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the poorer you are, the greater the proportion of income that goes to consumption
Money that goes to investment...well, at some level there is "enough". The pool of investment capital will be allocated to more and more marginal areas as it increases.
With an economy experiencing lots of demand, because, say, unemployment benefits were extended, the capital to supply goods to meet that demand will be found.
sci fi from an author who has an autistic son. Nice balance between differently abled and autistic. Posits some huge gains in therapy and compensatory strategies.
Most of those look like the work environments of software companies in the late 1990's.
Wait a minute...
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The Feds put a bunch of crap they'd wanted for years into the Patriot Act, because those pesky civil liberties that take the fun out of being a cop. 9/11 was like one of those contest promos where you get to fill a shopping cart in a certain time limit, or the cages with money blowing around - grab while you can!
Now that the War on Terror is here, it is trotted out any time the admin's polls sag. Press conferences without a scintilla of evidence that the threat environment has changed. And a trial balloon over delaying elections...whew!
Hell - even tax cuts were hyped as part of the war on terror.
The fact is, spooks are by nature consiprators. And they are not drawn to the field by their love of untrammeled civil liberties.
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - G.W. Bush (actual quote related to a parody website - my sig is just a paraphrase)
When I deployed my fw, I didn't get very far into writing the config file before it hit me: the programmers must have had to maintain other firewalls and decided to fix what sucked about them. They get it!
Man! Easy ways to compose arbitrary lists. macros that help readibility. Read in lists from external text files. Dynamic rules. I can express in one line what has taken 10 in a cisco acl. On and on. It is a real improvement - simpler, shorter human input means fewer human mistakes.
And pf follows the UNIX philosophy of keeping tools small and focussed. No http proxy - use Squid or something. Use pf to enforce the policy that browsers must go through the proxy. I use ftpsesame as an add-on to handle ftp. I have an inline fw, so the ftpproxy won't work.
I am astonished at its performance, too. Incredibly tiny amounts of memory. I'm in awe. pf is incredible.
It ties into CARP - which is a nice middle finger for Cisco's bogus load-balancing/failover patent. They implemented failover and made it secure. So you can have two or ten pf firewalls sharing state tables, unplug one (or nine) and sessions still flow. Maybe total bandwidth takes a hit, but it still flows.
I apologize for my total fanboyism. It's justified, but probably embarassing to read.
You don't get to call PSS just because you bought a license. You pay about as much per incident as for the license. Dunno how much they charge for Developer Support. You can pay people to support Linux. Do your own Googling, but I'll give you a hint: IBM. Novell. Hello....?
There is absolutely no difference between Windows Update and the Knowledge Base and the docs available for Linux, 24/7. Except that the Linux docs are arguably better. I haven't seen a Linux doc advise me to disable the firewall as a workaround.
Your car analogy supports the opposite of your conclusion - if you have to work to get a car/Linux, you'll still have it in 5 years.
Details are a bit sketchy: I didn't have time to take notes! So I'm a little unclear as to just exactly how I painted myself into this corner:
A while back I had to upgrade the OS on a Cisco GSR 12000 (carrier grade router, SOMEWHAT over-specced for our needs...). I go in on a Saturday night for what I figure will be 1/2 hour, tops. The new firmware was just a little too big to fit on the 16 meg bootflash with the bootloader file. So I clear the bootloader off the bootflash. I load the new firmware, change the config and reload.
Only...it don't load. Image corrupt. And it can't find the bootloader from slot0: O.k., must have messed up the boot statement. Connect a terminal- lets get the files off slot0:
wait. Where's slot0:? (PCMCIA card with 64 megs of memory, secondary storage)
This is the part where I cuss out my predecessor: YOU BOUGHT A $150,000 ROUTER AND DIDN'T GET THE FSKING $100 MEMORY OPTION?!?
It was a little appalling, that empty, empty slot.
So what I have is the preboot environment, which does not offer any means of loading a file over the net - no tftp.
I get on the line with Cisco - they tell me I need another chunk of storage - slot0: - and they can't get a part to me until Tuesday. I will be circulating resumes by then. Where can I get a compatible memory module?
In desperation, I go through a three year old telephone directory and find the number of a colleague at another campus who runs the same equipment. This is where the miracle happens: he's home. Only, he's not at his home, he's visiting a former housemate - he hasn't lived at that number for two years and was really confused when I found him. I believe they don't even hang out that much.
He very kindly meets me at his campus (Hi, Sam!), we very, very carefully go over how to put the right files on a pcmcia card he pulls from one of his routers. I zoom back, chicken and egg problem solved, os copied and checked , router loads, though I have to manually configure the interfaces.
Monday I placed an order for a memory module. And a spare.
Guy goes to a doctor. "My dick turned orange!" Doctor: "That's unusual. Anything else going on in your life? Stress?" Guy: "Well, yeah, I got laid off a few weeks ago." Doctor: "That's rough. How are you holding up?" Guy:"Not so bad - I sit around all day watching porno and eating cheetos."
O'Reilly is beyond biased, to the point of being warped. Yet he bills himself as the master of the no spin zone. Horseshit.
Rush actually claims to be infallible, when he's a fucking liar. He is also a coward: he pioneered "unguested" confrontation. He will NEVER present a credible, well-spoken opponent on his show. It's all sycophants and patsies.
"Liberals" actually debate things. Franken has a well-spoken conservative on regularly. It's not totally level, but he doesn't turn off the mike when he's losing the argument, like O'Reilly. He is far more interested in debate than Coulter, et. al. They duck him.
Conservatives are blind. The most prominent ones are sick.
Bush is not moral - he is a compulsive liar. I take his photo-ops in job training centers to be lies, since after the photo op his budgets kill them off. He loads scientific panels with ideologues who will simply use the right rubber stamp. He picks Orwellian names for initiatives - "Clear SKies" when "Pollution-Fest" would be more accurate, and "Healthy Forests" for "Clear Cut-Amundo!!!"
He lied about privatizing social security. He lied about even CALLING it privatizing. He lies about the impact of his tax cuts. His whole "starve the beast" approach is a lie. He IS leaving a mess for our children to clean up, debts they will have to pay. All because he lacks the courage to propose cuts. Any asshole can promise free money, which is what those tax cuts are. The money doesn't belong to the taxpayers if they are still receiving the government services they clamor for.
I consider crony capitalists like him thieves. No-bid cost-plus contract for Halliburten? Sure. Defend Enron from the ratepayers they stole from? Sure. As Governer - turn over management of UT endowment to a contributer, with no public oversite (and predictable churn-and-burn)? Sure.
If you start counting on Sept. 12, the record in the U.S. isn't that bad. I start the count at least a month earlier, when he was taking a month vacation. Nutcases like you would certainly have called for Gore's head had he been in office during the 9/11 attacks. I call for W's. His administration's indifference to the threat seems to stem largely from the Clinton administration's attention to it. Whatevery they did, we do the opposite. Weren't they supposed to be grown-ups? If it had been a priority, they might have stopped it. Maybe, maybe not. If they had made the effort, I might give them a pass. But Asscrack was too busy investigating New Orleans prostitution to be bothered. (Guess what: they found some!)
Bush is pretty good at fighting enemies because he creates so many of them. Do you think there is a finite number of terrorists and they are all in Iraq? We are more effective recruiters than OBL by himself could ever be. Did you notice the State Department revised its report, which indicates that terrorism has increased in the last three years? Horrific attacks in Bali and Spain. Did you notice that OBL is still at large? Did you notice who is bogged down in Iraq? It's the American army, which diverted resources from the real fight in Afghanistan for W's Imperial Adventure in Iraq. And make no mistake - W lost that war. The prison torture scandal sealed the deal. And he bears real responsibility for it. IT's not just passive idiocy - it is a fact of human nature that guards will abuse prisoners absent strong controls. But they went beyond mere indifference and catastrophic incompetence: they actually made sure it would happen. And I worry about future U.S. POWs now that we've trashed the Geneva Convention. W has alienated the world, which hurts our security.
Kerry fought for his country. He didn't use family pull to jump the line into the Texas Guard. Kerry served. Bush went AWOL. Bush refused orders for a physical, costing him his flight status and the Guard a pilot it paid millions to train. I find it interesting that this refusal coincides with the introduction of drug testing. It is contemptable that the right wing attack machine would even think of attacking Kerry's service, when Bush's is so affirmatively disgusting.
What do you see in this guy? He shows no moral clarity - the tyrants he supports are no better than the one he deposed. He surrounds himself with crooks. He refuses to accept democratic oversite. At every turn, he classifies for political purposes, changes longstanding process to conceal information (5 year economic forcast for a backloaded 10 year tax cut), hiding the cost of the prescription drug bill, on and on.
The guy is a fuck up. A disaster. And you like him- for predictable gay-bashing? anti-abortion stance? Why doesn't he call for denying
When someone makes an argument based on principles he/she rejects, it's reasonable to scrutinize the argument with prejudice.
The current Administration has nothing but contempt for the Scientific Method, and science in general. Yet they will borrow some of its trappings when politically convenient. The appropriate doubt shown by scientists is used as an excuse for inaction. Yet when there is the most tentative conclusion from the most suspect source, the Administration leaps on it like it was Gospel - if and only if it supports preconceptions.
There are wingnuts in every discipline. Some disciplines are nothing but wingnuts. In climatology, there really is a consensus - absent wingnuts - that human produced greenhouse emmissions are contributing to global warming. Waiting for an agreed upon set of facts means waiting for wingnuts to receive proper medication and industry prostitutes to suddenly lose sight of where their economic interests lie. It would be like expecting the Tobacco Institute of old to discover that, by gosh, smoking does not enhance stamina or increase max o2. Waiting for complete information is paralysis.
This is an important example of how blinded by nationalism and biases people can get. The Chinese were wrong in their assessment of who was at fault. It is not possible for a properly trained fighter pilot in a post-wwII fighter plane to be rammed by that type of spy plane. It just isn't.
I was not trolling - which I define as deliberately offending people with insincere posts in an attempt to get them to waste time posting replies.
They still overwhelmingly believe the US pilot in the slow, prop-driven plane rammed the Chinese jet fighter. R-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght.
If they can't build jet fighters that can keep up with those things, they can buy some WWII surplus planes from the Phillipines. I don't know where they'll find competent pilots.
They also resent it when their government is criticized for...oppressing them! Go ahead, I guess.
Treating the pre-flop betting round a second ante. I have to admit that playing tight pre-flop is so ingrained I couldn't begin to form another approach.
Getting into the endgame with a couple of nitwits is a great situation, but when it's a lot of nitwits, my signal processing gets overwhelmed.
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Based on your analysis of my analysis , I'd kick your ass.
Just curious: what two hole cards would YOU prefer in Hold 'Em?
Dunno - newbie pack is formidible
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disclaimer - I don't play very well.
Suppose you start with the best possible cards - AA.
Newbies around the table hold bullshit-crap
Someone is going to get two pair out of the board. You have to hope for another ace or a pair on the board. If that pair does show up, it likely gives trip-bullshit to one of the 7 implacable newbs.
If the newbs all play irrationally, it seems sound play gets drowned in the noise.
I mean, you know that the odds suck, and the discussion is all about what sucks least. On top of that, the marginal value of a dollar won is less than that of a dollar lost, generally.
Look at the zombies at the slots - none of them are having any more fun than the pigeons in a rehash of a Skinner experiment.
If lotteries are a tax on the mathematically challenged, what can the explanation be for the mathematically adept undergoing a rigged game?
Poker odds are a little different, in that the relevant factor is the ratio of chumps shovelling cash in / house raking it out. When that ratio > 1 the pros can make a living at a casino but that's not a given by any means. The house takes a big bite out of each pot so there has to be a huge difference in skill to give you a positive expectancy.
Home games get hustled, though. Do you have a circle of acquaintences you trust not to cheat, but feel o.k. about beating?
B is already a problem. The windows approach to locking the desktop is utter crap.
It drives me up a tree that for Win2k anyway (I won't do XP - the license is too toxic) the "official" way to lock up a feature is to lock up whatever happens to be the UI they offer. That leaves malware free to make changes, because they do access the API directly, and the hapless user of the desktop can't change it because the UI is locked out.
Concrete example: you can make IE start with a particular page. You can grey out the option to change that page. Hostile website can still hijack the start page. "Oh, gee! We never thought that criminal computer trespassers would ever deviate from the path we selected for them!"
Where do you think Clippy came from? I've participated in two focus groups and came out of both wondering what kind of mind-disruption ray was being used on me, because in both of them I said some things I really wanted to take back.
You have to be smarter than your users. I realize MS tries really hard to do UI, but they can't seem to do it anywhere near as well as Apple. I think Apple doesn't have to rely as much on focus groups, possibly because they aren't run by robots.
The MPG display does provide real feedback to the driver about the grosser habits, like leadfoot acceleration and sustained suboptimal speeds (65+ mph).
Someone with a Prius wrote that without the MPG feedback, the only info they had was from the speedometer. They thought that installing this on non-hybrid cars would save an Exxon Valdez every year.
I like the idea of Sourcefire's RNA product ("Realtime Network Awareness"). The idea is that it will use passive os fingerprinting to find out what's out there, and tap a database of vulnerabilities to see if there's a serious problem.
But I want the other alerts - the cmd.exe attempts on Apache servers, etc. - as correlation for the other alerts. I agree there's a huge value in separating the stuff that's merely for correlating with the serious alerts.
You can set an alert level = harmless just to get the packet recorded with a self-documenting tag. You can also pick action = "log", rather than "alert". Snort will store the packet, but won't put it in with the alerts. Sometimes lots of rules are required to give you what you want.
I'm toying with the idea of alerting on ftp control sessions, with a big "Harmless: ftp control session established" message. The idea is to have a flag that will explain those weird ephemeral port -> ephemeral port alerts that show up. Passive ftp should go client ephem port to server port 20, imho, but the RFC doesn't seem to require it and most implementations don't do it.
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the poorer you are, the greater the proportion of income that goes to consumption
Money that goes to investment...well, at some level there is "enough". The pool of investment capital will be allocated to more and more marginal areas as it increases.
With an economy experiencing lots of demand, because, say, unemployment benefits were extended, the capital to supply goods to meet that demand will be found.
sci fi from an author who has an autistic son. Nice balance between differently abled and autistic. Posits some huge gains in therapy and compensatory strategies.
Most of those look like the work environments of software companies in the late 1990's.
Wait a minute...
The Feds put a bunch of crap they'd wanted for years into the Patriot Act, because those pesky civil liberties that take the fun out of being a cop. 9/11 was like one of those contest promos where you get to fill a shopping cart in a certain time limit, or the cages with money blowing around - grab while you can!
Now that the War on Terror is here, it is trotted out any time the admin's polls sag. Press conferences without a scintilla of evidence that the threat environment has changed. And a trial balloon over delaying elections...whew!
Hell - even tax cuts were hyped as part of the war on terror.
The fact is, spooks are by nature consiprators. And they are not drawn to the field by their love of untrammeled civil liberties.
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - G.W. Bush
(actual quote related to a parody website - my sig is just a paraphrase)
When I deployed my fw, I didn't get very far into writing the config file before it hit me: the programmers must have had to maintain other firewalls and decided to fix what sucked about them. They get it!
Man! Easy ways to compose arbitrary lists. macros that help readibility. Read in lists from external text files. Dynamic rules. I can express in one line what has taken 10 in a cisco acl. On and on. It is a real improvement - simpler, shorter human input means fewer human mistakes.
And pf follows the UNIX philosophy of keeping tools small and focussed. No http proxy - use Squid or something. Use pf to enforce the policy that browsers must go through the proxy. I use ftpsesame as an add-on to handle ftp. I have an inline fw, so the ftpproxy won't work.
I am astonished at its performance, too. Incredibly tiny amounts of memory. I'm in awe. pf is incredible.
It ties into CARP - which is a nice middle finger for Cisco's bogus load-balancing/failover patent. They implemented failover and made it secure. So you can have two or ten pf firewalls sharing state tables, unplug one (or nine) and sessions still flow. Maybe total bandwidth takes a hit, but it still flows.
I apologize for my total fanboyism. It's justified, but probably embarassing to read.
You don't get to call PSS just because you bought a license. You pay about as much per incident as for the license. Dunno how much they charge for Developer Support. You can pay people to support Linux. Do your own Googling, but I'll give you a hint: IBM. Novell. Hello....?
There is absolutely no difference between Windows Update and the Knowledge Base and the docs available for Linux, 24/7. Except that the Linux docs are arguably better. I haven't seen a Linux doc advise me to disable the firewall as a workaround.
Your car analogy supports the opposite of your conclusion - if you have to work to get a car/Linux, you'll still have it in 5 years.
Details are a bit sketchy: I didn't have time to take notes! So I'm a little unclear as to just exactly how I painted myself into this corner:
A while back I had to upgrade the OS on a Cisco GSR 12000 (carrier grade router, SOMEWHAT over-specced for our needs...). I go in on a Saturday night for what I figure will be 1/2 hour, tops. The new firmware was just a little too big to fit on the 16 meg bootflash with the bootloader file. So I clear the bootloader off the bootflash. I load the new firmware, change the config and reload.
Only...it don't load. Image corrupt. And it can't find the bootloader from slot0: O.k., must have messed up the boot statement. Connect a terminal- lets get the files off slot0:
wait. Where's slot0:? (PCMCIA card with 64 megs of memory, secondary storage)
This is the part where I cuss out my predecessor: YOU BOUGHT A $150,000 ROUTER AND DIDN'T GET THE FSKING $100 MEMORY OPTION?!?
It was a little appalling, that empty, empty slot.
So what I have is the preboot environment, which does not offer any means of loading a file over the net - no tftp.
I get on the line with Cisco - they tell me I need another chunk of storage - slot0: - and they can't get a part to me until Tuesday. I will be circulating resumes by then. Where can I get a compatible memory module?
In desperation, I go through a three year old telephone directory and find the number of a colleague at another campus who runs the same equipment. This is where the miracle happens: he's home. Only, he's not at his home, he's visiting a former housemate - he hasn't lived at that number for two years and was really confused when I found him. I believe they don't even hang out that much.
He very kindly meets me at his campus (Hi, Sam!), we very, very carefully go over how to put the right files on a pcmcia card he pulls from one of his routers. I zoom back, chicken and egg problem solved, os copied and checked , router loads, though I have to manually configure the interfaces.
Monday I placed an order for a memory module. And a spare.
Guy goes to a doctor. "My dick turned orange!"
Doctor: "That's unusual. Anything else going on in your life? Stress?"
Guy: "Well, yeah, I got laid off a few weeks ago."
Doctor: "That's rough. How are you holding up?"
Guy:"Not so bad - I sit around all day watching porno and eating cheetos."
O'Reilly is beyond biased, to the point of being warped. Yet he bills himself as the master of the no spin zone. Horseshit.
Rush actually claims to be infallible, when he's a fucking liar. He is also a coward: he pioneered "unguested" confrontation. He will NEVER present a credible, well-spoken opponent on his show. It's all sycophants and patsies.
"Liberals" actually debate things. Franken has a well-spoken conservative on regularly. It's not totally level, but he doesn't turn off the mike when he's losing the argument, like O'Reilly. He is far more interested in debate than Coulter, et. al. They duck him.
Conservatives are blind. The most prominent ones are sick.
Pretending they didn't die is not?
For a while now I suspected that delusion was the essence of conservatism. One more datum supporting that conclusion.
Bush is not moral - he is a compulsive liar. I take his photo-ops in job training centers to be lies, since after the photo op his budgets kill them off. He loads scientific panels with ideologues who will simply use the right rubber stamp. He picks Orwellian names for initiatives - "Clear SKies" when "Pollution-Fest" would be more accurate, and "Healthy Forests" for "Clear Cut-Amundo!!!"
He lied about privatizing social security. He lied about even CALLING it privatizing. He lies about the impact of his tax cuts. His whole "starve the beast" approach is a lie. He IS leaving a mess for our children to clean up, debts they will have to pay. All because he lacks the courage to propose cuts. Any asshole can promise free money, which is what those tax cuts are. The money doesn't belong to the taxpayers if they are still receiving the government services they clamor for.
I consider crony capitalists like him thieves. No-bid cost-plus contract for Halliburten? Sure. Defend Enron from the ratepayers they stole from? Sure. As Governer - turn over management of UT endowment to a contributer, with no public oversite (and predictable churn-and-burn)? Sure.
If you start counting on Sept. 12, the record in the U.S. isn't that bad. I start the count at least a month earlier, when he was taking a month vacation. Nutcases like you would certainly have called for Gore's head had he been in office during the 9/11 attacks. I call for W's. His administration's indifference to the threat seems to stem largely from the Clinton administration's attention to it. Whatevery they did, we do the opposite. Weren't they supposed to be grown-ups? If it had been a priority, they might have stopped it. Maybe, maybe not. If they had made the effort, I might give them a pass. But Asscrack was too busy investigating New Orleans prostitution to be bothered. (Guess what: they found some!)
Bush is pretty good at fighting enemies because he creates so many of them. Do you think there is a finite number of terrorists and they are all in Iraq? We are more effective recruiters than OBL by himself could ever be. Did you notice the State Department revised its report, which indicates that terrorism has increased in the last three years? Horrific attacks in Bali and Spain. Did you notice that OBL is still at large? Did you notice who is bogged down in Iraq? It's the American army, which diverted resources from the real fight in Afghanistan for W's Imperial Adventure in Iraq. And make no mistake - W lost that war. The prison torture scandal sealed the deal. And he bears real responsibility for it. IT's not just passive idiocy - it is a fact of human nature that guards will abuse prisoners absent strong controls. But they went beyond mere indifference and catastrophic incompetence: they actually made sure it would happen. And I worry about future U.S. POWs now that we've trashed the Geneva Convention. W has alienated the world, which hurts our security.
Kerry fought for his country. He didn't use family pull to jump the line into the Texas Guard. Kerry served. Bush went AWOL. Bush refused orders for a physical, costing him his flight status and the Guard a pilot it paid millions to train. I find it interesting that this refusal coincides with the introduction of drug testing. It is contemptable that the right wing attack machine would even think of attacking Kerry's service, when Bush's is so affirmatively disgusting.
What do you see in this guy? He shows no moral clarity - the tyrants he supports are no better than the one he deposed. He surrounds himself with crooks. He refuses to accept democratic oversite. At every turn, he classifies for political purposes, changes longstanding process to conceal information (5 year economic forcast for a backloaded 10 year tax cut), hiding the cost of the prescription drug bill, on and on.
The guy is a fuck up. A disaster. And you like him- for predictable gay-bashing? anti-abortion stance? Why doesn't he call for denying
When someone makes an argument based on principles he/she rejects, it's reasonable to scrutinize the argument with prejudice.
The current Administration has nothing but contempt for the Scientific Method, and science in general. Yet they will borrow some of its trappings when politically convenient. The appropriate doubt shown by scientists is used as an excuse for inaction. Yet when there is the most tentative conclusion from the most suspect source, the Administration leaps on it like it was Gospel - if and only if it supports preconceptions.
There are wingnuts in every discipline. Some disciplines are nothing but wingnuts. In climatology, there really is a consensus - absent wingnuts - that human produced greenhouse emmissions are contributing to global warming. Waiting for an agreed upon set of facts means waiting for wingnuts to receive proper medication and industry prostitutes to suddenly lose sight of where their economic interests lie. It would be like expecting the Tobacco Institute of old to discover that, by gosh, smoking does not enhance stamina or increase max o2. Waiting for complete information is paralysis.
"Daddy created him for good, but he turned out EVIL!"
Wallace & Grommit, "Close Shave"
This can really kick your ass.
Also - if/when you reboot the firewall, does it pass traffic before loading the firewall rules?
Yikes!
No, don't, not.
This is an important example of how blinded by nationalism and biases people can get. The Chinese were wrong in their assessment of who was at fault. It is not possible for a properly trained fighter pilot in a post-wwII fighter plane to be rammed by that type of spy plane. It just isn't.
I was not trolling - which I define as deliberately offending people with insincere posts in an attempt to get them to waste time posting replies.
So go get stuffed.
Nationalism seems to really blind the Chinese.
They still overwhelmingly believe the US pilot in the slow, prop-driven plane rammed the Chinese jet fighter. R-i-i-i-i-i-i-ght.
If they can't build jet fighters that can keep up with those things, they can buy some WWII surplus planes from the Phillipines. I don't know where they'll find competent pilots.
They also resent it when their government is criticized for...oppressing them! Go ahead, I guess.
Deep sleazeball, much like Murdoch, only he's dispensing with the puppet-middleman and occupying the office himself.
No wonder they adopted this weird law.
Treating the pre-flop betting round a second ante. I have to admit that playing tight pre-flop is so ingrained I couldn't begin to form another approach.
Getting into the endgame with a couple of nitwits is a great situation, but when it's a lot of nitwits, my signal processing gets overwhelmed.
Based on your analysis of my analysis , I'd kick your ass.
Just curious: what two hole cards would YOU prefer in Hold 'Em?
disclaimer - I don't play very well.
Suppose you start with the best possible cards - AA.
Newbies around the table hold bullshit-crap
Someone is going to get two pair out of the board. You have to hope for another ace or a pair on the board. If that pair does show up, it likely gives trip-bullshit to one of the 7 implacable newbs.
If the newbs all play irrationally, it seems sound play gets drowned in the noise.
I mean, you know that the odds suck, and the discussion is all about what sucks least. On top of that, the marginal value of a dollar won is less than that of a dollar lost, generally.
Look at the zombies at the slots - none of them are having any more fun than the pigeons in a rehash of a Skinner experiment.
If lotteries are a tax on the mathematically challenged, what can the explanation be for the mathematically adept undergoing a rigged game?
Poker odds are a little different, in that the relevant factor is the ratio of chumps shovelling cash in / house raking it out. When that ratio > 1 the pros can make a living at a casino but that's not a given by any means. The house takes a big bite out of each pot so there has to be a huge difference in skill to give you a positive expectancy.
Home games get hustled, though. Do you have a circle of acquaintences you trust not to cheat, but feel o.k. about beating?
Not for me.
B is already a problem. The windows approach to locking the desktop is utter crap.
It drives me up a tree that for Win2k anyway (I won't do XP - the license is too toxic) the "official" way to lock up a feature is to lock up whatever happens to be the UI they offer. That leaves malware free to make changes, because they do access the API directly, and the hapless user of the desktop can't change it because the UI is locked out.
Concrete example: you can make IE start with a particular page. You can grey out the option to change that page. Hostile website can still hijack the start page. "Oh, gee! We never thought that criminal computer trespassers would ever deviate from the path we selected for them!"
Where do you think Clippy came from? I've participated in two focus groups and came out of both wondering what kind of mind-disruption ray was being used on me, because in both of them I said some things I really wanted to take back.
You have to be smarter than your users. I realize MS tries really hard to do UI, but they can't seem to do it anywhere near as well as Apple. I think Apple doesn't have to rely as much on focus groups, possibly because they aren't run by robots.
anecdotal and 2nd hand but plausible
The MPG display does provide real feedback to the driver about the grosser habits, like leadfoot acceleration and sustained suboptimal speeds (65+ mph).
Someone with a Prius wrote that without the MPG feedback, the only info they had was from the speedometer. They thought that installing this on non-hybrid cars would save an Exxon Valdez every year.
I like the idea of Sourcefire's RNA product ("Realtime Network Awareness"). The idea is that it will use passive os fingerprinting to find out what's out there, and tap a database of vulnerabilities to see if there's a serious problem.
But I want the other alerts - the cmd.exe attempts on Apache servers, etc. - as correlation for the other alerts. I agree there's a huge value in separating the stuff that's merely for correlating with the serious alerts.
You can set an alert level = harmless just to get the packet recorded with a self-documenting tag. You can also pick action = "log", rather than "alert". Snort will store the packet, but won't put it in with the alerts. Sometimes lots of rules are required to give you what you want.
I'm toying with the idea of alerting on ftp control sessions, with a big "Harmless: ftp control session established" message. The idea is to have a flag that will explain those weird ephemeral port -> ephemeral port alerts that show up. Passive ftp should go client ephem port to server port 20, imho, but the RFC doesn't seem to require it and most implementations don't do it.
The info on the models includes blood type. I always wondered if they were marketing to vampires as well.
Weird.
Oh, I just *heard* that the info on japanese porn models includes blood type. No direct personal experience, nosirree.