When you're already suspected of helping someone commit a crime, it doesn't help your case that you're innocent when you give that person tens of thousands of dollars to aid in their defense.
How about they legalize pot, release all of the non-violent drug and sex offenders (I'm thinking of prostitutes and johns in that last group, not molesters and the like), then close up some of the state's prisons and lay off/fire the security guards in those prisons? That would be a huge first step, and by itself would almost certainly balance the budget.
who has had trouble in mainstream politics due to being honest and uncompromising
That would certainly explain his previous two terms as governor, plus his term as State Attorney General, plus his time as Mayor of Oakland. Yep, just a perennial loser in politics.
What about those people who aren't required to be in touch 24 hours a day, but perhaps the 8 working hours they do each day, are they going to have to use their personal cell phone?
I think you can get phones that plug into walls, though I'm not entirely sure about that. I read about it somewhere, it's supposed to be cheaper than cell phones.
There's a relatively simple way to handle this. First, you set up a call center with operators on the phone who each have access to the servers under management. They each have sudo rights to a single command: to create an xterm as root. Their workstations are locked down and do not have an X server installed. (You can take this further and restrict X from reaching them via firewall policies.)
Second, the admins who need root access do have an X server installed. When they need root access to a system, they first call the operators above and open a ticket, detailing exactly why they need access, for how long, and what other ticket is being worked that justified this in the first place. Then the operator invokes an xterm, using the admin's workstation as their display. The admin now has a root session on the server in question.
A few other policy guidelines (no more than one root window to a given server at a time, all requests logged to a central database, auditing conducted to make sure the same admin and the same operator aren't talking more often than statistics say they should, timeouts on all sessions with active monitoring of/etc/profile to make sure the timeout isn't tampered with) and this should at least let you know exactly who is becoming root, when, and why.
The drawback to this scheme is that it doesn't cover those instances where a machine is not on the network for some reason. But in those cases, you institute a policy of two people being required to sign in and sign out of a cage before getting physical access to hardware. Two-person integrity should mitigate against any nefarious goings sufficiently (not perfectly, of course, but sufficiently).
Until we know more it may be premature to assume the Congresswoman was the intended target. There was also a judge at the rally (who was killed), he may have been the prime target.
Bufferbloat is existence of excessively large (bloated) buffers into systems, particularly network communication systems.
What the hell does that even mean? I'll admit I'm no network expert, just a humble sysadmin. But this definition appears to be nothing more than a tautology. "Bufferbloat is the existence of bloated buffers." WTF?
Yes, because when your opponent has a history of murdering people who oppose him, the only acceptable course of action is stand up and oppose him publicly. Nevermind that little red dot on your forehead, just keep giving that speech about the horrors of farm collectivization.
It is exactly this kind of naive and misguided thinking that gets people killed in the real world.
I've been to about 40 countries in the last 22 years. I've only had trouble communicating with random people I met once, in Japan (even there, my high school German helped to bridge the gap). Every single other country I've visited I was able to find someone who spoke English with no trouble. I have a hard time seeing Chinese meeting that level of penetration anytime soon.
OK, this one stumps me, but then it's hard to combine a verb, a subject, and an object all in one word in English. "Cat-master discipling" (two words) is about as short as I can get.
'doing something in a freedom loving spirit'
"Libertarianingly." Also easy.
People seem to forget that English has two things going for it: an incredibly large vocabulary, and a very malleable set of rules for converting words into different types, then combining them. Turning a noun into a gerund, then that gerund into an adverb, isn't something that many languages can accomplish (aside from agglutinative languages, like Turkish and Finnish). As long as English can, it's going to be able to mix and match new ideas far more easily than other (natural) languages; hence, it will not lose its top spot as the current lingua franca of the world.
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I'm on a Commodore Vic 20
What's the weather like in Afghanistan these days?
When you're already suspected of helping someone commit a crime, it doesn't help your case that you're innocent when you give that person tens of thousands of dollars to aid in their defense.
Yeah, exactly like that! Now all we need is someone to actually create it.
They're big boys and girls, getting a new job is their own responsibility.
An Amber Alert browser add-on for Firefox would be able to alert Firefox users no matter what website they're using.
How about they legalize pot, release all of the non-violent drug and sex offenders (I'm thinking of prostitutes and johns in that last group, not molesters and the like), then close up some of the state's prisons and lay off/fire the security guards in those prisons? That would be a huge first step, and by itself would almost certainly balance the budget.
AT&T/Verizon/Sprint: California, you have to pay us $100 million in early termination fees.
California: OK, not a problem. We'll just raise the money by increasing taxes on cell phones in our state. Still want the money?
AT&T/Verizon/Sprint: *silence*
who has had trouble in mainstream politics due to being honest and uncompromising
That would certainly explain his previous two terms as governor, plus his term as State Attorney General, plus his time as Mayor of Oakland. Yep, just a perennial loser in politics.
What about those people who aren't required to be in touch 24 hours a day, but perhaps the 8 working hours they do each day, are they going to have to use their personal cell phone?
I think you can get phones that plug into walls, though I'm not entirely sure about that. I read about it somewhere, it's supposed to be cheaper than cell phones.
I wouldn't exactly want convicted murderers in the 1st colony on Mars, would you?
I would if I had the PayPerView rights and lots of cameras stationed around the planet.
You know what benefit parents give their children? Life. Beat that one, I dare you.
There's a relatively simple way to handle this. First, you set up a call center with operators on the phone who each have access to the servers under management. They each have sudo rights to a single command: to create an xterm as root. Their workstations are locked down and do not have an X server installed. (You can take this further and restrict X from reaching them via firewall policies.)
Second, the admins who need root access do have an X server installed. When they need root access to a system, they first call the operators above and open a ticket, detailing exactly why they need access, for how long, and what other ticket is being worked that justified this in the first place. Then the operator invokes an xterm, using the admin's workstation as their display. The admin now has a root session on the server in question.
A few other policy guidelines (no more than one root window to a given server at a time, all requests logged to a central database, auditing conducted to make sure the same admin and the same operator aren't talking more often than statistics say they should, timeouts on all sessions with active monitoring of /etc/profile to make sure the timeout isn't tampered with) and this should at least let you know exactly who is becoming root, when, and why.
The drawback to this scheme is that it doesn't cover those instances where a machine is not on the network for some reason. But in those cases, you institute a policy of two people being required to sign in and sign out of a cage before getting physical access to hardware. Two-person integrity should mitigate against any nefarious goings sufficiently (not perfectly, of course, but sufficiently).
Apparently, Palin didn't think it was necessary to know more.
To be fair, that's true about a lot of things.
Until we know more it may be premature to assume the Congresswoman was the intended target. There was also a judge at the rally (who was killed), he may have been the prime target.
Excellent post, thank you for explaining the problem is detail.
Marco Pollo? Is that where you hunt for chickens in a pool?
Couple that with lucid dreaming and I think you've just eliminated about 98% of the reported hauntings out there.
Bufferbloat is existence of excessively large (bloated) buffers into systems, particularly network communication systems.
What the hell does that even mean? I'll admit I'm no network expert, just a humble sysadmin. But this definition appears to be nothing more than a tautology. "Bufferbloat is the existence of bloated buffers." WTF?
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Dear Jeebus, please don't let any SyFy execs read this post.
Yes, because when your opponent has a history of murdering people who oppose him, the only acceptable course of action is stand up and oppose him publicly. Nevermind that little red dot on your forehead, just keep giving that speech about the horrors of farm collectivization.
It is exactly this kind of naive and misguided thinking that gets people killed in the real world.
I've been to about 40 countries in the last 22 years. I've only had trouble communicating with random people I met once, in Japan (even there, my high school German helped to bridge the gap). Every single other country I've visited I was able to find someone who spoke English with no trouble. I have a hard time seeing Chinese meeting that level of penetration anytime soon.
'becoming the quality of redness'
"Reddishing." That was easy.
'causing someone to become a master of cats'
OK, this one stumps me, but then it's hard to combine a verb, a subject, and an object all in one word in English. "Cat-master discipling" (two words) is about as short as I can get.
'doing something in a freedom loving spirit'
"Libertarianingly." Also easy.
People seem to forget that English has two things going for it: an incredibly large vocabulary, and a very malleable set of rules for converting words into different types, then combining them. Turning a noun into a gerund, then that gerund into an adverb, isn't something that many languages can accomplish (aside from agglutinative languages, like Turkish and Finnish). As long as English can, it's going to be able to mix and match new ideas far more easily than other (natural) languages; hence, it will not lose its top spot as the current lingua franca of the world.
Yep. And that should happen next year.
The government can now take your property without proving you committed a crime. In what way does that exemplify us being "the land of the free?"
America is officially a police state. Merry Fucking Christmas.
Yes, because it would be impossible for the airlines to screen their own pilots and then issue them a special device to open otherwise-locked doors.