Is there any reason Nigeria was omitted from this list, or are they the remaining ~%19?
It's been a while since I got a spam from Nigeria (and I haven't blacklisted the country). Most "Nigerian 419" spam doesn't actually come from Nigeria. In fact, most of them don't even claim to be from Nigeria but from a wide variety of countries, some from Africa, some from Asia, some from Europe and some from Latinamerica.
Something I've noticed is that whenever there is a newsworthy disaster, out come the "widows" and "bankers" of victims in said disaster asking for help in "liberating" funds.
$169 is still *way* cheaper than most dedicated hardware firewalls, such as Watchguard. Even after adding a quad eth pci card.
I don't need anything fancy. NAT+port forwarding, and maybe misc functions such as DHCP or DNS caching. I don't intend to run a mail/web server on it and it probably won't be in front of any server box. Purely domestic use.
If I dont go with Clarkconnect I think I'll go with FreeBSD+ipfilter (I dunno why but I like it better than ipf. Personal preference I guess).
Let's have some balls, for once, and go somewhere. We can sit here, doing with shinier toys what we did again and again throughout history, or we can go somewhere. Exploration, man. "And he willed that the hearts of men would seek beyond the world, and find no rest therein." Let's go.
Dagnabit! If I had modpoints you would get them! Let's not kid ourselves and look for justifications that don't exist. Lets go somewhere! Lets go to mars! Why? Because it's there!
Scrap the shuttle. It doesn't do anything practical, anyway, that can't be done by other means. Let's develop better technologies to take mankind to the stars.
I realize that there are problems here on earth that need addressing, but we can't simply stop exploring. That's food for the human spirit!
In "The Golden Age" by John C. Wright, there's a scene where the "peers" (the powers that be) talk about "freezing history" because they feel confortable the way things are. It feels like we are pretty much in that situation ourselves.
I certainly do. Organizing 2.5 terrabytes of porn is a bitch. It's like "Hm... does this go in midgets or does it go in animals->poultry -- or should I create an entirely new midget and poultry sub-category?".
What you need is a gmail-like system. All the files go into a single pool and apply labels to each. Then simply organize them in "searchs" like gmail and Outlook 2003. So the same file would be in "midgets" "bestiality" "strapon" and "poultry", but it would only be a single file!
And you could define more complex searches... "Today i feel like... pirate themed male on shemale gangbangs".
What in the hell does he think he is going to accomplish?
Earn some money???
I believe that this is a plot of microsoft to hide an insider so they can do some espionage, using Daniel Robbins as a mere pawn in the game.
I dunno if I should take this seriously, but since I can't detect sarcasm, I will.
Espionage, where? In the Open Source community? Pfft, they could accomplish that by subscribing to a couple of mailing lists. And if DR was a "hidden insider", why would they hire him in such a public fashion?
Unless you mean that DR is going to pretend to be a MS insider and leak false info into the OS community... then Linux would be tainted by code MS can claim belongs to them and sue!
If your next Linux upgrade comes with support for BSOD remember: you read it here first!
You seem to forget that most professors, even those in computer science, don't have an IT background and don't think of things like "web logs". Even those that do aren't generally going to have access to the logs on their departmental webservers.
They can easily ask/force/bribe/coerce someone in the IT department to provide the logs and maybe analize them. Or they can have a log analysis tool (such as webalizer or webtrends) to provide that info.
wm files can contain scripts (I think quicktime can, also). That's what cause your media player to pop up web windows. You can tell your media player not to execute scripts and it will only play the audio/video portion of the file.
In any case, if you have a problem with those files, stop downloading them. Limit yourself to legitimate download and you are unlikely to find spammy video clips that take you to porn sites. Or go with mpeg vids.
I believe sitcom stands for "situation comedy" (or situational...). By that definition, a lot of the shows you list don't belong to that group (Myth Busters?!).
And "Two and a half men" is not even remotely funny.
I think this guy was overpaid just a little much. They could've lifted one of the internet from some fanfic site for a lot cheaper. I'm a little bit worried about how good of a script it is.
I agree that it was a bit too much for the script, but I hope you are joking with your fanfic remark.
If fanfic authors were any good, they probably wouldn't be writing fanfics.
Ok, that might have been a bit too harsh. There are a couple of jewels hidden in all the muck that are fanfics, but they usually tend to be parodies. "Serious" fanfics are usually not worth anybody's time, including the author's. And don't get me started on "self-insert" fanfics.
It seems to me that a lot of game based movies that could be awesome end up being terrible because they don't follow the game closely.
Indeed. But some games just don't have enough material to produce a decent movie, and then you end up with "Adaptation"-like situations. And even those that do, sometimes end up being terrible. Remember the Wing Commander movie (tho in all fairness, Chris Roberts turned out to be a crappy movie director/writer. he should have stuck to games)
As a fan of Halo, I hope do the Master Chief some justice and don't hire Ben Affleck/Hugh Jackman/Russel Crowe/Tom Cruise to play him. They should use an actor that at leat looks like he could kick some butt in real life. Unless they don't intend to show his face. In that case, stuff any extra into the suit and get Samuel L. Jackson to do the voice (he has the attitude, but IMHO lacks the physique, unless he pumps up like Edward Norton in American History X).
Maybe they could get Owen Wilson... and Ben Stiller could be a covenant soldier... nah.
They won't. Email and web access are too important for commerce.
Yes, but they can make it so that you need a "special license" to access the Internet. Said license would be limited to those approved by the goverment, or those that can prove that they need it for work/research purposes.
These connection could be monitored and any encryption would need a backdoor access for the goverment.
Any other connection to the internet would be deemed illegal.
There would still be a "National Net" for everyone else, where they can get information pre-approved by the ministry of whatever.
Because what matters in a quality monitor is weight... Right!
LCD is garbage, who cares if it's light? (Yes, that makes it good for a laptop, but that's about it).
Nevermind weight, space might be *the* issue. My trusty old 17" Viewsonic crt died a couple of months ago. I replaced it with an inexpensive 17" LCD (about $300). I don't see much difference in image quality (I work at 1280x1024 32bit) but then again, I don't do image processing. My eyes are not strained either. I do notice the space savings, tho. My desk feels extremely roomy after getting rid of the CRT.
As for games, World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 look the same as they did in the old monitor.
Slippery slope argument? In this case it's pretty clear that GOOD came out of this, did not make any situation much much worse.
Actually, slippery slopes sometimes start like this. With a clear cut case of right and wrong. But tomorrow it might be used as precedents for other actions. For example, DMCA "violators" might find their site defaced with a sign that says: "This software brakes the law and the author is a criminal".
When someone bypasses the rule of the law and proper procedures and takes justice into his own hands, and "the system" looks the other way or even condones the action, it opens the door to all other sort of vigilantism.
Hopefully, it has some sort of value in combat now to make killing a low level character less enticing and killing a higher level character more enticing.
Nope. The onyl thing you lose for a dishonorable kill is the time it took to do it. You get rewards for honorable kills, but no punishment for dishonorable kills.
Oh better hurry and update iptables and patch my kernel and emerge sync;emerge -uv world
YAY!!!! It's don... what@ still compiling? It's been 4 hours already!!
(kidding, man. but my slashbot training tought me that no emerge reference is complete without a compile time joke. it probably won't be that long. heck, it might even finish before sarge is finally released)
SSH tunnel or some other sort of VPN to a proxy somewhere outside the firewall and you're done.
Quoting the GP:
It's not the firewall that makes things difficult for you, but the guys who come bash your skull in if you try to get around the router
Your solution is a technological one and it can be easily trumped by the "skull bashers". They might not be able to see what's coming thru the tunnel, but they might very well come the endpoint's location and demand to know what's going on and will you please cease and desist.
I know very little (next to nothing) of China's investigative procedures or judicial system, but maybe they can come knocking on your door on suspicion alone and confiscate/arrest/interrogate/etc (can somebody with more knowledge on the subject enlighten us?).
Imagine government (not just China's) requiring some form of licensing to operate an ecryption tunnel. Then it would just be a matter of checking all unlicensed tunnels. Or maybe requiring a clipper-chip-like approach (remember those?).
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Is there any reason Nigeria was omitted from
this list, or are they the remaining ~%19?
It's been a while since I got a spam from Nigeria (and I haven't blacklisted the country). Most "Nigerian 419" spam doesn't actually come from Nigeria. In fact, most of them don't even claim to be from Nigeria but from a wide variety of countries, some from Africa, some from Asia, some from Europe and some from Latinamerica.
Something I've noticed is that whenever there is a newsworthy disaster, out come the "widows" and "bankers" of victims in said disaster asking for help in "liberating" funds.
$169 is still *way* cheaper than most dedicated hardware firewalls, such as Watchguard. Even after adding a quad eth pci card.
I don't need anything fancy. NAT+port forwarding, and maybe misc functions such as DHCP or DNS caching. I don't intend to run a mail/web server on it and it probably won't be in front of any server box. Purely domestic use.
If I dont go with Clarkconnect I think I'll go with FreeBSD+ipfilter (I dunno why but I like it better than ipf. Personal preference I guess).
Now *that* is a good recommendation.
Can anybody recommend a small form factor PC to install this kind of software? Ideally it would be a silent PC with a quad ethernet or such.
Yes.
Let's have some balls, for once, and go somewhere. We can sit here, doing with shinier toys what we did again and again throughout history, or we can go somewhere. Exploration, man. "And he willed that the hearts of men would seek beyond the world, and find no rest therein." Let's go.
Dagnabit! If I had modpoints you would get them! Let's not kid ourselves and look for justifications that don't exist. Lets go somewhere! Lets go to mars! Why? Because it's there!
Scrap the shuttle. It doesn't do anything practical, anyway, that can't be done by other means. Let's develop better technologies to take mankind to the stars.
I realize that there are problems here on earth that need addressing, but we can't simply stop exploring. That's food for the human spirit!
In "The Golden Age" by John C. Wright, there's a scene where the "peers" (the powers that be) talk about "freezing history" because they feel confortable the way things are. It feels like we are pretty much in that situation ourselves.
I certainly do. Organizing 2.5 terrabytes of porn is a bitch. It's like "Hm... does this go in midgets or does it go in animals->poultry -- or should I create an entirely new midget and poultry sub-category?".
What you need is a gmail-like system. All the files go into a single pool and apply labels to each. Then simply organize them in "searchs" like gmail and Outlook 2003. So the same file would be in "midgets" "bestiality" "strapon" and "poultry", but it would only be a single file!
And you could define more complex searches... "Today i feel like... pirate themed male on shemale gangbangs".
Anybody knows of such an organizing system?
The worst you will likely get is a cease and desist letter, but from OSS, I would highly doubt it.
If you publish a book, and print about 100000 copies, a cease and desist notice can be pretty expensive.
What in the hell does he think he is going to accomplish?
Earn some money???
I believe that this is a plot of microsoft to hide an insider so they can do some espionage, using Daniel Robbins as a mere pawn in the game.
I dunno if I should take this seriously, but since I can't detect sarcasm, I will.
Espionage, where? In the Open Source community? Pfft, they could accomplish that by subscribing to a couple of mailing lists. And if DR was a "hidden insider", why would they hire him in such a public fashion?
Unless you mean that DR is going to pretend to be a MS insider and leak false info into the OS community... then Linux would be tainted by code MS can claim belongs to them and sue!
If your next Linux upgrade comes with support for BSOD remember: you read it here first!
You seem to forget that most professors, even those in computer science, don't have an IT background and don't think of things like "web logs". Even those that do aren't generally going to have access to the logs on their departmental webservers.
They can easily ask/force/bribe/coerce someone in the IT department to provide the logs and maybe analize them. Or they can have a log analysis tool (such as webalizer or webtrends) to provide that info.
wm files can contain scripts (I think quicktime can, also). That's what cause your media player to pop up web windows. You can tell your media player not to execute scripts and it will only play the audio/video portion of the file.
In any case, if you have a problem with those files, stop downloading them. Limit yourself to legitimate download and you are unlikely to find spammy video clips that take you to porn sites. Or go with mpeg vids.
Unless he neglected to make some of them exhaust fans. :)
I mean, he does say that his setup doesn't really cool things down...
He also said that air enters in one side and exits the other. Same for top and bottom.
Now, I won't tell you to RTFA because: a. You obviously did and b. I also skimmed it. It was pure luck that I read that particular part of the text.
I believe sitcom stands for "situation comedy" (or situational...). By that definition, a lot of the shows you list don't belong to that group (Myth Busters?!).
And "Two and a half men" is not even remotely funny.
Courtney Cox was famous because of Ace Ventura
You are kidding, right? Or have you forgotten that timeless classic: "Masters of the Universe"
Boy, that was an unfunny article!
The only sentence that caught my attention was:
explains that to get to the Lounge you have to pass through the 2 Way Toilet.
If you have a bi-directional toilet, the design of the house is probably not your biggest problem.
The original verb is 'to burgle', from whence we get burglars
And doesn't "whence" means "from where"?, if so, wouldn't "from whence" be redundant?
I think this guy was overpaid just a little much. They could've lifted one of the internet from some fanfic site for a lot cheaper. I'm a little bit worried about how good of a script it is.
I agree that it was a bit too much for the script, but I hope you are joking with your fanfic remark.
If fanfic authors were any good, they probably wouldn't be writing fanfics.
Ok, that might have been a bit too harsh. There are a couple of jewels hidden in all the muck that are fanfics, but they usually tend to be parodies. "Serious" fanfics are usually not worth anybody's time, including the author's. And don't get me started on "self-insert" fanfics.
It seems to me that a lot of game based movies that could be awesome end up being terrible because they don't follow the game closely.
Indeed. But some games just don't have enough material to produce a decent movie, and then you end up with "Adaptation"-like situations.
And even those that do, sometimes end up being terrible. Remember the Wing Commander movie (tho in all fairness, Chris Roberts turned out to be a crappy movie director/writer. he should have stuck to games)
As a fan of Halo, I hope do the Master Chief some justice and don't hire Ben Affleck/Hugh Jackman/Russel Crowe/Tom Cruise to play him. They should use an actor that at leat looks like he could kick some butt in real life. Unless they don't intend to show his face. In that case, stuff any extra into the suit and get Samuel L. Jackson to do the voice (he has the attitude, but IMHO lacks the physique, unless he pumps up like Edward Norton in American History X).
Maybe they could get Owen Wilson... and Ben Stiller could be a covenant soldier... nah.
They won't. Email and web access are too important for commerce.
Yes, but they can make it so that you need a "special license" to access the Internet. Said license would be limited to those approved by the goverment, or those that can prove that they need it for work/research purposes.
These connection could be monitored and any encryption would need a backdoor access for the goverment.
Any other connection to the internet would be deemed illegal.
There would still be a "National Net" for everyone else, where they can get information pre-approved by the ministry of whatever.
Or at least that's how I would do it.
Because what matters in a quality monitor is weight... Right!
LCD is garbage, who cares if it's light? (Yes, that makes it good for a laptop, but that's about it).
Nevermind weight, space might be *the* issue. My trusty old 17" Viewsonic crt died a couple of months ago. I replaced it with an inexpensive 17" LCD (about $300). I don't see much difference in image quality (I work at 1280x1024 32bit) but then again, I don't do image processing. My eyes are not strained either. I do notice the space savings, tho. My desk feels extremely roomy after getting rid of the CRT.
As for games, World of Warcraft and Half Life 2 look the same as they did in the old monitor.
Slippery slope argument? In this case it's pretty clear that GOOD came out of this, did not make any situation much much worse.
Actually, slippery slopes sometimes start like this. With a clear cut case of right and wrong. But tomorrow it might be used as precedents for other actions. For example, DMCA "violators" might find their site defaced with a sign that says: "This software brakes the law and the author is a criminal".
When someone bypasses the rule of the law and proper procedures and takes justice into his own hands, and "the system" looks the other way or even condones the action, it opens the door to all other sort of vigilantism.
Boothbabes faking a sleepover party? WTF! Now I'm embarrased of being a gamer...
At least there was a pillow fight, right? Everybody knows no babe sleepover is complete without a pillow fight.
GAH! That green on black page nearly made my eyes bleed...
My sister has a blind hunting dog (yes really)
How do you exactly hunt blinds?
Hopefully, it has some sort of value in combat now to make killing a low level character less enticing and killing a higher level character more enticing.
Nope. The onyl thing you lose for a dishonorable kill is the time it took to do it. You get rewards for honorable kills, but no punishment for dishonorable kills.
If you predict that it will crash, then it won't, and if you predict that it won't crash, then it will.
And if you open the dialog box, the office assistant dies.
Oh better hurry and update iptables and patch my kernel and emerge sync;emerge -uv world
YAY!!!! It's don... what@ still compiling? It's been 4 hours already!!
(kidding, man. but my slashbot training tought me that no emerge reference is complete without a compile time joke. it probably won't be that long. heck, it might even finish before sarge is finally released)
Quoting Craig Ringer:
SSH tunnel or some other sort of VPN to a proxy somewhere outside the firewall and you're done.
Quoting the GP:
It's not the firewall that makes things difficult for you, but the guys who come bash your skull in if you try to get around the router
Your solution is a technological one and it can be easily trumped by the "skull bashers". They might not be able to see what's coming thru the tunnel, but they might very well come the endpoint's location and demand to know what's going on and will you please cease and desist.
I know very little (next to nothing) of China's investigative procedures or judicial system, but maybe they can come knocking on your door on suspicion alone and confiscate/arrest/interrogate/etc (can somebody with more knowledge on the subject enlighten us?).
Imagine government (not just China's) requiring some form of licensing to operate an ecryption tunnel. Then it would just be a matter of checking all unlicensed tunnels. Or maybe requiring a clipper-chip-like approach (remember those?).