More people die _every month_ on our highways than were killed in, for example, the September 11th terrorist attacks. And yet we're petrified of someone _maybe_ _possibly_ _theoretically_ being able to get their hands on material that might make an act of terrorism a tiny bit more possible - yet nobody gives a damn about making our highways safer.
True enough, but the real "danger" or damage, rather, from terrorist attacks isn't measured in terms of lives lost (which no one in power really cares much about except politically), it's measured in terms of dollars.
To cite one example, the 9/11 attacks shut down the airline industry, which in turn caused everything related or dependent on that industry to stop. Similarly, the attack demanded a response. That response included everything from extra staffing of police officers to gearing up a military effort.
Neither blogger quoted inside sources and both later backtracked on their reports.
Couldn't you have prefaced that with a "Spoiler Alert" warning? Or waited for a few hundred more posts?
You've ruined all the fun. If Slashdot is ever forced to lay people off, it'll be because of people like you interfering with everyone's God-given right to enjoy or otherwise take part in idle speculation, rumour-mongering, Microsoft-bashing, car analogies, or invoking the meme of the day.
As I matured I realized something, IT'S JUST A COMPUTER GUYS. JUST ANOTHER TOOL.
Expect to turn 30 and realise that NOT ALL TOOLS ARE ALIKE. You'll laugh more at yourself than others for once thinking that some of them even belonged in the same conversation.
And if you had the foresight to develop some skills along the way and nurtured your intellectual curiousity, you'll insist on making your own tools by the time you're fourty, an advocating the same to people on Slashdot who are oblivious to the difference.
When you turn 50, you'll insist that all tools you use are either of your own making, or resemble those you used at a formative stage in your life. Incidentally, that's about the same time you prefer hardware stores to other forms of social interaction where you spend considerable time evaluating the relative merits of different manufacturers of hammers and forstner bits. It's all the same time you end up pissing off the wife by buying a sports car and spend even more time in the garage with your tools.
Well, Muslim-looking-people are the new "black people" when it comes to profiling.
Muslim-looking? WTF?
That could be black, white or dark or somewhere in between. Or if population-size is the criteria, decidedly Asian.
I'm guessing it was inadvertent, but you managed to come across like the crazy-haired lady telling McCain that she didn't trust Obama because he was an Arab.
The Kinesis contoured keyboard is what I use, which includes palm rests and vastly different shape which reduces the distance your fingers travel, and takes a lot of strain off your arms...
As someone who's had RSI for a long time...
Hate to break it to you, but those are directly related. If you didn't learn to type properly in the days when such things were taught, you wouldn't know that:
1. Your arms are supposed to be relaxed and at your sides. 2. Your wrists should be relaxed, up in the air, and in a fairly horizontal position. The should not be resting on anything. 3. There should be no tension anywhere.
Granted that desktops are too high for natural typing, but seriously, do try to kill the bad habits. Typing requires no less skill, discipline or practice than playing a musical instrument well. Advocating palm rests and ergonomic keyboards is like recommending beanbag chairs for people who have back problems and habitually slouch, or blowjobs for people with overly-stressed lifestyles.
And every single one of them have those useless Windows keys.
If by that you mean "useless for Windows users", I agree wholeheartedly. Two extra dedicated keys, a tiny number of semi-useful hard-coded commands, and no configurability provided. All that for legions of office works who rely on a mouse exclusively. You'd think the three-finger salute would have been designed to make use of at least one of them.
I spend most of my time on my trusty Thinkpad, and the absence of the extra Winkeys doesn't go unnoticed (as doesn't that stupid Fn key which is in the wrong place to be of any use). Aside from getting extra keys, remapping the Winkeys allows you to dedicate keyboard combinations for specific tasks to alleviate some of the tortured Ctrl/Meta combos that most of us rely on. In my case, the Winkeys are used exclusively for window manager stuff; programs get everything else.
People that can't stand the idea that there is someone who rapes children SOMEWHERE in the world so they have to...
Given that child rape is almost entirely a family thing (abusers are inevitably family members), and that what is child porn could be more accurately described as clothed or semi-clothed lascivious modelling by teen and pre-teen girls, I think the above should be rewritten as:
People can't stand the idea that there is somewhere who just might get off on the idea so they have to...
In that light, it's not dissimilar to the the negro scares of days gone by where the virtuousness of white women had to be protected at all costs.
Not entirely unreasonable, of course. Unless you're trying to pass feel-good legislation that masquerades as something else.
There are many compacts that aren't built for tall people, but I'm 6'5" and comfortably drive a Chevy Aveo.
When I decided to get rid of my SUV (Jeep Cherokee) I went looking for cars that would bring back some fun into my life. Thought I would start with 2-seater convertibles (my first car was a Triumph). The choice at the time seemed to be to spend a lot of money on a Boxster, or a lot less for a Miata, so I checked out the Miata first. I'm 6'1" and was surprised to discover the Miata had as much headroom as the Cherokee, and felt roomier, to say nothing of its other advantages.
Sometimes small isn't really so small.
The other thing I discoverd is that you can't really use all the room a SUV promises to offer. Load a few large cardboard boxes in the back, and expect to have trouble fitting them while you rip up the interior upholstery.
With all due respect to antrophologists, we don't need 24/7 records of the boring everyday life of everyone. People lost things before in fires and leakages and break-ins and whatnot before too, it's nothing new.
That boring everyday life you refer to forms the basis of our historical knowledge. Consider, for example, the letters and diaries written during the Civil War with electronic forms of communications related to the recent war in Iraq. The former is housed in museums and is repeatedly poured over by writers and scholars of every sort, while the latter is stored unceremoniously in Outlook and Yahoo inboxes, on transient blogs, and similarly transient backup tapes of White House email servers.
Your guess is as good as mine as to how history will be written (or re-written) if those records aren't archived, and in a format that can be read for posterity.
Anyone who hasn't tasted a genuine Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese hasn't tasted the best Cheddar cheese there is.
No doubt this coming from someone who hasn't tasted real Cheddar, knows little about making cheese, and even less about the care and feeding of cows. I'm sorry, but past the occasional one-off specialty cheeses coming from Vermont, or California, for that matter, all such cheese is a generic waxy food product.
The regrettable thing is that most such "cheese" is sold or marketed in a deceptive manner, typically with names protected elsewhere in such a way that misusing them would get you a visit from local cheesemakers if not a jail sentence, or worse, with the flags of countries where most residents would laugh off the association as absurd.
OpenBSD has come up with an ingenious way of using technology to take the economy out of sending spam. They have come up with spamd, a fake smtp daemon which can cause delivery of a single spam message up to 5 minutes thereby causing a massive queue clog on the part of the spammer.
There's a bit more to it than that, but yes, that approach (also available for the other BSDs) is one of the easiest to implement and one of the most effective.
I handle my own email on a DSL connection and opted for using Spamhaus' DNSBLs instead of going the spamd route. Not an option for some, obviously, but I get zero spam and have zero issues. My maillogs are filled with refused entries, of course, the majority of which are from people on dynamic DSL/cable connections (Comcast, etc.), with the remainder mostly from China, also mostly on dynamic connections. Unsurprisingly (or perhaps not), those same two groups are responsible for the spam I do receive from my ISP's Yahoo account and my Gmail account.
In a lot of cases, the people that laugh at his comment are even less informed about the topic than Stevens.
To the extent the "tubes" metaphor has technical validity, the context is typically the defining criteria. Put simply, your defense of Ted Stevens is cherry-picking. From the same article:
Most writers and commentators derisively cited several of Stevens's misunderstandings of Internet technology, arguing that the speech showed that he had formed a strong opinion on a topic which he understood poorly (e.g., referring to an e-mail message as "an Internet" and blaming bandwidth issues for an e-mail problem much more likely to be caused by mail server or routing issues).
I'm sure one could cite excerpts from a speech by George Bush or Sarah Palin that would indicate some degree of intelligence, knowledge, familiarity or even insight on the part of the speaker, but it would be more reasonable to dismiss what's said at face value as the product of a speechwriter before moving on to a more meaningful analysis, an analysis which focuses on the political aspects of what's said.
To paraphrase an old quotation: A non-technical person commenting on technology without sufficient briefing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Ted Stevens is an idiot, and his comments (given his position at the time it was made) deserves the derision it's received. If the joke lives on for another decade, so much the better.
Men already have this right (as do women). An old roommate of mine got his girlfriend pregnant. When they split up he signed away his rights. He will never owe child support and she can never come after it in exchange for him having no rights or claims on the child. Lone mothers who give their children up for adoption also sign away their rights, such as the case of my younger (adopted) brother.
You're citing rare cases. What typically happens is the girl gets pregnant, discovers her maternal instincts and decides to keep the baby. The man, at that point, is at the whim of everything she subsequently chooses to do, while she is free to pursue her preferences with the full force of tradition, public sympathy, friends, family and neighbours, the efforts of the local district attorney and a court system eager and able to help behind her. Any rights the man has (a tentative and often dubious set of concepts) are there for him to pursue on his own, with the expenses bourne by him exclusively.
That's a long way of saying that most men who find themselves in this situation pregnant will spend the next 18 years involuntarily signing off on what typically amounts to 1/4 to 1/3 of their gross income to the woman. If the guy's lucky, he may get visitation.
Do we really want to take medical advise from amateurs? This isn't backyard car modding we are talking about.
Indeed, I get my medical advice straight from big pharma. I can't afford health insurance, so I've been relying on the advice they offer for free during commercial television programming breaks. I just wish they could give free samples as well. Mind you, I'm perfectly healthy, but some of the products look like they could me even healthier. And happier, too.
FALSE. In the United States there are tons of books for sale, and nudist sites online, which contain naked images of children. The SCOTUS does not considered porn until there is sex, and simple nudity is protected by the First Amendment.
Sorry, but the 1970s called, and want their talking points back.
If you think rulings on the publication or distribution of German nudist magazines and David Hamilton books ended the discussion, I'd suggest you're oblivious to the hysteria that's been going on since the early days of the Intarwebs and accelerates with each passing day.
There are websites being shut down, content being edited, access filtered or blocked wholesale, and people going to jail on a regular and continuing basis for material that contains no nudity whatsoever. Surprised? You should be, and more.
I don't expect the Myths of Child Pornography to end anytime soon, but I would expect some facts and common sense to enter the discussion at some point. In the meantime, groups that include the FBI, the Internet Watch Foundation and just about everyone else with a vested interest will hammer home the idea that images of anyone under 18, that may or may not appeal to prurient interests, is child pornography.
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More people die _every month_ on our highways than were killed in, for example, the September 11th terrorist attacks. And yet we're petrified of someone _maybe_ _possibly_ _theoretically_ being able to get their hands on material that might make an act of terrorism a tiny bit more possible - yet nobody gives a damn about making our highways safer.
True enough, but the real "danger" or damage, rather, from terrorist attacks isn't measured in terms of lives lost (which no one in power really cares much about except politically), it's measured in terms of dollars.
To cite one example, the 9/11 attacks shut down the airline industry, which in turn caused everything related or dependent on that industry to stop. Similarly, the attack demanded a response. That response included everything from extra staffing of police officers to gearing up a military effort.
Interesting comments about caffeine, though.
Neither blogger quoted inside sources and both later backtracked on their reports.
Couldn't you have prefaced that with a "Spoiler Alert" warning? Or waited for a few hundred more posts?
You've ruined all the fun. If Slashdot is ever forced to lay people off, it'll be because of people like you interfering with everyone's God-given right to enjoy or otherwise take part in idle speculation, rumour-mongering, Microsoft-bashing, car analogies, or invoking the meme of the day.
As I matured I realized something, IT'S JUST A COMPUTER GUYS. JUST ANOTHER TOOL.
Expect to turn 30 and realise that NOT ALL TOOLS ARE ALIKE. You'll laugh more at yourself than others for once thinking that some of them even belonged in the same conversation.
And if you had the foresight to develop some skills along the way and nurtured your intellectual curiousity, you'll insist on making your own tools by the time you're fourty, an advocating the same to people on Slashdot who are oblivious to the difference.
When you turn 50, you'll insist that all tools you use are either of your own making, or resemble those you used at a formative stage in your life. Incidentally, that's about the same time you prefer hardware stores to other forms of social interaction where you spend considerable time evaluating the relative merits of different manufacturers of hammers and forstner bits. It's all the same time you end up pissing off the wife by buying a sports car and spend even more time in the garage with your tools.
Well, Muslim-looking-people are the new "black people" when it comes to profiling.
Muslim-looking? WTF?
That could be black, white or dark or somewhere in between. Or if population-size is the criteria, decidedly Asian.
I'm guessing it was inadvertent, but you managed to come across like the crazy-haired lady telling McCain that she didn't trust Obama because he was an Arab.
I don't know which is odder, listening to heavy metal, or actually paying attention to the lyrics. ;-)
The Kinesis contoured keyboard is what I use, which includes palm rests and vastly different shape which reduces the distance your fingers travel, and takes a lot of strain off your arms ...
As someone who's had RSI for a long time ...
Hate to break it to you, but those are directly related. If you didn't learn to type properly in the days when such things were taught, you wouldn't know that:
1. Your arms are supposed to be relaxed and at your sides.
2. Your wrists should be relaxed, up in the air, and in a fairly horizontal position. The should not be resting on anything.
3. There should be no tension anywhere.
Granted that desktops are too high for natural typing, but seriously, do try to kill the bad habits. Typing requires no less skill, discipline or practice than playing a musical instrument well. Advocating palm rests and ergonomic keyboards is like recommending beanbag chairs for people who have back problems and habitually slouch, or blowjobs for people with overly-stressed lifestyles.
And every single one of them have those useless Windows keys.
If by that you mean "useless for Windows users", I agree wholeheartedly. Two extra dedicated keys, a tiny number of semi-useful hard-coded commands, and no configurability provided. All that for legions of office works who rely on a mouse exclusively. You'd think the three-finger salute would have been designed to make use of at least one of them.
I spend most of my time on my trusty Thinkpad, and the absence of the extra Winkeys doesn't go unnoticed (as doesn't that stupid Fn key which is in the wrong place to be of any use). Aside from getting extra keys, remapping the Winkeys allows you to dedicate keyboard combinations for specific tasks to alleviate some of the tortured Ctrl/Meta combos that most of us rely on. In my case, the Winkeys are used exclusively for window manager stuff; programs get everything else.
If that doesn't confuse the OP enough, the Eastern Orthodox world still regards Christmas day as falling on the 7th of January.
People that can't stand the idea that there is someone who rapes children SOMEWHERE in the world so they have to ...
Given that child rape is almost entirely a family thing (abusers are inevitably family members), and that what is child porn could be more accurately described as clothed or semi-clothed lascivious modelling by teen and pre-teen girls, I think the above should be rewritten as:
In that light, it's not dissimilar to the the negro scares of days gone by where the virtuousness of white women had to be protected at all costs.
Not entirely unreasonable, of course. Unless you're trying to pass feel-good legislation that masquerades as something else.
There are many compacts that aren't built for tall people, but I'm 6'5" and comfortably drive a Chevy Aveo.
When I decided to get rid of my SUV (Jeep Cherokee) I went looking for cars that would bring back some fun into my life. Thought I would start with 2-seater convertibles (my first car was a Triumph). The choice at the time seemed to be to spend a lot of money on a Boxster, or a lot less for a Miata, so I checked out the Miata first. I'm 6'1" and was surprised to discover the Miata had as much headroom as the Cherokee, and felt roomier, to say nothing of its other advantages.
Sometimes small isn't really so small.
The other thing I discoverd is that you can't really use all the room a SUV promises to offer. Load a few large cardboard boxes in the back, and expect to have trouble fitting them while you rip up the interior upholstery.
With all due respect to antrophologists, we don't need 24/7 records of the boring everyday life of everyone. People lost things before in fires and leakages and break-ins and whatnot before too, it's nothing new.
That boring everyday life you refer to forms the basis of our historical knowledge. Consider, for example, the letters and diaries written during the Civil War with electronic forms of communications related to the recent war in Iraq. The former is housed in museums and is repeatedly poured over by writers and scholars of every sort, while the latter is stored unceremoniously in Outlook and Yahoo inboxes, on transient blogs, and similarly transient backup tapes of White House email servers.
Your guess is as good as mine as to how history will be written (or re-written) if those records aren't archived, and in a format that can be read for posterity.
Anyone who hasn't tasted a genuine Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese hasn't tasted the best Cheddar cheese there is.
No doubt this coming from someone who hasn't tasted real Cheddar, knows little about making cheese, and even less about the care and feeding of cows. I'm sorry, but past the occasional one-off specialty cheeses coming from Vermont, or California, for that matter, all such cheese is a generic waxy food product.
The regrettable thing is that most such "cheese" is sold or marketed in a deceptive manner, typically with names protected elsewhere in such a way that misusing them would get you a visit from local cheesemakers if not a jail sentence, or worse, with the flags of countries where most residents would laugh off the association as absurd.
so brace yourself for a flood of cliches
All deserved, I'm afraid.
OpenBSD has come up with an ingenious way of using technology to take the economy out of sending spam. They have come up with spamd, a fake smtp daemon which can cause delivery of a single spam message up to 5 minutes thereby causing a massive queue clog on the part of the spammer.
There's a bit more to it than that, but yes, that approach (also available for the other BSDs) is one of the easiest to implement and one of the most effective.
I handle my own email on a DSL connection and opted for using Spamhaus' DNSBLs instead of going the spamd route. Not an option for some, obviously, but I get zero spam and have zero issues. My maillogs are filled with refused entries, of course, the majority of which are from people on dynamic DSL/cable connections (Comcast, etc.), with the remainder mostly from China, also mostly on dynamic connections. Unsurprisingly (or perhaps not), those same two groups are responsible for the spam I do receive from my ISP's Yahoo account and my Gmail account.
In a lot of cases, the people that laugh at his comment are even less informed about the topic than Stevens.
To the extent the "tubes" metaphor has technical validity, the context is typically the defining criteria. Put simply, your defense of Ted Stevens is cherry-picking. From the same article:
I'm sure one could cite excerpts from a speech by George Bush or Sarah Palin that would indicate some degree of intelligence, knowledge, familiarity or even insight on the part of the speaker, but it would be more reasonable to dismiss what's said at face value as the product of a speechwriter before moving on to a more meaningful analysis, an analysis which focuses on the political aspects of what's said.
To paraphrase an old quotation: A non-technical person commenting on technology without sufficient briefing is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
Ted Stevens is an idiot, and his comments (given his position at the time it was made) deserves the derision it's received. If the joke lives on for another decade, so much the better.
The problem isn't that the drive will inevitably die after 5 years, it's that it won't inevitably last longer.
So you're saying an extra drive is not entirely unlike a real backup solution?
Men already have this right (as do women). An old roommate of mine got his girlfriend pregnant. When they split up he signed away his rights. He will never owe child support and she can never come after it in exchange for him having no rights or claims on the child. Lone mothers who give their children up for adoption also sign away their rights, such as the case of my younger (adopted) brother.
You're citing rare cases. What typically happens is the girl gets pregnant, discovers her maternal instincts and decides to keep the baby. The man, at that point, is at the whim of everything she subsequently chooses to do, while she is free to pursue her preferences with the full force of tradition, public sympathy, friends, family and neighbours, the efforts of the local district attorney and a court system eager and able to help behind her. Any rights the man has (a tentative and often dubious set of concepts) are there for him to pursue on his own, with the expenses bourne by him exclusively.
That's a long way of saying that most men who find themselves in this situation pregnant will spend the next 18 years involuntarily signing off on what typically amounts to 1/4 to 1/3 of their gross income to the woman. If the guy's lucky, he may get visitation.
And finally, as if the language wasn't already fraked up ...
I have no words.
For the kids following along at home, nc (netcat) can be used similarly.
nc -z 10.2.2.2 22
Connection to 10.2.2.2 22 port [tcp/ssh] succeeded!
Port scanning doesn't work as fast, of course, but then, nmap isn't always available.
Finally an excuse for my weak body, small penis and my interest for tea. And sadly my limited interest for breasts.
For your breasts, or those of others?
Do we really want to take medical advise from amateurs? This isn't backyard car modding we are talking about.
Indeed, I get my medical advice straight from big pharma. I can't afford health insurance, so I've been relying on the advice they offer for free during commercial television programming breaks. I just wish they could give free samples as well. Mind you, I'm perfectly healthy, but some of the products look like they could me even healthier. And happier, too.
I have beavers in my backyard.
Beavers are OK. It's shaved beavers that will cause you to run afoul of the law. And possibly incur the wrath of various PETA groups.
FALSE. In the United States there are tons of books for sale, and nudist sites online, which contain naked images of children. The SCOTUS does not considered porn until there is sex, and simple nudity is protected by the First Amendment.
Sorry, but the 1970s called, and want their talking points back.
If you think rulings on the publication or distribution of German nudist magazines and David Hamilton books ended the discussion, I'd suggest you're oblivious to the hysteria that's been going on since the early days of the Intarwebs and accelerates with each passing day.
There are websites being shut down, content being edited, access filtered or blocked wholesale, and people going to jail on a regular and continuing basis for material that contains no nudity whatsoever. Surprised? You should be, and more.
I don't expect the Myths of Child Pornography to end anytime soon, but I would expect some facts and common sense to enter the discussion at some point. In the meantime, groups that include the FBI, the Internet Watch Foundation and just about everyone else with a vested interest will hammer home the idea that images of anyone under 18, that may or may not appeal to prurient interests, is child pornography.
The world would be better of if we all had more of [insert your favourite item here], but I don't think anyone really enjoys or wants more socialism.
Except maybe the socialists.
Do you really want this country to be come a nation of cheese eaters?
You PC-using commoners just don't understand good design ascetics.
Some days, there just aren't enough words ...