400 000 injured is an emotive argument and something that should lead to prosecutions of companies for neglecting safety regulations (assuming those regulations exist) but throwing millions out of work is not the answer.
I originally thought that this was connected to April 1, but a couple of points made me reconsider:
- I am pretty sure that the April 1 article was in the previous edition of C't ('Blue Movies' from the power sockets, P 178), that was the edition that covered 1. April. - 'hdparm -I' on one of my discs showed exactly the entries they were talking about.
As to the other thing, I am not in the US so the legal situation is not the same here. I do have backups, but would still be royally screwed if everything was removed.
I run my small business on these computers and would have serious problems if I had to replace everything.
The girl is not completely computer-illiterate and I was suggesting to her that she should do some network browsing the next time she saw that network (it is not up 24x7).
I think your blocking of the smtp port only stops guests sending mails under you account (assuming you are logged in). It does not stop anyone: - downloading kiddie porn using an IP Address traceable back to you - file sharing using an IP Address . ..
The first case is probably the most dangerous one, investigators are both entitled and willing to confiscate your computer / it's discs for their investigation. At my previous job, we all had to go to a - rather entertaining - talk where we also learnt why anyone keeping anything illegal like kiddie porn on the company servers would be kicked out without their feet coming near the ground. That sort of stuff could easily lead to the servers' discs being confiscated, something that would have brought business to a complete standstill.
I helped a friend of mine set up his WiFi network a month ago. The setup was to allow a Windows network for his family, and route all external traffic via one point where he could block certain IP Addresses (his daughters are 11 and 8 and he does not want to give them unlimited access).
So far so good.
His elder daughter was surfing away happily, but could not access the other PCs. It turned out that the strongest signal she was receiving was from an unencrypted network in a neighbouring house/flat.
That explained the different subnet she was on as well, we thought one of the boxes was acting as a second DHCP server + router to the main network. A ping disabused us of that, no way was it possible for her PC to be online but not be able to ping the rest of the network.
The most likely culprit was apparently a neighbour who teaches a computer course at a local school. Nuff said.
A word on 'Opting out'. I have a bunch of email addresses, some of which I use and some of which pretty much lie fallow.
A while ago, I half-reactivated one of the 'fallow' ones. At that stage it was getting 25 spams a day and I can't send mail via it anyway (they allow me to read using another ISP, but I would have to dial in to send mail and I no longer use/have a modem). This made it ideal to receive and react to 'comfirmations' from organisations I did not trust not to spam me. The type of confirmation I react to normally arrives within 2 minutes of me soliciting it so I just have to make sure my inbox is clear first.
One fine day I then started clicking on the 'Opt Out' buttons in the incoming Spam there, just to see what happened.
The surprising bottom line turned out to be: Opting out pretty much works. That address is now down to 5-7 spams a day while my main address (where I silently delete all spam) is approaching 30 a day. Some of the remaining spams are in chinese, others do not have an opt-out mechanism although even the second category there has fallen away recently.
An ex-boss of mine had that problem, if he had'nt had his first beer of the day yet (this happened sometimes if there was some meeting he had to go to).
He was usually on his second beer by about 8:00 am.
You as a therapist could have kicked him out, I had to try and work with him.
Last I heard, he had (been forced to) taken early retirement, had left his wife and gone to live in Thailand. Maybe he is looking for white mice there now.
The only thing I use it for is to go to the M$ site and grab security updates, I can't be bothered to look for a new way to do that and also don't see any reason why it would be worth it.
Having said that: is this a bug or a feature? Microsoft spent a lot of time, energy and money displacing Netscape and now a combination of virtually any browser and Java is working the other way.
fwiw, I have never heard the term 'scorched earth' used in the way you describe. The Russians used this tactic twice, against Napoleon's armies and against Hitler's.
As for the Romans, subtract the Holocaust from the Nazis' behaviour in WW2 and you get pretty close to how the Romans behaved. There were several instances of mass-suicides by the defenders of settlements when they could no longer hold out against the Romans.
The Mongols were probably even worse than the Romans, they routinely exterminated the (male) population of cities which did not immediately capitulate.
I have thought of that for one machine of mine (the firewall/proxy), but there is always that one problem: Linux simply supports far more hardware than any BSD variant. Linux hardware support used to be a major issue, now it is almost a given.
Funny, someone here on/. suggested a couple of years back that Linux would one day be mainstream and 'Uncool', and that people would migrate to BSD. I thought they were joking . . .
I'd go further than that, since Slackware is his one-man-show baby, people who use it are very much interested in both his health and what will happen if the worst comes to the worst.
A couple of years ago (or maybe even now for outsiders), people were wondering what would happen if Linus went one-to-one with a bus. That was actually a reason not to adopt Linux. Now we all know that people like Andrew Morton and Alan Cox are available and experienced.
What way would people go if Slackware went down the tubes? Debian? I know I found Red Hat incredibly frustrating when my ignorance and Unix inexperience meant I had to leave Slackware and move to something easier to configure. In the end it was SuSE 5.0 I turned to, it's PCnfs printing capabilities worked 'out of a box'. Not sure I'd see SuSE as a migration path for Slackware users nowadays though.
I'd call that flamebait except it seems to be true in this case.
Just as an example, the whole ludicrous fuss about Janet Jackson. Fining the TV company big bucks over that was the act of a total moron with absolutely no sense of priorities. I wonder how he behaves at home (assuming he is married).
I'm curious, which country imprisons the highest percentage of it's inhabitants? Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is the US but is that really the case?
It is easy to say that this guy was being stupid (the article was a bit short on details but it certainly looks like it) but stupidity is not - afaik - enough to get you sent down for 25 years. If it was, over 50% of the population would be behind bars.
I would go with you on the 'separable' issue - the mail client at work is Outlook so another mail client there would be a waste of space. Since you can install Mozilla without the mail client (last time I looked) Mozilla would work for me that way as well.
At my previous job, Lotus Notes was the mail client and Netscape 7.1 (with the mail client stripped out) was what they provided for browsing. The proxy blocked everything except Netscape 4.7x (even 4.8) and Netscape 7.1.
No, according to some mails I got recently, you can get cheap loans even without a good credit history.
Sending a copy of the judgement to anyone doing business with them implies that people who pay spammers would not see that as a glowing testimony. Are you serious about that?
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This can be considered a 'good thing' (tm).
400 000 injured is an emotive argument and something that should lead to prosecutions of companies for neglecting safety regulations (assuming those regulations exist) but throwing millions out of work is not the answer.
I originally thought that this was connected to April 1, but a couple of points made me reconsider:
- I am pretty sure that the April 1 article was in the previous edition of C't ('Blue Movies' from the power sockets, P 178), that was the edition that covered 1. April.
- 'hdparm -I' on one of my discs showed exactly the entries they were talking about.
Eternal sloppyness is the price of liberty.
Frank Herbert
you never use one word when ten will do?
The dateline on that particular story in my timezone is 1:57 02 April 2005.
Stop it.
NOW.
AlienTwo: That planet just got posted to SquiggleSpork. It's probably blob of molten iron now.
You mean Slashdotted?
I came here via the Chessbase site, they are lying in the corner with glazed eyes after a successful Slashdotting.
ive never died from dropping a fag on my shirt.
Was that your GNAA post?
The point of the GPL License is to keep things free (whatever your definition of free is).
The point of the Sony license is to keep things from being free, certainly as in 'free beer'.
I was going to suggest the opposite - having listened to the first few seconds of three tracks, don't give up your day job.
Luckily I had'nt just eaten.
Ah, you got me there on SMTP ports.
As to the other thing, I am not in the US so the legal situation is not the same here. I do have backups, but would still be royally screwed if everything was removed.
I run my small business on these computers and would have serious problems if I had to replace everything.
The girl is not completely computer-illiterate and I was suggesting to her that she should do some network browsing the next time she saw that network (it is not up 24x7).
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I think your blocking of the smtp port only stops guests sending mails under you account (assuming you are logged in). It does not stop anyone:
- downloading kiddie porn using an IP Address traceable back to you
- file sharing using an IP Address . .
The first case is probably the most dangerous one, investigators are both entitled and willing to confiscate your computer / it's discs for their investigation.
At my previous job, we all had to go to a - rather entertaining - talk where we also learnt why anyone keeping anything illegal like kiddie porn on the company servers would be kicked out without their feet coming near the ground. That sort of stuff could easily lead to the servers' discs being confiscated, something that would have brought business to a complete standstill.
Wir sollen immer ein bisschen vorsichtig sein.
I helped a friend of mine set up his WiFi network a month ago. The setup was to allow a Windows network for his family, and route all external traffic via one point where he could block certain IP Addresses (his daughters are 11 and 8 and he does not want to give them unlimited access).
So far so good.
His elder daughter was surfing away happily, but could not access the other PCs. It turned out that the strongest signal she was receiving was from an unencrypted network in a neighbouring house/flat.
That explained the different subnet she was on as well, we thought one of the boxes was acting as a second DHCP server + router to the main network. A ping disabused us of that, no way was it possible for her PC to be online but not be able to ping the rest of the network.
The most likely culprit was apparently a neighbour who teaches a computer course at a local school. Nuff said.
According to that other posting to this story, Hurd was already in development when Linus first asked for help developing his new OS.
A word on 'Opting out'. I have a bunch of email addresses, some of which I use and some of which pretty much lie fallow.
A while ago, I half-reactivated one of the 'fallow' ones. At that stage it was getting 25 spams a day and I can't send mail via it anyway (they allow me to read using another ISP, but I would have to dial in to send mail and I no longer use/have a modem). This made it ideal to receive and react to 'comfirmations' from organisations I did not trust not to spam me. The type of confirmation I react to normally arrives within 2 minutes of me soliciting it so I just have to make sure my inbox is clear first.
One fine day I then started clicking on the 'Opt Out' buttons in the incoming Spam there, just to see what happened.
The surprising bottom line turned out to be: Opting out pretty much works. That address is now down to 5-7 spams a day while my main address (where I silently delete all spam) is approaching 30 a day. Some of the remaining spams are in chinese, others do not have an opt-out mechanism although even the second category there has fallen away recently.
An ex-boss of mine had that problem, if he had'nt had his first beer of the day yet (this happened sometimes if there was some meeting he had to go to).
He was usually on his second beer by about 8:00 am.
You as a therapist could have kicked him out, I had to try and work with him.
Last I heard, he had (been forced to) taken early retirement, had left his wife and gone to live in Thailand. Maybe he is looking for white mice there now.
Thanks - interesting. It won't work for me though for two reasons:
- I use Mozilla, not Firefox (a tiny problem, I admit)
- they only offer updates to the English language versions of Windows. Guess what . . .
The only thing I use it for is to go to the M$ site and grab security updates, I can't be bothered to look for a new way to do that and also don't see any reason why it would be worth it.
Having said that: is this a bug or a feature? Microsoft spent a lot of time, energy and money displacing Netscape and now a combination of virtually any browser and Java is working the other way.
fwiw, I have never heard the term 'scorched earth' used in the way you describe.
The Russians used this tactic twice, against Napoleon's armies and against Hitler's.
As for the Romans, subtract the Holocaust from the Nazis' behaviour in WW2 and you get pretty close to how the Romans behaved. There were several instances of mass-suicides by the defenders of settlements when they could no longer hold out against the Romans.
The Mongols were probably even worse than the Romans, they routinely exterminated the (male) population of cities which did not immediately capitulate.
I remember being careful to buy a modem which promised a firmware upgrade plan to whichever standard was adopted.
It was something from US Lobotics (before 3Com ate them up and 'passed' them through) and they kept their promise.
I have thought of that for one machine of mine (the firewall/proxy), but there is always that one problem: Linux simply supports far more hardware than any BSD variant. Linux hardware support used to be a major issue, now it is almost a given.
/. suggested a couple of years back that Linux would one day be mainstream and 'Uncool', and that people would migrate to BSD. I thought they were joking . . .
Funny, someone here on
I'd go further than that, since Slackware is his one-man-show baby, people who use it are very much interested in both his health and what will happen if the worst comes to the worst.
A couple of years ago (or maybe even now for outsiders), people were wondering what would happen if Linus went one-to-one with a bus. That was actually a reason not to adopt Linux. Now we all know that people like Andrew Morton and Alan Cox are available and experienced.
What way would people go if Slackware went down the tubes? Debian? I know I found Red Hat incredibly frustrating when my ignorance and Unix inexperience meant I had to leave Slackware and move to something easier to configure. In the end it was SuSE 5.0 I turned to, it's PCnfs printing capabilities worked 'out of a box'. Not sure I'd see SuSE as a migration path for Slackware users nowadays though.
Get well soon.
I'd call that flamebait except it seems to be true in this case.
Just as an example, the whole ludicrous fuss about Janet Jackson. Fining the TV company big bucks over that was the act of a total moron with absolutely no sense of priorities. I wonder how he behaves at home (assuming he is married).
Land of the Free, anyone?
I'm curious, which country imprisons the highest percentage of it's inhabitants? Anecdotal evidence suggests that it is the US but is that really the case?
It is easy to say that this guy was being stupid (the article was a bit short on details but it certainly looks like it) but stupidity is not - afaik - enough to get you sent down for 25 years. If it was, over 50% of the population would be behind bars.
I would go with you on the 'separable' issue - the mail client at work is Outlook so another mail client there would be a waste of space. Since you can install Mozilla without the mail client (last time I looked) Mozilla would work for me that way as well.
At my previous job, Lotus Notes was the mail client and Netscape 7.1 (with the mail client stripped out) was what they provided for browsing. The proxy blocked everything except Netscape 4.7x (even 4.8) and Netscape 7.1.
Diebold contested the case, the spammers did not.
No, according to some mails I got recently, you can get cheap loans even without a good credit history.
Sending a copy of the judgement to anyone doing business with them implies that people who pay spammers would not see that as a glowing testimony. Are you serious about that?