I've been a system administrator for years, have never snooped out anyone's stuff. I value my integrity far more than I value the contents of your files.
I know it's a pipe dream, but if enough of us would encrypt everything we can that crosses the internet we could vote with our resource consumption and force the bastards to be selective about what they decrypt. Our individual privacy would thus be somewhat assured by the signal to noise ratio.
The movie is in my video collection and I've seen it at least a dozen times. If you'd read my comment you'd know that I'm not calling bullshit on the movie (despite the premise being totally flawed), but upon the "Canadian girlfriend" statements in the parent of my comment.
I call bullshit. Y'see, I was in the USAF Space Command at the time, in Missile Warning and Space Surveillance. There were no dialup modems to which you and your buddies could connect, no external connections to MILNET at all.
See also: State Taxation and Regulation: the Modern Law. Although it's not a gimme in this fascist dicatorship in which we now live, the Supreme Court has already established precedent that would overrule the state legislation.
As it should. I, as an internet merchant, ship my products "FOB here", which means that from the moment the article is delivered to the carrier, it belongs to the buyer. The transaction legally happened here, not in New York. If New York can get away with an import tax, fine... not my problem.
Debian's not a desktop distribution? After a dozen years, NOW someone tells me? Geeze. Now I've got to install something else on all of my desktop machines.
"Wouldn't use it for anything over a few hundred lines, tho, too easy for variable to get confused, even when using strict."
Unadulterated manure of the male bovine.
I've never before in my life heard of variables getting "confused", and I've certainly never seen Perl do anything that might be called confusing them. I've seen poor programmers get confused, and I've seen code that proved they were confused when they wrote it, but I've never seen Perl get confused.
What amazes me about the whole thing is that nobody bothered to look back to 1973 when Nixon did essentially the same thing. No energy was saved then, either.
You're playing silly, pointless games with numbers whose precision is many orders of magnitude greater than their accuracy and holding them out as proof of your superior education and intellect? That, sir, qualifies you as an intolerable prick and one who can lay claim to superiority in neither education nor intellect.
Have a happy day, but please do it somewhere else because you're annoying the grown ups.
The original definition: IQ = 100 * (mental age / chronological age).
If the average score of all members of the population of a given age happens to land on an integer number, then many members of that class (persons of that age) are going to present test scores of that integer number and so be assigned IQ scores of exactly 100. It's only when that average score is a non-integer while the test scores are constrained to integers that exactly 100 is impossible. This does not preclude the average score of another class (people of a different chronological age) landing on an integer number.
I'm not aware of any theory of intelligence that states categorically that no one can be perfectly average.
I don't recall statistical analysis being a part of the curriculum at my grade school, so maybe I'm as disadvantaged as you suggest I am. Could be, could be... but outside of the classroom, my parents taught me not to be a rude prick, a bit of education that you seem to have missed.
It is not true that half of the population has IQs below 100. That would only be true of no one had an IQ of 100, a case in which half would be 99 and below and half would be 101 and above.
I've been doing this for years. The technique is usually known as spamtrapping.
In my system, all mail delivered to a spamtrap address is fed to DSPAM for training, and the delivering server is blacklisted for 90 days. Of course I have a whitelist that the header parser uses to ensure that it blacklists the first address in the chain behind a whitelisted host, and not the whitelisted host(s). I see about two spam messages per month in my inbox, on average.
I wouldn't count on flexibility and higher pay. You'll have two jobs where before you had only one: You'll be the boss, but you'll also have to be the employee.
I've seen my income go both well over and well under what I was making before going into business for myself. Overall, I'm making less money than I used to, but I'm far more independent. If you value independence more than money, self employment is a good gig. If you value money more, stay in the korporate world.
More money? Check the prices of health and life insurance, the cost of your currently paid vacations and sick days, and calculate your tax burden. If you're going to have more than one or two clients, you're going to be lucky if you can manage to make much more than half of your office hours billable. If you have only one or two clients, all it takes is for one to pull the plug and things get really dicey really quickly.
When you're self employed, you have to deal with slow pays, bankrupt clients, and slow to completely dry spells that can last for several months at a time. If you don't have the discipline to set at least three and preferably six months' expenses aside, it'll take only one dry spell to leave you flat broke. Then you'll discover that the better (higher paying) employers don't look favorably upon renegades. "How do we know that you won't return to your own business as soon as things pick up for you again?"
That all said, I've been running my business for nine years now, exclusively for the last seven. I would never go back to wage slavery. Who needs higher pay, shorter hours, better benefits, social interaction... wait a minute...
Maybe I'm just as lame as a one-legged duck, but would someone please explain why I ought to ditch GnuStep in favor of KDE? Dammit, I have work to do, and none of it involves learning how to futz around with my UI!
If you want to measure the success of your web site, look at the net income it generates. If you want to identify problem areas, use the available data intelligently, with full understanding of its limitations, and perform a well reasoned statistical analysis of that data.
The only thing gained by uniquely identifying users outside of financial transactions is the opportunity to violate their privacy.
I defy the "new" methodology to uniquely identify me on jrandomwebsite.com -- I block cookies until I know they're essential to support my own selfish desires, I block HTTP_REFERER, and I use onion routing. I choose not to participate in any corporate greed in which I do not have an interest. Count this, sucker.
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I've been a system administrator for years, have never snooped out anyone's stuff. I value my integrity far more than I value the contents of your files.
How Bush Was Offered Bin Laden and Blew It - By Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair details how the Bush madmenistration totally dropped the ball before and after 9/11 when they were offered bin Laden on a silver platter.
So much for "... were harbored by those in charge in Afghanistan".
I've got something against my judgmental neighbors insisting that I love them. They're already forgiven, so whether I love them or not is immaterial.
So sez this here heathen.
So, then, we could simply syphon the hydrogen from all of the beer kegs in all of the bars of the world, and solve our energy problems forever?
I'm all for it. Everyone, get to the bar and drink beer for the good of your fellow man! Do it for the children!
I know it's a pipe dream, but if enough of us would encrypt everything we can that crosses the internet we could vote with our resource consumption and force the bastards to be selective about what they decrypt. Our individual privacy would thus be somewhat assured by the signal to noise ratio.
Nothing was in DNS in June of 1983. :-)
The movie is in my video collection and I've seen it at least a dozen times. If you'd read my comment you'd know that I'm not calling bullshit on the movie (despite the premise being totally flawed), but upon the "Canadian girlfriend" statements in the parent of my comment.
I call bullshit. Y'see, I was in the USAF Space Command at the time, in Missile Warning and Space Surveillance. There were no dialup modems to which you and your buddies could connect, no external connections to MILNET at all.
Some slashdotters know that "the typical Slashdotter" is singular, while "they" is plural. Maybe they're the knowledgeable, intelligent ones. :-)
The current produced by a stun gun or taser is more than sufficient to cause death. See Electric Shock.
Being tased makes you a physician to the same extent that being hit by a bus would make you an automotive engineer.
As it should. I, as an internet merchant, ship my products "FOB here", which means that from the moment the article is delivered to the carrier, it belongs to the buyer. The transaction legally happened here, not in New York. If New York can get away with an import tax, fine... not my problem.
Debian's not a desktop distribution? After a dozen years, NOW someone tells me? Geeze. Now I've got to install something else on all of my desktop machines.
"photon energy in the RF spectrum"? What about the electromagnetic energy in the RF spectrum?
Just wondering about that...
Unadulterated manure of the male bovine.
I've never before in my life heard of variables getting "confused", and I've certainly never seen Perl do anything that might be called confusing them. I've seen poor programmers get confused, and I've seen code that proved they were confused when they wrote it, but I've never seen Perl get confused.
What amazes me about the whole thing is that nobody bothered to look back to 1973 when Nixon did essentially the same thing. No energy was saved then, either.
... do you want to feed your family, or your car?
You're playing silly, pointless games with numbers whose precision is many orders of magnitude greater than their accuracy and holding them out as proof of your superior education and intellect? That, sir, qualifies you as an intolerable prick and one who can lay claim to superiority in neither education nor intellect.
Have a happy day, but please do it somewhere else because you're annoying the grown ups.
The original definition: IQ = 100 * (mental age / chronological age).
If the average score of all members of the population of a given age happens to land on an integer number, then many members of that class (persons of that age) are going to present test scores of that integer number and so be assigned IQ scores of exactly 100. It's only when that average score is a non-integer while the test scores are constrained to integers that exactly 100 is impossible. This does not preclude the average score of another class (people of a different chronological age) landing on an integer number.
I'm not aware of any theory of intelligence that states categorically that no one can be perfectly average.
I don't recall statistical analysis being a part of the curriculum at my grade school, so maybe I'm as disadvantaged as you suggest I am. Could be, could be... but outside of the classroom, my parents taught me not to be a rude prick, a bit of education that you seem to have missed.
It is not true that half of the population has IQs below 100. That would only be true of no one had an IQ of 100, a case in which half would be 99 and below and half would be 101 and above.
I've been doing this for years. The technique is usually known as spamtrapping.
In my system, all mail delivered to a spamtrap address is fed to DSPAM for training, and the delivering server is blacklisted for 90 days. Of course I have a whitelist that the header parser uses to ensure that it blacklists the first address in the chain behind a whitelisted host, and not the whitelisted host(s). I see about two spam messages per month in my inbox, on average.
I can only handle about 85% of them, so I hope someone else can help out.
I wouldn't count on flexibility and higher pay. You'll have two jobs where before you had only one: You'll be the boss, but you'll also have to be the employee.
I've seen my income go both well over and well under what I was making before going into business for myself. Overall, I'm making less money than I used to, but I'm far more independent. If you value independence more than money, self employment is a good gig. If you value money more, stay in the korporate world.
More money? Check the prices of health and life insurance, the cost of your currently paid vacations and sick days, and calculate your tax burden. If you're going to have more than one or two clients, you're going to be lucky if you can manage to make much more than half of your office hours billable. If you have only one or two clients, all it takes is for one to pull the plug and things get really dicey really quickly.
When you're self employed, you have to deal with slow pays, bankrupt clients, and slow to completely dry spells that can last for several months at a time. If you don't have the discipline to set at least three and preferably six months' expenses aside, it'll take only one dry spell to leave you flat broke. Then you'll discover that the better (higher paying) employers don't look favorably upon renegades. "How do we know that you won't return to your own business as soon as things pick up for you again?"
That all said, I've been running my business for nine years now, exclusively for the last seven. I would never go back to wage slavery. Who needs higher pay, shorter hours, better benefits, social interaction... wait a minute...
Maybe I'm just as lame as a one-legged duck, but would someone please explain why I ought to ditch GnuStep in favor of KDE? Dammit, I have work to do, and none of it involves learning how to futz around with my UI!
If you want to measure the success of your web site, look at the net income it generates. If you want to identify problem areas, use the available data intelligently, with full understanding of its limitations, and perform a well reasoned statistical analysis of that data.
The only thing gained by uniquely identifying users outside of financial transactions is the opportunity to violate their privacy.
I defy the "new" methodology to uniquely identify me on jrandomwebsite.com -- I block cookies until I know they're essential to support my own selfish desires, I block HTTP_REFERER, and I use onion routing. I choose not to participate in any corporate greed in which I do not have an interest. Count this, sucker.
"Works great" is too dependent upon the decreasing quality of floppies for my liking, but it would work fine for various definitions of fine.