I really mean what I said. I have four kids. The oldest will be entering college next year. I carefully planned my bike routes using google maps to avoid traffic. 0.7 miles of my daily commute goes through a park. The rest goes through residential. I have to cross 5 major roads - but with a traffic light and walk signal. Isn't it interesting how the neo-communists like Gore are the conspicuous consumers? Like Charlie Brown said, "Those who can't do, teach."
Balance is fundamental. I call it the fundamental theorem of calculus (maxima and minima). Eat too little - you die early. Eat too much - you die early. The balance is in between the extremes. Currently, American culture is way on the "too much" side of eating.
No taxes - no revenue. 100% taxes - no revenue. In between the extremes there is an optimum that lets the economy grow while providing revenue for the government. For the last 50 years, we've been on the side of the curve where raising taxes reduces revenue, and lowering them raises revenue. Raising taxes isn't about revenue anymore. It is about control of your life.
I ride my bicycle 6.85 miles to work every day (or telecommute for snow and ice). I keep the thermostat at 65 in the winter. I make my kids walk to school, even in the rain. We eat vegetarian with occasional chicken/turkey. I use fluorescent lights when they are on much of the day (and incandescent when on for a few minutes at a time).
Nevertheless, IMO the global warming alarmism being used to push a neo-communist agenda stinks. I've looked at the evidence, and humans as *the major* contributor just doesn't add up. I'm not convinced by "all the real scientists say so" either. There is too much censoring of dissenters for that to be convincing.
In many cases, the cures exacerbate real problems. For instance, demand for ethanol is causing more rain forest clear cutting to grow sugar cane. Paving large areas causes local warming (urban heat island effect) far in excess of the worst case estimates of global warming, and loses even more ability to recycle CO2 in the air. Eating beef/pork for breakfast, lunch, and dinner has causes a 10 fold increase in methane, much more that the increase in CO2. All the driving causes stress, and the fatty, sugary fast food combined with the lack of exercise has made most of us fat, driving up health care costs.
My point is that I would like to see a positive agenda. Keep and expand greenspaces and forests. I'm not a stickler for "everything wild" like Gore - parks are fine. Walk, ride bikes, use mass transit. Rent a car for vacations. Use a ZipCar for trips to the store to pick up heavy items. Eat meat only on feast days (e.g. Sunday - modify for your religion), like we used to, and observe a Sabbath (on a day appropriate for your religion). Getting rid of my car saves $300 to $800 dollars a month (depending on how nice a used car I would have gotten to replace it). I have a ready excuse why I can't jump up and drive all over the county on a moments notice. Stop the rushing around. Relax, enjoy your food instead of wolfing it down in a hurry. Eat slowly. Eat less. Fast on a regular basis - if only so you know what it feels like to be hungry. Eat only when you are hungry, not when you are bored, or pressured by friends.
Use our own oil (offshore drilling, Alaska, and/or plant it instead of corn for the cows you aren't eating as much of) instead of buying it from our enemies and carting it over the ocean. Save the oil for the truckers so your fresh veggies won't cost an arm and a leg. The trees will slowly take care of the CO2 if we don't cut them down and pave them over. Whatever you do, don't give control to the government to "fix" things. They will only make it worse. Sufficiently large corporations are indistinguishable from government in their capacity to foul things up.
Take these suggestions slowly so the affected industries have time to adjust.
Multiple internal ducted fans are mechanically simple - but to maintain stable flight/hover requires constant adjustment via computer control. An example would be the Moller SkyCar (and he still hasn't got the computer control working right). This hovercopter has stable flight (at least up/hover/down, not sure about lateral) without complex computer control.
There were also devices with a single internal ducted fan featured on slashdot a while back. These are simple to control, but only if the center of gravity is close to the fan. The payload has to be small compared to the fan. The hovercopter can hold a large payload beneath the dome.
PROVIDED there is a meter to tell you how much you've used. My Dad's sattelite service does it right. The limit is spelled out, there is a meter to tell you how much you've used this month, and when you get close to the limit, it suggests increasing your limit by upgrading to the next plan level. Now THAT is smart business.
I have Cox cable, and although they do a lot of other things right, this isn't one of them. The AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) states monthly upload and download bandwidth limits, but there is no way to check, apart from rolling your own iptables wrapper, how much you've used. You're left with a vague worry that maybe you might be getting close and should put off that big download...
It seems that Moller has never gotten the computer control part right over 12 years. Sad. But the mechanical design is good. In another 5 years, his patents will expire, and someone can finish the job.
This allows the forgeries to be rejected at MAIL FROM. A lot more efficient
than receiving the entire message body, doing a crypto hash and public key
cryptography, and then throwing all the work away with a reject.
The drawback with SPF is that to work properly the receiver needs to know
who they have set up as forwarders - something Joe Sixpack probably
has no clue about, and therefore his ISP has no clue either since
Joe Sixpack signed up with the forwarder. So this makes checking
SPF difficult for a big email service provider.
Another problem is that when a phish uses another MAIL FROM, Joe Sixpack won't
notice that although the "From" header field says paypal, the "Sender" field
is quite different (and yes, Outlook and other mass market email clients
display this clearly):
2007Mar28 13:28:55 [5043] Received-SPF: None (mail.bmsi.com: 200.123.148.2 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of nuva1.nuvanet.com) client-ip=200.123.148.2; envelope-from="nobody@nuva1.nuvanet.com"; helo=nuva1.nuvanet.com; receiver=mail.bmsi.com; mechanism=a/24; identity=mailfrom; x-bestguess=pass; 2007Mar28 13:28:56 [5043] Subject: Your PayPal account will be suspended ! 2007Mar28 13:28:56 [5043] X-Mailer: PHP / 4.3.5 2007Mar28 13:28:56 [5043] From: service@paypal.com 2007Mar28 13:28:56 [5043] NOTE: Supplying MFROM as Sender 2007Mar28 13:28:56 [5043] Sender: <nobody@nuva1.nuvanet.com>
In any case, they support *multiple* authentication methods. So take your
pick. There really is no reason to pass on the forgeries.
The Moller Skycar uses rotary (Wankel) engines. One main moving part (rotor) each. It uses 8 of them, 2 in each of 4 rotating pods. It can lose at least 3 engines and still maintain stable flight (after that it depends on which you lose). There is also a parachute for the entire vehicle as a last resort.
The Wankel engines are much smaller and lighter for the same horsepower than piston engines. Their drawback for automobiles is similar to turbines - they don't like low RPMS (the rotor seals leak at low RPMS causing wasted fuel, seal wear, and pollution). This is not a drawback for aviation.
Of course, this design requires fly by wire computer control for everything, and you don't want your computer to fail (although the parachute could be manually deployed).
But there just aren't good places to park all those cubic meters of helium each of our blimp-cars would need.
Pump the helium (or hydrogen - that wasn't what started the fire on the Hindenber, although it certainly made it worse once it ignited) into tanks to descend. Release it into the gas bag to ascend. Pump it all into your tanks and fold up your envelope to park. Submarines do something like this with air.
There are a lot of applications that are not CPU bound, including business and accounting, but have a *lot* of code. We have used virtual machine code since the 1970s. When upgrading the hardware and/or OS (from Series/1 to 286 AT Xenix to Motorola 68020 to Motorola PPC to AIX to Linux), we just copy the applications and data. No mess, no fuss.
I can also think of a lot of applications that are *not* appropriate for virtual machines because of CPU performance demands. The right tool for the job and all that.
There is something about a Linux distributor telling me that I am limited as to how many clients I can install based on how much money I pay that just rubs be the wrong way. How can they do this and not go afoul of the GPL?
There is no limit on downloading the source. When you buy RHEL, you buy the *binaries* and you buy support. The GPL explicitly allows charging for binaries. You are even allowed to charge "reasonable" media fees for source, but Red Hat very kindly makes the source free as in beer. You can compile the source yourself, or let http://centos.org/ do it for you.
The GPL is about *freedom*, not price. RHEL gives you full freedom. And while you can't get official RHEL binaries for free, derivatives based on the source are available that are free as in beer.
While an individual or small business has little reason to buy RHEL, an enterprise has good reasons. You get a highly stable platform with security patches for a long period of time. You get support. You get someone to blame when things go wrong. As an individual, you might want to try Centos and get familiar with it. You never know when you might want to work for an enterprise that uses RHEL. As a small business, you can start out with Centos, and if your business takes off, scale right up to RHEL with minimal hassle.
The BIOS gets the password before booting the operating system. Any keylogger has to be installed in the BIOS. The laptop has a Trusted Platform Module, which checks the signature on the BIOS. In theory, the BIOS couild signature check the OS, which could encrypt software (with a performance loss). However, an OS is a much larger and more complex beast in which to find bugs whereby keyloggers and such can be inserted. So initializing the drive encryption via BIOS before booting the OS is more secure as well as higher performance.
I'm an American. These Politicians don't speak for me. Please tell your Politicians to ignore mine. I would mention that I voted Republican, but they are no better on this issue.
In general, all countries should support Copyright law as originally intended (don't publish other peoples work without permission), NOT help media conglemerates enforce their new "we control what you see or hear and when" agenda. DRM is *not* about copyright infringement. There is no need for a pirate (BTW - this term was used way back in the 1800's to describe copyright infringement) to decrypt media to copy and sell it. DRM is *only* about media corporations controlling your eye and ear gates with the goal of controlling your mind. Don't let them spread their poison to Canada! Educate your Politicians about what DRM is, and why it has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
The crux of the issue seems to be Iran's assertion that it's simply trying build a power source versus the U.S.
position that Iran is clearly planning to turn Israel into a glass parking lot.
Those are both Iranian positions. Ahmadinejad has vowed to "wipe Israel off the map" - a "glass parking lot" is an obvious way to do so. I am amazed by how so many people pretend to "respect" Jihadists, but refuse to believe what they say.
The Art of Computer Programming, vol 3, Sorting and Searching, 1973, by Donald Knuth
Page 173, Algorithm R - radix list sort. No credit is given. The algorithm has been well known and obvious since the first link list was invented. Hey! A good choice for a patent!
Apt-rpm is much faster than yum. Sometimes yum seems to hang when a repo is down. It just has a long timeout, and will eventually move on to another mirror. The advantage of yum is that it directly tests its upgrade plan against RPM, making it somewhat safer than apt-rpm.
The win is, add one or two lines to your yum.conf, or if you prefer to your apt-sources list, and the problem disappears entirely under Redhat or Fedora, easily, cleanly, and without sending you into dependency hell. This RPM bashing is a real straw man. The end user package management systems used on Redhat and Fedora are yum and apt, *not* rpm. Sure you can dive into low level package management and use RPM directly - and you can even screw up your system. You can go one better and use tar or rm directly - and screw up your system even faster (if you don't know what you're doing).
If yum can't install a package for an end-user, the *package* is broken, not the packaging system. BTW, someone mentioned false auto-dependencies on Perl script examples in the %doc directory. I haven't run into this, but there is "Autoreq: 0" and "Requires:...". A pain for the package builder, but not for the end-user.
The only "dependency hell" I've ever had with yum is when building source RPMs - and of course that doesn't use yum. I would like yum to (optionally) auto-install build dependencies (but sometimes you have to build the build dependencies from source). In my dreams, building from source would be as smooth as gentoo. I've heard a rumor that this is coming.
After building a package from source, I'll try a direct rpm. But if that is missing stuff, I just copy my new package to my own repository and let yum do all the dependency chasing!
That was the case in the old USSR. Something for today's Christians to think about before they get all excited about Government censorship. Also interesting is that the atheist USSR also banned real pornography. Why would they care? My interpretation is that the state needs citizens, and porn disrupts stable families (and there was no brave new world communal nursery system).
With Norway being traditionally Lutheran, perhaps they'll only ban certain Bible passages...
This is so sensible. No wonder Congress didn't think of it. It is worth making a phone call about, anyway. But there are already non-government labels akin to MPAA movie ratings, like http://www.icra.org/ or http://www.safesurf.com/ . I guess the problem is too many choices.
Limited bandwidth should not be sold as "unlimited". Amen to that. My Dad has satellite, and they have a web page where you can check your upload and download for the month. I have Cox cable, and even though the AUP specifies monthly bandwidth limits, there is no way to check. You don't even get a usage statement on your bill. I can guestimate using iptables, but who knows what traffic the cable modem actually sees. Even worse, there is no specific penalty for exceeding the limit (paying a premium would be a reasonable penalty). Just vague threats. I guess the idea is to scare you into using far less than the stated limits. I've complained about this over and over. The last time, I got a tech person I had already complained to, and they were irritated. Too bad broadband is a monopoly in my area. (Satellite is not an option with its high latency.)
Grasping at straws here, but suppose Microsoft hates patents, having been burned by them a few times, and decided that the potential to use them for evil doesn't justify their continued existence. How to force abolishment of software patents, or at least patent reform? Publicly show prior art, apply for patent, if patent is granted, you have a smoking gun showing that USPTO just rubber stamps and never actually looks at the prior art. But the big question is, once they have that, will they be able to resist using their shiny new patent for evil?
That was a very interesting read. What occurred to me is the manner in which we learned to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. They would still be a mystery were is not for the Rosetta stone, containing the same message in several languages. To communicate the danger to future generations, I would desribe it in detail in a permanent form (stone, whatever), but in many different languages and codes - purposefully create a rossetta stone. Even after thousands of years and the collapse of civilizations, we can still understand most of many ancient languages. Hebrew, Greek, Latin, etc. We don't know which languages will survive the millenia, but by including a good selection, there are good odds one will be understandable.
We do not need 1400 years to find a much better way to dispose of this material.
That is all well and good, provided succeeding civilizations remain aware of the problem. Suppose we have another Alexandrian library fire (maybe thanks to Islamicists this time) and we collectively forget about the nasties buried deep underground - until some enterprising miners in a newly emerging industrial society find out the hard way.
just launch the material into the sun.
It takes too much energy to launch stuff into the sun. We already have a massively huge, hot, radioactive meltdown called the Earth's core. Just put the nuclear nasties back where they came from - drill holes in a subduction zone and drop 'em in.
Also, it seems ironic that the earth is filled with rad materials. Natural stone can be quite radioactive. It becomes dangerous when we extract and concentrate it. Maybe putting concentrated waste in a single location isn't the best idea.
I use pysrs from the pymilter project for MAIL FROM signing. It adds a macro to sendmail, and installs a pysrs daemon as a sendmail socket map. The SRS library could be used by a python script to integrate with mutt I suppose (I always do all my filtering in the MTA - so I can't offer advice). Example code (with random spaces inserted by slashdot):
There are also C libraries like libsrs and libsrs2.
Detecting the bogus bounces in mutt is less than optimal - because you have already received the SPAM. By checking in the MTA, you reject the bounce before SMTP DATA.
Slashdot Mirror
Balance is fundamental. I call it the fundamental theorem of calculus (maxima and minima). Eat too little - you die early. Eat too much - you die early. The balance is in between the extremes. Currently, American culture is way on the "too much" side of eating.
No taxes - no revenue. 100% taxes - no revenue. In between the extremes there is an optimum that lets the economy grow while providing revenue for the government. For the last 50 years, we've been on the side of the curve where raising taxes reduces revenue, and lowering them raises revenue. Raising taxes isn't about revenue anymore. It is about control of your life.
Nevertheless, IMO the global warming alarmism being used to push a neo-communist agenda stinks. I've looked at the evidence, and humans as *the major* contributor just doesn't add up. I'm not convinced by "all the real scientists say so" either. There is too much censoring of dissenters for that to be convincing.
In many cases, the cures exacerbate real problems. For instance, demand for ethanol is causing more rain forest clear cutting to grow sugar cane. Paving large areas causes local warming (urban heat island effect) far in excess of the worst case estimates of global warming, and loses even more ability to recycle CO2 in the air. Eating beef/pork for breakfast, lunch, and dinner has causes a 10 fold increase in methane, much more that the increase in CO2. All the driving causes stress, and the fatty, sugary fast food combined with the lack of exercise has made most of us fat, driving up health care costs.
My point is that I would like to see a positive agenda. Keep and expand greenspaces and forests. I'm not a stickler for "everything wild" like Gore - parks are fine. Walk, ride bikes, use mass transit. Rent a car for vacations. Use a ZipCar for trips to the store to pick up heavy items. Eat meat only on feast days (e.g. Sunday - modify for your religion), like we used to, and observe a Sabbath (on a day appropriate for your religion). Getting rid of my car saves $300 to $800 dollars a month (depending on how nice a used car I would have gotten to replace it). I have a ready excuse why I can't jump up and drive all over the county on a moments notice. Stop the rushing around. Relax, enjoy your food instead of wolfing it down in a hurry. Eat slowly. Eat less. Fast on a regular basis - if only so you know what it feels like to be hungry. Eat only when you are hungry, not when you are bored, or pressured by friends.
Use our own oil (offshore drilling, Alaska, and/or plant it instead of corn for the cows you aren't eating as much of) instead of buying it from our enemies and carting it over the ocean. Save the oil for the truckers so your fresh veggies won't cost an arm and a leg. The trees will slowly take care of the CO2 if we don't cut them down and pave them over. Whatever you do, don't give control to the government to "fix" things. They will only make it worse. Sufficiently large corporations are indistinguishable from government in their capacity to foul things up.
Take these suggestions slowly so the affected industries have time to adjust.
There were also devices with a single internal ducted fan featured on slashdot a while back. These are simple to control, but only if the center of gravity is close to the fan. The payload has to be small compared to the fan. The hovercopter can hold a large payload beneath the dome.
The Advertisement under the article on my copy of this Slashdot page is ironically for SCO Unixware 7 support.
I have Cox cable, and although they do a lot of other things right, this isn't one of them. The AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) states monthly upload and download bandwidth limits, but there is no way to check, apart from rolling your own iptables wrapper, how much you've used. You're left with a vague worry that maybe you might be getting close and should put off that big download ...
It seems that Moller has never gotten the computer control part right over 12 years. Sad. But the mechanical design is good. In another 5 years, his patents will expire, and someone can finish the job.
The drawback with SPF is that to work properly the receiver needs to know who they have set up as forwarders - something Joe Sixpack probably has no clue about, and therefore his ISP has no clue either since Joe Sixpack signed up with the forwarder. So this makes checking SPF difficult for a big email service provider.
Another problem is that when a phish uses another MAIL FROM, Joe Sixpack won't notice that although the "From" header field says paypal, the "Sender" field is quite different (and yes, Outlook and other mass market email clients display this clearly):
In any case, they support *multiple* authentication methods. So take your pick. There really is no reason to pass on the forgeries.The Wankel engines are much smaller and lighter for the same horsepower than piston engines. Their drawback for automobiles is similar to turbines - they don't like low RPMS (the rotor seals leak at low RPMS causing wasted fuel, seal wear, and pollution). This is not a drawback for aviation.
Of course, this design requires fly by wire computer control for everything, and you don't want your computer to fail (although the parachute could be manually deployed).
Pump the helium (or hydrogen - that wasn't what started the fire on the Hindenber, although it certainly made it worse once it ignited) into tanks to descend. Release it into the gas bag to ascend. Pump it all into your tanks and fold up your envelope to park. Submarines do something like this with air.
Firefox-2.0.0.3 on FC4 says "image cannot be displayed because it contains errors". It does so instantly (on my 1.2Ghz Celeron with 384M).
I can also think of a lot of applications that are *not* appropriate for virtual machines because of CPU performance demands. The right tool for the job and all that.
There is no limit on downloading the source. When you buy RHEL, you buy the *binaries* and you buy support. The GPL explicitly allows charging for binaries. You are even allowed to charge "reasonable" media fees for source, but Red Hat very kindly makes the source free as in beer. You can compile the source yourself, or let http://centos.org/ do it for you.
The GPL is about *freedom*, not price. RHEL gives you full freedom. And while you can't get official RHEL binaries for free, derivatives based on the source are available that are free as in beer.
While an individual or small business has little reason to buy RHEL, an enterprise has good reasons. You get a highly stable platform with security patches for a long period of time. You get support. You get someone to blame when things go wrong. As an individual, you might want to try Centos and get familiar with it. You never know when you might want to work for an enterprise that uses RHEL. As a small business, you can start out with Centos, and if your business takes off, scale right up to RHEL with minimal hassle.
The BIOS gets the password before booting the operating system. Any keylogger has to be installed in the BIOS. The laptop has a Trusted Platform Module, which checks the signature on the BIOS. In theory, the BIOS couild signature check the OS, which could encrypt software (with a performance loss). However, an OS is a much larger and more complex beast in which to find bugs whereby keyloggers and such can be inserted. So initializing the drive encryption via BIOS before booting the OS is more secure as well as higher performance.
In general, all countries should support Copyright law as originally intended (don't publish other peoples work without permission), NOT help media conglemerates enforce their new "we control what you see or hear and when" agenda. DRM is *not* about copyright infringement. There is no need for a pirate (BTW - this term was used way back in the 1800's to describe copyright infringement) to decrypt media to copy and sell it. DRM is *only* about media corporations controlling your eye and ear gates with the goal of controlling your mind. Don't let them spread their poison to Canada! Educate your Politicians about what DRM is, and why it has nothing to do with copyright infringement.
Those are both Iranian positions. Ahmadinejad has vowed to "wipe Israel off the map" - a "glass parking lot" is an obvious way to do so. I am amazed by how so many people pretend to "respect" Jihadists, but refuse to believe what they say.
The Art of Computer Programming, vol 3, Sorting and Searching, 1973, by Donald Knuth Page 173, Algorithm R - radix list sort. No credit is given. The algorithm has been well known and obvious since the first link list was invented. Hey! A good choice for a patent!
Apt-rpm is much faster than yum. Sometimes yum seems to hang when a repo is down. It just has a long timeout, and will eventually move on to another mirror. The advantage of yum is that it directly tests its upgrade plan against RPM, making it somewhat safer than apt-rpm.
If yum can't install a package for an end-user, the *package* is broken, not the packaging system. BTW, someone mentioned false auto-dependencies on Perl script examples in the %doc directory. I haven't run into this, but there is "Autoreq: 0" and "Requires: ...". A pain for the package builder, but not for the end-user.
The only "dependency hell" I've ever had with yum is when building source RPMs - and of course that doesn't use yum. I would like yum to (optionally) auto-install build dependencies (but sometimes you have to build the build dependencies from source). In my dreams, building from source would be as smooth as gentoo. I've heard a rumor that this is coming.
After building a package from source, I'll try a direct rpm. But if that is missing stuff, I just copy my new package to my own repository and let yum do all the dependency chasing!
With Norway being traditionally Lutheran, perhaps they'll only ban certain Bible passages...
This is so sensible. No wonder Congress didn't think of it. It is worth making a phone call about, anyway. But there are already non-government labels akin to MPAA movie ratings, like http://www.icra.org/ or http://www.safesurf.com/ . I guess the problem is too many choices.
Limited bandwidth should not be sold as "unlimited". Amen to that. My Dad has satellite, and they have a web page where you can check your upload and download for the month. I have Cox cable, and even though the AUP specifies monthly bandwidth limits, there is no way to check. You don't even get a usage statement on your bill. I can guestimate using iptables, but who knows what traffic the cable modem actually sees. Even worse, there is no specific penalty for exceeding the limit (paying a premium would be a reasonable penalty). Just vague threats. I guess the idea is to scare you into using far less than the stated limits. I've complained about this over and over. The last time, I got a tech person I had already complained to, and they were irritated. Too bad broadband is a monopoly in my area. (Satellite is not an option with its high latency.)
Grasping at straws here, but suppose Microsoft hates patents, having been burned by them a few times, and decided that the potential to use them for evil doesn't justify their continued existence. How to force abolishment of software patents, or at least patent reform? Publicly show prior art, apply for patent, if patent is granted, you have a smoking gun showing that USPTO just rubber stamps and never actually looks at the prior art. But the big question is, once they have that, will they be able to resist using their shiny new patent for evil?
That was a very interesting read. What occurred to me is the manner in which we learned to read Egyptian hieroglyphics. They would still be a mystery were is not for the Rosetta stone, containing the same message in several languages. To communicate the danger to future generations, I would desribe it in detail in a permanent form (stone, whatever), but in many different languages and codes - purposefully create a rossetta stone. Even after thousands of years and the collapse of civilizations, we can still understand most of many ancient languages. Hebrew, Greek, Latin, etc. We don't know which languages will survive the millenia, but by including a good selection, there are good odds one will be understandable.
That is all well and good, provided succeeding civilizations remain aware of the problem. Suppose we have another Alexandrian library fire (maybe thanks to Islamicists this time) and we collectively forget about the nasties buried deep underground - until some enterprising miners in a newly emerging industrial society find out the hard way.
just launch the material into the sun.
It takes too much energy to launch stuff into the sun. We already have a massively huge, hot, radioactive meltdown called the Earth's core. Just put the nuclear nasties back where they came from - drill holes in a subduction zone and drop 'em in.
Also, it seems ironic that the earth is filled with rad materials. Natural stone can be quite radioactive. It becomes dangerous when we extract and concentrate it. Maybe putting concentrated waste in a single location isn't the best idea.
Detecting the bogus bounces in mutt is less than optimal - because you have already received the SPAM. By checking in the MTA, you reject the bounce before SMTP DATA.