>"Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy"
Just because someone doesn't support gay marriage doesn't make that person a "homophobe". Some people against gay marriage have absolutely nothing against gay people or gay couples. And some even support legal gay coupling, with the same rights as marriage, just not called "marriage".
Now, Orson Scott Card might well indeed be a homophobe, but I keep seeing articles that automatically equate non support of gay marriage as homophobia, which is it not.
For me, the issue has never been speed. It has been "not enough channels" and/or "want more range". Of course, this move can at least help with channels. I don't think it will do much for range. But if devices are allowed to just spread spectrum across more and more of the frequencies, it won't help much with channels/congestion either.
Real political philosophy is not a one-dimensional "right" or "left". I know it is hard for some people to grasp, but you can't describe everything political on that stupid scale.
>Uhm, the iptables 'limit' rule does all that in one line.
I didn't write the offered iptables code, but if you think there is a better way, then feel free to offer alternative code. Keep in mind that the rule has to work the same- only restricting one address to a certain amount of attempts per X amount of time and adding additional time if they try again in that amount of time.
A quick look at "--limit" in the iptables man page doesn't show that option to be very useful in this situation from what I can tell.
I should mention that for this to be the best of effectiveness, one should also edit/etc/ssh/sshd_config and set "MaxAuthTries" to something like 1 or 2. I think the default is "6" which is far too many.... combined with the iptables 3 connections, that is 18 tries- many more than a legit person would need. 2x3 (6) or 1x3 (3) is more reasonable.
It would still take an eternity, assuming the machine didn't have any horrible password problems (like blank or same as user name or something like that). I don't see how it could be an effective attack unless there were hundreds of thousands of machines all trying and for many months. I believe typical brute forcing on reasonable passwords would take millions of guesses per login.
If you want to end almost any possibility of brute force, load this with iptables:
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --set --name SSH /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --rttl --name SSH -j LOG --log-prefix "sshd_brute_force_block " /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --rttl --name SSH -j DROP
Those three lines will slow the amount of connections by the same ipaddress to sshd. When the attacker reaches 4 hit counts it will be blocked for 60 seconds before resetting. If the attacker keeps attacking before the 60 seconds are up it will reset the the time limit to another 60 seconds. Have been using it for years and it is extremely effective. Even a botnet attack (which is unlikely) would be futile because there just aren't enough attempts.
Seriously, this type of thing should be built directly into ssh. If not this sophisticated, then at least it should include attempt and restart delays which would not be as effective but beat the hell out of the default behavior.
>I used to think this as well, but balance is derived from touch (it's the movement of hair in your inner ear) and temperature would be as well.
I totally disagree. Balance is a separate function that can be had or lost, separately from touch (pressure). And temperature really has nothing to do with touch. If you were going to go that route, then smell and taste are the same, since they are both chemical detection receptors. And hearing and balance and touch are the same because they ALL involve moment detection.
All these things come from nerve sensations, but that doesn't make them the same sense.
This was not a stock car. It had been modified for a "disabled" person who also had epileptic seizures. We don't know exactly HOW it was modified from the articles, but it could have hand controls and other things that really have nothing to do with a "normal" car and could have contributed to the problems.
It might also explain why he might have been unable or incapable of turning off the car or putting it into neutral.
>So how exactly is racism and racial prejudice different?
Intent. If there is no hatred or animosity involved, it can't be racism.
Humans prejudge things and people all the time, it is perfectly natural. If you hear someone speaking "jive" without seeing them, it is likely you immediately prejudge them to be in a certain race. That doesn't mean you hate that person or the whole race. And in the article example, simply serving up a different type of ad based on statistics is not hatred.
WINE is so hit or miss, and I don't think there is any MS-Windows app that would actually work in WINE that I would want to run on Android, anyway.
I would much rather have:
* OpenOffice/LibreOffice for Android. Far better chance of that happening (and actually working).
* A *FULL* X11 implementation for Android, bringing all (or at least many of) the Linux desktop apps over. (Again, far better chance than getting WINE working on Android with any reasonable performance or stability).
* Android apps running native (or at least semi-native) under a Linux desktop. (Really, this should be pretty darn easy, in theory anyway)
Well, you will be amazed at how much your browsing experience will subsequently go down the toilet again as sites start using other methods to push useless, annoying, battery-eating, distracting animation into their sites WITHOUT Flash.
It is already happening. It used to be easy to have a sane experience- just turn off Flash or use an Addon to regulate it and disable animated GIF. And now we will have no control at all... browsing is like watching TV, where the whole site is moving around out of your control. Banner scrolling, fly ups, mouse unders and overs, dynamic background changing, floating panes, moving text, you name it, it is being done. And they almost never add anything positive to the browsing experience.
It is very sad. I have warned people for years it was coming, and yet there are still no tools to deal with it, other than crude things that either require you to be an expert or things that totally break sites.
I think Mageia is a great, solid distro now. Best installer of anything I have tried. It doesn't get updated as fast or as much, though... which is either good or bad, depending on your perspective. I have Mageia 2 on my main desktop at home, and wouldn't have it any other way.
I just installed Fedora 18 on Friday on my laptop- what a mess. 17 was *MUCH* better- I hate the new installer in 18. Once it is installed, however, it feels a lot like 17, which is not a bad thing. But even in this less-than-ideal state, I like it better than Ubuntu (by far).
>"If they are cutting Munich a one time special deal that would be even more they don't want to release. Save $40 million now! Pay $80 million next year."
And if the Linux option didn't exist, no such super-special pricing would be available in the first place.
So even if they didn't switch to Linux, Linux *STILL* saved them millions of dollars....
I installed Fedora 18 (KDE Spin, of course) on Friday and "counterintuitive and confusing" was a pretty good description. And the partitioning- yeesh, what a mess- please just give me the option for something nice like gparted. I was very disappointed. 17 was much better. Both were still better than Ubuntu. Neither is as good as Mandriva/Mageia.
There has to be a balance between streamlining vs. asking questions vs. expert mode. There is little balance in Fedora 18. I have a feeling it will be revised quite a bit for 19 (at least I hope it will).
They don't get more profit from Linux vs. MS-Windows. But by having a platform that Microsoft can't corrupt or control, it means that Valve can remain relevant and for much longer. That has a great value to Valve.
It also means Valve can develop a console/set-top using free Linux and pay nothing to MS or any other company to do so. That has a great value to Valve.
[Real] Linux compatibility could also be a great step to an entry into Android Linux for Valve... the #1 mobile platform in the world. That has a great value to Valve.
But the true power of the Linux command line is that it is not something just invented. It is Unix/Bourne/Shell, something that has been used by professionals and taught in schools for many decades on dozens of various Unix/Linux variants. It is even mostly the same on MacOS. There are hundreds of good books and it has a lot of mind share... probably many times that what "Powershell" will be able to obtain under MS-Windows.
>How about doing it with a Steam download that runs on _any_ modern Linux?
I totally agree. At a minimum, a Fedora rpm should be added and that would likely be useful in Fedora, Mandriva, and Mageia.
It is not just the packaging, it has to do with libraries included and which versions, but it really should not be difficult for them to use LSB for the major stuff and a slightly-older-than-bleeding-edge requirement for the necessary libraries and then offer a tar.gz. Anything really odd COULD just be included in their release or even just compiled in, static. This has been done for many years.
Want an example? I can jump right on ftp.mozilla.org and download a 32 bit or 64 bit.tar.gz of the latest Firefox and run it just fine on any distro from "just came out this morning" to one even almost three years old.
Despite what some people seem to think on Slashdot, although Ubuntu might be popular, it doesn't equal the userbase of the next several most popular Linux distros when combined.
>"You sound like a fucking catholic. Shut the fuck up and fuck off so the rest of us can get on with scientific endeavours and real progress. Go suck the pope's nazi cock."
So I suppose you think it is just perfectly fine to go experimentally create sentience lab creatures/people of any sort or type for our research or amusement? Maybe they would be a useful working underclass afterward? Maybe just throw them away when you are done? Or perhaps gas them if you find you don't like them?
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Your response is downright ludicrous. Rather than saying anything useful, it is just a personal attack based on nothing.
I never stated my beliefs on anything at all in the original posting, I was making an observation.
[desktop java program]
Thank you. I was wondering why the thing was so huge, took so long to start, and had broken looking fonts.
Jitsi also had all the Yahoo contacts statuses wrong, has a truly horrible default sound setup, and ugly conversation window.
Back to Pidgin :(
>"Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy"
Just because someone doesn't support gay marriage doesn't make that person a "homophobe". Some people against gay marriage have absolutely nothing against gay people or gay couples. And some even support legal gay coupling, with the same rights as marriage, just not called "marriage".
Now, Orson Scott Card might well indeed be a homophobe, but I keep seeing articles that automatically equate non support of gay marriage as homophobia, which is it not.
For me, the issue has never been speed. It has been "not enough channels" and/or "want more range". Of course, this move can at least help with channels. I don't think it will do much for range. But if devices are allowed to just spread spectrum across more and more of the frequencies, it won't help much with channels/congestion either.
Real political philosophy is not a one-dimensional "right" or "left". I know it is hard for some people to grasp, but you can't describe everything political on that stupid scale.
>Uhm, the iptables 'limit' rule does all that in one line.
I didn't write the offered iptables code, but if you think there is a better way, then feel free to offer alternative code. Keep in mind that the rule has to work the same- only restricting one address to a certain amount of attempts per X amount of time and adding additional time if they try again in that amount of time.
A quick look at "--limit" in the iptables man page doesn't show that option to be very useful in this situation from what I can tell.
I should mention that for this to be the best of effectiveness, one should also edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set "MaxAuthTries" to something like 1 or 2. I think the default is "6" which is far too many.... combined with the iptables 3 connections, that is 18 tries- many more than a legit person would need. 2x3 (6) or 1x3 (3) is more reasonable.
It would still take an eternity, assuming the machine didn't have any horrible password problems (like blank or same as user name or something like that). I don't see how it could be an effective attack unless there were hundreds of thousands of machines all trying and for many months. I believe typical brute forcing on reasonable passwords would take millions of guesses per login.
If you want to end almost any possibility of brute force, load this with iptables:
Those three lines will slow the amount of connections by the same ipaddress to sshd. When the attacker reaches 4 hit counts it will be blocked for 60 seconds before resetting. If the attacker keeps attacking before the 60 seconds are up it will reset the the time limit to another 60 seconds. Have been using it for years and it is extremely effective. Even a botnet attack (which is unlikely) would be futile because there just aren't enough attempts.
Seriously, this type of thing should be built directly into ssh. If not this sophisticated, then at least it should include attempt and restart delays which would not be as effective but beat the hell out of the default behavior.
>I used to think this as well, but balance is derived from touch (it's the movement of hair in your inner ear) and temperature would be as well.
I totally disagree. Balance is a separate function that can be had or lost, separately from touch (pressure). And temperature really has nothing to do with touch. If you were going to go that route, then smell and taste are the same, since they are both chemical detection receptors. And hearing and balance and touch are the same because they ALL involve moment detection.
All these things come from nerve sensations, but that doesn't make them the same sense.
Why is that stupid term "Sixth Sense" still used?
1) Sight
2) Hearing
3) Touch
4) Taste
5) Smell
6) Balance
7) Temperature
and there are several others. So it is not a "Sixth Sense"
This was not a stock car. It had been modified for a "disabled" person who also had epileptic seizures. We don't know exactly HOW it was modified from the articles, but it could have hand controls and other things that really have nothing to do with a "normal" car and could have contributed to the problems.
It might also explain why he might have been unable or incapable of turning off the car or putting it into neutral.
>" However, several decades ago "they" decided that GB, MB, and KB would be interpreted differently"
Several??? Sorry, but this marketing crap didn't happen 40 to 80 years ago.
>So how exactly is racism and racial prejudice different?
Intent. If there is no hatred or animosity involved, it can't be racism.
Humans prejudge things and people all the time, it is perfectly natural. If you hear someone speaking "jive" without seeing them, it is likely you immediately prejudge them to be in a certain race. That doesn't mean you hate that person or the whole race. And in the article example, simply serving up a different type of ad based on statistics is not hatred.
WINE is so hit or miss, and I don't think there is any MS-Windows app that would actually work in WINE that I would want to run on Android, anyway.
I would much rather have:
* OpenOffice/LibreOffice for Android. Far better chance of that happening (and actually working).
* A *FULL* X11 implementation for Android, bringing all (or at least many of) the Linux desktop apps over. (Again, far better chance than getting WINE working on Android with any reasonable performance or stability).
* Android apps running native (or at least semi-native) under a Linux desktop. (Really, this should be pretty darn easy, in theory anyway)
This is not "racism". Racism is a belief that one race is superior to another and/or a hatred or intolerance of another race.
At most, this is prejudice.
Well, you will be amazed at how much your browsing experience will subsequently go down the toilet again as sites start using other methods to push useless, annoying, battery-eating, distracting animation into their sites WITHOUT Flash.
It is already happening. It used to be easy to have a sane experience- just turn off Flash or use an Addon to regulate it and disable animated GIF. And now we will have no control at all... browsing is like watching TV, where the whole site is moving around out of your control. Banner scrolling, fly ups, mouse unders and overs, dynamic background changing, floating panes, moving text, you name it, it is being done. And they almost never add anything positive to the browsing experience.
It is very sad. I have warned people for years it was coming, and yet there are still no tools to deal with it, other than crude things that either require you to be an expert or things that totally break sites.
+1
I think Mageia is a great, solid distro now. Best installer of anything I have tried. It doesn't get updated as fast or as much, though... which is either good or bad, depending on your perspective. I have Mageia 2 on my main desktop at home, and wouldn't have it any other way.
I just installed Fedora 18 on Friday on my laptop- what a mess. 17 was *MUCH* better- I hate the new installer in 18. Once it is installed, however, it feels a lot like 17, which is not a bad thing. But even in this less-than-ideal state, I like it better than Ubuntu (by far).
>"If they are cutting Munich a one time special deal that would be even more they don't want to release. Save $40 million now! Pay $80 million next year."
And if the Linux option didn't exist, no such super-special pricing would be available in the first place.
So even if they didn't switch to Linux, Linux *STILL* saved them millions of dollars....
I installed Fedora 18 (KDE Spin, of course) on Friday and "counterintuitive and confusing" was a pretty good description. And the partitioning- yeesh, what a mess- please just give me the option for something nice like gparted. I was very disappointed. 17 was much better. Both were still better than Ubuntu. Neither is as good as Mandriva/Mageia.
There has to be a balance between streamlining vs. asking questions vs. expert mode. There is little balance in Fedora 18. I have a feeling it will be revised quite a bit for 19 (at least I hope it will).
When it comes to shell and scripting? Yes, indeed I did :)
They don't get more profit from Linux vs. MS-Windows. But by having a platform that Microsoft can't corrupt or control, it means that Valve can remain relevant and for much longer. That has a great value to Valve.
It also means Valve can develop a console/set-top using free Linux and pay nothing to MS or any other company to do so. That has a great value to Valve.
[Real] Linux compatibility could also be a great step to an entry into Android Linux for Valve... the #1 mobile platform in the world. That has a great value to Valve.
But the true power of the Linux command line is that it is not something just invented. It is Unix/Bourne/Shell, something that has been used by professionals and taught in schools for many decades on dozens of various Unix/Linux variants. It is even mostly the same on MacOS. There are hundreds of good books and it has a lot of mind share... probably many times that what "Powershell" will be able to obtain under MS-Windows.
>How about doing it with a Steam download that runs on _any_ modern Linux?
I totally agree. At a minimum, a Fedora rpm should be added and that would likely be useful in Fedora, Mandriva, and Mageia.
It is not just the packaging, it has to do with libraries included and which versions, but it really should not be difficult for them to use LSB for the major stuff and a slightly-older-than-bleeding-edge requirement for the necessary libraries and then offer a tar.gz. Anything really odd COULD just be included in their release or even just compiled in, static. This has been done for many years.
Want an example? I can jump right on ftp.mozilla.org and download a 32 bit or 64 bit .tar.gz of the latest Firefox and run it just fine on any distro from "just came out this morning" to one even almost three years old.
Despite what some people seem to think on Slashdot, although Ubuntu might be popular, it doesn't equal the userbase of the next several most popular Linux distros when combined.
>"You sound like a fucking catholic. Shut the fuck up and fuck off so the rest of us can get on with scientific endeavours and real progress. Go suck the pope's nazi cock."
Funny you should mention the Nazis, because that is what you sound like to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation
So I suppose you think it is just perfectly fine to go experimentally create sentience lab creatures/people of any sort or type for our research or amusement? Maybe they would be a useful working underclass afterward? Maybe just throw them away when you are done? Or perhaps gas them if you find you don't like them?