What does compassion have to do with anything? I hate to break the news to you, sparky, but compassion isn't the government's job.
Leave the compassion choices to me. I'll choose who deserves my donation. This "government compassion" has created third generation welfare families (or have they reached the fourth generation). That's bullshit. There is no legal or moral justification to steal my money to give to someone else, no matter how deserving.
Perhaps, but isn't more fun to imagine the SCO assholes as a bunch of skinny dorks about to get their collective asses kicked by the varsity football team?
You have a belief that I find just plain ridiculous. That just because someone makes more money, they should be taxed at a higher rate. Why? There isn't any good reason. Let's give examples. Please excuse the oversimplification.
Let's assume a 10% tax on income. So a $20,000 income is taxes for $2,000. A $200,000 income is taxed for $20,000. Seems perfectly fair. The higher income person pays as much tax as the lower income person makes. The more you make, you more you pay.
Now for a progressive tax. Let's stick with 10% for the lower income, but jump it to 40% for the higher income. Now the $200,000 is taxed for $80,000.
Is making more money inherently wrong? No. Does making less money make you a better person deserving of special privileges? No. The progressive tax is nothing but an arbitrary and unfair taxation system that politicians implemented because they knew they could get away with it.
Progressive taxes should be declared unconstitutional (other countries can ignore this) since the Constitution states, "All taxes must be uniform."
Personally, I think the income tax should be dumped completely and we switch to a national sales tax (internet stuff included). Tax consumption, not production. Let people save their money in the bank or invest in a business or stocks and not get taxed, but buy that Lexus or yacht and you pay taxes.
We shouldn't give the government any ideas. They'll say their implementing a national sales tax and will slowly phase out the income tax, but we know that would never happen. We'd just end up getting yet another tax piled on our already oversized burden.
Naw, it's more like the chess club challenging the varsity football team. They go in thinking they'll be able to checkmate in a few moves, but suddenly find themselves in a huddle on the football field.
If both sides were allowed to exist as states, this problem could be resolved in a civilised manner by civilised nations.
Are you ignoring the facts because you overlooked them, or are you just a complete moron? The Palestinian authority turned down the offer of their own state because the agreement required they acknowlege Israel's right to exist.
The Palestinians do not want to settle this in a peaceful manner. They just want to kill Jews.
Say what!? The United States has done everything humanly possible to bring a reasonable settlement to the Palestinians. Our last negotiated proposal (which the Israeli government agreed to) guanteed them their own country, aid to help create it, security, EVERYTHING they wanted. The Palestinian Authority refused the offer because it required them to agree that the State of Israel had a right to exist.
The Palestinians don't want peace. They only want to kill Jews.
The Palestinians were left adrift by Arafat and the other Muslim leaders in the Middle East - and by their own hatred.
You are making the incorrect assumption that ousting Saddam was based solely on this single bit of incorrect intelligence. That is about far wrong as you can possibly get. There was a huge list of reasons that justified taking out that murdering bastard. The Nigerian uranium claim was an extremely minor footnote, at best.
The drive has now been replaced so the lifespan of my Laks watch has been sparred. I wonder if the makers of the watch made it possible to replace the flash memory when it dies? Probably not.:(
I can't get anyone to listen, neither those scum sucking thieves at HP or Hitachi (which now owns the IBM division that originally made the drive). I've already replaced the drive. The store had a choice between the IBM/Hitachi Travelstar just like the original or a Toshiba. I went with the Toshiba drive.
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Actually, it saved my wife. The hard drive in her laptop died. Normally, there's a 3 year warranty on them, but Hewlett-Packard being the cheap fucktards that they are OEMed the drive and reduced the warranty to 1 year. So my 15 month old drive is useless. Oops, I digress.
Money is rather tight, so I wasn't able to get a replacement drive immediately. However, my wife needed internet access at the minimum. Knoppix to the rescue. She was able to get full blown internet access and email. With the addition of my Laks watch with its 128Meg of memory, she had a persistent home directory so her settings (e.g. bookmarks) weren't lost.
I definately feel Knoppix was worth the money I spent on it. Oh wait! It was free! Damn. Such a deal! Seriously. Keep a Knoppix CD handy at all times. Its a life saver.
More like, "they want half my paycheck, how am I going to buy luxuries such as food and clothing for my family?"
The middle class pays the largest share of taxes, and we're usually the ones to least benefit from a tax cut. Why are people who paid NO FUCKING TAXES getting a tax refund? Let's call it what it really is. Welfare.
Yes, the virus scan happens at the smtp, so I don't generate bounce messages that hit an innocent bystander. Of course, the mta of a worm doesn't care that I send a 'bugger off' message back to it.
BTW, I've also configured my mail server to scan archives using clamav so that nasty shit can't be slipped into my network. It also catches bad things inside of files that are not rejected by extension.
If you are running Exim 4.x, get the Exiscan patch and configure it to refuse (at the connection) dangerous attachments. Here's what to add to your acl_smtp_data section:
# First unpack MIME containers and reject serious errors.
deny message = This message contains a MIME error ($demime_reason)
demime = *
condition = ${if >{$demime_errorlevel}{2}{1}{0}}
# Reject typically wormish file extensions. There is almost no
# sense in sending such files by email.
deny message = This message contains an unwanted file extension ($found_extension) that is commonly used to send viruses and worms. If this file is expected and desired by the receipient, you must put it in a zip or other standard archive format.
demime = ade:adp:bas:bat:chm:cmd:com:cpl:crt:exe:hlp\ :hta:inf:ins:isp:js:jse:lnk:mdb:mde:msc:msi:msp:mst\ :pcd:pif:reg:scr:sct:shs:shb:url:vb:vbe:vbs:wsc:ws f:wsh
The advantage to refusing attachments here is you won't generate a bounce message that will almost always end up going to an innocent third party since the viruses/worms usually forge the headers.
I'm sure there is an equilvent fix for sendmail. If you are running MS Exchange, the best way to fix your server is by taking a knife to its network cable.
This is easy to answer. It goes too far when the results are more than the administrator(s) can handle - such as in your case. So what if you can plug in monitoring software that spits out mountains of data? Who's going to take the time to actually look at that shit?
When monitoring software is that elaborate, it is not unreasonable to expect the software to analyze the logs, produce a simplified brief, and nuke the unneeded information to reduce disk wastage. Software for monitoring is supposed to reduce your work, not multiply it. And it should never, ever have the potential of crashing a system as this did.
Why didn't the software recognize that space was running short and turn off logging. Sending an alert of some sort would have been good, too. Isn't monitoring the state of resources important?
I'd insist the customers dump that package. It obviously has fatal flaws in its design.
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Ok, I grabbed the perl program, went to a random Hungarian language websites, and scrambled a few sentences. She had trouble with some of the longer words, like orsz'gjelente'se'ben which became something like orjssblge'e'ta'zeeenn (those are flying accents since slashdot doesn't allow accented characters). Hungrian has some damn long words and "guessing" them as you read can be rather difficult. I think their language motto is "Never use two syllables when ten works just as well."
My guess is long scrambled words in any language would cause problems.
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I had my wife read it. Her first languange is Hungarian and she had no problem at all. Of course, her English skills are simply outstanding, probably better than the average Americans. Hell, she even beats me in Scrabble on a regular basis!
Here's an interesting idea. I should scramble a few Hungarian sentences and see how well she handles it.
You have freedom of speech when using the telephone. You can say pretty much what you want, though you can't force anyone to listen (let's leave out the interpretation by telemarketing scum, please). How is the internet different?
That's why the internet is so important. It gives EVERYONE the opportunity to participate in that freedom of press thing.
Don't take the word "press" to literal. It's intent was that everyone had the right to publish their opinion and make it available to the public. At the time the Constitution was written, this meant a printing press. With new technology, the means may differ, but the concept remains the same. When you post a rant in your blog, you are publishing your opinion and making it available to the public. You are exercising your freedom of press.
Should we be required to have an internet license, we would be yanked back to the situation we had prior to the internet -- newspapers and such controlled by just a few large corporations all with pretty much the same message and no viable alternatives. I don't want that. I hope you don't want that.
This has been a known problem since the first header forging virus/worm was released.
On the Exim mail list, the big question wasn't how to stop sobig.f. It was never a problem. The discussion was on how best to filter out the "you have a virus" bounce messages that were flooding the admins.
The accent should be over the o (in Jol), but slashdot doesn't allow accents (I tried using amp+ocute+; but it stripped it), so I settled for a "flying accent".
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What does compassion have to do with anything? I hate to break the news to you, sparky, but compassion isn't the government's job.
Leave the compassion choices to me. I'll choose who deserves my donation. This "government compassion" has created third generation welfare families (or have they reached the fourth generation). That's bullshit. There is no legal or moral justification to steal my money to give to someone else, no matter how deserving.
Perhaps, but isn't more fun to imagine the SCO assholes as a bunch of skinny dorks about to get their collective asses kicked by the varsity football team?
You have a belief that I find just plain ridiculous. That just because someone makes more money, they should be taxed at a higher rate. Why? There isn't any good reason. Let's give examples. Please excuse the oversimplification.
Let's assume a 10% tax on income. So a $20,000 income is taxes for $2,000. A $200,000 income is taxed for $20,000. Seems perfectly fair. The higher income person pays as much tax as the lower income person makes. The more you make, you more you pay.
Now for a progressive tax. Let's stick with 10% for the lower income, but jump it to 40% for the higher income. Now the $200,000 is taxed for $80,000.
Is making more money inherently wrong? No. Does making less money make you a better person deserving of special privileges? No. The progressive tax is nothing but an arbitrary and unfair taxation system that politicians implemented because they knew they could get away with it.
Progressive taxes should be declared unconstitutional (other countries can ignore this) since the Constitution states, "All taxes must be uniform."
Personally, I think the income tax should be dumped completely and we switch to a national sales tax (internet stuff included). Tax consumption, not production. Let people save their money in the bank or invest in a business or stocks and not get taxed, but buy that Lexus or yacht and you pay taxes.
We shouldn't give the government any ideas. They'll say their implementing a national sales tax and will slowly phase out the income tax, but we know that would never happen. We'd just end up getting yet another tax piled on our already oversized burden.
Naw, it's more like the chess club challenging the varsity football team. They go in thinking they'll be able to checkmate in a few moves, but suddenly find themselves in a huddle on the football field.
The Palestinians do not want to settle this in a peaceful manner. They just want to kill Jews.
The UN wants to condemn Israel for the crime of simply existing, so of course they will condemn them for anything and everything else.
I don't give a rat's ass what the UN has to say about anything.
Say what!? The United States has done everything humanly possible to bring a reasonable settlement to the Palestinians. Our last negotiated proposal (which the Israeli government agreed to) guanteed them their own country, aid to help create it, security, EVERYTHING they wanted. The Palestinian Authority refused the offer because it required them to agree that the State of Israel had a right to exist.
The Palestinians don't want peace. They only want to kill Jews.
The Palestinians were left adrift by Arafat and the other Muslim leaders in the Middle East - and by their own hatred.
You are making the incorrect assumption that ousting Saddam was based solely on this single bit of incorrect intelligence. That is about far wrong as you can possibly get. There was a huge list of reasons that justified taking out that murdering bastard. The Nigerian uranium claim was an extremely minor footnote, at best.
Mine still works. It's sitting right here on my desk. Screw those newfangled models. Nothing beats hacking on an HP41CV.
The drive has now been replaced so the lifespan of my Laks watch has been sparred. I wonder if the makers of the watch made it possible to replace the flash memory when it dies? Probably not. :(
I can't get anyone to listen, neither those scum sucking thieves at HP or Hitachi (which now owns the IBM division that originally made the drive). I've already replaced the drive. The store had a choice between the IBM/Hitachi Travelstar just like the original or a Toshiba. I went with the Toshiba drive.
Actually, it saved my wife. The hard drive in her laptop died. Normally, there's a 3 year warranty on them, but Hewlett-Packard being the cheap fucktards that they are OEMed the drive and reduced the warranty to 1 year. So my 15 month old drive is useless. Oops, I digress.
Money is rather tight, so I wasn't able to get a replacement drive immediately. However, my wife needed internet access at the minimum. Knoppix to the rescue. She was able to get full blown internet access and email. With the addition of my Laks watch with its 128Meg of memory, she had a persistent home directory so her settings (e.g. bookmarks) weren't lost.
I definately feel Knoppix was worth the money I spent on it. Oh wait! It was free! Damn. Such a deal! Seriously. Keep a Knoppix CD handy at all times. Its a life saver.
The middle class pays the largest share of taxes, and we're usually the ones to least benefit from a tax cut. Why are people who paid NO FUCKING TAXES getting a tax refund? Let's call it what it really is. Welfare.
Yes, the virus scan happens at the smtp, so I don't generate bounce messages that hit an innocent bystander. Of course, the mta of a worm doesn't care that I send a 'bugger off' message back to it.
BTW, I've also configured my mail server to scan archives using clamav so that nasty shit can't be slipped into my network. It also catches bad things inside of files that are not rejected by extension.
I'm sure there is an equilvent fix for sendmail. If you are running MS Exchange, the best way to fix your server is by taking a knife to its network cable.
This is easy to answer. It goes too far when the results are more than the administrator(s) can handle - such as in your case. So what if you can plug in monitoring software that spits out mountains of data? Who's going to take the time to actually look at that shit?
When monitoring software is that elaborate, it is not unreasonable to expect the software to analyze the logs, produce a simplified brief, and nuke the unneeded information to reduce disk wastage. Software for monitoring is supposed to reduce your work, not multiply it. And it should never, ever have the potential of crashing a system as this did.
Why didn't the software recognize that space was running short and turn off logging. Sending an alert of some sort would have been good, too. Isn't monitoring the state of resources important?
I'd insist the customers dump that package. It obviously has fatal flaws in its design.
Ok, I grabbed the perl program, went to a random Hungarian language websites, and scrambled a few sentences. She had trouble with some of the longer words, like orsz'gjelente'se'ben which became something like orjssblge'e'ta'zeeenn (those are flying accents since slashdot doesn't allow accented characters). Hungrian has some damn long words and "guessing" them as you read can be rather difficult. I think their language motto is "Never use two syllables when ten works just as well."
My guess is long scrambled words in any language would cause problems.
I had my wife read it. Her first languange is Hungarian and she had no problem at all. Of course, her English skills are simply outstanding, probably better than the average Americans. Hell, she even beats me in Scrabble on a regular basis!
Here's an interesting idea. I should scramble a few Hungarian sentences and see how well she handles it.
You have freedom of speech when using the telephone. You can say pretty much what you want, though you can't force anyone to listen (let's leave out the interpretation by telemarketing scum, please). How is the internet different?
That's why the internet is so important. It gives EVERYONE the opportunity to participate in that freedom of press thing.
Don't take the word "press" to literal. It's intent was that everyone had the right to publish their opinion and make it available to the public. At the time the Constitution was written, this meant a printing press. With new technology, the means may differ, but the concept remains the same. When you post a rant in your blog, you are publishing your opinion and making it available to the public. You are exercising your freedom of press.
Should we be required to have an internet license, we would be yanked back to the situation we had prior to the internet -- newspapers and such controlled by just a few large corporations all with pretty much the same message and no viable alternatives. I don't want that. I hope you don't want that.
For us Americans, the internet would be a freedom of speech and press issue. We don't need a license for that, nor would we tolerate it.
For you Europeans (?), you're sol since you have no such guarantees.
I think someone should have to take a course in the Constitution before making stupid fucking statements that would limit people's rights.
This has been a known problem since the first header forging virus/worm was released.
On the Exim mail list, the big question wasn't how to stop sobig.f. It was never a problem. The discussion was on how best to filter out the "you have a virus" bounce messages that were flooding the admins.