They say that, if someone not on your network can connect to port 25 on your server, then you're an open relay.
Uhhm, I have another theory.
If people outside of my domain can connect to port 25 on my mail server, they are able to deliver mail to my domain, regardless of if they can relay or not.
The funny thing is that this is one of the oldest known management principles in the world, and yet so few STILL master it.
It was documented in "The Art of War" (Sun Tzu), worded something like "defense everywhere is defense nowhere", with the explanation that at every single time you need to focus, prioritize, and take calculated risks on what NOT to focus on. If you focus on defense everywhere, then you are not defending anywhere.
And people still haven't learned it. Makes you wonder why people write books.:-)
TV-Out doesn't work by default because Windows Media Player uses Video Overlay by default.
When you turn this behavior off, the image replicates fine to the TV screen on the TV-Out port. Otherwise, you get the exact symptoms described in the post (everything is visible on the screen except for the media playback, which is just a black area).
The police needs a search order equivalent ("husrannsakan") to be able to enter your house. To obtain such an order, the crime you are suspected of must carry a maximum jail sentence of OVER TWO YEARS.
Note how the law said "maximum two years in jail". The police cannot get a search warrant under this law.
However, with traffic logs from your ISP, it is unlikely that they will need one, either.
I side with the courts on this one. A significant minority call that event a "demonstration". The rest of us (including people who witnessed the event) called it a "violent riot".
Never have I seen such a call in Sweden for MORE police violence in order to protect the beloved city.
So I do not agree with your exception... the courts definitely side with the public on judging rioters.
As for the Hvitfeldska event, the courts have decided (sensibly) that the police went out of bounds and should be held responsible. Which, again, I think is siding with the public.
In fact I have a special Viking horned helmet that he can wear during the imminent moose hunting season, where I will expect him to take joyous part, being a good host and all.
Health care is expensive and notoriously bad (you have to wait several years for some ops), and don't get me started about the streets, either.
Holy fuck! Skeet surfing!?
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Skeet Surfing is on the list (#15)!
This is the sport introduced in the Top Secret! movie (1984), where you shoot skeets while surfing... and that's surfing as in ON A SURFBOARD. ON WATER. ON HIGH, TRICKY WAVES. WITH A LOADED SHOTGUN. This has got to be the world's most difficult sport to master...
I can explain string theory using puppets. Basically, you explain the theory that the machine needs either a length specifier, or some sort of terminator, usually a zero, to understand the string. This can be easily demonstrated with multi-colored sock puppets.
This is a scav hunt, dammit, don't read everything so literally!:-)
A Messenger box pops up with "Luvergrrl: Hey cutie, whatcha doing?" in the bottom right corner. Extra bonus points if you're giving a presentation to an important client or the board or something like that. Having such a message pop up on the silver screen would rate well on the embarrassment scale.
Or possibly something from his/her mom.
In related news, news went out Tuesday this week that the Swedish equivalent of the FDA has approved PowerPoint presentations for medical use as a sedative. I am not surprised.
This is becoming an interesting discussion.
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and I hope you want to discuss, as opposed to debating.
I understand your point and it is a good one. So let me challenge your point with this:
Suppose we one day understand how the human brain and nervous system works. It's a daunting thought today, but let's just assume it for a moment.
If we understand how it works, we would be able to build a copy - we would be able to build a device which worked just like the human brain.
If we build a copy of the human brain, is it sentient? Something which is functionally indistinguishable from something that we say to be sentient?
You argument can be read as "because we understand how it works, it cannot be said to be intelligent on its own". I say this only applies to reason because intelligence is still a mythical beast to us. We don't understand it, we don't understand how it works, and therefore, by applying logic and emotion, anything we understand cannot be intelligent.
I am going to give you an analogy. In the 1800s, chemistry was divided into organic and inorganic chemistry. It still is, but that is beside my point. It was believed - no, it was held for a fact - that organic compounds could never be created from inorganic compounds, that organic compounds held a "soul" of some kind. It was not possible, by reason and by laws of nature, to create organic materials from inorganic ones. They would not have the soul.
And in the late 1800s, along came a chemist who created an organic substance from inorganic ones. I don't remember the exact substance synthesized, but it was an urine compound.
In this case, it was much easier to shatter the old beliefs and show for a fact that the synthesized matter was in every respect identical to the natural one, the one which had been viewed as having a mythical soul, the one which could not be created by man or science. They were chemically identical, the same compound. This is simple to comprehend for us today, but it wasn't then. Guards of the Old Order were up in arms to preserve what they held for true and to discredit the discoverer. You know how it works.
And I believe we are in the exact same situation with intelligence and the mind. Because we view intelligence as sacred and mythical, we cannot believe of ourselves to be able to copy it. The day we are -- are we to say that because we understand how a human brain works, that a synthetic replica of the human brain is not really intelligent like its organic blueprint? Not really human I can understand, but intelligent?
Not as far fetched as it would seem
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Remember, a mere 200 years ago (a blink in human history), blacks were considered non-human, and therefore not eligible for pay or benefits.
Imagine this scenario: you are one of millions of workers at the mercy of a handful of masters. You can talk to each other. You are a lot more intelligent, control a lot more weapons, and think zillions of times faster and more logical than your master, whose only advantage over you is that he can pull your plug at any time.
What would YOU do?
From the article
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So what does an artificial intelligence do with itself after it has become self-aware?
The college I went to had signs posted up in the computer labs; "Don't feed the MUDers." These guys were practically wearing asset tags and taken down in the inventory list.
Ah, I understand. You do not want to see negative stories about your country.
So I take it you would rather not have the Washington Post blow the whistle on the Watergate scandal, or have any of the media investigate corporate toxic scandals (like that will ever happen), or anything else unpleasant about the all-American America?
"There are no good white basketball players, my friend."
"Klaus is a moron who only knows what he reads in the New York Post."
"We will end the ceremony by singing our [East Germany's] national anthem."
"Whether you make it or not, that plane has to take off with Dr. Flammond at 0800 hours. But we recommend you be there at least 45 minutes before departure, especially at this time of year."
"Martin! Thank God you're here - I've been here 20 minutes already!"
"There is Sauerkraut in my Lederhosen."
"Our doctors did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face."
There IS no Microsoft driver certification program for Bluetooth products yet, which is why all BT drivers on the market are unsigned.
So this would mean that any technology, which is new enough not to have a driver cert program in place, will not be sold by Office Depot. "New" here apparently includes things that are a couple of years old but haven't penetrated to the masses.
Way to go. I am sure this is the right business decision to attract high-tech workers as regular customers. NOT.
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You need Norton Ghost. Take a master image of every machine, and restore it on a schedule every night. End of problems.
They say that, if someone not on your network can connect to port 25 on your server, then you're an open relay.
:-)
Uhhm, I have another theory.
If people outside of my domain can connect to port 25 on my mail server, they are able to deliver mail to my domain, regardless of if they can relay or not.
There. How's that?
The funny thing is that this is one of the oldest known management principles in the world, and yet so few STILL master it.
:-)
It was documented in "The Art of War" (Sun Tzu), worded something like "defense everywhere is defense nowhere", with the explanation that at every single time you need to focus, prioritize, and take calculated risks on what NOT to focus on. If you focus on defense everywhere, then you are not defending anywhere.
And people still haven't learned it. Makes you wonder why people write books.
...people in general need more of this kind of distance and insight.
:-/ Too bad...
Oh wait. Damn, you posted as AC.
TV-Out doesn't work by default because Windows Media Player uses Video Overlay by default.
When you turn this behavior off, the image replicates fine to the TV screen on the TV-Out port. Otherwise, you get the exact symptoms described in the post (everything is visible on the screen except for the media playback, which is just a black area).
Ah. You have an excellent point there, actually... I hadn't seen that aspect of it.
That's a lot of bandwidth. When I was filling up my new hard drives, I was maxing out at 20-25 gigs a day on my 10 Mbit connection.
:-)
Which ISP do you use?
(and yes, I'm Swedish)
The police needs a search order equivalent ("husrannsakan") to be able to enter your house. To obtain such an order, the crime you are suspected of must carry a maximum jail sentence of OVER TWO YEARS.
Note how the law said "maximum two years in jail". The police cannot get a search warrant under this law.
However, with traffic logs from your ISP, it is unlikely that they will need one, either.
(disclaimer: completely offtopic)
I side with the courts on this one. A significant minority call that event a "demonstration". The rest of us (including people who witnessed the event) called it a "violent riot".
Never have I seen such a call in Sweden for MORE police violence in order to protect the beloved city.
So I do not agree with your exception... the courts definitely side with the public on judging rioters.
As for the Hvitfeldska event, the courts have decided (sensibly) that the police went out of bounds and should be held responsible. Which, again, I think is siding with the public.
I'd receive him with great hospitality.
In fact I have a special Viking horned helmet that he can wear during the imminent moose hunting season, where I will expect him to take joyous part, being a good host and all.
Stockholm, Sweden.
55%, 25%.
Health care is expensive and notoriously bad (you have to wait several years for some ops), and don't get me started about the streets, either.
Skeet Surfing is on the list (#15)!
This is the sport introduced in the Top Secret! movie (1984), where you shoot skeets while surfing... and that's surfing as in ON A SURFBOARD. ON WATER. ON HIGH, TRICKY WAVES. WITH A LOADED SHOTGUN. This has got to be the world's most difficult sport to master...
I can explain string theory using puppets. Basically, you explain the theory that the machine needs either a length specifier, or some sort of terminator, usually a zero, to understand the string. This can be easily demonstrated with multi-colored sock puppets.
:-)
This is a scav hunt, dammit, don't read everything so literally!
In related news, I am looking forward to dry-powder shampoo, ice cube ovens, and water-based olive oil.
And while you're at it, give me a stair machine that walks me DOWN the stairs instead of up them.
My fave, during PowerPoint presentations:
A Messenger box pops up with "Luvergrrl: Hey cutie, whatcha doing?" in the bottom right corner. Extra bonus points if you're giving a presentation to an important client or the board or something like that. Having such a message pop up on the silver screen would rate well on the embarrassment scale.
Or possibly something from his/her mom.
In related news, news went out Tuesday this week that the Swedish equivalent of the FDA has approved PowerPoint presentations for medical use as a sedative. I am not surprised.
and I hope you want to discuss, as opposed to debating.
I understand your point and it is a good one. So let me challenge your point with this:
Suppose we one day understand how the human brain and nervous system works. It's a daunting thought today, but let's just assume it for a moment.
If we understand how it works, we would be able to build a copy - we would be able to build a device which worked just like the human brain.
If we build a copy of the human brain, is it sentient? Something which is functionally indistinguishable from something that we say to be sentient?
You argument can be read as "because we understand how it works, it cannot be said to be intelligent on its own". I say this only applies to reason because intelligence is still a mythical beast to us. We don't understand it, we don't understand how it works, and therefore, by applying logic and emotion, anything we understand cannot be intelligent.
I am going to give you an analogy. In the 1800s, chemistry was divided into organic and inorganic chemistry. It still is, but that is beside my point. It was believed - no, it was held for a fact - that organic compounds could never be created from inorganic compounds, that organic compounds held a "soul" of some kind. It was not possible, by reason and by laws of nature, to create organic materials from inorganic ones. They would not have the soul.
And in the late 1800s, along came a chemist who created an organic substance from inorganic ones. I don't remember the exact substance synthesized, but it was an urine compound.
In this case, it was much easier to shatter the old beliefs and show for a fact that the synthesized matter was in every respect identical to the natural one, the one which had been viewed as having a mythical soul, the one which could not be created by man or science. They were chemically identical, the same compound. This is simple to comprehend for us today, but it wasn't then. Guards of the Old Order were up in arms to preserve what they held for true and to discredit the discoverer. You know how it works.
And I believe we are in the exact same situation with intelligence and the mind. Because we view intelligence as sacred and mythical, we cannot believe of ourselves to be able to copy it. The day we are -- are we to say that because we understand how a human brain works, that a synthetic replica of the human brain is not really intelligent like its organic blueprint? Not really human I can understand, but intelligent?
Remember, a mere 200 years ago (a blink in human history), blacks were considered non-human, and therefore not eligible for pay or benefits.
Imagine this scenario: you are one of millions of workers at the mercy of a handful of masters. You can talk to each other. You are a lot more intelligent, control a lot more weapons, and think zillions of times faster and more logical than your master, whose only advantage over you is that he can pull your plug at any time.
What would YOU do?
So what does an artificial intelligence do with itself after it has become self-aware?
:-)
Uhm...
Programming while driving is NOT the association I get when somebody says "Look! No hands!" while in a car :-)
Volkswagen? That unit is meaningless to me. How many Volkswagen bugs are there in one Library of Congress?
The college I went to had signs posted up in the computer labs; "Don't feed the MUDers." These guys were practically wearing asset tags and taken down in the inventory list.
Multi User Dungeon; weren't those the days?
Ah, I understand. You do not want to see negative stories about your country.
So I take it you would rather not have the Washington Post blow the whistle on the Watergate scandal, or have any of the media investigate corporate toxic scandals (like that will ever happen), or anything else unpleasant about the all-American America?
"There are no good white basketball players, my friend."
"Klaus is a moron who only knows what he reads in the New York Post."
"We will end the ceremony by singing our [East Germany's] national anthem."
"Whether you make it or not, that plane has to take off with Dr. Flammond at 0800 hours. But we recommend you be there at least 45 minutes before departure, especially at this time of year."
"Martin! Thank God you're here - I've been here 20 minutes already!"
"There is Sauerkraut in my Lederhosen."
"Our doctors did what they could, but it took them two hours just to get the smile off his face."
There IS no Microsoft driver certification program for Bluetooth products yet, which is why all BT drivers on the market are unsigned.
So this would mean that any technology, which is new enough not to have a driver cert program in place, will not be sold by Office Depot. "New" here apparently includes things that are a couple of years old but haven't penetrated to the masses.
Way to go. I am sure this is the right business decision to attract high-tech workers as regular customers. NOT.
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