Nice idea, but sadly the people who pay for government tend not to be the people who receive benefits from the money spent.
If the people who had to foot the bill actually got to decide what the goverment spent money on, the only result would be a much smaller government.
Having said that, I think it would be awesome to be able to say "I don't want to pay my share of this program. In exchange, I agree to never, ever make use of the services provided by this program". Hell, between welfare, employment insurance and goverment pension plan I could get >20% of my paycheck back overnight.
It's pretty bad. I've been trying to update the tertiary name server on ~400 domains. I sent all the updates in and they just disappeared. If I send them in 50 at a time, some get processed, and the rest come back with "corrupted PGP errors". I run the exact same script again and a different batch get processed.
I finally discovered that if I send in 20 at a time with a 30 second pause between them, they mostly get done. It's taken me almost a month to get all the domains updated though.
> I wonder if Intel consider the Celeron a success >or failure?
Since AMD hasn't gone out of business yet, it obviously isn't a "success". However, they're still making it so obviously they don't consider it a "failure" either.
There's no way we would have seen a Celeron if AMD hadn't forced Intel to compete to produce such cheap but fast CPU's.
>their dew line on our soil because Roosovelt (sp >is wrong)
Yes, I think it's more like "Truman". Or possibly "Eisenhower".
>But I don't thnk the dew line was much of >a deterent to the Russians (who were just >paranoid about/ANOTHER/ invasion [Hitler, >Napoleon, WW1, etc]).
Oh, yeah, those poor Russians.
"Common sense, of course, might suggest even to those who lack knowledge of the facts that a country can no more become the world's most spacious as a result of suffering constant invasions than an individual can gain wealth from being repeatedly robbed. But common sense aside, there is the record of history. It shows that, far from being the victim of recurrent acts of aggression, Russia has been engaged for the past three hundred years with single minded determination in aggressive wars, and that if anyone has reasons for paranoia, it would have to be its neighbours. In the 1890's, The Russian General Staff carried out a comprehensive study of the history of Russian warfare since the foundations of the stae. In the summary volume, the editor told his readers that they could take pride in the their country's military record and face the future with confidence - between 1700 and 1870, Russia has spent 106 years fighting 38 military campaigns, of which 36 had been offensive and a mere two defensive. This authoritative tabulation should dispose of the facile theory that Russian agression is a defensive reflex." - Richard Pipes, Survival is Not Enough (Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Books, 1984)
The DEW line was built as an early warning system to allow time to counterlaunch a bomber force if the Soviets were detected attacking. I hate to think what would have happened had the Soviets ever, for one moment, thought they could have gotten away with a successful first strike. This is the same empire that annexed ALL of Eastern Europe after WW II and enslaved it for 50 years, don't forget.
> That article could have been written by a Green > or a staff writer for the "Militant" (a local > socialist rag) for all its ramblings about > Western "hegemony" and military force.
No kidding. Pretty hard to describe the Nazis, Soviets or even the North Vietnamese Commies as anything other than Evil, and the Bad Guys.
Reminds me of all the lefties getting upset when Reagan called the Soviets "The Evil Empire". They were certainly an Empire, and how many 10's of millions of people to you need to kill to be deemed Evil?
1) Microsoft was arguing that they couldn't ship a version of 98 without the browser because it was integrated into the operating system. Someone demonstrated that the browser could be turned off. Microsoft claimed this wasn't fair, because they didn't actually remove the browser from the machine.
2) So, it turns out, that Microsoft did exactly the same thing with NT and NT WS, they "turned off" the features they weren't selling. Don't get me wrong, this is fine, but it's truly ironic after all the bitching and whining they did about the browser in 98.
Read RFC821. In a nutshell, the To: line has absolutely nothing to do with where and how the mail gets delivered, it's just another part of the message being delivered. Most MUA's of course insert a valid To: line for your convenience.
>"Either you stop hosting so and so provider right >now, or we won't let email from any of your users >reach the inboxes of anybody who uses our >service!" Doesn't that sound, in the least bit, >wrong to you?
No, it doesn't. That's why I subscribe to the RBL. The RBL exists to punish spammers and everyone who helps them, by cutting off their access to RBL subscribers. They go up the chain until they find someone willing to terminate the spammer and all the downstreams who are supporting the spammer. That's the only kind of pressure that works.
And, in fact, they have come very close to listing UUNet a couple of times. They did list MSN for a couple of weeks until M$ backed down. They have listed Netcom servers in the past. For the most part, they list whoever needs to be listed to stop the abuse, and it works.
> How do you make the RBL an opt-in option? To my > knowledge, it's a feature of sendmail. Either > it's on, or off, and you can't activate it or > deactivate it on a per-user basis.
I use a modified version of the Obtuse SMTP daemon - www.obtuse.com - which I have modified to query a subscriber database on RBL matches (and other RBL-type services).
You can also use Exim which can be configured to insert a header into messages which match the RBL - your users can then filter on that header with procmail or their Windoze MTA's filters if desired.
The people who use it. If RBL subscribers aren't happy with the way it's run, they make a lot of noise and maybe stop using it. That would be bad for the RBL so, mostly, the RBL is run in a way that the majority of the subscribers agree with.
So, let's see, some wanker sends out a bunch of spam and your provider doesn't stop them. They ignore calls from the RBL and get blackholed. Which almost certainly means the wanker was allowed to send a lot of spam over an extended period of time, because the RBL rarely moves quickly.
Then your ISP is stupid enough to fight it instead of just doing the right thing and smoking the spammer like they should have done in the first place. So your mail bounces.
Sounds like the RBL's working just fine to me.
And, BTW, I always inform users what filtering mechanisms are in place on their E-mail and always, where possible, make such filtering options opt-in only. A lot of ISP's who use the RBL and other blocking methods do likewise.
It got a little trickier when we ran out of moon-walkers, but NASA's site has crew listings for all their missions online, so there are lots of choices.
It got funny when we installed a Solaris box and named it Laika, after the dog the Soviets put up. Dunno, I thought it was funny;)
They've made it even harder since too many people were taking top-level.ca domains by lying on the application, they now require you to fax the lease papers for the premises you list to prove you qualify.
A federal incorporation number is the best way to qualify for a.ca.
SCO is scared. Linux (and the BSD's) are killing them. Most of their market is (was) ISV's selling into verticals, and that market is moving as fast as they can to Linux and, to a lesser extent, the BSD's. SCO doesn't care if they hurt UNIX. As far as SCO is concerned, they _are_ UNIX, and promoting themselves over free upstarts can hardly hurt them, except to show how desperate they are. SCO will be either be gone or actively embracing Linux within a year. Don't sweat it.
Canada has a similar set of Constitutional guarantees via the Charter of Rights... sort of. Any government can choose to overrule them through a Notwithstanding Clause whenever they feel like it.
AFAIK, though, it's only been done once, by the Quebec government, to overrule a court decision that said their French-only sign law was unconstitutional. Which is actually funny, since Quebec never signed onto the new Constitution anyhow...
A few months back, a BC court ruled that it was OK for some guy to have kiddie-porn on his computer (which sent basically everyone else apeshit), and the federal government was encouraged to use the Notwithstanding Clause, but they wouldn't do it even for something that would have had pretty much no opposition. The point being that the Charter rights are well respected and are as close to "guarantees" as we can ask for.
The decisions are made by the people paid to make them. That's how businesses work.
Like someone else said, if you don't like how a business is run, don't work there. Or open your own. Or organize a boycott. In short, DO something. Don't whine about your "rights" when in fact the whole thing is just an example of the business exercising their right to do business with whoever they want.
And hey, before you flame me, I think arbitrary age checks are stupid, and the whole Christian sex-guilt thing is just bizarre, but it still doesn't make it right to tell a business owner they have to change the way they do things because you feel you have a "right" to buy their product.
Most techs here in Vancouver are either Caucasian or Chinese. While it's common to find one or two Asians in an otherwise white tech group, I guess they just don't have any out at Para^h^h^h^hColumbia.
It's actually more common here to find all-Chinese shops, so I wouldn't get too bent about it.
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NSI is spamming non-registry info. Specifically, 2 weeks ago they spammed out an ad for discounted Verisign certificates to all tech contacts.
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Nice idea, but sadly the people who pay for government tend not to be the people who receive benefits from the money spent.
If the people who had to foot the bill actually got to decide what the goverment spent money on, the only result would be a much smaller government.
Having said that, I think it would be awesome to be able to say "I don't want to pay my share of this program. In exchange, I agree to never, ever make use of the services provided by this program". Hell, between welfare, employment insurance and goverment pension plan I could get >20% of my paycheck back overnight.
Sigh.
It's pretty bad. I've been trying to update the tertiary name server on ~400 domains. I sent all the updates in and they just disappeared. If I send them in 50 at a time, some get processed, and the rest come back with "corrupted PGP errors". I run the exact same script again and a different batch get processed.
I finally discovered that if I send in 20 at a time with a 30 second pause between them, they mostly get done. It's taken me almost a month to get all the domains updated though.
> I wonder if Intel consider the Celeron a success
>or failure?
Since AMD hasn't gone out of business yet, it obviously isn't a "success". However, they're still making it so obviously they don't consider it a "failure" either.
There's no way we would have seen a Celeron if AMD hadn't forced Intel to compete to produce such cheap but fast CPU's.
>their dew line on our soil because Roosovelt (sp
/ANOTHER/ invasion [Hitler,
>is wrong)
Yes, I think it's more like "Truman". Or possibly "Eisenhower".
>But I don't thnk the dew line was much of
>a deterent to the Russians (who were just
>paranoid about
>Napoleon, WW1, etc]).
Oh, yeah, those poor Russians.
"Common sense, of course, might suggest even to those who lack knowledge of the facts that a country can no more become the world's most spacious as a result of suffering constant invasions than an individual can gain wealth from being repeatedly robbed. But common sense aside, there is the record of history. It shows that, far from being the victim of recurrent acts of aggression, Russia has been engaged for the past three hundred years with single minded determination in aggressive wars, and that if anyone has reasons for paranoia, it would have to be its neighbours. In the 1890's, The Russian General Staff carried out a comprehensive study of the history of Russian warfare since the foundations of the stae. In the summary volume, the editor told his readers that they could take pride in the their country's military record and face the future with confidence - between 1700 and 1870, Russia has spent 106 years fighting 38 military campaigns, of which 36 had been offensive and a mere two defensive. This authoritative tabulation should dispose of the facile theory that Russian agression is a defensive reflex."
- Richard Pipes, Survival is Not Enough (Simon & Schuster, Touchstone Books, 1984)
The DEW line was built as an early warning system to allow time to counterlaunch a bomber force if the Soviets were detected attacking. I hate to think what would have happened had the Soviets ever, for one moment, thought they could have gotten away with a successful first strike. This is the same empire that annexed ALL of Eastern Europe after WW II and enslaved it for 50 years, don't forget.
> That article could have been written by a Green
> or a staff writer for the "Militant" (a local
> socialist rag) for all its ramblings about
> Western "hegemony" and military force.
No kidding. Pretty hard to describe the Nazis, Soviets or even the North Vietnamese Commies as anything other than Evil, and the Bad Guys.
Reminds me of all the lefties getting upset when Reagan called the Soviets "The Evil Empire". They were certainly an Empire, and how many 10's of millions of people to you need to kill to be deemed Evil?
And of course Outlook and Eudora do MAPI while being IMAP clients.
Hylafax - www.hylafax.org - is a good network fax server with Windoze client software available.
messagedirect.com sells an IMAP client for Windoze that has MAPI support.
Haven't seen any good calendaring stuff yet.
Tim's whole point was this:
1) Microsoft was arguing that they couldn't ship a version of 98 without the browser because it was integrated into the operating system. Someone demonstrated that the browser could be turned off. Microsoft claimed this wasn't fair, because they didn't actually remove the browser from the machine.
2) So, it turns out, that Microsoft did exactly the same thing with NT and NT WS, they "turned off" the features they weren't selling. Don't get me wrong, this is fine, but it's truly ironic after all the bitching and whining they did about the browser in 98.
--
Alan
Read RFC821. In a nutshell, the To: line has absolutely nothing to do with where and how the mail gets delivered, it's just another part of the message being delivered. Most MUA's of course insert a valid To: line for your convenience.
>"Either you stop hosting so and so provider right
>now, or we won't let email from any of your users
>reach the inboxes of anybody who uses our
>service!" Doesn't that sound, in the least bit,
>wrong to you?
No, it doesn't. That's why I subscribe to the RBL. The RBL exists to punish spammers and everyone who helps them, by cutting off their access to RBL subscribers. They go up the chain until they find someone willing to terminate the spammer and all the downstreams who are supporting the spammer. That's the only kind of pressure that works.
And, in fact, they have come very close to listing UUNet a couple of times. They did list MSN for a couple of weeks until M$ backed down. They have listed Netcom servers in the past. For the most part, they list whoever needs to be listed to stop the abuse, and it works.
> How do you make the RBL an opt-in option? To my
> knowledge, it's a feature of sendmail. Either
> it's on, or off, and you can't activate it or
> deactivate it on a per-user basis.
I use a modified version of the Obtuse SMTP daemon - www.obtuse.com - which I have modified to query a subscriber database on RBL matches (and other RBL-type services).
You can also use Exim which can be configured to insert a header into messages which match the RBL - your users can then filter on that header with procmail or their Windoze MTA's filters if desired.
-- Alan
> Who monitors the actions of the RBL?
The people who use it. If RBL subscribers aren't happy with the way it's run, they make a lot of noise and maybe stop using it. That would be bad for the RBL so, mostly, the RBL is run in a way that the majority of the subscribers agree with.
So, let's see, some wanker sends out a bunch of spam and your provider doesn't stop them. They ignore calls from the RBL and get blackholed. Which almost certainly means the wanker was allowed to send a lot of spam over an extended period of time, because the RBL rarely moves quickly.
Then your ISP is stupid enough to fight it instead of just doing the right thing and smoking the spammer like they should have done in the first place. So your mail bounces.
Sounds like the RBL's working just fine to me.
And, BTW, I always inform users what filtering mechanisms are in place on their E-mail and always, where possible, make such filtering options opt-in only. A lot of ISP's who use the RBL and other blocking methods do likewise.
--
Alan
No, what you need is a strong constitution with explicit guarantees of freedom that gives politicians as little power as possible.
Then it doesn't really matter what idiots you elect.
We use astronaut names for most of our servers.
;)
It got a little trickier when we ran out of moon-walkers, but NASA's site has crew listings for all their missions online, so there are lots of choices.
It got funny when we installed a Solaris box and named it Laika, after the dog the Soviets put up. Dunno, I thought it was funny
They've made it even harder since too many people were taking top-level .ca domains by lying on the application, they now require you to fax the lease papers for the premises you list to prove you qualify.
.ca.
A federal incorporation number is the best way to qualify for a
In WWII, even the Allies were willing to flash-fry hundreds of thousands of _people_. I really can't see them being overly concerned about sea life.
Not to mention his pro-spam bill. McCain serves one master - big business.
lots of mineral resources sitting in a shallow gravity well and no greeners around to bitch about pollution.
luna is the best place to get the materials to build habitats and the rest of a real space industry.
I thought Wassenaar specifically exempted Public Domain code and Internet distribution?
SCO is scared. Linux (and the BSD's) are killing them. Most of their market is (was) ISV's selling into verticals, and that market is moving as fast as they can to Linux and, to a lesser extent, the BSD's. SCO doesn't care if they hurt UNIX. As far as SCO is concerned, they _are_ UNIX, and promoting themselves over free upstarts can hardly hurt them, except to show how desperate they are. SCO will be either be gone or actively embracing Linux within a year. Don't sweat it.
Canada has a similar set of Constitutional guarantees via the Charter of Rights ... sort of. Any government can choose to overrule them through a Notwithstanding Clause whenever they feel like it.
...
AFAIK, though, it's only been done once, by the Quebec government, to overrule a court decision that said their French-only sign law was unconstitutional. Which is actually funny, since Quebec never signed onto the new Constitution anyhow
A few months back, a BC court ruled that it was OK for some guy to have kiddie-porn on his computer (which sent basically everyone else apeshit), and the federal government was encouraged to use the Notwithstanding Clause, but they wouldn't do it even for something that would have had pretty much no opposition. The point being that the Charter rights are well respected and are as close to "guarantees" as we can ask for.
Well, obviously S3 would prefer to ship only Savage chipset cards.
The decisions are made by the people paid to make them. That's how businesses work.
Like someone else said, if you don't like how a business is run, don't work there. Or open your own. Or organize a boycott. In short, DO something. Don't whine about your "rights" when in fact the whole thing is just an example of the business exercising their right to do business with whoever they want.
And hey, before you flame me, I think arbitrary age checks are stupid, and the whole Christian sex-guilt thing is just bizarre, but it still doesn't make it right to tell a business owner they have to change the way they do things because you feel you have a "right" to buy their product.
Most techs here in Vancouver are either Caucasian or Chinese. While it's common to find one or two Asians in an otherwise white tech group, I guess they just don't have any out at Para^h^h^h^hColumbia.
It's actually more common here to find all-Chinese shops, so I wouldn't get too bent about it.
NSI is spamming non-registry info. Specifically, 2 weeks ago they spammed out an ad for discounted Verisign certificates to all tech contacts.