Ah, kindred typist:) I've never had any problems due to typing either.
However, be careful about excessive mousing - I did have pains in my right hand from excessive mousing. Taking off a long weekend away from computers helped, as did buying a mousepad with a wrist support.
Many services which run on low-numbered ports have no need for root in many cases. 21 and 80 do not, to be sure. You could probably even get around it for 110 if you were sufficiently clever.
In the relatively rare cases where a service really does need root, clients shouldn't be overly trusting of servers anyway.
The only place where said restriction makes much sense is in an environment where all of the machines are centrally controlled yet still have a fair degree of openness, such as at a university. Otherwise, putting faith in the idea that only someone legitimate will bind a low numbered port won't help you much.
By the way, it's not hard to set up ssh to only use keys; that way, you're not sending your password or private key to the server, which means that a client does not need to trust the server's operator to be scrupulous not to sniff his passwords.
If you need keys for secure communications, and speed may be somewhat critical (SSH or SSL come to mind), go 2048 bit or 1536....
Almost irrelevant. ssh and ssl only use rsa to send a symmetric key which is used to encrypt the rest of the data. In the case of ssh, that key is changed periodically; it may be the case with ssl too. Using a smaller keysize will only speed up connection initiation - useful, surely, but not critical.
If some ISP wants to be spam-friendly, I doubt that I'll want to receive any of their other email.
OK, you win the daftness award of the day.
So, if you are or somebody you know is unlucky enough to share a provider with a spammer, then what? What if you can't leave that provider because you're in a contract which won't expire for a while, and the provider doesn't care about the spam?
It happens.
According to some of the loonies, that's just fine. I say it is NOT just fine. Legitimate mail won't get through.
Again, stopping spam is not an end. It is a means. Until people realise that, mail will continue to be less useful, regardless of the amount of spam sent.
The whole point is not to reduce spam. Seriously.
Instead, the point is to for email to remain useful. So that is the end, and reducing (hopefully to nil) the amount of spam is one of the means.
Now, if you block large amounts of email without inspecting their contents (either manually or automatically), then you lose, because you aren't making mail any more useful. In fact, you're making it LESS useful, since legitimate mail won't get through.
"Block widely, block often" is one of the more daft things I've read in a while. If you really feel you have to block, try to use some sense when doing so.
As far as cell phones go, I might be talking out of my ass here, but I know the FCC has rules against encrypted transmissions on many bands. I wouldn't be surprised if it was (still is) illegal to encrypt cell phone traffic.
GSM has encryption as part of the protocol. It isn't very good encryption - it has been cracked - but I guess it would at least deter casual sniffers. There are now several GSM providers in the US, although they operate on a different frequency from most of the rest of the world.
Why do so many people - sorry if I seem to be singling you out; I'm not - think that special effects are such a big deal? Sure, a good movie is made better with good, and relevant, special effects, but really, special effects are neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a good movie.
I guess drooling over special effects in an otherwise lousy movie - that'd be almost anything sci-fi from Hollywood - makes people look pretty shallow. "Ooh, shiny things, I'll see that!"
Neither gnome.org or ximian's FTP servers carry the source, whether tarball or src.rpm.
I put source there today; see ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution/source/.
Oversight in a moment of excitement, or company policy? I sure hope it's the latter.
I think you mean the former.:) The answer is closer to the former, but actually is neither. There have been some (internal) infrastructural changes recently; one oversight due to the changes was the provision for source to be released automatically.
That's great, until one of the deprecated root servers starts serving stale or even deliberately information.
They say it won't happen, but I'd rather place as little as possible faith in people not screwing up.
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Nobody needs to legitimately access those files to update their DNS servers.
Wrong. Well-written dns servers will not accept out-of-bailiwick information, since that leaves them susceptable to cache poisoning.
Even if you NEEDED to update your root hints file (which you don't)....
You do need to update them. It isn't likely that the rest of the root servers will change tomorrow or next week or next month, but it will happen eventually. Keeping your site's list of root servers current is essential for reliability. Otherwise, the (caveated) guarantees of reliability in the dns are lost.
Nice troll though, it went totally unnoticed until now.
That's missing the point. You're right that things need to be quantified, however.
Still, level of covernment control of what? "citizens' lives" is too vague. What if you can do what you want economically, but you can't stay out at night past 9pm without a permit and you can't do drugs? Or what if you can do whatever you want, but the government heavily regulates industry, which it owns?
You need two dimensions for that. And I don't think that two dimensions are sufficient, either. What about education? What about welfare? What about foreign and military affairs? What about the environment?
There are lots of areas in which the government can have a role, and many of them are orthogonal. It can get complicated, but life is complicated.
Depends on wether you recognize intellectual property as a valid concept or not...
Balderdash! "Intellectual property" is a very vague term designed to conflate lots mostly unrelated ideas. It can refer to trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets, etc. All of them are valid, although all of them can be and often are taken to unnecessary or harmful extremes.
"Intellectual property" is a propaganda term designed to confuse thinking. Not entirelly dissimilar to the "either you're with us or you're with the terrorists" bifurcation we've been treated to.
Here's some sage advice (from here [slashdot.org] originally): "If you really want a change, don't vote for either party -- vote Libertarian if you're on the right, Green Party if you're on the left, and independant otherwise.
Whoa! Libertarians are right and Greens are left? WHOA! Since when was politics a 1 dimensional spectrum? Even a two dimensional model doesn't really make sense.
Unfortunately, this simplistic kind of thinking clouds a lot of issues.
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Ah, kindred typist :) I've never had any problems due to typing either.
However, be careful about excessive mousing - I did have pains in my right hand from excessive mousing. Taking off a long weekend away from computers helped, as did buying a mousepad with a wrist support.
Actually, I would argue that they do.
That is all.
Most English speaking countries - you're not from any of them, obviously - the past participle of "to spell" is "spelt".
You don't need to worry. Basically, Larry Ellison is never right about anything.
I do not believe you.
That is all.
In the relatively rare cases where a service really does need root, clients shouldn't be overly trusting of servers anyway.
The only place where said restriction makes much sense is in an environment where all of the machines are centrally controlled yet still have a fair degree of openness, such as at a university. Otherwise, putting faith in the idea that only someone legitimate will bind a low numbered port won't help you much.
By the way, it's not hard to set up ssh to only use keys; that way, you're not sending your password or private key to the server, which means that a client does not need to trust the server's operator to be scrupulous not to sniff his passwords.
Uhm. Remind me. What exactly are its good points?
Well, it's obvious you never got used to it, for a few reasons.
One is that this is bogus syntax to begin with. Another is that, even if it were legit syntax, no lisp programmer would (fail to) indent like that.
You're not a troll, but you are an idiot.
I wish he did. Overall, it would be an improvement.
Almost irrelevant. ssh and ssl only use rsa to send a symmetric key which is used to encrypt the rest of the data. In the case of ssh, that key is changed periodically; it may be the case with ssl too. Using a smaller keysize will only speed up connection initiation - useful, surely, but not critical.
Kill, kill. Kill, kill, kill the marketers.
In my experience, it is really sales we want to get, not marketing. Marketing tries to make us look good!
(But sales makes the money. Sigh.)
The Age is part of the Fairfax group. News Corp's offering in the Melbourne market is the Herald Sun.
If some ISP wants to be spam-friendly, I doubt that I'll want to receive any of their other email.
OK, you win the daftness award of the day.
So, if you are or somebody you know is unlucky enough to share a provider with a spammer, then what? What if you can't leave that provider because you're in a contract which won't expire for a while, and the provider doesn't care about the spam?
It happens.
According to some of the loonies, that's just fine. I say it is NOT just fine. Legitimate mail won't get through.
Again, stopping spam is not an end. It is a means. Until people realise that, mail will continue to be less useful, regardless of the amount of spam sent.
The whole point is not to reduce spam. Seriously. Instead, the point is to for email to remain useful. So that is the end, and reducing (hopefully to nil) the amount of spam is one of the means.
Now, if you block large amounts of email without inspecting their contents (either manually or automatically), then you lose, because you aren't making mail any more useful. In fact, you're making it LESS useful, since legitimate mail won't get through.
"Block widely, block often" is one of the more daft things I've read in a while. If you really feel you have to block, try to use some sense when doing so.
GSM has encryption as part of the protocol. It isn't very good encryption - it has been cracked - but I guess it would at least deter casual sniffers. There are now several GSM providers in the US, although they operate on a different frequency from most of the rest of the world.
I initially misread that as Swat Ayn Rand which somehow seems much more appropriate. :)
I guess drooling over special effects in an otherwise lousy movie - that'd be almost anything sci-fi from Hollywood - makes people look pretty shallow. "Ooh, shiny things, I'll see that!"
IMO, of course.
I put source there today; see ftp://ftp.ximian.com/pub/ximian-evolution/source/.
Oversight in a moment of excitement, or company policy? I sure hope it's the latter.
I think you mean the former. :) The answer is closer to the former, but actually is neither. There have been some (internal) infrastructural changes recently; one oversight due to the changes was the provision for source to be released automatically.
They say it won't happen, but I'd rather place as little as possible faith in people not screwing up.
Wrong. Well-written dns servers will not accept out-of-bailiwick information, since that leaves them susceptable to cache poisoning.
Even if you NEEDED to update your root hints file (which you don't)....
You do need to update them. It isn't likely that the rest of the root servers will change tomorrow or next week or next month, but it will happen eventually. Keeping your site's list of root servers current is essential for reliability. Otherwise, the (caveated) guarantees of reliability in the dns are lost.
Nice troll though, it went totally unnoticed until now.
Not a troll, just naive.
Still, level of covernment control of what? "citizens' lives" is too vague. What if you can do what you want economically, but you can't stay out at night past 9pm without a permit and you can't do drugs? Or what if you can do whatever you want, but the government heavily regulates industry, which it owns?
You need two dimensions for that. And I don't think that two dimensions are sufficient, either. What about education? What about welfare? What about foreign and military affairs? What about the environment?
There are lots of areas in which the government can have a role, and many of them are orthogonal. It can get complicated, but life is complicated.
Balderdash! "Intellectual property" is a very vague term designed to conflate lots mostly unrelated ideas. It can refer to trademarks, patents, copyright, trade secrets, etc. All of them are valid, although all of them can be and often are taken to unnecessary or harmful extremes.
"Intellectual property" is a propaganda term designed to confuse thinking. Not entirelly dissimilar to the "either you're with us or you're with the terrorists" bifurcation we've been treated to.
Whoa! Libertarians are right and Greens are left? WHOA! Since when was politics a 1 dimensional spectrum? Even a two dimensional model doesn't really make sense.
Unfortunately, this simplistic kind of thinking clouds a lot of issues.