.
So, all the properties you list as fixed, are actually variable... they are not ESSENTIAL to rocket fuel, despite your claims.
The only essential property of rocket fuel is the ability to propel rockets. The Hindenburg's skin would not serve that function. Therefore... well, we're both tired of my bitching and moaning, so I'll leave it at that.
Well, as I said, I've only seen this in cases where there were plenty of vendors to choose from. So the rule that aol_email_address=loser only had to be mostly true for practical purposes.
It's the same thing as immediately throwing out all the resumes that arrive on colored paper, or on slightly odd-sized paper. You break a few eggs making that omelet but it's a quick and simple first culling of candidates. If you only have two candidates, you'd not follow that rule, but nowadays you have 100 candidates (at least) for any tech job so it's more a problem of finding people to eliminate than finding the best person.
"Good business" is whatever works. Success is empirically determined without regard for academic theory or philosophical purity. Therefore, most vendors would be wise to get a high-rent email address, and redirect to the slums if necessary.