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Ok. A person who likes porn is not necessarily a rapist, but a rapist, by defination, probably likes porn.
You mean, just like those pedophile catholic priests?
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Is gay porn harmful to women?
Is a dominatrix whipping and torturing consenting adult males degrading to women?
I'm sure you can find plenty of "degrading to women" porn, but the point is: it's not necessarily so. And besides, to all the feminists who can't stand pr0n, there's a few places in the world that are quite free of porn, such as Saudi Arabia. They are free to go live there and enjoy the women-friendly atmosphere out there.
And where is the scientifically sound proof that porn "contributes to the cycle of violence", or at least more so than christianisme, islam or other stupidities? It's simpe: there is none.
Do you believe Europe should have less strict gun control?
Personnally, I don't think so.
A good question to ask is, WHO, what group in Europe requests less gun control? There is none of significant importance, none but one: nationalistic extremists (Le Pen and friends).
Usually crackers don't think of altering the RPM database containing the MD5 hashes -- it's happened to me during a Bind compromise --, but there's nothing that would prevent them from doing so... so you need an external database.
Do you have any product to recommend for IDE-SCSI adapters? I only found this, but they don't seem to be distributed too well, esp. in Europe. If it works well, $100 per drive is quite cheap.
My aunt's father was called a terrorist for refusing to go work in german factories during WWII. He had to go underground. His group got ambushed by the nazis and most were killed. He and the other survivor took the corpses to the nearest church -- the priest told them, "I don't bury terrorists."
(Insert your usual french/WWII joke here if you manage to find it amusing in this context.)
Using HTML 4 and CSS you can do the same as 90% of what people do with flash applets, and it's compatible with most browsers except the older ones; and in that case, it degrades gracefully. E.G. it might not look good but it works.
Flash is undersupported on Linux. Makes browser crash and stuff quite often. Annoying.
This gluten story is typical of bullshitotherapists. What happens is that *some* people have an intolerance to gluten (I think it's called coelial disease), and their body reacts badly to it, with very different symptoms from person to person.
It happens that, among those few people who have this disorder, the symptoms can look like ADHD or Autism. But those persons do not have ADHD or Autism, they really have gluten intolerance! The problem is that, IIRC, this disorder is pretty difficult to diagnose, and since it's quite rare, and as a result of the confusing symptoms, most of the victims are not properly treated.
Now here comes the bullshitotherapist stupidity: blame ADHD and Autism on gluten. Et voila!
But yeah, if you suffer from this gluten problem, and you stop eating gluten altogether, the symptoms will usually go away; now the difference is that psychostimulants won't do a thing to those people: they will still have the ADHD-like symptoms. Conversely, people with real ADHD won't get any benefit from removing gluten from their diet, they'll just waste a lot of their time.
I'm comparing two drives comparably built; the slower the more reliable. Obviously not comparing current high end drives with 10 years ago's technology.
There is no useful information in that infomercial. They seem to have judged "reliability" through vendor brochures and in a couple days; reliability is when your uptime is > 1 year.
This article should be called "M. Joe-Average-Overclocker Builds A Web Server".
This quote is funny:
That brings us to the next important component in a web server, the CPU(s). For our new server we were determined to go with an SMP solution, simply because a single CPU would quickly be overloaded when the database is queried by multiple clients simultaneously.
It's well known that single CPU computers can't handle simultaneous queries, eh!
The guys use 10'000 RPM drive for "reliabilit" and "performance"... 10k drives are LESS reliable, since they move faster. Moreover, they're not even necessarily that faster.
Yes, we still put people to death. People who murder, rape, and unfortunately has exhausted the grace of the people.
And it's well known that in the US, justice is fair and not biased towards the rich. For example, OJ Simpson was really acquitted because he was innocent, not because he was rich.
And the poor black dude whose state-appointed lawyer was sleeping while he was sentenced to death in Texas, well, he was really guilty anyway.
I know why I despise christians. They keep moralizing and thumping their bibles crying "thou shalt not kill", but man, when they really want to kill someone, they have the PR.
Well if most ISPs had some sort caching proxy, *and* managed to get their users to use it, this problem would be less severe, as the more a page is/.'ed, the more it's likely to generate a cache hit.
The problem is that cacheing proxies are less and less used by ISPs nowadays as bandwidth is cheaper compared to the price of operating a proxy: cost of hardware, administration, fault tolerance etc. Big caches with lots of users are a lot of trouble; I guess it's however a good deal to implement them for medium/small sized networks, with at most a few thousand users.
BTW I was thinking of a way to entice users to set up the proxy using traffic shaping and w/o using transparent proxy, which can be quite annoying at times: limit the bandwidth available on direct port 80 connections, but provide unlimited bandwidth through the proxy.
32 bits =~ 4gbytes of address space, minus housekeeping stuff, that means you can get at most 3gb on Linux for instance if I'm not mistaken.
I already have 1gig on this machine, and planning on buying more -- I need that shit to compile the latest big stuff. I'm soon to hit the limit. So yeah, I'd like 64 bits:)
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Is it a crime for me to open the door in order to show you it's not locked?
Your analogy is flawed -- he did'nt steal anything, just showed it was open.
Besides, being a local government facility, hence funded with taxpayer/citizen's money, citizens have a right to know about how fucked up it is. Looks to me like the security consultant was doing a perfectly fine watchdog job.
As long as lusers keep being able to use "pirated" proprietaryware, there's not much appeal for free software in the general population. It's so easy to get a pirated copy of windows XP, there's no need to go into the "trouble" of installing Linux. The main privacy scare in XP being the forced registration, with all the cracks available, it's not much of an issue.
As a result, there isn't as much incentive to develop a coherent and usable desktop on Linux as there should be.
Now there's an easy way to get people to consider switching to Linux: if proprietary scumware licensing was really enforced, you'd have the choice between submitting to the "intellectual property" bullies, both financially and WRT to your usage rights, or switch to free software.
So start turning over your Linux-reluctant friends to the BSA, they will thank you later!;P
The latency is -- most likely -- caused by the huge buffers in the modem. It *is* possible to improve the situation locally. It's got nothing to do with asymetric lines or somesuch.
It's simple: what happens is that the upstream buffer in the DSL modem does'nt prioritize traffic at all, most likely it's just FIFO and big. So if the buffer is 128kB and you're serving a big file, your next Telnet packet is going to have to wait for these 128kB to go up before going itself.
The solution: have a router that artificially limit the outgoing bandwidth to slightly less that the DSL line permits to make sur the modem's buffer never fills up. Then it's the router's buffers that are filling up; but your router is smarter and you can have it order packet. IE if you have 128kB worth of warez0r waiting to go up, it can decide to let that lone Telnet packet go first.
Me I installed Wonder Shaper, works very well esp. when you've identified what causes the contention (just add the relevant ports to the junk traffic list), even if I completely saturate the link. There's one thing that doesn't work tho: I discovered that at times I had huge ping, again, even with wshaper. What happens (*I think*) is that my ISP is getting overloaded at times, and my actual bandwidth goes below what I set it to in Wshaper. I have to find a way to improve this.
The GIF fiasco led to the superior PNG format, will this promote the use of wavelet compression? Assuming a patent-free algorithm exists... I know there's a bunch of patents on wavelets...
An interesting critique of Brave New World from a smart drugs advocate. A very well documented site WRT psychoactive drugs, and a very informational source -- it's not your usual "ecstasy is soo cool" kind of stuff, but rather a very documented analysis of current research on psychopharmacology and their application to what the author calls "paradise engineering".
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Ok. A person who likes porn is not necessarily a rapist, but a rapist, by defination, probably likes porn.
You mean, just like those pedophile catholic priests?
Is gay porn harmful to women?
Is a dominatrix whipping and torturing consenting adult males degrading to women?
I'm sure you can find plenty of "degrading to women" porn, but the point is: it's not necessarily so. And besides, to all the feminists who can't stand pr0n, there's a few places in the world that are quite free of porn, such as Saudi Arabia. They are free to go live there and enjoy the women-friendly atmosphere out there.
And where is the scientifically sound proof that porn "contributes to the cycle of violence", or at least more so than christianisme, islam or other stupidities? It's simpe: there is none.
Do you believe Europe should have less strict gun control?
Personnally, I don't think so.
A good question to ask is, WHO, what group in Europe requests less gun control? There is none of significant importance, none but one: nationalistic extremists (Le Pen and friends).
Usually crackers don't think of altering the RPM database containing the MD5 hashes -- it's happened to me during a Bind compromise --, but there's nothing that would prevent them from doing so ... so you need an external database.
Do you have any product to recommend for IDE-SCSI adapters? I only found this, but they don't seem to be distributed too well, esp. in Europe. If it works well, $100 per drive is quite cheap.
My aunt's father was called a terrorist for refusing to go work in german factories during WWII. He had to go underground. His group got ambushed by the nazis and most were killed. He and the other survivor took the corpses to the nearest church -- the priest told them, "I don't bury terrorists."
(Insert your usual french/WWII joke here if you manage to find it amusing in this context.)
A T1 is 1.5mbps, my company pays around 5000 IIRC for a 34Mbps link (traffic included) in Paris. Looks like your ISP is being ripped off.
Using HTML 4 and CSS you can do the same as 90% of what people do with flash applets, and it's compatible with most browsers except the older ones; and in that case, it degrades gracefully. E.G. it might not look good but it works.
Flash is undersupported on Linux. Makes browser crash and stuff quite often. Annoying.
The p4's fpu might be weak without using the sse2 extensions,
How is that supposed to be a problem? CFLAGS="-mfpmath=sse2"
"Mein Kampf" is not banned from bookstores; it is just required that it features a warning notice.
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I'm not sure I understand what good this notice is, but anyway
Those laws are useless and, arguably, may do more harm than good, but fighting them with disinformation is not going to make it any better.
This gluten story is typical of bullshitotherapists. What happens is that *some* people have an intolerance to gluten (I think it's called coelial disease), and their body reacts badly to it, with very different symptoms from person to person.
It happens that, among those few people who have this disorder, the symptoms can look like ADHD or Autism. But those persons do not have ADHD or Autism, they really have gluten intolerance! The problem is that, IIRC, this disorder is pretty difficult to diagnose, and since it's quite rare, and as a result of the confusing symptoms, most of the victims are not properly treated.
Now here comes the bullshitotherapist stupidity: blame ADHD and Autism on gluten. Et voila!
But yeah, if you suffer from this gluten problem, and you stop eating gluten altogether, the symptoms will usually go away; now the difference is that psychostimulants won't do a thing to those people: they will still have the ADHD-like symptoms. Conversely, people with real ADHD won't get any benefit from removing gluten from their diet, they'll just waste a lot of their time.
I'm comparing two drives comparably built; the slower the more reliable. Obviously not comparing current high end drives with 10 years ago's technology.
There is no useful information in that infomercial. They seem to have judged "reliability" through vendor brochures and in a couple days; reliability is when your uptime is > 1 year.
This article should be called "M. Joe-Average-Overclocker Builds A Web Server".
This quote is funny:
That brings us to the next important component in a web server, the CPU(s). For our new server we were determined to go with an SMP solution, simply because a single CPU would quickly be overloaded when the database is queried by multiple clients simultaneously.
It's well known that single CPU computers can't handle simultaneous queries, eh!
The guys use 10'000 RPM drive for "reliabilit" and "performance" ... 10k drives are LESS reliable, since they move faster. Moreover, they're not even necessarily that faster.
Now, with the right harddrive....
I have an idea, let's shut down the hard drive and the flywheel to save power!
That's not the issue. You just need a very thin layer of platinum spread to get the catalyzing effect.
And anyway, most high tech devices cost more than gold per weight.
Yes, we still put people to death. People who murder, rape, and unfortunately has exhausted the grace of the people.
And it's well known that in the US, justice is fair and not biased towards the rich. For example, OJ Simpson was really acquitted because he was innocent, not because he was rich.
And the poor black dude whose state-appointed lawyer was sleeping while he was sentenced to death in Texas, well, he was really guilty anyway.
I know why I despise christians. They keep moralizing and thumping their bibles crying "thou shalt not kill", but man, when they really want to kill someone, they have the PR.
Well if most ISPs had some sort caching proxy, *and* managed to get their users to use it, this problem would be less severe, as the more a page is /.'ed, the more it's likely to generate a cache hit.
The problem is that cacheing proxies are less and less used by ISPs nowadays as bandwidth is cheaper compared to the price of operating a proxy: cost of hardware, administration, fault tolerance etc. Big caches with lots of users are a lot of trouble; I guess it's however a good deal to implement them for medium/small sized networks, with at most a few thousand users.
BTW I was thinking of a way to entice users to set up the proxy using traffic shaping and w/o using transparent proxy, which can be quite annoying at times: limit the bandwidth available on direct port 80 connections, but provide unlimited bandwidth through the proxy.
32 bits =~ 4gbytes of address space, minus housekeeping stuff, that means you can get at most 3gb on Linux for instance if I'm not mistaken.
I already have 1gig on this machine, and planning on buying more -- I need that shit to compile the latest big stuff. I'm soon to hit the limit. So yeah, I'd like 64 bits:)
Is it a crime for me to open the door in order to show you it's not locked?
Your analogy is flawed -- he did'nt steal anything, just showed it was open.
Besides, being a local government facility, hence funded with taxpayer/citizen's money, citizens have a right to know about how fucked up it is. Looks to me like the security consultant was doing a perfectly fine watchdog job.
As long as lusers keep being able to use "pirated" proprietaryware, there's not much appeal for free software in the general population. It's so easy to get a pirated copy of windows XP, there's no need to go into the "trouble" of installing Linux. The main privacy scare in XP being the forced registration, with all the cracks available, it's not much of an issue.
;P
As a result, there isn't as much incentive to develop a coherent and usable desktop on Linux as there should be.
Now there's an easy way to get people to consider switching to Linux: if proprietary scumware licensing was really enforced, you'd have the choice between submitting to the "intellectual property" bullies, both financially and WRT to your usage rights, or switch to free software.
So start turning over your Linux-reluctant friends to the BSA, they will thank you later!
The latency is -- most likely -- caused by the huge buffers in the modem. It *is* possible to improve the situation locally. It's got nothing to do with asymetric lines or somesuch.
It's simple: what happens is that the upstream buffer in the DSL modem does'nt prioritize traffic at all, most likely it's just FIFO and big. So if the buffer is 128kB and you're serving a big file, your next Telnet packet is going to have to wait for these 128kB to go up before going itself.
The solution: have a router that artificially limit the outgoing bandwidth to slightly less that the DSL line permits to make sur the modem's buffer never fills up. Then it's the router's buffers that are filling up; but your router is smarter and you can have it order packet. IE if you have 128kB worth of warez0r waiting to go up, it can decide to let that lone Telnet packet go first.
Me I installed Wonder Shaper, works very well esp. when you've identified what causes the contention (just add the relevant ports to the junk traffic list), even if I completely saturate the link. There's one thing that doesn't work tho: I discovered that at times I had huge ping, again, even with wshaper. What happens (*I think*) is that my ISP is getting overloaded at times, and my actual bandwidth goes below what I set it to in Wshaper. I have to find a way to improve this.
The GIF fiasco led to the superior PNG format, will this promote the use of wavelet compression? Assuming a patent-free algorithm exists ... I know there's a bunch of patents on wavelets ...
An interesting critique of Brave New World from a smart drugs advocate. A very well documented site WRT psychoactive drugs, and a very informational source -- it's not your usual "ecstasy is soo cool" kind of stuff, but rather a very documented analysis of current research on psychopharmacology and their application to what the author calls "paradise engineering".
How much time do you think it would take you to learn to use WebObjects?
1 week?
2 weeks?
2 months?