Is it the brightmail milter that supports the total connections, rate limiting and pre-greeting blocking? Those sound like very useful "upfront" methods...
Actually, the bigger issue is coercive voting. There's no "exit polling" here in Oregon, so voting trends aren't noted other than the usual polls on voter opinion, but one thing I have thought about is getting together with politically oriented friends and having a voting party where we discuss the issues and then vote. That's a relatively innocuous instance, but not being completely anonymous, could lead a weaker soul to vote with a group, or just group-think.
The even bigger concern is say, an abusive or simply controlling, spouse doing the voting for both, or a mafia style "vote in front of me the way I say or X!".
I really like being able to vote on *my* timetable, and don't want to give it up, but these are definite concerns.
Like I said, I didn't try very hard... partly because I suspected that was the case, as it would have been a lot more obvious if it were supported. And it's a real disappointment to have it confirmed.
so they hardly need any area for you to write in, do they?
Actually, that's one of my complaints about the treo 600 I have: granted, I haven't looked real hard as it's only a minor nuisance, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get graffiti to work on it, and it's a nuisance to have to switch back and forth between the keyboard and the stylus in some apps.
Some of the technology, like forcing cars to keep their distance, would be useful, though one will have to consider the incitement of roadrage if people take advantage of the fact that other people's cars will force them to let you cut in where they shouldn't. But considering the "quality" of the navigation system in my new Escape Hybrid...granted, I'm in Corvallis, a small down of about 50,000, and it's constantly harping about "incomplete data", but for instance Tuesday at lunch, it tried to take me to the restaurant via an intersection that had been turned into a park near the river at the edge of town.
When I went up into the coast mountains near here last weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to fine that it even *had* some of the gravel roads in it, but when I told it to take me home, it sent me up a goat trail that ended at a pasture gate.
That was Saturday; on Sunday I drove up towards Portland aways to meet someone at that Geek Temple Fry's;-) On the way back, I swung into the Burger King for dinner on the way back. While waiting at the drive through, I said "Find Nearest Restaurants". It thought a while, then crashed and rebooted (it has a splash screen when it boots). It crashed one other time sort of at random, but there were a couple things going on I forget now.
Maybe in 2-3 decades they'll get their maps figured out, but until these and many other things are worked out, no autopilot for me! They're just cool toys to use when they work and poke fun at when they don't.
I was buying my cholesterol medicine from Canada Drugs online until Bush decided to make me a felon if I kept doing it, and my parents went to Mexico to a recommended dentist for some work they needed done. Since they were in Arizona for the winter, it wasn't a major trip...
Freedom does not mean the right to interfere with the freedoms of others, otherwise they are not free. It doesn't take a moral law to work that out. You are right that moral laws are about restricting freedoms, but they're about restricting your own freedoms out of choice in a belief that it will lead to an improvement in your life. If you try to apply your moral law to someone else, you restrict their freedom, and that is an imposition the same as the physical abuses you mention, though the degree may differ (and in many cases a worse one).
I believe that the true test of freedom is when you apply it to things you don't agree with: the freedom to be or do only what others approve of is no freedom at all. I would like to hear your viewpoint on that.
Why is it the Democrats tend to believe in freedom, except in fiscal matters, and Republicans tend to believe in freedom, except in social matters? Why can't we just believe in Freedom?
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nobody has a legitimate reason for owning a 30 round clip
Obviously you don't shoot much. With a 5-10 round clip, you spend half your time loading the bloody thing, even with a speed loader. Without one, it's more like twice as much time loading as actually shooting. I'm sure the anti-gunners are saying "that's the point, slow down the bad guys", but they're ignoring the fact that bad guys can take all the time they want loading up however many little clips they want and then go on their spree. The one thing that will stop them is someone else with a gun.
Fortunately, acts like these are extremely rare, media noise to the contrary. Why is it that every time something bad happens, someone says "there oughta be a law!" and the politicians scramble to make a new law to placate the citizens. Never mind there was a law already there, and if the bad guy wants to do his thing, the new law is no more a deterrent than the old one was. All it does is knock one more chink in the facade of Freedom we enjoy.
...and how do you audit that that's what's *actually* in the machine? It seems to me like you need some sort of committee, selected from members of all parties involved, with technical expertise, to certify that the code on the ROM boot media is in fact what it purports to be and can't be tampered with. The checksums can be publically posted and anyone who wants can verify them against the open source distribution.
Typing was probably the single most useful class I took in high school. I certainly use it constantly, whereas even the science and mechanics classes I was really interested in, are of only passing usefulness now.
Aside from the fact that I never click on links in email, what I do do is look at the received headers and the actual links to see where there really go to decide if it's phishbait or not. They've deleted both from the test messages...
This might explain some odd behavior I saw recently: I have a Series 1 DirecTivo, and have recently moved. The dish is on a freestanding tripod mount at the moment, until I can get some pieces I need to permanently mount it. As a result of it having to be where people walk by it, it's gotten misaligned a couple times. The other night I found that one of the tuners was recording audio, but not video. The signal quality was down in the upper 50s (normally it's in the 80's). I went out and tweaked it, and everything started working fine again. I thought it was *really* weird that a digital signal would lose only the video --- it makes sense in the analog world, as the two signals are transmitted in quite different ways, but I would think digital would be all or nothing...
this flight was not part of the x-prize flights. It didnt have enough passengers or weight.
I realize that, but at least the NPR report I heard said they were planning on trying again in a couple weeks to prove they could do it. Though they may have been confusing the test flight with the actual attempt too. In any case, it seems like a setback, but not a major one...
On landing, Melvill told of a loud bang he heard during the flight. He said it appeared to have been part of the composite airframe buckling near the rocket nozzle. However, the slight indention in SpaceShipOne's exterior did not appear to have jeopardized the craft's performance.
It may not have affected this flight, but it sounds like it came close to doing so, and should certainly impact the ability to do a quick repeat, I would think!
I work at a small-to-middling isp, and we get almost daily reports from spamcop et al reporting one of our dsl customers. We're going to have to start blocking outgoing port 25 unless the customer requests it be unblocked simply in self-defense. It's a tiny, minute fraction that do actually run their own mail servers, and even they could still relay through our mail server. When SPF or something like it is widely deployed, then we'll be able to open things back up because few of these machines will be authorized mail servers.
They're bad because they're huge, dangerous, tippy, vision-blocking, gas guzzling road hazards.
Huge? Compared to what, a Geo Metro? OK, an Excursion is huge, but most SUVs are of the much smaller variety.
Dangerous? Only in the hands of an incompetent driver, which is true of said Geo Metro too.
Tippy? Perhaps relatively speaking, but you still have to work at it to roll one. Even the famous Samurai took a fairly extreme maneuver to tip.
Vision blocking? Only if you're right next to it and trying to pull out to turn before it does, and in most cases, even that situation can be handled (e.g. there's generally room to nose out in front a little without sticking it out too far, if not, just wait for the light --- it won't happen that often).
Gas guzzling? Yup, that's the one legitimate drawback to them.
As an SUV driver (my real car is an Explorer), I've been waiting for the hybrid Highlander and/or Escape to actually reach the market for years...
SUV drivers in general are just as (in)considerate as all the other drivers. They're just so popular that 1. they're more noticeable and 2. anything that's popular is automatically bad for some reason. I have some opinions on why that's so, but they'd probably get me modded "flamebait", which is probably what I'd do to the post I'm replying to if I weren't replying to it.
The TRO prevents SpamCop from sending complaints about OIRB to their provider or removing email addresses from the complaints it receives which regard OIRB.
I don't see how these two restrictions affect anything at all: their provider already knows who they are and what they're doing --- more complaints won't hurt anything, and removing the email addresses from the complaints doesn't hurt anything because if they really did get spam from OIRB, then OIRB already has their email address. They do have the right to know who's complaining about them...
I rented a Prius at the beginning of April and drove it to San Francisco from Portland (about 600 miles one way) and back, then commuted to a new job 90 miles one way for a few days until the 1 week minimum rental was up (the 90 mile commute was only for the first week!). Driving 75-80mph, I got 45 or so mpg. Short of flooring it at every stop light and slamming on the brakes to minimize regen, I can't imagine how someone could only get 30-35mpg out of one. My mother probably would get the full 60 out of it. It sounds to me like someone wants these things to look bad. Personally, after driving the Prius, I'm going to get on a hybrid waiting list, and will probably get a used one in the mean time.
I have a password manager, and the password to it locked up. A couple people know that (I suppose a few more do now;-) ) and where it's kept "just in case". The good friend killed bike riding I mentioned in another post here had his quicken password protected without such provisions, which made it more difficult for his family to deal with the financial aspects of settling affairs...
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Is it the brightmail milter that supports the total connections, rate limiting and pre-greeting blocking? Those sound like very useful "upfront" methods...
Actually, the bigger issue is coercive voting. There's no "exit polling" here in Oregon, so voting trends aren't noted other than the usual polls on voter opinion, but one thing I have thought about is getting together with politically oriented friends and having a voting party where we discuss the issues and then vote. That's a relatively innocuous instance, but not being completely anonymous, could lead a weaker soul to vote with a group, or just group-think.
The even bigger concern is say, an abusive or simply controlling, spouse doing the voting for both, or a mafia style "vote in front of me the way I say or X!".
I really like being able to vote on *my* timetable, and don't want to give it up, but these are definite concerns.
Like I said, I didn't try very hard... partly because I suspected that was the case, as it would have been a lot more obvious if it were supported. And it's a real disappointment to have it confirmed.
so they hardly need any area for you to write in, do they?
Actually, that's one of my complaints about the treo 600 I have: granted, I haven't looked real hard as it's only a minor nuisance, but I haven't been able to figure out how to get graffiti to work on it, and it's a nuisance to have to switch back and forth between the keyboard and the stylus in some apps.
Some of the technology, like forcing cars to keep their distance, would be useful, though one will have to consider the incitement of roadrage if people take advantage of the fact that other people's cars will force them to let you cut in where they shouldn't. But considering the "quality" of the navigation system in my new Escape Hybrid...granted, I'm in Corvallis, a small down of about 50,000, and it's constantly harping about "incomplete data", but for instance Tuesday at lunch, it tried to take me to the restaurant via an intersection that had been turned into a park near the river at the edge of town.
;-) On the way back, I swung into the Burger King for dinner on the way back. While waiting at the drive through, I said "Find Nearest Restaurants". It thought a while, then crashed and rebooted (it has a splash screen when it boots). It crashed one other time sort of at random, but there were a couple things going on I forget now.
When I went up into the coast mountains near here last weekend, I was pleasantly surprised to fine that it even *had* some of the gravel roads in it, but when I told it to take me home, it sent me up a goat trail that ended at a pasture gate.
That was Saturday; on Sunday I drove up towards Portland aways to meet someone at that Geek Temple Fry's
Maybe in 2-3 decades they'll get their maps figured out, but until these and many other things are worked out, no autopilot for me! They're just cool toys to use when they work and poke fun at when they don't.
I was buying my cholesterol medicine from Canada Drugs online until Bush decided to make me a felon if I kept doing it, and my parents went to Mexico to a recommended dentist for some work they needed done. Since they were in Arizona for the winter, it wasn't a major trip...
...I'm just not sure who it is:
A. People that buy something random because it's cheap
B. Record companies that think that just because Walmart doesn't sell it, fans won't find it somewhere else.
Actually, give their track records, probably both.
Freedom does not mean the right to interfere with the freedoms of others, otherwise they are not free. It doesn't take a moral law to work that out. You are right that moral laws are about restricting freedoms, but they're about restricting your own freedoms out of choice in a belief that it will lead to an improvement in your life. If you try to apply your moral law to someone else, you restrict their freedom, and that is an imposition the same as the physical abuses you mention, though the degree may differ (and in many cases a worse one).
I believe that the true test of freedom is when you apply it to things you don't agree with: the freedom to be or do only what others approve of is no freedom at all. I would like to hear your viewpoint on that.
Why is it the Democrats tend to believe in freedom, except in fiscal matters, and Republicans tend to believe in freedom, except in social matters? Why can't we just believe in Freedom?
Obviously you don't shoot much. With a 5-10 round clip, you spend half your time loading the bloody thing, even with a speed loader. Without one, it's more like twice as much time loading as actually shooting. I'm sure the anti-gunners are saying "that's the point, slow down the bad guys", but they're ignoring the fact that bad guys can take all the time they want loading up however many little clips they want and then go on their spree. The one thing that will stop them is someone else with a gun.
Fortunately, acts like these are extremely rare, media noise to the contrary. Why is it that every time something bad happens, someone says "there oughta be a law!" and the politicians scramble to make a new law to placate the citizens. Never mind there was a law already there, and if the bad guy wants to do his thing, the new law is no more a deterrent than the old one was. All it does is knock one more chink in the facade of Freedom we enjoy.
Your cpus will have a new use when obsolete...
Why would it nuke itself? Besides, I don't think it's going far enough to pick up alien lifeforms...
...and how do you audit that that's what's *actually* in the machine? It seems to me like you need some sort of committee, selected from members of all parties involved, with technical expertise, to certify that the code on the ROM boot media is in fact what it purports to be and can't be tampered with. The checksums can be publically posted and anyone who wants can verify them against the open source distribution.
Typing was probably the single most useful class I took in high school. I certainly use it constantly, whereas even the science and mechanics classes I was really interested in, are of only passing usefulness now.
Aside from the fact that I never click on links in email, what I do do is look at the received headers and the actual links to see where there really go to decide if it's phishbait or not. They've deleted both from the test messages...
This might explain some odd behavior I saw recently: I have a Series 1 DirecTivo, and have recently moved. The dish is on a freestanding tripod mount at the moment, until I can get some pieces I need to permanently mount it. As a result of it having to be where people walk by it, it's gotten misaligned a couple times. The other night I found that one of the tuners was recording audio, but not video. The signal quality was down in the upper 50s (normally it's in the 80's). I went out and tweaked it, and everything started working fine again. I thought it was *really* weird that a digital signal would lose only the video --- it makes sense in the analog world, as the two signals are transmitted in quite different ways, but I would think digital would be all or nothing...
I realize that, but at least the NPR report I heard said they were planning on trying again in a couple weeks to prove they could do it. Though they may have been confusing the test flight with the actual attempt too. In any case, it seems like a setback, but not a major one...
I work at a small-to-middling isp, and we get almost daily reports from spamcop et al reporting one of our dsl customers. We're going to have to start blocking outgoing port 25 unless the customer requests it be unblocked simply in self-defense. It's a tiny, minute fraction that do actually run their own mail servers, and even they could still relay through our mail server. When SPF or something like it is widely deployed, then we'll be able to open things back up because few of these machines will be authorized mail servers.
They're bad because they're huge, dangerous, tippy, vision-blocking, gas guzzling road hazards.
Huge? Compared to what, a Geo Metro? OK, an Excursion is huge, but most SUVs are of the much smaller variety.
Dangerous? Only in the hands of an incompetent driver, which is true of said Geo Metro too.
Tippy? Perhaps relatively speaking, but you still have to work at it to roll one. Even the famous Samurai took a fairly extreme maneuver to tip.
Vision blocking? Only if you're right next to it and trying to pull out to turn before it does, and in most cases, even that situation can be handled (e.g. there's generally room to nose out in front a little without sticking it out too far, if not, just wait for the light --- it won't happen that often).
Gas guzzling? Yup, that's the one legitimate drawback to them.
As an SUV driver (my real car is an Explorer), I've been waiting for the hybrid Highlander and/or Escape to actually reach the market for years...
SUV drivers in general are just as (in)considerate as all the other drivers. They're just so popular that 1. they're more noticeable and 2. anything that's popular is automatically bad for some reason. I have some opinions on why that's so, but they'd probably get me modded "flamebait", which is probably what I'd do to the post I'm replying to if I weren't replying to it.
The TRO prevents SpamCop from sending complaints about OIRB to their provider or removing email addresses from the complaints it receives which regard OIRB.
I don't see how these two restrictions affect anything at all: their provider already knows who they are and what they're doing --- more complaints won't hurt anything, and removing the email addresses from the complaints doesn't hurt anything because if they really did get spam from OIRB, then OIRB already has their email address. They do have the right to know who's complaining about them...
I rented a Prius at the beginning of April and drove it to San Francisco from Portland (about 600 miles one way) and back, then commuted to a new job 90 miles one way for a few days until the 1 week minimum rental was up (the 90 mile commute was only for the first week!). Driving 75-80mph, I got 45 or so mpg. Short of flooring it at every stop light and slamming on the brakes to minimize regen, I can't imagine how someone could only get 30-35mpg out of one. My mother probably would get the full 60 out of it. It sounds to me like someone wants these things to look bad. Personally, after driving the Prius, I'm going to get on a hybrid waiting list, and will probably get a used one in the mean time.
I have a password manager, and the password to it locked up. A couple people know that (I suppose a few more do now ;-) ) and where it's kept "just in case". The good friend killed bike riding I mentioned in another post here had his quicken password protected without such provisions, which made it more difficult for his family to deal with the financial aspects of settling affairs...