I was wondering the same thing as well. I run a small site with varnish on the front end. Anyone know how attacks like this work against servers behind a forward proxy?
Yeah, well... I've known Mormons who referred to their own garments as "magic underwear". Self deprecation is a healthy way to acknowledge the fact that some of the stuff the LDS faithful follow is viewed as a little bit far out by those not in the loop. Your religion is far from unique in that respect. If the context were ripe for it, I wouldn't have hesitated to take a poke at the "magic ring around the collar" (for the priests) or the "magic dot on the forehead" (for Hindus). I didn't single the LDS out, so don't feel so persecuted.
(And since you posed the question... as an atheist, I find it odd that the faithful of *any* religion would need such material reminders of their own beliefs.)
Fact of the matter is, the lawmakers in Utah are greatly influenced in their support/opposition to laws (in both state and federal levels) by their faith. Again, this isn't unique to the LDS. You see this in the very lax (some, like me, would call "sane") gun laws in Utah, as well as the inane alcohol laws in the state (which, thankfully, are being slowly dismantled). Both of these areas of law are tied closely to the LDS church's views on the subjects. As such, given the prior lack of rallying against privacy-invading legislation from Utah Republicans, it's not a stretch for one to postulate that these scanners hit a little close to home for many of the folks from Utah.
He's from Utah. My guess is that LDS practitioners have some beef about TSA getting snaps of their magic underwear via this new scanning device. LDS folks also have a long, historical distrust of the feds. So, combine these and you have a wet-behind-the-ears politician who's idealistic enough to push through something that makes sense. Don't worry, he'll be brow-beaten until he falls in line.
I briefly owned a '98 Dodge Ram 2500, with Cummins 24-Valve Turbo Diesel. I averaged 20 MPG. It was hardly made of "recycled beer cans and plastic packaging". I got better than 12 MPG when towing heavy loads. Sad thing was that it got better mileage than the little '01 Dodge Dakota I had a few years later. I don't own either now, though I miss the Ram -- it was a nice truck.
I had the same reservations as you. In fact, my initial reaction to the movie was negative. However, old ideas *can* be re imaged successfully. In that light, I've decided that the movie was one of the better ones I've seen in a while.
The key is to suspend your connection between the old and the new. That's how I came to accept the new BSG and learned to love it. Initially, I hated what I was hearing about the new BSG -- I refused to watch it out of principle (Starbuck is a woman?!? Cylons are flesh-and-blood replicants, not clunky metal robots?!?) However, a few years after the show began, I rented the pilot/miniseries and first season via Netflix, became hooked, and faithfully rented (or watched on Hulu) the rest to its satisfying conclusion.
I still don't really consider the new BSG to *be* Battlestar Galactica. It's almost a shame they needed to ride on the coat tails of the namesake to get the show sold to the studios and audience. Had they kept the back-story and mythos and not kept the names, the show would have still be just as enjoyable w/o interfering with that single season of sci-fi drama and cheese that pleasantly haunts our childhood memories.
You must approach this new Star Trek with almost the same attitude, except it's the main three characters (Kirk, Spock, & McCoy) that we retain, as opposed to the primary storyline. In BSG, the meat-and-potatoes was the nearly-extinct human race aspect that mattered. In Star Trek (TOS, at least), it's the main characters that kept us coming back for more.
My main gripes with the movie had more to do with superfluous, juvenile gags (green woman, Scotty's sidekick, and fat hands), more than any history or character changes. As a vehicle to resurrect a trio of personalities we all know and love, this movie did the trick. I enjoyed how the Enterprise was both modern on the bridge (the Apple Store analogy is spot-on) and industrial at its heart. I can even forgive the sad, lackluster antagonist (which was indeed ripped right out of ST:Nemesis), as well as the hokey black hole physics.
I'm not confident that any new movies or shows will result from the Abram's strain of Star Trek -- look at the Hulk, Superman, and Batman flip-flops seen in the last 10 years between the small and big screens -- but the seeds of a good, fresh franchise have definitely been sown. Only the gross income figures from this movie and any decent writing talent Hollywood can muster will determine if that will happen.
Those are, at best, annoyances or deprivation of resources. Hardly what any sane person would call "serious damage". Certainly not damage to hardware. Damage to someone's sanity or credit rating, sure -- but not physical damage to anything.
It's not a moral argument, it's a genetic one. Perhaps I should have said people aren't "designed" or "evolved" for such sustained living.
Repairing injury and treating true illness are one thing. Trying to thwart natural processes, such as hormone or melanin levels tapering off with age, seems an odd practice since it's neither an injury or an illness.
So much of our modern medicine reeks of vanity, as opposed to treating true ailments.
Look, on a personal level, I'm glad you've survived whatever ailments had you down. I would have died in my youth were it not for modern medicine. However, as collective whole, I think society spends too much time arm wresting with Father Time. We're mortal -- best we suck it up and learn to deal with it.
Truly, I *am* 37. And I have a few aches and pains, like from my lower back -- could be a mildly slipped disc, I don't know, as I've never been to the doctor about it. I've got 2 kids, 11 and 14. I'd rather die at a ripe mid-50s due to some possibly curable condition than work my ass off and never enjoy my family in order to pay for over-priced insurance premiums to pay for over-priced medical procedures that will only delay the inevitable anyway. I guess everyone has their priorities. Mine is living, not staying alive.
A LOT of males have low testosterone starting at 43-- some earlier. It's an easy test to get.
So yet another natural progression of the aging process has become an illness to be cured?!? What a messed up world we live in.:(
News flash for all you ladies and gents out there... you were never meant to look/feel/act in your forties (and beyond) as you did in your teens and twenties. You'll be slower, weaker, more passive (less aggressive), less beautiful/handsome (by pop media standards, of course), hairier, more wrinkled, less mentally sharp, slower to heal, harder of sight and hearing, and you won't have sex like rabbits. These are generalizations, of course.
It's one thing to help you along as you age (glasses, hearing aids, canes, etc.), but this ever-growing trend in trying to dodge time's arrow every step of the way (cosmetic surgery, perpetual drug regiments, etc.) is sad commentary on a society that supposedly believes in an afterlife. Enjoy your life, in all its stages, then move along -- this world was never meant to be your home forever.
I was speaking about the authority to enforce academic standards and curb behavior that disrupts the learning environment. That's why we have shitty teachers, grade inflation, and kids who ultimately cannot not function as anything other than consumers once they leave the public education system.
It's plain as the nose on our collective faces that schools are accumulating the power to strip search 13-year-old girls, expel kids for using chicken nuggets as toy guns, and ensure that the LBGT crowd cannot gather on campus time. Like the government in general, the schools want the power, just not the power to do good by society.
"Being minors under our charge, you have few rights afforded to any other citizen of our country. After all, you're too immature and need protection. But if you flash your tits to your iphone and email it to your boyfriend, we'll charge you as an adult and ruin your life." What kind of messed-up conflicting message is that?
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In 7,2, you still get the "ZFS is cosidered to be experimental" message when you boot. As mentioned, elsewhere, the 7.x branch retains the ZFS v6 code, and v13 will be in 8.0.
That said, I've put ZFS through its paces on the amd64 platform, and it works great (at least w/ the 2- and 4-GB RAM configurations I've had on my workstation). I don't think I've ever had a ZFS-caused panic on amd64. However, I couldn't find a stable config under i386 to save my life, but I don't really feel that's a problem because ZFS is truly a 64-bit subsystem and should be treated as such. If you're competent to administer large data sets to begin with, you'll be competent enough to take care of any tweaking ZFS may need (which is minimal under amd64, if needed at all).
I know there are "bad teachers" out there. You know what? There are EVEN SHITTIER KIDS OUT THERE.
As a homeschooling parent, I'll play devil's advocate here. The law says The Children must attend school, but it can't require them to actually be good students (be it grades or, for the most part, behavior).
Since public school authority over kids has been emasculated over the years, preventing them from doing real enforcement for problem kids, the proper solution is simply to repeal compulsory education. They should still collect *some* taxes to support a system where people who want to be educated can go. Then, the schools can have a sane policy for kicking people out, since their mission will be to, you know, educate kids, as opposed to play tax-funded babysitters for shitty parents.
Yeah, yeah... an educated citizenry is a cornerstone of a healthy, productive society. How's that working out, anyway?
That won't work, either. US expatriates are supposed to report and be taxed on their income in other countries for something like 10 years. I think we're the only country with the audacity to do that, though the tax rules are somewhat different for expatriates than domestic wage earners.
My solution is to make so little money that The Man pays me a few thousand bucks per tax year. At least until the kids leave the nest. Best to use the system against itself than to flee it, I say.
I think that the objection here comes from the lack of transparency of the product being used. You input a paper, and you get a percentage answer. You're not given a list of papers/sources that registered a match (it would seem, anyway -- I don't know), thus you cannot verify the claims of the machine. Of course, being proprietary systems, I highly doubt that the vendor will allow inspection of the methods of detection or the database.
The point is, that 35% means *nothing* useful without the exact context it was generated in.
As we've seen with black-box voting machines, block-box web filters, and black-box breathalyzers, I suspect we'll see many lawsuits about black-box plagiarism detectors. After all, such a program can adversely affect one's long-term future, so the system better damned well be transparent and close to infallible (at least as much as the human-based method of detection).
There's just too much upstream of your comment for me to sort through to be sure I'm not totally missing the point of your comment. However, you may find this very interesting. For a generic search, people should look up "fox walking" (which has been mentioned elsewhere here as walking/running with the balls of your feet taking the stress, as opposed to the heels).
I know that the anecdotal accounts in the above link are not humans "in the wild" but they clearly lend credence to the theory that humans are capable of easily running hundreds of miles at a time, as it was common practice of native Americans for their role as messengers of early settlers.
"I guess the question is: why does people listen to shitty music."
I would hazard a guess that it's because, due to the ever increasingly media-centric world we live in, we're bludgeoned by this shitty music everywhere we turn. In the same way advertising works, familiarity with a product (no matter how irritating and crappy it may be) leads to it being more readily consumable. From TV shows, to the commercials between those shows, movies, ringtones, shopping malls, youtube montages, restaurants, you name it, our heads are being filled with this music, and it leads to demand. This is how radio has always worked, so it is not unreasonable to assume the same demand is created by media other than radio.
I am not immune to this: When that awful Hanson one-hit-wonder title "Mmmmbop" hit the scene in the 90's, I found it so goddamned infectious and catchy, I went out of my way to find a copy online. Not because I liked the song; it was more of a way to exorcise song -- play it until you're forever burnt out on it. Ditto several others of the era: Aqua's "Barbie Girl", Trio's "Da Da Da" (I know -- it was an 80's song, but gained popularity due to that dot-com-era commercial), and "Jump, Jive, an' Wail" (The Brian Setzer Orchestra). I still have those MP3's, but I haven't listened to them in nearly 10 years. I certainly would never have bought the albums -- even the singles -- had free MP3s not been around.
One particular stat that I like to trot out in such discussions is AllMusic.com's Top Searches stats page. Without fail, 90% of the acts listed are from the 90's or much earlier. The two conclusions that I have drawn from that page are: 1) baby-boomers and their offspring (like myself) are over-represented on this particular site; or 2) the younger, more 'net-savvy generations recognize good music. I tend to discount #1 due to the fact that many boomers are still techno-phobic. There may be a simpler explanation, but it seems clear that old music is still very popular, in many cases more so (in the long haul) than new music.
My theory is that the torrent stats reflect what people have an immediate need for: that catchy song by so-and-so that they heard on the radio during the commute to work or on that Gillette commercial. Stats on sites like All Music reflect people trying to track down a *good* artist's back catalog so that they can purchase it (or maybe download/copy it from elsewhere).
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I was wondering the same thing as well. I run a small site with varnish on the front end. Anyone know how attacks like this work against servers behind a forward proxy?
Ditto. They even support SSL (see here). For the few odd text groups I use, this free low-volume service is nice enough.
Yeah, I caught that as well. I found myself wondering if the guy had read that book and was paying a subtle homage to it.
Yeah, well... I've known Mormons who referred to their own garments as "magic underwear". Self deprecation is a healthy way to acknowledge the fact that some of the stuff the LDS faithful follow is viewed as a little bit far out by those not in the loop. Your religion is far from unique in that respect. If the context were ripe for it, I wouldn't have hesitated to take a poke at the "magic ring around the collar" (for the priests) or the "magic dot on the forehead" (for Hindus). I didn't single the LDS out, so don't feel so persecuted.
(And since you posed the question... as an atheist, I find it odd that the faithful of *any* religion would need such material reminders of their own beliefs.)
Fact of the matter is, the lawmakers in Utah are greatly influenced in their support/opposition to laws (in both state and federal levels) by their faith. Again, this isn't unique to the LDS. You see this in the very lax (some, like me, would call "sane") gun laws in Utah, as well as the inane alcohol laws in the state (which, thankfully, are being slowly dismantled). Both of these areas of law are tied closely to the LDS church's views on the subjects. As such, given the prior lack of rallying against privacy-invading legislation from Utah Republicans, it's not a stretch for one to postulate that these scanners hit a little close to home for many of the folks from Utah.
He's from Utah. My guess is that LDS practitioners have some beef about TSA getting snaps of their magic underwear via this new scanning device. LDS folks also have a long, historical distrust of the feds. So, combine these and you have a wet-behind-the-ears politician who's idealistic enough to push through something that makes sense. Don't worry, he'll be brow-beaten until he falls in line.
I briefly owned a '98 Dodge Ram 2500, with Cummins 24-Valve Turbo Diesel. I averaged 20 MPG. It was hardly made of "recycled beer cans and plastic packaging". I got better than 12 MPG when towing heavy loads. Sad thing was that it got better mileage than the little '01 Dodge Dakota I had a few years later. I don't own either now, though I miss the Ram -- it was a nice truck.
Primary colors?
The ATM repair, too, man must learn the lesson of Ed Gruberman.
One can only read so fast. Who cares how fast FF runs so long as it renders faster than one's ability to read the content?
I had the same reservations as you. In fact, my initial reaction to the movie was negative. However, old ideas *can* be re imaged successfully. In that light, I've decided that the movie was one of the better ones I've seen in a while.
The key is to suspend your connection between the old and the new. That's how I came to accept the new BSG and learned to love it. Initially, I hated what I was hearing about the new BSG -- I refused to watch it out of principle (Starbuck is a woman?!? Cylons are flesh-and-blood replicants, not clunky metal robots?!?) However, a few years after the show began, I rented the pilot/miniseries and first season via Netflix, became hooked, and faithfully rented (or watched on Hulu) the rest to its satisfying conclusion.
I still don't really consider the new BSG to *be* Battlestar Galactica. It's almost a shame they needed to ride on the coat tails of the namesake to get the show sold to the studios and audience. Had they kept the back-story and mythos and not kept the names, the show would have still be just as enjoyable w/o interfering with that single season of sci-fi drama and cheese that pleasantly haunts our childhood memories.
You must approach this new Star Trek with almost the same attitude, except it's the main three characters (Kirk, Spock, & McCoy) that we retain, as opposed to the primary storyline. In BSG, the meat-and-potatoes was the nearly-extinct human race aspect that mattered. In Star Trek (TOS, at least), it's the main characters that kept us coming back for more.
My main gripes with the movie had more to do with superfluous, juvenile gags (green woman, Scotty's sidekick, and fat hands), more than any history or character changes. As a vehicle to resurrect a trio of personalities we all know and love, this movie did the trick. I enjoyed how the Enterprise was both modern on the bridge (the Apple Store analogy is spot-on) and industrial at its heart. I can even forgive the sad, lackluster antagonist (which was indeed ripped right out of ST:Nemesis), as well as the hokey black hole physics.
I'm not confident that any new movies or shows will result from the Abram's strain of Star Trek -- look at the Hulk, Superman, and Batman flip-flops seen in the last 10 years between the small and big screens -- but the seeds of a good, fresh franchise have definitely been sown. Only the gross income figures from this movie and any decent writing talent Hollywood can muster will determine if that will happen.
Those are, at best, annoyances or deprivation of resources. Hardly what any sane person would call "serious damage". Certainly not damage to hardware. Damage to someone's sanity or credit rating, sure -- but not physical damage to anything.
What you say?
So... you hear stuff as sung by Buster Poindexter?
It's not a moral argument, it's a genetic one. Perhaps I should have said people aren't "designed" or "evolved" for such sustained living.
Repairing injury and treating true illness are one thing. Trying to thwart natural processes, such as hormone or melanin levels tapering off with age, seems an odd practice since it's neither an injury or an illness.
So much of our modern medicine reeks of vanity, as opposed to treating true ailments.
Look, on a personal level, I'm glad you've survived whatever ailments had you down. I would have died in my youth were it not for modern medicine. However, as collective whole, I think society spends too much time arm wresting with Father Time. We're mortal -- best we suck it up and learn to deal with it.
"I'm thirty-seven -- I'm not old!" ;-)
Truly, I *am* 37. And I have a few aches and pains, like from my lower back -- could be a mildly slipped disc, I don't know, as I've never been to the doctor about it. I've got 2 kids, 11 and 14. I'd rather die at a ripe mid-50s due to some possibly curable condition than work my ass off and never enjoy my family in order to pay for over-priced insurance premiums to pay for over-priced medical procedures that will only delay the inevitable anyway. I guess everyone has their priorities. Mine is living, not staying alive.
A LOT of males have low testosterone starting at 43-- some earlier. It's an easy test to get.
So yet another natural progression of the aging process has become an illness to be cured?!? What a messed up world we live in. :(
News flash for all you ladies and gents out there... you were never meant to look/feel/act in your forties (and beyond) as you did in your teens and twenties. You'll be slower, weaker, more passive (less aggressive), less beautiful/handsome (by pop media standards, of course), hairier, more wrinkled, less mentally sharp, slower to heal, harder of sight and hearing, and you won't have sex like rabbits. These are generalizations, of course.
It's one thing to help you along as you age (glasses, hearing aids, canes, etc.), but this ever-growing trend in trying to dodge time's arrow every step of the way (cosmetic surgery, perpetual drug regiments, etc.) is sad commentary on a society that supposedly believes in an afterlife. Enjoy your life, in all its stages, then move along -- this world was never meant to be your home forever.
I was speaking about the authority to enforce academic standards and curb behavior that disrupts the learning environment. That's why we have shitty teachers, grade inflation, and kids who ultimately cannot not function as anything other than consumers once they leave the public education system.
It's plain as the nose on our collective faces that schools are accumulating the power to strip search 13-year-old girls, expel kids for using chicken nuggets as toy guns, and ensure that the LBGT crowd cannot gather on campus time. Like the government in general, the schools want the power, just not the power to do good by society.
"Being minors under our charge, you have few rights afforded to any other citizen of our country. After all, you're too immature and need protection. But if you flash your tits to your iphone and email it to your boyfriend, we'll charge you as an adult and ruin your life." What kind of messed-up conflicting message is that?
In 7,2, you still get the "ZFS is cosidered to be experimental" message when you boot. As mentioned, elsewhere, the 7.x branch retains the ZFS v6 code, and v13 will be in 8.0.
That said, I've put ZFS through its paces on the amd64 platform, and it works great (at least w/ the 2- and 4-GB RAM configurations I've had on my workstation). I don't think I've ever had a ZFS-caused panic on amd64. However, I couldn't find a stable config under i386 to save my life, but I don't really feel that's a problem because ZFS is truly a 64-bit subsystem and should be treated as such. If you're competent to administer large data sets to begin with, you'll be competent enough to take care of any tweaking ZFS may need (which is minimal under amd64, if needed at all).
I know there are "bad teachers" out there. You know what? There are EVEN SHITTIER KIDS OUT THERE.
As a homeschooling parent, I'll play devil's advocate here. The law says The Children must attend school, but it can't require them to actually be good students (be it grades or, for the most part, behavior).
Since public school authority over kids has been emasculated over the years, preventing them from doing real enforcement for problem kids, the proper solution is simply to repeal compulsory education. They should still collect *some* taxes to support a system where people who want to be educated can go. Then, the schools can have a sane policy for kicking people out, since their mission will be to, you know, educate kids, as opposed to play tax-funded babysitters for shitty parents.
Yeah, yeah... an educated citizenry is a cornerstone of a healthy, productive society. How's that working out, anyway?
That won't work, either. US expatriates are supposed to report and be taxed on their income in other countries for something like 10 years. I think we're the only country with the audacity to do that, though the tax rules are somewhat different for expatriates than domestic wage earners.
My solution is to make so little money that The Man pays me a few thousand bucks per tax year. At least until the kids leave the nest. Best to use the system against itself than to flee it, I say.
I think that the objection here comes from the lack of transparency of the product being used. You input a paper, and you get a percentage answer. You're not given a list of papers/sources that registered a match (it would seem, anyway -- I don't know), thus you cannot verify the claims of the machine. Of course, being proprietary systems, I highly doubt that the vendor will allow inspection of the methods of detection or the database.
The point is, that 35% means *nothing* useful without the exact context it was generated in.
As we've seen with black-box voting machines, block-box web filters, and black-box breathalyzers, I suspect we'll see many lawsuits about black-box plagiarism detectors. After all, such a program can adversely affect one's long-term future, so the system better damned well be transparent and close to infallible (at least as much as the human-based method of detection).
There's just too much upstream of your comment for me to sort through to be sure I'm not totally missing the point of your comment. However, you may find this very interesting. For a generic search, people should look up "fox walking" (which has been mentioned elsewhere here as walking/running with the balls of your feet taking the stress, as opposed to the heels).
I know that the anecdotal accounts in the above link are not humans "in the wild" but they clearly lend credence to the theory that humans are capable of easily running hundreds of miles at a time, as it was common practice of native Americans for their role as messengers of early settlers.
Fascinating stuff.
"I guess the question is: why does people listen to shitty music."
I would hazard a guess that it's because, due to the ever increasingly media-centric world we live in, we're bludgeoned by this shitty music everywhere we turn. In the same way advertising works, familiarity with a product (no matter how irritating and crappy it may be) leads to it being more readily consumable. From TV shows, to the commercials between those shows, movies, ringtones, shopping malls, youtube montages, restaurants, you name it, our heads are being filled with this music, and it leads to demand. This is how radio has always worked, so it is not unreasonable to assume the same demand is created by media other than radio.
I am not immune to this: When that awful Hanson one-hit-wonder title "Mmmmbop" hit the scene in the 90's, I found it so goddamned infectious and catchy, I went out of my way to find a copy online. Not because I liked the song; it was more of a way to exorcise song -- play it until you're forever burnt out on it. Ditto several others of the era: Aqua's "Barbie Girl", Trio's "Da Da Da" (I know -- it was an 80's song, but gained popularity due to that dot-com-era commercial), and "Jump, Jive, an' Wail" (The Brian Setzer Orchestra). I still have those MP3's, but I haven't listened to them in nearly 10 years. I certainly would never have bought the albums -- even the singles -- had free MP3s not been around.
One particular stat that I like to trot out in such discussions is AllMusic.com's Top Searches stats page. Without fail, 90% of the acts listed are from the 90's or much earlier. The two conclusions that I have drawn from that page are: 1) baby-boomers and their offspring (like myself) are over-represented on this particular site; or 2) the younger, more 'net-savvy generations recognize good music. I tend to discount #1 due to the fact that many boomers are still techno-phobic. There may be a simpler explanation, but it seems clear that old music is still very popular, in many cases more so (in the long haul) than new music.
My theory is that the torrent stats reflect what people have an immediate need for: that catchy song by so-and-so that they heard on the radio during the commute to work or on that Gillette commercial. Stats on sites like All Music reflect people trying to track down a *good* artist's back catalog so that they can purchase it (or maybe download/copy it from elsewhere).
Damn! you should have typed "trigger alert!" before bringing up that name.
I, too, was unfortunate enough to have seen that movie. It was horrible.