w00t! I spent all day (my) Sunday refreshing UMSF and waiting for the links and commentary and that. Thanks a lot for the fast posting of the data, it's appreciated!:)
So that is blamed on global warming (no doubt man-made), causing the ponds to dry out. Neither of these are supplemented with facts, but is all speculative.
yes, yes, it's all so clear to me now; the same couple of dozen who post this kind of crap on every Slashdot story about global warming have noticed a huge, glaring error that none of these so-called "scientists" had thought of, which completely invalidates the science of climatology (and thus, thermodynamics.) Well done, chaps, I look forward to seeing you collecting your Nobel Prize.
So far, what I see in the media isn't really convincing
See, that's where you're going wrong. Why, if only there was a global electronic network that made journal papers, raw data, and plain English explanations of what it all means freely available to anyone capable of searching for it.
There is no such thing as "Tier 1", no matter how many people bandy the term round. I think you mean they're transit-free. Cogent don't pay their bills, broke their contract, and are now trying to blackmail Sprint into gifting them bandwidth with the threat of press releases claiming that "Sprint broke the Internet! It wasn't us, honest! We weren't even here!" like a kid trying to blame his brother for breaking something...
IIRC the previous/. story's headline and framing were roughly "Sprint cuts off Cogent, breaks Internet". Surprise, a lot of uninformed posters went for that version of the story.
Yes, well spotted, they ARE brought on by Cogent's own management. You seem to have some idea what you're talking about, are you sure you're on the right site?
What, you mean I'm allowed to decide who connects to my network, because it's MINE and I run it how *I* want to?!? What a nightmare scenario that would be. Thank goodness we live in a People's Democratic Socialist Republic, where resources are allocated by committees rather than markets.
Nonsense. Boycott Cogent for sucking golf-balls through hosepipes. The people here who are framing Sprint as the bad guys really need to go read up on network engineering, because they don't know what they're talking about. Hint, others have de-peered Cogent in the past.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid your neighbors paychecks, and give you their money.
And that's why you have obscenities that have no place in a civilised society, like CEOs taking tens or hundreds of millions of dollars home whilst there are people starving on the streets. Eventually that's going to lead to a civil war.
You've got it. Firstly the batteries will be destroyed by the prolonged cold. The other thing is that the entire site will be cloaked in a couple of meters of CO2 ice over winter; as it accumulates on the solar panels, the weight is expected to physically snap them off.
US troops attack Syrian [border] village. Co-incidence? October ain't over yet... a surprise flare up there, plus a bit of domestic false-flag, and lo! "Chips" is back in with a chance... remember when the UK Govt had tanks and machine-gun toting troops ringing Heathrow airport - just before the last General Election? Ministers went on telly looking serious, denying there was any specific threat but hinting darkly that "if you knew what we knew...". oh look, that was just before the crucial vote on participating in the invasion of Iraq. Anything happening over in the US at the moment, vote-wise? I don't keep up with y'domestic politics, you know how it is...
Mebbe you've been curled up in the university library for the last two months, but America's managed to go bankrupt quite satisfactorily without needing to spend trillions on "homeland security". (billions, sure, and it's not helped, but that's a drop in the ocean compared to a ginormous asset price bubble.)
USMC lawyers who've resigned in protest (from the prosecution teams) in Gitmo have been smeared. At this stage, pretty much everyone's a terrorist. UK PM Gordon Brown just used anti-terror legislation against Iceland, ferchrisake...
Well, personally I very much doubt it'll ever happen, but in the interests of balance I must point out that the UK Govt. recently floated a trial balloon about demanding primary ID for mobile phone purchases...
Oh dear, now I too must post an "I'm no fan of Microsoft, but mindless bashing by people ignorant of the facts doesn't help at all" post.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but mindless bashing by people ignorant of the facts doesn't help at all. Whilst they do release patches that fix multiple vulnerabilities, the advisories list the CVEs for each separate vuln being addressed. They also don't seem to be downplaying the severity of a given vulnerability, and haven't been for the last five years or so. Unlike some vendors I could mention. Yes, Jobs, I'm looking at you.
Personally, I think Microsoft's evilitude differs from that of any other proprietary software vendor only in the details; I'm a swivel-eyed FSF zealot. Hi there!:)
I saw the light on the "all systems need a firewall" thing after reading an excellent presentation called "My Dad's Computer: Microsoft and the future of internet security" by distinguished infosec professor, practioner, etc Bill Cheswick. I have a slide from that printed up and stuck to the side of my home rack*, I can read it from here:
"I've been skinny dipping on the Internet for years.
FreeBSD and Linux hosts
Very few, hardened network services
Single-user hosts
Dangerous service placed alone in sandboxes
No known break-ins
No angst
...and ever since I started practicing that credo, same here, too. It also saves you the false sense of security that a firewall gives. Guess what, if you have insecure services running a mistake on the firewall (or an attack from an internal host, or other source permitted to access that service) then a firewall's not going to save you. Turn 'em off. This laptop has apache (only running when needed, which is rarely and for local filesharing and a little light scripting only); sshd - ditto; CUPS - not externally accessible; X - ditto. Oh and (a secure) finger server, cos I wanted to demo the protocol to one of the kids in the office.
It takes a little longer to build a new machine, but the upside is you learn a lot reading the man pages.
* No, of course I haven't got a full-height rack in my bedroom; I'm a fully-grown adult, not a professional nerd. It's a half-height unit that doubles as a printer stand.
Those of you who still have jobs, or who (like me) are lucky enough not to have a mortgage or any debt, do the decent thing and donate to the Samba project. You know it makes sense! (I just tipped ''em $100 and BOY! do I feel smug, self-righteous and validated as a human being!;))
I must have missed the memo about Samba being able to serve as an AD domain controller - that's huge for me.
And depending on how striclty you construe it, the UK could be a fascist state already.
Oh, fuck off. I have friends and family who grew up under genuinely repressive authoritarian regimes. (Russia, Poland, E Germany, Yugoslavia/Serbia.) Sorry for the abuse by that's just not just stupid, it's offensive too.
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w00t! I spent all day (my) Sunday refreshing UMSF and waiting for the links and commentary and that. Thanks a lot for the fast posting of the data, it's appreciated! :)
So that is blamed on global warming (no doubt man-made), causing the ponds to dry out. Neither of these are supplemented with facts, but is all speculative.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
what he said
yes, yes, it's all so clear to me now; the same couple of dozen who post this kind of crap on every Slashdot story about global warming have noticed a huge, glaring error that none of these so-called "scientists" had thought of, which completely invalidates the science of climatology (and thus, thermodynamics.) Well done, chaps, I look forward to seeing you collecting your Nobel Prize.
So far, what I see in the media isn't really convincing
See, that's where you're going wrong. Why, if only there was a global electronic network that made journal papers, raw data, and plain English explanations of what it all means freely available to anyone capable of searching for it.
There is no such thing as "Tier 1", no matter how many people bandy the term round. I think you mean they're transit-free. Cogent don't pay their bills, broke their contract, and are now trying to blackmail Sprint into gifting them bandwidth with the threat of press releases claiming that "Sprint broke the Internet! It wasn't us, honest! We weren't even here!" like a kid trying to blame his brother for breaking something...
IIRC the previous /. story's headline and framing were roughly "Sprint cuts off Cogent, breaks Internet". Surprise, a lot of uninformed posters went for that version of the story.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/03/spint_reconnects_cogent/
Yes, well spotted, they ARE brought on by Cogent's own management. You seem to have some idea what you're talking about, are you sure you're on the right site?
What, you mean I'm allowed to decide who connects to my network, because it's MINE and I run it how *I* want to?!? What a nightmare scenario that would be. Thank goodness we live in a People's Democratic Socialist Republic, where resources are allocated by committees rather than markets.
Nonsense. Boycott Cogent for sucking golf-balls through hosepipes. The people here who are framing Sprint as the bad guys really need to go read up on network engineering, because they don't know what they're talking about. Hint, others have de-peered Cogent in the past.
The government is not your daddy. Its purpose is not to raid your neighbors paychecks, and give you their money.
And that's why you have obscenities that have no place in a civilised society, like CEOs taking tens or hundreds of millions of dollars home whilst there are people starving on the streets. Eventually that's going to lead to a civil war.
You've got it. Firstly the batteries will be destroyed by the prolonged cold. The other thing is that the entire site will be cloaked in a couple of meters of CO2 ice over winter; as it accumulates on the solar panels, the weight is expected to physically snap them off.
The Saturn V is (was) built from what is now antiquated technology.
Except for the J2 second stage engine, of course, which is being reused on Ares (with some mods.)
the ship could crash into its launch tower during liftoff"
Would that be bad, then?
US troops attack Syrian [border] village. Co-incidence? October ain't over yet... a surprise flare up there, plus a bit of domestic false-flag, and lo! "Chips" is back in with a chance... remember when the UK Govt had tanks and machine-gun toting troops ringing Heathrow airport - just before the last General Election? Ministers went on telly looking serious, denying there was any specific threat but hinting darkly that "if you knew what we knew...". oh look, that was just before the crucial vote on participating in the invasion of Iraq. Anything happening over in the US at the moment, vote-wise? I don't keep up with y'domestic politics, you know how it is...
Mebbe you've been curled up in the university library for the last two months, but America's managed to go bankrupt quite satisfactorily without needing to spend trillions on "homeland security". (billions, sure, and it's not helped, but that's a drop in the ocean compared to a ginormous asset price bubble.)
USMC lawyers who've resigned in protest (from the prosecution teams) in Gitmo have been smeared. At this stage, pretty much everyone's a terrorist. UK PM Gordon Brown just used anti-terror legislation against Iceland, ferchrisake...
Bad? Nah, come on, seriously... you couldn't make this shit up. "bad intel" doesn't come into it. "bad brains"? maybe...
Well, personally I very much doubt it'll ever happen, but in the interests of balance I must point out that the UK Govt. recently floated a trial balloon about demanding primary ID for mobile phone purchases...
Oh dear, now I too must post an "I'm no fan of Microsoft, but mindless bashing by people ignorant of the facts doesn't help at all" post.
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but mindless bashing by people ignorant of the facts doesn't help at all. Whilst they do release patches that fix multiple vulnerabilities, the advisories list the CVEs for each separate vuln being addressed. They also don't seem to be downplaying the severity of a given vulnerability, and haven't been for the last five years or so. Unlike some vendors I could mention. Yes, Jobs, I'm looking at you.
Personally, I think Microsoft's evilitude differs from that of any other proprietary software vendor only in the details; I'm a swivel-eyed FSF zealot. Hi there! :)
is there something for it that works like AD.
Samba can operate as an AD domain controller.
Linux can be configured to be an AD client.
I saw the light on the "all systems need a firewall" thing after reading an excellent presentation called "My Dad's Computer: Microsoft and the future of internet security" by distinguished infosec professor, practioner, etc Bill Cheswick. I have a slide from that printed up and stuck to the side of my home rack*, I can read it from here:
"I've been skinny dipping on the Internet for years.
It takes a little longer to build a new machine, but the upside is you learn a lot reading the man pages.
* No, of course I haven't got a full-height rack in my bedroom; I'm a fully-grown adult, not a professional nerd. It's a half-height unit that doubles as a printer stand.
Those of you who still have jobs, or who (like me) are lucky enough not to have a mortgage or any debt, do the decent thing and donate to the Samba project. You know it makes sense! (I just tipped ''em $100 and BOY! do I feel smug, self-righteous and validated as a human being! ;))
I must have missed the memo about Samba being able to serve as an AD domain controller - that's huge for me.
And depending on how striclty you construe it, the UK could be a fascist state already.
Oh, fuck off. I have friends and family who grew up under genuinely repressive authoritarian regimes. (Russia, Poland, E Germany, Yugoslavia/Serbia.) Sorry for the abuse by that's just not just stupid, it's offensive too.
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