Your link to Chompsky got me thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know...)
Could anarchy work? If I were given free reign to do whatever I wanted with my life, without restraint, could society still function?
The Great American Experiment has failed, as every government is condemned to do. The Constitution is no longer adhered to, instead we have some flimsy "living document" that means whatever the current instantiation of the Supreme Court wants it to mean.
Show me the country where government is minimal, fulfilling the only God-ordained function it has (which is to restrain evil, or one person harming another), and I'll show you... what? There is no such thing?
Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border
San Antonio, Texas(Reuters) - Unwilling to wait for their eventual
indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a
break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns
and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a
marketing expense.
"They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked
the revenues," said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso.
"Right in front of my daughters."
Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first spotted
last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought each of
the town's 320 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By late
this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's population
to 960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter.
This morning, the outlaws bought the city of Waco, transferred its
underperforming areas to a private partnership, and sent a bill to
California for $4.5 billion.
Law enforcement officials and disgruntled shareholders riding posse were
noticeably frustrated.
"First of all, they're very hard to find because they always stand behind
their numbers, and the numbers keep shifting," said posse spokesman Dean
Lewitt. "And every time we yell 'Stop in the name of the shareholders!',
they refer us to investor relations. I've been on the phone all damn
morning."
"YOU'LL NEVER AUDIT ME ALIVE!" they scream. The pursuers said they have
had some success, however, by preying on a common executive weakness. "Last
night we caught about 24 of them by disguising one of our female officers
as a CNBC anchor," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Janet Lewis. "It was
like moths to a flame."
Also, teams of agents have been using high-powered listening devices to
scan the plains for telltale sounds of the CEOnistas. "Most of the time we
just hear leaves rustling or cattle flicking their tails," said Lewis, "but
occasionally we'll pick up someone saying, 'I was totally out of the loop
on that."
Among former and current CEOs apprehended with this method were Computer
Associates' Sanjay Kumar, Adelphia's John Rigas, Enron's Ken Lay, Joseph
Nacchio of Qwest, Joseph Berardino of Arthur Andersen, and every Global
Crossing CEO since 1997. ImClone Systems' Sam Waksal and Dennis
Kozlowski of Tyco were not allowed to join the CEOnistas as they have
already been indicted.
So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha
Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a
barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375. "She
would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for
marzipan and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place
settings, using the cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer
Jenette Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really
adds texture to the stucco walls."
While some stragglers are believed to have successfully crossed into
Mexico, Cushing said the bulk of the CEOnistas have holed themselves up
at the Alamo. "No, not the fort, the car rental place at the airport," she
said. "They're rotating all the tires on the minivans and accounting
for each change as a sale."
I take no credit for this... I ripped it off from a forwarded email
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I happened to notice that the "Ten Reasons for not accepting a Counteroffer" were posted by a head hunter (jobs@jobsontheweb.com). Hmm... sounds suspect to me!!
I agree that, in general, government interference in business matters is a bad thing, but Microsoft has so much power over its markets that it might as well be the government. In this case, government intervention preserves the free market rather than disrupting it.
My thoughts exactly. Does that make me schizophrenic? (I think I [we?] prefer denial.)
I've been in the industry long enough to develop a burning hatred of M$FT, right up there with the rest of/.'ers -- but does anyone else have that good ol' free market mentality? The one that says, "If it's crap, eventually 'the market' will reject it"... OK, I'm smoking crack. But the purist in me still hates gov't intervention!
The blessing and the curse of technology... words on a page in black and white will never "settle the issue". I'd love to sit down with any of you over a cup of your favorite drink.
Frustrating as it is to the modern scientific mind (always demanding evidence), the mystery of the spiritual cannot be captured by mere words on a page. It requires face to face conversation -- RELATIONSHIP.
In my book, it was for RELATIONSHIP that each of us was created. Like Moshe, I'm OK with the ambiguity of "the Hebrew scripture says one thing, modern science says another". (You get that at any trial of law -- since when do any two eyewitness accounts corroborate to the last detail?)
There is a brick wall in the spiritual dimension that keeps each of us from this relationship with God. We justify our separated position with all kinds of intellectual arguments. These arguments are based on logic, we presume. I assert that this logic is fundamentally flawed, because it is developed in a vacuum apart from relationship with the Creator.
So how we bridge this divide? I could tell you, but words on a page will only frustrate you. The best I can say is, Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened; ask and it will be given to you. Someone, somewhere in your circle of trust can talk to you about this. Or you could always ask the Creator, "Reveal Yourself to me!" He loves a good challenge.
Aw shucks, you're all such cowards. If I can't see it, feel it, touch it, taste it, hear it -- then golly, it must not exist! (I get that a lot from my two year old.)
So we all have knee-jerk reactions on the topic of G-d. Seems to me you're missing out if you can't acknowledge the spiritual dimension of life. Anyone read Gerald Schroeder's The Science of God ? He does a great job of pulling the seemingly divergent tracks of the theory of evolution and our concept of G-d into the realm of plausibility. Not a good read for those of you who've already made up your mind! (Who can change it once you've barricaded yourself behind all your wonderful preconceived notions? Good luck being lonely in there, all by yourself!)
For the brave at heart, prepare to have your mind blown by the possibility that maybe, just maybe, G-d exists and G-d loves you like crazy! What proof do I have of this crazy love? Maybe the overwhelming odds against life ever happening in the first place! Not only has life "happened," it has flourished! Check your physics book, biology book, chemistry book -- tell me how likely a product of random chaos would hold together as the universe in which LIFE is possible!?!?!
Oops, have I offended you? Back to your barricade, infidel!
Ok, I'm back... no longer an anonymous coward. Here's a public answer to the private emails I've received so far:
Here's the recipe from NASA:
OpenBSD 2.9
ISC's DHCPD 3.0
Apache/OpenSSL
PHP 4.x
Some network-based authentication (we use RADIUS)
I wrote a note to Boscia (the author of the white paper) and she directed me towards server/mdb.c in the DHCP source code -- whenever the DHCP lease changes state from active to free or abandoned, call the "remove firewall rule" function.
slank's post is a little misleading. We allow ANYONE to grab a lease from DHCP. The trick is, you don't let them route outside the wireless subnet until they've presented login credentials to your HTTPS web script. Then, via DHCP's logs and the web script, you now have: username, MAC address, IP address, computer name. Throw all that with a timestamp into a log and you have accountability.
Best of luck! Jeff underscore Wilson at baylor dot edu
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Your link to Chompsky got me thinking (a dangerous pastime, I know...)
... what? There is no such thing?
Could anarchy work? If I were given free reign to do whatever I wanted with my life, without restraint, could society still function?
The Great American Experiment has failed, as every government is condemned to do. The Constitution is no longer adhered to, instead we have some flimsy "living document" that means whatever the current instantiation of the Supreme Court wants it to mean.
Show me the country where government is minimal, fulfilling the only God-ordained function it has (which is to restrain evil, or one person harming another), and I'll show you
Could there ever be such a place?
REMAINING U.S. CEOs MAKE A BREAK FOR IT
... I ripped it off from a forwarded email
Band of Roving Chief Executives Spotted Miles from Mexican Border
San Antonio, Texas(Reuters) - Unwilling to wait for their eventual indictments, the 10,000 remaining CEOs of public U.S. companies made a break for it yesterday, heading for the Mexican border, plundering towns and villages along the way, and writing the entire rampage off as a marketing expense.
"They came into my home, made me pay for my own TV, then double-booked the revenues," said Rachel Sanchez of Las Cruces, just north of El Paso. "Right in front of my daughters."
Calling themselves the CEOnistas, the chief executives were first spotted last night along the Rio Grande River near Quemado, where they bought each of the town's 320 residents by borrowing against pension fund gains. By late this morning, the CEOnistas had arbitrarily inflated Quemado's population to 960, and declared a 200 percent profit for the fiscal second quarter.
This morning, the outlaws bought the city of Waco, transferred its underperforming areas to a private partnership, and sent a bill to California for $4.5 billion.
Law enforcement officials and disgruntled shareholders riding posse were noticeably frustrated.
"First of all, they're very hard to find because they always stand behind their numbers, and the numbers keep shifting," said posse spokesman Dean Lewitt. "And every time we yell 'Stop in the name of the shareholders!', they refer us to investor relations. I've been on the phone all damn morning."
"YOU'LL NEVER AUDIT ME ALIVE!" they scream. The pursuers said they have had some success, however, by preying on a common executive weakness. "Last night we caught about 24 of them by disguising one of our female officers as a CNBC anchor," said U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Janet Lewis. "It was like moths to a flame."
Also, teams of agents have been using high-powered listening devices to scan the plains for telltale sounds of the CEOnistas. "Most of the time we just hear leaves rustling or cattle flicking their tails," said Lewis, "but occasionally we'll pick up someone saying, 'I was totally out of the loop on that."
Among former and current CEOs apprehended with this method were Computer Associates' Sanjay Kumar, Adelphia's John Rigas, Enron's Ken Lay, Joseph Nacchio of Qwest, Joseph Berardino of Arthur Andersen, and every Global Crossing CEO since 1997. ImClone Systems' Sam Waksal and Dennis Kozlowski of Tyco were not allowed to join the CEOnistas as they have already been indicted.
So far, about 50 chief executives have been captured, including Martha Stewart, who was detained south of El Paso where she had cut through a barbed-wire fence at the Zaragosa border crossing off Highway 375. "She would have gotten away, but she was stopping motorists to ask for marzipan and food coloring so she could make edible snowman place settings, using the cut pieces of wire for the arms," said Border Patrol officer Jenette Cushing. "We put her in cell No. 7, because the morning sun really adds texture to the stucco walls."
While some stragglers are believed to have successfully crossed into Mexico, Cushing said the bulk of the CEOnistas have holed themselves up at the Alamo. "No, not the fort, the car rental place at the airport," she said. "They're rotating all the tires on the minivans and accounting for each change as a sale."
I take no credit for this
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Dr. Doug Schmidt rocks the house, his ADAPTIVE communications environment starts where the design patterns from the Gang of Four left off, and fully explores networking and concurrency. A very fine read for anyone serious about designing and maintaining enterprise networking software.
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I happened to notice that the "Ten Reasons for not accepting a Counteroffer" were posted by a head hunter (jobs@jobsontheweb.com). Hmm ... sounds suspect to me!!
[Maybe you should go for the counteroffer.]
I agree that, in general, government interference in business matters is a bad thing, but Microsoft has so much power over its markets that it might as well be the government. In this case, government intervention preserves the free market rather than disrupting it.
My thoughts exactly. Does that make me schizophrenic? (I think I [we?] prefer denial.)
I've been in the industry long enough to develop a burning hatred of M$FT, right up there with the rest of /.'ers -- but does anyone else have that good ol' free market mentality? The one that says, "If it's crap, eventually 'the market' will reject it" ... OK, I'm smoking crack. But the purist in me still hates gov't intervention!
Now if only my employer would agree to let me fix all the security holes in W2K by UNINSTALLING. I can dream, can't I?
The blessing and the curse of technology ... words on a page in black and white will never "settle the issue". I'd love to sit down with any of you over a cup of your favorite drink.
Frustrating as it is to the modern scientific mind (always demanding evidence), the mystery of the spiritual cannot be captured by mere words on a page. It requires face to face conversation -- RELATIONSHIP.
In my book, it was for RELATIONSHIP that each of us was created. Like Moshe, I'm OK with the ambiguity of "the Hebrew scripture says one thing, modern science says another". (You get that at any trial of law -- since when do any two eyewitness accounts corroborate to the last detail?)
There is a brick wall in the spiritual dimension that keeps each of us from this relationship with God. We justify our separated position with all kinds of intellectual arguments. These arguments are based on logic, we presume. I assert that this logic is fundamentally flawed, because it is developed in a vacuum apart from relationship with the Creator.
So how we bridge this divide? I could tell you, but words on a page will only frustrate you. The best I can say is, Seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened; ask and it will be given to you. Someone, somewhere in your circle of trust can talk to you about this. Or you could always ask the Creator, "Reveal Yourself to me!" He loves a good challenge.
Your free will is more valuable to G-d than the absence of pain. Chew on that a while, then choose to love Him back.
... he says loftily, looking down his nose from his finely crafted barricade. Comfy?
(Must be lonely! I am not impressed by your snobby drivel. You were made to be loved, not holed up in your artificial pseudo-intellectualism.)
Aw shucks, you're all such cowards. If I can't see it, feel it, touch it, taste it, hear it -- then golly, it must not exist! (I get that a lot from my two year old.)
So we all have knee-jerk reactions on the topic of G-d. Seems to me you're missing out if you can't acknowledge the spiritual dimension of life. Anyone read Gerald Schroeder's The Science of God ? He does a great job of pulling the seemingly divergent tracks of the theory of evolution and our concept of G-d into the realm of plausibility. Not a good read for those of you who've already made up your mind! (Who can change it once you've barricaded yourself behind all your wonderful preconceived notions? Good luck being lonely in there, all by yourself!)
For the brave at heart, prepare to have your mind blown by the possibility that maybe, just maybe, G-d exists and G-d loves you like crazy! What proof do I have of this crazy love? Maybe the overwhelming odds against life ever happening in the first place! Not only has life "happened," it has flourished! Check your physics book, biology book, chemistry book -- tell me how likely a product of random chaos would hold together as the universe in which LIFE is possible!?!?!
Oops, have I offended you? Back to your barricade, infidel!
Ok, I'm back ... no longer an anonymous coward. Here's a public answer to the private emails I've received so far:
Here's the recipe from NASA:
OpenBSD 2.9
ISC's DHCPD 3.0
Apache/OpenSSL
PHP 4.x
Some network-based authentication (we use RADIUS)
I wrote a note to Boscia (the author of the white paper) and she directed me towards server/mdb.c in the DHCP source code -- whenever the DHCP lease changes state from active to free or abandoned, call the "remove firewall rule" function.
slank's post is a little misleading. We allow ANYONE to grab a lease from DHCP. The trick is, you don't let them route outside the wireless subnet until they've presented login credentials to your HTTPS web script. Then, via DHCP's logs and the web script, you now have: username, MAC address, IP address, computer name. Throw all that with a timestamp into a log and you have accountability.
Best of luck! Jeff underscore Wilson at baylor dot edu
Regards,
Jeff Wilson
Baylor University
Waco, TX