I've been thinking the same thing. The Senators probably get a discount on some Microsoft server software, or else they're all tied in to the.senate.gov server, and it's the main server, rather than the individual Senators setting the cookies. It is probably no more than a matter of counting heads.
What bothers me more is a site that checks to see that I have the right plugin to view their site, then refuses me entry because they don't know where to look for plugins on a Linux machine. IMHO, they have no business looking in the first place.
Of course, the FBI's website was defaced about a year ago, so I suppose they might at least want a clue, but still, almost anything they need to know will be in the server's logs, and a cookie would be pretty useless, since they wouldn't know where to look unless a perpetrator checked back in.
Cookies are nothing but text files. If you don't like them, then you can write a batch file to delete them all when you log off each day. In winnt and win2k these are located in c:\documents and settings\$USER\Cookies. I suppose it is simlar in winxp.
In Linux they are in the user's home directory somewhere below.mozilla/default. You can delete these from your browser.
Delete them, ignore them, but whatever you do, don't be afraid of them!
I began having a problem with the Koreans about a year ago, and in fact, it finally got so bad that I had to give up my bigfoot account, since Earthlink started blocking their servers in Korea (but not in the Philippines, where they are headquartered).
Checking my syslog, I noticed that a great number of the hack attempts were coming from the University at Seoul and other places of higher learning, so maybe it's all part of the way computer science is taught in the far east.
None of them got in, since I am security conscious, but I suppose the ordinary user might have a little to worry about. However, I'm pretty sure that even if the government is still using XT's, that any high-dollar corporation worth existing will have the best security that money can buy in place.
Any real threat would have to be an inside job, rather than an external attack (imho).
It has been known for a long time that beer is beneficial, and that it helps to prevent cancer, or to endure it better. This is most especially true concerning the colon, and the organs.
Of course there will be the usual comments about drunkeness, but only very low IQ people connect the two.
"Oh wait, it's only "right-wing" views that have to be balanced."
If that's true, it's because only "right-wing" views exist. The old rule was that all polictical and controversial opinions had to be balanced. Now that the rule is gone, there only seems to be one view.
24 hour a day political harrangues do not constitute the presentation of political views anyway, it is propaganda, pure and simple. In other words, opposing views are censored.
One must wonder exactly who employs and scripts these carbon copy talk shows and their respective hosts.
"I do wonder if there's a good interface for "moderating" blogs, so that, for example, if one is sponsored by Candidate X in a sneaky way, and someone finds out, it can appear beside the name of the blog."
Actually, what you are suggesting was formerly an FCC rule.
This rule required that every political or controversial opinion aired on radio or television, had to be fairly balanced with opposing views. But now that rule is gone, and one-sided political campaigns are now the norm.
That is why we hear many dozens of anti-drug ads daily, for example, with no rebuttal allowed. It's also why we hear one right-wing talk show after another, 24 hours a day, with no opposition; one party, one opinion, marching in lockstep.
Now if we could just get them to run the trains on time, we could forget about the hassle with airport security.
If the government wants to spy on college students so badly, then let them pay for the equipment and the upgrades. If the universities are required to foot the bill, then it will probably be reflected as tuition increases against the students.
They have been doing this one tiny piece at a time, since 1981.
You can get a copy of the Constitution for $2 from the Rutherford Institute, and when you read it you will realize just what we have given up in the name of "Public Safety".
You know, the police don't really protect us, they just show up after the fact, and take a report. That really doesn't help much after you've been raped or maimed.
I would prefer to be armed, and protect myself, than be a statistic in this newest version of political correction. We are being used for social experimentation you know.
I don't need to be monitored at all, and I will tell them so, probably just before I am executed. No matter, I still won't be afraid of them.
We do know that it was easier to get through to India, than it was to the local 911, through both of the recent hurricanes.
Outsourcing. Is that a new English word? When the Levi's plant was moved from here in Amarillo, TX to Mexico 3 years ago, not only did the price of jeans increase, but they became harder to get.
What happened to the days when the United States was self-sufficient, and what would happen today, if we were required to care for ourselves once again?
After putting our working class into the street, and labelling them as "Mentally Ill, Substance Abusers", I doubt that they would readily come back into service.
Why all this concern about money, when it has been counterfeit here since 1971? I suppose these aren't the sorts of things that are taught in elementary schools these days.
You will notice that there are more than a few natural remedies, which are forbidden by the FDA because of finacial conflicts with the current drug and chemical lords.
One notable instance is Stevia Leaf, a natural sweetener which has apparently been banned in the United States, because it's use interferes with Monsanto's market share of nutra-sweet(r).
Personally, I would prefer to replace as many chemical drugs with natural ones as possible. I am speaking as someone who spent 76 weeks on interferon, and would prefer to drink tea now.
This isn't new. But for them to have dug up bodies from the 1918 outbreak is unprecedented. I think that it might be a bad idea to resurrect these old vermin.
That is, publishing the genomic structures of these extinct creatures may provide a blueprint for murder.
As we all know, a brain cell is a type of nerve cell. The reason that persons with spinal cord injuries remain paralized, is that nerve cells do not regenerate. The fact that THC has been shown to regenerate brain cells in rats is indeed big news.
The response? Typical drug war stupidity. As Americans, we must all realize by now, that we are being ruled by neo-puritans who believe that hooved and horned demons reside in the bushes in front of their houses. And if you don't believe it too, then you will be dealt with, accordingly.
Never mind that they have defecated on our Constitution, they have also outlawed all research concerning Marijuana, and they intend to keep it that way. They seem to have some idealistic view that the country should be taken "back" to some unknown period of nirvana, in which we are all happy servants of God, and that we shouldn't generally "think".
It always amazes me, that a drunk will portray a pot smoker as an out of control, retarded person. I've never heard of a pot smoker who smoked a joint and crashed his car into a tree. The people behind the drug war are criminals, and should themselve be arrested, and made to answer for their crimes, especially since 1981.
May we please have a little research here, please, and a little less drug war bull piss? The Attorney General has no business dealing with it in the first place. All control of drugs and the direction of drug laws should have been placed in the hands of the Surgeon General long ago.
For God's sake, get this country out of the hands of the ignorant neo-puritans, who don't even believe in germs! Have you noticed, that you are told to proclaim that you are free, or else? I think that a majority of Americans are sick and tired of the "Freedom" that we have been "Enjoying" since 1981.
Register and vote. How many other natural drugs are being kept from us? I will quit here because I am too (*) to continue in a qualified manner. Every other post had some reference to drug war propaganda, and I had to interject. Are any of you capable of independent thought???
I think that like other licenses, such as radio, driver, marriage, etc. that it would depend on whether the US and UK (or any other country involved) have made reciprocal agreements to respect one anothers licenses.
I'm not sure, because I've been a subscriber for a long time, and I can't test it.
I think a lot of sites have become subscriber sites not for advertising purposes, but to protect their pages from defacement, to keep out trolls, and to prevent DoS attacks.
Anyhow, except for the banner at the top of the page, I have only noticed content-related advertising, which is actually useful. When they start running p*nis enlargement ads, then I'll have something to complain about.
You can open and edit any MS Office document with OpenOffice, which comes with the distribution. You can also save any OpenOffice document as a MS Office document - we've been doing this for years, I surprised that so few Windows users were aware of it.
We can also listen to Windows media with MPlayer or Kaffiene and create.pdf files without Acrobat. This isn't new.
Adobe, Real, and Macromedia all produce plugins for Mozilla, Firefox and Konqueror.
Basically, the only thing that Windows can do that Linux can't is get viruses and crash.
In a way, I suppose it is. The Mozilla suite was an all in one browser, mail program/news reader, html editor and had an IRC chat program (I don't know anyone who used the IRC component).
Firefox is a stripped-down version of the Mozilla browser; without all the options, it's supposed to be faster. What they've done is divide the Mozilla suite into the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail/newsreader.
This is good if you want to choose a different mail program, but you could always justs ignore Mozilla's mail component and use something else.
Mozilla development stopped (last april?) with version 1.78. We were waiting for 1.8, but didn't quite get there. I think all the Linux distros have already switched to Firefox/Thunderbird.
That's ok, if each user has their own desktop. They can trash out their own area, without trashing their neighbor's home directory or crashing the machine.
If you have a good amount of memory, you can have 4 or 5 users logged in at once, using remote terminals (like the computer in the bedroom, for example).
One of the best uses that I've found for Linux, is that when a Linux machine is used as the firewall and access point, very few bugs get through to the Windows machines.
Of course, you still need the anti-virus and spyware programs running, but there are far fewer break-ins because the Windows machines have become invisible to the Internet, and tougher to scan.
In addition, I also run WinPatrol on the Windows machines http://www.winpatrol.com/ which lets you know when anything at all is attempting an install, so you can say goodbye to those nasty little bugs that come from IM or the porn sites.
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Because the article was about the Linux networking stack, and NetBIOS doesn't exist there. That is handled by SMB/NMB.
I've been thinking the same thing. The Senators probably get a discount on some Microsoft server software, or else they're all tied in to the .senate.gov server, and it's the main server, rather than the individual Senators setting the cookies. It is probably no more than a matter of counting heads.
.mozilla/default. You can delete these from your browser.
What bothers me more is a site that checks to see that I have the right plugin to view their site, then refuses me entry because they don't know where to look for plugins on a Linux machine. IMHO, they have no business looking in the first place.
Of course, the FBI's website was defaced about a year ago, so I suppose they might at least want a clue, but still, almost anything they need to know will be in the server's logs, and a cookie would be pretty useless, since they wouldn't know where to look unless a perpetrator checked back in.
Cookies are nothing but text files. If you don't like them, then you can write a batch file to delete them all when you log off each day. In winnt and win2k these are located in c:\documents and settings\$USER\Cookies. I suppose it is simlar in winxp.
In Linux they are in the user's home directory somewhere below
Delete them, ignore them, but whatever you do, don't be afraid of them!
Michael
The site's offline now, although the Schools main page is still up. I'll bet a shiny new dime this site gets passworded over the weekend.
Hard to beleive how far zero tolerance has gone. I wonder if they expell the girls for having midol in their purses as well?
It may have been a poorly thought out prank, but surely not a felony!
Michael
After checking my url yesterday, I realized that I had an old version of PSPad. After upgrading, I noticed that wordwrap did not work anymore.
From the author, Jan Fiala:
"Wordwrap is problematic in the 4.3.3 version.
How to enable WordWrap you can read in the thread:
http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?f=2&i=8034&t=8034
You can download the PSPad 4.5.0 beta version
from the PSPad beta forum
http://forum.pspad.com/list.php?f=6
if you want to have functional WordWrap"
After installing version 4.5.0, all is well.
Michael
My favorite drop-in replacement for notepad is pspad http://www.pspad.com/en/.
It does highlighting and indents for about a dozen computer languages, and has spell-check plugins for as many different spoken languages.
I've been using it for at least 5 years.
Michael
I began having a problem with the Koreans about a year ago, and in fact, it finally got so bad that I had to give up my bigfoot account, since Earthlink started blocking their servers in Korea (but not in the Philippines, where they are headquartered).
Checking my syslog, I noticed that a great number of the hack attempts were coming from the University at Seoul and other places of higher learning, so maybe it's all part of the way computer science is taught in the far east.
None of them got in, since I am security conscious, but I suppose the ordinary user might have a little to worry about. However, I'm pretty sure that even if the government is still using XT's, that any high-dollar corporation worth existing will have the best security that money can buy in place.
Any real threat would have to be an inside job, rather than an external attack (imho).
Michael
It has been known for a long time that beer is beneficial, and that it helps to prevent cancer, or to endure it better. This is most especially true concerning the colon, and the organs.
Of course there will be the usual comments about drunkeness, but only very low IQ people connect the two.
I'm glad to see it finally published.
Michael
"Oh wait, it's only "right-wing" views that have to be balanced."
If that's true, it's because only "right-wing" views exist. The old rule was that all polictical and controversial opinions had to be balanced. Now that the rule is gone, there only seems to be one view.
24 hour a day political harrangues do not constitute the presentation of political views anyway, it is propaganda, pure and simple. In other words, opposing views are censored.
One must wonder exactly who employs and scripts these carbon copy talk shows and their respective hosts.
Please see: http://www.serendipity.li/cda.html for some references to historical censorship in the United States.
Michael
"I do wonder if there's a good interface for "moderating" blogs, so that, for example, if one is sponsored by Candidate X in a sneaky way, and someone finds out, it can appear beside the name of the blog."
Actually, what you are suggesting was formerly an FCC rule.
What I am referring to was a rule known as the "Fairness Doctrine" which was repealed in 1987 http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0212-03.htm
This rule required that every political or controversial opinion aired on radio or television, had to be fairly balanced with opposing views. But now that rule is gone, and one-sided political campaigns are now the norm.
That is why we hear many dozens of anti-drug ads daily, for example, with no rebuttal allowed. It's also why we hear one right-wing talk show after another, 24 hours a day, with no opposition; one party, one opinion, marching in lockstep.
Now if we could just get them to run the trains on time, we could forget about the hassle with airport security.
Michael
If the government wants to spy on college students so badly, then let them pay for the equipment and the upgrades. If the universities are required to foot the bill, then it will probably be reflected as tuition increases against the students.
How was this rated 5 points 'funny'? There is nothing funny about drug-war scumbags, or their success in preventing scientific research.
Michael
They have been doing this one tiny piece at a time, since 1981.
You can get a copy of the Constitution for $2 from the Rutherford Institute, and when you read it you will realize just what we have given up in the name of "Public Safety".
You know, the police don't really protect us, they just show up after the fact, and take a report. That really doesn't help much after you've been raped or maimed.
I would prefer to be armed, and protect myself, than be a statistic in this newest version of political correction. We are being used for social experimentation you know.
I don't need to be monitored at all, and I will tell them so, probably just before I am executed. No matter, I still won't be afraid of them.
Michael
We do know that it was easier to get through to India, than it was to the local 911, through both of the recent hurricanes.
Outsourcing. Is that a new English word? When the Levi's plant was moved from here in Amarillo, TX to Mexico 3 years ago, not only did the price of jeans increase, but they became harder to get.
What happened to the days when the United States was self-sufficient, and what would happen today, if we were required to care for ourselves once again?
After putting our working class into the street, and labelling them as "Mentally Ill, Substance Abusers", I doubt that they would readily come back into service.
Why all this concern about money, when it has been counterfeit here since 1971? I suppose these aren't the sorts of things that are taught in elementary schools these days.
Michael
Well, since you mentioned him, here's a page with a fairly complete listing of his works.
. pperl?authorid=718
http://www.randomhouse.com/delrey/authors/results
His real name is not Piers Anthony, and as a matter of fact, I dated his daughter in the late '60's.
This has nothing to do with the question of the day however. If you will take a look at Henriette's site:
http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/
You will notice that there are more than a few natural remedies, which are forbidden by the FDA because of finacial conflicts with the current drug and chemical lords.
One notable instance is Stevia Leaf, a natural sweetener which has apparently been banned in the United States, because it's use interferes with Monsanto's market share of nutra-sweet(r).
Personally, I would prefer to replace as many chemical drugs with natural ones as possible. I am speaking as someone who spent 76 weeks on interferon, and would prefer to drink tea now.
Michael
The first outbreak was around New Year of this year. Please see:
d /29315/newsDate/2-Feb-2005/story.htm
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsi
This isn't new. But for them to have dug up bodies from the 1918 outbreak is unprecedented. I think that it might be a bad idea to resurrect these old vermin.
That is, publishing the genomic structures of these extinct creatures may provide a blueprint for murder.
Michael
As we all know, a brain cell is a type of nerve cell. The reason that persons with spinal cord injuries remain paralized, is that nerve cells do not regenerate. The fact that THC has been shown to regenerate brain cells in rats is indeed big news.
The response? Typical drug war stupidity. As Americans, we must all realize by now, that we are being ruled by neo-puritans who believe that hooved and horned demons reside in the bushes in front of their houses. And if you don't believe it too, then you will be dealt with, accordingly.
Never mind that they have defecated on our Constitution, they have also outlawed all research concerning Marijuana, and they intend to keep it that way. They seem to have some idealistic view that the country should be taken "back" to some unknown period of nirvana, in which we are all happy servants of God, and that we shouldn't generally "think".
It always amazes me, that a drunk will portray a pot smoker as an out of control, retarded person. I've never heard of a pot smoker who smoked a joint and crashed his car into a tree. The people behind the drug war are criminals, and should themselve be arrested, and made to answer for their crimes, especially since 1981.
May we please have a little research here, please, and a little less drug war bull piss? The Attorney General has no business dealing with it in the first place. All control of drugs and the direction of drug laws should have been placed in the hands of the Surgeon General long ago.
For God's sake, get this country out of the hands of the ignorant neo-puritans, who don't even believe in germs! Have you noticed, that you are told to proclaim that you are free, or else? I think that a majority of Americans are sick and tired of the "Freedom" that we have been "Enjoying" since 1981.
Register and vote. How many other natural drugs are being kept from us? I will quit here because I am too (*) to continue in a qualified manner. Every other post had some reference to drug war propaganda, and I had to interject. Are any of you capable of independent thought???
Michael
Do you doubt that? Alcohol should not even be in this picture. This isn't about getting high.
All the comments that I have seen posted so far have some connection with some sort of drug-war propaganda or some other typical shit.
I'm going to compose a top level comment that has nothing to do with getting high or drug war filth.
Michael
I think that like other licenses, such as radio, driver, marriage, etc. that it would depend on whether the US and UK (or any other country involved) have made reciprocal agreements to respect one anothers licenses.
Michael
OK, I just copied ftp.exe from a win2k machine to my Linux machine, ran "strings ftp.exe", and the last line reads:
n guage
Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
All rights reserved.
Didn't Mr. Gates also "borrow" BASIC from Dartmouth College?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_programming_la
Michael
I'm not sure, because I've been a subscriber for a long time, and I can't test it.
I think a lot of sites have become subscriber sites not for advertising purposes, but to protect their pages from defacement, to keep out trolls, and to prevent DoS attacks.
Anyhow, except for the banner at the top of the page, I have only noticed content-related advertising, which is actually useful. When they start running p*nis enlargement ads, then I'll have something to complain about.
Michael
You can open and edit any MS Office document with OpenOffice, which comes with the distribution. You can also save any OpenOffice document as a MS Office document - we've been doing this for years, I surprised that so few Windows users were aware of it.
.pdf files without Acrobat. This isn't new.
We can also listen to Windows media with MPlayer or Kaffiene and create
Adobe, Real, and Macromedia all produce plugins for Mozilla, Firefox and Konqueror.
Basically, the only thing that Windows can do that Linux can't is get viruses and crash.
Michael
Yes, before you know it, there will be all sorts of orphan planets and dark stars hanging around, doing absolutely nothing useful.
Believe it or not, Jay Leno just mentioned this story on his late night show (9/16). Astronomy is not his usual subject matter, to say the least.
Michael
In a way, I suppose it is. The Mozilla suite was an all in one browser, mail program/news reader, html editor and had an IRC chat program (I don't know anyone who used the IRC component).
Firefox is a stripped-down version of the Mozilla browser; without all the options, it's supposed to be faster. What they've done is divide the Mozilla suite into the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail/newsreader.
This is good if you want to choose a different mail program, but you could always justs ignore Mozilla's mail component and use something else.
Mozilla development stopped (last april?) with version 1.78. We were waiting for 1.8, but didn't quite get there. I think all the Linux distros have already switched to Firefox/Thunderbird.
Michael
That's ok, if each user has their own desktop. They can trash out their own area, without trashing their neighbor's home directory or crashing the machine.
If you have a good amount of memory, you can have 4 or 5 users logged in at once, using remote terminals (like the computer in the bedroom, for example).
One of the best uses that I've found for Linux, is that when a Linux machine is used as the firewall and access point, very few bugs get through to the Windows machines.
Of course, you still need the anti-virus and spyware programs running, but there are far fewer break-ins because the Windows machines have become invisible to the Internet, and tougher to scan.
In addition, I also run WinPatrol on the Windows machines http://www.winpatrol.com/ which lets you know when anything at all is attempting an install, so you can say goodbye to those nasty little bugs that come from IM or the porn sites.
Michael
So you think we are an experiment?
Maybe that's why the space program keeps failing, they really don't want us to leave. Or figure it out.
I suppose that as long as enough folks actually believe that there are hooved and horned demons running around, that science will remain a myth.
Michael