They've really gone down hill, Blair or no Blair. For instance, the NYT's Judith Miller printed a lot of bogus information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction prior to the war. Her sources appear to have been Iraqi ex-pat Ahmed Chalabi and defectors associated with him.
This isn't such a stretch if they had been in similar orbits. For instance, they might have been part of the same asteroid at one time, which had been split up by some other collision at some point in time. There may have been other, smaller fragments of the same original asteroid which hit the earth or moon.
Second, the assumption that the ones who survived the first one would have the best odds against the second just isn't true. If dinosaur populations never really rebounded after the first episode, they'd clearly be at risk for the second.
I think this "Windows 2000 TCP stack based on BSD's" thing is a bit of an urban legend. Clearly they used parts of it in various spots, but if they had based it on BSD's it would obviously work much better...
Anheiser-Busch uses large amounts of rice in Budweiser. Rice contributes less flavor than malted barley to the finished beer.
They also use only small amounts of hops for bittering, flavor and aroma. Bud uses less hops for all three purposes than a traditional pilsener
Finally, beechwood aging is used primarily to clarify the beer. They actually steam the chips prior to using them in the beer so as to eliminate the possiblity that the beechwood chips will impart any flavor.
Face it--Bud is designed to be as bland as possible.
Now, if this is what you want in a beer, more power to you. However, I prefer a beer with flavor.
One thing to keep in mind is that it is entirely possible that people were stealing credit card or other valuable information when NIMDA, etc., were at large using the same vulnerabilities. Because of all the noise from NIMDA, etc., they certainly would have been more difficult to notice.
I believe that whether or not you have to pass the bar depends on certain other criteria and varies from state to state (assuming you are in the states, of course). For instance, I had a couple of friends who did not need to pass the WI state bar exam because they'd graduated from law school.
On the other hand, I remember my dad had to study like hell to pass the CA bar exam (he did a lot of work out there back in the 80's).
I think it's useful to run "make oldconfig" to keep me from forgetting to enable important options. For instance, for some reason I always used to forget at least one of the kernel options required for DHCP, so I'd always wind up compiling the kernel for my laptop at least twice.
Right! Bush hates dictators like Karimov of Uzbekistan. The guy has reportedly boiled dissidents alive, and is certainly crushing dissent and torturing his citizens in a widespread manner.
Oops! I'm sorry--he's our ally! We're using his bases. Never mind.
Nah. What you have neglected to point out is that Groklaw has provided evidence to support its claims. SCO, on the other hand, has seemingly gone out of its way to avoid presenting any.
I suspect any bias on the part of Groklaw stems from the fact that PJ has done a lot of research about the case. You know, because she knows what she's talking about.
Evidence suggesting that you don't know what you're talking about is provided by the suggestion that "the whole point of the site" is to provide FUD about SCO. Clearly she's devoted a lot of energy to this prior to the SCO case, but Groklaw was around long before it.
If they're going to advertise unlimited Internet access, they should tell potential customers how they're going to limit it in the fine print. You know, like every other large company these days.
For instance, I can recall at least one grocery store chain (Kohl's, I think) that was open 24 hours a day. The fine print showed that 24 hours a day just didn't cover the midnight shift on weekends.
Eh, what's the point of hiding the distro name? You're going to have two classes of attackers:
Jackasses trying the latest exploit they've downloaded against every box they can until they find one which it works against
Somebody who actually wants into your server, for whom having the distro name saves about two minutes of work
In the first case, hiding the distro name doesn't save you anything because they don't care. How often do you see somebody (or some worm) looking for cmd.exe in your apache logs?
In the second case, hiding the distro name doesn't save you anything because they can get what they want in short order from other sources. Maybe it helps if you're running Red Hat 6 out of the box and you haven't bothered to secure it--but in that case you're still going to get cracked in half an hour.
Hiding the distro name might not hurt, and it migh t be fun (the only legitimate reason to do it), but it's still a waste of time.
Nah, it's called irony. They're not leftists. That's the point. It's an objective, non-leftist source.
Unfortunately, there's plenty of reason to be critical. We alienated our allies (aside from Britain), so that when we need more troops they will be hard to come by. Also, it makes it much more likely that the soldiers who die will be American. We've never managed to restore basic security, so that the Iraqis will associate democracy with chaos. My God, we didn't secure known nuke sites!
We also disbanded the Iraqi army. In addition to potentially helping with the security problem, we wouldn't have created a large pool of unemployed, angry soldiers who just might want to join the resistance. I think that we also missed our window to break the resistance, which was before it really began.
Those leftists in the Army War College think we screwed upby pursuing Saddam. (Link is a PDF.)
"Of particular concern has been the conflation of al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraw as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat. This was a strategi error of the first order because it ignored critical differences between the two in character, threat level and susceptibility to US deterrence and military action. The result has been an unnecessary preventative war of choice against a deterred Iraw that has created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing the American homeland against further assault by an undeterrable al-Qaeda. The war against Iraq was not integral to the GWOT, but rather a detour from it." (Any typos are mine.)
I'd love to see a democratic Iraq, which is why I initially had some faith in the Bush administration and supported the war. But let's face facts--we took a big gamble by invading Iraq, and it's not likely to work out in our favor.
Speaking of living in your own little world, please keep in mind that we have our own, home-grown terrorists.
For instance, these guys (use pointless as the user name and password) could have been a problem:
"Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control.
Most distressing, they said, was the discovery of 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide -- material that can only be acquired legally for specific agricultural or military projects.
The sodium cyanide was found inside an ammunition canister, next to hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids and formulas for making bombs. If acid were mixed with the sodium cyanide, an analysis showed, it would create a bomb powerful enough to kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot facility, investigators said."
And they were found almost entirely by accident.
Look, I'm not suggesting that Islamic terrorists aren't probably the biggest current threat. But don't be stupid.
Call me a philistine, but I liked Quake 2 better. It felt more visceral to me, and better balanced in multi-player. It also was a decent single player game. I never cared for Quake 3.
I agree with you about the level design. However, it ain't easy. Look at the last third or so of Half Life--it really tailed off after you leave Earth. Does anybody really like all that jumping?.
Although I should probably wait to play the game before I critique the level design...
However, I'd like to point out that software may stop working properly at any time. For instance, suppose the disk fills up and the voting software stops recording new ballots. This may or may not skew the results of the election.
Or the voting software may have a bug which causes it to lose every x number of votes for the candidate in position y. This would definitely skew the results of the election. (One would hope that the vendor would catch this in testing, but one would also hope that they wouldn't use Access in their voting machines.)
Both of these problems should be caught. Without an audit trail independent of the actual voting software, you might not know the actual results of the election.
Like everything else, outsourced call centers are a mixed bag. I can think of a certain large company I know which is having problems because they outsourced their help desk call center. The reason? They pay per ticket resolved or kicked upstairs. The people at the call center kick everything upstairs as quickly as possible, so the company has to hire more upper-level people.
And we can't blame this on the Indians, since they outsourced to those evil Canadians.
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They've really gone down hill, Blair or no Blair. For instance, the NYT's Judith Miller printed a lot of bogus information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction prior to the war. Her sources appear to have been Iraqi ex-pat Ahmed Chalabi and defectors associated with him.
This isn't such a stretch if they had been in similar orbits. For instance, they might have been part of the same asteroid at one time, which had been split up by some other collision at some point in time. There may have been other, smaller fragments of the same original asteroid which hit the earth or moon. Second, the assumption that the ones who survived the first one would have the best odds against the second just isn't true. If dinosaur populations never really rebounded after the first episode, they'd clearly be at risk for the second.
I think this "Windows 2000 TCP stack based on BSD's" thing is a bit of an urban legend. Clearly they used parts of it in various spots, but if they had based it on BSD's it would obviously work much better...
Who says the grammar police have no sense of humor?
Eh, I'd go with the Belgians myself. The quality of German beers is more consistent, but they aren't very creative.
Anheiser-Busch uses large amounts of rice in Budweiser. Rice contributes less flavor than malted barley to the finished beer.
They also use only small amounts of hops for bittering, flavor and aroma. Bud uses less hops for all three purposes than a traditional pilsener
Finally, beechwood aging is used primarily to clarify the beer. They actually steam the chips prior to using them in the beer so as to eliminate the possiblity that the beechwood chips will impart any flavor.
Face it--Bud is designed to be as bland as possible.
Now, if this is what you want in a beer, more power to you. However, I prefer a beer with flavor.
One thing to keep in mind is that it is entirely possible that people were stealing credit card or other valuable information when NIMDA, etc., were at large using the same vulnerabilities. Because of all the noise from NIMDA, etc., they certainly would have been more difficult to notice.
On the other hand, I remember my dad had to study like hell to pass the CA bar exam (he did a lot of work out there back in the 80's).
Anyway, I do like the analogy.
I think it's useful to run "make oldconfig" to keep me from forgetting to enable important options. For instance, for some reason I always used to forget at least one of the kernel options required for DHCP, so I'd always wind up compiling the kernel for my laptop at least twice.
Here, I just registered as user "anonoputz" with a password of "anonoputz" so that you can go crazy.
Oops! I'm sorry--he's our ally! We're using his bases. Never mind.
I think it would be more accurate to say that the facts are biased against SCO, which explains why they're unwilling to reveal them.
I suspect any bias on the part of Groklaw stems from the fact that PJ has done a lot of research about the case. You know, because she knows what she's talking about.
Evidence suggesting that you don't know what you're talking about is provided by the suggestion that "the whole point of the site" is to provide FUD about SCO. Clearly she's devoted a lot of energy to this prior to the SCO case, but Groklaw was around long before it.
For instance, I can recall at least one grocery store chain (Kohl's, I think) that was open 24 hours a day. The fine print showed that 24 hours a day just didn't cover the midnight shift on weekends.
- Jackasses trying the latest exploit they've downloaded against every box they can until they find one which it works against
- Somebody who actually wants into your server, for whom having the distro name saves about two minutes of work
In the first case, hiding the distro name doesn't save you anything because they don't care. How often do you see somebody (or some worm) looking for cmd.exe in your apache logs?In the second case, hiding the distro name doesn't save you anything because they can get what they want in short order from other sources. Maybe it helps if you're running Red Hat 6 out of the box and you haven't bothered to secure it--but in that case you're still going to get cracked in half an hour.
Hiding the distro name might not hurt, and it migh t be fun (the only legitimate reason to do it), but it's still a waste of time.
Nod.
Hey, that's what former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson would have done with it--he used the line-item veto to veto individual letters in laws.
Oh, never mind. Next time write something a bit longer for me to distort, okay?
No--he said he wouldn't upgrade to W2K3, which implies that his MCSE was not in fact for W2K3.
Right. Squat. He was far more interested in SDI and those tax cuts.
And do you seriously think he would have done something about Enron--his largest campaign contributor?
Unfortunately, there's plenty of reason to be critical. We alienated our allies (aside from Britain), so that when we need more troops they will be hard to come by. Also, it makes it much more likely that the soldiers who die will be American. We've never managed to restore basic security, so that the Iraqis will associate democracy with chaos. My God, we didn't secure known nuke sites!
We also disbanded the Iraqi army. In addition to potentially helping with the security problem, we wouldn't have created a large pool of unemployed, angry soldiers who just might want to join the resistance. I think that we also missed our window to break the resistance, which was before it really began.
It's called irony, the point being that these guys aren't leftists.
"Of particular concern has been the conflation of al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's Iraw as a single, undifferentiated terrorist threat. This was a strategi error of the first order because it ignored critical differences between the two in character, threat level and susceptibility to US deterrence and military action. The result has been an unnecessary preventative war of choice against a deterred Iraw that has created a new front in the Middle East for Islamic terrorism and diverted attention and resources away from securing the American homeland against further assault by an undeterrable al-Qaeda. The war against Iraq was not integral to the GWOT, but rather a detour from it." (Any typos are mine.)
I'd love to see a democratic Iraq, which is why I initially had some faith in the Bush administration and supported the war. But let's face facts--we took a big gamble by invading Iraq, and it's not likely to work out in our favor.
For instance, these guys (use pointless as the user name and password) could have been a problem:
"Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control.
Most distressing, they said, was the discovery of 800 grams of almost pure sodium cyanide -- material that can only be acquired legally for specific agricultural or military projects.
The sodium cyanide was found inside an ammunition canister, next to hydrochloric, nitric and acetic acids and formulas for making bombs. If acid were mixed with the sodium cyanide, an analysis showed, it would create a bomb powerful enough to kill everyone inside a 30,000-square-foot facility, investigators said."
And they were found almost entirely by accident.
Look, I'm not suggesting that Islamic terrorists aren't probably the biggest current threat. But don't be stupid.
I agree with you about the level design. However, it ain't easy. Look at the last third or so of Half Life--it really tailed off after you leave Earth. Does anybody really like all that jumping?.
Although I should probably wait to play the game before I critique the level design...
However, I'd like to point out that software may stop working properly at any time. For instance, suppose the disk fills up and the voting software stops recording new ballots. This may or may not skew the results of the election.
Or the voting software may have a bug which causes it to lose every x number of votes for the candidate in position y. This would definitely skew the results of the election. (One would hope that the vendor would catch this in testing, but one would also hope that they wouldn't use Access in their voting machines.)
Both of these problems should be caught. Without an audit trail independent of the actual voting software, you might not know the actual results of the election.
And we can't blame this on the Indians, since they outsourced to those evil Canadians.