For a while... I used a greylist of a sorts... one thing that got dumped into my "Whitelist" folder was that the people sending the e-mail just had to put the word "whitelist" into the subject line... That seemed to work quite well...
Of course... now that I put this here... YMMV...
Nephilium
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. -- Louis Pasteur, French scientist
That's FreeB (Free as in beer... mmmm... beer...), not FreeS (Free as in Speech)... In general, when people (especially on/.) talk about Free Software, they're referring to FreeS.
Nephilium
People who will not take the trouble to raise children should not have them. -- Podkayne of Mars
I'm not following your reasoning. Why do you believe that there being a Creator explains nothing? There being a creator changes many things about the way we live life - the value of other humans, the nature of morality, their being an objective and external purpose to life. Describing the Creator is certainly outside the purview of science, but it it not outside the ability of humans to describe at least partially by other means.
Well... let me take a stab at this...
If there is a creator, it proves nothing. We know nothing about this creator... is he benevolent, malevonent, or apathetic? You are operating under the impression that any creator would have to be good... or even interested...
Nephilium
I only drink during celebrations. And I'm the kind of optimist who likes to think every day is a celebration. --- Kate Rios-Hermann, wedding planner
# Translations imbue subtle changes throughout a text by choosing how to express phrases in another language. Even our understanding of one langauge changes over time.
As an example of this... look at the biblical question of witches vs. poisoners, or the Islamic question of virgins vs. raisins...
Nephilium
"If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will." -- Chandler's notebooks
That's what all the gibberish spam is! It's us sending ourselves messages from the future!
Of course, this means that in the future, we will all need giant penises and breasts to fight off the alien invaders, but we can finance the purchasing of the pills needed by buying penny stocks, consolidating our bills, and refinancing our homes... Of course, it also means that we will all be impotant, and need to purchase viagra in order to keep our species going...
It's all so clear to me now...
Nephilium
"Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food." -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 1)
Which they ruined with a really bad sequel... the first one was great mindless fun...
I was expecting about an hour and a half of wire-fu fighting going in, and I got it. No big plots, just lots of fighting...
And as I remember, one of the few times every male (geek) in the audience cheered when someone got nutted (when Johnny Cage did his splits/groin punch to Goro)...
Nephilium
"You boys are as cute as a couple of lost golf balls . . . how in the world do you do it?" -- The High Window (Chapter 23)
Favorite story of a visiting family from the Netherlands (one of my friends was married to their daughter)...
They're talking to some people discussing what they want to do over the weekend... they decide they want to drive over to the Grand Canyon, since everyone has told them they need to see it while they're in the USA. They were in Ohio... They couldn't grasp the concept that there are parts of the country that put it far outside the idea of a weekend trip. They didn't really get their minds wrapped around it until my friend took them to a library and got a map of the US and the Netherlands to the same scale, and showed them.
It's like the old Bill Cosby skit on foreign languages... "Sure, in Europe they speak lots of languages. Drive for twenty minutes, and people are talking a different language. Here in America, you can drive for five days and not hear anything other then English."
Nephilium
"Tall, aren't you?" she said."I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her. --- The Big Sleep (Chapter 1)
This reminds me of the old speech given (and verified)... back in 1973...
Every time I read/hear/run across this speech, it makes me think...
Nephilium
"Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
One of my favorite "Think of the children" quotes...
Rule 1: When someone talks about 'the children' watch out for your wallet.
Rule 2: When someone talks about 'the children' watch out for your freedoms.
And now, it seems:
Rule 3: When someone talks about 'the children' watch out for your democracy.
- Andrew Stuttaford
Nephilium
What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style. -- Potiphar (Potty) Breen in The Year of the Jackpot
Go to the wrong punch palace on a weekend night... or the wrong club, and it becomes very important...
I live in suburban Ohio [Cleveland]... I've seen barfights that were ended when someone picked up a cigar ashtray and kept hitting someone in the head with it until it finally shattered... I've seen the aftermath of a thrown pint glass...
It's always useful to know the situation you're in...
Nephilium
"The walls here are as thin as a hoofer's wallet." -- Playback (Chapter 5)
So.. what does this say about the few of us that are extroverted, and good at math and logic?
Personally... I love the fact I can answer the phone with the line, "What did you break this time?" and have people laughing...
Nephilium
The troubles of our proud and angry dust/Are from eternity, and shall not fail./Bear them we can, and if we can we must./Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. -- A.E. Housman, British poet
Sorry... the most frightening thing I ever heard a (now-ex) tell me was, "You make me think too much."....
For fucks sake... I want a girl that I can hold a conversation/debate with... someone who thinks before speaking... who has a simple grasp of logic... and who doesn't decide I fit immediately into the, "I wish I could meet a guy just like you" category...
And this is how I learned that there's usually trouble that comes out of drinking, listening to Irish drinking music, and reading Modern Drunkard Magazine... and yet I still do it...
Does this mean I'm addicted? To three things no less...
Nephilium
The itch to be a world saver should not be scratched; it rarely does any good and can drastically shorten your life. -- Lazarus in Time Enough for Love
All from Lazarus Long, in the stories of Robert A. Heinlen...
Nephilium
The only religious opinion that I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together! -- Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land
And you ignored the fact that he has nothing against anti-parent blocking on his site...
Most of what he fights against are the schools/libraries/government institutions that use software that you CAN'T see what's being blocked...
I have no issue at all with parents deciding what is right or wrong for their children to see... that's the job of parents... to raise their children in the way that they think is right (although at times I wish there was a test that was more difficult then the practical exam necessary...)
Add to the fact that most parents don't know shite about technology... and assume that any blocking software will just "block those bad sites"... and never think about "good" sites that may be blocked...
Nephilium
"I never saw any of them again - except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them." --- The Long Goodbye (Chapter 52)
Goodness is an easy one... Do the least harm possible... Or... in programming terms:
If (ActiveActionHarm) > (InactionHarm) Then
Do (ActiveAction)
Else
Do (Inaction)
At least... that's how I define it...
Nephilium
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian author
And your comment reminds me of a great quote from RAH's Starship Troopers...
'Juvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms, one which gives a clue to their problem and failure to solve it. -- Colonel Dubois in Starship Troopers
The point being a Juvenile has no real responsibilities... and hence cannot be delinquent in them...
Nephilium
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts" --- The Big Sleep (Chapter 8)
Actually... for the most part... he's against government institutions blocking sites from a kid... especially when no one really knows what's being blocked... not so much the parents... and I agree... especially since no one really knows what's being blocked... go ahead... get a full list of blocked sites from a CensorWare provider...
Go ahead...
I'm still waiting...
Nephilium
In at least one respect Barstow was a wise man; he knew that another man could oppose him and not be a villain. -- From Methuselah's Children
Personally... I'm scared by some of the anti-Jewish speech that comes to the front on the "extreme" Left wing sites... And that fact that none of them ever get called out on it...
Nephilium
Man being reasonable, must get drunk. The best of life is but intoxication. --- Lord Byron, English author, poet
Best story about boneheads I ever heard was about a group of SHARPS (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice) that went to Chicago for a KKK rally... they had ridden on their scooters, and parked on the street right in front of the podium... the cops came up to them and told them that they couldn't park *their*, however they could park on the sidewalk right next to the podium... so there they sat... revving their engines everytime the guy started ranting...
Of course... before they arrived, they removed all the padding from their mufflers... so picture... if you will... a racist fuck standing on stage, pumping his arms in the air, with the only sound being scooter motors...
The cops sat their laughing the whole time...
Nephilium... The long haired SHARP...
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket" -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 18)
Slashdot Mirror
For a while... I used a greylist of a sorts... one thing that got dumped into my "Whitelist" folder was that the people sending the e-mail just had to put the word "whitelist" into the subject line... That seemed to work quite well...
Of course... now that I put this here... YMMV...
Nephilium
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. -- Louis Pasteur, French scientist
As an aside... they are offering $175 to each person who complains to them about the rootkit... or fills out their form...
Not that I'm happy with the outcome... but they are getting hit for that... assuming people fill out the paperwork...
Nephilium
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. - Milton Friedman
That's FreeB (Free as in beer... mmmm... beer...), not FreeS (Free as in Speech)... In general, when people (especially on /.) talk about Free Software, they're referring to FreeS.
Nephilium
People who will not take the trouble to raise children should not have them. -- Podkayne of Mars
Well... let me take a stab at this...
If there is a creator, it proves nothing. We know nothing about this creator... is he benevolent, malevonent, or apathetic? You are operating under the impression that any creator would have to be good... or even interested...
Nephilium
I only drink during celebrations. And I'm the kind of optimist who likes to think every day is a celebration. --- Kate Rios-Hermann, wedding planner
As an example of this... look at the biblical question of witches vs. poisoners, or the Islamic question of virgins vs. raisins...
Nephilium
"If you don't leave, I'll get somebody who will." -- Chandler's notebooks
I was merely translating from the Dialect of the Future!
It's more proof that the messages are coming from the future...
Nephilium
AH-HA!
That's what all the gibberish spam is! It's us sending ourselves messages from the future!
Of course, this means that in the future, we will all need giant penises and breasts to fight off the alien invaders, but we can finance the purchasing of the pills needed by buying penny stocks, consolidating our bills, and refinancing our homes... Of course, it also means that we will all be impotant, and need to purchase viagra in order to keep our species going...
It's all so clear to me now...
Nephilium
"Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food." -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 1)
Which they ruined with a really bad sequel... the first one was great mindless fun...
I was expecting about an hour and a half of wire-fu fighting going in, and I got it. No big plots, just lots of fighting...
And as I remember, one of the few times every male (geek) in the audience cheered when someone got nutted (when Johnny Cage did his splits/groin punch to Goro)...
Nephilium
"You boys are as cute as a couple of lost golf balls . . . how in the world do you do it?" -- The High Window (Chapter 23)
If nothing else... it lets you see the racist fucks for who they are...
Nephilium
"Her smile was as faint as a fat lady at a fireman's ball." -- High Window (Chapter 3)
Favorite story of a visiting family from the Netherlands (one of my friends was married to their daughter)...
They're talking to some people discussing what they want to do over the weekend... they decide they want to drive over to the Grand Canyon, since everyone has told them they need to see it while they're in the USA. They were in Ohio... They couldn't grasp the concept that there are parts of the country that put it far outside the idea of a weekend trip. They didn't really get their minds wrapped around it until my friend took them to a library and got a map of the US and the Netherlands to the same scale, and showed them.
It's like the old Bill Cosby skit on foreign languages... "Sure, in Europe they speak lots of languages. Drive for twenty minutes, and people are talking a different language. Here in America, you can drive for five days and not hear anything other then English."
Nephilium
"Tall, aren't you?" she said."I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her. --- The Big Sleep (Chapter 1)
This reminds me of the old speech given (and verified)... back in 1973...
Every time I read/hear/run across this speech, it makes me think...
Nephilium
"Take it from me, whenever you see a bunch of buggers puttering around talking about truth and beauty and the best way of attacking Ethics, you can bet your sandals it's all because dozens of other poor buggers are doing all the real work around the place." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
One of my favorite "Think of the children" quotes...
Nephilium
What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style. -- Potiphar (Potty) Breen in The Year of the Jackpot
Go to the wrong punch palace on a weekend night... or the wrong club, and it becomes very important...
I live in suburban Ohio [Cleveland]... I've seen barfights that were ended when someone picked up a cigar ashtray and kept hitting someone in the head with it until it finally shattered... I've seen the aftermath of a thrown pint glass...
It's always useful to know the situation you're in...
Nephilium
"The walls here are as thin as a hoofer's wallet." -- Playback (Chapter 5)
You do not mock the Buddha...
It brings peace to me...
Especially while I curse my metabolism that decided to slow down at age 27...
Nephilium
The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head. -- (Terry Pratchett, Hogfather)
So.. what does this say about the few of us that are extroverted, and good at math and logic?
Personally... I love the fact I can answer the phone with the line, "What did you break this time?" and have people laughing...
Nephilium
The troubles of our proud and angry dust/Are from eternity, and shall not fail./Bear them we can, and if we can we must./Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. -- A.E. Housman, British poet
Sorry... the most frightening thing I ever heard a (now-ex) tell me was, "You make me think too much."....
For fucks sake... I want a girl that I can hold a conversation/debate with... someone who thinks before speaking... who has a simple grasp of logic... and who doesn't decide I fit immediately into the, "I wish I could meet a guy just like you" category...
Nephilium
"I'm bitter and I like it", Stone brewery
This falls into the four levels of knowledge:
1) I'm afraid of it.
2) I know everything!
3) I know what I know and I don't know.
4) I created that.
Nephilium... Happy living at level 3.
If penicillin can cure those who are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life. --- Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillinAnd this is how I learned that there's usually trouble that comes out of drinking, listening to Irish drinking music, and reading Modern Drunkard Magazine... and yet I still do it...
Does this mean I'm addicted? To three things no less...
Nephilium
The itch to be a world saver should not be scratched; it rarely does any good and can drastically shorten your life. -- Lazarus in Time Enough for Love
At least attribute...
All from Lazarus Long, in the stories of Robert A. Heinlen...
Nephilium
The only religious opinion that I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together! -- Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land
And you ignored the fact that he has nothing against anti-parent blocking on his site...
Most of what he fights against are the schools/libraries/government institutions that use software that you CAN'T see what's being blocked...
I have no issue at all with parents deciding what is right or wrong for their children to see... that's the job of parents... to raise their children in the way that they think is right (although at times I wish there was a test that was more difficult then the practical exam necessary...)
Add to the fact that most parents don't know shite about technology... and assume that any blocking software will just "block those bad sites"... and never think about "good" sites that may be blocked...
Nephilium
"I never saw any of them again - except the cops. No way has yet been invented to say goodbye to them." --- The Long Goodbye (Chapter 52)
Goodness is an easy one... Do the least harm possible... Or... in programming terms:
If (ActiveActionHarm) > (InactionHarm) Then
Do (ActiveAction)
Else
Do (Inaction)
At least... that's how I define it...
Nephilium
A man who doesn't drink is not, in my opinion, fully a man. -- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian author
And your comment reminds me of a great quote from RAH's Starship Troopers...
The point being a Juvenile has no real responsibilities... and hence cannot be delinquent in them...
Nephilium
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts" --- The Big Sleep (Chapter 8)
Actually... for the most part... he's against government institutions blocking sites from a kid... especially when no one really knows what's being blocked... not so much the parents... and I agree... especially since no one really knows what's being blocked... go ahead... get a full list of blocked sites from a CensorWare provider...
Go ahead...
I'm still waiting...
Nephilium
In at least one respect Barstow was a wise man; he knew that another man could oppose him and not be a villain. -- From Methuselah's Children
Personally... I'm scared by some of the anti-Jewish speech that comes to the front on the "extreme" Left wing sites... And that fact that none of them ever get called out on it...
Nephilium
Man being reasonable, must get drunk. The best of life is but intoxication. --- Lord Byron, English author, poet
Best story about boneheads I ever heard was about a group of SHARPS (SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice) that went to Chicago for a KKK rally... they had ridden on their scooters, and parked on the street right in front of the podium... the cops came up to them and told them that they couldn't park *their*, however they could park on the sidewalk right next to the podium... so there they sat... revving their engines everytime the guy started ranting...
Of course... before they arrived, they removed all the padding from their mufflers... so picture... if you will... a racist fuck standing on stage, pumping his arms in the air, with the only sound being scooter motors...
The cops sat their laughing the whole time...
Nephilium... The long haired SHARP...
"She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket" -- Farewell, My Lovely (Chapter 18)