That's irritating. They're making terrorism speculations (at least on the radio) because of an Israeli on board. Does he have a history of terrorism? I imagine he wouldn't make it on to a shuttle with that kind of record. Have they proven links to Al-Qaeda? Did he hide a dirty bomb in his space helmet? Jesus - I swear we're going backwards socially because of the war on terrorism...
That's not the speculation. What speculation there is is that a group, seeking to kill the first Israeli in space may have done something. Shooting it down is out of the question, but sabotage is a possibility (though I strongly doubt it).
Well I would advice you not to turn on Fox News Channel...right under the Shuttle coverage their ticker is running stuff about Iraq, Saddam and "coming war." Not very subtle if you ask me.
Just because there's been a tragedy doesn't mean that news concerning a war (which will be fought; if you think war is anything but inevitable, you're deluded) is irrelevant.
Um, no. They only have to release their changes if they also distribute said changes.
And selling the software along with the big iron they're releasing qualifies as distribution. Technically, all they have to do is release their patches along with the iron; the GPL simply requires that you give the source to anyone who you gave/sold a binary to. Of course, those would be free to merge them back into Linux.
Gap also gave out a CD containing either a collection of cross-platform (I'm going to say Shockwave) games (ie Windows & Mac) a few years back.
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This isn't about product placement. This is about advertisers creating games to advertise their products and distributing the games for free or at low prices. Jeep for instance has made a game that features taking various Jeeps out to the mountains (because most Jeep buyers will never do it IRL, I guess...)
This isn't that new... I remember Frito-Lay creating a video game for the Sega Genesis about 10 years ago that was a platformer starring Chester Cheetah with Chee-tos as power-ups. It was actually a good game... the writing was excellent, even if the graphics weren't much beyond your typical Sonic game.
...crafted to cast DNSBLs in the light of evil privacy invaders.
No, just calling a spade a spade.
You don't get on a DNSBL by sharing a netblock with spammers. Your netblock gets on a DNSBL by having spammers who the owning ISP refuses to squelch. So, your example would be that your city block gets published.
That's no different, for all intents and purposes. And even worse, because people with no connection whatsoever to the 7-Eleven get blacklisted.
A DNSBL is not published in a forum like a newspaper. It's a stand-alone resource that is queryable. So, your example would be having your city block publised in a mail-order list of porn- supporting city-blocks.
Irrelevant. There is no effective difference between "publishing in a forum like a newspaper" and publishing in "a stand-alone resource that is queryable". Both are publishing the information for public consumption and dissemination.
So services like cell-phone and pager email should never have spam-filtering, since you're not given a shell via which to modify such a file?
Where do I say that you need a shell? Many ISPs have written PHP scripts on their webservers which allow users to adjust their spamassassin and procmail configurations (there's probably a few on sourceforge, also). What I'm saying is that email services should provide their users with a means to control how the filters work.
I want my ISP to dump the spam
Then you enable the "Ultra-fascist shoot on sight mode"... My point is simply that ISPs should a) not impement draconian anti-spam policies without telling the users and b) allow the users who want a different (be it heightened or lessened) level of anti-spam measures to choose and enforce their desired level.
I think you should expect service to be degraded by that activity, and be pissed with said ISP when/if you find that they've tarnished YOUR reputation by doing business with scum.
Very well. So how about this situation: an anti-porn group decides that the best way to get rid of porno mags is to photograph everyone going into the local 7-Eleven as well as their license plates, regardless of whether or not they come out with a copy of Hustler and buys an ad in the local paper saying "these people support evil pornography by supporting the largest porn dealer in the US," with photos of them and their cars, with names and addresses, courtesy of the DMV. That's exactly what the anti-spam blacklists are: they are designed to punish those who do business with companies that provide services to "undesirables". It's also akin to the '60s, when (not just in the South), various white groups recorded the names of restaurants that served blacks, publicized them, and considered any white that ate at such a restaurant to be a nigger-lover. Some went so far as to park their cars in front of the entrances to such establishments (initiating a DoS attack, basically).
Also, I think that if my ISP decides to block such access, they should be willing to give me access to an un-blocked server if I want it.
However, the bulk of ISPs that use the various blacklists do not offer their users a choice, nor do they publicize that the blacklists are in place. They often use the blacklists at the level of their border routers (hell, IIRC, AboveNet (whose CTO happens to be the main guy behind MAPS), a backbone provider (!!!!) uses MAPS at their border routers).
I have no problem with proper use of the blacklists. Proper use would be having something like SpamAssassin (which can do it's own queries to the dbs) use whether something is on the blacklist to give it a slightly higher score on the spam count. However, such a tool must be entirely opt-in, and users should have the ability to use their own.spamassassin files, with customized weights that would include disabling the blacklist lookups.
Sales taxes are also considered to be among the most regressive of taxes, because they equally affect the rich and the poor (if you look at the amounts of sales taxes paid as a percentage of gross income).
Massachusetts has one of the better implementations: food is not subject to the sales tax (if the store qualifies as a restaurant, then there is a "meals tax" which happens to have the same rate as the sales tax) and neither are prescription medicines (through the Commonwealth is implementing a fixed tax on pharmacists per prescription filled) or clothing (if the retail value of the articles or package thereof is less than $100... the portion above that is taxable). One interesting thing to come out of the tax regs, such as condoms are not taxable (they are considered by the Department of Revenue to be clothing).
Again, it should be stressed that this, for now, is being run strictly on the honor system, the state has no plans to audit that line on the tax return (though if you put something like "$0" down for it, it may raise some eyebrows).
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations while a very important book, is primaraly concerned with refuting the Merchintalistic theories prevelant in its day. It therefore is not in any way a systemic description of capitalism, but rather a "founding text" of economics.
I will give you that.
I am not sure which segments of our population are "closest... to achieving the Marxist dream."
No, I am referring to the end result of a Marxist economy, that is to say, worker ownership of the means of production, across the economy. In the US, the majority of people own stock in at least one business. Admittedly, we're not even close to 100%, and there is still a lot of work to be done to reach that goal (which I think is an admirable goal... I just don't think the Left's idea of how to get there is the best way to do it). However, when you look at the regimes that have tried to follow Marxism or one of it's derivatives, you have universally found systems where ultimately all power and control of the means of production resides in the hands of even fewer people than in so-called "capitalist" economies.
I believe that the free market, with a free market in capital, is the most effective means of achieving a world where everybody has control over the means of production... in essence, where everybody has a share of the pie and the pie's total value is maximized.
Capitalism: economic system, first described in detail by Karl Marx in Das Kapital in which capital goods, i. e. the means of production such as factories or tractors are owned by those who controll them, i. e. factory owners. This is not a post industrial idea, but actually one born in the heart of the idusrial revolution.
You, dear sir, are an idiot who does not know what you are talking about. Capitalism may have been named by Marx, but it was described decades before Das Kapital, in Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which preceded the Industrial Revolution and greatly contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
To call the US capitalist, however, is to also demonstrate idiocy. The US is far from being capitalist. If anything, it is the closest nation to achieving the Marxist dream, though it is doing it in a way that Karl could not have seen.
For the case of people who share a spammers address range, I feel for them, but... do I really want to take the pressure off of them in favor of flooding the world with spam?
Please allow me to extrapolate...
"For the case of people who share an ethnic background with terrorists, I feel for them, but... do I really want to take the pressure off them in favor of flooding the world with spam?"
The fact is: DNSBLs are the Internet equivalent of those on the right wing who seem intent on banishing anyone of Middle Eastern descent because they could be terrorists or in proclaiming that "when you buy drugs, you are supporting terrorism."
For now, at least. It's blatantly obvious that News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch) will buy DirecTV once GM puts it on the block again. He needs it so he can give Sky (which also owns his Asian Star TV assets) a truly global reach, as well as give him a nice bargaining chip against AOLTW. Most likely, he cashed a lot of chips in Washington with the Republicans to get the EchoStar/DirecTV merger canned (Murdoch is the most prominent right-wing media baron in the world... his British papers are even more rabidly conservative than his New York Post).
Here's a project for you. Start up a P2P app that allows you to log every search request that comes in (I know there's some giFT clients that do this... I believe that other file-sharing systems support this). I did this informally and I saw a lot more search requests for Britney et al than anything else (apart from "lesbian XXX video" and such).
Icing the kicker is just a stupid thing to do anyway
That's true, and I think everybody in football knows it. Most kickers love it when the other team tries to ice them, it gives them more time to make sure that the holder and snapper are on the same page, get a feel for the wind, and so forth. The only reason, it seems, that coaches continue to do it is because if they don't and the guy kicks the game-winning field goal, the fans will yell and scream that he should have. It's another ritual in the Kabuki that is the NFL.
They're paying, between ABC and ESPN, $2.4 billion over eight years for the rights to televise three of these fuckers. On the whole, they're losing money on this deal, though it could be argued that the program promotion aspects of having the football make up for a lot of the losses.
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That's not the speculation. What speculation there is is that a group, seeking to kill the first Israeli in space may have done something. Shooting it down is out of the question, but sabotage is a possibility (though I strongly doubt it).
Just because there's been a tragedy doesn't mean that news concerning a war (which will be fought; if you think war is anything but inevitable, you're deluded) is irrelevant.
I think we may have a new record-breaker here...
...for this comment I made yesterday.
My condolences to the families of the astronauts.
"...without shoe manufacturing."
Yeah. Try again.
"...without the biggest automobile manufacturing industry on earth"
Uh huh.
Notice the pattern?
What's the difference between the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and NASA?
CIA teaches cooks and NASA cooks teachers!
What's NASA's favorite soda?
7-Up.
And twins?
And I love you too.
Here's to love songs!
And selling the software along with the big iron they're releasing qualifies as distribution. Technically, all they have to do is release their patches along with the iron; the GPL simply requires that you give the source to anyone who you gave/sold a binary to. Of course, those would be free to merge them back into Linux.
Just as long as Linus doesn't get with Kylie Minogue and erotically asphyxiate himself....
You know, if you're banging Kylie Minogue, why the hell would you do *anything* which could cause death?
Gap also gave out a CD containing either a collection of cross-platform (I'm going to say Shockwave) games (ie Windows & Mac) a few years back.
RTFA
This isn't about product placement. This is about advertisers creating games to advertise their products and distributing the games for free or at low prices. Jeep for instance has made a game that features taking various Jeeps out to the mountains (because most Jeep buyers will never do it IRL, I guess...)
This isn't that new... I remember Frito-Lay creating a video game for the Sega Genesis about 10 years ago that was a platformer starring Chester Cheetah with Chee-tos as power-ups. It was actually a good game... the writing was excellent, even if the graphics weren't much beyond your typical Sonic game.
It certainly hasn't helped you learn how to spell "Army". ;o)
*BSD handles 1.6 million connections without dying.
I'd definitely not sniff at it...
No, just calling a spade a spade.
That's no different, for all intents and purposes. And even worse, because people with no connection whatsoever to the 7-Eleven get blacklisted.
Irrelevant. There is no effective difference between "publishing in a forum like a newspaper" and publishing in "a stand-alone resource that is queryable". Both are publishing the information for public consumption and dissemination.
Where do I say that you need a shell? Many ISPs have written PHP scripts on their webservers which allow users to adjust their spamassassin and procmail configurations (there's probably a few on sourceforge, also). What I'm saying is that email services should provide their users with a means to control how the filters work.
Then you enable the "Ultra-fascist shoot on sight mode"... My point is simply that ISPs should a) not impement draconian anti-spam policies without telling the users and b) allow the users who want a different (be it heightened or lessened) level of anti-spam measures to choose and enforce their desired level.
Very well. So how about this situation: an anti-porn group decides that the best way to get rid of porno mags is to photograph everyone going into the local 7-Eleven as well as their license plates, regardless of whether or not they come out with a copy of Hustler and buys an ad in the local paper saying "these people support evil pornography by supporting the largest porn dealer in the US," with photos of them and their cars, with names and addresses, courtesy of the DMV. That's exactly what the anti-spam blacklists are: they are designed to punish those who do business with companies that provide services to "undesirables". It's also akin to the '60s, when (not just in the South), various white groups recorded the names of restaurants that served blacks, publicized them, and considered any white that ate at such a restaurant to be a nigger-lover. Some went so far as to park their cars in front of the entrances to such establishments (initiating a DoS attack, basically).
However, the bulk of ISPs that use the various blacklists do not offer their users a choice, nor do they publicize that the blacklists are in place. They often use the blacklists at the level of their border routers (hell, IIRC, AboveNet (whose CTO happens to be the main guy behind MAPS), a backbone provider (!!!!) uses MAPS at their border routers).
I have no problem with proper use of the blacklists. Proper use would be having something like SpamAssassin (which can do it's own queries to the dbs) use whether something is on the blacklist to give it a slightly higher score on the spam count. However, such a tool must be entirely opt-in, and users should have the ability to use their own .spamassassin files, with customized weights that would include disabling the blacklist lookups.
Sales taxes are also considered to be among the most regressive of taxes, because they equally affect the rich and the poor (if you look at the amounts of sales taxes paid as a percentage of gross income).
Massachusetts has one of the better implementations: food is not subject to the sales tax (if the store qualifies as a restaurant, then there is a "meals tax" which happens to have the same rate as the sales tax) and neither are prescription medicines (through the Commonwealth is implementing a fixed tax on pharmacists per prescription filled) or clothing (if the retail value of the articles or package thereof is less than $100... the portion above that is taxable). One interesting thing to come out of the tax regs, such as condoms are not taxable (they are considered by the Department of Revenue to be clothing).
Again, it should be stressed that this, for now, is being run strictly on the honor system, the state has no plans to audit that line on the tax return (though if you put something like "$0" down for it, it may raise some eyebrows).
I will give you that.
No, I am referring to the end result of a Marxist economy, that is to say, worker ownership of the means of production, across the economy. In the US, the majority of people own stock in at least one business. Admittedly, we're not even close to 100%, and there is still a lot of work to be done to reach that goal (which I think is an admirable goal... I just don't think the Left's idea of how to get there is the best way to do it). However, when you look at the regimes that have tried to follow Marxism or one of it's derivatives, you have universally found systems where ultimately all power and control of the means of production resides in the hands of even fewer people than in so-called "capitalist" economies.
I believe that the free market, with a free market in capital, is the most effective means of achieving a world where everybody has control over the means of production... in essence, where everybody has a share of the pie and the pie's total value is maximized.
You, dear sir, are an idiot who does not know what you are talking about. Capitalism may have been named by Marx, but it was described decades before Das Kapital, in Smith's The Wealth of Nations, which preceded the Industrial Revolution and greatly contributed to the Industrial Revolution.
To call the US capitalist, however, is to also demonstrate idiocy. The US is far from being capitalist. If anything, it is the closest nation to achieving the Marxist dream, though it is doing it in a way that Karl could not have seen.
Please allow me to extrapolate...
"For the case of people who share an ethnic background with terrorists, I feel for them, but... do I really want to take the pressure off them in favor of flooding the world with spam?"
The fact is: DNSBLs are the Internet equivalent of those on the right wing who seem intent on banishing anyone of Middle Eastern descent because they could be terrorists or in proclaiming that "when you buy drugs, you are supporting terrorism."
For now, at least. It's blatantly obvious that News Corporation (Rupert Murdoch) will buy DirecTV once GM puts it on the block again. He needs it so he can give Sky (which also owns his Asian Star TV assets) a truly global reach, as well as give him a nice bargaining chip against AOLTW. Most likely, he cashed a lot of chips in Washington with the Republicans to get the EchoStar/DirecTV merger canned (Murdoch is the most prominent right-wing media baron in the world... his British papers are even more rabidly conservative than his New York Post).
Here's a project for you. Start up a P2P app that allows you to log every search request that comes in (I know there's some giFT clients that do this... I believe that other file-sharing systems support this). I did this informally and I saw a lot more search requests for Britney et al than anything else (apart from "lesbian XXX video" and such).
I want to see real conflict between RMS and Steve Jobs. I mean knock-down, drag-out brawl conflict. Anybody with me?
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Starnix: It don't matter if you're a Linux, OS X, *BSD, Solaris, AIX,
That's true, and I think everybody in football knows it. Most kickers love it when the other team tries to ice them, it gives them more time to make sure that the holder and snapper are on the same page, get a feel for the wind, and so forth. The only reason, it seems, that coaches continue to do it is because if they don't and the guy kicks the game-winning field goal, the fans will yell and scream that he should have. It's another ritual in the Kabuki that is the NFL.
They're paying, between ABC and ESPN, $2.4 billion over eight years for the rights to televise three of these fuckers. On the whole, they're losing money on this deal, though it could be argued that the program promotion aspects of having the football make up for a lot of the losses.