But letting a sniper live is never the right answer.
The civilians don't care much if Americans kill insurgents, as long as they only kill insurgents. You have to understand that most of the Iraqis are completely sick of the war. They don't care who's fighting whom, who's blowing up whom, they just want it done, they want us out, they want the insurgents to stop.
You're partly right. Killing innocent civilians is never the right answer. Yeah. a sniper is a serious pain in the ass, and you really really really want him dead.... but if you take out 5 families with the sniper, you're gonna piss of a whole lot of people and make some of the angry enough to join the insurgency.
As you've pointed out, most Iraqis just want the freaking war to end. They don't care how it ends. They just want it gone.... however, they mostly blame the US for all the death that's going on... and, when they can prove that that blame is accurate (e.g. the bomb fragment embedded in Grandpa's skull says "made in USA, Oct 21, 2006, and the one in (what's left of) your wife's chest says "one more dead Iraqi". It just feeds the frustration, and anger.
Hillary Clinton was running around yesterday squacking about how more soldiers aren't going to solve the war in Iraq. She's half right. It's more compassionate soldiers that are going to win the war in Iraq.
If you want to understand how a counter-insurgency program really works, take a look at what's going on in Afghanistan. A Canadian captain took an axe to the the back of his head because he took off his helmet to talk with some local elders, and got ambushed.
Well, Canadian officers still take off their helmets when they go in to talk with elders because that's how you gain their trust, and show your respect. Soldiers are fighting to get supplies to civilians in some areas, and defend civilians. They're not just covering their own asses, which is way too much of what I'm seeing in Iraq.
If all that the US soldiers are doing in Iraq is defending their own bases and asses, then they might as well go home.
I wouldn't call parts of Quebec City and Montreal "remote". Heck. My uncle got in trouble with a girl on the train to Toronto because she didn't understand the difference between "is this seat taken" and "is this seat free". Serious trouble -- he ended up marrying her.:-)
Back to serious: My aunt's family are from the Quebec City area, and some (especially older ones) of them know no english. Especially after Bill 101, it's especially easy to live in Quebec with pretty much zero need for English -- In fact, if you take too much interest in English, you could get into some trouble (either social or legal).
And when it comes down to it, why didn't she merely turn off the monitor?
According to her testimony, she'd already complained about the problem to 5 people, including the principle, and had gotten no assistance.
I expect that her reaction was less "Oh my god what is this and how do I get rid of it?" and more "Oh, #@^%, not again???!!
As a teacher, your class schedule is rather designed, and just turning off the computer would have trashed the lesson plan for that day. She probably made a number of attempts at shutting down the popups, and then gave up and shut down the computer. In the meantime, most of the kids are just getting a giggle... but when Johnny's mom finds out what happened at class today, she's gonna call the police and "get that b*tch thrown in jail". -- and (unfortunately) succeeds.
The Creative Commons licenses allow you to fine-tune what you want people to do with your media. That way you can say share-share alike (i.e. anything made with your content must also be shared), non-commercial only, copy but not modify, etc.).
That way it's a lot less likely that someone can claim that they thought that you intended to allow them to do what they're doing.
I'd say turn on SPF for your domain no matter what the varied effect for other users...
Even if there's only a 25% chance that it blocks the spam where the spammers are trying to send it, that's a 25% chance that you won't have to do much more.
For those of you trying to use it, SPF isn't going to do that much more to prevent YOU from receiving spam, but it will make that much harder for spammers sending spam to use your domain as a source. -- (and, thus, for you getting bounces and blame for that spam).
If everybody were to use spf, however, then spammers would have a very difficult time. In the mean time, however, you have the pleasant side effect of getting fewer bounces.
((of course, the percentage drop in bounces will depend on where the spammers are trying to deliver their spam. Id they are attempting to delever to sites that use SPF (like Google), then they'll get blocked. On the other hand, if they're trying to deliver to random yahoo small-site servers that are still back in the 80's for their email delivery software, then you'll continue to get bounces from them -- simply because they won't be paying attention to SPF))
They're a consumer advocacy organization. Their magazine, for example doesn't accept adds because they fear that it mike make them (look) less objective. They also pay standard list price for articles that they test for the same reason. It makes perfect sense to me that they're a shining example of what consumer service should work like, and they deserve our support.
The New York Times being hassle-free, on the other hand, is a bit more surprising (IMHO). They're just being good because they want to.
If the service is properly authorized, then it's a bad idea to dispute the charge in any case. If, on the other hand, it's not authorized, then I agree that this clause doesn't do you any harm.
Of course, if they want to ding me for this, then they're gonna have to go after me in court, because if they try TO (improperly) charge that $1000 to my credit card, I'm gonna dispute it bigtime.
The main reason for having that clause is to scare people into not disputing unauthorized charges. In other words, If I see a clause like that on the user agreement, my first question is going to be "and so, just how do you intend to jerk me around? that you have that clause there?"
Run. Run screaming, unless you really need that service (and even then....).
Earlier versions of the Legato software (Then Veritas) were actually little more than front ends for a tar backup process. If the system was completely toasted and the Veritas software was unavailable you could just use tar to extract critical data (presuming that the tape didn't hold interleaved backups).
I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to be that way now.
The important thing that Legato provides is a reasonably well designed database / tracking system so that you can get the proper tape to the tape drive when you want to restore Karen's source code from 18 months ago.
When I worked for one ISP, the main servers were connected to the internet via a stack of OC-3 links, but the building where all of the admins, support people, etc worked (3 floors of a decent-sized office building) was served by a single T-1 line. The ADSL link that one of our technical support people had on a test bench (it was for testing, so we couldn't route general traffic over it) turned out to be much faster than the link that the rest of the building shared.
With our company was based in Vancouver, we determined that we could get much better bandwidth charges in Seattle, so most of our live servers were there. Two of our larger machines were SUN 450 boxes (bought because, back then, Oracle didn't have full support for Linux). After I set them up, we pulled out the graphics cards that they came with and shipped the cards and monitors back the Vancouver (they were part of the bundle). Then I connected the two machines with null modem cables, Port A - Port B. and Port B to Port A.
Once the graphics cards were removed, the machines defaulted to booting with Serial consoles. This meant that if anything went seriously wrong, just about anything other than hardware maintenance could be done by SSHing to machine X and using a terminal program to connect to the console port of machine Y (or vice versa).
This included the ability to do a complete wipe and install, needing only to instruct the CoLo staff to insert the install CD (which were left on top of the machines) into the appropriate box.
One of the monitors ended up on my desk. I can't remember who got the other one.
We shared our internet with the small ISP who sublet a portion of the building from us. They were upgrading their connection to the backbone from a T1 to a microwave link (gives you an idea as to how long ago this was).
At one point, they had changed their routing so that they were using the new link but we hadn't, so we decided to see how a ping went.
A packet between the two machines would go through our router, over the ethernet that the two companies shared, out the (old) external router, and down the coast through Seattle, to California, then back up the coast to Vancouver, and then finally over the same shared ethernet cable that the packet had originally gone out before finally connecting to their router.
A cross-border round trip of a few thousand miles for a net distance of about 60 feet.
Oh, and did I mention that our server room was a converted bank vault?
At UBC we had a tiny (10'x10' computer room with a number of (un)pleasantly heat-generating computers (a couple of SUNs and a stack of SGI's). We managed to get the extra wiring put in place to handle the machines (a number of which required a 20AMP plug), but we never managed to get extra AC installed. This didn't bother us until summer came.... and the build-up of heat would occasionaly trip the thermal breakers in some of the machines.
After begging facilities since the previous year to upgrade the AC (and having one last big machine installed), we 'solved' the problem by buying a small, window-type AC, and poking it out the door. With this setup, we could generally get the room to stablize at around 30C (about 86F).
This worked until facilities showed up and complained that we needed to go through them to get any sort of AC installed, and demanding that we stop using the offending unit. (but required us to continue with the un-responsive process of getting the room AC upgraded).
Peter resolved the impass by calling the health and safety group, and keeping the door closed until they arrived the next morning to inspect a worksite with a temperature of over 100F.
The AC was upgraded in well under a week.
I've generally known that contraption as the 'trap' -- although I recognized the descriptive name 'u-bend',
I'm just wondering if this wasn't the same drain that they were using to run their ethernet connection, That would explain why that sink was 'never' used.
The reactions that we're used to will obviously not work on Titan, but there's always a (very small) possibility that other forms of life could could evolve in the context of methane seas. If nothing else, a liquid base would allow simple life forms to develop without having to figure out the physics of supporting themselves and move around (as per the way that life is believed to have evolved on earth).
However, given that just about any chemical process is gonna run rather slow at the kinds of temperatures that exist on Titan we shouldn't expect any life that we find there to be very developed.
The next obvious step is to send something down to swim in the methane oceans of titan, and see if it gets eaten (or, at least, finds signs of (non)organic life. I don' think that it's that much lower a probability than finding life signs on mars (presuming that we figure out how to look for methane-based life), although it's admittedly a bit more expensive to go to Jupiter than it is to go to Mars.
Unless you fear that the NSA is interested in pictures of your dick, I'd say that one pass with/dev/zero is enough for most people... and, unless you're taking pictures of al-kaida's nuclear arsenal, a single pass with shred should handle even the NSA.
RAID isn't overkill. Hard drives are the one hardware component most likely to die, and if they do, you loose your precious data. Paying an extra $200 or so for the extra drive and controller is pretty cheap insurance against the day that your hard drive will die. It's not so much a question of whether or not the drive will die, as whether or not it will survive until you replace the server.
Unless your data is worth nothing, RAID is worth the investment. I'm even willing to suggest software RAID for home users who do more with their computer than just download music and play games.
Okay, box is bricked. Luckily I have a computer from work and I go ask for help on forums.
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"Burn a Live CD." Don't have a burner. "You burned the install CD, how can you not burn a Live?" 'Cause I'm posting from a different computer, moron. First one's bricked, remember?
Hmm, so nobody at work is willing to burn you a live CD? You must be as much of an assh*le at work as you are on the net.
Microsoft is already selling as many copies of it's software as possible. It's very difficult for most people to get a commodity Intel box from most retailers these days (especially the larger ones) without getting Windows -- whether that's what they want or not.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that most people don't even know to ask for anything else, but for even those that do know better, the lack of an option is a reasonable barrier.
In the meantime, most people who go to Linux because Windows is a consumer's nightmare are going to be like the guy that got Windows, got fed up and then got Ubuntu. In the meantime, MS got their $150 from this guy, so -- in the short term, at least -- they don't really care that he's not actually using Windows.
That's part of the reason why I'll buy from small vendors in the near future... At least when I Buy a box, and don't get Windows, I'll actually get $100 off from what they charge people who don't know that there's an option.
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The civilians don't care much if Americans kill insurgents, as long as they only kill insurgents. You have to understand that most of the Iraqis are completely sick of the war. They don't care who's fighting whom, who's blowing up whom, they just want it done, they want us out, they want the insurgents to stop.
You're partly right. Killing innocent civilians is never the right answer. Yeah. a sniper is a serious pain in the ass, and you really really really want him dead.As you've pointed out, most Iraqis just want the freaking war to end. They don't care how it ends. They just want it gone. ... however, they mostly blame the US for all the death that's going on ... and, when they can prove that that blame is accurate (e.g. the bomb fragment embedded in Grandpa's skull says "made in USA, Oct 21, 2006, and the one in (what's left of) your wife's chest says "one more dead Iraqi". It just feeds the frustration, and anger.
Hillary Clinton was running around yesterday squacking about how more soldiers aren't going to solve the war in Iraq. She's half right. It's more compassionate soldiers that are going to win the war in Iraq.
If you want to understand how a counter-insurgency program really works, take a look at what's going on in Afghanistan. A Canadian captain took an axe to the the back of his head because he took off his helmet to talk with some local elders, and got ambushed.
Well, Canadian officers still take off their helmets when they go in to talk with elders because that's how you gain their trust, and show your respect. Soldiers are fighting to get supplies to civilians in some areas, and defend civilians. They're not just covering their own asses, which is way too much of what I'm seeing in Iraq.
If all that the US soldiers are doing in Iraq is defending their own bases and asses, then they might as well go home.
This is probably one of the few times that someone screaming "Pig! Pig! Pig!" at at a rowdy demonstration would get more than my peripheral attention.
Back to serious: My aunt's family are from the Quebec City area, and some (especially older ones) of them know no english. Especially after Bill 101, it's especially easy to live in Quebec with pretty much zero need for English -- In fact, if you take too much interest in English, you could get into some trouble (either social or legal).
I expect that her reaction was less "Oh my god what is this and how do I get rid of it?" and more "Oh, #@^%, not again ???!!
As a teacher, your class schedule is rather designed, and just turning off the computer would have trashed the lesson plan for that day. She probably made a number of attempts at shutting down the popups, and then gave up and shut down the computer. In the meantime, most of the kids are just getting a giggle... but when Johnny's mom finds out what happened at class today, she's gonna call the police and "get that b*tch thrown in jail". -- and (unfortunately) succeeds.
Et un peu de Francais.
That way it's a lot less likely that someone can claim that they thought that you intended to allow them to do what they're doing.
Even if there's only a 25% chance that it blocks the spam where the spammers are trying to send it, that's a 25% chance that you won't have to do much more.
For those of you trying to use it, SPF isn't going to do that much more to prevent YOU from receiving spam, but it will make that much harder for spammers sending spam to use your domain as a source. -- (and, thus, for you getting bounces and blame for that spam).
If everybody were to use spf, however, then spammers would have a very difficult time. In the mean time, however, you have the pleasant side effect of getting fewer bounces.
((of course, the percentage drop in bounces will depend on where the spammers are trying to deliver their spam. Id they are attempting to delever to sites that use SPF (like Google), then they'll get blocked. On the other hand, if they're trying to deliver to random yahoo small-site servers that are still back in the 80's for their email delivery software, then you'll continue to get bounces from them -- simply because they won't be paying attention to SPF))
We're talking the legal system. Apparently a number of well respected lawyers have noted that
Justice is just, sometimes, coincidental.
The New York Times being hassle-free, on the other hand, is a bit more surprising (IMHO). They're just being good because they want to.
Of course, if they want to ding me for this, then they're gonna have to go after me in court, because if they try TO (improperly) charge that $1000 to my credit card, I'm gonna dispute it bigtime.
The main reason for having that clause is to scare people into not disputing unauthorized charges. In other words, If I see a clause like that on the user agreement, my first question is going to be "and so, just how do you intend to jerk me around? that you have that clause there?"
Run. Run screaming, unless you really need that service (and even then....).
About the only part of that whole thing I regret in the least is the word 'almsot'.
I wouldn't be surprised if it continues to be that way now.
The important thing that Legato provides is a reasonably well designed database / tracking system so that you can get the proper tape to the tape drive when you want to restore Karen's source code from 18 months ago.
Do you have any idea how many millions of electronic trees are going to die to feed this plant???!
When I worked for one ISP, the main servers were connected to the internet via a stack of OC-3 links, but the building where all of the admins, support people, etc worked (3 floors of a decent-sized office building) was served by a single T-1 line. The ADSL link that one of our technical support people had on a test bench (it was for testing, so we couldn't route general traffic over it) turned out to be much faster than the link that the rest of the building shared.
Once the graphics cards were removed, the machines defaulted to booting with Serial consoles. This meant that if anything went seriously wrong, just about anything other than hardware maintenance could be done by SSHing to machine X and using a terminal program to connect to the console port of machine Y (or vice versa).
This included the ability to do a complete wipe and install, needing only to instruct the CoLo staff to insert the install CD (which were left on top of the machines) into the appropriate box.
One of the monitors ended up on my desk. I can't remember who got the other one.
At one point, they had changed their routing so that they were using the new link but we hadn't, so we decided to see how a ping went.
A packet between the two machines would go through our router, over the ethernet that the two companies shared, out the (old) external router, and down the coast through Seattle, to California, then back up the coast to Vancouver, and then finally over the same shared ethernet cable that the packet had originally gone out before finally connecting to their router.
A cross-border round trip of a few thousand miles for a net distance of about 60 feet.
Oh, and did I mention that our server room was a converted bank vault?
After begging facilities since the previous year to upgrade the AC (and having one last big machine installed), we 'solved' the problem by buying a small, window-type AC, and poking it out the door. With this setup, we could generally get the room to stablize at around 30C (about 86F).
This worked until facilities showed up and complained that we needed to go through them to get any sort of AC installed, and demanding that we stop using the offending unit. (but required us to continue with the un-responsive process of getting the room AC upgraded).
Peter resolved the impass by calling the health and safety group, and keeping the door closed until they arrived the next morning to inspect a worksite with a temperature of over 100F.
The AC was upgraded in well under a week.
I've generally known that contraption as the 'trap' -- although I recognized the descriptive name 'u-bend',
I'm just wondering if this wasn't the same drain that they were using to run their ethernet connection, That would explain why that sink was 'never' used.
However, given that just about any chemical process is gonna run rather slow at the kinds of temperatures that exist on Titan we shouldn't expect any life that we find there to be very developed.
The next obvious step is to send something down to swim in the methane oceans of titan, and see if it gets eaten (or, at least, finds signs of (non)organic life. I don' think that it's that much lower a probability than finding life signs on mars (presuming that we figure out how to look for methane-based life), although it's admittedly a bit more expensive to go to Jupiter than it is to go to Mars.
Unless you fear that the NSA is interested in pictures of your dick, I'd say that one pass with /dev/zero is enough for most people ... and, unless you're taking pictures of al-kaida's nuclear arsenal, a single pass with shred should handle even the NSA.
Unless your data is worth nothing, RAID is worth the investment. I'm even willing to suggest software RAID for home users who do more with their computer than just download music and play games.
I'd mod you up, if I had the points, but I'm not sure if it would be 'informative' or 'funny'.
Of course, it doesn't hurt that most people don't even know to ask for anything else, but for even those that do know better, the lack of an option is a reasonable barrier.
In the meantime, most people who go to Linux because Windows is a consumer's nightmare are going to be like the guy that got Windows, got fed up and then got Ubuntu. In the meantime, MS got their $150 from this guy, so -- in the short term, at least -- they don't really care that he's not actually using Windows.
That's part of the reason why I'll buy from small vendors in the near future... At least when I Buy a box, and don't get Windows, I'll actually get $100 off from what they charge people who don't know that there's an option.