Yup. I know a lot of people who go round with pistols tucked in their trousers. And the army are everywhere, as both men and women have to do military service. You can take your weapon home, though you better not loose it. There have been serious problems with Israeli organised crime selling army surplus stock to Palestinians.
If the intifada was such an effective money earner, why did the Palestinian Authority spend over $300M on tourism infrastructure for Bethlehem 2000? That's a huge proportion of the budget to waste of a 3rd world country, corruption or no corruption, when you're about to launch a major military campaign.
The historical fact is that the intifada was a spontaneous reaction to a heavy-handed Israeli police massacre of rioters in the holy of holies in September 2000. Subsequently rioters were killed across the West Bank and Gaza. It was weeks before a single Israeli was killed. This is hardly the pre-planned uprising that supporters of Israel like to think happened to their generous offers of "peace".
Since the mid 1980s the PLO negotiation position has been simple - peace is possible on 22% of historical Palestine. Those 22% were occupied by Jordan and Egypt in 1948, and by Israel in 67. An independent state is not feasable without access to ground water, airspace or international borders. Although Israel produced no maps for the 95% of the 22%, their plan was not to create an independent state, but a dependency of Israel with borders controlled by Israel, able to provide cheap labour, but without having to give those workers the vote in Israel. The capital of "Palestine" was to be Abu Dis, a dusty little village on the edge of Jerusalem. That way, Arafat was to be able to tell his people that the capital of their state was "Jerusalem". He never was much good with maps.
Fast forward to today, unenployment is around 60% in the terroitories, it's impossible to travel to other cities, Israel is closed to migrant workers, Jordan has closed its borders to Palestinians for fear of a revolt amongst its own Palestinian population, the PA is barely functioning, and the UN and international aid are the only thing preventing starvation. In some cities Israeli conter-terror has killed large numbers of civillians and destroyed homes and farms, whereas other cities have been relativly untouched. Israeli settlements are expaning on the ground, though the US is happy with that because they can dismiss the pheonomenon as "natural growth". Ten percent per anum is the natural growth Jewish settlements are allowed, though Arab towns, which are far more populated, are allowed 0%. I'm sure it has something to do with terror, though I can't think what. Egypt uses Israel as a distraction to divert attention from its own domestic problems. Israel has swapped from using Palestinian migrant labour to using Philipino and Eastern European. Total mess. I'll be going back again this year.
I read the Rupert Murdoch piece on Arafat, which appears to have 2 sources: Israeli intelligence, and a Palestinian banker who fell out with the PA. That's not journalism, it's rehashing press releases. I'm not defending Arafat, just holding out for some serious investigation.
Why not bomb the bastards too? Seems like a good partiotic response.
Most people responsible for sending spam are based in the US... According to network management firm Sandvine, about 80% of spam is now sent via legions of PCs owned by ordinary - and usually oblivious - computer users around the world.
If you have a high-end flatbed you might be able to use it to scan medium or large format unmounted slides. If you're lucky it will pick up the shadow detail, and film flatness won't be a problem. For a double page spread on glossy paper most editors want a 50 meg RGB scan, preferably from an Imacon. You aint going to get that from 35mm on a flatbed.
Generally, if I'm using film, I scan lowish res for newspaper and web use, and hand over original slides/negs for magazines. Your mileage may vary.
I saw a demo of a military version of this in 2001. They use 3 odd looking floor-based mics, hooked up to a Powerbook running some kind of *nix software which triangulated the sound on a map. Version 2 was meant to indentify what kind of artillery it was you were hearing. The company was BAE.
Yo Tackhead! Are we trying to start a flamewar now? I've spent more than a few months over the past few years in Israel/Palestine, and I'm guessing you haven't. Ignorance hasn't stopped Americans speaking their minds in the past, and there's no reason why it should now. Thanks for that. While it's possible to get work as a refugee camp dweller in the West Bank (unlike in Lebanon where refugees are barred by the government from being doctors for example) it's pretty unlikely. If you have brains, 5 years ago you'd work construction or catering or tourism in Israel (the Jordanian economy is pretty closed to West Bankers these days). Now Israel is closed to "undesirables" those jobs have gone to Philipinos, and the smart refugee is trying to find job security any place they can. In practice, this means NGOs, local government, healthcare, education. All that needs education, and if you have it, your chances of getting a US visa go right up.
If you read my original post you might notice that I didn't mention "jews" or "J00Z" anywhere. Antisemitism is becoming a serious problem on my continent, and fuckwits like you screaming antisemitism at the drop of the hat are not improving matters.
Only a few clicks away from the main page? I spent a couple of hours RTFM and downloading ISOs, and didn't find the right boot disks. RAID, SCSI drivers, these should all be merged into the main install, and automated so you don't end up googling how to do something which you've taken for granted for the last 4 years. It's possible to get a decent install, but not as easy as it should be. Yeah, I am stupid, I'm replying to an AC.
You can do the same with yum on RedHat/Fedora > 7.3. On the other hand, Debian is very bad to install with - lousy support for software RAID, bad X support, very few drivers for fancy SCSI controllers. The scripting support on the installer isn't great comapred to kickstart, and it does it without graphics. You can end up with a 2.2 kernel if you're not carefull. It's a lot of work. There's a good selection of packages available if you know where to look. RedHat/Fedora has weaknesses in the number of packages available, and the hyper release cycles, but so far we haven't switched.
Over the last year, the single photos that have made the most impression on me have been taken by amateurs. They both relate to the US in Iraq, and would never have been taken by professionals, because professionals have been successfully kept away from "sensitive" subjects. In photography, and journalism generally, you've always had pros who use amateur materials sneaking about trying to get something that their more "professional" peers miss. I also know several good "amateur journalists" who have day jobs in unrelated fields which allow them unrestricted access to their material.
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IAAJ. I do features. I speak some Arabic, and another European language, get on well with most kinds of people, have an ability to live with uncertainty, and am getting used to judging when a situation becomes hairy. I've won a couple of awards in the US.
How has blogging changed my life? Not one iota. Most information I still get face to face, or on the phone. Many of my sources are computer illiterate. If you want to know where the bodies are buried, go there. You never forget the smell. The one good thing I can say about the technical revolution is that I can post stories unedited on my own website, taking up as much space as I like.
Elite is the grandaddy of them all. It's a 3D 1st person space flight sim/trading game where you can go from pirate to slave trader to bounty hunter to rock miner and back. There are 8 galaxies, each with several hundered solar systems to explore. The sheer variety of ships and missions is amazing - from destroying stolen military ships, to capturing Thargoid alien attack craft, saving refugees from supernovas, evading police, docking with space stations, clearing asteroid belts, skimming suns for fuel, malfunctioning hyperspace untis, civil wars, and edible arts graduates.
It's from 1984 and originally ran in 32k of memory.
The US military ought to spend its money on its weaknesses - human intelligence, language skills, and peacekeeping/policing. Yeah, more firepower and more armour, great idea.
What I find disturbing is that movie theatres are using this technology. There's a little dislclaimer in my country (UK) before the movie, which says you're being filmed. God knows what happens to the footage. I should have walked out at that point, explained that I would never visit that cinema again, and got a refund. But I didn't. Knowing there were cameras going, my girlfriend wouldn't even hold my hand. What's the point of going to a movie theatre anymore?
This implies that either 1) language has no ambiguities, or 2) artificial intelligence is possible. Rewind 30 years ago, and see how far AI has come. Not very. But in 30 years we've learnt a lot on language, and it's very ambiguous. Which is why no one wants to program in Engligh, when they can use Perl or C or some other abstraction. Will AI be possible? Your assumption is that it will. I'm not so sure.
Fisking is probably the opposite of blogging. Blogging involves sitting on your ass behind a computer speculating about places you're never been to. Fisking involves getting lynched by angy Afghans, shot at by Israelis, or actually talking to people on the ground. Fisk may not always be right, but he has balls.
There are human lives and there are human lives, whatever the constitution says. For example, in order to prevent another WTC style attack (3,000 odd dead, mostly Americans) the Bush administration deemed it worthwile to attack Iraq (10,000 dead at least, mostly Iraqis). Leaving aside the question of whether Iraq had anything to do with the WTC attack, that gives us a ratio of about 3 to 1. So, can we assume that one American is worth 3 Iraqis? According to CIA GDP figures, Iraqi average income is $2,400 a year, compared to $36,300 for the US. So in fact one American should really be worth 15 Iraqis, assuming a similar national wealth distribution curve.
Applying these calculations to other situations gets really interesting, but I'm not going to go into that here.
If you want to run your own mailserver, don't do it off an ADSL line. Firstly, you have less bandwidth to send mail then you do to recieve, unlike a fixed line. Secondly, you don't have a fixed IP address, which is a pain for you to work around DNS issues and SSL cert issues. And thirdly, most of the internet will block your email if you're connecting from client.comcast.net anyway.
If running a mail server is so important to you, get a fixed line. If it's really important to you, get a colo box in a facility with backup generators and 24 hour security. It's worth the money.
All these distro reviews are so superficial. This one was worse than most. Rather than complain about how his fave window manager isn't included, he complains about how he couldn't intall it on his hot-rodded PC. So having not installed it, he doesn't have too much to bitch about.
I'm probably the only one around here who wants to know how a distro functions for the purposes of doing usefull work. Reviews of the install process are pretty pointless, unless your interest is in cloning large numbers of X clients or servers. Next!
Usually DNS records take 24 hours for changes to propogate across the whole of the net. Some blacklists pickup spammers in the same kind of timeframe. So as a spammer, you'll have a very small window of opportunity from the moment your DNS records are valid to the moment you're on a distributed blacklist.
A lot of spam we see comes at work from people with no reverse IP address. I would dearly love to block all mail from sources without a proper DNS setup, but there are too many legit correspondents out there.
Greylisting is one solution we're looking at, where you give a temporary failure to incoming mail. Wait for a while, see if someone is still trying to send you that mail. If they are, chances are at least they're not a zombie ADSL PC.
If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now.
SPF (Sender Permited From) is conceptually very similar to the MO mail outbound idea you're proposing. The syntax isn't very MX-like though. But as to having it XML - please no! I can't ever imagine having DNS info stored in XML, it's just bloated featuritis at its worst. It will mean having to upgrade MTAs and nameservers, and all the config rewriting, for no real immediate benefit.
See spf.pobox.com for more info on the SPF spec. God knows what it will look like after the changes they're working on with MS. Looks like changes to SMTP as well as DNS. Seeing as many people aren't even bothering to have reverse IP set up right, this could be a long time coming.
Good point. All the other journaled file systems tested run the equivalent of data=writeback, which only journals metadata. By default ext3 journals more data that the others, so it's going to be slower.
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Yup. I know a lot of people who go round with pistols tucked in their trousers. And the army are everywhere, as both men and women have to do military service. You can take your weapon home, though you better not loose it. There have been serious problems with Israeli organised crime selling army surplus stock to Palestinians.
If the intifada was such an effective money earner, why did the Palestinian Authority spend over $300M on tourism infrastructure for Bethlehem 2000? That's a huge proportion of the budget to waste of a 3rd world country, corruption or no corruption, when you're about to launch a major military campaign.
The historical fact is that the intifada was a spontaneous reaction to a heavy-handed Israeli police massacre of rioters in the holy of holies in September 2000. Subsequently rioters were killed across the West Bank and Gaza. It was weeks before a single Israeli was killed. This is hardly the pre-planned uprising that supporters of Israel like to think happened to their generous offers of "peace".
Since the mid 1980s the PLO negotiation position has been simple - peace is possible on 22% of historical Palestine. Those 22% were occupied by Jordan and Egypt in 1948, and by Israel in 67. An independent state is not feasable without access to ground water, airspace or international borders. Although Israel produced no maps for the 95% of the 22%, their plan was not to create an independent state, but a dependency of Israel with borders controlled by Israel, able to provide cheap labour, but without having to give those workers the vote in Israel. The capital of "Palestine" was to be Abu Dis, a dusty little village on the edge of Jerusalem. That way, Arafat was to be able to tell his people that the capital of their state was "Jerusalem". He never was much good with maps.
Fast forward to today, unenployment is around 60% in the terroitories, it's impossible to travel to other cities, Israel is closed to migrant workers, Jordan has closed its borders to Palestinians for fear of a revolt amongst its own Palestinian population, the PA is barely functioning, and the UN and international aid are the only thing preventing starvation. In some cities Israeli conter-terror has killed large numbers of civillians and destroyed homes and farms, whereas other cities have been relativly untouched. Israeli settlements are expaning on the ground, though the US is happy with that because they can dismiss the pheonomenon as "natural growth". Ten percent per anum is the natural growth Jewish settlements are allowed, though Arab towns, which are far more populated, are allowed 0%. I'm sure it has something to do with terror, though I can't think what. Egypt uses Israel as a distraction to divert attention from its own domestic problems. Israel has swapped from using Palestinian migrant labour to using Philipino and Eastern European. Total mess. I'll be going back again this year.
I read the Rupert Murdoch piece on Arafat, which appears to have 2 sources: Israeli intelligence, and a Palestinian banker who fell out with the PA. That's not journalism, it's rehashing press releases. I'm not defending Arafat, just holding out for some serious investigation.
Is there any point posting responses to AC's?
George W Bush 2003: "Mission accomplished!"
Why not bomb the bastards too? Seems like a good partiotic response.
Most people responsible for sending spam are based in the US... According to network management firm Sandvine, about 80% of spam is now sent via legions of PCs owned by ordinary - and usually oblivious - computer users around the world.
From the article.
If you have a high-end flatbed you might be able to use it to scan medium or large format unmounted slides. If you're lucky it will pick up the shadow detail, and film flatness won't be a problem. For a double page spread on glossy paper most editors want a 50 meg RGB scan, preferably from an Imacon. You aint going to get that from 35mm on a flatbed.
Generally, if I'm using film, I scan lowish res for newspaper and web use, and hand over original slides/negs for magazines. Your mileage may vary.
I saw a demo of a military version of this in 2001. They use 3 odd looking floor-based mics, hooked up to a Powerbook running some kind of *nix software which triangulated the sound on a map. Version 2 was meant to indentify what kind of artillery it was you were hearing. The company was BAE.
Yo Tackhead! Are we trying to start a flamewar now? I've spent more than a few months over the past few years in Israel/Palestine, and I'm guessing you haven't. Ignorance hasn't stopped Americans speaking their minds in the past, and there's no reason why it should now. Thanks for that. While it's possible to get work as a refugee camp dweller in the West Bank (unlike in Lebanon where refugees are barred by the government from being doctors for example) it's pretty unlikely. If you have brains, 5 years ago you'd work construction or catering or tourism in Israel (the Jordanian economy is pretty closed to West Bankers these days). Now Israel is closed to "undesirables" those jobs have gone to Philipinos, and the smart refugee is trying to find job security any place they can. In practice, this means NGOs, local government, healthcare, education. All that needs education, and if you have it, your chances of getting a US visa go right up.
If you read my original post you might notice that I didn't mention "jews" or "J00Z" anywhere. Antisemitism is becoming a serious problem on my continent, and fuckwits like you screaming antisemitism at the drop of the hat are not improving matters.
Israel, small and poor? Compared to who? Israeli GDP per head is about $19,800, Palestine $830. Who are you trying to kid?
Only a few clicks away from the main page? I spent a couple of hours RTFM and downloading ISOs, and didn't find the right boot disks. RAID, SCSI drivers, these should all be merged into the main install, and automated so you don't end up googling how to do something which you've taken for granted for the last 4 years. It's possible to get a decent install, but not as easy as it should be. Yeah, I am stupid, I'm replying to an AC.
You can do the same with yum on RedHat/Fedora > 7.3. On the other hand, Debian is very bad to install with - lousy support for software RAID, bad X support, very few drivers for fancy SCSI controllers. The scripting support on the installer isn't great comapred to kickstart, and it does it without graphics. You can end up with a 2.2 kernel if you're not carefull. It's a lot of work. There's a good selection of packages available if you know where to look. RedHat/Fedora has weaknesses in the number of packages available, and the hyper release cycles, but so far we haven't switched.
Over the last year, the single photos that have made the most impression on me have been taken by amateurs. They both relate to the US in Iraq, and would never have been taken by professionals, because professionals have been successfully kept away from "sensitive" subjects. In photography, and journalism generally, you've always had pros who use amateur materials sneaking about trying to get something that their more "professional" peers miss. I also know several good "amateur journalists" who have day jobs in unrelated fields which allow them unrestricted access to their material.
IAAJ. I do features. I speak some Arabic, and another European language, get on well with most kinds of people, have an ability to live with uncertainty, and am getting used to judging when a situation becomes hairy. I've won a couple of awards in the US.
How has blogging changed my life? Not one iota. Most information I still get face to face, or on the phone. Many of my sources are computer illiterate. If you want to know where the bodies are buried, go there. You never forget the smell. The one good thing I can say about the technical revolution is that I can post stories unedited on my own website, taking up as much space as I like.
Elite is the grandaddy of them all. It's a 3D 1st person space flight sim/trading game where you can go from pirate to slave trader to bounty hunter to rock miner and back. There are 8 galaxies, each with several hundered solar systems to explore. The sheer variety of ships and missions is amazing - from destroying stolen military ships, to capturing Thargoid alien attack craft, saving refugees from supernovas, evading police, docking with space stations, clearing asteroid belts, skimming suns for fuel, malfunctioning hyperspace untis, civil wars, and edible arts graduates.
It's from 1984 and originally ran in 32k of memory.
The US military ought to spend its money on its weaknesses - human intelligence, language skills, and peacekeeping/policing. Yeah, more firepower and more armour, great idea.
I thought that was why the British had soldiers in Iraq. There's not much reason for them to be there otherwise.
What I find disturbing is that movie theatres are using this technology. There's a little dislclaimer in my country (UK) before the movie, which says you're being filmed. God knows what happens to the footage. I should have walked out at that point, explained that I would never visit that cinema again, and got a refund. But I didn't. Knowing there were cameras going, my girlfriend wouldn't even hold my hand. What's the point of going to a movie theatre anymore?
This implies that either 1) language has no ambiguities, or 2) artificial intelligence is possible. Rewind 30 years ago, and see how far AI has come. Not very. But in 30 years we've learnt a lot on language, and it's very ambiguous. Which is why no one wants to program in Engligh, when they can use Perl or C or some other abstraction. Will AI be possible? Your assumption is that it will. I'm not so sure.
Fisking is probably the opposite of blogging. Blogging involves sitting on your ass behind a computer speculating about places you're never been to. Fisking involves getting lynched by angy Afghans, shot at by Israelis, or actually talking to people on the ground. Fisk may not always be right, but he has balls.
You forgot to factor in the costs of the funerals, you insensitive clod!
There are human lives and there are human lives, whatever the constitution says. For example, in order to prevent another WTC style attack (3,000 odd dead, mostly Americans) the Bush administration deemed it worthwile to attack Iraq (10,000 dead at least, mostly Iraqis). Leaving aside the question of whether Iraq had anything to do with the WTC attack, that gives us a ratio of about 3 to 1. So, can we assume that one American is worth 3 Iraqis? According to CIA GDP figures, Iraqi average income is $2,400 a year, compared to $36,300 for the US. So in fact one American should really be worth 15 Iraqis, assuming a similar national wealth distribution curve.
Applying these calculations to other situations gets really interesting, but I'm not going to go into that here.
If you want to run your own mailserver, don't do it off an ADSL line. Firstly, you have less bandwidth to send mail then you do to recieve, unlike a fixed line. Secondly, you don't have a fixed IP address, which is a pain for you to work around DNS issues and SSL cert issues. And thirdly, most of the internet will block your email if you're connecting from client.comcast.net anyway.
If running a mail server is so important to you, get a fixed line. If it's really important to you, get a colo box in a facility with backup generators and 24 hour security. It's worth the money.
All these distro reviews are so superficial. This one was worse than most. Rather than complain about how his fave window manager isn't included, he complains about how he couldn't intall it on his hot-rodded PC. So having not installed it, he doesn't have too much to bitch about.
I'm probably the only one around here who wants to know how a distro functions for the purposes of doing usefull work. Reviews of the install process are pretty pointless, unless your interest is in cloning large numbers of X clients or servers. Next!
Usually DNS records take 24 hours for changes to propogate across the whole of the net. Some blacklists pickup spammers in the same kind of timeframe. So as a spammer, you'll have a very small window of opportunity from the moment your DNS records are valid to the moment you're on a distributed blacklist.
A lot of spam we see comes at work from people with no reverse IP address. I would dearly love to block all mail from sources without a proper DNS setup, but there are too many legit correspondents out there.
Greylisting is one solution we're looking at, where you give a temporary failure to incoming mail. Wait for a while, see if someone is still trying to send you that mail. If they are, chances are at least they're not a zombie ADSL PC.
If only the original authors of SMTP could have seen the mess we're in now.
SPF (Sender Permited From) is conceptually very similar to the MO mail outbound idea you're proposing. The syntax isn't very MX-like though. But as to having it XML - please no! I can't ever imagine having DNS info stored in XML, it's just bloated featuritis at its worst. It will mean having to upgrade MTAs and nameservers, and all the config rewriting, for no real immediate benefit.
See spf.pobox.com for more info on the SPF spec. God knows what it will look like after the changes they're working on with MS. Looks like changes to SMTP as well as DNS. Seeing as many people aren't even bothering to have reverse IP set up right, this could be a long time coming.
Good point. All the other journaled file systems tested run the equivalent of data=writeback, which only journals metadata. By default ext3 journals more data that the others, so it's going to be slower.