Haven't any of you radical tree-huggers noticed something interesting about plants?
THEY GROW BACK!
You cut down trees, and a few years later they just grow back again. You cut down the new ones, and more grow back. Its called a renewable resource, like corn or wheat or apples, etc.
Up here in the NW we've had our logging industry devastated by these radical nutburgers. They got the media to play up the spotted owl issue to the point that logging was shut down all across the state. And now it ends up that there isn't anything special about their habitat -- they'll even nest in KFC signs.
But do they apologize for devastating and industry and putting thousands out of work? For raising the prices of the wood we build our houses with? No. They don't have to apologize -- they meant well, didn't they?
So please don't give me any of this helping the environment crap. It doesn't need any help from us.
Horse Pucky. Lott's work has been gone over repeatedly, and no serious problems have been found with his work.
Unlike the discredited anti-gun research done by a professor who's name has been forgotten. (starts with a B, and the recent 9th Circuit ruling referred to one of his worthless papers).
Criminals take the path of least resistance. If they thing you are armed, or may be armed, the move on to someone easier. Interviews with imprisoned felons confirm that one of their worst fears is an armed victim.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).)
Factual analysis of gun laws in the United States. The title may seem 'biased' but it is in reality a summary of the situation.
Are you willing to put people in prison for defending their lives, as has been done in England? Guns and gun rights are the fundamental requirement for a free people. Without individual gun ownership you have no protection against a despotic government.
I've got Charter here in Washington State, and when I told them Linux they didn't even blink. They wired the house, left the modem for me. I plugged it in, quickly learned how to use dhcpcd, called their tech support to activate it and presto, it was working.
Well, there was 1 small hitch, he had to configure it using a mode that doesn't grab the MAC of the ethernet card in the PC. The tech knew what he was doing and I haven't had any problems in the month or so i've been using it.
Yet again I'm one of those odd folks that isn't buying into the current fad of 'corporations are evil' 'profit is immoral' and all that crap.
If its to the benefit of the company they will do it. If enough of their customers request it, they will do it.
Remember that there are more small businesses in the US than large. The majority of people are employed by small business and they are affected by the ADA (other than any exclusions written into the law).
Noone, not the disabled, the enabled, the handicapped, the normal, or whatever you want to call yourself has the right to demand that government force a business to meet your needs. You live with what God throws at you and go from there. You have the right to either work around your problems, or find those that will help you.
These days that is becoming easier and easier with new technologies. Just look at Rush Limbaugh. He totally lost his hearing earlier this year. With modern DSP technology he is able to live a normal life.
The ADA is a feel-good measure that you are shamed into supporting because the supporters paint everyone who opposes it as someone who doesn't want to help the disabled. They shut down the argument by demonizing opponents before they even get a chance to argue.
I as you this basic question - Would you feel the same if the government came in and told you that you have to make your home ADA compliant? This is happening in several places around the county.
Seems obvious to me. Then again I'm one of those nutburgers that think that the ADA is one of the most intrusive pieces of legislation passed in the last 100 years.
What gives the government the right to tell you to put in special parking places or ramps or make your doorways a certain width? Nothing.
I'm all for helping the disabled/less fortunate. As long as its voluntary. Compassion at the barrel of a gun is not compassion, its slavery.
Just about everyone 'invents' a better one-time pad. You'd be well advised to either open it for peer review (as with Blowfish, TwoFish, AES, PGP, etc.) or hure Counterpane under an NDA to tell you if you're all wet or not.
Hey dipshit! I get scanned daily by RH 6.2 boxes looking for rpc holes to exploit. The systems are still out there, whether or not you or I know better than to run them.
Also, you need to learn to read before posting. I didn't give any indication that I was running RH 6.2, did I? It was an example of how Linux distributions can be as susceptible to worms/exploits/etc. as any other computer system.
Anyone who thinks that solely because they run open source they are immune to attack is an idiot. Look at how wide open a default RedHat 6.2 install is.
This new attack is easily avoided by upgrading your OpenSSL version to 0.9.6e, and this should have been done by now. The hole has been known and example exploit available for a while now, as anyone who follows the bugtraq list would know.
Security is an ongoing process. You have to stay on top of it if you run machines that are not turned off and locked in a basement. There is just no way around the fact that there will always be bugs in software, and these days that commonly means security holes as well.
Sorry, but those shirts are ugly. And by saying that it isn't a crime you are encouraging the perception that it is a crime by being defensive about it.
I have tried for months (and months) to get the host record for nexuscomputing.com removed. I have completed all the forms, called them (been told it will be removed immediatly, that it had been given a top priority), etc. Needless to say, the host record still points to the wrong damn IP address.
I also recently transferred my wife's busybride.com domain away from them, using joker.com and Verisign is now telling me that it is up for renewal. But if you check the whois information it is obviously registered with joker.com!
(No, I didn't register it with Verisign, the previous owner did and after buying it I also discovered Verisign's other scam, holding domains hostage after a sale and refusing to transfer them for 60 days).
I've just discovered this new hobby, using Linux, kismet and gpsdrive. So I put together a t-shirt for War Drivers - www.cafepress.com/wardriver. All profits (every check from cafepress) goes to the eff.
Its about time someone provided this service. For years parents have been asking the Hollywood Studios for access to the edited versions that are used on airlines and television, only to be rebuffed with the idiotic 'artistic license' excuse.
There is a huge market for these films, and if they won't fill it then obviously someone else should. There's nothing wrong with wanting to edit out the 'dirty bits' so your kids can enjoy some good movies.
For example, Doc Hollywood is a pretty good Michael J. Fox movie, but right in the beginning it has a full-frontal nudity shot that really doen't add anything to the movie. Clip out that bit and you've got a PG rated movie suitable for all the munchkins (don't quote me on this, there may be a few other bits that need to be removed).
Noone is forcing you to rent these or view them, all it is doing is providing a choice to those of us who want some of our favorite films to be a little bit cleaner.
When we were buying our wedding set we looked at the 'traditional' diamond center stone, and it looked stupid. We went with smaller diamonds surrounding a ruby center stone -- the combination looks great and we didn't spend our life's savings on it.
Remember that this isn't an investment. Resale value has no meaning, because you're not going to be selling it (and if you think you might then why the hell are you getting married?).
But you do have to make her happy, and that means fufulling hundreds of years of accumulated social expectations. As much as that sucks, its the reality, so get used to it.
We have seen this in action most visibly with the Linux Kernel and Linus's control (and the resulting arguments about VMs, etc). But it is his strong leadership that has kept things (mostly) on track.
I have seen this in my own projects, and my rule of thumb is that the submitter must convince me to add their code. They have to sell it to me, explain why it makes the project better and moves it forwards.
You have to remember that it is your project, and that you have the final say. The submitters are always (in my experience) very nice, and most don't expect you to integrate their patches at all.
If you forsee a problem maintaining the direction of the project, maybe you should wait until you have a stronger framework in place before releasing it.
Good Luck,
Brian
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The research revolves around the number of visible email addresses in the To: (and I would imagine the Cc: headers). When people see a message sent to a bunch of others, they are less likely to respond.
Only the crudest spam include more than your email address, most don't even have that. email addresses are like gold to spammers and they don't give them away by revealing them in a large To: or Cc: header.
This is another example of the downfall of Slashdot. This article should never have reached the front page.
Brian
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Dallas Semiconductor is the manufacturer/inventor of the 1-Wire network. Take a look at www.ibutton.com for a bunch of different devices. The iButtons are 1-Wire devices in a metal can, some can read temperatures and others can be used for access control. Dallas/Maxim has other 1-Wire devices that are not in a can, these are the ones that I use for my DigiTemp kits.
There are serial and parallel port adapters available (from iButton.com or from me in my Basic DigiTemp kit which uses the serial adapter), but the bus itself can be extended pretty far. Using cat-5 cable there are people with 300m runs I believe. The theoretical limit to the number of sensors on one 1-Wire lan is unlimited, they are digital device with a 64 bit unique serial number so that they can be individually addressed.
Brian
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Thanks for the mention. Don't forget that there is a whole series of different devices that can be attached to the network, including a weather station (which I just re-connected yesterday), humidity and barometric pressure sensors, Java iButtons, etc. I don't support pressure or humidity yes, but it will be added soon.
IMHO the site referred to in the article is pretty sparse, except for the diagram of the house. I use RRD to graph all my sensors, as well as the traffic to my webserver -- I'd been wondering why traffic had jumped today.
It isn't like the Icelandic economy is booming, but 'weaning' themselves from fossil fuels will only put them at a disadvantage to the rest of the world. People need to face facts -- Fossil (which may not really be fossil after all) fuel is what drives the most successful economies in the world right now.
We are not going to run out of fuel, and even if we were, we'd figure out something else (move to hydrogen, etc.) but purposfully crippling your economy is just plain dumb.
But it is an interesting experiment, I just don't want to see it imported to the US, we have enough problems with the Enviro-Whackos increasing our energy costs.
According to this review over at Visor Central and one at O'Reilly its a pretty nice card.
But I remember reading another review saying that its speed was nowhere near the 11Mbits advertised. This isn't really surprising considering the speed of the Dragnball processor that runs the Visor. But I'll be it beats the heck out of the VisorPhone's data mode (which is really an analog modem connection to your ISP over the cell network).
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Haven't any of you radical tree-huggers noticed something interesting about plants?
THEY GROW BACK!
You cut down trees, and a few years later they just grow back again. You cut down the new ones, and more grow back. Its called a renewable resource, like corn or wheat or apples, etc.
Up here in the NW we've had our logging industry devastated by these radical nutburgers. They got the media to play up the spotted owl issue to the point that logging was shut down all across the state. And now it ends up that there isn't anything special about their habitat -- they'll even nest in KFC signs.
But do they apologize for devastating and industry and putting thousands out of work? For raising the prices of the wood we build our houses with? No. They don't have to apologize -- they meant well, didn't they?
So please don't give me any of this helping the environment crap. It doesn't need any help from us.
Horse Pucky. Lott's work has been gone over repeatedly, and no serious problems have been found with his work.
Unlike the discredited anti-gun research done by a professor who's name has been forgotten. (starts with a B, and the recent 9th Circuit ruling referred to one of his worthless papers).
Criminals take the path of least resistance. If they thing you are armed, or may be armed, the move on to someone easier. Interviews with imprisoned felons confirm that one of their worst fears is an armed victim.
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws (Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).)
Factual analysis of gun laws in the United States. The title may seem 'biased' but it is in reality a summary of the situation.
Are you willing to put people in prison for defending their lives, as has been done in England? Guns and gun rights are the fundamental requirement for a free people. Without individual gun ownership you have no protection against a despotic government.
I've got Charter here in Washington State, and when I told them Linux they didn't even blink. They wired the house, left the modem for me. I plugged it in, quickly learned how to use dhcpcd, called their tech support to activate it and presto, it was working.
Well, there was 1 small hitch, he had to configure it using a mode that doesn't grab the MAC of the ethernet card in the PC. The tech knew what he was doing and I haven't had any problems in the month or so i've been using it.
but if they're going to be jumping on this 'desktop usability' fad then maybe I'll just stick with my stripped down RH 8.0 laptop install.
Yet again I'm one of those odd folks that isn't buying into the current fad of 'corporations are evil' 'profit is immoral' and all that crap.
If its to the benefit of the company they will do it. If enough of their customers request it, they will do it.
Remember that there are more small businesses in the US than large. The majority of people are employed by small business and they are affected by the ADA (other than any exclusions written into the law).
Noone, not the disabled, the enabled, the handicapped, the normal, or whatever you want to call yourself has the right to demand that government force a business to meet your needs. You live with what God throws at you and go from there. You have the right to either work around your problems, or find those that will help you.
These days that is becoming easier and easier with new technologies. Just look at Rush Limbaugh. He totally lost his hearing earlier this year. With modern DSP technology he is able to live a normal life.
The ADA is a feel-good measure that you are shamed into supporting because the supporters paint everyone who opposes it as someone who doesn't want to help the disabled. They shut down the argument by demonizing opponents before they even get a chance to argue.
I as you this basic question - Would you feel the same if the government came in and told you that you have to make your home ADA compliant? This is happening in several places around the county.
Seems obvious to me. Then again I'm one of those nutburgers that think that the ADA is one of the most intrusive pieces of legislation passed in the last 100 years.
What gives the government the right to tell you to put in special parking places or ramps or make your doorways a certain width? Nothing.
I'm all for helping the disabled/less fortunate. As long as its voluntary. Compassion at the barrel of a gun is not compassion, its slavery.
Just about everyone 'invents' a better one-time pad. You'd be well advised to either open it for peer review (as with Blowfish, TwoFish, AES, PGP, etc.) or hure Counterpane under an NDA to tell you if you're all wet or not.
Good Luck!
Hey dipshit! I get scanned daily by RH 6.2 boxes looking for rpc holes to exploit. The systems are still out there, whether or not you or I know better than to run them.
Also, you need to learn to read before posting. I didn't give any indication that I was running RH 6.2, did I? It was an example of how Linux distributions can be as susceptible to worms/exploits/etc. as any other computer system.
And FYI, it communicates with its bretheren on UDP port 2002, and leaves itself running as a program alled 'bugtraq' with its source in /tmp/.bugtraq
Or at least the version of it recently discussed on bugtraq had this behavior.
Anyone who thinks that solely because they run open source they are immune to attack is an idiot. Look at how wide open a default RedHat 6.2 install is.
This new attack is easily avoided by upgrading your OpenSSL version to 0.9.6e, and this should have been done by now. The hole has been known and example exploit available for a while now, as anyone who follows the bugtraq list would know.
Security is an ongoing process. You have to stay on top of it if you run machines that are not turned off and locked in a basement. There is just no way around the fact that there will always be bugs in software, and these days that commonly means security holes as well.
Sorry, but those shirts are ugly. And by saying that it isn't a crime you are encouraging the perception that it is a crime by being defensive about it.
I have tried for months (and months) to get the host record for nexuscomputing.com removed. I have completed all the forms, called them (been told it will be removed immediatly, that it had been given a top priority), etc. Needless to say, the host record still points to the wrong damn IP address.
I also recently transferred my wife's busybride.com domain away from them, using joker.com and Verisign is now telling me that it is up for renewal. But if you check the whois information it is obviously registered with joker.com!
(No, I didn't register it with Verisign, the previous owner did and after buying it I also discovered Verisign's other scam, holding domains hostage after a sale and refusing to transfer them for 60 days).
Feh! A pox on their house.
Brian
Well gee, now I can do a port to the SM2496 module for the Visor. Oh, wait... Handspring has killed the Springboard market. Nevermind.
Its about time someone provided this service. For years parents have been asking the Hollywood Studios for access to the edited versions that are used on airlines and television, only to be rebuffed with the idiotic 'artistic license' excuse.
There is a huge market for these films, and if they won't fill it then obviously someone else should. There's nothing wrong with wanting to edit out the 'dirty bits' so your kids can enjoy some good movies.
For example, Doc Hollywood is a pretty good Michael J. Fox movie, but right in the beginning it has a full-frontal nudity shot that really doen't add anything to the movie. Clip out that bit and you've got a PG rated movie suitable for all the munchkins (don't quote me on this, there may be a few other bits that need to be removed).
Noone is forcing you to rent these or view them, all it is doing is providing a choice to those of us who want some of our favorite films to be a little bit cleaner.
When we were buying our wedding set we looked at the 'traditional' diamond center stone, and it looked stupid. We went with smaller diamonds surrounding a ruby center stone -- the combination looks great and we didn't spend our life's savings on it.
Remember that this isn't an investment. Resale value has no meaning, because you're not going to be selling it (and if you think you might then why the hell are you getting married?).
But you do have to make her happy, and that means fufulling hundreds of years of accumulated social expectations. As much as that sucks, its the reality, so get used to it.
Congratulations and Good Luck!
We have seen this in action most visibly with the Linux Kernel and Linus's control (and the resulting arguments about VMs, etc). But it is his strong leadership that has kept things (mostly) on track.
I have seen this in my own projects, and my rule of thumb is that the submitter must convince me to add their code. They have to sell it to me, explain why it makes the project better and moves it forwards.
You have to remember that it is your project, and that you have the final say. The submitters are always (in my experience) very nice, and most don't expect you to integrate their patches at all.
If you forsee a problem maintaining the direction of the project, maybe you should wait until you have a stronger framework in place before releasing it.
Good Luck,
Brian
The research revolves around the number of visible email addresses in the To: (and I would imagine the Cc: headers). When people see a message sent to a bunch of others, they are less likely to respond.
Only the crudest spam include more than your email address, most don't even have that. email addresses are like gold to spammers and they don't give them away by revealing them in a large To: or Cc: header.
This is another example of the downfall of Slashdot. This article should never have reached the front page.
Brian
Dallas Semiconductor is the manufacturer/inventor of the 1-Wire network. Take a look at www.ibutton.com for a bunch of different devices. The iButtons are 1-Wire devices in a metal can, some can read temperatures and others can be used for access control. Dallas/Maxim has other 1-Wire devices that are not in a can, these are the ones that I use for my DigiTemp kits.
There are serial and parallel port adapters available (from iButton.com or from me in my Basic DigiTemp kit which uses the serial adapter), but the bus itself can be extended pretty far. Using cat-5 cable there are people with 300m runs I believe. The theoretical limit to the number of sensors on one 1-Wire lan is unlimited, they are digital device with a 64 bit unique serial number so that they can be individually addressed.
Brian
Thanks for the mention. Don't forget that there is a whole series of different devices that can be attached to the network, including a weather station (which I just re-connected yesterday), humidity and barometric pressure sensors, Java iButtons, etc. I don't support pressure or humidity yes, but it will be added soon.
IMHO the site referred to in the article is pretty sparse, except for the diagram of the house. I use RRD to graph all my sensors, as well as the traffic to my webserver -- I'd been wondering why traffic had jumped today.
Brian
Bugtraq's mailing list is (may be fixed by now) broken and being worked on.
Coincidence? Maybe.
It isn't like the Icelandic economy is booming, but 'weaning' themselves from fossil fuels will only put them at a disadvantage to the rest of the world. People need to face facts -- Fossil (which may not really be fossil after all) fuel is what drives the most successful economies in the world right now.
We are not going to run out of fuel, and even if we were, we'd figure out something else (move to hydrogen, etc.) but purposfully crippling your economy is just plain dumb.
But it is an interesting experiment, I just don't want to see it imported to the US, we have enough problems with the Enviro-Whackos increasing our energy costs.
Brian
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According to this review over at Visor Central and one at O'Reilly its a pretty nice card.
But I remember reading another review saying that its speed was nowhere near the 11Mbits advertised. This isn't really surprising considering the speed of the Dragnball processor that runs the Visor. But I'll be it beats the heck out of the VisorPhone's data mode (which is really an analog modem connection to your ISP over the cell network).
Brian