It's like... no one commentating on athletics will admit the obvious fact that black sprinters are faster than white.
That is simply not true. You cannot categorically say that black sprinters are faster than white sprinters. If that were true, how come the high school state champions in the 100 and 400 when I went to school were both white?
I'll tell you why. It's because they were both really fucking fast. Faster than all the other competitors. Including the black competitors.
You know, it's funny. I'm a married man, and I can say with confidence that I could easily get away with a comment like, "Women routinely perform worse than men on standardized tests. That phenomenon should be studied to try to figure out why."
Of course, my wife is good at math. Perhaps the reason people are hitting the roof over such a statement is that the truth hurts?
What reason could you have for running a huge study on the intellectual limits of one sex or another, or one race or another, but to use that information to exclude that race or sex on the basis of their supposed lack of ability?
Just because you, SatanicPuppy, do not understand the reasons for studying the human brain does not mean that there do not exist valid reasons for studying the human brain.
Of course, your explanation is totally implausible. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that women on average perform worse than men on standardized math exams. What kind of a bigot are you that you make the jump from that to "ok, now we should exclude all women from mathematically intense fields and courses of study"? Even if women on average do not perform as well as men in math, that does not mean that all women should be excluded from math, whatever it means to be excluded from math.
Certainly there are many, many women who are better at math than the average man. While someone like me is above average at math, my wife is certainly better than me at math. She is a business analyst, and there is no way I could step into her shoes at her position. Why do you think that studying the human brain means we should exclude my wife from her job that she does very well? It makes no sense.
We study to gain knowledge. Perhaps as a part of this study there is a breakthrough that leads to the discovery of a cure for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or something. We don't know what studies will show. But to not study something for PC reasons is ignorant. I hope they soon figure out why some people are scared of knowledge. Better yet, I hope they figure out why men can't ask for directions. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent driving around and around, too proud to stop and ask for help.
But then again, I use SpamAssassin, which handles this type of thing gracefully. If the DNS tests are taking too long, SA will quit them. This has a throttling effect, so it hasn't hosed my DNS server.
I am looking for a hardware/software combination that would allow me to use my laptop as the KVM for a headless server before, during, and after OS configuration. [...]A PC Anywhere or Linux equivalent wouldn't work since they would require the headless system to already have an installed OS
Like many regular readers, sometimes I need to visit a customer site to diagnose equipment, like firewalls or routers. More systems these days use VGA output and keyboard input,
If you know of a way to run VNC on a machine with no OS or some specialized blackbox router, I'd be more than happy to hear it. It sounds to me like a hardware solution is required here, though.
He was not just any helpdesk operator. He was a helpdesk operator for "a New York-based software company which helps lenders access major credit databases". He had access to the company's client's passwords, so he just used them.
...I can tell you that you couldn't be more wrong. Well, you could be, since I agree with you that the current system just invites identity theft, but the solution is not to scrap it.
As a landlord, I want to know two things:
Is this applicant likely to pay the rent on time
Is this applicant likely to take good care of my property
To answer #2, I do as you say. I call previous landlords, employers, references, etc. But to answer #1, I need to know from the gas company, the electric company, the credit card companies, etc., does this applicant pay his/her bills in full and on time? I know of no way to answer that other than to run credit, so credit I run.
If you can suggest another way for me to ascertain my risk exposure without running credit, I'd be all ears. Running credit is not free, and I'd love to hear another way to find out payment history from all the applicant's past and present creditors.
Heh. Doesn't work that way. This money can only be spent in the US. If they need an F-18, guess who's getting the contract? Not some french company, I can tell you that. Why should Boeing buy anybody dinner when the customer is already in the bag?
You have no idea how the Israeli political system works. Politicians in Israel don't get rich off of "campaign contributions" like they do in the US. And just so you know, Boeing contributing to an Israeli politican or party would be so illegal on so many levels (donations, not to ever exceed ~US$250, can be made by a registered Israeli voter or his dependents. No foreigners or business entities and certainly no foreign business entities can ever donate to an Israeli political campaign). And in Israel, this type of thing is actually audited and enforced, unlike in the US.
BTW, I am done responding to you and I'll assume that you have conceeded this point unles you produce some shred of evidence that even suggests that there are Israeli defense bigwigs getting filthy rich because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that they would otherwise have not gotten rich.
Well, I think it's presumptuous to assume something is true without any facts to back up or even lead you in the direction of a particular conclusion.
But since you seem to be curious about who really profits from Israeli defense spending, I'll give you a hint:
TheyarenotIsraelisatall. Want to profit from Israeli defense spending yourself? Those companies are hiring like crazy right now. A buddy of mine just got a kick-ass job at Raytheon.
Or did you think Israel was building fighter jets in a garage behind the Kenesset building?
74 percent is spent in the United States to generate profits and jobs. More than 1,000 companies in 47 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have signed contracts worth billions of dollars through this program over the last several years.
In other words, Israel gets $5 billion to use 74% of it to subsidize the United States economy. The overwhelming majority of that money is being spent in the US, not in Israel.
Only when you Americans, with your Manifest Destiny, give the Native Americans their land back first. How, exactly, do you explain herding the peaceful native population into "Reservations" and stealing their land?
Don't rule out credit cards! They are awesome! Granted I have really high limits and spotless credit, but I bought a house on a credit card once.
Try this. Call your best credit card issuer and ask for their best rate on access to your available cash. Ask them again if that is their best rate. Keep asking until they go no lower. I got a $30k loan at 3.9%+$50 in "closing costs" for 10 minutes of haggling. Good luck getting that kind of a deal on a mortgage, and this loan isn't even secured against the property!
And before you bitch that my interest isn't tax-deductible, it was an investment property, so you're damned right the interest is tax-deductible as an ordinary and customary business expense.
Still think I need my head examined? I love credit cards!
I tried to install gentoo on a small system, and look at this:
mythfe1 ~ # du -s -h/usr/portage 1.9G/usr/portage
How am I supposed to put gentoo on a small system when the frickin' portage tree clocks in at 2 gigs? I'm trying to make small myth frontends here. Not big beastly servers.
Good luck getting gentoo on a small machine with no network connectivity.
Have you ever successfully downgraded a resonably-major package in gentoo and not had it completely bork your system?
Obviously portage can downgrade a package, but it totally fucks up the dependencies. Want to downgrade kde or gnome in debian? Just click on the version you want and apt takes care of it...without hosing your system from here to kingdom come.
Don't get me wrong. I like gentoo and portage. But downgrading packages is not functional yet on gentoo.
I think I've spent more time explaining my system to you than I did actually setting it up. As far as maintenance, I just let apt handle that. I certainly don't maintain any DUL permission requests or anything ridiculous like that.
My system just works, it is maintenance free, and it is more accurate than yours. You are willing to sacrifice accuracy to gain CPU, whereas I am willing to sacrifice CPU to gain accuracy. Not everybody has the same requirements, and it seems we are both happy with our respective solutions.
I contend there is no way you're running an effective spam filter if you've never had false positives.
I contend that "effective" can mean a lot of different things. I consider my filter to be effective. The fact that you do not has little bearing on me.
In any case, the operative issue here is the reasonable balance between resources required to maintain reliable service and what's necessary to stop spammers. I have no doubt that one can spend an inordinate amount of time and resources to squeeze an extra 1-5% efficiency, but even that is fleeting, and ironically this plays in favor of the spammers, who profit by exploiting an unfair amount of resources via their efforts.
You are never going to win the resources balance game. You've got spammers out there leveraging (in the true sense of the word "leverage") zombie desktop machines doing nothing but sending out SMTP. The spammer is using zero of his own resources to accomplish that. Are you using more than zero resources, mabu?
The fact of the matter is that CPU and RAM are cheap. I've got an old desktop filtering spam and it has no difficulty keeping up. And besides, I'm doing content based filtering NOT to filter out that last 1-5% of spam, but rather to ensure that I am not getting any false positives!
Of course, with any system it is theoretically possible to get a false positive, but realistically, if your email got scored 10+ by spamassassin, then your email was spam. I analyzed 2 months of email traffic and no hams were scored above an 8. So I set it at 10 and don't worry too much.
When spamming requires you to install extra software and beef up systems to handle spam, that's still theft. You might have less spam in your inbox, but it's still costing you time and money. In that case, you still lose.
Welcome to the real world, complete with economic externalities. I hope you enjoy your stay.
The fact of the matter is that many things that shouldn't cost you resources, do. When someone walks by and disposes of a beer bottle in your yard, it costs you resources to pick it up. When your neighbor does foundation work on his house and all the rodents that were living in his crawl space are displaced to your basement, it takes your resources to get an exterminator to come remove them. Sure, you can try to ask your neighbor to take care of the problem he caused, but that still takes your time resources.
If a spammer wants to steal my idle CPU cycles, tell me why I should care? In the meantime, I'll be enjoying my spam-free inbox.
RBLs are different. They put much more pressure on spammers and less pressure on innocent servers
That's a load of crap. You're rejecting innocent mail, so you are putting pressure on innocent servers and innocent emailers. I just looked at my current Ham corpus and out of 1505 messages, a full 15 of them would have been rejected if I used RBLs alone. Well, guess what. I don't want to reject 1% of valid email, so an RBL-only solution is totally unacceptable to me. What if a client emailed me and his email got 554ed as spam? 1 in 100, man. Don't forget that.
Personally I doubt that your system is more effective than mine. But even if it was, it is moot. Most of the top ISPs routinely lose legitimate mail because they depend too much on content-based filtering, which might offer a short-term improvement, but ultimately doesn't put pressure on SMTP sources to be responsible, and that's the only way to really make a difference. RBLs do that, very effectively.
Personally, I could not live with your system, let alone consider it effective. You are rejecting legitimate email, and that is unacceptable to me.
You also think that you are somehow putting pressure on spammers. You are seriously mistaken in that regard. Do you really think your grandmother's zombified computer cares if the spam she is sending you is being blocked by an RBL or SA+Clam? Do you think she or the spammer knows the difference?
I'm confused as to why you accuse ISPs of losing email due to content-based filtering yet you routinely lose legitimate email due to false-positives.
And anyway, that still doesn't solve the green card issue. The whole point was not getting your ass kicked out of the country in 6 months' time, which is what you and your B1 are going to get.
How does that help your average Indian programmer who wants to immigrate to the US?
B1 is a visitor's visa, with no possiblity of conversion to a green card. They are good for a maximum of 1 year, but usually only good for 6 months. B1 will not allow the holder to be gainfully employed.
So, no, it is not a free ticket to a green card to just incorporate a business in the US and then get yourself a B1. I stand by my original comment: "Basically, if you want to immigrate to the US, [incorporating a US business] is not the path of least resistance."
The difference here is supporting free speech in general vs. actually paying for someone else's free speech. Bandwidth is not free, and he shouldn't have to pay for everyone's speech in order to maintain his "civil libertarian card".
If you support the idea of you paying for someone else's speech so much, I have some speech of my own. Could you please take out an ad in the New York Times that has my speech on it, paid for at your expense? The content of this comment would be good enough, thanks.
That's what you're asking the other guy to do. To pay the cost for someone else to distribute his ideas. I see no reason he should have to do that. That other person can pay to have his own ideas distributed.
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I'll tell you why. It's because they were both really fucking fast. Faster than all the other competitors. Including the black competitors.
Of course, my wife is good at math. Perhaps the reason people are hitting the roof over such a statement is that the truth hurts?
Of course, your explanation is totally implausible. Let's say, for the sake of argument, that women on average perform worse than men on standardized math exams. What kind of a bigot are you that you make the jump from that to "ok, now we should exclude all women from mathematically intense fields and courses of study"? Even if women on average do not perform as well as men in math, that does not mean that all women should be excluded from math, whatever it means to be excluded from math.
Certainly there are many, many women who are better at math than the average man. While someone like me is above average at math, my wife is certainly better than me at math. She is a business analyst, and there is no way I could step into her shoes at her position. Why do you think that studying the human brain means we should exclude my wife from her job that she does very well? It makes no sense.
We study to gain knowledge. Perhaps as a part of this study there is a breakthrough that leads to the discovery of a cure for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or something. We don't know what studies will show. But to not study something for PC reasons is ignorant. I hope they soon figure out why some people are scared of knowledge. Better yet, I hope they figure out why men can't ask for directions. I can't tell you how many hours I've spent driving around and around, too proud to stop and ask for help.
But then again, I use SpamAssassin, which handles this type of thing gracefully. If the DNS tests are taking too long, SA will quit them. This has a throttling effect, so it hasn't hosed my DNS server.
He was not just any helpdesk operator. He was a helpdesk operator for "a New York-based software company which helps lenders access major credit databases". He had access to the company's client's passwords, so he just used them.
As a landlord, I want to know two things:
- Is this applicant likely to pay the rent on time
- Is this applicant likely to take good care of my property
To answer #2, I do as you say. I call previous landlords, employers, references, etc. But to answer #1, I need to know from the gas company, the electric company, the credit card companies, etc., does this applicant pay his/her bills in full and on time? I know of no way to answer that other than to run credit, so credit I run.If you can suggest another way for me to ascertain my risk exposure without running credit, I'd be all ears. Running credit is not free, and I'd love to hear another way to find out payment history from all the applicant's past and present creditors.
- That charge has nothing to do with the Defense industry or any "Defense bigwig"
- That charge has nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- That allegation was dropped for lack of evidence, smart guy.
Corruption in Israeli politics is way different from in the US. Yitzhak Rabin resigned because his wife had a US Bank account. OoooOOhhh. Scandal!Unfortunately, I can see why you would suspect defense industry political corruption. It hits very close to home, doesn't it?
Please don't accuse Israeli politicians of behaving like US politicians.
Any more links, or can I assume you're through?
You have no idea how the Israeli political system works. Politicians in Israel don't get rich off of "campaign contributions" like they do in the US. And just so you know, Boeing contributing to an Israeli politican or party would be so illegal on so many levels (donations, not to ever exceed ~US$250, can be made by a registered Israeli voter or his dependents. No foreigners or business entities and certainly no foreign business entities can ever donate to an Israeli political campaign). And in Israel, this type of thing is actually audited and enforced, unlike in the US.
BTW, I am done responding to you and I'll assume that you have conceeded this point unles you produce some shred of evidence that even suggests that there are Israeli defense bigwigs getting filthy rich because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a way that they would otherwise have not gotten rich.
But since you seem to be curious about who really profits from Israeli defense spending, I'll give you a hint: They are not Israelis at all. Want to profit from Israeli defense spending yourself? Those companies are hiring like crazy right now. A buddy of mine just got a kick-ass job at Raytheon.
Or did you think Israel was building fighter jets in a garage behind the Kenesset building?
Insightful, indeed.
Only when you Americans, with your Manifest Destiny, give the Native Americans their land back first. How, exactly, do you explain herding the peaceful native population into "Reservations" and stealing their land?
Specifics, please.
Try this. Call your best credit card issuer and ask for their best rate on access to your available cash. Ask them again if that is their best rate. Keep asking until they go no lower. I got a $30k loan at 3.9%+$50 in "closing costs" for 10 minutes of haggling. Good luck getting that kind of a deal on a mortgage, and this loan isn't even secured against the property!
And before you bitch that my interest isn't tax-deductible, it was an investment property, so you're damned right the interest is tax-deductible as an ordinary and customary business expense.
Still think I need my head examined? I love credit cards!
And he didn't have to do his fucking taxes. Maybe your time is worthless, but mine is not.
Easy peasy.
Good luck getting gentoo on a small machine with no network connectivity.
Obviously portage can downgrade a package, but it totally fucks up the dependencies. Want to downgrade kde or gnome in debian? Just click on the version you want and apt takes care of it...without hosing your system from here to kingdom come.
Don't get me wrong. I like gentoo and portage. But downgrading packages is not functional yet on gentoo.
My system just works, it is maintenance free, and it is more accurate than yours. You are willing to sacrifice accuracy to gain CPU, whereas I am willing to sacrifice CPU to gain accuracy. Not everybody has the same requirements, and it seems we are both happy with our respective solutions.
Have a nice day.
The fact of the matter is that CPU and RAM are cheap. I've got an old desktop filtering spam and it has no difficulty keeping up. And besides, I'm doing content based filtering NOT to filter out that last 1-5% of spam, but rather to ensure that I am not getting any false positives!
Of course, with any system it is theoretically possible to get a false positive, but realistically, if your email got scored 10+ by spamassassin, then your email was spam. I analyzed 2 months of email traffic and no hams were scored above an 8. So I set it at 10 and don't worry too much.
Welcome to the real world, complete with economic externalities. I hope you enjoy your stay.The fact of the matter is that many things that shouldn't cost you resources, do. When someone walks by and disposes of a beer bottle in your yard, it costs you resources to pick it up. When your neighbor does foundation work on his house and all the rodents that were living in his crawl space are displaced to your basement, it takes your resources to get an exterminator to come remove them. Sure, you can try to ask your neighbor to take care of the problem he caused, but that still takes your time resources.
If a spammer wants to steal my idle CPU cycles, tell me why I should care? In the meantime, I'll be enjoying my spam-free inbox.
That's a load of crap. You're rejecting innocent mail, so you are putting pressure on innocent servers and innocent emailers. I just looked at my current Ham corpus and out of 1505 messages, a full 15 of them would have been rejected if I used RBLs alone. Well, guess what. I don't want to reject 1% of valid email, so an RBL-only solution is totally unacceptable to me. What if a client emailed me and his email got 554ed as spam? 1 in 100, man. Don't forget that. Personally, I could not live with your system, let alone consider it effective. You are rejecting legitimate email, and that is unacceptable to me.You also think that you are somehow putting pressure on spammers. You are seriously mistaken in that regard. Do you really think your grandmother's zombified computer cares if the spam she is sending you is being blocked by an RBL or SA+Clam? Do you think she or the spammer knows the difference?
I'm confused as to why you accuse ISPs of losing email due to content-based filtering yet you routinely lose legitimate email due to false-positives.
And anyway, that still doesn't solve the green card issue. The whole point was not getting your ass kicked out of the country in 6 months' time, which is what you and your B1 are going to get.
B1 is a visitor's visa, with no possiblity of conversion to a green card. They are good for a maximum of 1 year, but usually only good for 6 months. B1 will not allow the holder to be gainfully employed.
So, no, it is not a free ticket to a green card to just incorporate a business in the US and then get yourself a B1. I stand by my original comment: "Basically, if you want to immigrate to the US, [incorporating a US business] is not the path of least resistance."
as long as they don't try to start publishing science fiction books under the Tor name.
If you support the idea of you paying for someone else's speech so much, I have some speech of my own. Could you please take out an ad in the New York Times that has my speech on it, paid for at your expense? The content of this comment would be good enough, thanks.
That's what you're asking the other guy to do. To pay the cost for someone else to distribute his ideas. I see no reason he should have to do that. That other person can pay to have his own ideas distributed.