The admin I work with is very into HAM radio. I irritate her by reading off phonetics using the "Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox....." phonetic alphabet rather than the 'proper' NATO phonetics.
Here in Michigan, home of the almighty Michigan Militia, they've been handing out flyers (Poorly Xeroxed? You Bet!) expounding these same theories.
After seeing how amazingly disorganized the UN seems to be in most cases outside of disaster relief, I find the idea of them ruling the world slightly humorous. Of course, that's what happens when you try to save the world by forming an organization dedicated to forming committees and fostering understanding by sending peacekeepers to and from utterly disparate nations. (Polish peacekeepers to Ghana! Scottish Peacekeepers to Paraguay! It's like a freaking parlor game.)
Of course not, but I've gone in to plenty of situations where a site has grown up around oddball hardware. It's nice when you've got a free hand to design everything in your own image from the ground up, but 99 times out of 100 you're walking in to someone elses career of mistakes.
That just tells you what it's plugged in to. Doesn't necessarily tell you *where* it is, it just narrows it down. and if you can't disable that switch port remotely....hoo boy...and since it's in a dorm you have the risk of multiple patches in a single room or worse, someone smart enough to say "hey, this doesn't work in my room, lemme try my friend's room down the hall..."
Goes back to the old line "I've lost a server. Literally lost it. It's up, it responds to ping, i just cant *find* it."
"You realize that almost half of this country pays no income tax whatsoever, right?"
Depends on your definitions of "half" and "no income tax." Half of the 330-ish million people? So, 165 million people don't pay income tax? of those, how many are too young to work or are retired / on social security? Half of all working Americans? so half of working Americans are paid under the table, since taxes come directly out of your paycheck?
"no income tax" meaning they're not being charged? or they're getting money back from their return? or they're getting more back than they paid in? I always paid 15-20 bucks more a week, so at the end of the year I got a couple hundred bucks back from the feds and a few bucks back from the state. Does that mean I "didn't pay taxes"?
Not to goodwin myself, but the line about "telling a big lie instead of a small one" comes to mind when I hear about how half the country doesn't pay taxes. It's easy to repeat, and there doesn't seem to be much backing it up. Kinda like the line about how Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest domestic violence day of the year for Police Depts. Sounds catchy, doesn't stand up.
Unfortunately, at this stage, changing civics would cause civil unrest, and we're only three turns away from finishing the Oracle, and five turns away from the Pyramids.....
"to football teams siphoning money away from academic programs so that student tuitions must increase to compensate"
Tuitions don't *have* to go up. Most universities have *INSANE* endowment funds. I've heard both Harvard and Michigan mentioned as schools that could offer their incoming freshman classes free education from undergrad through PhD without making so much as a dent in these funds.
I'm all for well funded endowments. But at some point you need to skim a bit off the top. I know it's a slippery slope, and the first uni that starts siphoning funds will be the first one to broke a few years later after the departments go chasing down money like kids picking up candy from a pinata. I know that the interest income on a billion dollars pays for a whole lot more than the interest on nine hundred million. But it's kinda tough to stomach hearing someone tell a broke students "Sorry, we know you're scraping by, but you're paying an extra three grand per term this year. Sorry." when (per wikipedia) at least 57 major universities have endowments over a billion dollars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
Even better, of those 57, my wholly uncientific count says that 23 of those school are major football or basketball schools (If you want to call Indiana and Michigan 'major', sigh).
If GM and Ford are happy about it, it's because it's because they've been on the firing line for the same problem: A design flaw that may or may not have existed and was used for sensationalist media coverage political gain.
I mean, we all *know* that thousands of ford Pintos burst into flame in the slightest accident, and that hundreds of people were burned to death in tiny shitbox cars that *everyone* at ford *knew* were cheap and unsafe. Or do we? http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
We also *know* that GM pickup trucks from the 80's would be destroyed in a fireball in a side impact collision thanks to NBC's top notch investigative reporting (and a well placed igniter that the Mythbusters would love.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_C/K#Sidesaddle_Fuel_Tanks
The safer solution is to open RDP but tunnel in to your home network over SSH.
Alternately, if you're opening RDP do it behind a nat gateway and forward an unregistered port (like 54321 for example) on the gateway to 3389 on your machine. Forwarding unregistered ports doesn't make the underlying service any more secure, but it cuts down on the number of drive-by hack attempts. I've got SSH servers that have been exposed to the web for years that have *never* had an unauthorized login attempt simply because of the port they sit on. If I put a server out there on port 22, within a day or two those logs are full of brute force attempts.
Yep, it sure does. What it doesn't let you do is customize it a manner that is easily managed and can be locked down remotely a la IE / group policy. Seriously, try managing Firefox in a decent sized AD environment (where your relevant data will be stored in C:\Documents and Settings\somebody\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\HA HA JACKASS! I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU WHAT THIS FOLDER NAME IS!!!!!! HELL, THERE MIGHT BE THREE OR FOUR OF ME JUST TO KEEP YOU GUESSING! MUHAHAHA!.default\) You're playing wildcard and script games and hoping like hell you're changing the right file in the right profile.
Here's a scenario: In an AD environment, You change the homepage and proxy settings for 200 firefox users, oh and make sure they can't clear their history either since management just decided they want to be able to check in, and I'll do the same for IE. While you're using the various hacks kludges and projects that the authors gave up on years ago (or are rolling up custom MSI's to redeploy the whole browser) I'm changing three GPO pushed settings and knocking off early.
IE Fucking sucks. I hate it with a passion (a newly embiggened passion thanks to DEP and exemptions), and I love firefox. But god damnit I want to be able to convert and manage a hundred users at work rather than Mozilla's apparent goal of getting grandma to click an orange button instead of a blue one to get to "the facebook", or to redesign the address bar search feature 37 times between point releases. I'd be more upset about Mozilla apparently being perfectly happy as the valedictorian of summer school, but Chrome and Opera both seem to be equally happy fighting firefox for the coveted title being the biggest small fish in a small pond.
Yes, well, some of us prefer to live in places with four seasons and where the earth doesn't just quaketh because it feels like it. I like my house, and I think it likes me. If it's going to move a couple of feet on the X, Y, or Z axis, I think we've got the kind of relationship where that sort of thing should be a mutual decision.
I mean, I live near Detroit. I'm used to residents up and leaving and various forms of political instability, but when the ground itself decides that it's time to move, then that's a big FSCKing deal. Give me Snow, Tornadoes, and corrupt politicians over Wildfires, earthquakes, and politicians that can't do simple arithmetic any day.
One of the prevailing sentiments is "the Russians found it first and forgot about it." They didn't forget about it, they were too busy fighting insurgents to ever exploit the resources. Then, once they got kicked out, the nation got taken over by tribal infighting and eventually the Taliban. They seemed a little to concerned with actively driving their nation into some sort of religious dark age to consider maybe making use of their natural resources. The Taliban were legitimate bad guys. It's kind of a shame that the war on terror has gotten them mislabeled as some sort of a neo-con boogey man than the dark age, koran-thumping hicks that they were / are.
If you want to blame anyone for not getting the mineral rush ball rolling for ten+ years, why not blame the guys that were in charge?
But it's pretty hard to find anything directly in Christian theology that suggests Christians are supposed to try to impose these standards on non-Christians.
at one time, when gilded age corporatist assholes employed pinkerton's thugs to kneecap guys just trying to earn enough to feed his children, unions were heroic and noble
Now the corporatist assholes jack up your health insurance co-pays, (or your premium rates, or just plain get rid your your healthcare benefits) raid the company pension plan (if it still exists) for a new condo in Maui, or manipulate the stock price (which is a nice chunk of your 401k) to make a few bucks on the side, or run the company into the ground and get their golden parachute when they 'resign' while the other execs vote themselves raises and keep their bonuses under the guise of "retaining quality employees" (the same employees that have been running themselves into the ground).
It's not the unions that suck, its greedy human beings that suck. Just because the business card says Committee man or Union Delegate doesn't make their actions any different than someone whose card says MBA or CFO. Greedy entitled pricks are greedy entitled pricks. At least when they were hiring pinkertons the pinkerton agent wasn't telling you that what he was doing was "good for the company" or was what was "right for our shareholders" while you took a beating.
There are plenty of fatcat pricks in unions (just like how there are plenty of useless factcat pricks where you work. They're not a union specific breed), but that doesn't mean that a *funded* pension, decent health care, and a good wage are evil awful naughty things that only liberals believe in.
They wanted to decode Lemmy from Motorhead first, but all of the samples they took came back as being a mixture of Whiskey, Amphetamines, and some sort of superhuman white blood cells that not only could fend off any currently known STD but also had a nasty habit of smashing test tubes and threatening lab assistants.
"In 1998, Denver was arrested for having a parcel of marijuana delivered to his home. He originally said that the parcel had come from Dawn Wells (who had played "Mary Ann" on Gilligan's Island), but later refused to name her in court and testified that "some crazy fan must have sent it." The police reportedly found more of the plant and related paraphernalia in Denver's home. He pleaded no contest and received six months probation.[1]"
Denver's other major role was that of Maynard G. Krebs, the archtype beatnik / hippie. Draw your own conclusions there.
Lost is merely the logical continuation of the "Gilligan's Island / Seven deadly sins" theory. I mean, let's look at the evidence:
-Purgatory: The Island. (Duh.) -The fat lovable guy ends up in charge. -Since Gilligan is of course Satan, and the island's personification of evil is the "magic smoke", and we all know that Bob Denver, aka Gilligan, was a fan of, ahem, 'Magic Smoke' himself, we can draw the logical conclusion that The Smoke Monster is the spirit of Gilligan himself, keeping people on the island permanently....
That'll teach 'em to mess with a poor defenseless pole.
I remember him. Wes Kowalski. Coke bottle glasses taped up in the middle, Pocket protector. The class bullies never left the poor kid alone. I didn't know he went to work for the utility company.....
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The admin I work with is very into HAM radio. I irritate her by reading off phonetics using the "Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox....." phonetic alphabet rather than the 'proper' NATO phonetics.
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I fail to see how a visualization will allow it to go 'ding' when there's stuff.
Here in Michigan, home of the almighty Michigan Militia, they've been handing out flyers (Poorly Xeroxed? You Bet!) expounding these same theories.
After seeing how amazingly disorganized the UN seems to be in most cases outside of disaster relief, I find the idea of them ruling the world slightly humorous. Of course, that's what happens when you try to save the world by forming an organization dedicated to forming committees and fostering understanding by sending peacekeepers to and from utterly disparate nations. (Polish peacekeepers to Ghana! Scottish Peacekeepers to Paraguay! It's like a freaking parlor game.)
Of course not, but I've gone in to plenty of situations where a site has grown up around oddball hardware. It's nice when you've got a free hand to design everything in your own image from the ground up, but 99 times out of 100 you're walking in to someone elses career of mistakes.
That just tells you what it's plugged in to. Doesn't necessarily tell you *where* it is, it just narrows it down. and if you can't disable that switch port remotely....hoo boy...and since it's in a dorm you have the risk of multiple patches in a single room or worse, someone smart enough to say "hey, this doesn't work in my room, lemme try my friend's room down the hall..."
Goes back to the old line "I've lost a server. Literally lost it. It's up, it responds to ping, i just cant *find* it."
Do not look directly into the sun with remaining eye.....
"You realize that almost half of this country pays no income tax whatsoever, right?"
Depends on your definitions of "half" and "no income tax." Half of the 330-ish million people? So, 165 million people don't pay income tax? of those, how many are too young to work or are retired / on social security? Half of all working Americans? so half of working Americans are paid under the table, since taxes come directly out of your paycheck?
"no income tax" meaning they're not being charged? or they're getting money back from their return? or they're getting more back than they paid in? I always paid 15-20 bucks more a week, so at the end of the year I got a couple hundred bucks back from the feds and a few bucks back from the state. Does that mean I "didn't pay taxes"?
Not to goodwin myself, but the line about "telling a big lie instead of a small one" comes to mind when I hear about how half the country doesn't pay taxes. It's easy to repeat, and there doesn't seem to be much backing it up. Kinda like the line about how Super Bowl Sunday is the biggest domestic violence day of the year for Police Depts. Sounds catchy, doesn't stand up.
Unfortunately, at this stage, changing civics would cause civil unrest, and we're only three turns away from finishing the Oracle, and five turns away from the Pyramids.....
"to football teams siphoning money away from academic programs so that student tuitions must increase to compensate"
Tuitions don't *have* to go up. Most universities have *INSANE* endowment funds. I've heard both Harvard and Michigan mentioned as schools that could offer their incoming freshman classes free education from undergrad through PhD without making so much as a dent in these funds.
I'm all for well funded endowments. But at some point you need to skim a bit off the top. I know it's a slippery slope, and the first uni that starts siphoning funds will be the first one to broke a few years later after the departments go chasing down money like kids picking up candy from a pinata. I know that the interest income on a billion dollars pays for a whole lot more than the interest on nine hundred million. But it's kinda tough to stomach hearing someone tell a broke students "Sorry, we know you're scraping by, but you're paying an extra three grand per term this year. Sorry." when (per wikipedia) at least 57 major universities have endowments over a billion dollars. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colleges_and_universities_in_the_United_States_by_endowment
Even better, of those 57, my wholly uncientific count says that 23 of those school are major football or basketball schools (If you want to call Indiana and Michigan 'major', sigh).
Yeah, ATM Machines. Those things that you put your PIN Number into.
Some....where.....out there....at a glowing terminal in a galaxy far far away....
Pinging eth0.sol.andromeda.alphaquadrant.gxy [10.197.19.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.197.19.1: bytes=32 time1ms TTL=127
Request timed out
Reply from 10.197.19.1: bytes=32 time1ms TTL=127
Reply from 10.197.19.1: bytes=32 time1ms TTL=127
Ping statistics for 10.197.19.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
If GM and Ford are happy about it, it's because it's because they've been on the firing line for the same problem: A design flaw that may or may not have existed and was used for sensationalist media coverage political gain.
I mean, we all *know* that thousands of ford Pintos burst into flame in the slightest accident, and that hundreds of people were burned to death in tiny shitbox cars that *everyone* at ford *knew* were cheap and unsafe. Or do we? http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf
We also *know* that GM pickup trucks from the 80's would be destroyed in a fireball in a side impact collision thanks to NBC's top notch investigative reporting (and a well placed igniter that the Mythbusters would love.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_C/K#Sidesaddle_Fuel_Tanks
The safer solution is to open RDP but tunnel in to your home network over SSH.
Alternately, if you're opening RDP do it behind a nat gateway and forward an unregistered port (like 54321 for example) on the gateway to 3389 on your machine. Forwarding unregistered ports doesn't make the underlying service any more secure, but it cuts down on the number of drive-by hack attempts. I've got SSH servers that have been exposed to the web for years that have *never* had an unauthorized login attempt simply because of the port they sit on. If I put a server out there on port 22, within a day or two those logs are full of brute force attempts.
Firefox lets you customize -EVERYTHING-
Yep, it sure does. What it doesn't let you do is customize it a manner that is easily managed and can be locked down remotely a la IE / group policy. Seriously, try managing Firefox in a decent sized AD environment (where your relevant data will be stored in C:\Documents and Settings\somebody\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\HA HA JACKASS! I'M NOT GONNA TELL YOU WHAT THIS FOLDER NAME IS!!!!!! HELL, THERE MIGHT BE THREE OR FOUR OF ME JUST TO KEEP YOU GUESSING! MUHAHAHA!.default\) You're playing wildcard and script games and hoping like hell you're changing the right file in the right profile.
Here's a scenario: In an AD environment, You change the homepage and proxy settings for 200 firefox users, oh and make sure they can't clear their history either since management just decided they want to be able to check in, and I'll do the same for IE. While you're using the various hacks kludges and projects that the authors gave up on years ago (or are rolling up custom MSI's to redeploy the whole browser) I'm changing three GPO pushed settings and knocking off early.
IE Fucking sucks. I hate it with a passion (a newly embiggened passion thanks to DEP and exemptions), and I love firefox. But god damnit I want to be able to convert and manage a hundred users at work rather than Mozilla's apparent goal of getting grandma to click an orange button instead of a blue one to get to "the facebook", or to redesign the address bar search feature 37 times between point releases. I'd be more upset about Mozilla apparently being perfectly happy as the valedictorian of summer school, but Chrome and Opera both seem to be equally happy fighting firefox for the coveted title being the biggest small fish in a small pond.
Yes, well, some of us prefer to live in places with four seasons and where the earth doesn't just quaketh because it feels like it. I like my house, and I think it likes me. If it's going to move a couple of feet on the X, Y, or Z axis, I think we've got the kind of relationship where that sort of thing should be a mutual decision.
I mean, I live near Detroit. I'm used to residents up and leaving and various forms of political instability, but when the ground itself decides that it's time to move, then that's a big FSCKing deal. Give me Snow, Tornadoes, and corrupt politicians over Wildfires, earthquakes, and politicians that can't do simple arithmetic any day.
One of the prevailing sentiments is "the Russians found it first and forgot about it." They didn't forget about it, they were too busy fighting insurgents to ever exploit the resources. Then, once they got kicked out, the nation got taken over by tribal infighting and eventually the Taliban. They seemed a little to concerned with actively driving their nation into some sort of religious dark age to consider maybe making use of their natural resources. The Taliban were legitimate bad guys. It's kind of a shame that the war on terror has gotten them mislabeled as some sort of a neo-con boogey man than the dark age, koran-thumping hicks that they were / are.
If you want to blame anyone for not getting the mineral rush ball rolling for ten+ years, why not blame the guys that were in charge?
But it's pretty hard to find anything directly in Christian theology that suggests Christians are supposed to try to impose these standards on non-Christians.
Since when has that stopped them from trying?
at one time, when gilded age corporatist assholes employed pinkerton's thugs to kneecap guys just trying to earn enough to feed his children, unions were heroic and noble
Now the corporatist assholes jack up your health insurance co-pays, (or your premium rates, or just plain get rid your your healthcare benefits) raid the company pension plan (if it still exists) for a new condo in Maui, or manipulate the stock price (which is a nice chunk of your 401k) to make a few bucks on the side, or run the company into the ground and get their golden parachute when they 'resign' while the other execs vote themselves raises and keep their bonuses under the guise of "retaining quality employees" (the same employees that have been running themselves into the ground).
It's not the unions that suck, its greedy human beings that suck. Just because the business card says Committee man or Union Delegate doesn't make their actions any different than someone whose card says MBA or CFO. Greedy entitled pricks are greedy entitled pricks. At least when they were hiring pinkertons the pinkerton agent wasn't telling you that what he was doing was "good for the company" or was what was "right for our shareholders" while you took a beating.
There are plenty of fatcat pricks in unions (just like how there are plenty of useless factcat pricks where you work. They're not a union specific breed), but that doesn't mean that a *funded* pension, decent health care, and a good wage are evil awful naughty things that only liberals believe in.
They wanted to decode Lemmy from Motorhead first, but all of the samples they took came back as being a mixture of Whiskey, Amphetamines, and some sort of superhuman white blood cells that not only could fend off any currently known STD but also had a nasty habit of smashing test tubes and threatening lab assistants.
Lemmy > Ozzy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
According to those numbers the RIAA is either slightly larger, or slightly smaller, than Brazil, the world's 8th largest nation by GDP.
How appropriate...
Let me say this as clearly as possible:
NO.
now, let me rephrase that question into one with a positive response:
"Did someone say 'new revenue stream for the telcos'?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Denver#Later_career
"In 1998, Denver was arrested for having a parcel of marijuana delivered to his home. He originally said that the parcel had come from Dawn Wells (who had played "Mary Ann" on Gilligan's Island), but later refused to name her in court and testified that "some crazy fan must have sent it." The police reportedly found more of the plant and related paraphernalia in Denver's home. He pleaded no contest and received six months probation.[1]"
Denver's other major role was that of Maynard G. Krebs, the archtype beatnik / hippie. Draw your own conclusions there.
Lost is merely the logical continuation of the "Gilligan's Island / Seven deadly sins" theory. I mean, let's look at the evidence:
-Purgatory: The Island. (Duh.)
-The fat lovable guy ends up in charge.
-Since Gilligan is of course Satan, and the island's personification of evil is the "magic smoke", and we all know that Bob Denver, aka Gilligan, was a fan of, ahem, 'Magic Smoke' himself, we can draw the logical conclusion that The Smoke Monster is the spirit of Gilligan himself, keeping people on the island permanently....
Feel free to continue the argument ad nasuem.
That'll teach 'em to mess with a poor defenseless pole.
I remember him. Wes Kowalski. Coke bottle glasses taped up in the middle, Pocket protector. The class bullies never left the poor kid alone. I didn't know he went to work for the utility company.....