Well, let's see. I'd bill clients $75 for design and programming work, so your $150 would be worth about 2 hours of my time.
Of course, that would be relevant if I'd actually get off my butt (actually, stay on my butt) and pitch in, which I haven't. Feel free to continue being smug.
First, I was on an all-but-abandoned four-lane highway in a sports car designed to take it.
Second, you're right: I didn't resist.
Third, the summons wanted my signature to attest to the fact that all of the information was correct, and it wasn't. In that state a factually incorrect ticket is grounds for automatic dismissal. In other words, the law gave me a choice between lying (that the ticket was correct) and being fined, or telling the truth (that the ticket was not correct) and being found not guilty. I did not ask for or receive any special favors.
What would you have done in my case? If your answer is "perjured myself and paid the fine", then you're lying. BTW, you're willing to write me off as scum because I legally and ethically avoided paying a speeding ticket nearly 15 years ago? I admit that you have higher standards than most.
I was a 20-year-old geek with big responsibilities, an unsympathetic employer, and no reliable alternate means of transportation. A muscle car is a blast to tinker with as long it being undriveable doesn't mean that you get sent to jail for being late to work. I fully plan to have another one someday that I can take out on sunny weekends, but it won't be my main driver.
Spoken like someone who's never owned an old Mustang. I loved that thing, don't get me wrong (gloss black paint, aluminum rims, kickin' stereo, all in excellent condition), but it was a mechanical nightmare.
I am a geek, as evidenced by the fact that we're having this conversation on Slashdot, but I could still change the head gasket without referring to my dog-eared Chilton's manual. I will probably never change drum brake pads again, but have the experience to do a good job of it. On the plus side, it was a good hacker's car because a motivated person could learn their way around the the entire mechanical and electrical system. On the minus side, you had to.
I was stationed in Chicago and awaiting transfer to San Diego when I traded cars. Yeah, I can think of worse things than tooling around in southern California in a classic muscle car, but I can't think of many things worse than blowing a clutch in the middle of New Mexico during the non-air-conditioned drive out there.
I got clocked once at a pretty decent rate on an interstate highway. I was in the military at the time and in uniform, and the nice highway patrolman wrote the ticket for 5 mph over the limit (which was significantly under my real speed, unless you're my insurance agent, in which case I was framed, darn it, framed!).
I had recently upgraded my car and my home state lets you move your license plates to your new car as long as you sell your old one at the same time. Fortunately for me, the state hadn't gotten around to turning my '68 Mustang into a '92 Prizm and the patrolman copied the information straight from the computer to the ticket.
When I received a summons in the mail, I disputed it with the cause being that I was in a '92 Prizm and did not even own a '68 Mustang, and the complaint was completely dropped.
The moral of the story: if I find out that I share a VIN with an Edsel on blocks in some farmer's pasture, then the police will have to use a spectrometer to measure my speed. I'll be driving my "get out of jail free" car until the sonic booms shake it apart.
By that you mean "Table Partitioning". That allows you to break up a single table across multiple storage devices.
For the uninitiated and lazy, is there any compelling reason why that's better than putting the database files on a RAID and letting the OS split the table across devices?
Not in my experience. Maybe it's the size of my Bayes databases, but clamd uses significantly less CPU than spamd on my particular system. YMMV, of course. Anyone who blindly implements my solution without understanding it and tailoring it to their own needs is likely in for a few nasty surprises.
Ahh. Do you have a static IP or access to dynamic DNS? If so, you could configure the Qmail server as a secondary MX and your machine as the primary MX for your domain. If you're online, people can send directly to your local server. If not, then the Qmail machine stores it until you come online and send an ETRN command, at which point it flushes its queue and you can reject it at appropriate.
Anyways, I honestly can't see this game ever having any commercial success. It looks like it is destined to become one of those bargain sub $20 Wal-Mart games. Farming doesn't attract mainstream gamers.
"Deer Hunter" cost $75,000 to develop and sold over 3 million copies. I think we tend to forget that Slashdotters are not truly representative of the gaming mainstream.
Farmers in the U.S. generally have weapons and dogs. Furthermore, local law enforcement tends to be friendly towards farmers, and tresspassing is a serious crime.
My aunt and uncle found some squatters on an old, unvisited section of land. They evicted them (although the squatters attempted to sue for property rights), but one night while my relatives were away the losers burned down their house for revenge. Fortunately the same idiots raided my aunt and uncle's deep freeze first and stole several hundred pounds of beef with their name stamped on it. The prosecutor didn't have too much trouble proving the case and it'll be a while before they get out of jail.
It's issues like those described in that thread that'll help ultimately bring down spams. Telling malware writers to use another port, which is all Comcast's doing, as others have pointed out, will just have ISPs blocking ports until there are no more ports to block.
What are you talking about? Comcast is blocking outbound connections from customer machines to port 25 on remote servers if those machines are exceeding certain transmission limits. Comcast couldn't care less what local port the customer machine is using. In order for spammers to work around this, they'd have to convince people running the mailserver to which they want to send spam to configure those servers to listen on a different port than 25, and the configure their zombies to send to that new port. That just isn't going to happen.
In pseudocode, their filters look like
if (isSpamZombie(src_address) and dest_address == 25) { reject(); }
which is entirely different than
if (isSpamZombie(src_address) and src_address == 25) { reject(); }
First, install ClamAV and tell Sendmail to use it as a milter. It's surprisingly effective and lightweight; the load on my mailserver actually went down after installing it because it's no longer attempting to deliver tens of thousands of viral messages.
Second, configure SPF records for all of your domains. It may not help today, but an increasing number of mailservers are rejecting mail that fails SPF validation.
Third, learn to love your access file. Mine contains lines like:
erin@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has." michelle@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has." mike@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has." mikey@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has." misha@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has." richard@honeypot.net "550 This account was spoofed by some jackass spammer. It doesn't exist and never has."
Mail coming in to any of those accounts is rejected before it can even be transmitted. You still have to spend a TCP connection on the message, but minimal bandwidth and no storage space.
I do not think it means what you think it means. OpenBSD has a negligible security record. Apache has a negligible security record. IE's security record is about as gligible as it can get without torch-bearing masses tearing down Microsoft's doors in search of the Developers! Developers! Developers!
FreeBSD/Alpha firewall redirecting all outbound port 80 connections to a transparent logged Squid server.
My kids can browse what they want but they know that I can see what they've been looking at. If it's something inappropriate to their age, then we can talk about it.
Really? Where can I get the upper-bound response time datasheet? If you mean "quick and responsive" (which it darn well ought to be) then I'd agree. However, I've never heard any evidence of it being a real RTOS (which has an exact technical definition).
No, they're not. I personally fed 'em breakfast and the babysitter got lunch into them. I'll be heading home shortly for supper so they won't be starving tonight, either.
I never thought that doing things that serve no purpose other than to advertise the fact that you're consuming enough resources to feed a village was particularly cool.
Is the term figurative, or are you actually into hugging trees? Good grief, man, we're talking about a freakin' window manager, not an SUV (although those are also OK in my book). Are you really this uptight or do you just play it on Slashdot?
So while keeping a compiler in anal-retentive mode might be time-consuming for the programmer
I disagree with that premise. I always enable all of the warning, assertions, and other compile-time verbosity that a language offers. It's a lot easier to find would-be errors when you get messages like Name "main::baz" used only once: possible typo at/tmp/foo.pl line 4. than when all you know is that a particular printf causes output corruption.
Warnings tell you about dumb mistakes that are likely to bite you in the butt if you don't fix them. My programs aren't done until they compile and run without them, and I think my overall productivity is much higher with those messages enabled throughout the entire development cycle.
Please tell us, when Java is Open Source, how will standards compliance be enforced?
I couldn't agree more. The last thing I want to see is a repeat of the gigantic mess caused by the many incompatible Perl and Python forks floating around.
Any time Accu-Weather wants to pay to establish a network of thousands of observation stations to get the weather data they depend on
And that's assuming that this is possible. The national government can say "we're going to put this weather station in that national park", but Accu-Weather can't. I'm extremely pro-private interprise, but this is one of those national infrastructure situations where that just wouldn't make much sense.
You must live someplace with incredibly boring weather. I grew up in Missouri ("If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes") and consider accurate weather forecasting to be critically important to business, recreation, and flat-out not getting killed by the nastier varieties.
Telling me the current conditions in my present location isn't terribly interesting, but that's not all you get from NWS's data services.
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Depends on where you live. My clients would spit their teeth out if I offered $150.
Of course, that would be relevant if I'd actually get off my butt (actually, stay on my butt) and pitch in, which I haven't. Feel free to continue being smug.
Thanks, man. That's what makes it all worthwhile. :)
Second, you're right: I didn't resist.
Third, the summons wanted my signature to attest to the fact that all of the information was correct, and it wasn't. In that state a factually incorrect ticket is grounds for automatic dismissal. In other words, the law gave me a choice between lying (that the ticket was correct) and being fined, or telling the truth (that the ticket was not correct) and being found not guilty. I did not ask for or receive any special favors.
What would you have done in my case? If your answer is "perjured myself and paid the fine", then you're lying. BTW, you're willing to write me off as scum because I legally and ethically avoided paying a speeding ticket nearly 15 years ago? I admit that you have higher standards than most.
I was a 20-year-old geek with big responsibilities, an unsympathetic employer, and no reliable alternate means of transportation. A muscle car is a blast to tinker with as long it being undriveable doesn't mean that you get sent to jail for being late to work. I fully plan to have another one someday that I can take out on sunny weekends, but it won't be my main driver.
I am a geek, as evidenced by the fact that we're having this conversation on Slashdot, but I could still change the head gasket without referring to my dog-eared Chilton's manual. I will probably never change drum brake pads again, but have the experience to do a good job of it. On the plus side, it was a good hacker's car because a motivated person could learn their way around the the entire mechanical and electrical system. On the minus side, you had to.
I was stationed in Chicago and awaiting transfer to San Diego when I traded cars. Yeah, I can think of worse things than tooling around in southern California in a classic muscle car, but I can't think of many things worse than blowing a clutch in the middle of New Mexico during the non-air-conditioned drive out there.
Depends. Is it for the downloadable version, or does the buyer also get the media?
I had recently upgraded my car and my home state lets you move your license plates to your new car as long as you sell your old one at the same time. Fortunately for me, the state hadn't gotten around to turning my '68 Mustang into a '92 Prizm and the patrolman copied the information straight from the computer to the ticket.
When I received a summons in the mail, I disputed it with the cause being that I was in a '92 Prizm and did not even own a '68 Mustang, and the complaint was completely dropped.
The moral of the story: if I find out that I share a VIN with an Edsel on blocks in some farmer's pasture, then the police will have to use a spectrometer to measure my speed. I'll be driving my "get out of jail free" car until the sonic booms shake it apart.
That seems reasonable. Thanks for the explanation.
For the uninitiated and lazy, is there any compelling reason why that's better than putting the database files on a RAID and letting the OS split the table across devices?
Not in my experience. Maybe it's the size of my Bayes databases, but clamd uses significantly less CPU than spamd on my particular system. YMMV, of course. Anyone who blindly implements my solution without understanding it and tailoring it to their own needs is likely in for a few nasty surprises.
Ahh. Do you have a static IP or access to dynamic DNS? If so, you could configure the Qmail server as a secondary MX and your machine as the primary MX for your domain. If you're online, people can send directly to your local server. If not, then the Qmail machine stores it until you come online and send an ETRN command, at which point it flushes its queue and you can reject it at appropriate.
"Deer Hunter" cost $75,000 to develop and sold over 3 million copies. I think we tend to forget that Slashdotters are not truly representative of the gaming mainstream.
My aunt and uncle found some squatters on an old, unvisited section of land. They evicted them (although the squatters attempted to sue for property rights), but one night while my relatives were away the losers burned down their house for revenge. Fortunately the same idiots raided my aunt and uncle's deep freeze first and stole several hundred pounds of beef with their name stamped on it. The prosecutor didn't have too much trouble proving the case and it'll be a while before they get out of jail.
What are you talking about? Comcast is blocking outbound connections from customer machines to port 25 on remote servers if those machines are exceeding certain transmission limits. Comcast couldn't care less what local port the customer machine is using. In order for spammers to work around this, they'd have to convince people running the mailserver to which they want to send spam to configure those servers to listen on a different port than 25, and the configure their zombies to send to that new port. That just isn't going to happen.
In pseudocode, their filters look like
which is entirely different thanSecond, configure SPF records for all of your domains. It may not help today, but an increasing number of mailservers are rejecting mail that fails SPF validation.
Third, learn to love your access file. Mine contains lines like:
Mail coming in to any of those accounts is rejected before it can even be transmitted. You still have to spend a TCP connection on the message, but minimal bandwidth and no storage space.I do not think it means what you think it means. OpenBSD has a negligible security record. Apache has a negligible security record. IE's security record is about as gligible as it can get without torch-bearing masses tearing down Microsoft's doors in search of the Developers! Developers! Developers!
Unsupervised computer with no content filtering.
FreeBSD/Alpha firewall redirecting all outbound port 80 connections to a transparent logged Squid server.
My kids can browse what they want but they know that I can see what they've been looking at. If it's something inappropriate to their age, then we can talk about it.
Really? Where can I get the upper-bound response time datasheet? If you mean "quick and responsive" (which it darn well ought to be) then I'd agree. However, I've never heard any evidence of it being a real RTOS (which has an exact technical definition).
Any of the 25,000 copies of the weekly newsletter that one of my clients sends to everyone who followed the sign-up procedure on their website.
No, they're not. I personally fed 'em breakfast and the babysitter got lunch into them. I'll be heading home shortly for supper so they won't be starving tonight, either.
I never thought that doing things that serve no purpose other than to advertise the fact that you're consuming enough resources to feed a village was particularly cool.
Is the term figurative, or are you actually into hugging trees? Good grief, man, we're talking about a freakin' window manager, not an SUV (although those are also OK in my book). Are you really this uptight or do you just play it on Slashdot?
I disagree with that premise. I always enable all of the warning, assertions, and other compile-time verbosity that a language offers. It's a lot easier to find would-be errors when you get messages like Name "main::baz" used only once: possible typo at /tmp/foo.pl line 4. than when all you know is that a particular printf causes output corruption.
Warnings tell you about dumb mistakes that are likely to bite you in the butt if you don't fix them. My programs aren't done until they compile and run without them, and I think my overall productivity is much higher with those messages enabled throughout the entire development cycle.
I couldn't agree more. The last thing I want to see is a repeat of the gigantic mess caused by the many incompatible Perl and Python forks floating around.
And that's assuming that this is possible. The national government can say "we're going to put this weather station in that national park", but Accu-Weather can't. I'm extremely pro-private interprise, but this is one of those national infrastructure situations where that just wouldn't make much sense.
Telling me the current conditions in my present location isn't terribly interesting, but that's not all you get from NWS's data services.