I have no biases on this other than self-preservation. I say we put the kooks on both sides away for now and come up with a way for the human race to survive EITHER way.
RTFA- there's a mountain chain under that ice running from the north coast of Greenland all the way to Siberia- and a few of those mountain tops are indeed islands.
Sure would be nice if we still had capitalism, wouldn't it? I might not even have "Marxist" in my name if the corporations hadn't have evolved into imitation people that make even the Grinch look like a kind and generous soul.
All the more reason to have excess land & resources already available, when in the case of the Danish, all of those refugees from Italy and Spain and Greece suddenly show up because their countries are now uninhabitable.
Thus the rule of each user primarily working on their own machine, and a minimum of data flowing across the network with firewalls protecting ANYTHING that is even slightly vital. NEVER trust a luser to do anything but break hardware.
I have heard several 'experts' argue about whether it's nature or man causing the global warming. Doesn't anyone have a real answer yet?
It doesn't matter- either way it looks like it's here to stay, at least until the natural end of the potential warming cycle a century from now.
For all we know, the warming trend might drastically end within a few years.
So shouldn't we get busy and have a few plans in either direction? Like large ammounts of commonly owned land in Northern Russia and Northern Canada and Antarctica by the UN in case of global warming, and similar reservations in the tropics in case of global cooling? This ain't rocket science people. The key here is to plan for ALL possibilities- and then make sure you have disaster plans for the worst. It matters none at all whether it is man or nature caused- time to move past the blame game and into the action phase.
And if someone exploits a remote *application* (PHP, Apache, FTPd, Sendmail, Bind, etc.) causing it to give you a shell or pass commands to the underlying system, what then?
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
Your "local" exploit just became a "remote" exploit. What about ISPs who give shell (SSH) access to certain accounts?
SSH accounts should ALWAYS be on a different box than a major server- NEVER on the same box. And preferably, not at all.
A "one user to one machine" rule is so stupid it boggles the mind. How exactly do you expect to run a server with that rule?
By taking telnet and SSH off of it and requiring passwords on FTP, of course. For everything else, require an administrator with LOCAL (as in hardware keyboard) access. It's called being paranoid- and it's the FIRST rule anybody trying to run a secure system should know.
Local and remote, like root, are only states of mind.
Only if you allow them to be- same problem Microsoft has with security.
I personally enforce JUST such a rule in my own house- NOBODY is alowed to touch my main machine, NO telnet or SSH accounts allowed on the main server, and anybody attaching to my network NEEDS to bring a machine with them. Hardware is so cheap these days, it's not asking very much to enforce exactly this rule.
Should have been posted in Politics anyway. It might be international politics, but it's certainly politics when Denmark sends a oceangoing geographic team north from Greenland in the dead of winter to plant flags on every little rock they find sticking up from the ice.
A question though- why the heck is global warming still contraversial? After all, it doesn't matter if it's man or nature caused- dealing with it is going to be everybody's concern very soon, and there's very little doubt left that it is happening.
Hmm- for a local root exploit? How about LOCK THE FREAKIN' DOOR? Turn on screen saver passwords? ENFORCE A ONE-USER-TO-ONE-MACHINE RULE!!!!! The solution to local kernal root attacks is PHYSICAL not CYBER security.
All of the above- 1 to 7- are covered in a single device from HP that TMobile is selling as a cell phone. True, it's a bit larger than most of those- the 640x480 screen adds some size all on it's own- but it does do all of the above and then some (damn thing actually has 4 radios in it: Wi-Fi, GPRS, GMS, Bluetooth). Add only one more small box (a Bluetooth GPS unit) and you've got the ultimate convergance machine.
You missed the Pocket PC that acts as a Camera, a WiFi Phone, a Cell Phone, a Bluetooth Navigator (with addition of Bluetooth GPS of course), a video game player, an MP3 player, a video player, and a Sattelite phone.
It's going to be a damned long time before anybody beats HP out in the convergence field. (For those who don't know, I'm talking about the high end of the 4000 and 6000 series that actually came out *before* CES). Oh yeah, and thanks to Familiar Linux and/or the various 8088 emulators out for the platform, yes, they do run Linux.
What some of the less nutty, but more moral people are left with is a totally different set of datapoints though. Homosexuality isn't an indicator- but immoral behavior such as multiple sexual partners and drug abuse is, so the smarter fundies will just use it to reduce that behavior.
Unless of course you're a socialist or distributist- then CNN's constant harping on the good of the stock market and other capitalistic tendencies make it look like it leans to the right.
The real problem is that the extremes are so far apart- the center looks like the other side when it really isn't.
But it certainly changes what you label as and interpret to be fact. I mean, c'mon, you are obviously a maniacal lunatic about this subject - you have deluded yourself into thinking that walmart customers are both stupid idiots AND that everyone is forced to shop there - even your contrived, misconstrued "facts" contradict each other.
Where apparently you are still rich enough to shop elsewhere and have NO relatives working at Wal*Mart and surviving on food stamps.
First- speaking of facts Costco is not at all out of business
I was talking about an individual store- and you misconstrued that to mean the whole freakin' company.
meditate on which is more likely, that millions of customers are all stupid idiots or that people actually make an intelligent decision to save their money and shop at a place they like, if you are blinded by numbing rage or if probability does not suit you well, consider the possibility that those millions of people may well believe that you are a stupid idiot.
If they actually like that store, then they obviously don't know the first thing about macroeconomics. There is NO reason to like Wal*Mart at all.
Over 90% of shoppers arrive at walmart by automobile, most towns are within 50 miles of towns that have not been "plagued" by walmarts,
So far, yes- but Wal*Mart's business plan is not yet complete.
modern day automobile technology easily allows for transporting upwards of 5people/vehicle that distance
Polluting the atmosphere and until we run out of oil, you mean.
no one is forced to shop anywhere any more than you are forced to keep consuming massive quantities of cheese-puffs
You must not know anybody trying to live at or below the federal poverty line, stupid elitist.
killing people is not likely good for a town's local economy at all.
It is when the people being killed are foreign invaders out to destroy the town's economy.
There is no question that Fox News leans to the right, but CNN centrist? Hardly!
The problem with modern American politics, on both sides of the issue, is that if you are on one of the extremes, you're so far from the other side that the center LOOKS like the other side. Talk to a left-wing tree hugger, and CNN is the right wing anti-immigrant hatred network. Talk to a right wingnut- and CNN becomes a bastion of liberal and socialist tendencies. Therefore CNN is indeed the center.
I guess that the daily show wouldn't work if they got someone who was actually funny.
Funny to whom? Humor is way too individual- that's why The Daily Show needs a character like Stewart, who can be NOT funny and still make fun of cable and network news. It's all about subtlety- which is why The Daily Show gets so many intellectual nerds watching it, while everybody else gravitates towards the edutainment they call news on the other channels.
Also the wrong bent- Daily Show is supposed to be the parody of the Cable News Networks, which range from the Centerist CNN to the Rightwing Fox- you need a leftwinger to parody them properly.
Cite your source that the iPaq is made by workers only getting one bowl of rice a day.
It's inferance from the standard rations of any given factory worker in China, combined with Carly Fiorna's now infamous statement that Americans don't deserve jobs and her company (which, BTW, is HP) is moving offshore so that they don't give any of those overpriced dirty Americans any jobs.
Actually, this was taken from the rumor referenced below (though somehow- Bill Gates' goons tearing up Homer Simpson's house is FAR more exciting than a mysterious unsolved breakin and fire that nobody has ever been able to pin to Billy Gates in any way other than the very quick settling of a lawsuit after the fire).
Only a very old rumor about an incident that happened during the Microsoft vs Seattle Computer Products lawsuit (at a very critical stage, SCP's fireproof safe mysteriously had a burning piece of magnesium placed on the top- and the source code for QDOS was lost. Soon afterwards, SCP president and head programmer, Scott Peterson, settled out of court in exchange for a lifetime position at Microsoft).
The guy living on $77 a month isn't Costco's target demographic.
True, but he is Wal*Mart's target demographic- that's the whole point of Wal*Mart- to destroy towns, keep people too poor to shop anyplace other than Wal*Mart, and have one within 3 miles of wherever you live so you will be still able to get to Wal*Mart when your car no longer runs. That's the basic business plan behind Wal*Mart- and they are DAMNED good at it.
The point is, Wal-Mart is not unstoppable.
Nobody's found a way yet- and chances are, they won't.
Costco finds ways to compete AND treat employees well.
That they do- but not directly, not head on- head on in the same target demographic, Wal*Mart is unstoppable.
And U.S. workers will have find ways to compete against global trends -- fair or unfair -- outside of their control.
My suggestion, is to follow the lead of one of our founding fathers- get ruthless and kill your competition. If somebody changes global trends on you, fight back with guns and bombs until they back down. That's what Jefferson and his compatriots did against the unfair tax practices of the British Monarchy and it's corporations- it's what we need to do today.
But in towns where they go head to head with Wal*Mart itself- not Sam's Club, but Wal*Mart- they lose customers based on their $35/year membership fee, which is kind of hard to hit if you're living on a $77/month disability payment because your main street business went out of business when Wal*Mart came to town and you couldn't find another job.
This happens, dude, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it.
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I have no biases on this other than self-preservation. I say we put the kooks on both sides away for now and come up with a way for the human race to survive EITHER way.
RTFA- there's a mountain chain under that ice running from the north coast of Greenland all the way to Siberia- and a few of those mountain tops are indeed islands.
Sure would be nice if we still had capitalism, wouldn't it? I might not even have "Marxist" in my name if the corporations hadn't have evolved into imitation people that make even the Grinch look like a kind and generous soul.
All the more reason to have excess land & resources already available, when in the case of the Danish, all of those refugees from Italy and Spain and Greece suddenly show up because their countries are now uninhabitable.
Thus the rule of each user primarily working on their own machine, and a minimum of data flowing across the network with firewalls protecting ANYTHING that is even slightly vital. NEVER trust a luser to do anything but break hardware.
I have heard several 'experts' argue about whether it's nature or man causing the global warming. Doesn't anyone have a real answer yet?
It doesn't matter- either way it looks like it's here to stay, at least until the natural end of the potential warming cycle a century from now.
For all we know, the warming trend might drastically end within a few years.
So shouldn't we get busy and have a few plans in either direction? Like large ammounts of commonly owned land in Northern Russia and Northern Canada and Antarctica by the UN in case of global warming, and similar reservations in the tropics in case of global cooling? This ain't rocket science people. The key here is to plan for ALL possibilities- and then make sure you have disaster plans for the worst. It matters none at all whether it is man or nature caused- time to move past the blame game and into the action phase.
And if someone exploits a remote *application* (PHP, Apache, FTPd, Sendmail, Bind, etc.) causing it to give you a shell or pass commands to the underlying system, what then?
Mission Critical machines should not have remote applications running on them without a major firewall between the application and the kernal.
Your "local" exploit just became a "remote" exploit. What about ISPs who give shell (SSH) access to certain accounts?
SSH accounts should ALWAYS be on a different box than a major server- NEVER on the same box. And preferably, not at all.
A "one user to one machine" rule is so stupid it boggles the mind. How exactly do you expect to run a server with that rule?
By taking telnet and SSH off of it and requiring passwords on FTP, of course. For everything else, require an administrator with LOCAL (as in hardware keyboard) access. It's called being paranoid- and it's the FIRST rule anybody trying to run a secure system should know.
Local and remote, like root, are only states of mind.
Only if you allow them to be- same problem Microsoft has with security.
Which is why you don't allow anybody to have ssh or telnet access to a mission critical machine. Doing so is a HUGE security risk to begin with.
I personally enforce JUST such a rule in my own house- NOBODY is alowed to touch my main machine, NO telnet or SSH accounts allowed on the main server, and anybody attaching to my network NEEDS to bring a machine with them. Hardware is so cheap these days, it's not asking very much to enforce exactly this rule.
Should have been posted in Politics anyway. It might be international politics, but it's certainly politics when Denmark sends a oceangoing geographic team north from Greenland in the dead of winter to plant flags on every little rock they find sticking up from the ice.
A question though- why the heck is global warming still contraversial? After all, it doesn't matter if it's man or nature caused- dealing with it is going to be everybody's concern very soon, and there's very little doubt left that it is happening.
What's an admin to do?
Hmm- for a local root exploit? How about LOCK THE FREAKIN' DOOR? Turn on screen saver passwords? ENFORCE A ONE-USER-TO-ONE-MACHINE RULE!!!!! The solution to local kernal root attacks is PHYSICAL not CYBER security.
All of the above- 1 to 7- are covered in a single device from HP that TMobile is selling as a cell phone. True, it's a bit larger than most of those- the 640x480 screen adds some size all on it's own- but it does do all of the above and then some (damn thing actually has 4 radios in it: Wi-Fi, GPRS, GMS, Bluetooth). Add only one more small box (a Bluetooth GPS unit) and you've got the ultimate convergance machine.
You missed the Pocket PC that acts as a Camera, a WiFi Phone, a Cell Phone, a Bluetooth Navigator (with addition of Bluetooth GPS of course), a video game player, an MP3 player, a video player, and a Sattelite phone.
It's going to be a damned long time before anybody beats HP out in the convergence field. (For those who don't know, I'm talking about the high end of the 4000 and 6000 series that actually came out *before* CES). Oh yeah, and thanks to Familiar Linux and/or the various 8088 emulators out for the platform, yes, they do run Linux.
Heck, name some regular "Right" issues and show how CNN supports them. Actual "Right" issues and not just "Left" issues taken to a less extreme point.
That's the neat thing about being in the center- your views look like the other side from both sides.
What some of the less nutty, but more moral people are left with is a totally different set of datapoints though. Homosexuality isn't an indicator- but immoral behavior such as multiple sexual partners and drug abuse is, so the smarter fundies will just use it to reduce that behavior.
Unless of course you're a socialist or distributist- then CNN's constant harping on the good of the stock market and other capitalistic tendencies make it look like it leans to the right.
The real problem is that the extremes are so far apart- the center looks like the other side when it really isn't.
But it certainly changes what you label as and interpret to be fact. I mean, c'mon, you are obviously a maniacal lunatic about this subject - you have deluded yourself into thinking that walmart customers are both stupid idiots AND that everyone is forced to shop there - even your contrived, misconstrued "facts" contradict each other.
Where apparently you are still rich enough to shop elsewhere and have NO relatives working at Wal*Mart and surviving on food stamps.
First- speaking of facts Costco is not at all out of business
I was talking about an individual store- and you misconstrued that to mean the whole freakin' company.
meditate on which is more likely, that millions of customers are all stupid idiots or that people actually make an intelligent decision to save their money and shop at a place they like, if you are blinded by numbing rage or if probability does not suit you well, consider the possibility that those millions of people may well believe that you are a stupid idiot.
If they actually like that store, then they obviously don't know the first thing about macroeconomics. There is NO reason to like Wal*Mart at all.
Over 90% of shoppers arrive at walmart by automobile, most towns are within 50 miles of towns that have not been "plagued" by walmarts,
So far, yes- but Wal*Mart's business plan is not yet complete.
modern day automobile technology easily allows for transporting upwards of 5people/vehicle that distance
Polluting the atmosphere and until we run out of oil, you mean.
no one is forced to shop anywhere any more than you are forced to keep consuming massive quantities of cheese-puffs
You must not know anybody trying to live at or below the federal poverty line, stupid elitist.
killing people is not likely good for a town's local economy at all.
It is when the people being killed are foreign invaders out to destroy the town's economy.
There is no question that Fox News leans to the right, but CNN centrist? Hardly!
The problem with modern American politics, on both sides of the issue, is that if you are on one of the extremes, you're so far from the other side that the center LOOKS like the other side. Talk to a left-wing tree hugger, and CNN is the right wing anti-immigrant hatred network. Talk to a right wingnut- and CNN becomes a bastion of liberal and socialist tendencies. Therefore CNN is indeed the center.
I guess that the daily show wouldn't work if they got someone who was actually funny.
Funny to whom? Humor is way too individual- that's why The Daily Show needs a character like Stewart, who can be NOT funny and still make fun of cable and network news. It's all about subtlety- which is why The Daily Show gets so many intellectual nerds watching it, while everybody else gravitates towards the edutainment they call news on the other channels.
Also the wrong bent- Daily Show is supposed to be the parody of the Cable News Networks, which range from the Centerist CNN to the Rightwing Fox- you need a leftwinger to parody them properly.
Cite your source that the iPaq is made by workers only getting one bowl of rice a day.
It's inferance from the standard rations of any given factory worker in China, combined with Carly Fiorna's now infamous statement that Americans don't deserve jobs and her company (which, BTW, is HP) is moving offshore so that they don't give any of those overpriced dirty Americans any jobs.
Actually, this was taken from the rumor referenced below (though somehow- Bill Gates' goons tearing up Homer Simpson's house is FAR more exciting than a mysterious unsolved breakin and fire that nobody has ever been able to pin to Billy Gates in any way other than the very quick settling of a lawsuit after the fire).
Only a very old rumor about an incident that happened during the Microsoft vs Seattle Computer Products lawsuit (at a very critical stage, SCP's fireproof safe mysteriously had a burning piece of magnesium placed on the top- and the source code for QDOS was lost. Soon afterwards, SCP president and head programmer, Scott Peterson, settled out of court in exchange for a lifetime position at Microsoft).
Majorly modded down though- last time I try to interject reality into the business world.
The guy living on $77 a month isn't Costco's target demographic.
True, but he is Wal*Mart's target demographic- that's the whole point of Wal*Mart- to destroy towns, keep people too poor to shop anyplace other than Wal*Mart, and have one within 3 miles of wherever you live so you will be still able to get to Wal*Mart when your car no longer runs. That's the basic business plan behind Wal*Mart- and they are DAMNED good at it.
The point is, Wal-Mart is not unstoppable.
Nobody's found a way yet- and chances are, they won't.
Costco finds ways to compete AND treat employees well.
That they do- but not directly, not head on- head on in the same target demographic, Wal*Mart is unstoppable.
And U.S. workers will have find ways to compete against global trends -- fair or unfair -- outside of their control.
My suggestion, is to follow the lead of one of our founding fathers- get ruthless and kill your competition. If somebody changes global trends on you, fight back with guns and bombs until they back down. That's what Jefferson and his compatriots did against the unfair tax practices of the British Monarchy and it's corporations- it's what we need to do today.
But in towns where they go head to head with Wal*Mart itself- not Sam's Club, but Wal*Mart- they lose customers based on their $35/year membership fee, which is kind of hard to hit if you're living on a $77/month disability payment because your main street business went out of business when Wal*Mart came to town and you couldn't find another job.
This happens, dude, and there's nothing that can be done to stop it.