It wasn't so long ago that Slashdot had an article on one-time credit cards. I don't know if this is the
best answer to the problem of fraudulent use or overcharging, but it is one solution.
The referenced article starts with a particularly ridiculous bit of advocacy that renders the rest of it fairly dubious. It recommends sendmail on the basis of market penetration, but carefully avoids mentioning its security vulnerabilities and accumulation of cruft; it then makes a contrived argument that, since sendmail was developed on a BSD box, it should be run on the same. Nonsense. sendmail works equally poorly on many Un*x variants; there's nothing special about BSD in that regard.
Why should we judge sendmail on its market penetration but avoid judging BSD in the same way? The paper doesn't bother to justify that. I expect its author(s) figured on a sympathetic audience of BSD advocates.
If you really want to avoid being screwed, run a better MTA -- qmail and exim are reasonable choices. BSD is of course a reasonable choice of OS for that job, as are a number of Un*ces. But don't pick BSD because it will run sendmail -- that's like buying a Colt M1911A1 because it can be converted to full auto. The choice of platform is good, but the reasoning stinks!
I found the portrayal of the Emperor jarring, but it does make it seem more plausible that he was easily defeated, doesn't it?
Think Louis XVI:
To you King Louie we say "phooey".
You disappointed all of France.
But then what else could we expect
From a king in silk stockings
And pink satin pants.
-- Allan Sherman, "You Went The Wrong Way, Old King Louie"
There you have it, folks. As long as your country's leader sticks to gender-appropriate clothing, you're okay.:)
Both the Fremen and the Sardaukar looked like oddly-dressed middle managers. I never thought of Stilgar as a balding Slavic guy, but apparently my vision differed from the director's.
I don't think it would have been beyond the means of the show to get some realistic-looking soldiers. The real guys are wiry and muscular; so are out-of-work ballet dancers.:)
I emphatically agree about the portrayal of the Baron. This series compounded an error David Lynch made in his version of Dune: The Baron was a bad caricature, a villain out of a Jack Chick pamphlet. I expected him to shout "Haw haw!" as Leto's ghost rose from his body, that's how Jack Chick the Baron was.
In the book, the Baron is not stupid, oafish or even particularly loud. His menace is much quieter. That's a more impressive bad guy, IMO, than the series chose to show us.
I wouldn't have expected a third edition of the camel just now. Isn't Perl6 coming out Real Soon Now? I understand it will introduce some significant new capabilities. Given that, I'd have waited.
I like LaTeX's ability to separate semantic structure from layout logic, but any language that will allow style sheets can do the same thing, including HTML4. Also, TeX has a Turing-complete macro language, which I tend to dislike in a document description language. So while I like some aspects of this idea, I can't altogether support it.
A light photon gets through the glass, hits a surface, loses some of its energy and becomes an IR photon. It then hits the glass, which reflects it. Thus, IR photons build up inside the car. Thus, it gets hot.
Other evidence: Put an IR occupancy sensor next to a doorway with a window in front of it. People passing by in the hall will trip the sensor; their IR image is reflected off of the glass, which acts like an IR mirror.
You're taking an amazingly shitty attitude toward a user with an issue. You don't get to invalidate his concerns. That's not your place.
Furthermore, at least one of his issues is not minor. He has a problem with the culture of KDE as represented by his attempt to check in a valid bugfix. That was a terrible way to handle the problem. I could see deferring the patch until the next major release, but to reject it altogether smacks of bad software engineering and worse user relations.
I didn't see the original poster saying anything about getting all his information from Slashdot; that's your assumption. Given that he is knowledgeable enough to submit valid patches to KDE apps (are you?), I seriously doubt that.
You are a fool, and I hope you are not representative of the KDE community. Between the original poster's account and your response, I doubt I'll bother with KDE any time soon.
well, my analogy already addressed the point you were making: why lock your doors if it is so easy to break a window? I'm serious, that is not an easy question to answer.
Actually, security theory provides us a reasonable answer to that question. If the lock presents an intruder with a significant additional delay or will alert others of her actions at the time of the break-in, it's worth it; otherwise it isn't.
I just get annoyed at shallow arguments with a hidden agenda.
It is difficult to distinguish this assertion from one that a fool would make. You assume knowledge of your opponent's thoughts and motives that you can't really support by referencing what he actually wrote. May I suggest that you use your incipient psychic powers to deduce what I think of your posturing.
He said seems futile. If you're going to nitpick, get your facts straight.
In fact, the impossibility of the task is an important part of the issue. If a goal is mandated but unattainable, those who strive to fulfill it will eventually be driven to unreasonable and draconian measures in order to meet that goal. This isn't hypothetical or academic; we've seen this already in the war on (certain) drugs. Even if I were to agree with the goal of censoring porn, it might trouble my conscience a little that the means being used to accomplish this task are ineffective and have terrible side effects.
It's not for you to decide why someone should be bothered by something, especially if you can't be bothered to keep your own reasoning straight.
That's nice, but pure research is only useful when the results are released. If IBM had to do interesting things to the kernel to get it to scale down to this extent (and I'll bet they did), they should release the changes if this research is to be anything but a waste of time.
I am not convinced that any firewall scheme is usefully secure in a business environment. Many attacks come from within; you can't assume that any connection from within the perimeter can be trusted. It's better to use cryptographic security than to rely on a firewall.
I am surprised that the article did not go into why the various luminaries it quotes said what they did. Indeed, there was suspiciously little context provided with a great many of the quotes; I will look into them later to see whether anything important was omitted.
Without that sort of supporting justification, however, I can't see the point of the article. Arguments from authority are the weakest, and I suspect that the authorities in question were subjected to some serious authorial overinterpretation.
Strongly concur. That invitation opened the barn door to all sorts of questions. I'm amused that she declined to address the sexist behavior described by the querent; it appears that she could neither defend it nor admit that it was wrong.
Ghettoization is stupid, and the Frontman Fallacy is no excuse for it.
the problem with the man pages is that you need to know what you're looking for in the first place in order to find it.
man -k provides some of the functionality you want, and man -K is even closer although quite slow and not available for all versions of man, but you're right: it's not a novice-friendly medium. man pages walk the fine line between being terse and being cryptic.
Are man pages a good learning tool? Not really. For example, do a `man tar' right now. Go ahead, I'll wait. [pause]
As you can see, the current tar man page is awful.
The tar man page for NetBSD has decent examples for everything from the straightforward tarball extraction command you listed, to using tar for backups, to extracting particular files from a tarball, to adding to an existing tarball...
It may be worthwhile for GNU or the LDP to look at that page.
Zico, you can't possibly come across as a knowing and sincere judge of anything in front of an audience which 1) knows what it's talking about, and 2) has seen you lie for MickeySoft again and again.
Try selling that shit somewhere else, boy. We've had enough of it here.
Sorry, Zico, but proof-by-anecdote doesn't work...especially when the tale-teller is a well-known Microsoft rectal osculator. I've not had such experiences with my Palm III, nor has anyone else in my office -- and we use Palm Pilots a lot.
Slashdot Mirror
It wasn't so long ago that Slashdot had an article on one-time credit cards. I don't know if this is the best answer to the problem of fraudulent use or overcharging, but it is one solution.
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The referenced article starts with a particularly ridiculous bit of advocacy that renders the rest of it fairly dubious. It recommends sendmail on the basis of market penetration, but carefully avoids mentioning its security vulnerabilities and accumulation of cruft; it then makes a contrived argument that, since sendmail was developed on a BSD box, it should be run on the same. Nonsense. sendmail works equally poorly on many Un*x variants; there's nothing special about BSD in that regard.
Why should we judge sendmail on its market penetration but avoid judging BSD in the same way? The paper doesn't bother to justify that. I expect its author(s) figured on a sympathetic audience of BSD advocates.
If you really want to avoid being screwed, run a better MTA -- qmail and exim are reasonable choices. BSD is of course a reasonable choice of OS for that job, as are a number of Un*ces. But don't pick BSD because it will run sendmail -- that's like buying a Colt M1911A1 because it can be converted to full auto. The choice of platform is good, but the reasoning stinks!
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I found the portrayal of the Emperor jarring, but it does make it seem more plausible that he was easily defeated, doesn't it?
Think Louis XVI:
There you have it, folks. As long as your country's leader sticks to gender-appropriate clothing, you're okay. :)
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Both the Fremen and the Sardaukar looked like oddly-dressed middle managers. I never thought of Stilgar as a balding Slavic guy, but apparently my vision differed from the director's.
I don't think it would have been beyond the means of the show to get some realistic-looking soldiers. The real guys are wiry and muscular; so are out-of-work ballet dancers. :)
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I emphatically agree about the portrayal of the Baron. This series compounded an error David Lynch made in his version of Dune: The Baron was a bad caricature, a villain out of a Jack Chick pamphlet. I expected him to shout "Haw haw!" as Leto's ghost rose from his body, that's how Jack Chick the Baron was.
In the book, the Baron is not stupid, oafish or even particularly loud. His menace is much quieter. That's a more impressive bad guy, IMO, than the series chose to show us.
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I wouldn't have expected a third edition of the camel just now. Isn't Perl6 coming out Real Soon Now? I understand it will introduce some significant new capabilities. Given that, I'd have waited.
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Yes indeed. Note that I don't think much of HTML as a document description language either. :)
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See the HyperTeX FAQ for details.
I like LaTeX's ability to separate semantic structure from layout logic, but any language that will allow style sheets can do the same thing, including HTML4. Also, TeX has a Turing-complete macro language, which I tend to dislike in a document description language. So while I like some aspects of this idea, I can't altogether support it.
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No. Here's how it works.
A light photon gets through the glass, hits a surface, loses some of its energy and becomes an IR photon. It then hits the glass, which reflects it. Thus, IR photons build up inside the car. Thus, it gets hot.
Other evidence: Put an IR occupancy sensor next to a doorway with a window in front of it. People passing by in the hall will trip the sensor; their IR image is reflected off of the glass, which acts like an IR mirror.
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If whiskey is the water of life, what then is water?
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Unlikely. Glass reflects IR. That's why cars get hot so quickly in sunlight.
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Really? You have never seen an outfit that used, say, a CVS server? Never even heard of one?
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No.
You're taking an amazingly shitty attitude toward a user with an issue. You don't get to invalidate his concerns. That's not your place.
Furthermore, at least one of his issues is not minor. He has a problem with the culture of KDE as represented by his attempt to check in a valid bugfix. That was a terrible way to handle the problem. I could see deferring the patch until the next major release, but to reject it altogether smacks of bad software engineering and worse user relations.
I didn't see the original poster saying anything about getting all his information from Slashdot; that's your assumption. Given that he is knowledgeable enough to submit valid patches to KDE apps (are you?), I seriously doubt that.
You are a fool, and I hope you are not representative of the KDE community. Between the original poster's account and your response, I doubt I'll bother with KDE any time soon.
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Actually, security theory provides us a reasonable answer to that question. If the lock presents an intruder with a significant additional delay or will alert others of her actions at the time of the break-in, it's worth it; otherwise it isn't.
It is difficult to distinguish this assertion from one that a fool would make. You assume knowledge of your opponent's thoughts and motives that you can't really support by referencing what he actually wrote. May I suggest that you use your incipient psychic powers to deduce what I think of your posturing.
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He said seems futile. If you're going to nitpick, get your facts straight.
In fact, the impossibility of the task is an important part of the issue. If a goal is mandated but unattainable, those who strive to fulfill it will eventually be driven to unreasonable and draconian measures in order to meet that goal. This isn't hypothetical or academic; we've seen this already in the war on (certain) drugs. Even if I were to agree with the goal of censoring porn, it might trouble my conscience a little that the means being used to accomplish this task are ineffective and have terrible side effects.
It's not for you to decide why someone should be bothered by something, especially if you can't be bothered to keep your own reasoning straight.
--
That's nice, but pure research is only useful when the results are released. If IBM had to do interesting things to the kernel to get it to scale down to this extent (and I'll bet they did), they should release the changes if this research is to be anything but a waste of time.
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I am not convinced that any firewall scheme is usefully secure in a business environment. Many attacks come from within; you can't assume that any connection from within the perimeter can be trusted. It's better to use cryptographic security than to rely on a firewall.
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I am surprised that the article did not go into why the various luminaries it quotes said what they did. Indeed, there was suspiciously little context provided with a great many of the quotes; I will look into them later to see whether anything important was omitted.
Without that sort of supporting justification, however, I can't see the point of the article. Arguments from authority are the weakest, and I suspect that the authorities in question were subjected to some serious authorial overinterpretation.
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Strongly concur. That invitation opened the barn door to all sorts of questions. I'm amused that she declined to address the sexist behavior described by the querent; it appears that she could neither defend it nor admit that it was wrong.
Ghettoization is stupid, and the Frontman Fallacy is no excuse for it.
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man -k provides some of the functionality you want, and man -K is even closer although quite slow and not available for all versions of man, but you're right: it's not a novice-friendly medium. man pages walk the fine line between being terse and being cryptic.
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The tar man page for NetBSD has decent examples for everything from the straightforward tarball extraction command you listed, to using tar for backups, to extracting particular files from a tarball, to adding to an existing tarball...
It may be worthwhile for GNU or the LDP to look at that page.
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Well, paint my ass red and call me "Comrade". And bring on da wimmen!
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Oh, he's SERIOUS. Zippidy doo dah.
Zico, you can't possibly come across as a knowing and sincere judge of anything in front of an audience which 1) knows what it's talking about, and 2) has seen you lie for MickeySoft again and again.
Try selling that shit somewhere else, boy. We've had enough of it here.
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Sorry, Zico, but proof-by-anecdote doesn't work...especially when the tale-teller is a well-known Microsoft rectal osculator. I've not had such experiences with my Palm III, nor has anyone else in my office -- and we use Palm Pilots a lot.
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That's nice, but why not play it on a platform more reliable than Windows Caveat Emptor?
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