If Redhat retains their copyright on code snippets provided to Linux developers for inclusion in the Linux kernel, then they are likely in breach of the GNU License;-).
The problem wasn't that it was "dangerous" instead that if the corn was used for seed by the illiterate farmers there, they'd would find themselves obligated to pay royalties for to American multinationals for their own food crops.
Just a conspiracy theory? The donors refused to supply the corn milled or treated so it was unplantable.
The original Star Trek put a black woman in a senior leadership position (Lieuntenant Uhura, communications officer, okay, it isn't a huge department, but it's important, and it's on the bridge).
Space Receptionist isn't really much of a senior leadership position.
1984 is about a totalitarian state, and there are still a few of those on earth.
Yep. One of the most evocative images used in Orwell's 1984 is where O'Brien tells Winston Smith that he sees the future as being: a boot stomping on a human face, forever. 1984 was written in 1948.
The first time Orwell used a variation of that phrase was in a short article called England, Your England in 1941, talking about the goose-step march of the Nazi army and what it symbolised. Orwell was an opponent of all totalitarianism, whether it be Soviet, Nazi or anyone else.
He compares the threat of global warming with the threat of the Nazis in 1938, and says that in both cases, the Left was not able to grasp the urgency of the situation and see the necessary solution.
Pretty irrelevant considering The Left isn't represented in the major parties of the western world.
Democrat or Republican (US), Coalition or ALP (Australia), Labor or Conservatives (UK); each of these parties is completely committed to laissez faire free market economic rationalism with little concern for society or the longer term.
The only policy differences (where there are any) are whether or
not there will be cushioning programmes to soften the change and whether these pork barrels will be fed more to citizens or to big business.
You lost me.
What does Windows have to do with the string my OSS email server uses for HELO? Is MS watching the network packets and changing it?
You've misunderstood. Enforce strict HELO/EHLO checks on your mail server and you lose incoming email from all those misconfigured NT/2000 mail servers which identify themselves as "exchange.local" or "ntbox.company" etc instead of something like "mail.companyname.com" which exists in DNS.
I can see complaining about the DNS problems though. You are right in that MS should be running the entire DNS system to make sure that forward and reverse lookups work. That is what you want right?
Ah, you're being intentionally bratty. Nope, I'd settle for Microsoft providing a readily accessible documented method for NT administrators to fix their servers so they identify themselves correctly at the HELO/EHLO portion of SMTP exchanges.
When the real mail servers identify themselves properly, we can more easily nobble the spam from unsecured desktop systems which aren't so likely to have properly installed mail servers which readily identify themselves by simply rejecting invalid HELO/EHLO or those containing strings identifying the IP as dynamic space.
Yet life would be so much simpler if all those Microsoft Winders boxes were identifying themselves properly in SMTP connections by using HELO/EHLO with fully-qualified domain names with working forward and reverse-lookups.
Seems to be the Microsoft way though. Fuck up the implimentation of a simple protocol and introduce an absurd and obtuse replacement.
Because of the more relaxed atmosphere they tend to forget they're live to air.
James Brayshaw and Jeff Thompson commentating the Ashes Test series (Australia vs England, cricket) for Channel 10. Rain caused a match delay. Just before the ad break, the camera's on the field where it's coming in buckets. Suddenly there's the sound of an exclamation from Jeff Thompson: "Fuck! It's pissing down!":-)
Unlike in America, nobody really cares here.
Australians can only shake their heads in wonder at the fuss caused in America over the occasional boob or swear word while your well-attended and popular action movies show non-stop violence. American culture is very strange that way.
The USA is moving from a democratic republic to a oligarchy where all the power rests in the hands of the rich and well connected.
Ah, it always comes back to those Monty Python lads...
WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?
ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing]...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up, will you. Shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
Seriously though, Machiavelli had this to say about terrorism in 'The Prince':
"[The Prince] can adequately guard against this if he avoids being hated or scorned and keeps the people satisfied: this, as I have said above at length is crucial. One of the most powerful safeguards a prince can have against conspiracies is to avoid being hated by the populace. This is because the conspirator alwasy thinks that by killing the prince he will satisfy the people; but if he thinks he will outrage the people, he will never have the courage to go ahead with his enterprise, because there are countless obstacles in the path of a conspirator."
Machiavelli goes on to essentially state that with huge rewards for informers and all of the power of the state to use against conspirators and terrorists, the prince (read as the head of government) has to be pretty widely and actively disliked before these people can feel free enough to put their plans into action, what with the risks of being caught and punished.
Just goes to show that no problems are new and George W Bush could learn from the clear heads of those from six centuries back now;-).
Relevance, erm... Well...:-) If the US government stopped trampling on the rights and freedoms of its own citizens and the citizens of other nations, maybe they wouldn't be scorned, hated and attacked by terrorists so much;-).
More interesting than 'Donkey Voting' is the sadly recently outlawed Langer Voting Method.
Australia uses a preferential voting method. So voters must number the candidates from 1 to N in order of preference. As the votes are counted, the candidate with the least number of votes has their preferences distributed until someone has a vote of over 50%.
What Albert Langer noticed was that there wasn't anything in the wording of laws at the time to actually require you to fill in every box correctly. You could cast a vote of 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 (where preferences 1, 2 and 3 were valid and every preference marked 4 was invalid.
It was a watershed. Finally, people could vote for minor parties without their preferences assisting the major parties. The courts ended up ruling
that the voting method was legal but publicising it wasn't.
(Then, of course, they changed the wording to patch things up so the Langer Method no longer worked.)
How can a society be called free when you are forced to vote? What if you only vote for someone because it was the law and not because you agree with his or her political stance?
In Australia, you're not forced to vote, merely to accept the form and have your name crossed off.
There's nothing stopping you from:
Taking the form home with you and using it for toilet paper.
Submitting it blank or with rude words scribbled all over it so it doesn't count.
Taking the form and voting.
Most people end up voting because otherwise it's a wasted trip to the local school hall. But they're not forced to.
The biggest benefits of so-called 'compulsory voting' are:
Nobody can complain they didn't have any input choose the crappy government of the day.
Political parties can't pander entirely to the whims of the rich and powerful when the poor can be expected to register their disgust.
Less time spent by politicians whingeing about people not voting and more time spent on the actual issues of the election.
The system is less prone to being hijacked by small vocal interest groups. 5000 nutjobs don't cause outright panic if they threaten to organise a voting block.
Frankly, I can't imagine a viable working democracy without ensuring that everyone's voice is heard. Anything less would be decidedly secondrate and liable to disenfranchise people who have lost faith in government: the very people who need to be empowered the most!
Get a couple of friends together.
Each person throws in a buck.
Each person guesses when the next security patch will be released by Microsoft.
Wait for next patch (This will not take long).
Winner takes all the money.
Start over.
Too late! That concept has already patented by the US Ministry of Defence.
Auto-tuners are ancient tech. The UK music industry (particularly Stock, Aitken & Waterman) have been using this technology since the mid 1980s to sex up all manner of talent-deprived ex-'Neighbours' soapie stars for their short-lived singing careers.
Does anyone actually read these stories before they're approved for the front page?
Hmmm... energy can't be created. What did the Big Bang do, then?
In the Einsteinian physics world, energy can only be created by the destruction of matter. Which certainly was going on at the Big Bang.
However, I believe there also suggestions from string theory that the events leading up to the Big Bang event may have also transferred mass/energy to the dimensions we're capable of sensing from those we normally can't.
"What if you could securely subscribe to a trusted P2P file broadcaster? Check out konspire! An interesting concept; implemented in C++ and controllable via a cool Web interface ala Mutella."
Trans: What if we tried to resurrect one of the nuttier ideas from the dot-com bubble and try to flood people with files we want to distribute but they most likely don't want?
A lot of the people commenting here seem to be assuming that this CTO will be likely to take the "secrets" of the current system and use them in the next. But, even if their new company was starting from scratch and had no pre-existing legacy software, who's to say that in between the finish of initial development and bedding it down into a stable state he hasn't figured out much better ways of doing things.
That in itself may be one of the reasons for his move. Some people simply prefer active new development, with a free reign, to supporting and hardening existing apps and existing interfaces, with clients and managers who scream loudly if tweaks and new features break things in minor ways.
The start and end of the software development cycle naturally appeal to very different types of software developers.
In the end, your developer should have been expected to document his procedures and the software along the way. At the least, his code needs to be commented and located such that it can be found and used by the next guy whose job is to keep the monster in check.
There is no way you can know which ports that (for some obscure reason, valid for Microsoft of course) are listening represents a threat to the security of the system.
Any ports which aren't needed to be open to provide known services
should be closed or filtered. Nuff said.
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Redhat owns no Linux. Linux is the kernel. It is provided by GNU license by Linus Torvalds.
Most of the rest of the Redhat distribution are applications provided by GNU license by various authors who are also not Redhat.
Redhat owns the code for some user applications and various utilities of their own design. That's really about it.
Just a conspiracy theory? The donors refused to supply the corn milled or treated so it was unplantable.
The term "leftist" is what the American Right uses when they want to define their opposition as some lunar group of wannabe terrorist guerillas.
Space Receptionist isn't really much of a senior leadership position.
The first time Orwell used a variation of that phrase was in a short article called England, Your England in 1941, talking about the goose-step march of the Nazi army and what it symbolised. Orwell was an opponent of all totalitarianism, whether it be Soviet, Nazi or anyone else.
I for one... think that gag stopped being funny sometime last year.
Pretty irrelevant considering The Left isn't represented in the major parties of the western world. Democrat or Republican (US), Coalition or ALP (Australia), Labor or Conservatives (UK); each of these parties is completely committed to laissez faire free market economic rationalism with little concern for society or the longer term.
The only policy differences (where there are any) are whether or not there will be cushioning programmes to soften the change and whether these pork barrels will be fed more to citizens or to big business.
What does Windows have to do with the string my OSS email server uses for HELO? Is MS watching the network packets and changing it?
You've misunderstood. Enforce strict HELO/EHLO checks on your mail server and you lose incoming email from all those misconfigured NT/2000 mail servers which identify themselves as "exchange.local" or "ntbox.company" etc instead of something like "mail.companyname.com" which exists in DNS.
I can see complaining about the DNS problems though. You are right in that MS should be running the entire DNS system to make sure that forward and reverse lookups work. That is what you want right?
Ah, you're being intentionally bratty. Nope, I'd settle for Microsoft providing a readily accessible documented method for NT administrators to fix their servers so they identify themselves correctly at the HELO/EHLO portion of SMTP exchanges.
When the real mail servers identify themselves properly, we can more easily nobble the spam from unsecured desktop systems which aren't so likely to have properly installed mail servers which readily identify themselves by simply rejecting invalid HELO/EHLO or those containing strings identifying the IP as dynamic space.
Seems to be the Microsoft way though. Fuck up the implimentation of a simple protocol and introduce an absurd and obtuse replacement.
James Brayshaw and Jeff Thompson commentating the Ashes Test series (Australia vs England, cricket) for Channel 10. Rain caused a match delay. Just before the ad break, the camera's on the field where it's coming in buckets. Suddenly there's the sound of an exclamation from Jeff Thompson: "Fuck! It's pissing down!" :-)
Unlike in America, nobody really cares here.
Australians can only shake their heads in wonder at the fuss caused in America over the occasional boob or swear word while your well-attended and popular action movies show non-stop violence. American culture is very strange that way.
The USA is moving from a democratic republic to a oligarchy where all the power rests in the hands of the rich and well connected.
Ah, it always comes back to those Monty Python lads...
WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then? ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!
Seriously though, Machiavelli had this to say about terrorism in 'The Prince':ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing]
DENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
ARTHUR: Be quiet!
DENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
ARTHUR: Shut up, will you. Shut up!
DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.
ARTHUR: Shut up!
DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!
ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!
DENNIS: Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
"[The Prince] can adequately guard against this if he avoids being hated or scorned and keeps the people satisfied: this, as I have said above at length is crucial. One of the most powerful safeguards a prince can have against conspiracies is to avoid being hated by the populace. This is because the conspirator alwasy thinks that by killing the prince he will satisfy the people; but if he thinks he will outrage the people, he will never have the courage to go ahead with his enterprise, because there are countless obstacles in the path of a conspirator."
Machiavelli goes on to essentially state that with huge rewards for informers and all of the power of the state to use against conspirators and terrorists, the prince (read as the head of government) has to be pretty widely and actively disliked before these people can feel free enough to put their plans into action, what with the risks of being caught and punished.
Just goes to show that no problems are new and George W Bush could learn from the clear heads of those from six centuries back now ;-).
Relevance, erm... Well... :-) If the US government stopped trampling on the rights and freedoms of its own citizens and the citizens of other nations, maybe they wouldn't be scorned, hated and attacked by terrorists so much ;-).
More interesting than 'Donkey Voting' is the sadly recently outlawed Langer Voting Method.
Australia uses a preferential voting method. So voters must number the candidates from 1 to N in order of preference. As the votes are counted, the candidate with the least number of votes has their preferences distributed until someone has a vote of over 50%.
What Albert Langer noticed was that there wasn't anything in the wording of laws at the time to actually require you to fill in every box correctly. You could cast a vote of 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 (where preferences 1, 2 and 3 were valid and every preference marked 4 was invalid.
It was a watershed. Finally, people could vote for minor parties without their preferences assisting the major parties. The courts ended up ruling that the voting method was legal but publicising it wasn't. (Then, of course, they changed the wording to patch things up so the Langer Method no longer worked.)
How can a society be called free when you are forced to vote? What if you only vote for someone because it was the law and not because you agree with his or her political stance?
In Australia, you're not forced to vote, merely to accept the form and have your name crossed off.
There's nothing stopping you from:
Most people end up voting because otherwise it's a wasted trip to the local school hall. But they're not forced to.
The biggest benefits of so-called 'compulsory voting' are:
Frankly, I can't imagine a viable working democracy without ensuring that everyone's voice is heard. Anything less would be decidedly secondrate and liable to disenfranchise people who have lost faith in government: the very people who need to be empowered the most!
Does anyone actually read these stories before they're approved for the front page?
If you're using the Leafnode news server, for example, try this amazing two-step programme:
- Edit your
/etc/news/leafnode/filters file and add:
- Enjoy amazing signal-to-noise ratio on your favorite newsgroups
Yes, you filter on any header you like. I already use this feature to remove a whole heap of spammy ISPs from my news spool and it works a treat^X-Newsreader:.*Microsoft.*
In the Einsteinian physics world, energy can only be created by the destruction of matter. Which certainly was going on at the Big Bang.
However, I believe there also suggestions from string theory that the events leading up to the Big Bang event may have also transferred mass/energy to the dimensions we're capable of sensing from those we normally can't.
See this page for some well presented info.
Trans: What if we tried to resurrect one of the nuttier ideas from the dot-com bubble and try to flood people with files we want to distribute but they most likely don't want?
That in itself may be one of the reasons for his move. Some people simply prefer active new development, with a free reign, to supporting and hardening existing apps and existing interfaces, with clients and managers who scream loudly if tweaks and new features break things in minor ways. The start and end of the software development cycle naturally appeal to very different types of software developers.
In the end, your developer should have been expected to document his procedures and the software along the way. At the least, his code needs to be commented and located such that it can be found and used by the next guy whose job is to keep the monster in check.
Any ports which aren't needed to be open to provide known services should be closed or filtered. Nuff said.
Lets just hope the building wasn't the student union's food court. The idea of going to the Shatner Building for food is just a little bit gruesome.