The public needs to understand and accept the fact that neither telecos nor governments are trustworthy. Privacy is up to end users and they are free to secure their own traffic by wrapping it in real crypto. GPG, OpenSSL and OpenVPN are just a few free open-source toolkits available to provide secure ways to communicate without having to worry about the trustworthiness of the pipe between here and there.
It's just naive to wait for some politician to protect your privacy when you have the tools to insure this yourself. As a matter of practice, stick your letters in an envelope instead of waiting for the postmaster general to outlaw literacy of postal employees.
My fear is that the juror sieve removed all but the flippant idiots in the juror pool, and this generally leads to the setting of _very_ dangerous precedents.
If ripping a CD is somehow ruled as infringement, what's next? Will I have to buy a separate CD for different brand CD players I own? Also, what about the fact that itunes doesn't carry 100% of the titles available...am I just being outright denied the legal ability to use my ipod?
Screw the RIAA and protect yourself because idiot jurors sure won't. The RIAA isn't playing fair, so neither should you. I highly suggest encrypting and hiding your collection with truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org) to prevent your machine from being used as evidence against you. With truecrypt you can hide a volume within a volume while providing strong plausible deniability that the internal volume even exists. If slapped with a subpoena to decrypt the volume, just decrypt the outer volume, and do keep something in there as a totally empty volume may raise suspicion. There is no way of detecting if an inner volume even exists. Just don't be stupid and leave anything pointing to the inside volume.
Yeah, but DBAN is brain-dead simple. You stick it in, turn it on then type "autonuke." Complex procedures that can be implemented with foolproof tools will be carried around by criminals who will know of the tools only as an "evidence destroyer" or "tracker remover."
...the good guys carry guns too and as far as I know, lethal force is justified in Texas if used to protect either life or property. Call it Southern Justice.
I can't see how anything that isn't tied to BIOS could possibly survive a DBAN erasure, or even a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda from a linux live CD. This pretty much rules out anything that isn't from the manufacturer. I think there's a lot of snake-oil in this area, partially because it catches the idiots who comprise the majority of criminals. If mediocre security products are vindicated by the fact most criminals are idiots, then I guess this is OK in some twisted fashion. LoJack for Laptop's 75% recovery rate I guess justifies the expense for a large organization.
What your witnessing is simply the market choosing the superior aggregation of technology, support, and price, and it looks like SCO lost. Daryl, go find another job.
A lot! Pushing enough illumination to potentially disrupt the circadian rhythms of a radius of 120 miles is pretty "unnatural" in my book. I don't know of any other species that can cause this much disruption, so suddenly. While camping I regularly observe a difference in bird activity during periods of bright skyglow.
Sure, by your definition because we inhabit this planet and we evolved here, we are be definition a part of nature so that _anything_ we do is _natural_. Simply stated, our species has the ability to exercise choice, responsibility, and reason. On one extreme, our species has the ability to end life on this planet. It also has the ability to learn to co-exist, study, and try and minimize the disruption of other organisms.
BTW, a good portion of this illumination is totally missing the desired target anyway.
A few years back on TX State Highway 77 heading north I could see an odd skyglow that I noticed just a few miles north of Raymondville TX. I was interested quickly because there is nothing in the ranch land between Raymondville and Corpus Christi that could be making that much light. Is I continued north, I noted the slowness of the angular change of the light and realized it had to be Corpus. A couple of hours of driving confirmed that the skyglow in this city of absurd light was really visible 120 miles south of here.
This city is totally filled with flood-lit carlots, an incredible amount of freeway lighting (way more per mile than any other Texas city that I've seen), billboard's littering the cityscape all lit from below, and a total disregard for our very unique coastal wildlife. Light pollution is just another example of our culture's unnatural incompatibility with our natural environment.
50 megabit total bandwidth....hmmm. At work we're sucking down 30-40 megabit on a typical day and we're just 2000 employees. 50 megabit isn't much at all.
Didn't Houston's EV1.net decide early on to bend over and take it from SCO? I wonder if they can sue SCO for fraud now, or at least what they paid for "a SCO linux I.P. license". If everyone who paid for a Linux license would file suit against SCO, it may help shoot the dying beast in the head and put it out of its misery. (and provide amusement for the rest of us)
Hydrogen vehicles produce nasty emissions just like other fossil fuel vehicles, they just have their tailpipes magically teleported to Corpus Christi TX since the oil refineries here produce a substantial portion of the country's hydrogen.
Vanity Fair is such a third-rate piece of yellow journalism, I can't believe people waste their money on it. Its only legitimate use is for toilet paper which, by the way, greatly improves its content.
We have around 60 LAMP sites on one quad-processor box at my place of employment. (it's an.edu) These sites include our main public-facing website, the public-facing side of multiple campus organizations, and a myriad of in-house tools for local use. LAMP scales very nicely and migrates even easier. LAMP just isn't all wrapped up in that "one-application-per-server" ideology.
On my little-bitty VM from unixshell.com, I have about 8 name-based vhosts going. It's pretty amazing what you can do with such minimally virtualized hardware.
Yes, I'd say the proper choice would be to match the talent you have on your development team with the tools required to build the desired product. It wouldn't make sense to force a bunch of LAMP developers to switch to IIS/Windows/MSSQL just to become a "pure windows shop". It also would make no sense to force a team of IIS/ASP/DNET developers onto LAMP just to change OSes. At my place of work we have both, and neither is going to take over the other.
Running PHP/MySQL/PERL/PostgreSQL on windows is a pain in the butt. There is no automatic update mechanism like you get with almost any linux distribution, integration is poor, and support is almost entirely for running PHP/MySQL/PERL/PostgreSQL is for Linux.
At least in higher education, you sometimes find yourself having to run 3rd-party software that requires IIS. In a nutshell we do all our in-house development on pure LAMP, but departments tend to buy commercial software that won't run on LAMP at all. This same software tends to own/modify/taint the IIS machines so they become single-purposed windows servers. Hopefully Vmware ESX is gonna tame that beast sooner or later for us.
It has been my experience that highly intelligent women are usually the freakiest in the sack, but this is applied to women in their mid 20's and early 30's.
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>The laws of probability forbid it!
Not quite...but you will need to have an infinite improbability drive card properly installed in one of your ship's spare PCI slots.The public needs to understand and accept the fact that neither telecos nor governments are trustworthy. Privacy is up to end users and they are free to secure their own traffic by wrapping it in real crypto. GPG, OpenSSL and OpenVPN are just a few free open-source toolkits available to provide secure ways to communicate without having to worry about the trustworthiness of the pipe between here and there.
It's just naive to wait for some politician to protect your privacy when you have the tools to insure this yourself. As a matter of practice, stick your letters in an envelope instead of waiting for the postmaster general to outlaw literacy of postal employees.
My fear is that the juror sieve removed all but the flippant idiots in the juror pool, and this generally leads to the setting of _very_ dangerous precedents.
If ripping a CD is somehow ruled as infringement, what's next? Will I have to buy a separate CD for different brand CD players I own? Also, what about the fact that itunes doesn't carry 100% of the titles available...am I just being outright denied the legal ability to use my ipod?
Screw the RIAA and protect yourself because idiot jurors sure won't. The RIAA isn't playing fair, so neither should you. I highly suggest encrypting and hiding your collection with truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org) to prevent your machine from being used as evidence against you. With truecrypt you can hide a volume within a volume while providing strong plausible deniability that the internal volume even exists. If slapped with a subpoena to decrypt the volume, just decrypt the outer volume, and do keep something in there as a totally empty volume may raise suspicion. There is no way of detecting if an inner volume even exists. Just don't be stupid and leave anything pointing to the inside volume.
Here's a perfect example of where an open-source solution beats the pants off a commercial one.
Yeah, but DBAN is brain-dead simple. You stick it in, turn it on then type "autonuke." Complex procedures that can be implemented with foolproof tools will be carried around by criminals who will know of the tools only as an "evidence destroyer" or "tracker remover."
Hey asshat, my comment was supposed to be funny.
...the good guys carry guns too and as far as I know, lethal force is justified in Texas if used to protect either life or property. Call it Southern Justice.
I can't see how anything that isn't tied to BIOS could possibly survive a DBAN erasure, or even a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda from a linux live CD. This pretty much rules out anything that isn't from the manufacturer. I think there's a lot of snake-oil in this area, partially because it catches the idiots who comprise the majority of criminals. If mediocre security products are vindicated by the fact most criminals are idiots, then I guess this is OK in some twisted fashion. LoJack for Laptop's 75% recovery rate I guess justifies the expense for a large organization.
What your witnessing is simply the market choosing the superior aggregation of technology, support, and price, and it looks like SCO lost. Daryl, go find another job.
A lot! Pushing enough illumination to potentially disrupt the circadian rhythms of a radius of 120 miles is pretty "unnatural" in my book. I don't know of any other species that can cause this much disruption, so suddenly. While camping I regularly observe a difference in bird activity during periods of bright skyglow.
Sure, by your definition because we inhabit this planet and we evolved here, we are be definition a part of nature so that _anything_ we do is _natural_. Simply stated, our species has the ability to exercise choice, responsibility, and reason. On one extreme, our species has the ability to end life on this planet. It also has the ability to learn to co-exist, study, and try and minimize the disruption of other organisms.
BTW, a good portion of this illumination is totally missing the desired target anyway.
A few years back on TX State Highway 77 heading north I could see an odd skyglow that I noticed just a few miles north of Raymondville TX. I was interested quickly because there is nothing in the ranch land between Raymondville and Corpus Christi that could be making that much light. Is I continued north, I noted the slowness of the angular change of the light and realized it had to be Corpus. A couple of hours of driving confirmed that the skyglow in this city of absurd light was really visible 120 miles south of here.
This city is totally filled with flood-lit carlots, an incredible amount of freeway lighting (way more per mile than any other Texas city that I've seen), billboard's littering the cityscape all lit from below, and a total disregard for our very unique coastal wildlife. Light pollution is just another example of our culture's unnatural incompatibility with our natural environment.
I'd like to see Webcasters move to jurisdictions that sound exchange cannot touch and end this BS once and for all. Russia comes to mind.
I even use procmail scripts commercially. I guess I'm double screwed.
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50 megabit total bandwidth....hmmm. At work we're sucking down 30-40 megabit on a typical day and we're just 2000 employees. 50 megabit isn't much at all.
Didn't Houston's EV1.net decide early on to bend over and take it from SCO? I wonder if they can sue SCO for fraud now, or at least what they paid for "a SCO linux I.P. license". If everyone who paid for a Linux license would file suit against SCO, it may help shoot the dying beast in the head and put it out of its misery. (and provide amusement for the rest of us)
Hydrogen vehicles produce nasty emissions just like other fossil fuel vehicles, they just have their tailpipes magically teleported to Corpus Christi TX since the oil refineries here produce a substantial portion of the country's hydrogen.
Vanity Fair is such a third-rate piece of yellow journalism, I can't believe people waste their money on it. Its only legitimate use is for toilet paper which, by the way, greatly improves its content.
On my little-bitty VM from unixshell.com, I have about 8 name-based vhosts going. It's pretty amazing what you can do with such minimally virtualized hardware.
Yes, I'd say the proper choice would be to match the talent you have on your development team with the tools required to build the desired product. It wouldn't make sense to force a bunch of LAMP developers to switch to IIS/Windows/MSSQL just to become a "pure windows shop". It also would make no sense to force a team of IIS/ASP/DNET developers onto LAMP just to change OSes. At my place of work we have both, and neither is going to take over the other.
Please ignore bad grammar I stated from above, as I am still more substantial a dose of caffeine in need.
Running PHP/MySQL/PERL/PostgreSQL on windows is a pain in the butt. There is no automatic update mechanism like you get with almost any linux distribution, integration is poor, and support is almost entirely for running PHP/MySQL/PERL/PostgreSQL is for Linux.
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I'm sure not going to waste my time applying a rating to my own blog, or individual post.
It has been my experience that highly intelligent women are usually the freakiest in the sack, but this is applied to women in their mid 20's and early 30's.