I agree that this would be a nice feature for adblock. It would be really cool to tell it things like: - click on all the ads:
- and load them into tabs
- dump the results into/dev/null - just allow all the ads to display for this page - retrieve the ads (to count as viewed), but don't actually render them
True, but once I'm there, I like to add all the advertisers to my adblock list so I don't see their ads when I go to other sites. That way I don't help advertisers who annoy me on any site I've ever visited.
My company uses CanIt and is very happy with it. It runs on Linux (or Solaris) and uses sendmail and SpamAssasin. The cost is low compared to the proprietary vendors, and I think the quality is much better. The value they add for the price is:
1) commercial support (this was most helpful in getting it integrated into our MS Exchange environment)
2) easy installation (with great docs and support)
3) great web interface for admins (and users if you want them to manage their own filters)
4) database integration (postgresql)
5) very scalable (in case the amount of Spam ever increases)
You get well proven technologies with FOSS, plus commercial grade support and a nice web admin interface. I can tell you it works great with an Exchange server, it really cuts back on the work that Exchange has to do. CanIt prevents the Spam and virus infected emails from even getting to the Exchange server. I think it will greatly extend the interval between Exchange server upgrades, a factor that we never considered in our initial proposal.
They have a demo and details about getting a 30 day trial on their website, www.roaringpenguin.com.
Probably so, that's why they get the big bucks, I guess. It's hard enough to lie for yourself (politicians and executives for example), but it's really hard to lie for other people. I suppose that makes the high hourly rates a little more understandable.
Umm, maybe because when the analyzed Ohio votes it didn't give them the numbers they were looking for?
These aren't rocket scientists, folks, they are statisticians with an agenda to push. If they didn't find the numbers they were looking for in Florida, they would have kept looking other places. I'm not faulting their motivations, as good Berkley liberals, they are obligated to publish such things. We, however, are not obligated to believe them.
A sentence should for rehabilitation, not revenge.
That's a nice sentiment, but what about people who are obviously beyond rehabilitation? Do we punish them or "pretend" they are rehabilitated and let them re-offend so we can "re-rehabilitate"?
I wish the courts made a determination at sentencing whether the the purpose was to rehabilitate or warehouse the convict. Those to be rehabiliated would be trained and given a strict parole, where probation violations or re-offenses would move them to the "warehousing" side where the purpose is to prevent harm to society with no real rights given to the convicts.
Too many people stereotype criminals, every one is different. Some ought to be denied their rights because their actions show they have no regard for the rights of others, but many just showed bad judgement and can get helped, they ought to be given every chance to become productive members of society.
A humane prison system would be equipped to make ongoing judgements about an individual's ability to "play nice" in open society. Some people would "game" the system, but they would be very likely to end up back in, and with a record that shows they tend to deceive. In any case, it wouldn't be worse than what we have now.
converting natural gas appliances to hydrogen would also be cheap if it could be made safe enough (which I doubt)
Would piping hydrogen through existing Natural Gas pipelines be feasible? Would it really be more dangerous? Natural Gas is pretty flammable as well, and heavier than air, hydrogen might be safer if it disappated faster during/after a leak.
What about mixing in a certain percent of hydrogen to spike the gas, like adding ethanol to gasoline?
White box hardware in a mission critical solution stinks to high heaven, but an open source app on good gear with a clear set of contingency and support plans has a fighting chance these days
You're right! about a year ago, I convinced the IT Director to implement Plone as a company intranet (instead of Sharepoint or Oracle Portal). I got a nice, brand-name, rackmount server. Installed RH9, created a tested recovery plan and nightly backups scripted in cron. Works great and it's been a big success, which is quite an accomplishment for a first-time portal implementation, from what I've read about them.
This is an example of not getting what you paid for, but much, much more. Our Plone implementation was much cheaper than a commercial package, not just in up front costs, but also in configuration and customization. I went to a week's worth of training on Oracle's Portal and it is still much easier to work on Plone even with no formal Plone/Zope/Python training. I have come to believe that Oracle's products are deliberately made more complicated than necessary in order to support Oracle Consultants and DBA's. I'm an Oracle DBA, so I'm a bit conflicted about that strategy, but not so much as to refuse to benefit from it.
The OSS we use has been very beneficial to our company -- Thank you open source developers everywhere!
The quicker we all figure out that both Democrats(Liberals) and Republicans(Conservatives) are both in it to fuck over the common man, the better off we'll all be.
How would realizing this make us better off?
Seriously, I bet a plurality of voters would have voted for "none of the above" if it was available. Nader doesn't look like that option and people voted for who they disliked least or who was less risky as President. I know your statement was made in anger over the outcome, and I can understand you are disappointed, but things will go on much as they were. Nothing really changes anyway, which I think was the point you were trying to make.
I haven't noticed any problems or even inconveniences with the PATRIOT act. I must admit I'm a little concerned that it might create some problems, but in general it makes me feel safer.
So, I think it's more positive than negative, though I realize that won't be a popular opinion on/.
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In that this will be my last column before the presidential election, there will be no sarcasm, no attempts at witty repartee. The topic is too serious, and the stakes are too high.
This November we will vote in the only election during our lifetime that will truly matter. Because America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of it's past and accepts the daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history. If we, in a spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the message to the world and ourselves will be two-fold. First, we will reject the notion that America can do big things. Once a nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon, we will announce to the world that bringing democracy to the Middle East is too big of a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges, preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has characterized other civilizations.
The defeat of President Bush will send a chilling message to future presidents who may need to make difficult, yet unpopular decisions. America has always been a nation that rises to the demands of history regardless of the costs or appeal. If we turn away from that legacy, we turn away from whom we are.
Second, we inform every terrorist organization on the globe that the lesson of Somalia was well-learned. In Somalia we showed terrorists that you don't need to defeat America on the battlefield when you can defeat them in the newsroom. They learned that a wounded America can become a defeated America. Twenty-four-hour news stations and daily tracing polls will do the heavy lifting, turning a cut into a fatal blow. Except that Iraq is Somalia times 10. The election of John Kerry will serve notice to every terrorist in every cave that the soft underbelly of American power is the timidity of American voters. Terrorists will know that a steady stream of grisly photos for CNN is all you need to break the will of the American people. Our own self-doubt will take it from there. Bin Laden will recognize that he can topple any American administration without setting foot on the homeland.
It is said that America's W.W.II generation is its 'greatest generation'. But my greatest fear is that it will become known as America's 'last generation.' Born in the bleakness of the Great depression and hardened in the fire of W.W. II, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my generation. Too many citizens today mistake 'living in America' as 'being an American.' But America has always been more of an idea than a place. When you sign on, you do more than buy real estate. You accept a set of values and responsibilities.
This November, my generation, which has been absent too long, must grasp the obligation that comes with being an American, or fade into the oblivion they may deserve. I believe that 100 years from now historians will look back at the election of 2004 and see it as the decisive election of our century. Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment Ameri
Maybe after they have the allergy thing covered, they can genetically engineer a better disposition for the cats.
Imagine a Siamese with a pleasant disposition! Maybe they could splice in some dog genes to get a cat that wags it's tail and plays fetch.
While they are at it, they might as well add that "glow in the dark" gene they put in fish. That would give the little critters they hunt at night a fighting chance. It would be really cool at Halloween too, I'd like a black cat that flouresces red or purple.
No, if he wanted to he could RIGHT NOW introduce a bill in the Senate to do it.
Unfortunately, to do that, he'd actually have to show up in Washington. Since the Sentate is not a "swing state", don't expect to see any more of him there than they saw of him the past 2 years.
Kerry's scary, but he's also smart. He knows his voting record the past 18 years is haunting him now, why would he want to throw gas on the fire by actually doing the job of a Senator and showing up for votes ?
When you're a Senator and you vote, you make a statement that is written down and provable, it's much better to just not make a stand, that way you can take both sides later on. You saw what happened when he voted for something after first voting against it (or was it the other way around). He's far too politically savvy to be caught that way again. Lucky for him, he doesn't have any integrity to worry about preserving, so he can just make up whatever story he wants about how he voted. The only people who would think to check his story wouldn't be anyone who would vote for him anyway, so it's alway a win for him to spin a yarn or two.
You pull up in your drive way and everything seems normal. But then you walk in the house and see a hot girl sitting on your couch. She walks over and gives you a passionate kiss and tells you dinner is ready. You know something is seriously wrong the universe.
If you're posting this on/., I think the real question would be -- Do you care about spyware anymore?
The reason there's not much spyware on Linux is the same reason there isn't much in the way of viruses, worms, and popular commercial software: lack of market share.
This is an old and specious argument. It seems to make a certain amount of sense, except for one little (actually big) problem -- Apache.
Apache is 2 to 1 more popular that IIS and has had it's share of security holes (found and patched immediately), but where is the Nimda or Code Red for Apache ? Can you name one Apache worm that even comes close to the prevalence of the IIS worms? I can't remember an Apache worm, period. There might have been one, but it's long gone. But I'm still getting code red alerts in my apache logs, years after the initial release.
Perhaps you could say that the reason is that the black hats hate IIS and not Apache, but is that not also true of Windows/Linux ?
You know why? BECAUSE NONE OF OUR END-USERS LOG ON AS ADMINISTRATORS!!! That's it - it's that simple. They don't have Administrative rights, and they can't install spyware [or viruses, or worms].
You've just been lucky. There's a good chance you have spyware infected computers right now and don't know it. There are spyware programs that can install themselves without admin rights on the system. I've found them on our systems already.
Have you actually scanned your systems for spyware? Or are you just hoping that what you said is true? I'm not trying to be antagonistic (though some of what I just wrote sounds that way), but you really should be watching closely, even if your systems are locked down. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir and you really are scanning and watching. It certainly is possible to keep a Windows system free from spyware, mine is, but keeping a large number of end user systems free from spyware is a real trick, since there are always some people who will click on any shiny button they see. Maybe you don't have any users like that, I wish that were so here.
That's not to say that the idea of "science" hasn't been misused in the past, but I don't believe that's the case w/ global warming.
I believe it is the case with global warming. The scientists involved get lots of attention which translates into money and power in our society. There are a lot of valid objections to the global warning theory, but rather than acknowledge and deal with those objections and the opposing data they present, the "scientists" who believe in global warming just ignore them. If they see data points that don't fit their model, they reject them. In my book, that's less science than religion.
I realize there is some debate as to WHY global warming appears to be happening. I don't think there is much legitimate debate on IF it is happening though.
But see, that's just it. There is debate about whether it's happening or not and you want to skip over that. It's as if you are saying "Assume the average temperature is increasing, now we need to find out why". Well as long as there is salient data that says the warning is not taking place, I don't see how you can make that assumption.
Way back in the 70's, there was much concern about global cooling, and the likelihood that we were headed for another ice age. Apparently, that didn't work out so well for them, so now it's global warming.
It doesn't make any sense to politicize it.
I agree. But who's politicizing it? Which "side" is making all the noise politically? The "scientists" who want more funding for studying a problem they have theorized into existence, and some anti-corporate, anti-globalization types whose main agenda is to punish Americans for comsuming more than their share of the Earth's resources (as evidence of this, I give you the Kyoto Treaty, as blatently anti-American as you will ever see).
It's more plausible to believe that the earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling that it is to believe that the normal state is some average global temperature that we should be targeting. It takes a lot of arrogance to assume that human activities are the cause of every little climate change, but if you don't start with that assumption, the global warming theories go nowhere.
When anti-abortion groups post this information on doctors who perform abortions, it is considered a threat. Why is this any different?
Because abortion doctors are good and the Republican are evil.
Don't you listen to Dan Rather? The media has been trying to explain why only liberal points of view are valid for some time now, why haven't you gotten on board yet ?
I'll bet you're one of them nasty redneck Republicans that want to kill all our wildlife with machine guns and then feed only ketchup to our young impressionable children at lunchtime.
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Knoppix.
If you should get attacked, or just paranoid, pull the plug and restart it.
There's nothing on the internet of great value that requires a hard drive.
Do you think a posting on /. would be enough?
. . . by issuing a call for Dell to lower hardware prices.
I agree that this would be a nice feature for adblock. It would be really cool to tell it things like: /dev/null
- click on all the ads:
- and load them into tabs
- dump the results into
- just allow all the ads to display for this page
- retrieve the ads (to count as viewed), but don't actually render them
True, but once I'm there, I like to add all the advertisers to my adblock list so I don't see their ads when I go to other sites. That way I don't help advertisers who annoy me on any site I've ever visited.
1) commercial support (this was most helpful in getting it integrated into our MS Exchange environment)
2) easy installation (with great docs and support)
3) great web interface for admins (and users if you want them to manage their own filters)
4) database integration (postgresql)
5) very scalable (in case the amount of Spam ever increases)
You get well proven technologies with FOSS, plus commercial grade support and a nice web admin interface. I can tell you it works great with an Exchange server, it really cuts back on the work that Exchange has to do. CanIt prevents the Spam and virus infected emails from even getting to the Exchange server. I think it will greatly extend the interval between Exchange server upgrades, a factor that we never considered in our initial proposal.
They have a demo and details about getting a 30 day trial on their website, www.roaringpenguin.com.
Probably so, that's why they get the big bucks, I guess. It's hard enough to lie for yourself (politicians and executives for example), but it's really hard to lie for other people. I suppose that makes the high hourly rates a little more understandable.
1. Write some software in your free time
2. Open source it
3. ???
4. Profit !!!
Now, ain't that easy?
Umm, maybe because when the analyzed Ohio votes it didn't give them the numbers they were looking for?
These aren't rocket scientists, folks, they are statisticians with an agenda to push. If they didn't find the numbers they were looking for in Florida, they would have kept looking other places. I'm not faulting their motivations, as good Berkley liberals, they are obligated to publish such things. We, however, are not obligated to believe them.
That's a nice sentiment, but what about people who are obviously beyond rehabilitation? Do we punish them or "pretend" they are rehabilitated and let them re-offend so we can "re-rehabilitate"?
I wish the courts made a determination at sentencing whether the the purpose was to rehabilitate or warehouse the convict. Those to be rehabiliated would be trained and given a strict parole, where probation violations or re-offenses would move them to the "warehousing" side where the purpose is to prevent harm to society with no real rights given to the convicts.
Too many people stereotype criminals, every one is different. Some ought to be denied their rights because their actions show they have no regard for the rights of others, but many just showed bad judgement and can get helped, they ought to be given every chance to become productive members of society.
A humane prison system would be equipped to make ongoing judgements about an individual's ability to "play nice" in open society. Some people would "game" the system, but they would be very likely to end up back in, and with a record that shows they tend to deceive. In any case, it wouldn't be worse than what we have now.
Would piping hydrogen through existing Natural Gas pipelines be feasible? Would it really be more dangerous? Natural Gas is pretty flammable as well, and heavier than air, hydrogen might be safer if it disappated faster during/after a leak.
What about mixing in a certain percent of hydrogen to spike the gas, like adding ethanol to gasoline?
You're right! about a year ago, I convinced the IT Director to implement Plone as a company intranet (instead of Sharepoint or Oracle Portal). I got a nice, brand-name, rackmount server. Installed RH9, created a tested recovery plan and nightly backups scripted in cron. Works great and it's been a big success, which is quite an accomplishment for a first-time portal implementation, from what I've read about them.
This is an example of not getting what you paid for, but much, much more. Our Plone implementation was much cheaper than a commercial package, not just in up front costs, but also in configuration and customization. I went to a week's worth of training on Oracle's Portal and it is still much easier to work on Plone even with no formal Plone/Zope/Python training. I have come to believe that Oracle's products are deliberately made more complicated than necessary in order to support Oracle Consultants and DBA's. I'm an Oracle DBA, so I'm a bit conflicted about that strategy, but not so much as to refuse to benefit from it.
The OSS we use has been very beneficial to our company -- Thank you open source developers everywhere!
How would realizing this make us better off?
Seriously, I bet a plurality of voters would have voted for "none of the above" if it was available. Nader doesn't look like that option and people voted for who they disliked least or who was less risky as President. I know your statement was made in anger over the outcome, and I can understand you are disappointed, but things will go on much as they were. Nothing really changes anyway, which I think was the point you were trying to make.
So, I think it's more positive than negative, though I realize that won't be a popular opinion on /.
Preferably a whole team of lawyers, more data points that way. I understand some have built up (legal) immunities.
To be fair, you ought to read this as well:
Election determines fate of nation
Published in the Daily Record on Oct. 6
By Mathew Manweller
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In that this will be my last column before the presidential election, there will be no sarcasm, no attempts at witty repartee. The topic is too serious, and the stakes are too high.
This November we will vote in the only election during our lifetime that will truly matter. Because America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance. Down one path lies retreat, abdication and a reign of ambivalence.
Down the other lies a nation that is aware of it's past and accepts the daunting obligation its future demands. If we choose poorly, the consequences will echo through the next 50 years of history. If we, in a spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the message to the world and ourselves will be two-fold. First, we will reject the notion that America can do big things. Once a nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon, we will announce to the world that bringing democracy to the Middle East is too big of a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges, preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has characterized other civilizations.
The defeat of President Bush will send a chilling message to future presidents who may need to make difficult, yet unpopular decisions. America has always been a nation that rises to the demands of history regardless of the costs or appeal. If we turn away from that legacy, we turn away from whom we are.
Second, we inform every terrorist organization on the globe that the lesson of Somalia was well-learned. In Somalia we showed terrorists that you don't need to defeat America on the battlefield when you can defeat them in the newsroom. They learned that a wounded America can become a defeated America. Twenty-four-hour news stations and daily tracing polls will do the heavy lifting, turning a cut into a fatal blow. Except that Iraq is Somalia times 10. The election of John Kerry will serve notice to every terrorist in every cave that the soft underbelly of American power is the timidity of American voters. Terrorists will know that a steady stream of grisly photos for CNN is all you need to break the will of the American people. Our own self-doubt will take it from there. Bin Laden will recognize that he can topple any American administration without setting foot on the homeland.
It is said that America's W.W.II generation is its 'greatest generation'. But my greatest fear is that it will become known as America's 'last generation.' Born in the bleakness of the Great depression and hardened in the fire of W.W. II, they may be the last American generation that understands the meaning of duty, honor and sacrifice. It is difficult to admit, but I know these terms are spoken with only hollow detachment by many (but not all) in my generation. Too many citizens today mistake 'living in America' as 'being an American.' But America has always been more of an idea than a place. When you sign on, you do more than buy real estate. You accept a set of values and responsibilities.
This November, my generation, which has been absent too long, must grasp the obligation that comes with being an American, or fade into the oblivion they may deserve. I believe that 100 years from now historians will look back at the election of 2004 and see it as the decisive election of our century. Depending on the outcome, they will describe it as the moment Ameri
Yeah, it's 127.0.0.1
Better block that at your border routers as well, one can't be too careful in an election year!
Imagine a Siamese with a pleasant disposition! Maybe they could splice in some dog genes to get a cat that wags it's tail and plays fetch.
While they are at it, they might as well add that "glow in the dark" gene they put in fish. That would give the little critters they hunt at night a fighting chance. It would be really cool at Halloween too, I'd like a black cat that flouresces red or purple.
Unfortunately, to do that, he'd actually have to show up in Washington. Since the Sentate is not a "swing state", don't expect to see any more of him there than they saw of him the past 2 years.
Kerry's scary, but he's also smart. He knows his voting record the past 18 years is haunting him now, why would he want to throw gas on the fire by actually doing the job of a Senator and showing up for votes ?
When you're a Senator and you vote, you make a statement that is written down and provable, it's much better to just not make a stand, that way you can take both sides later on. You saw what happened when he voted for something after first voting against it (or was it the other way around). He's far too politically savvy to be caught that way again. Lucky for him, he doesn't have any integrity to worry about preserving, so he can just make up whatever story he wants about how he voted. The only people who would think to check his story wouldn't be anyone who would vote for him anyway, so it's alway a win for him to spin a yarn or two.
Not yet, that will be the 2.0 release, when the code is merged with emacs.
If you're posting this on /., I think the real question would be -- Do you care about spyware anymore?
This is an old and specious argument. It seems to make a certain amount of sense, except for one little (actually big) problem -- Apache.
Apache is 2 to 1 more popular that IIS and has had it's share of security holes (found and patched immediately), but where is the Nimda or Code Red for Apache ? Can you name one Apache worm that even comes close to the prevalence of the IIS worms? I can't remember an Apache worm, period. There might have been one, but it's long gone. But I'm still getting code red alerts in my apache logs, years after the initial release.
Perhaps you could say that the reason is that the black hats hate IIS and not Apache, but is that not also true of Windows/Linux ?
You've just been lucky. There's a good chance you have spyware infected computers right now and don't know it. There are spyware programs that can install themselves without admin rights on the system. I've found them on our systems already.
Have you actually scanned your systems for spyware? Or are you just hoping that what you said is true? I'm not trying to be antagonistic (though some of what I just wrote sounds that way), but you really should be watching closely, even if your systems are locked down. Maybe I'm preaching to the choir and you really are scanning and watching. It certainly is possible to keep a Windows system free from spyware, mine is, but keeping a large number of end user systems free from spyware is a real trick, since there are always some people who will click on any shiny button they see. Maybe you don't have any users like that, I wish that were so here.
I believe it is the case with global warming. The scientists involved get lots of attention which translates into money and power in our society. There are a lot of valid objections to the global warning theory, but rather than acknowledge and deal with those objections and the opposing data they present, the "scientists" who believe in global warming just ignore them. If they see data points that don't fit their model, they reject them. In my book, that's less science than religion.
I realize there is some debate as to WHY global warming appears to be happening. I don't think there is much legitimate debate on IF it is happening though.
But see, that's just it. There is debate about whether it's happening or not and you want to skip over that. It's as if you are saying "Assume the average temperature is increasing, now we need to find out why". Well as long as there is salient data that says the warning is not taking place, I don't see how you can make that assumption.
Way back in the 70's, there was much concern about global cooling, and the likelihood that we were headed for another ice age. Apparently, that didn't work out so well for them, so now it's global warming.
It doesn't make any sense to politicize it.
I agree. But who's politicizing it? Which "side" is making all the noise politically? The "scientists" who want more funding for studying a problem they have theorized into existence, and some anti-corporate, anti-globalization types whose main agenda is to punish Americans for comsuming more than their share of the Earth's resources (as evidence of this, I give you the Kyoto Treaty, as blatently anti-American as you will ever see).
It's more plausible to believe that the earth goes through cycles of heating and cooling that it is to believe that the normal state is some average global temperature that we should be targeting. It takes a lot of arrogance to assume that human activities are the cause of every little climate change, but if you don't start with that assumption, the global warming theories go nowhere.
Because abortion doctors are good and the Republican are evil.
Don't you listen to Dan Rather? The media has been trying to explain why only liberal points of view are valid for some time now, why haven't you gotten on board yet ?
I'll bet you're one of them nasty redneck Republicans that want to kill all our wildlife with machine guns and then feed only ketchup to our young impressionable children at lunchtime.
Disclaimer - it's sarcasm, moderators - last time I got modded down due to being taken seriously.