SETI and any program like it are all long shots, and there's no way to prove them wrong, only eventually right, unless of course through some cosmic joke there really never was, is, or will be life elsewhere in the galaxy.
Wow! You just turned SETI into a religion instead of a science.
The last step is always analog. Our eyes and ears are analog devices. Hence there really is no such thing as digital audio or video. We see/hear through analog biodevices as long as you capture the signal at that point and can reproduce the analog later without significant loss it is no less quality than the digital output.
Ok for your first lesson in constitutional law let me point out the the Constitution apoints the Supreme Court to interpret the law and they have looked at this issue many, many times. Pornography is not a protected form of speech. Speech which is deemed obscene by reasonable comunity standards can be outlawed.
You cannot put obscene pictures in your car window. You cannot open an adult book store just anywhere. You cannot have sex in public. You can post bumper stickers and photos of your political heros on your car (with clothes), you can open a Islamic or Communist book store anywhere, and you can hold public political ralleys.
Switch to a Mac and use Microsoft Entourage. Its a great client. Like Evolution it ties through OWA because even Microsoft cannot figure out how to make anything work with that damn MAPI protocol. But unlike Evolution is has great features and is far better than Outlook. Only drawback is a bit of delay in message delivery (just like Evolution) as opposed to the instant alert Outlook gives through MAPI. If you are a laptop user like I was then it does so much better than Outlook which seems to crash everytime it leaves the network, can never pull up messages and never figure out when you are plugged back in. Entourage keeps you mail local and sincs with Exchange like an email client should, so it handles all this gracefully. You can get it as part of Office 2004.
Funny how the best software MS writes is for Mac:)
PASSV does NOT fix this. Passive still uses second ports it just changes the direction of the connection. On all firewalls you have to load extra stuff to properly allow the connection to work or fully open all outbound traffic. On IP Tables there is an ftp_contrack module to load, on PIX there is a fixup protocol to load. The fact is FTP is the most broken protocol there is. There is no reason that everything cannot be handled over a single port and the security issues involving race conditions, bounce scans, clear text sign on and transfer, are unacceptable. The ONLY thing going for it is tradition.
I will say that it is true. I love Linux and have used it for years as my desktop and recommend it highly as a server but I also love Mac. Mac does just about everything Linux can and should do as a desktop and is nicely Unix based. As for the adverage user, Mac is something they can understand and use. Support is a no brainer. The stability and ease of use, not to mention not having to invest in virus scanners and being able to use open standards solutions on the enterprise more than make up for the hardware cost (which I do not believe is a much a difference as people think).
The problem with this is you are assuming _you_ design everything. That simply does not happen in most larger shops. We _buy_ product A from IBM and poruct B from PeopleSoft and they both have the label "LDAP Compliant!" but have different ideas of what that means. Sure If I can have total control over what is selected or write it all myself thats fine but in most businesses, especially when you are dealing with an aquisition, this just isn't the case.
Yes leave it to a Mac zealot to answer rhetorical questions with "Use OS X!"
There are many answers. I get paid to put them in place as well, although I have not tried OS X for this.
My point was the brief article did not do a good job of even identifying the questions.
And no single popped out of the box solution will answer all the questions either, not even Mac. Take groups for example. You can do groupofnames, uniquegroupofnames, posixgroup, or use some type of memberof attribute on the user object, just to name a few. Different web applications, operating systems, and other systems that all need to authenticate users have different interpretations of this that they understand. So in a truely complex environment it is very difficult to put all of HR in the HR group and expect them to be able to log into their machine and get to all the services HR needs to get to because many of these will use different types of groups.
You hit the nail on the head. I am working on a project installing the Novell identity management system at a very large enterprise that has grown by aquisition. Huge challanges in getting everybody talking to the system.
Fortunately Novell has done great work how it approaches it. In a nutshell there is a master repository will everyones data in it. Data is fed in through standardized XML feeds. Plugins are available for common data sources like PeopleSoft and AD to translate their data to XML. Then this master vault can generate LDAP trees in various formats with various subsets of the data on the fly. Very cool. It also can populate Active Directory trees. So it can keep up a Posix compliant LDAP tree for the Unix world and AD for the Wintel servers all with data being fed into the vault automatically as HR hires peoples, as new business relations are establed in other software etc.
The problem is it only takes 6.3 Billion years to get all systems feeding data in properly and authenticating against it.
I have to agree with you. I have implemented LDAP systems and its no peice of cake. How do you get Windows and Linux using the same system? How do you deal with groups (there are at many different ways each with different applications supporting them)? What about tying in web applications? can you have a seemless sign on or do users need to reenter their password? What about security on those web apps; are they going to use basic, digest, NTLM? Are we going to syncronize with Active Directory or maybe just expand the AD schema? What about user provisioning and protecting sensitive data in the tree. What about tree structure?
Basically if all I needed was a place to look up email addresses I can just throw up OpenLDAP on a linux box and be done. If I want identity management I need some real planning and some serious engineering. Even the comercial solutions like Novell is offing using eDirectory on Linux are complicated and resource intensive implementations in anything but the simplest environments.
The idea of "it's Linux" so there is no throw away work is foolish.
And see for some of us "cutting edge" means provocative story lines, useful social comentary, engaging complicated plot lines, new visions of the future, deep multi-deminsional characters, not "boobies!" Sex is a part of life and can be done tastefully but anyone who needs to turn a movie into a skin flick to sell must have nothing really to sell to begin with. That goes for hollywood as well as the independants.
In fairness $DIETY has nothing to do with the question. Evolution is an attempt to explain the origins of diverse species and tries to put some natural mechanisms in place for how this all works. While some interpretations of the book of Genesis will have conflicts with this, a belief in God does not. Science has never been good at explaining "Why" this sort of thing happens and has a hit and miss record at explaining "how."
Given normal observed scientific principles, complex systems tend to break down to smaller simpler systems over time without some external organizing force making it otherwise. Evolution steps in and observes the exact oposite. Simple systems grow into more complex systems. What is causing that to happen? export $DEITY=syntropy; What really governs change? The irony is that evolution may the best evidence of a master creator that there is.
Like Einstein I cannot explain the incredible complexities of this world as the result of random chance. Some force appears to be organizing this. I don't think we should be so arrogant to assume we have all the answers yet. Just because some provincial interpretations are found to be inadaquate does not at all mean we have searched the heavens and found them empty. Just as we should not dogmatically respond that a spiritual experiance from an ancient desert prophet almost 4000 years ago is all we need to know about our origins, we should not pretend that a more scientific explaination rules out that possibility of a Grand Architect of the Universe designing such an elegant system. Besides a God that can design and control such beautifully delicate processes is far more impressive than the dictating lightning thrower imagined by some people.
While I can sypathize with your concernover high taxes and the need for two income families, taxes have to be initiated by the House of Representatives which you vote for directly. State and local tax have similar elections.
As for the working poor. Let me give you a lesson in history. Look at the coal miners of West Vriginia. Listen to the lyrics of the songs they wrote if you want a feeling of what they felt while working in a coal mine black as hell and trading their labor for too little to live on.
Having a safety net is freedom! Its the freedom to not be forced by hunger and need into a profession that abuses you like the coal mining or prostitution. The freedom for an abused wife to leave her husband even if she has no trade to make it on her own.
I look at it as only 60% of your effort goes to making sure that America stays free is a lot less than many people were willing to pay.
Sure there are abuses, and we all need enough control over the money we earn to pursue our interests. Certainly we do not want a state where being taken care of is the norm. But when we are in desparation we need help from the state and it is no different whether that is buying us food to eat, providing shelter, or paying a judge and jury to hear our plea for justice, or hiring a cousel to defend us when accused of a crime, or providing the weaponry that prevents domination from foriegn enemies. The idea that freedom is about cash flow is a very narrow view. What you desribe is freedom for the fortunate and is quite the same as the freedom slave holders gloried in.
I am not sure which is more delusional, the idea that this would work, your fantasy sex frolic for your unsatisfied wife, or the idea that a/. with swinger ambitions would ever get a wife.
Thinking for themselves, reaching logical conclusions, uneffected by marketing! There would be no controlling them. Using blogs and RSS feeds they could share ideas and reach similar conclusions. There would be no way to control them. It would be like... an enlightened democracy! What would we do?!
While I am shocked at the length of the sentence "cruel and unusual" have to do with type of punishment not length. Also when you look at the dollar amounts involved both as damage to recipient systems and money he made from the scam combined with the fact that he was hiding his identity and therefore commiting fraud, it will probably not be far out of line. There has been a surprising amount of mercy expressed for him from the Slashdot crowd but he knew how much money he stood to make and if he knew to hide his identity he must have understood it was wrong to do so.
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Don't forget the Wright brothers. I mean intelligent design counts too. Let's not be evolution biggots.
You forgot rotated at different intervals.
SETI and any program like it are all long shots, and there's no way to prove them wrong, only eventually right, unless of course through some cosmic joke there really never was, is, or will be life elsewhere in the galaxy.
Wow! You just turned SETI into a religion instead of a science.
Don't over look lifespan and durability of the product either. Not mention the open source, patent free format and driver compatability.
The last step is always analog. Our eyes and ears are analog devices. Hence there really is no such thing as digital audio or video. We see/hear through analog biodevices as long as you capture the signal at that point and can reproduce the analog later without significant loss it is no less quality than the digital output.
Ok for your first lesson in constitutional law let me point out the the Constitution apoints the Supreme Court to interpret the law and they have looked at this issue many, many times. Pornography is not a protected form of speech. Speech which is deemed obscene by reasonable comunity standards can be outlawed.
You cannot put obscene pictures in your car window. You cannot open an adult book store just anywhere. You cannot have sex in public. You can post bumper stickers and photos of your political heros on your car (with clothes), you can open a Islamic or Communist book store anywhere, and you can hold public political ralleys.
See the difference?
Ok if not check here
It's a good article that includes a lot of the court cases.
Switch to a Mac and use Microsoft Entourage. Its a great client. Like Evolution it ties through OWA because even Microsoft cannot figure out how to make anything work with that damn MAPI protocol. But unlike Evolution is has great features and is far better than Outlook. Only drawback is a bit of delay in message delivery (just like Evolution) as opposed to the instant alert Outlook gives through MAPI. If you are a laptop user like I was then it does so much better than Outlook which seems to crash everytime it leaves the network, can never pull up messages and never figure out when you are plugged back in. Entourage keeps you mail local and sincs with Exchange like an email client should, so it handles all this gracefully. You can get it as part of Office 2004.
:)
Funny how the best software MS writes is for Mac
Dude, its a two handed mouse. (Don't ask how to hit button 11 ;)
PASSV does NOT fix this. Passive still uses second ports it just changes the direction of the connection. On all firewalls you have to load extra stuff to properly allow the connection to work or fully open all outbound traffic. On IP Tables there is an ftp_contrack module to load, on PIX there is a fixup protocol to load. The fact is FTP is the most broken protocol there is. There is no reason that everything cannot be handled over a single port and the security issues involving race conditions, bounce scans, clear text sign on and transfer, are unacceptable. The ONLY thing going for it is tradition.
Don't forget on the fly gzip conpression
I will say that it is true. I love Linux and have used it for years as my desktop and recommend it highly as a server but I also love Mac. Mac does just about everything Linux can and should do as a desktop and is nicely Unix based. As for the adverage user, Mac is something they can understand and use. Support is a no brainer. The stability and ease of use, not to mention not having to invest in virus scanners and being able to use open standards solutions on the enterprise more than make up for the hardware cost (which I do not believe is a much a difference as people think).
The problem with this is you are assuming _you_ design everything. That simply does not happen in most larger shops. We _buy_ product A from IBM and poruct B from PeopleSoft and they both have the label "LDAP Compliant!" but have different ideas of what that means. Sure If I can have total control over what is selected or write it all myself thats fine but in most businesses, especially when you are dealing with an aquisition, this just isn't the case.
Yes leave it to a Mac zealot to answer rhetorical questions with "Use OS X!"
There are many answers. I get paid to put them in place as well, although I have not tried OS X for this.
My point was the brief article did not do a good job of even identifying the questions.
And no single popped out of the box solution will answer all the questions either, not even Mac. Take groups for example. You can do groupofnames, uniquegroupofnames, posixgroup, or use some type of memberof attribute on the user object, just to name a few. Different web applications, operating systems, and other systems that all need to authenticate users have different interpretations of this that they understand. So in a truely complex environment it is very difficult to put all of HR in the HR group and expect them to be able to log into their machine and get to all the services HR needs to get to because many of these will use different types of groups.
It's a confusing mess.
PS I am also a Mac zealot.
You hit the nail on the head. I am working on a project installing the Novell identity management system at a very large enterprise that has grown by aquisition. Huge challanges in getting everybody talking to the system.
Fortunately Novell has done great work how it approaches it. In a nutshell there is a master repository will everyones data in it. Data is fed in through standardized XML feeds. Plugins are available for common data sources like PeopleSoft and AD to translate their data to XML. Then this master vault can generate LDAP trees in various formats with various subsets of the data on the fly. Very cool. It also can populate Active Directory trees. So it can keep up a Posix compliant LDAP tree for the Unix world and AD for the Wintel servers all with data being fed into the vault automatically as HR hires peoples, as new business relations are establed in other software etc.
The problem is it only takes 6.3 Billion years to get all systems feeding data in properly and authenticating against it.
I have to agree with you. I have implemented LDAP systems and its no peice of cake. How do you get Windows and Linux using the same system? How do you deal with groups (there are at many different ways each with different applications supporting them)? What about tying in web applications? can you have a seemless sign on or do users need to reenter their password? What about security on those web apps; are they going to use basic, digest, NTLM? Are we going to syncronize with Active Directory or maybe just expand the AD schema? What about user provisioning and protecting sensitive data in the tree. What about tree structure?
Basically if all I needed was a place to look up email addresses I can just throw up OpenLDAP on a linux box and be done. If I want identity management I need some real planning and some serious engineering. Even the comercial solutions like Novell is offing using eDirectory on Linux are complicated and resource intensive implementations in anything but the simplest environments.
The idea of "it's Linux" so there is no throw away work is foolish.
let your brain cells sleep
:)
I supose that would be because the blood has gone elsewhere
And see for some of us "cutting edge" means provocative story lines, useful social comentary, engaging complicated plot lines, new visions of the future, deep multi-deminsional characters, not "boobies!"
Sex is a part of life and can be done tastefully but anyone who needs to turn a movie into a skin flick to sell must have nothing really to sell to begin with. That goes for hollywood as well as the independants.
In fairness $DIETY has nothing to do with the question. Evolution is an attempt to explain the origins of diverse species and tries to put some natural mechanisms in place for how this all works. While some interpretations of the book of Genesis will have conflicts with this, a belief in God does not. Science has never been good at explaining "Why" this sort of thing happens and has a hit and miss record at explaining "how."
Given normal observed scientific principles, complex systems tend to break down to smaller simpler systems over time without some external organizing force making it otherwise. Evolution steps in and observes the exact oposite. Simple systems grow into more complex systems. What is causing that to happen? export $DEITY=syntropy; What really governs change? The irony is that evolution may the best evidence of a master creator that there is.
Like Einstein I cannot explain the incredible complexities of this world as the result of random chance. Some force appears to be organizing this. I don't think we should be so arrogant to assume we have all the answers yet. Just because some provincial interpretations are found to be inadaquate does not at all mean we have searched the heavens and found them empty. Just as we should not dogmatically respond that a spiritual experiance from an ancient desert prophet almost 4000 years ago is all we need to know about our origins, we should not pretend that a more scientific explaination rules out that possibility of a Grand Architect of the Universe designing such an elegant system. Besides a God that can design and control such beautifully delicate processes is far more impressive than the dictating lightning thrower imagined by some people.
My wife's quite satisfied, thank you very much! ;)
:)
And probably warranteed against punctures and tears too
ok, I'll stop now.
While I can sypathize with your concernover high taxes and the need for two income families, taxes have to be initiated by the House of Representatives which you vote for directly. State and local tax have similar elections.
As for the working poor. Let me give you a lesson in history. Look at the coal miners of West Vriginia. Listen to the lyrics of the songs they wrote if you want a feeling of what they felt while working in a coal mine black as hell and trading their labor for too little to live on.
Having a safety net is freedom! Its the freedom to not be forced by hunger and need into a profession that abuses you like the coal mining or prostitution. The freedom for an abused wife to leave her husband even if she has no trade to make it on her own.
I look at it as only 60% of your effort goes to making sure that America stays free is a lot less than many people were willing to pay.
Sure there are abuses, and we all need enough control over the money we earn to pursue our interests. Certainly we do not want a state where being taken care of is the norm. But when we are in desparation we need help from the state and it is no different whether that is buying us food to eat, providing shelter, or paying a judge and jury to hear our plea for justice, or hiring a cousel to defend us when accused of a crime, or providing the weaponry that prevents domination from foriegn enemies. The idea that freedom is about cash flow is a very narrow view. What you desribe is freedom for the fortunate and is quite the same as the freedom slave holders gloried in.
I am not sure which is more delusional, the idea that this would work, your fantasy sex frolic for your unsatisfied wife, or the idea that a /. with swinger ambitions would ever get a wife.
And we all know you can travel in time by flying around the sun!
Dude they established this in The Original Series. Spock even explains how a lot of it works. I don't get what your argument is.
How about his instant knowledge of MAC molecular modeling software, knowing the entire mac interface
Come on its a Mac. You don't need to learn anything the UI just works.
Thinking for themselves, reaching logical conclusions, uneffected by marketing! There would be no controlling them. Using blogs and RSS feeds they could share ideas and reach similar conclusions. There would be no way to control them. It would be like ... an enlightened democracy! What would we do?!
Quit being silly. We left Eden almost 6,000 years ago. Uneducated clod.
While I am shocked at the length of the sentence "cruel and unusual" have to do with type of punishment not length. Also when you look at the dollar amounts involved both as damage to recipient systems and money he made from the scam combined with the fact that he was hiding his identity and therefore commiting fraud, it will probably not be far out of line. There has been a surprising amount of mercy expressed for him from the Slashdot crowd but he knew how much money he stood to make and if he knew to hide his identity he must have understood it was wrong to do so.