Well, if you want to take the excuses of a confessed serial killer psychopath over the word of millions of ordinary, tax-paying, church-going middle class couples (who also happen to rent porn and don't find anything wrong with it), be my guest. I don't know what that says about your motives or psychology, and I don't want to.
It also doesn't really matter where Ted got the idea of necrophilia. Lots of guys get it from the idea that dead chicks can't say "rape", but they don't do it because it's wrong and disgusting.
You seem to think porn is bad, which conservatives sometimes do, but you also think people can blame their actions on societal factors, which liberals sometimes do. Clearly you are confused and unprincipled.
I worked in a video store... It's not a safe assumption that one or the other objects. It was very common, for instance, to see a guy rent a porn flick and a girl to return it the next morning.
A difference of willingness is a fair bet with, say introducing a third party into the sex relationship (jealousy is very common), but I can't possibly tell you how many couples enjoy porn together, based on what I've personally observed. Models, Ivy leaguers, union members, women's college grads, Christians, Jews, blue collar workers, Midwesterners, Europeans, Asians, gay men, African-Americans, lesbians, nerds, virgins; outside of religious fundamentalists, I can't think of a single group I haven't personally observed to show enthusiam for porn (well, maybe Arabs, but I'm not ready to lump them in with their fundamentalist brethren just because I lack sufficient cultural exposure). Except for Canadians; they might just be Satan's squeaky clean naughty milkmaids. Come here, Canada; you need a spanking.
People like to alter their consciousness (with drugs or otherwise). People like porn. Get used to it, and try to minimize harm. And frankly, that is 10,000 times more important than any particular moral bugaboo (and if you think otherwise, clearly you favor societal harm over disrupting your personal mental illnesses).
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But you can bet that when they do add it in a few more years, it will prove that Microsoft is the center of INNOVATION!!!
Companies could also hire real developers who know how to make sites work on most all browsers, and skip the phony idea, used by the lazy and the incompetent, that it takes a lot of time to make your website work on browsers other than Internet Exploder.:-P
Registrars (the people you actually buy the domains from) are increasingly supporting SPF. See this site for a list: http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/news/spf/
If your registrar and your e-mail hoster aren't willing to support this, you should consider switching registrars. You don't need to run your own DNS servers, you just have to use a registrar and/or DNS service provider who does (e.g. EasyDNS, who I've been using for years).
It just comes down to this: if you aren't willing to learn how this stuff works, you need to pay someone who does. That's what you do with your car, your plumbing, your electrical wiring, etc. DNS and other Internet services are no different. It has nothing to do with how small-time you are. Eventually service providers will be brought into line when their customers ask "why does my e-mail keep getting rejected by X?" This sort of thing will, eventually, be no different than requiring licensed electricians to do electrical work (except that market forces, rather than government regulations, will be provide enforcement).
Right on. So the proper answer is: NEVER. 800x600 should be an informal standard FOREVER. The same goes for "when can we assume Javascript is present." The answer is "when you know that 99.99% of all browsers out there have Javascript enabled, i.e. NEVER you talentless hacks.
In essence, the author of the article would recommend that I reorganize my personal possessions by throwing them into each corner of the largest room in my house, then employ a thing-nanny to paw through the piles when I need something. It would be a great system if I could afford a lightning-fast thing-nanny.
Oh, well, until then I'll just keep organizing things by space. Wow, this screw is loose. I need to get/myhouse/basement/tool_bench/red_box/second_drawer/black_screwdriver.
That's just too complicated!!!!
Seriously, the objection to the deeply-hierarchical filesystem is that most people have a hard time understanding the concept. That's likely to change as kids grow up with this stuff. Now is a really bad time to promote the "spatial" idea; wait a generation and see if it still makes sense.
You have the nut of an important point. This study merely looked at data sources and considered "could this be useful to an attacker". But that is a poor measure of vulnerability, because it doesn't theorize what an attacker would do. A better measure would be, once you've identified some allegedly exploitable geospatial information, to go back out the front door and try to come up with a credible plan of attack - credible in terms of goals, resources, methods, and available skillsets - that uses this piece of information. But the alarmist thinking in this report results in bad security.
For example: who can get on planes without being searched? Airline pilots. So we should search the airplane pilots being searched for weapons. I saw this happen this week, and it's retarded fake-ass security: if you can't trust the pilots, with or without weapons, you are already fucked, and searching them just diverts resources from real risks. Thinking from the point of view of the attacker can come up with more interesting hypotheses like "professional sports venues are well protected, but college venues may be poorly protected with targets of comparable size and impact".
Speaking of which, in today's climate, I wouldn't be caught analyzing good ways to attack campus buildings if I were you.
Holy shit, "Actual Kibo" really is Kibo! Wonders never cease. Except on./, where you think they must be trolls. Which is why this is shocking. Because it's not. Or is, if you are of the opinion that Kibo is the greatest troll in the history of the internet.
Right on. And it's even worse than that. Any theory of consciousness, not matter how complete, suffers from the irrelevance of consciousness itself to the theory and the effects. Simply put, actions, reactions, and patterns in the brain could explain everything about our brains, including the locus and nature of our uniquely human "sense of self" or "self-awareness", but every such theory leaves a little homunculus inside watching the whole show, or else an empty machine which doesn't need to be "conscious". Which is to say, proponents of such theories don't explain consciousness, except by magic, or else they refuse to acknowledge the existence of consciousness at all, and probably don't even understand what it is.
The only logical alternative is that the entire universe is conscious and self-aware. Sure, a rock doesn't think anything like us, and it may take a billion years to think much at all, but it's conscious. This way, when you aggregate all the patterns and emergent behaviors and neural subsystems etc etc into a big complex human consciousness, you aren't left with a homunculus feeling and perceiving the actions of the brain machine.
And, I bet you your average Lama would agree. These ideas are not beliefs per se, but the natural results of refelection on the nature of consciousness.
Why would Microsoft add support for JPEG2000 when they can pay too much to the patent extortionists, keep using JPG, and watch defendants twist in the wind? Or even better, just bleed money slowly on trials while playing rope-a-dope with enforcement of patent violation judgements?
If there's one thing these days more inevitable than extortionist contortions of patent law such as this (which harm inventors AND the progress of science), it's that the U.S. legal system is too slow for Microsoft and too obtuse for effective and honest patent regulation.
Anyone who pretends an Aeron is a pointless extravagance and that a Hummer is really cool cannot be over 16 yrs old, have an IQ above 70, AND be serious.
The fact that the takeover dudes are mandating changes without thinking about the needs of their workers, that they are removing their ability to install software, is a damn good sign they are being take over by clueless fucks. Sure, the company was worth buying, but obviously they don't know what they're doing if they use linux. Yeah, right.
Don't quit until you find a new job, but look now. This company is going to die a slow death if this is how they manage things.
And this is why RFIDs may in fact be the end of freedom as you know it. If it's a crime to war scan, then you are essentially dividing the world into trackers and the tracked. Those who are tracked aren't permitted to know or have any say over who is tracked when, where, why, or by whom, while the trackers essentially get a free ride, since the tracked can't really do anything about it.
The trackers will be organizations and the tracked will be individuals; I can't think of a better recipe for a 21st century combo of feudalism and the police state.
Sure, the AC is a paranoiac: Alzheimer's is not likely to be solved that easily or that soon. It's possible, but not likely. And so it's easy to have some paranoid foreboding - this probably won't be a widespread cure. But I have to call bullshit on you.
The major cost of new drugs is not research but advertising. Period. Junkets for doctors, samples, television, radio and print ads. It's an undisputed fact that the major drug companies spend twice as much on advertising as on drug development. Ever notice that Viagra's practically the official sponsor of Major League Baseball? That's not cheap.
it's not clear that they are lying about this clause. however, Novell's lawyer said
"Your current interpretation of the agreements, which appears to be of recent vintage, ignores certain provisions of the relevant documents and does not consider the agreements between Novell and SCO as a whole."
Which is lawyerese for "You guys got nothing, so you ripped some stuff out of context and just made up this latest crap. Go ahead, make my day."
Amendment No. 2 provides an exception to that exclusion, but only for 'copyrights... required for [Santa Cruz Operation] to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies.
i'm a lawyer, but a caveman lawyer, so i know knothing of these modern lawyer ways BUT... it's possible SCO is trying to make an expansive claim on this point. it looks like the kind of thing that would have come about if SCO were trying to acquire more rights while constructing the deal, and Novell's lawyers were trying to deflect it by saying "you only get these rights to the extent you need them". this *could* actually give SCO the leverage for the copyright part of the suit, in a dirty underhanded that's-why-people-hate-lawyers kind of way. i mean, now that they're suing linux users, they kinda need all the rights they can get, don't they? the fact that their need is totally manufactured might not matter. these things are why there are lawyers.
of course, SCO has yet to show that the whole copyright claim isn't just a big bucket of warm spit in the first place.
Look in your services for a service called "Messenger". By default it's set to "Automatic". Change it to "Disabled".
Clearly you've never done tech support for anyone.
"Services? Isn't AOL my service? Oh, wait, I don't think I have any."
"Program files? I don't have that folder. No, it's not there. After 'My Documents'? Before 'Recycle Bin'? Oh, wait, it just suddenly appeared out of nowhere. It wasn't there before!"
This all is tougher than it looks. On the one hand, many people do want people to fix things they are too lame to fix. Then again, what steps are taken to notify the customer and ask their specific permission? When is this necessary? What things should a EULA be ALLOWED to declare? And imagine that AOL and Miscrosoft have dueling EULAs, each of which says "If you accept the other guy's EULA, we have a right to steal your children and molest your farm animals and throw you in jail and slay our competitors with scalpels" - do you really think the courts are going to uphold them? So what lines are reasonable?
One thing is for sure: the courts are light-years behind on this and until then companies will fuck over anyone they can.
Who fucking cares where the seed came from? He didn't purchase their seeds, he didn't "procure" them in any way, so whether he wittingly took advantage or not is fucking irrelevant. Was Monsanto willing to bear the cost of "decontaminating" his farm from their seeds? No, so they must shut the fuck up and go die.
In fact, what he probably should have done, the moment he realized what had polluted itself onto his land, was promptly sue Monsanto for the cost of all of his crops over the next 5 years.
They shit on his yard, and now they're suing him for the price of manure.
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Straight up. I met an epidemiologist around the time of the SARS peak and she said statistically it doesn't make a bit of difference, while TB has been making quite a comeback and kills more people each minute than SARS ever has... Yet no one is closing down airports over TB.
Guys like Bernie Ebbers or the Tyco looters commit the finanicial equivalent of tens of thousands of bank robberies. What are the chances they'll spend as much time in jail as the average bank robber?
Frankly I'm looking forward to the day when a tight usable linux os is so passe that there is really a Barbie distro... tho I'd much rather see my 12-yr old niece (or perhaps by then, daughter) prefers a DragonballZ distro... I'd like to see a whole cottage industry of customized distros all based on a common themable distro, right down to fortune, IM services, private fileshare networks, everything.
And I will buy it for them, keeping up a tradition of spending more on Free software than I ever did on "commercial" software, just as I buy lots of CDs by bands I've "stolen from" by spending time to locate their mp3s on filesharing networks, listen to, and decide that it's actually worth buying, go home, the future will run you over good night.
And for those too dim to read between the lines the future of software is not in the initial license but in access to customization, the update network and other services (and Redhat gets this, though I don't care for Redhat, and I think Apple gets this, or will, and I think Microsoft definitely gets this though they will be happy to pick your pocket and put their finger up your ass as long as you don't...). I mean, give me a break, what earns more money in your neighborhood, manufacturing TVs or selling cable service? Do the math. And in 10 years Microsoft will still be trying to claim that their TV is better because it gets channel 12.34234892734928374928374 and the Sony doesn't, even though that channel exists only because Microsoft owns 51% of MSFUCT network and has them broadcast on that channel. And I will not have that channel and I really won't care.
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Well, if you want to take the excuses of a confessed serial killer psychopath over the word of millions of ordinary, tax-paying, church-going middle class couples (who also happen to rent porn and don't find anything wrong with it), be my guest. I don't know what that says about your motives or psychology, and I don't want to.
It also doesn't really matter where Ted got the idea of necrophilia. Lots of guys get it from the idea that dead chicks can't say "rape", but they don't do it because it's wrong and disgusting.
You seem to think porn is bad, which conservatives sometimes do, but you also think people can blame their actions on societal factors, which liberals sometimes do. Clearly you are confused and unprincipled.
A difference of willingness is a fair bet with, say introducing a third party into the sex relationship (jealousy is very common), but I can't possibly tell you how many couples enjoy porn together, based on what I've personally observed. Models, Ivy leaguers, union members, women's college grads, Christians, Jews, blue collar workers, Midwesterners, Europeans, Asians, gay men, African-Americans, lesbians, nerds, virgins; outside of religious fundamentalists, I can't think of a single group I haven't personally observed to show enthusiam for porn (well, maybe Arabs, but I'm not ready to lump them in with their fundamentalist brethren just because I lack sufficient cultural exposure). Except for Canadians; they might just be Satan's squeaky clean naughty milkmaids. Come here, Canada; you need a spanking.
People like to alter their consciousness (with drugs or otherwise). People like porn. Get used to it, and try to minimize harm. And frankly, that is 10,000 times more important than any particular moral bugaboo (and if you think otherwise, clearly you favor societal harm over disrupting your personal mental illnesses).
But you can bet that when they do add it in a few more years, it will prove that Microsoft is the center of INNOVATION!!!
Companies could also hire real developers who know how to make sites work on most all browsers, and skip the phony idea, used by the lazy and the incompetent, that it takes a lot of time to make your website work on browsers other than Internet Exploder. :-P
If your registrar and your e-mail hoster aren't willing to support this, you should consider switching registrars. You don't need to run your own DNS servers, you just have to use a registrar and/or DNS service provider who does (e.g. EasyDNS, who I've been using for years).
It just comes down to this: if you aren't willing to learn how this stuff works, you need to pay someone who does. That's what you do with your car, your plumbing, your electrical wiring, etc. DNS and other Internet services are no different. It has nothing to do with how small-time you are. Eventually service providers will be brought into line when their customers ask "why does my e-mail keep getting rejected by X?" This sort of thing will, eventually, be no different than requiring licensed electricians to do electrical work (except that market forces, rather than government regulations, will be provide enforcement).
HHOS. That poster's advice is like saying "Since car thieves like your radio so much, put a sign on your car saying 'No radio'."
Right on. So the proper answer is: NEVER. 800x600 should be an informal standard FOREVER. The same goes for "when can we assume Javascript is present." The answer is "when you know that 99.99% of all browsers out there have Javascript enabled, i.e. NEVER you talentless hacks.
In essence, the author of the article would recommend that I reorganize my personal possessions by throwing them into each corner of the largest room in my house, then employ a thing-nanny to paw through the piles when I need something. It would be a great system if I could afford a lightning-fast thing-nanny.
Oh, well, until then I'll just keep organizing things by space. Wow, this screw is loose. I need to get /myhouse/basement/tool_bench/red_box/second_drawer /black_screwdriver.
That's just too complicated!!!!
Seriously, the objection to the deeply-hierarchical filesystem is that most people have a hard time understanding the concept. That's likely to change as kids grow up with this stuff. Now is a really bad time to promote the "spatial" idea; wait a generation and see if it still makes sense.
That's funny. But I actually compiled and ran this lil' sucker on a FreeBSD machine and crashed it stiff.
The question is: can the cellular automata still be alive when Java is dead?
You have the nut of an important point. This study merely looked at data sources and considered "could this be useful to an attacker". But that is a poor measure of vulnerability, because it doesn't theorize what an attacker would do. A better measure would be, once you've identified some allegedly exploitable geospatial information, to go back out the front door and try to come up with a credible plan of attack - credible in terms of goals, resources, methods, and available skillsets - that uses this piece of information. But the alarmist thinking in this report results in bad security.
For example: who can get on planes without being searched? Airline pilots. So we should search the airplane pilots being searched for weapons. I saw this happen this week, and it's retarded fake-ass security: if you can't trust the pilots, with or without weapons, you are already fucked, and searching them just diverts resources from real risks. Thinking from the point of view of the attacker can come up with more interesting hypotheses like "professional sports venues are well protected, but college venues may be poorly protected with targets of comparable size and impact".
Speaking of which, in today's climate, I wouldn't be caught analyzing good ways to attack campus buildings if I were you.
Holy shit, "Actual Kibo" really is Kibo! Wonders never cease. Except on ./, where you think they must be trolls. Which is why this is shocking. Because it's not. Or is, if you are of the opinion that Kibo is the greatest troll in the history of the internet.
Right on. And it's even worse than that. Any theory of consciousness, not matter how complete, suffers from the irrelevance of consciousness itself to the theory and the effects. Simply put, actions, reactions, and patterns in the brain could explain everything about our brains, including the locus and nature of our uniquely human "sense of self" or "self-awareness", but every such theory leaves a little homunculus inside watching the whole show, or else an empty machine which doesn't need to be "conscious". Which is to say, proponents of such theories don't explain consciousness, except by magic, or else they refuse to acknowledge the existence of consciousness at all, and probably don't even understand what it is.
The only logical alternative is that the entire universe is conscious and self-aware. Sure, a rock doesn't think anything like us, and it may take a billion years to think much at all, but it's conscious. This way, when you aggregate all the patterns and emergent behaviors and neural subsystems etc etc into a big complex human consciousness, you aren't left with a homunculus feeling and perceiving the actions of the brain machine.
And, I bet you your average Lama would agree. These ideas are not beliefs per se, but the natural results of refelection on the nature of consciousness.
If there's one thing these days more inevitable than extortionist contortions of patent law such as this (which harm inventors AND the progress of science), it's that the U.S. legal system is too slow for Microsoft and too obtuse for effective and honest patent regulation.
Anyone who pretends an Aeron is a pointless extravagance and that a Hummer is really cool cannot be over 16 yrs old, have an IQ above 70, AND be serious.
Don't quit until you find a new job, but look now. This company is going to die a slow death if this is how they manage things.
The trackers will be organizations and the tracked will be individuals; I can't think of a better recipe for a 21st century combo of feudalism and the police state.
Wanna bet how long before the DMCA is used to prosecute individuals for using these things? I'll put USD $5.00 on November 16, 2005.
The major cost of new drugs is not research but advertising. Period. Junkets for doctors, samples, television, radio and print ads. It's an undisputed fact that the major drug companies spend twice as much on advertising as on drug development. Ever notice that Viagra's practically the official sponsor of Major League Baseball? That's not cheap.
Which is lawyerese for "You guys got nothing, so you ripped some stuff out of context and just made up this latest crap. Go ahead, make my day."
of course, SCO has yet to show that the whole copyright claim isn't just a big bucket of warm spit in the first place.
One thing is for sure: the courts are light-years behind on this and until then companies will fuck over anyone they can.
Who fucking cares where the seed came from? He didn't purchase their seeds, he didn't "procure" them in any way, so whether he wittingly took advantage or not is fucking irrelevant. Was Monsanto willing to bear the cost of "decontaminating" his farm from their seeds? No, so they must shut the fuck up and go die.
In fact, what he probably should have done, the moment he realized what had polluted itself onto his land, was promptly sue Monsanto for the cost of all of his crops over the next 5 years.
They shit on his yard, and now they're suing him for the price of manure.
Guys like Bernie Ebbers or the Tyco looters commit the finanicial equivalent of tens of thousands of bank robberies. What are the chances they'll spend as much time in jail as the average bank robber?
Frankly I'm looking forward to the day when a tight usable linux os is so passe that there is really a Barbie distro... tho I'd much rather see my 12-yr old niece (or perhaps by then, daughter) prefers a DragonballZ distro... I'd like to see a whole cottage industry of customized distros all based on a common themable distro, right down to fortune, IM services, private fileshare networks, everything.
And I will buy it for them, keeping up a tradition of spending more on Free software than I ever did on "commercial" software, just as I buy lots of CDs by bands I've "stolen from" by spending time to locate their mp3s on filesharing networks, listen to, and decide that it's actually worth buying, go home, the future will run you over good night.
And for those too dim to read between the lines the future of software is not in the initial license but in access to customization, the update network and other services (and Redhat gets this, though I don't care for Redhat, and I think Apple gets this, or will, and I think Microsoft definitely gets this though they will be happy to pick your pocket and put their finger up your ass as long as you don't...). I mean, give me a break, what earns more money in your neighborhood, manufacturing TVs or selling cable service? Do the math. And in 10 years Microsoft will still be trying to claim that their TV is better because it gets channel 12.34234892734928374928374 and the Sony doesn't, even though that channel exists only because Microsoft owns 51% of MSFUCT network and has them broadcast on that channel. And I will not have that channel and I really won't care.