Why is it that most Christians do their best to jump to conclusions so that they can cry "bigot bigot!" It's called a persecution complex, and you should probably replace "most Christians" with "vocal Christians" since they're really two different groups. I'd like to add a third category of "real Christians" that actually follow Christ in love and mercy vs people who call themselves Christian but really have no idea how it is supposed to change their life and behavior.
And someday someone's going to figure out how to cheaply and easily mine our landfills for all that plastic we've buried for nearly a century. When the cheap oil's gone soon, that's going to be a reasonable alternative if we have the tech. Look up thermal depolymerization. It's already being used to turn turkey waste into oil, and it can also handle almost everything in a landfill.
This thread was talking about email received, not sent, so what you say doesn't apply completely. Sure, the mail is in someone's sent folder, but that's harder to track down if they don't even have a record of who you are conversing with.
Anything that is sensitive I PGP encode.
Besides, I don't host my own email because I'm paranoid about big brother, I host it because I want IMAP access for several of my computers,and the performance is better over a LAN.
I also trust my own backup processes better.
One benefit of hosting your own email is that your bayes filters can get much more accurate as it learns your own email characteristics.
Also, I run my own Maia Mailguard server for testing and it provides test data for it.:)
Transiting ISPS would have to snif traffic to catch my email, which is doable but a large task. My email server also has TLS available, and a lot of sites actually do use it... which makes it unsniffable.
Also much of the malware takes advantages of social hacking making the person want to click to add and hit OK for the security alerts. Unix systems don't have execute-by-default permissions. That really doesn't do much except in the case of downloading a file that won't run. Social hacking would simply give the instructions on how to make it executable and then run it.
Really, there's no reason malware cannot exist even without root access. Whether using a security hole in a web browser or email client (and these exist from time to time on all platforms) or whether it's a social hack, once the initial vector is run, it could install a program to run as the user, and install a cronjob to keep it going. Even without root access, the system could become a zombie.
Once you have local access, then a whole bunch more possible exploits become available to get root, too.
Being behind a NAT router doesn't help, as such malware can connect out to a command channel to get its orders - no need for incoming traffic to be routed.
I can't imagine what a family of four would have to contend with....hell one trip to Sam's and you'd need to tow about 8-10 of those bicycle carts bare minimum.
Once a week? That seems like a lot of groceries, even for a family of 4.
You don't have a family, do you? It's insane how much groceries and diapers and stuff it takes for my two boys.
I cringe at the thought of towing them behind a bike, not to mention all the groceries. It's just not feasible.
I had a primary hard drive fail in a linux file server I have at the house. The backup hadn't been taken in a while (yeah, I got lazy), and I really needed the updated files. Which is why backup solutions must be automatic
Yes, once a geek discovers the beauty of a good backup system, he/she has stepped into a new world.
My backup/archive server is my most lovingly maintained system. It has saved me several times, and recently had to go through a hard drive replacement. That had me nervous.
I'm with FSF about this one. The "open source" term made it all less clear what this whole movement is all about. "Free" can mean free as in liberty, or it can mean free as in no cost. That's confusing too. Most people tend to think of free as "no cost", since it is used in so much advertising.
I think a more precise term would be "emancipated software" but it just doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Software Libre?
I'm a little biased, but Maia Mailguard is a great way to focus that expertise, and we've had many people prefer us over Baracuda.
Maia's greatest strength is user based quarantine caches to help spread the load of watching for those few misclassifications (very few) and because it's all open source, you can use the very best of the spamassasin modules, and MTA level checks such as policyd, greylisting, RBL's....
It's the ultimate in configurability, and scales from my own personal mail server up to fortune 500 companies.
So the answer is yes, bullets have a sonic boom. Well, it depends on the bullet. They make "subsonic" rounds, which implies that supersonic rounds are the norm.
Subsonic rounds are somewhat more stealthy, useful for silenced (suppressed) weapons. That "zing" you here on tv when a silenced weapon is used? Totally fake.
No, No, NO! This is just wrong. It doesn't matter whether the carbon comes from 1 inch or 500 feet. If we burn more carbon into the atmosphere than we take out, we are not carbon neutral. The only way this would balance is if we produce enough plant life to eat the carbon to then feed this process.
Cars and stuff put X amount of carbon into the air... To be carbon neutral, X amount must be *removed* from the atmosphere, or we must reduce X.
All this process does is change the source away from the middle east.
It's easy. DRM is designed to make it hard to copy music, thus supposedly blocking piracy. But what happens when you want to copy the music to a new computer because your old computer is too slow? DRM will eventuall prevent that.
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Great quote from Ocean's Eleven:
"I may be biased but that doesn't mean I'm wrong!"
Challenger and Columbia. I think that counts as two LOV accidents. Challenger was also a LOM, and Columbia was a partial LOM.
Stop assuming that your are smarter than others.
:)
This thread was talking about email received, not sent, so what you say doesn't apply completely. Sure, the mail is in someone's sent folder, but that's harder to track down if they don't even have a record of who you are conversing with.
Anything that is sensitive I PGP encode.
Besides, I don't host my own email because I'm paranoid about big brother, I host it because I want IMAP access for several of my computers,and the performance is better over a LAN.
I also trust my own backup processes better.
One benefit of hosting your own email is that your bayes filters can get much more accurate as it learns your own email characteristics.
Also, I run my own Maia Mailguard server for testing and it provides test data for it.
Could you clarify what's wrong with them? I use both all the time with no problems.
"as ascribed to a product" ... How many people buy whales?
Transiting ISPS would have to snif traffic to catch my email, which is doable but a large task. My email server also has TLS available, and a lot of sites actually do use it... which makes it unsniffable.
Really, there's no reason malware cannot exist even without root access. Whether using a security hole in a web browser or email client (and these exist from time to time on all platforms) or whether it's a social hack, once the initial vector is run, it could install a program to run as the user, and install a cronjob to keep it going. Even without root access, the system could become a zombie.
Once you have local access, then a whole bunch more possible exploits become available to get root, too.
Being behind a NAT router doesn't help, as such malware can connect out to a command channel to get its orders - no need for incoming traffic to be routed.
I can't imagine what a family of four would have to contend with....hell one trip to Sam's and you'd need to tow about 8-10 of those bicycle carts bare minimum.
Once a week? That seems like a lot of groceries, even for a family of 4.
You don't have a family, do you? It's insane how much groceries and diapers and stuff it takes for my two boys.
I cringe at the thought of towing them behind a bike, not to mention all the groceries. It's just not feasible.
I forgot the other important factor:
Backups must be tested
yeah, that's my next step. I need more bandwidth so I can trickle updates over the net.
Ah young love. ;)
Yes, once a geek discovers the beauty of a good backup system, he/she has stepped into a new world.
My backup/archive server is my most lovingly maintained system. It has saved me several times, and recently had to go through a hard drive replacement. That had me nervous.
I'm with FSF about this one. The "open source" term made it all less clear what this whole movement is all about. "Free" can mean free as in liberty, or it can mean free as in no cost. That's confusing too. Most people tend to think of free as "no cost", since it is used in so much advertising.
I think a more precise term would be "emancipated software" but it just doesn't roll off the tongue very well. Software Libre?
I'm a little biased, but Maia Mailguard is a great way to focus that expertise, and we've had many people prefer us over Baracuda.
Maia's greatest strength is user based quarantine caches to help spread the load of watching for those few misclassifications (very few) and because it's all open source, you can use the very best of the spamassasin modules, and MTA level checks such as policyd, greylisting, RBL's....
It's the ultimate in configurability, and scales from my own personal mail server up to fortune 500 companies.
Subsonic rounds are somewhat more stealthy, useful for silenced (suppressed) weapons. That "zing" you here on tv when a silenced weapon is used? Totally fake.
Don't forget about the way some isodopes of Governmentium react to Dictatium - it can be a very volatile compound.
How dare someone *else* write viruses!!! ;)
That's not a troll. That's the truth.
If Java is the answer, you're asking the wrong questions.
No, No, NO! This is just wrong. It doesn't matter whether the carbon comes from 1 inch or 500 feet. If we burn more carbon into the atmosphere than we take out, we are not carbon neutral. The only way this would balance is if we produce enough plant life to eat the carbon to then feed this process.
... To be carbon neutral, X amount must be *removed* from the atmosphere, or we must reduce X.
Cars and stuff put X amount of carbon into the air
All this process does is change the source away from the middle east.
It's easy. DRM is designed to make it hard to copy music, thus supposedly blocking piracy. But what happens when you want to copy the music to a new computer because your old computer is too slow? DRM will eventuall prevent that.