All picayne password requirements do is force the users to write their passwords on little pieces of paper stuck to the bottom of their keyboards.
Have to change your password every month? Simply append a monthly-incrementing number at the end of your normal password. Congratulations, you just lost the benefit of rotating passwords! Have to use symbols and numbers? Write in 133t5p3&k and all you do is prevent the 1&m35t of dictionary crackers. Prevent that and the users will WRITE their passwords down!
One password on a system at my work had a dictionary that was cracked in less than 72 hours. Corporate IT chewed my ass off and spit it out in little pieces over that one. But the sad part was that the system was a lab system that two hundred people needed access to. The result of IT's analism was that we had to write the password on the lab chalkboard so people could use the system.
My point isn't that passwords are stupid it's that rules for the mere sake of having rules is stupid.
...and we are all sadder and poorer for that lack.
Actually, we might be happier and richer if it happens. If no one wants it why keep it around? If someone wants it, it will remain. If no one does, why should you care?
Freedom of speech does not exist, don't try to test it. They will come bust down your door - for real - point a gun to your head and pull the trigger if you refuse to comply.
Someone that is so against government control and intrusion should have known that this inevitability would occur at some point.
Someone who ran an anarchists website should know better than to believe in the existance free speech. As harsh as it may sound to those of you educated in state schools, the truth of reality is that the only right is "might makes right". Everything else is a useful fiction.
We have the free speech rights under the state because we the people are mightier than the state, and have demanded that they not interfer in certain areas of our lives. But this is an ongoing power struggle, and we must always be on guard against the state trying to usurp our rights. Regardless of whether that state is "red" or "blue".
In an anarchist society we only have the rights that we can wrest from the harshness of reality. Fortunately everyone else will be in the same boat, so the odds of continuing the useful fiction of rights will be high. But it will not guaranteed, for there will be no one to guarantee it.
The real reason the UN wants to regulate the internet: to stop the bloggers. Around the world they are being used to provide information for pro-democracy movements. Around the world they are providing information that the state controlled media can't or won't. Bloggers have become an embarassment to Kofi, and he wants them shut down.
The crackdowns have already started. In the US new proposals would give freedom of the press only to FEC approved outlets.
Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates...
You mean the "left wing" don't you? Wasn't it her counterpart, the former Second Lady Tipper Gore, who had a campaign against violence in music because it would cause impressionable youth to murder policemen? Wasn't she joined by former Democrat VP candidate Joe Lieberman?
While there are many on the right who want to limit what our children can see or hear, they are joined by an equally strident group of do-gooders on the left.
Enlightenment was never the window manager for GNOME. In the beginning GNOME eschewed all forms of standard window managers. Any window manager was sufficient (as long as it followed the horrible GNOME window manager specs, but I digress). Enlightenment was popular because it had a lot of eyecandy, but it was never the official window manager for GNOME.
Then along came Redhat, who decried that Enlightenment should be the official WM for GNOME. Rasterman told Redhat to get stuffed and took off. The Havoc thought, "gee we should have a standard window manager, that way we could make our sucky WM specs even worse than they already are", and sawfish/sawmill was born.
Of hand, does anyone know of a WM that's relaly easy to customize, but also very flexible?
Easy and flexible are opposites, unfortunately. Something like Blackbox allows you to define a few gradients and call it finished, but you don't get a lot of flexibility. KWin allows you to do *anything*, but you have to write your own plugin. Towards the easy side you also have IceWM and Windowmaker, while towards the flexible side you have Metacity and Fvwm.
The people who built the later cathedrals in the rennaiscance were of the same opinion. Backed by incredibly wealthy patrons and a surplus of masons, they laughed at earlier era's notions of simplicity. The least of their worries was running out of ink on the blueprints, or running out of tasks for the artisans to perform. "More curliques!" was their battle cry.
And thus they invented Baroque. It's a nice style, if you're into that kind of thing. But it's hardly a universal aesthetic.
I think the Free Software crowd is becoming jaded with continual release after release after release. Does one need to keep on adding features just to attract attention? Does one need to purposely introduce bugs just so there's an excuse to cut a new release in six months?
Sometimes you just have to realize that the software is done. Finished. Completed. That software is Blackbox.
Certification are like university degrees. They demonstrate you've put up with the bullshit long enough to accomplish something.
Why should I hire a professinal admin who never took the time to get a certification? Think about it. If someone comes to me with the claim that they've been administering Solaris systems for the past twenty years, but never bothered to get a SCSA at any time during that period, I'm going to be very suspicious of them. The only thing a lack of certification does is to certify lazyness.
If so, what should be done when errors or exceptions are raised during the evaluation of an assertion?
Scream and throw up. Or in other words, loudly dump core. That's what the asserts are for.
Asserts should always be turned off in production software, so it doesn't matter how noisy the asserts are. If you're an open source project and are worried about 1&m3r distros building your stuff with debug on (I've had it happen to me), then turn it off by default.
Thus, the actual cost per kilowatt hour depends on how long you use the solar panel. The longer you use the panel, the cheaper each kilowatt hour becomes.
So you're telling me that I really didn't lose my investment in this piece of shit solar panel I got stuck with? You're telling me that all I need to do is to wait an extra fifty years for my return on investment? I take it you're a bridge salesman in your other job...
If it's not the same, then please tell when where the line between prudent use of harddrive space and wasteful bloatation is located? If it's not 100Mb as you keep saying, then is it at 500Mb? 1Gb? 4Gb? 1Tb? At what point would the size of Acroread become disproportionate to its functionality? At what point would *you* say that Acroread is bloated?
Imagine you buy a new base model Honda Civic. You then go to twenty different third party after-market vendors for stuff like air conditioning, cruise control, etc. You replace your standard fuel filters, brake pads, etc., with stuff ordered online. You get a series of spams about putting magnets in your gas tank and taping crystals to your spark plugs, so you do it. You never change your oil or rotate your tires because it's too difficult to remember to do it. Whenever something goes wrong you have a twelve year old neighbor kid look at it first.
What is your legitimate auto dealer going to say when you bring your car in for service? He's going to laugh in your face!
The analogies are the same in terms of wastefulness. That 100Mb may be only a tiny part of my harddrive, but that harddrive space is fixed. It's a major pain in the butt to backup/replace/restore harddrives, so I'm not going to do just because wastefulness is fashionable.
Yeah, you got me on that one now that I think of it - their censure was a popular reaction wasn't it?
Yup, public reaction. The Dixie Chicks exercised their right to be stupid. Were they completely unaware of who their core customer base was?
In terms of personal rights being revoked one might look at the many Arab-Americans who have been wrongfully detained.
But they haven't been detained for calling Bush a "dickhead". Their cause is not helped by being ignorant to the details of their detention. They aren't there because of any free speech issues.
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All picayne password requirements do is force the users to write their passwords on little pieces of paper stuck to the bottom of their keyboards.
Have to change your password every month? Simply append a monthly-incrementing number at the end of your normal password. Congratulations, you just lost the benefit of rotating passwords! Have to use symbols and numbers? Write in 133t5p3&k and all you do is prevent the 1&m35t of dictionary crackers. Prevent that and the users will WRITE their passwords down!
One password on a system at my work had a dictionary that was cracked in less than 72 hours. Corporate IT chewed my ass off and spit it out in little pieces over that one. But the sad part was that the system was a lab system that two hundred people needed access to. The result of IT's analism was that we had to write the password on the lab chalkboard so people could use the system.
My point isn't that passwords are stupid it's that rules for the mere sake of having rules is stupid.
I would love to see these white-collar criminals treating like the self-serving scum that they really are.
Ditto! Instead of punishing the honest corporation for the sins of Enron and WorldCom, why not punish the actual lawbreakers?
Actually, the (sub-)investigation was about lying under oath. If Clinton didn't lie about the blowjob and try to cover it up, he would have been fine.
...and we are all sadder and poorer for that lack.
Actually, we might be happier and richer if it happens. If no one wants it why keep it around? If someone wants it, it will remain. If no one does, why should you care?
Someone that is so against government control and intrusion should have known that this inevitability would occur at some point.
Someone who ran an anarchists website should know better than to believe in the existance free speech. As harsh as it may sound to those of you educated in state schools, the truth of reality is that the only right is "might makes right". Everything else is a useful fiction.
We have the free speech rights under the state because we the people are mightier than the state, and have demanded that they not interfer in certain areas of our lives. But this is an ongoing power struggle, and we must always be on guard against the state trying to usurp our rights. Regardless of whether that state is "red" or "blue".
In an anarchist society we only have the rights that we can wrest from the harshness of reality. Fortunately everyone else will be in the same boat, so the odds of continuing the useful fiction of rights will be high. But it will not guaranteed, for there will be no one to guarantee it.
The real reason the UN wants to regulate the internet: to stop the bloggers. Around the world they are being used to provide information for pro-democracy movements. Around the world they are providing information that the state controlled media can't or won't. Bloggers have become an embarassment to Kofi, and he wants them shut down.
The crackdowns have already started. In the US new proposals would give freedom of the press only to FEC approved outlets.
Correct. Which is why there is now a blackbox-0.70.
You are one of the base masses, who sole purpose in life is to escape boredom by whatever sick method you can devise.
Precisely. And my current sick method of escaping boredom is to tweak pretentious twits.
I don't want to hire anyone who would put up with bullshit.
In all likelihood your business is drowning in bullshit. You will need someone who can operate in that environment.
1. How do you install a new software package?
E. None of the above
The correct way to install a software package is "make install && make clean".
This has been a public service announcement from your local humourless slashdot poster.
Hillary Clinton has joined right wing advocates...
You mean the "left wing" don't you? Wasn't it her counterpart, the former Second Lady Tipper Gore, who had a campaign against violence in music because it would cause impressionable youth to murder policemen? Wasn't she joined by former Democrat VP candidate Joe Lieberman?
While there are many on the right who want to limit what our children can see or hear, they are joined by an equally strident group of do-gooders on the left.
Before that I think it was Enlightenment.
Enlightenment was never the window manager for GNOME. In the beginning GNOME eschewed all forms of standard window managers. Any window manager was sufficient (as long as it followed the horrible GNOME window manager specs, but I digress). Enlightenment was popular because it had a lot of eyecandy, but it was never the official window manager for GNOME.
Then along came Redhat, who decried that Enlightenment should be the official WM for GNOME. Rasterman told Redhat to get stuffed and took off. The Havoc thought, "gee we should have a standard window manager, that way we could make our sucky WM specs even worse than they already are", and sawfish/sawmill was born.
Of hand, does anyone know of a WM that's relaly easy to customize, but also very flexible?
Easy and flexible are opposites, unfortunately. Something like Blackbox allows you to define a few gradients and call it finished, but you don't get a lot of flexibility. KWin allows you to do *anything*, but you have to write your own plugin. Towards the easy side you also have IceWM and Windowmaker, while towards the flexible side you have Metacity and Fvwm.
The people who built the later cathedrals in the rennaiscance were of the same opinion. Backed by incredibly wealthy patrons and a surplus of masons, they laughed at earlier era's notions of simplicity. The least of their worries was running out of ink on the blueprints, or running out of tasks for the artisans to perform. "More curliques!" was their battle cry.
And thus they invented Baroque. It's a nice style, if you're into that kind of thing. But it's hardly a universal aesthetic.
I mean unless it's perfect...
:-)
Not yet, but it's approaching it
I think the Free Software crowd is becoming jaded with continual release after release after release. Does one need to keep on adding features just to attract attention? Does one need to purposely introduce bugs just so there's an excuse to cut a new release in six months?
Sometimes you just have to realize that the software is done. Finished. Completed. That software is Blackbox.
Certification are like university degrees. They demonstrate you've put up with the bullshit long enough to accomplish something.
Why should I hire a professinal admin who never took the time to get a certification? Think about it. If someone comes to me with the claim that they've been administering Solaris systems for the past twenty years, but never bothered to get a SCSA at any time during that period, I'm going to be very suspicious of them. The only thing a lack of certification does is to certify lazyness.
If so, what should be done when errors or exceptions are raised during the evaluation of an assertion?
Scream and throw up. Or in other words, loudly dump core. That's what the asserts are for.
Asserts should always be turned off in production software, so it doesn't matter how noisy the asserts are. If you're an open source project and are worried about 1&m3r distros building your stuff with debug on (I've had it happen to me), then turn it off by default.
Thus, the actual cost per kilowatt hour depends on how long you use the solar panel. The longer you use the panel, the cheaper each kilowatt hour becomes.
So you're telling me that I really didn't lose my investment in this piece of shit solar panel I got stuck with? You're telling me that all I need to do is to wait an extra fifty years for my return on investment? I take it you're a bridge salesman in your other job...
Yet oddly enough, OpenOffice is released under a license approved by Richard Stallman as being "Free Software."
Really. It is. Go check.
If it's not the same, then please tell when where the line between prudent use of harddrive space and wasteful bloatation is located? If it's not 100Mb as you keep saying, then is it at 500Mb? 1Gb? 4Gb? 1Tb? At what point would the size of Acroread become disproportionate to its functionality? At what point would *you* say that Acroread is bloated?
Computer manufacturers can solve all these problems in three easy steps::
1) Replace the harddrives with read-only media.
2) Mount temporary and swap files/partition in RAM.
3) Weld case shut.
Imagine you buy a new base model Honda Civic. You then go to twenty different third party after-market vendors for stuff like air conditioning, cruise control, etc. You replace your standard fuel filters, brake pads, etc., with stuff ordered online. You get a series of spams about putting magnets in your gas tank and taping crystals to your spark plugs, so you do it. You never change your oil or rotate your tires because it's too difficult to remember to do it. Whenever something goes wrong you have a twelve year old neighbor kid look at it first.
What is your legitimate auto dealer going to say when you bring your car in for service? He's going to laugh in your face!
The analogies are the same in terms of wastefulness. That 100Mb may be only a tiny part of my harddrive, but that harddrive space is fixed. It's a major pain in the butt to backup/replace/restore harddrives, so I'm not going to do just because wastefulness is fashionable.
Yeah, you got me on that one now that I think of it - their censure was a popular reaction wasn't it?
Yup, public reaction. The Dixie Chicks exercised their right to be stupid. Were they completely unaware of who their core customer base was?
In terms of personal rights being revoked one might look at the many Arab-Americans who have been wrongfully detained.
But they haven't been detained for calling Bush a "dickhead". Their cause is not helped by being ignorant to the details of their detention. They aren't there because of any free speech issues.
Could you please recount for me the personal rights that were revoked in the Dixie Chicks case? I'm having trouble remembering them.