If you want a piece of clothing considering value and performance custom built is the way to go, not prebuilt crap. False
So one day I'm hanging out with my sister, who happens to be sewing a dress. I asked her why she makes a lot of her own clothes. Was is it because it costs a lost less? No. She said that her work actually ended up costing more than an off-the-rack dress, but that it was much nicer for the price.
Same with computers. If I built a custom system, it'd cost quite a bit more than Dell's $299 back-to-school special, but it'd be far nicer than a system selling for the same price.
I don't bother hand-building machines for other people anymore, but when my next upgrade approaches, I'm reasonably certain that I'll be speccing out individual parts again.
cut it into a shape that would easily fit inside the border of a pizza slice, write the message "You owe me $X for eating my pizza, asshole!"
Or better, "I found this on the sidewalk", or "how does my pee taste"? If they're dishonest enough to steal your food, why bother telling them the truth? What are they gonna do - get a manager involved?
5) They realize that most farmers would have no moral qualms about killing someone who threatened their kids, and that no rural jury would convict. It's orders of magnitude easier to pick on a suburbanite than to face an armed man who has no compelling reason not to shoot them.
Its all easy to get from the relevant government sources and its theres a risk of identity theft if you have it all on a USB drive or store in multiple places?
In that article, I explicitly recommend using GPG to encrypt your data. If you take precautions, there's no reason why that's not perfectly safe.
I covered that in the article. Basically, why not do both? If you find yourself somewhere without Internet access (which was fairly common post-Katrina), you still have your information. If you lose your thumbdrive, you still have that GMail account to fall back on. There's no need to keep all your eggs in one basket.
On February 15, 2005, Josh began a two and a half year sentence for setting fires at an animal science farm at Brigham Young University. In an earlier action at BYU, six rabbits and seven birds were liberated from the farm.
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Josh deserves our support!
Donations to Josh's commissary must be sent in the form of money orders (personal checks not accepted) to: [snip]
Part of me wants to punch my monitor. Another part of me wants to send him a gay porn magazine - or anything else that would his remaining time in prison more "interesting".
An Electronic Survival Kit. If there's one thing Katrina taught me, it's that losing your entire life would completely suck. Why not take a few minutes now so that you can get back to normal ASAP?
As I read the brief article it defiantly made me consider both sides of the story; however, in the end I side with my heart.
Your heart lies to you. It tells you about the good things that could be without pointing out their unlikelihood or the bad alternative outcomes.
If 1069 never went after non-pedophiles, and if he never presented false evidence, and if the FBI's use of that evidence didn't violate any rules and encourage the public to come to accept illegal activies from the police, then this could be a good thing. Break any of those ifs, though, and the result is a terrifying distopia that I want no part of.
My heart agrees with you: pedophiles are scum, and as a parent, their mass death wouldn't bother me one bit. However, my brain thinks that we need to step back and re-assess whether we want to revert to vigilante justice, and that due process and rules of evidence are far more important than any individual situation, regardless of how horrid it may be.
You can't vote for someone who's supported policies which you dislike for 4 years, then claim you don't support them. Obviously you do support G-dub, even though you were only voting for your more preferred candidate. In the rest of the world we call that "supporting the current administration".
Given that most liberals espouse a nuanced, shades-of-gray worldview, that seems especially monochrome. The reality is that I found Bush's actions less bad than Kerry's planned actions. Put another way, I think the country would fare less poorly if it continued on its current course than if Kerry enacted everything he claimed to support. Given that the race was going to be close, I chose to vote for Bush rather than a third party that I liked more because our current election system is broken that way.
I understand and accept that you chose differently. Please at least recognize that I voted as I did for researched, meditated reasons, and not because "Dub is teh 1337 and Kerry suxx04z."
You're right: few of them provide contraception. Even fewer of them provide toilet paper, bug spray, furniture, or bus fare. While all of those may be necessary for the people who can't afford them, most churches aren't in the "give a man a fish" business. Some are, mind you, but most aren't.
You cannot patch anything, if the important files have the system immutable (schg) flag set and you are running on securelevel 3. But then you have to reboot to single user mode to change anything.
How often do you find yourself messing with the running configuration of a production server? At the other extreme, I reboot my little laptop all the time because it's ancient and doesn't support suspend well. It's not like an extra reboot once a month is intolerable.
Hmm.. I guess I think he represents you because the vast majority of you voted for him a little less than 2 years ago.
Likewise, the vast majority of liberals voted for Kerry. However, that doesn't mean that they actually liked him.
And don't tell me you voted for him because you didn't like Kerry, because you can't have it both ways.
I did, and you can. One of my main reasons was that my wife is a doctor and there was no way I was going to vote for a malpractice lawyer. Beyond that, flawed as Bush is, he was closer to what I wanted than Kerry. Maybe not a lot, but a little. It doesn't mean I support him, though.
For a few bucks, you could buy a small linksys dedicated box.
The one major problem is that he'd no longer be running BSD. It's not trivial to migrate a working firewall config from one OS to the other, as I painfully re-learned when I replaced my FreeBSD host with a WRT54G. It's more or less equivalent featurewise, but the setup is completely different. I particularly missed the PF (BSD firewall) configuration, which is as close as such things can get to being considered beautiful.
My wife wants an MP3 player. She uses OS X and iTunes, so an iPod is the obvious pick. However, I'm definitely open to other possibilities, within certain limits:
Price is a major factor. This isn't something we want to spend a lot of money one.
It must work seamlessly (or near so) with iTunes. While my wife isn't a technophobe, neither does she have any interest in doing more to upload a playlist than clicking a few buttons.
We have exactly one album from iTMS, so losing AAC playback isn't a big deal. OGG support would be a huge win, though.
Video/picture playback isn't important, but a player than can display standard formats (MPEG, JPG, etc.) without using some proprietary, annoying converter would be neat.
Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. It needs to work easily and work well or I'll never hear the end of it.
So before I drop a wad of cash on an iPod, given that there are alternatives with more storage per dollar, is there something else I should be considering?
Yes, I agree. The title should say " Personal (software) Firewalls Mostly Useless (for out bound traffic)".
Actually, you to end with forgot ", On Windows". As you probably already know, you can set a BSD system's "securelevel" such that firewall rules, both in kernel and on disk, can't be altered without a reboot. You could hypothetically write a program that patches a BSD machine's boot sequence with one that unprotects the firewall configuration, alters it, changes the backup file so that the user won't get an email notification later on that details the differences, then resumes normal operation - all while hoping that the user or administrator doesn't notice the spontaneous reboot - but there aren't too many of those running around today.
I wish folks would stop using that word and find another one. "Harvest" gets a lot of folks riled up and gives them the impression that people are going to be farmed (or whatever) for their parts.
Too late. It's medical jargon that's not going away any time soon (if ever). Just as "master" and "slave" have negative connotations for most people but are perfectly normal technical jargon, medicine has it's own specific meanings for words that have little to do with their "normal" meanings.
One of my wife's patients screamed at her because she wrote in that patient's chart that "the patient denies using smoking, alcohol, and recreational drugs." The patient interpreted the word "deny" to mean "is probably, but won't admit to", but my wife was using it in the accepted medical sense of "answered 'no' to". Just as she refused to re-word that patient's medical history, there's roughly zero chance of getting scientists (or organ transplant teams) to pick a different word or phrase.
since the church is anti-sex ed, and opposed to providing any form of contraception
Slow down there! What you meant to say was that "the Catholic church is opposed to contraception". In the United States, about 26% of adults are Catholics - hardly a majority of religious practitioners. I'm not aware of any other major religious groups that oppose contraception, and I'm certain that less than 100% of Catholics agree with that policy.
Remember that a video card is called a VGA, a hard disk is called a hard drive,
IBM seems to disagree with you. They have both words on that page to make Google happy, but refer to them directly as hard drives ("Troubleshoot my hard drive" , "your hard drive", "SCSI hard drive", etc.). Google puts the drive:disk ratio at 167,000,000 tto 68,300,000.
In other words, don't make a campaign out of "hard disk" being correct unless you enjoy being rebuffed.
After looking at a number of options, I ended up using Dansguardian site filtering combined with Squid. The cost of software licensing or subscriptions was zero - making it MUCH easier to get approval for.
Note that DansGuardian is GPL but claims to be proprietary. From its copyright page:
DansGuardian 2 is:
not free for commercial use
licensed under the GPL
In other words, if you truly believe those mutually exclusive claims, you have to install it at home for your own personal use, then redistribute that copy to your office (as is your right under the GPL). Either that, or you could buy a "download license", which is right up there with SCO's "Linux License" for sheer return on investment.
What about the K-OS "Switch"? A friend of mine is trying to decide whether to invest in this company, and I'm kind of trying to warn him away from it ("Patented 1024-bit encryption!", and the fact that they're building a proprietary service on top of GPL software which seems a bit unstable as a business plan). My friend knows the guy who started this, and that guy claims his little computer was the original plan for Google's GDrive, but that they only offered him $500 million and that wasn't enough.
Now that I see this in writing, I have a few hundred extra alarm bells going off. Still, is something like that even remotely feasible?
While the moleskines address those points, I never understood the fad. It is so completely overpriced & overhyped.
Too true. On the other hand, the yearly planner is just shy of $13, and makes you instantly more attractive to every woman at the coffee shop. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. I'm already married and the best I can hope for is a cute barista not thinking I'm a complete dork, but the principle stands.
There's a pretty tight competition for "best portable organizer" right now. Although the leader is extremely powerful and flexible, many love the simple elegance of the up-and-comer.
Seriously, after fighting through multiple PalmOS devices, each having a prettier display and more manufacturing defects than the one before it, I've taken my own advice above. I prefer the latter for its sleek lines and excellent performance, although the former still has my respect for its near-infinite adaptability.
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So one day I'm hanging out with my sister, who happens to be sewing a dress. I asked her why she makes a lot of her own clothes. Was is it because it costs a lost less? No. She said that her work actually ended up costing more than an off-the-rack dress, but that it was much nicer for the price.
Same with computers. If I built a custom system, it'd cost quite a bit more than Dell's $299 back-to-school special, but it'd be far nicer than a system selling for the same price.
I don't bother hand-building machines for other people anymore, but when my next upgrade approaches, I'm reasonably certain that I'll be speccing out individual parts again.
Does that about cover it?
Or better, "I found this on the sidewalk", or "how does my pee taste"? If they're dishonest enough to steal your food, why bother telling them the truth? What are they gonna do - get a manager involved?
5) They realize that most farmers would have no moral qualms about killing someone who threatened their kids, and that no rural jury would convict. It's orders of magnitude easier to pick on a suburbanite than to face an armed man who has no compelling reason not to shoot them.
In that article, I explicitly recommend using GPG to encrypt your data. If you take precautions, there's no reason why that's not perfectly safe.
I covered that in the article. Basically, why not do both? If you find yourself somewhere without Internet access (which was fairly common post-Katrina), you still have your information. If you lose your thumbdrive, you still have that GMail account to fall back on. There's no need to keep all your eggs in one basket.
From a page off your link:
Part of me wants to punch my monitor. Another part of me wants to send him a gay porn magazine - or anything else that would his remaining time in prison more "interesting".
An Electronic Survival Kit. If there's one thing Katrina taught me, it's that losing your entire life would completely suck. Why not take a few minutes now so that you can get back to normal ASAP?
Your heart lies to you. It tells you about the good things that could be without pointing out their unlikelihood or the bad alternative outcomes.
If 1069 never went after non-pedophiles, and if he never presented false evidence, and if the FBI's use of that evidence didn't violate any rules and encourage the public to come to accept illegal activies from the police, then this could be a good thing. Break any of those ifs, though, and the result is a terrifying distopia that I want no part of.
My heart agrees with you: pedophiles are scum, and as a parent, their mass death wouldn't bother me one bit. However, my brain thinks that we need to step back and re-assess whether we want to revert to vigilante justice, and that due process and rules of evidence are far more important than any individual situation, regardless of how horrid it may be.
Oh, gotcha. Yep, it's about as locked down as it's possible to make a small modern system.
Given that most liberals espouse a nuanced, shades-of-gray worldview, that seems especially monochrome. The reality is that I found Bush's actions less bad than Kerry's planned actions. Put another way, I think the country would fare less poorly if it continued on its current course than if Kerry enacted everything he claimed to support. Given that the race was going to be close, I chose to vote for Bush rather than a third party that I liked more because our current election system is broken that way.
I understand and accept that you chose differently. Please at least recognize that I voted as I did for researched, meditated reasons, and not because "Dub is teh 1337 and Kerry suxx04z."
You're right: few of them provide contraception. Even fewer of them provide toilet paper, bug spray, furniture, or bus fare. While all of those may be necessary for the people who can't afford them, most churches aren't in the "give a man a fish" business. Some are, mind you, but most aren't.
How often do you find yourself messing with the running configuration of a production server? At the other extreme, I reboot my little laptop all the time because it's ancient and doesn't support suspend well. It's not like an extra reboot once a month is intolerable.
Likewise, the vast majority of liberals voted for Kerry. However, that doesn't mean that they actually liked him.
I did, and you can. One of my main reasons was that my wife is a doctor and there was no way I was going to vote for a malpractice lawyer. Beyond that, flawed as Bush is, he was closer to what I wanted than Kerry. Maybe not a lot, but a little. It doesn't mean I support him, though.
The one major problem is that he'd no longer be running BSD. It's not trivial to migrate a working firewall config from one OS to the other, as I painfully re-learned when I replaced my FreeBSD host with a WRT54G. It's more or less equivalent featurewise, but the setup is completely different. I particularly missed the PF (BSD firewall) configuration, which is as close as such things can get to being considered beautiful.
So before I drop a wad of cash on an iPod, given that there are alternatives with more storage per dollar, is there something else I should be considering?
Actually, you to end with forgot ", On Windows". As you probably already know, you can set a BSD system's "securelevel" such that firewall rules, both in kernel and on disk, can't be altered without a reboot. You could hypothetically write a program that patches a BSD machine's boot sequence with one that unprotects the firewall configuration, alters it, changes the backup file so that the user won't get an email notification later on that details the differences, then resumes normal operation - all while hoping that the user or administrator doesn't notice the spontaneous reboot - but there aren't too many of those running around today.
Too late. It's medical jargon that's not going away any time soon (if ever). Just as "master" and "slave" have negative connotations for most people but are perfectly normal technical jargon, medicine has it's own specific meanings for words that have little to do with their "normal" meanings.
One of my wife's patients screamed at her because she wrote in that patient's chart that "the patient denies using smoking, alcohol, and recreational drugs." The patient interpreted the word "deny" to mean "is probably, but won't admit to", but my wife was using it in the accepted medical sense of "answered 'no' to". Just as she refused to re-word that patient's medical history, there's roughly zero chance of getting scientists (or organ transplant teams) to pick a different word or phrase.
Slow down there! What you meant to say was that "the Catholic church is opposed to contraception". In the United States, about 26% of adults are Catholics - hardly a majority of religious practitioners. I'm not aware of any other major religious groups that oppose contraception, and I'm certain that less than 100% of Catholics agree with that policy.
...much as a coma patient is just another part of the hospital.
Whether you agree with that or not, surely you can appreciate that the issue is more nuanced that you're putting forward.
IBM seems to disagree with you. They have both words on that page to make Google happy, but refer to them directly as hard drives ("Troubleshoot my hard drive" , "your hard drive", "SCSI hard drive", etc.). Google puts the drive:disk ratio at 167,000,000 tto 68,300,000.
In other words, don't make a campaign out of "hard disk" being correct unless you enjoy being rebuffed.
Note that DansGuardian is GPL but claims to be proprietary. From its copyright page:
In other words, if you truly believe those mutually exclusive claims, you have to install it at home for your own personal use, then redistribute that copy to your office (as is your right under the GPL). Either that, or you could buy a "download license", which is right up there with SCO's "Linux License" for sheer return on investment.
Now that I see this in writing, I have a few hundred extra alarm bells going off. Still, is something like that even remotely feasible?
Too true. On the other hand, the yearly planner is just shy of $13, and makes you instantly more attractive to every woman at the coffee shop. Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet. I'm already married and the best I can hope for is a cute barista not thinking I'm a complete dork, but the principle stands.
Seriously, after fighting through multiple PalmOS devices, each having a prettier display and more manufacturing defects than the one before it, I've taken my own advice above. I prefer the latter for its sleek lines and excellent performance, although the former still has my respect for its near-infinite adaptability.