On the A31, R40, R50 and most other recent ones, go into the IBM key configuration. There's an option to set the Rt Alt key as a "windows" key.
Frankly, IMHO the thinkpads kick almost any other laptop into the ground for useability and durability. (But I do agree about some of the trask software. Just use what works.)
I suspect you're right about the technical difficulties about converting an "assult style" weapon to fully automatic.
What does bug me, is the NRA claiming that virtually ANY weapon is legal under nearly any conditions. I don't own a gun, and probably never will, but I do respect your liberty to own one.
What bugs me most is that the NRA doesn't seem able to accept any reasonable restrictions on any firearm. Gun show loopholes are huge and ought to be closed. "Street-sweeper" drum fed shotguns don't have any real legitimate purpose. It seems the NRA (and like supporters) can't see or accept any middle-ground that might eliminate weapons or practices that are clearly taking people's lives. (Such as the small percentage of gun shops that sell guns to the large percentage of people who commit crimes. [The 80/20 rule.])
Accept and *promote* some real curbs on the abuses, and people like me would be lots more willing to take your side and protect your right. When it's just outrageous in it's protect every square millimeter at every cost, be dammed the cost, you lose the support that I'd be glad to give in votes etc.
[i] I think it is absolutely idiotic that some people think that just because my great-great-great-great grandfather took some land from their great-great-great-great grandfather, that that somehow entitles them to some kind of special privileges now, in the present. I'm sorry, but we were both born here on North American soil, you're no more special than I am, we should all just live together and end this practice of dividing. [/i]
So, if I manage to off your estate and keep you from taking action against me for say, a hundred years, there should be no recourse for your heirs?
(It sure appears as though you believe that you've not gotten any ill gotten gains from the oppressive actions of europeans in the "new world." Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I don't think so.)
Come on. I'm not sure how we should compensate those who we harmed, (I'm a US citizen, and yes, I think the corporate WE harmed the indians or native americans.) but to go to your step and claim that since it's all so very long ago, and since I didn't do it myself, you, the victim are just screwed really pisses me off.
Blacks and Native Americans and Mexicans, for that matter, (and many others, I'm sure) have gotten a real raw screw from many here in the US. It boggles my mind that we consider these things "equal" or solved after little more than a hundred years after the civil war without any serious attempt at redressing our wrongs. (And the civil war was not even when the abuse stopped - but far after!)
I and my ancestors have gotten a huge leg up financially from our abuse of others. I'll redily admit that. How to remedy it, I am completely unsure. But to claim that somehow you haven't benefited from that behavior is simply wrong.
We think the Jews ought to get their belongings back from the Nazi era - right? Why are native americans and blacks any different? Why should forced labor during WW2 be any different than forced labor during slavery in the US?
I think the real reason, is we're not interested in the incredibly huge cost(s) and don't want to look at the very poor record the "land of the free" actually has. Better to focus on someone else - those horrible Nazi thugs - which indeed they were, but a good look in the mirror is what we need. (I realize you're Canadian, and your record is better than ours, yet the treatment of Native peoples by Canada was still pretty horrible.)
But it doesn't even come close to intent or common sense to call this "terrorism."
Websters: Terrorism The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Is this terrorism? Only a total crack head would think so.
Sure, I bet you could get the law to cover it as such, but that is simply a crock.
Someone ought to use their heads. This is just a headline case in which the prosecution can scare the shit our of the defendant and work on getting a slam-dunk guilty plea. IMHO, it's an abuse of the criminal legal system. Further, it was completely stupid for us to classify such a broad scope of things as terrorists acts in the first place. (Gotta thank the boneheads in congress for that one - save one - Russ Feingold.)
You're likely to know when you're rooted by s script-kiddie. Not by some black hat dude who simply wants to screw you over.
The most devistating attack is one that subtly changes your data over time and upon finding, you realise that you can't determine when the break-in occured, what was modified, and or stolen, and how it happened.
In short, you don't know what might be screwed, what to do to repair the screwage and how to prevent it in the future. In short - well...wait for it.. YOU'RE SCREWED!
Script kiddies are a PITA, but far from my biggest worry.
For the tinfoil hat crowd out there. Think how wonderful the Gvmt would find an unpatched remote root exploit? Total deny-ability should they get caught. "wasn't us - we'd get a warrant!" Great for fishing expeditions while outside the reservation. (Oh, no, the FBI/NSA/who ever's black list you're on would never do something ILLEGAL! No! Say it isn't so!) Sure, if the Gvmt really wants to get you, it can turn the full force of law on you. But IMHO, it's the extra-juducial action that's likely to really start the ball rolling. Just take a peak around the private lives of a few people - I guarantee you'll find some illegal activies that could be pried loose to unleash the full legal and law enforcement community on you.
These are my fears - and script kiddies don't play an important part. They are like gnats. Really annoying, but not life threatening. Sweat the big stuff.
Kind of hard to know when you'll be able to offer service if you're not sure when you'll get the *siezed* equipment you offer those services on...
Ability to communicate is 1% of real communication. Useful information to communicate is 99% of real communication. Having the former is no certainty you have the latter.
However, I think you're generallizing betwixt site-wide and personal spam filtering.
The two are NOT at all alike. The goal is the same, but the methods that are reasonable to get there are very different.
I very much doubt that bayes filtering alone, without specific *individual* user training would capture say, 90%+ of all spam. SA *with* bayes does - without individual training. I feed it a general smattering of 200 hams, a thousand or two spams and let it go.
The bayes system is awesome. Not perfect, but very good. But the rest of the tools are great too. Don't mess with the scores. They've already tested them on a huge range of ham and spam - mucking with them individually just likely screws things up when you're using them site-wide.
The tinkering you can do for individual mail is completely unworkable for site-wide implimentations.
SA is designed mainly for site wide implimentations. When you're running 100K+ pieces of mail a day, it may even benefit you NOT to run bayes because of the compute intensive nature.
Anyway.
I just think you're knocking a site wide product for having a deep and wide defense. Sure, it's more complex and hairy. But that's the nature of site wide defenses.
But if you're doing simple individual filtering, SA probably isn't the best tool to use, though I think it still does an incredible job. Just a lot of extra work for just one or two user(s).
Cheers, Greg
BTW - on woodworking - I just purchased a LN low angle jack plane, and I think I'll be using it more than any other tool in my shop! Regind the blade to 40 degrees and you have a "high-angle" jack. I can hand-plane QS sycamore, maple, super figured woods - pretty much anything. Plus I can do end grain with the low angle! Now *THAT'S* a tool!
I have to second this. In fact, said cops OUGHT to get hauled off and prosecuted for their crimes too. It never happens, but it should.
Sure, Rodney King was a pinhead. But even given all his stupidities, the cops DO NOT have the right to beat suspects.
Arrest them, take them to court. If you have to beat suspects, for *any* reason, including the fact that they may be total scum-bags who took a swipe, or two or more, you can't hack the job as a cop. Find another job.
Could your business survive for 10 days without being able to provide ANY service what-so-ever, and further, without being able to tell your clients when you might actually be able to return to serving them? Sheesh!
And if it took the FBI 10 days to get the data needed themselves, why did they expect it in mere hours from the service provider?
From a simple post-mortum examination, giving the provider at least a couple of *DAYS* would have been worth the wait IMHO. Likely, the FBI would have had its data *quicker* AND as an insignificant bonus, prevented a massive loss of business good-will on the service provider.
But, hey, when the NYC cops can shoot Diallo like 47 times, worrying about someones business seems trivial. In essense, it's an "Us vs. Them" attitude. If'n it's going to inpact me in the least, I'll shift that impact to you. Rather than law enforcement seeing they are public *servants* they seem themselves as overloards. I'm sure not all have this view, but from what I've seen it's the majority. The rare law enforecement person really cares about everyone's rights - but IMHO it's not often.
SA has a whole tool box of great tools. The bayes classifier is really good. If you're willing to train it exclusively, I'm sure you could live with it alone.
For for site wide implimentation where single user bayes training, the additional tools are really useful. I've implimented SA sitewide for trhee sites in the last couple of weeks. With minimal training, most users are getting 90-95% on a shared bayes DB.
Sure, they could all use popfile - but that would require a lot more work in training all the users.
SA has a whole bunch of really good tools.
If you're willing to only use a table-saw to build your table and chairs, be my guest. I like to have the whole shop at my disposal. Sure, I don't use the bandsaw for every project, but when it comes into play, nothing will substitute.
They have to keep them on serious antibiotics so their organs down fall apart, shut down and kill the cow.
Real healthy.
Cows were made to eat GRASS - not grains - certianly not corn.
Perhaps it does taste better, I don't actually know. But it's not likely to be a healthy cow, a happy cow, or a humane meal.
(Never mind that the real reason they use corn, is that they couldn't supply grass with enough calorie density to do what they do with huge, no vast, feedlots.
Anyway - corn fed beef are sick sick cows. If you like the taste of sick cows, well, I guess you go to it.
(You're probably one of those people who doesn't see a problem feeding calves blood too, right?)
Frankly, you, IMHO, misunderstand the problem. Sure, the monopoly is inefficient. Always will be.
The real problem is that the monoploy hasn't been well regulated. If they were forced to reinvest into their networks rather into ventures with Disney etc, and treat it as a REAL public commons, we'd see much more up to date equipment.
What ought to happen, is that the municipality ought to take over the physical wires and offer anyone who can offer service the ability to do so on a level playing field. The regional telco's don't even come close to doing this.
I've been a Vstream/TMobile cust since like 96 or 97. They were great until merged into/bought out by Deuche Telecomm. (sp) Then cust service sucked for about a year. It's gotten better again.
I get 3000 minutes of service for only $50.00 a month. With the money I save, I carry a ATT phone too for the better coverage when I'm out of VStream coverage. All for about what I'd pay for ATT alone.
VStream isn't the answer to all your problems, but they are pretty great.
But AMD has been on top before and they always managed to screw up. Intel screws up to but somehow manages to keep making money during the down times. AMD is not so lucky
AMD? How about Intel! P3 1.13Ghz Pretty miserable P4 performance early on. Rambus/RIMM, thus no Mainboards for early P4's that would use decent price memory. bad ACTH translator hubs resulting in huge costs from recalls etc. Total confusion on the chipset market till recently (last 2 years or so)
Intel, if it had the reserves and market share/sales etc of AMD would have imploded and turned into dust a long time ago!
AMD isn't doing so fabulously itself, but Intel seems to be most capable of pointing a very large gun at its head and pulling the trigger repeatedly!
If those who have the power to choose don't use that power wisely, then what?
We want to claim that people here who send money home to Hamas are terrorists, because they are supporting an organization that as part of its operations, supports "terrorists."
Without judging what's actually terrorist, because I think it's terribly easy to label your acts terrorist and mine simply defensive, isn't that just like paying your taxes and blindly letting part of your gvmt, like the CIA and Millitary do mostly what they will?
What I'm saying is, that really, there are few "innocents." You think you're innocent, because you were trying to mind your own business.
But, you're *more* responsible than virtually any other citizen for the acts of your country. (Provided you're a US citizen...)
As I said, we have the right to guns so we can prevent an opressive gvmt. We have the right to vote. We have, at least as GWB would claim, the most free and democratic society in the world. The terrorists, he'd say, hate our freedoms.
Well, with that much freedom and power over the acts of our government, isn't it understandable when Bin Laden says - "You support a despot government in Saudi Arabia. You leave despots like Saddam Hussain in power, and enable him to commit vast atrocities against the Iranians, simply because you hate them. You, in turn, hated the Iranians, becuase they took your embassy workers hostage, which was in turn caused by your overthrow of a democratically elected gvmt in 1959, and installing a total goon, the Shaw of Iran.
So, the people of the US have a pattern of abuse of people in the middle east. (We'll leave Isreal out of this for now...) They vote, pay taxes, support their governments.
If BinLaden wants to put an end to this longstanding abuse - how to do it? About the only way is to attack the enemy at it weakest points - its civillians.
And in a sick sort of way, there's decent reasoning behind his madnedss.
Without a doubt, morally wrong, at least in my value system. (Though, I think each and every one of us will have to answer to God on that issue someday. My difference with Bin Laden, is that God will sort that out someday - it's not my responsibility.)
In summary, with great freedoms, great responsibilities come. We need to shoulder those responsibilities and remember we need to also take responsibility for the acts of those we elect.
Here's the thing - I assume you're a US Citizen...
We'd resort to "terrorism" should we ever find ourselves in a losing or weak position. Everyone will. When it's die or be terribly oppressed, nearly everyone will resort to "terrorism." It's just that we've not been in a losing position and thus never had to resort to "below-the-belt" tactics. That's find, just don't try to convince me that we wouldn't do the same, if push came to shove.
Our morals are not much better than the "evil-doers" we so malign. *Really!*
Another view - who supports the US Gvmt? Us, right? We pays our taxes, we elect our government etc. So, if there's anyone who's responsbile - the most responsible - for the acts of their government, it's us!
So, when our government go's and trains goon squads in Guatamala and other south American countries - who should be held responsble?
I'm not saying I advocate terrorism, as I don't. But to see what the US tolerates and actively supports in the rest of the world - Saudi, Iran (The Shaw of...), South America, Pinochet etc etc etc etc etc etc... ad nausium... well, to see that, it makes you perhaps understand why there are people who believe that *Civillians* here in the US ought to be targets.
They're not some oppressed people who are *forced* to support their terrible government - like those in Iran under the Shaw, or those in Iraq under Saddam Hussain in the 80's.
We elect our leaders - we give our government taxes - we even have guns to ensure the government is not violating the will of the people. Yet we, by and large, do nothing to stop the abuses of our government the world over.
Sure, a few people protest and vote accordingly, but the vast majority don't.
So, given these terms, just how innocent are US civillians?
Just some thoughts.
Cheers, Greg
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So instead of DDOSing the webserver, they'll DDOS their DNS provider.
Still, better than nothing I guess...
Setting it to two, four, or even sixteen minutes wouldn't have caused them to lose much flexability, and since the DDOS "client" dings them every 60 seconds (IIRC) it would have put one half, one fourth or one sixteenth as much load on DNS.
But I guess that's what you get when you got a lawyer running the IT department.
Sheesh, it might be designed that way, but I know for a fact that it isn't.
Sure, it's not like 30% of all mail is lost, but its more than 1 in a billion too.
Facts are, for any delivery method other than my placing it in the hand of the person for who it was intended, a confirmation is NOT optional. That you'd rely on any other simply means that you're a dope.
BTW, you did know that SMTP with most usual defaults won't even give you a delivery warning for *FOUR* HOURS? And it won't bounce for four or five days!
Hope you're million dollar contract can wait that long for delivery...
The virus scanners who scan for viruses that *FORGE* the "From" line and "notify" the person listed in the FROM line are NOT informing anyone of anything useful.
They are only generating lots of worthless traffic and annoying innocent bystanders.
(Did it ever occur to you that you could save your work locally!?) I'd certainly assit the user - I'd not just unplug them and walk away....
I'm a consultant, and frankly, my clients are pretty pleased I'm paranoid about security. They don't have to accept the recommendations I give, but at least they're getting unvarnished advice.
I'm serious, you're advocating that a virus infected PC ought to be allowed to continue on the network. I don't think that's right - sure, you get your project done, and infect goodness knows how many other machines in the process.
Remember, life's more than just about you. Your impact on those around you IS important.
*Knowingly* allowing your machine to be used as a vector to infect others, just so you can get that email out is pretty crass. If that's your outlook on life in general, I am certain I don't want you for a neighbor.
Perhaps I've misread you, and you really don't mean what it sounds like, but...
My first move, when I suspect a compromised machine? Unplug it from the network. I can handle a few minutes of down time till I figure it out. So can my clients. Not only do I keep from infecting *others* I keep one machine from attacking my whole network too.
You wouldn't want your boss coming to work with smallpox would you - even if it meant a huge bonus for him? Sacrificing others so you can get ahead just makes the world a worse place.
It's not an "attitude," it's plain old "do to others as you'd want done to you." Sure it can hurt, but it's gonna hurt sooner or later - might as well get it over with now, and prevent someone else from the same agony.
What if your email server crashes, and the email does reach it's destination?
What if the dope on the other end - his email server crashes?
You *always* request confirmation on anything important. By phone, email etc.
And by the way, if your boss has a virus that propagates via email - he ought to have his cat5 cable severed and shouldn't be contacting any other computers - much less emailing anyone.
Next you'll complain:
"My boss had smallpox and didn't realize it. They stopped him from going to that really important meeting in Hong Kong, I think I'll sue someone!"
Sheesh!
Notifications for any virus that is known to forge the "From" line in email is *totally* useless. That you think it's not doesn't say much for your intelligence and/or comprehension level.
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No windows key?
On the A31, R40, R50 and most other recent ones, go into the IBM key configuration. There's an option to set the Rt Alt key as a "windows" key.
Frankly, IMHO the thinkpads kick almost any other laptop into the ground for useability and durability. (But I do agree about some of the trask software. Just use what works.)
BTW, I've had a T20, A31, and now R50.
Cheers,
Greg
I suspect you're right about the technical difficulties about converting an "assult style" weapon to fully automatic.
What does bug me, is the NRA claiming that virtually ANY weapon is legal under nearly any conditions. I don't own a gun, and probably never will, but I do respect your liberty to own one.
What bugs me most is that the NRA doesn't seem able to accept any reasonable restrictions on any firearm. Gun show loopholes are huge and ought to be closed. "Street-sweeper" drum fed shotguns don't have any real legitimate purpose. It seems the NRA (and like supporters) can't see or accept any middle-ground that might eliminate weapons or practices that are clearly taking people's lives. (Such as the small percentage of gun shops that sell guns to the large percentage of people who commit crimes. [The 80/20 rule.])
Accept and *promote* some real curbs on the abuses, and people like me would be lots more willing to take your side and protect your right. When it's just outrageous in it's protect every square millimeter at every cost, be dammed the cost, you lose the support that I'd be glad to give in votes etc.
(Rant off)
Cheers,
Greg
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I think it is absolutely idiotic that some people think that just because my great-great-great-great grandfather took some land from their great-great-great-great grandfather, that that somehow entitles them to some kind of special privileges now, in the present. I'm sorry, but we were both born here on North American soil, you're no more special than I am, we should all just live together and end this practice of dividing.
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So, if I manage to off your estate and keep you from taking action against me for say, a hundred years, there should be no recourse for your heirs?
(It sure appears as though you believe that you've not gotten any ill gotten gains from the oppressive actions of europeans in the "new world." Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I don't think so.)
Come on. I'm not sure how we should compensate those who we harmed, (I'm a US citizen, and yes, I think the corporate WE harmed the indians or native americans.) but to go to your step and claim that since it's all so very long ago, and since I didn't do it myself, you, the victim are just screwed really pisses me off.
Blacks and Native Americans and Mexicans, for that matter, (and many others, I'm sure) have gotten a real raw screw from many here in the US. It boggles my mind that we consider these things "equal" or solved after little more than a hundred years after the civil war without any serious attempt at redressing our wrongs. (And the civil war was not even when the abuse stopped - but far after!)
I and my ancestors have gotten a huge leg up financially from our abuse of others. I'll redily admit that. How to remedy it, I am completely unsure. But to claim that somehow you haven't benefited from that behavior is simply wrong.
We think the Jews ought to get their belongings back from the Nazi era - right? Why are native americans and blacks any different? Why should forced labor during WW2 be any different than forced labor during slavery in the US?
I think the real reason, is we're not interested in the incredibly huge cost(s) and don't want to look at the very poor record the "land of the free" actually has. Better to focus on someone else - those horrible Nazi thugs - which indeed they were, but a good look in the mirror is what we need. (I realize you're Canadian, and your record is better than ours, yet the treatment of Native peoples by Canada was still pretty horrible.)
For shame.
Cheers,
Greg
Sure, incredibly irresponsible - no doubt.
But it doesn't even come close to intent or common sense to call this "terrorism."
Websters: Terrorism
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
Is this terrorism? Only a total crack head would think so.
Sure, I bet you could get the law to cover it as such, but that is simply a crock.
Someone ought to use their heads. This is just a headline case in which the prosecution can scare the shit our of the defendant and work on getting a slam-dunk guilty plea. IMHO, it's an abuse of the criminal legal system. Further, it was completely stupid for us to classify such a broad scope of things as terrorists acts in the first place. (Gotta thank the boneheads in congress for that one - save one - Russ Feingold.)
Sheesh,
Greg
Beyond this...
You're likely to know when you're rooted by s script-kiddie. Not by some black hat dude who simply wants to screw you over.
The most devistating attack is one that subtly changes your data over time and upon finding, you realise that you can't determine when the break-in occured, what was modified, and or stolen, and how it happened.
In short, you don't know what might be screwed, what to do to repair the screwage and how to prevent it in the future. In short - well...wait for it.. YOU'RE SCREWED!
Script kiddies are a PITA, but far from my biggest worry.
For the tinfoil hat crowd out there. Think how wonderful the Gvmt would find an unpatched remote root exploit? Total deny-ability should they get caught. "wasn't us - we'd get a warrant!" Great for fishing expeditions while outside the reservation. (Oh, no, the FBI/NSA/who ever's black list you're on would never do something ILLEGAL! No! Say it isn't so!) Sure, if the Gvmt really wants to get you, it can turn the full force of law on you. But IMHO, it's the extra-juducial action that's likely to really start the ball rolling. Just take a peak around the private lives of a few people - I guarantee you'll find some illegal activies that could be pried loose to unleash the full legal and law enforcement community on you.
These are my fears - and script kiddies don't play an important part. They are like gnats. Really annoying, but not life threatening. Sweat the big stuff.
Cheers,
Greg
Kind of hard to know when you'll be able to offer service if you're not sure when you'll get the *siezed* equipment you offer those services on...
Ability to communicate is 1% of real communication. Useful information to communicate is 99% of real communication. Having the former is no certainty you have the latter.
Cheers,
Greg
Noted...
However, I think you're generallizing betwixt site-wide and personal spam filtering.
The two are NOT at all alike. The goal is the same, but the methods that are reasonable to get there are very different.
I very much doubt that bayes filtering alone, without specific *individual* user training would capture say, 90%+ of all spam. SA *with* bayes does - without individual training. I feed it a general smattering of 200 hams, a thousand or two spams and let it go.
The bayes system is awesome. Not perfect, but very good. But the rest of the tools are great too. Don't mess with the scores. They've already tested them on a huge range of ham and spam - mucking with them individually just likely screws things up when you're using them site-wide.
The tinkering you can do for individual mail is completely unworkable for site-wide implimentations.
SA is designed mainly for site wide implimentations. When you're running 100K+ pieces of mail a day, it may even benefit you NOT to run bayes because of the compute intensive nature.
Anyway.
I just think you're knocking a site wide product for having a deep and wide defense. Sure, it's more complex and hairy. But that's the nature of site wide defenses.
But if you're doing simple individual filtering, SA probably isn't the best tool to use, though I think it still does an incredible job. Just a lot of extra work for just one or two user(s).
Cheers,
Greg
BTW - on woodworking - I just purchased a LN low angle jack plane, and I think I'll be using it more than any other tool in my shop! Regind the blade to 40 degrees and you have a "high-angle" jack. I can hand-plane QS sycamore, maple, super figured woods - pretty much anything. Plus I can do end grain with the low angle! Now *THAT'S* a tool!
I have to second this. In fact, said cops OUGHT to get hauled off and prosecuted for their crimes too. It never happens, but it should.
Sure, Rodney King was a pinhead. But even given all his stupidities, the cops DO NOT have the right to beat suspects.
Arrest them, take them to court. If you have to beat suspects, for *any* reason, including the fact that they may be total scum-bags who took a swipe, or two or more, you can't hack the job as a cop. Find another job.
Cheers,
Greg
Could your business survive for 10 days without being able to provide ANY service what-so-ever, and further, without being able to tell your clients when you might actually be able to return to serving them? Sheesh!
And if it took the FBI 10 days to get the data needed themselves, why did they expect it in mere hours from the service provider?
From a simple post-mortum examination, giving the provider at least a couple of *DAYS* would have been worth the wait IMHO. Likely, the FBI would have had its data *quicker* AND as an insignificant bonus, prevented a massive loss of business good-will on the service provider.
But, hey, when the NYC cops can shoot Diallo like 47 times, worrying about someones business seems trivial. In essense, it's an "Us vs. Them" attitude. If'n it's going to inpact me in the least, I'll shift that impact to you. Rather than law enforcement seeing they are public *servants* they seem themselves as overloards. I'm sure not all have this view, but from what I've seen it's the majority. The rare law enforecement person really cares about everyone's rights - but IMHO it's not often.
Cheers,
Greg
I think your point is dang wrong.
SA has a whole tool box of great tools. The bayes classifier is really good. If you're willing to train it exclusively, I'm sure you could live with it alone.
For for site wide implimentation where single user bayes training, the additional tools are really useful. I've implimented SA sitewide for trhee sites in the last couple of weeks. With minimal training, most users are getting 90-95% on a shared bayes DB.
Sure, they could all use popfile - but that would require a lot more work in training all the users.
SA has a whole bunch of really good tools.
If you're willing to only use a table-saw to build your table and chairs, be my guest. I like to have the whole shop at my disposal. Sure, I don't use the bandsaw for every project, but when it comes into play, nothing will substitute.
Everyone to their own I guess...
Cheers,
Greg
Kinda sucks for the cows though.
They have to keep them on serious antibiotics so their organs down fall apart, shut down and kill the cow.
Real healthy.
Cows were made to eat GRASS - not grains - certianly not corn.
Perhaps it does taste better, I don't actually know. But it's not likely to be a healthy cow, a happy cow, or a humane meal.
(Never mind that the real reason they use corn, is that they couldn't supply grass with enough calorie density to do what they do with huge, no vast, feedlots.
Anyway - corn fed beef are sick sick cows. If you like the taste of sick cows, well, I guess you go to it.
(You're probably one of those people who doesn't see a problem feeding calves blood too, right?)
Cheers,
Greg
Frankly, you, IMHO, misunderstand the problem. Sure, the monopoly is inefficient. Always will be.
The real problem is that the monoploy hasn't been well regulated. If they were forced to reinvest into their networks rather into ventures with Disney etc, and treat it as a REAL public commons, we'd see much more up to date equipment.
What ought to happen, is that the municipality ought to take over the physical wires and offer anyone who can offer service the ability to do so on a level playing field. The regional telco's don't even come close to doing this.
But anyway...
Cheers,
Greg
I've been a Vstream/TMobile cust since like 96 or 97. They were great until merged into/bought out by Deuche Telecomm. (sp) Then cust service sucked for about a year. It's gotten better again.
I get 3000 minutes of service for only $50.00 a month. With the money I save, I carry a ATT phone too for the better coverage when I'm out of VStream coverage. All for about what I'd pay for ATT alone.
VStream isn't the answer to all your problems, but they are pretty great.
Cheers,
Greg
But AMD has been on top before and they always managed to screw up. Intel screws up to but somehow manages to keep making money during the down times. AMD is not so lucky
AMD? How about Intel!
P3 1.13Ghz
Pretty miserable P4 performance early on.
Rambus/RIMM, thus no Mainboards for early P4's that would use decent price memory.
bad ACTH translator hubs resulting in huge costs from recalls etc.
Total confusion on the chipset market till recently (last 2 years or so)
Intel, if it had the reserves and market share/sales etc of AMD would have imploded and turned into dust a long time ago!
AMD isn't doing so fabulously itself, but Intel seems to be most capable of pointing a very large gun at its head and pulling the trigger repeatedly!
Cheers,
Greg
Marroon ... Hmm....
Macaroon: a cookie with coconut?
Maroon: brownish-crimson?
Maroon: stranded on an island?
Or, are you just a moron?
*grin*
Cheers,
Greg
It all depends on which way you're spitting.
With the wind - it could be miles!
I think what you meant to say is that you're a trolling bigoted ass.
Cheers,
Greg
If those who have the power to choose don't use that power wisely, then what?
We want to claim that people here who send money home to Hamas are terrorists, because they are supporting an organization that as part of its operations, supports "terrorists."
Without judging what's actually terrorist, because I think it's terribly easy to label your acts terrorist and mine simply defensive, isn't that just like paying your taxes and blindly letting part of your gvmt, like the CIA and Millitary do mostly what they will?
What I'm saying is, that really, there are few "innocents." You think you're innocent, because you were trying to mind your own business.
But, you're *more* responsible than virtually any other citizen for the acts of your country. (Provided you're a US citizen...)
As I said, we have the right to guns so we can prevent an opressive gvmt. We have the right to vote. We have, at least as GWB would claim, the most free and democratic society in the world. The terrorists, he'd say, hate our freedoms.
Well, with that much freedom and power over the acts of our government, isn't it understandable when Bin Laden says - "You support a despot government in Saudi Arabia. You leave despots like Saddam Hussain in power, and enable him to commit vast atrocities against the Iranians, simply because you hate them. You, in turn, hated the Iranians, becuase they took your embassy workers hostage, which was in turn caused by your overthrow of a democratically elected gvmt in 1959, and installing a total goon, the Shaw of Iran.
So, the people of the US have a pattern of abuse of people in the middle east. (We'll leave Isreal out of this for now...) They vote, pay taxes, support their governments.
If BinLaden wants to put an end to this longstanding abuse - how to do it? About the only way is to attack the enemy at it weakest points - its civillians.
And in a sick sort of way, there's decent reasoning behind his madnedss.
Without a doubt, morally wrong, at least in my value system. (Though, I think each and every one of us will have to answer to God on that issue someday. My difference with Bin Laden, is that God will sort that out someday - it's not my responsibility.)
In summary, with great freedoms, great responsibilities come. We need to shoulder those responsibilities and remember we need to also take responsibility for the acts of those we elect.
Cheers,
Greg
Here's the thing - I assume you're a US Citizen...
... well, to see that, it makes you perhaps understand why there are people who believe that *Civillians* here in the US ought to be targets.
We'd resort to "terrorism" should we ever find ourselves in a losing or weak position. Everyone will. When it's die or be terribly oppressed, nearly everyone will resort to "terrorism." It's just that we've not been in a losing position and thus never had to resort to "below-the-belt" tactics. That's find, just don't try to convince me that we wouldn't do the same, if push came to shove.
Our morals are not much better than the "evil-doers" we so malign. *Really!*
Another view - who supports the US Gvmt? Us, right? We pays our taxes, we elect our government etc. So, if there's anyone who's responsbile - the most responsible - for the acts of their government, it's us!
So, when our government go's and trains goon squads in Guatamala and other south American countries - who should be held responsble?
I'm not saying I advocate terrorism, as I don't. But to see what the US tolerates and actively supports in the rest of the world - Saudi, Iran (The Shaw of...), South America, Pinochet etc etc etc etc etc etc... ad nausium
They're not some oppressed people who are *forced* to support their terrible government - like those in Iran under the Shaw, or those in Iraq under Saddam Hussain in the 80's.
We elect our leaders - we give our government taxes - we even have guns to ensure the government is not violating the will of the people. Yet we, by and large, do nothing to stop the abuses of our government the world over.
Sure, a few people protest and vote accordingly, but the vast majority don't.
So, given these terms, just how innocent are US civillians?
Just some thoughts.
Cheers,
Greg
So instead of DDOSing the webserver, they'll DDOS their DNS provider.
Still, better than nothing I guess...
Setting it to two, four, or even sixteen minutes wouldn't have caused them to lose much flexability, and since the DDOS "client" dings them every 60 seconds (IIRC) it would have put one half, one fourth or one sixteenth as much load on DNS.
But I guess that's what you get when you got a lawyer running the IT department.
Cheers,
Greg
Sheesh, it might be designed that way, but I know for a fact that it isn't.
Sure, it's not like 30% of all mail is lost, but its more than 1 in a billion too.
Facts are, for any delivery method other than my placing it in the hand of the person for who it was intended, a confirmation is NOT optional. That you'd rely on any other simply means that you're a dope.
BTW, you did know that SMTP with most usual defaults won't even give you a delivery warning for *FOUR* HOURS? And it won't bounce for four or five days!
Hope you're million dollar contract can wait that long for delivery...
Sheesh,
Greg
The virus scanners who scan for viruses that *FORGE* the "From" line and "notify" the person listed in the FROM line are NOT informing anyone of anything useful.
They are only generating lots of worthless traffic and annoying innocent bystanders.
(Did it ever occur to you that you could save your work locally!?) I'd certainly assit the user - I'd not just unplug them and walk away....
Cheers,
Greg
I'm a consultant, and frankly, my clients are pretty pleased I'm paranoid about security. They don't have to accept the recommendations I give, but at least they're getting unvarnished advice.
I'm serious, you're advocating that a virus infected PC ought to be allowed to continue on the network. I don't think that's right - sure, you get your project done, and infect goodness knows how many other machines in the process.
Remember, life's more than just about you. Your impact on those around you IS important.
*Knowingly* allowing your machine to be used as a vector to infect others, just so you can get that email out is pretty crass. If that's your outlook on life in general, I am certain I don't want you for a neighbor.
Perhaps I've misread you, and you really don't mean what it sounds like, but...
My first move, when I suspect a compromised machine? Unplug it from the network. I can handle a few minutes of down time till I figure it out. So can my clients. Not only do I keep from infecting *others* I keep one machine from attacking my whole network too.
You wouldn't want your boss coming to work with smallpox would you - even if it meant a huge bonus for him? Sacrificing others so you can get ahead just makes the world a worse place.
It's not an "attitude," it's plain old "do to others as you'd want done to you." Sure it can hurt, but it's gonna hurt sooner or later - might as well get it over with now, and prevent someone else from the same agony.
Cheers,
Greg
Sheesh - you're a dope.
What if your email server crashes, and the email does reach it's destination?
What if the dope on the other end - his email server crashes?
You *always* request confirmation on anything important. By phone, email etc.
And by the way, if your boss has a virus that propagates via email - he ought to have his cat5 cable severed and shouldn't be contacting any other computers - much less emailing anyone.
Next you'll complain:
"My boss had smallpox and didn't realize it. They stopped him from going to that really important meeting in Hong Kong, I think I'll sue someone!"
Sheesh!
Notifications for any virus that is known to forge the "From" line in email is *totally* useless. That you think it's not doesn't say much for your intelligence and/or comprehension level.
Cheers,
Greg
And you're in fantasy land.
As Suzie Dirkins says...
"As long as I'm wishing, I wish I had a pony."
Sheesh.
More appropo...
Your tax records were in a folder on your kitchen table.
You forgot to lock your door.
I take advantage of your mistake, and go in and read, copy and post these anywhere I will.
[Irony]
Seems perfectly legit, right?
Right!
[/Irony]
Cheers,
Greg