I, on the other hand, think tuna are evil. I can help you "take care" of your tuna problem, if you help me "take care" of my baby seal problem. I can provide the clubs, and I have some friends with some great nets that we can use. Let's show those f**kers who's boss on earth!
you were a 45 year old gay midget into tranny foot fetish porn with interests in RC cars, the Book of Mormon, and central Asian camel farming. Hey, get your facts straight; it's llama farming I'm interested in, not camel farming. And since last year, my tranny foot fetish has turned into a Brazilian tranny prolapse fetish. Better luck next time.
the most important advantage of gnu/linux and free software: you actually own the software, you don't just license it. You don't own GPL licensed software, unless you've written it. For instance; can you republish it under another license, such as the BSD license, or close source it? IMHO, GPL is just a "benevolent dictatorship" like form of regular Microsoft style software licensing. It's restricts what I can do with the software, and in addition tries to lift those restrictions to a moral high ground.
Your descriptions do not describe mere mischief, but harassment and intimidation. So where/how do draw the line between on one hand "mere mischief", and on the other hand "harassment and intimidation"?
Putting a sticker on a street sign. Carving your name in a tree. Small mischievous things are far different than wholesale destruction. Things like that make your neighborhood look like crap if enough people do it. There's a good Swedish saying than exemplifies this: "Många bäckar små bildar stor å." (Literal translation: "Many small brooks create a big river." Closest English saying I know of: "Many a little makes a mickle."/"Many a mickle makes a muckle.") I'm annoyed each time I get into the elevator in my house and see the increasing amount of stickers and scribble on the walls.
This "zero tolerance" absolutist world we live in doesn't allow children to make mistakes or recover from bad judgment. One mistake and they want to bring the full force of law down on you. Oh, come on, it's not like I'm suggesting the death penalty for throwing a piece of gum on the ground. But I also don't think children, or adults, should be given a free ride to destroy or tamper with the property of others.
Kids have bad judgment, it is a fact and it is a flaw in human beings. We should seriously consider this during prosecution. And when kids do things that cause harm to others, we should punish them so they learn their behavior was wrong. Some people NEED to taste the rod.
During my teenage years, I committed minor theft, minor burglary, vandalism (according to both your and mine definitions), and several other similar things, and I feel certain that I would have stopped a lot earlier with those activities if I had been discovered and punished for them. As it was, I only stopped with them when I got old enough that having them as a criminal record would have looked bad when seeking employment later on. Oh, wait, that's the kind of rational thought that doesn't occur according to those who (like to) think that harder punishments don't deter...
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Equating serious crime with mischief. Vandalism is by no means the violent act that rape is. My previous post was obviously not serious, but this is. I consider vandalism to be a "serious crime", in the meaning that yes, it is a crime in most (all?) places to destroy other people's property, and yes, any crime that effects other people in a non-trivial negative way is serious IMHO. How would you like it if someone spray painted your car or house, ripped up all the plants in your garden, or broke into your computer and did god-knows-what to it? And for clarification, no, this doesn't mean that I equate spraying a graffiti tag on a bus to raping a woman, or pissing on your neighbors drying laundry to ripping the arms of their newborn baby.
Vandalism is a form of expression. I tried to tell the judge that rape is a form of art, and that convicting me would be like convicting Michelangelo for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but for some reason she didn't agree. Bitch!
I want to point out here just how freakishly good GMail's spam filters have become
I've been wondering about that, and especially how much of the effectiveness that can be attributed to each of the following two factors:
1. Google's ability to use a single email X to determine if X is spam.
2. Google's ability to use their whole Gmail system (stored data about who sent what to whom when, etc.) to determine if X is spam.
If 2 plays a major part in their effectiveness, it means a server side spam-filter has a lot better chance of working well than a spam-filter placed at the end user's computer.
My bet is that Google's spam-filter secret consists of scrubbing their email with gypsy tears. After all, if they're good enough for curing AIDS, they should be good enough for detecting and blocking spam.
I personally just used MPlayer or VLC for most things. I still do. I prefer VLC, but find QuickTime Player handy for the occasional file VLC won't play, and for converting.flv (downloaded YouTube clips) to.mov.
No, Newton said that Leibniz was not the center of the universe Hey, why u dissing my homey Leibniz? Y'all know that cracker bitch fool Newton wuz like high on shit and wuz lookin' foe payback cuz he ain't got no real pimp skillz like my bruthah Leibniz. U know what I'm sayin'? Characteristica universalis? Calculus ratiocinator? Think 'bout it! Word is bond!
That changed in the last version of quicktime. Update your program and full-screen viewing can be yours. Another way is to kindly ask the magic Internet Google pixies to give you a free "Pro" registration key...
Or someone could point out the difference between pro applications and OSes. But that's splitting hairs.
Why is full screen viewing only enabled in the "Pro" version of QuickTime Player? Is that really a "professional feature" that you should expect to pay extra for? Well, not IMHO.
As a mac user, I am confused by this. The only pop-ups I get asking for money come from (non-apple) shareware, and I usually either pay for the programs or stop using them.
My guess was that he was speaking about QuickTime Player, and the registration required to get the "Pro" features.
If you ever play MS Flight Simulator, you start to realize just how many airports there are in the US. Many of the small ones are uncontrolled, often without a tower and maybe just a single building. There's no way the feds can watch them all. Even some of the larger municipal airports will be lucky to have a dedicated fed at them, because it turns out there is one in just about every city of 30,000 or more, and even many smaller cities (though of course you aren't going to find 737 service to them). I see the government's indoctrination plan to turn all citizens into socialist sheeple is working. Around here, we local hard working and God fearing folks decided to round up all the local paranoid-schizophrenic sniper wannabes, form them into a local airport protection militia, give them permission to use deadly force as necessary based on their judgement, and tell them that we trust them (and their beloved sniper rifles) fully to protect us from any terrorists/UN troops/space aliens/French people, that try to infiltrate our local community in order to fluoridate our drinking water and children's ice cream. So far the plan has worked perfectly, despite several attempts by the terrorists/UN troops/space aliens/French people to infiltrate our community disguised as regular innocent people. No sirree, you thought you were oh-so-clever to disguise yourself and your comrades as a normal 'Murrican family with kids, but Bubba and Cletus aren't fooled that easily!
I tend to prefer swords, but I can deal with a spear. =]
I say, Good Sir, I know of several makers and sellers of swords suitable for the modern gentleman who plans to visit the darkest corners of Ooga Chaka's land, but I have so far only found one for spears:
I know! How about we let adults choos for themselves whether to indulge in self-destructive behavior if it makes them happy. We could just decide that freedom was more important than safety. It's a revolutionary idea. The problem is; who will pay for the cleanup?
I'm still using Safari 1.3.1, so I'm not familiar with the latest versions of it. Is there anything in the latest versions of Safari which does the open-these-multiple-links-in-tabs trick that the Linky extension does for Firefox? I find that trick to be very useful in general, and a must have feature for some surfing in particular.
We had -33 degrees celsius during winter exercises when I did my conscript service in Finland. It did not stop us from being outside with relatively little clothes on, since we did not get any time to take off clothes when the marching orders came and the skiing started. Since you don't want to sweat and get your clothes wet when you are physically active, you adapt by wearing little clothes all the time and freezing your ass off when you are waiting and standing still. In my humble opinion -30 degrees celsius is not really that cold, and I see no problems being out for extended periods in that temperature, since I have done it myself several times.
"My point was the default install is useless as a system, as in to get it doing useful work, you're going to have to add software, open some services, etc. All of which potentially open security problems, if not done with care."
And the point is that you have to enable these things explicitly, which means there is less risk of unsecure services running due to you, or someone else, having forgot ten to disable them. Do you remember how many Linux distributions were configured by default say five years ago? They looked like christmas trees with all their network services enabled by default. Fortunetly things have changed to the better.
I personally like the minimalistic "bare bones Unix" feel of OpenBSD, but that is just MY taste, and others are free to have THEIR preferences.
Even if you find the passphrase for my private RSA-key, you still need to get the file the key is stored in. This may not be so simple if I don't store it in publicly available places. For example, the private RSA-key for my account on my home network is only stored on my laptop, my workstation at work (own business) and two accounts at my university. This helps security a lot compared to just using a password, since you need to break the security at one of these places in order to get the private RSA-key, in addition to getting my passphrase for it.
You can store your private RSA-key on a removable storage media like an USB-dongle. When this is combined with prudent use of the USB-dongle (don't have it plugged in when it doesn't need to be plugged in), the time window for keygrabbing attacks is less than when storing the private RSA-key on a regular harddrive.
How many times have you used SSH to access host A and entered the password for host B? I have done it several times in stressed situations. The use of RSA-keys prevents the administrator on host A from getting your password for host B.
If you need more speed than native Python provides, you can always write code in C and wrap it so it is callable from Python. The wrapping is really easy to do, once you have understood the general concepts involved in it. The product I currently work on has about 10000 lines of C code (crypto and networking) which is used this way, and it works perfectly. For more information about extending Python with C, see:
Slashdot Mirror
I've been wondering about that, and especially how much of the effectiveness that can be attributed to each of the following two factors:
1. Google's ability to use a single email X to determine if X is spam.
2. Google's ability to use their whole Gmail system (stored data about who sent what to whom when, etc.) to determine if X is spam.
If 2 plays a major part in their effectiveness, it means a server side spam-filter has a lot better chance of working well than a spam-filter placed at the end user's computer.
My bet is that Google's spam-filter secret consists of scrubbing their email with gypsy tears. After all, if they're good enough for curing AIDS, they should be good enough for detecting and blocking spam.
Why is full screen viewing only enabled in the "Pro" version of QuickTime Player? Is that really a "professional feature" that you should expect to pay extra for? Well, not IMHO.
My guess was that he was speaking about QuickTime Player, and the registration required to get the "Pro" features.
I say, Good Sir, I know of several makers and sellers of swords suitable for the modern gentleman who plans to visit the darkest corners of Ooga Chaka's land, but I have so far only found one for spears:
http://www.coldsteel.com/spears-high-performance-spears.htmlI have used a Maxpedition Fatboy Versipack daily for about six months, and have grown to really like it.
http://www.maxpedition.com/product/product_vp_fatb oy.htm/
http://www.maxpedition.com/product/catalog_versipa ck.htm/
My favourites among swedish road signs are the "pedofile ahead" signs:
http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_3/1_3_6_ 1.gif
http://www.vv.se/filer/bilder/vagmarken/1_4/1_4_12 .gif
;-)
I'm still using Safari 1.3.1, so I'm not familiar with the latest versions of it. Is there anything in the latest versions of Safari which does the open-these-multiple-links-in-tabs trick that the Linky extension does for Firefox? I find that trick to be very useful in general, and a must have feature for some surfing in particular.
We had -33 degrees celsius during winter exercises when I did my conscript service in Finland. It did not stop us from being outside with relatively little clothes on, since we did not get any time to take off clothes when the marching orders came and the skiing started. Since you don't want to sweat and get your clothes wet when you are physically active, you adapt by wearing little clothes all the time and freezing your ass off when you are waiting and standing still. In my humble opinion -30 degrees celsius is not really that cold, and I see no problems being out for extended periods in that temperature, since I have done it myself several times.
"Nuclear weapons don't kill people, people kill people.
Support citizens rights to use nuclear weapons for hunting and home defense!"
-Unknown
"My point was the default install is useless as a system, as in to get it doing useful work, you're going to have to add software, open some services, etc. All of which potentially open security problems, if not done with care." And the point is that you have to enable these things explicitly, which means there is less risk of unsecure services running due to you, or someone else, having forgot ten to disable them. Do you remember how many Linux distributions were configured by default say five years ago? They looked like christmas trees with all their network services enabled by default. Fortunetly things have changed to the better. I personally like the minimalistic "bare bones Unix" feel of OpenBSD, but that is just MY taste, and others are free to have THEIR preferences.
Even if you find the passphrase for my private RSA-key, you still need to get the file the key is stored in. This may not be so simple if I don't store it in publicly available places. For example, the private RSA-key for my account on my home network is only stored on my laptop, my workstation at work (own business) and two accounts at my university. This helps security a lot compared to just using a password, since you need to break the security at one of these places in order to get the private RSA-key, in addition to getting my passphrase for it.
You can store your private RSA-key on a removable storage media like an USB-dongle. When this is combined with prudent use of the USB-dongle (don't have it plugged in when it doesn't need to be plugged in), the time window for keygrabbing attacks is less than when storing the private RSA-key on a regular harddrive.
How many times have you used SSH to access host A and entered the password for host B? I have done it several times in stressed situations. The use of RSA-keys prevents the administrator on host A from getting your password for host B.
Read ifconfig(8) to see how you can do it under Linux. Google for "sea.c" to see how you can do it under OpenBSD.
If you need more speed than native Python provides, you can always write code in C and wrap it so it is callable from Python. The wrapping is really easy to do, once you have understood the general concepts involved in it. The product I currently work on has about 10000 lines of C code (crypto and networking) which is used this way, and it works perfectly. For more information about extending Python with C, see:
Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter
Python/C API Reference Manual
Take a look at the Tiger GSM phone from Sectra.