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  1. Considering that 'embalming' is done entirely for a presentable corpse at the wake and leaves a soupy puddle of 'remains' in that pricey coffin, your pine box is definately a better way to go. Litteraly!

  2. "it gets them recruits from the wacko population..."

    Sarcastically observant I hope. Otherwise
    while I usually enjoy and share your viewpoints
    that brush you just used calls the paint and
    painter into question. If by whacko you happen to
    mean the edge cases that seem to be slipping into
    ever-widening cracks in our society. A growing
    sense of enslavement and serfdom via flattening and tipping scarce and poorly managed resources.

    'wacko' will always be drawn to that which
      appears to understand their suffering and/or distress.

    Sorry in advance for parking my .02 here:

    We should caution treating ISIS/ISIL (lets just call em sand-niggers) as the cause more than the effect.

    Make no mistake (for the 'morons') what they are
    doing is evil, should and will be stopped.
    And for the more nuanced among us, the only way to
    accomplish that (stopping them) is to understand
    one's enemy, including why they believe, and maybe
    conceding a point or two.
    But there is no room for discussing anything (there is no point to make) until their battle stops. Because whatever their ends, they are not justifiable means.

    Though I suspect it's about the usual suspects of greed married to politics, gaining the leverage
    bent on the cold betrayals of true-believers
    to what lies in martyrdom, their actions cannot be tolerated.

    Some would call it war; to bury their truths.
    The 'conversation' nobody's willing to have
      because truth hurts.
    Namely, that we (western society) are the cause; all our wars are repercussions of the effect.
    The wacko population is growing, domestically and overseas (#alllivesmatter) as we
    (industrial-techno society) tries to fill/fuel our needs.
    It's all P.R. and snake-oil and short of a blood-bath, we're not going to win. But
    we'll happily send others to die trying. Or go all Xe droney on anyone in our way.

  3. Re:"Redneck" is a racial slur. on Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online · · Score: 1

    my understanding is that the term redneck had
    its origins in the KY/WVA scots-irish who went
    on strike in the 19th century and tied red
    scarves around their necks to distinguish
    themselves from the 'company' men

  4. Re: Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 1

    Of course, thanks for pointing it out.

  5. Re: Don't Know How You Made That Conclusion on The Hostile Email Landscape (liminality.xyz) · · Score: 2

    In addition to what you've implemented, i would
    add that for me, most spam comes from pwnd hosts
    on a /24 or higher net.
    Admin'ing mail servers' SA/DCC/SPF/RZR/ is tough
    enough to maintain that i prefer a fail2ban/shorewall approach that drops em at the
    fw, often their entire subnet can go AFAIC.
    And for a previous poster:
    Iptables -A INPUT -p tcp -m string --string ".xyz" --algo kmp -j DROP

  6. Re:use the right terminology, ffs on Ask Slashdot: What Windows-Only Apps Would You Most Like To See On Linux? · · Score: 1

    Actually, ffs, the terminology is prob correct.
    Apps got hijacked by marketdroids bec applications is too long by 3 sylables.
    From the hardware firmament, its programs all the way down

  7. Food for thought on US House Committee Approves Anti-GMO Labeling Law · · Score: 1

    This /. story is day-old so prob stale by now and OK for me to comment w/out griefr's - so here's my thoughts on what's been said:

    As w/every post, the thread goes well beyond food issues and business interests; As always, the pros and cons are all
    laid out bare, well and good. sick and poorly, within the scope of this collective's singular perspectives.

    Here, the talk is added cost of labeling vs sunk costs to health and saftey. Can't tell the sock-puppets w/out scorecards/labels.
    Branding aside, labels have come to mean nothing at all, regardless of GMO. Unless you know (and trust) the producer,
    reputation means diddly in the 'corporate' world.
    "Big" biz plays by no rules, don't get caught, that's just about it. And even that one, with some embarrassment finding just about every news-cycle,
    has lost its' teeth. Pay a fine, admit no guilt, after sparing no expense to play for time exhausting the four Dâ(TM)s
    (Deny, Disrupt, Degrade & Deceive)

    Puting the arguments for SMB as factual and otherwise correct aside, big .gov is beholden to big .biz and those .coms
    (even the best or biggest) are competing tooth-n-nail w/other, foreign (whatever that has become to mean) .coms
    for investors (Mit's paradise) that excludes about 90% of the world's population.
    GM, now a shell for a bankers' wet dream, lays off US workers the same week their execs in CN glow/fawn over booming expectations.
    Home ownership has lost value while the overbearing of private equity and high-finance steals all its wind.
    The fix is in, the system is rigged, cards are stacked, and house always wins; worst case causes a disaster then comes to the rescue to bleed
    the carcass dry.

    We already do not know where our (corporate) food comes from; it's a positive sign that more people are reading the labels at all.
    The 50 shades of choices we see in the isles has no connection to the companies (investors) who own and possibly control them.
    Cascadia (all natural...) gets purchased by GMills; will they add GMO's to an otherwise 'organic' product? They might if they could.
    What's worse, their reach extends to prohibiting GMO-labeling AND non-GMO labeling. Like gag-orders, we can't say it is, can't say it isn't. Those who make what we eat (are bound to)
    put profit over people, trust that.

    Even what is generally considered safe (HFCS) does not mean good for you; even if its pronounceable. Artificial flavors, colors, tastebugs
    to fool our tastebuds; what it means to be bitter, sour, sweet, salty or umami. Welcome to biotek; trans-fat full of never-ending possibilities.

    What corporate interests can spent: to hide their skeletons, to enact or defeat bills, to get their way by exersizing monetary control
    over the public's voice in the political system is at public expense and (mostly) against their desire.
    The commonweal is a weak force under the weight of capitalism; tho it and free-trade seem more notional ideals than their current sorry state.
    It's has come to know neither bounds nor shame, and given the enormous resources of lobby and lawyers, few limits on what they cannot get away with.

    Always question of scale, always relative, always growing, always demanding more of everything; including consumption.
    The cost of national politics and lawmaking, in time wasted begging and the ridiculous amounts required,
    has replaced (the notional ideal of) democracy with a full-on pay-to-play congressionsl cesspool.
    Lawyers and millionaires masquerading as buffoons. safely re-electable, ensconced in their office doing 'insider-trading'.
    Nearby is a`supreme court which resembles a parliment of crows, one of which is a zombie placemat.
    Both of which hold the lowest public esteem in history.
    They have created an atmosphere no less corrupt than the stink-eye and filthy shakedown on any roadside in any banana-republic,
    they increasingly declare our valuables a c

  8. Re:Spamassassin and Greylisting.. on Ask Slashdot: How Effective Is Your ISP's Spam Filter? · · Score: 1

    don't forget fail2ban, DKIM, Razor/Pyzor and other
    indispensible utils...

  9. Re:Evolution is a theory not a fact on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 1

    Long bone, long bone, lotsa little bones.

    We humans are snowflakes but hardly special

  10. Re:The Dark Age returns on Freedom of Information Requests Turn Up Creationist Materials In Schools · · Score: 1

    Long bone, long bone, lotsa little bones.

    We're snowflakes, but hardly special.

  11. A bit tedious but very useful on Ask Slashdot: What Asset Tracking Software Do You Recommend? · · Score: 2
  12. Re:Local charity on How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars For Haiti and Built 6 Homes · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that viewpoint, well-spoke.

  13. Re:Yet another democRAT you should NEVER vote for! on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Thanks for bringing up Mena, as the State politics set the stage for the national election. The Drugs, the connection between WJC and GHWB, the black ops and CIA etc...

  14. Re:Isreal on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1

    "coming off rather on the antisemitic side..."

    "The Palestinians are generally bad people..."

    Well, gee "Us good, Them bad" critics are
    anti-semites so have no standing....

    You're a real tool, dontcha know.

    FWIW, antisemitic is also anti-arab
    and 'true' judaism has more in common with arabs in the Levant than with their ashkenazi descendants who somehow feel its their right to squat on land they have no actual right to be on.

    The issue is not judiasm, not semitics, but Zionism and the (very) bad karma in the afterbirth of the State of Israel.

  15. Re:Even worse than you think on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    Thank-you for reminding me why i choose not
    to talk about computers to anyone who (personally) uses Microsoft products

  16. Re:So Red Hat and Ubuntu offer signed binaries on OEMs Allowed To Lock Secure Boot In Windows 10 Computers · · Score: 1

    I suppose that will finally put the systemd
    flame-war to bed; drat!

  17. Re:Request Tracker on Ask Slashdot: Issue Tracker For Non-Engineers? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. If the larger scope is for project management and all it entails then redmine et al work fine.
    But if one wants a 'trouble-ticket' system that integrates well with email and pagers etc... RT works very well. It does take some time to get it right, but worth in IMO.

  18. Re: Do users really care? on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 1

    Hopefully, that it will happen when ISP's are prodded into letting non-business accts run servers of their own and the new thing will be a turnkey, out of the box, 'face-book-like' app curated by the end-user and by invite only.

  19. Re:Spoofing on Uber's Android App Caught Reporting Data Back Without Permission · · Score: 1

    What you said!

    For /. - anyone who freqs here should have learned how2 then rooted their droids ASAP. No different from exercising control of their linux boxen.

    I like, in concept at least, the notion of android; though i'll drop it instantly for a true linux based phone using 'certified' apt/yum... repos.

    I think, in many ways, that just as www lowered the bar to self-publishing android has done the same for app development; so easy a cave-man can do it.

    Just compare the gross number of apps out there to those available in repository to see the difference.

    Google serves its own interests for sure, but 'the more apps the better' is not much different from 'many ways to do one thing' The onus/burden has always been on the end-user to choose wisely.

    Anyone who doesn't take the time to understand the working of the devices they trust to compute and communicate deserves what they get.

  20. Re:Who? on We Are All Confident Idiots · · Score: 1

    "...to just push ahead with whatever seems..."

    Which goes a long way to explaining why things are
    working so well for us all.

    Seriously, systems are as fucked-up as they are
    because some "A-types" have to feel able to do anything asked of them; and when it doesn't go as planned, they only need "more $, more manpower".
    "let's not dwell on how we got here and focus on the goal(s)"
    It's not piss-poor planning, it's tailoring the
    plan (its feasibility) to a desired outcome
    facts be damned.

    WTF? It's all bullshit. It's putting
    good ol boys in places that reward failure with
    promotions. It's about supressing critical
    thinking so as not to temper people's enthusiasm.

    It's about trusting that when things don't go
    as planned the process will just correct itself.

    Yet, the more we come to learn it seems the 'best
    and brightest' collectively are over paid and
    over credited blowhards whose ego's are their own
    worst enemies.

    I can only conclude that stated goals are eclipsed
    by the unstated ones; basically self-promotion.
    For 'them and those like us'. Getting w/the
    program, belonging to the group, requires it.

    Look at our green machine; a vast ring-knocker
    brain-trust that always seems to repeat its
    own mistakes from one generation to the next.
    COIN failed, CT failed, both never lived up to
    expectations, but it sure has enriched a fuckton
    of ring-knockers.

    I'm concluding that our society's motto is
    'get away w/it as long as you can then lie and
    spin and hope to outrun the pitchforks if/when
    people get wise to the massive theft perpetrated
    upon them.

    What our 'leaders' are doing 'in our name' will
    be our ruination.
    Maybe it's just the human condition

  21. Re:Phew, that was close on Flurry of Scans Hint That Bash Vulnerability Could Already Be In the Wild · · Score: 1

    for some odd reason I cannot for the life of me
    remember the name (goes to check notes... aha)
    Shell Shock!
    I just keep wanting to call it "Skull Fucker"

  22. Re:inum on Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls · · Score: 1

    Hi - are you able to make outgoing SIP2SIP calls using GVoice?
    I have plenty of SIP#'s (ostel,iptel,antisip,... all provide them) but have yet to figure out a way (from android or linux cli) to make a sip2sip call via GVoice.
    My GV# forwards nicely to my devices that have an app assoc'd to a (ipkall) DID# - but not solely a SIP#

    Any secrets you can share?

    TIA

  23. I want Linux on my Under my Desktop on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    Even if the Desktop has transformed itself into a (virtual desktop) "Workspace", I want the OS on my laptop, my pad, my phone....

    I want it running E17, or another light DM/WM
    I want it to run my android/PlayStore stuff
    sandboxed in a container or a VM.

    I want it to run encryped out of the box:
    Selinux, shorewall, gpg email, encrypted FS,
    TOR/I2P browsing.....

    To Linus: met you at UNH in 93or94; what a ride
    it's been.

    More please, thank-you

  24. Re:Legal Precedent? on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    allowed.org moo.com afraid.org

    all work fine for me.

  25. Re: My stuff got hit by this. on Microsoft Takes Down No-IP.com Domains · · Score: 1

    Hi:

    This is what I have done for my dynamicIP issue:

    Register a subdomain with Allowed.org or Moo.com or afraid.com
    e.g. myhome.allowed.org

    Next goto your real domain registrar or edit your own DNS server and create a CNAME for a subdomain that points to what you registered.
    e.g. myhome.mydomain.com -> myhome.allowed.org

    Just be aware that it has no rDNS.

    Next, create a script that updates your IP whenever you notice it changes using this script:
    wget http://freedns.afraid.org/scri...

    So, for my purposes: I heavily restrict ssh on my C5 servers to specific domains/IPs using shorewall.
    Whenever my IP would change i risked getting locked out and had to resort to a jump host.
    Now, instead I have a shorewall param that sets some var to myhome.allowed.org and a rule that permits ssh using that var.

    Then just run a cronjob to update the IPaddress on a regular basis.

    Hope this helps.