include them in SUSE along with IE and Outlook Express.
IE? Why when Firefox is just as good?
Outlook Express is a bad joke and is less useful than most other e-mail clients. The only cool thing about it is its ability to read USENET, but there are plenty of news clients for Linux.
You may be very true there. I see a pattern here. 'Partner' with Apple, Sun, Novell etc. The net effect is to neutralize them and protect the core.
Sun is putting out one of the best server OS's these days.
Apple is putting out probably the best and most usable music player, in addition to computers with innovative design features and an OS that's first-rate for the desktop. True, OS X server isn't great, nor is Spotlight (just wait till 10.5 though) but they've made a very usable, easy-to-install and powerful OS for the most part!
It couldn't possibly have anything to do that virtually every common OS besides Windows IS a *nix variant?
Actually, it could be argued that NT/200x/XP is a *nix variant as well. NT is (or was) based on a heavily modified version of the Mach kernel, the same one used by OS X.
To get Ubuntu to install on my machine, I had to manually edit a config file to get the screen to display correctly, but could only do so *after* the Ubuntu installer crashed (like, duh?). I found this out after digging through Ubuntu forum posts for about an hour (there was nothing in the Wiki related to this).
You may have been just unlucky. I've had no such problems - for me, it was install wait and go. But I've had similar problems installing XP on occasion. As in, a BSOD on first boot due to a poorly-written default video driver. I had to boot into recovery console and replace the driver file manually. Point is, shit happens with any complex hardware-universal OS. The only reason why Apple gets less of these complaints is that its OS is meant to run on certain very specific hardware and it gets the final say-so on what it will support (OSx86 and other unauthorized projects aside.)
Would you rather have your document stored on your hard drive or backed up on the google server farm?
Actually, both thank you very much. One for backup and collaboration, the other for use when I'm not on the 'net. But I'm not sure if I'd feel comfortable uploading financial or other sensitive documents to Google, at least not without strong encryption. I'd keep those on my HDD for the time being and sync them to an NFS share on a different box on my home network. Sorry, but not knowing the management of Google personally, I have zero reason to trust them not to release my personal data.
I didn't bring a floppy disk to the coffee shop, but I can show someone I just met my document. Why carry around a disk?
It doesn't have to be a large disk. It can be a 1GB or larger keychain flash drive...
What if I want to collaberate with multiple people? Pass the disk around? I recently coordinated a party with my girlfriend by sharing the invite spreadsheet over google docs.
That is definitely an advantage, though I'm not sure if it's a huge advantage over just e-mailing back and forth or whatever.
Yes, but this is browsing the web, not a physical activity.
Using the phone is also a normal activity. Should be require every mom-and-pop store and restaurant to buy a TDD (Teletype Device for the Deaf) so that deaf people can call them on the phone and place orders? Disabled people have to allow for some loss in "functionality" compared to normally abled people. Deal with it and move on.
SquirrelMail is simpler, has less dynamic components, and is more compatible with accessibility standards. Why is it slower?
Are we running it on comparable servers, first of all? Google has a lot of 'puter power at its fingertips. Also, one may be more efficient with local caching than the other. Who knows?
Despite the very clever spelling of Microsoft, this is not true at all for my WM2005 phone (HTC TyTN). It seems you have some specific lockdown from your operator (happening on many phones/platforms, change operator/buy phones without bundled plans).
Your reseller may have already unlocked it. Trivial to do with the right software. Also, you may have been using software that was signed and blessed by MS. The phone in question was bought from a reseller, not through a cell provider. New.
The real PITA came when we tried to install a self-signed certificate issued by our company on the phone. It refused to install it until another crack was done, and the certificate was needed to do wireless ActiveSync with an Exchange server. We didn't want to pay several hundred dollars to VerySlime or a similar company just for the priviledge of doing something that should Just Work.
Well, anyway, interpretations of ADA are taken too far. There are some things that handicapped people just cannot do - that's the very definition of a handicap. Should we require rock-climbing equipment stores to accomodate double amputees?
Plain old HTML sites are a lot faster than the newer Flash-y sites with the latest doodads. Examples of well-designed sites (get the job done with a good, fast interface while managing to look good) are Google, LiveJournal, and Craigslist. All of which I can use with Lynx should the desire strike me.
I think for the average user, web based applications are an ideal solution. Most of the "advantages" of the personal computer have been a disaster for the average joe - it puts them in the pilot's seat when the best place for him is really back in the passenger area. Here's how I see it, with Gmail as the example:
I'm still advocating local caching of applications and data, at least for frequently used stuff. It's grossly inefficient to keep downloading the same data over and over again. There's also stuff (like financial records) that should not be stored anywhere but under the control of the owner. I don't trust never-delete-anything Google that much with my personal data. The problem of hard drive failure can be dealt with via smaller (1.5?") drives running on a Raid 1 scheme. Yes, even on a laptop. Or perhaps automated software that does backups to flash disk...
Also, fast wireless Internet access for laptops isn't that ubiquitous just yet. In urban and suburban areas, yes, but elsewhere you often revert to a slower mode or have no access at all. Even many tunnels for trains and buses still don't have cell service.
For enterprises, it makes a lot more sense to use a bunch of dumb terminals and keeping all the application logic and data where it can be centrally managed.
Agreed for within a business, depending on how critical it is to have some ability to do work 24/7. Intranets are very reliable and fast these days. Not so the internet, IMHO. HOWEVER, with dumb terminals you're introducing a single point of failure (the network and the server room) that will render multiple machines incapable of use if it fails. Not so with apps running or at least cached locally.
Can't seem to find your e-mail, but are you the same Prof. Morales who teaches astrophysics at a university in a coastal town in California and also does work at a gamma-ray observatory a few states to the east? If you're the same Prof. Morales, I heard your lecture at a small school with a good physics dept just outside of Philadelphia in 2001 or 2002. Keep up the interesting work.
I don't think they work either. It certainly didn't stop my girlfriend, and millions of others from smoking, but arguments about health have convinced many, including her, to quit.
Well, this would be more like a $30/pack tax on cigarettes. It won't stop people from smoking entirely, but it would relegate cigarettes to luxury status i.e. something that you smoke one or two of when going out rather than something that you smoke a pack a day of.
Actually, taxing fossil fuels would be more like finding a "safe" cigarette (read: plug in hybrids powered by renewable or nuclear) that smells and tastes more or less the same and has the same effect of getting you wired without most of the negative health effects. Don't prohibit the old kind for those who want the *exact* same experience as before, just tax it so it'd be annoying to smoke a lot of them.
They are rising at a higher rate today than they were earlier in the last century, but still we're talking about going from 1-2 mm a year to 3-4mm a year.
4mm/yr worst case is a lot. That's 1/2 meter per century. We won't be swimming in Morristown for a while yet, but the ocean will reach a few miles inland in some places in another century. And I've heard estimates as high as 1 meter per century. This is of course neglecting beach erosion due to increased force of storms combined with higher sea level.
About sea level rise: it's not due to the melting of the north polar ice cap as many people think it is. Ice in water is actually in equilibrium (more or less) since a floating piece of ice displaces its own mass in water. So when it melts, it occupies the volume previously displaced by it. The rise in sea level is due to runoff from land-based glaciers melting, thermal expansion of the ocean water and ice shelves previously supported by land but overhanging the sea breaking off and falling in. Ultimately, sea level rise may even be reduced due to increased evaporation of the oceans eventually which would increase cloud cover, possibly reducing solar penetration and moderating the warming trend. But we don't want to run this experiment and find out that the worst case scenario was true.
Also, I don't think social engineering works. The little tax nudge is a bad idea, because we're relying on politicians to re-distribute the money to the "research and development". I don't trust them, regardless of their political party, to do the right thing. I have already volunteered for that tax by switching my energy supplier, and I think people deserve to make their own choice as I did. I don't like the idea of the government forcing them to agree with me on this subject. Why not simply convince others to do what I have volunteered to do with ad/education campaigns? Prohibition failed, the war on drugs is a failure, and every other government attempt at social engineering has failed as well.
Yes, I am talking about essentially a punitive tax on fossil fuels. Not necessarily re-distributing money. Just punishing financially the use of fossil fuels. Note that I am *not* talking about outright prohibition, nor do I support it. Basically, price people out of the market so they'll either be forced to switch or use less. I do agree that outright prohibition and throwing people in jail for trafficking in fossil fuels would be stupid. Didn't work with Prohibition, the War on Drugs, or the slave trade after 1809. Won't work now.
Actually, the NSF senior review is not trying to shift money to other projects. It's only trying to decided how to use the money they DO have in light of future projects.
Uh, but the NSF as a whole might be allotted less money this year than in, say, 2000, as a result of other Federal costs.
Our government doesn't work like that. If it runs low on cash, it just basically prints more money.
Money has to be worth something - i.e. it has to be backed up by assets, tangible objects that it can be traded for, or services. If you print more money, money will just experience a commensurate reduction in value. Weimar Germany tried that and people ended up bringing baskets of money to the store to buy a loaf of bread.
Web apps are a great thing - if you have reliable, very fast, Internet access 24/7. I suspect the killer app is some hybrid of web and client apps. The data would get still stored locally. Not everyone is comfortable with losing access to data whenever the net goes down, plus the privacy implications and the fact that local storage is faster. As far as the applications themselves, they'll be in Java or some other platform-independent language, but they'll be cached locally for the most part. Again, you wouldn't want to be stuck with a brick when the your net access breaks. Perhaps updates and seldom-used features would download on demand from the net, but things like MS Office more or less do that already.
Going to all web apps would be going back to the mainframe/dumb terminal days of the 1970s. It would negate most of the advantages of owning a PC.
It matters because it's against our code of conduct.
The rules are the rules because they are the rules. Sounds like a tautological argument if I've ever heard one. Unless someone was actually aggrieved by the "offense", why bother firing the employee. Just give him a stiff talking to.
The typical/. aversion to management is disappointing. Management is important, particularly in IT. Without it, nothing gets done, nobody gets paid.
Nothing wrong with management. I just come from a small company mindset - I've never worked for a company with more than 20 employees except on temp jobs while in college. And I'm quite happy with that since I hated the bureaucracy and the attitude that your own time wasn't your own in the large companies that I worked for. Oh yeah, piss into this cup and we'll see what you're putting into your body on your own time. Oh joy. Yeah. I think that management should be whenever possible informal and results-based, dedicated to the premise that as long as you're not hurting anyone and pulling your weight for the company, you can do whatever you like. And, as I've said before, if I were in IT, if I found simple porn on someone's computer, I'd delete it and maybe talk to the person in private. The current fad for zero tolerance policies is a terrible idea.
t, including the US and Austrailia, that we'd only delay the effects by a few decades. Kyoto only buys time, instead of solving the problem. I say, screw that, invest in alternative energy technologies, and that will get us out of the dirty fossil fuel business once and for all.
I agree with you about investing in alternate energy technology. And, BTW, nowhere did I mention that Kyoto should or should not be signed. I'm just saying that fossil fuels should be very gradually taxed and tax breaks should be given for use of alternative environmentally-friendly technologies to encourage people to switch. Nothing should be mandated per se. Just a nudge in the pocketbook to get people going in the right direction. Also, research on how to mitigate global warming should be funded *now*. Meaning that the space-based sunshade idea and ideas like it should be seriously considered and developed. As I said, I don't want to lose our cities and our coasts. The US and the world is already crowded enough without losing more land area to the sea. And I mentioned that much of the land that would be submerged is somewhat polluted - this wouldn't have good effects on ocean ecology. With sudden change like that, you also wouldn't get nice beaches like we're used to and love. A sandy beach isn't going to magically appear in the Poconos or in Morristown, NJ. What we'll get is a coastline of rocks and mud at least for the next few millenia. Do you want to tell your grandkids to tell their grandkids: "when I was a boy, I used to go to the beach..."
The problem with this warming trend is that it's happening much faster than previous warming. That doesn't give nature much time to adapt.
Anyway, now that you've resorted to threatening me, instead of offering me evidence that could change my mind, I will not listen to you. For your sake, hopefully, someone else will offer me that information without at silly threat.
Threats? No, I'm just giving an example of what will happen (not may happen) if there are suddenly a lot of displaced, likely armed and hungry, people wandering the countryside with nothing to lose. It may not happen to you, but it'll happen to your friends or your neighbors. Unless you're willing to live in an armed camp, of course, but would you be willing to shoot to kill to defend your property?
One of the nice things about GWAVA is that it we have it configured to send an HTML message to users daily, where they can pull a message out of the bit-bucket (so-to-speak). That is to say, they get a digest message of what was blocked, and if something was improperly blocked, they can have it sent to them anyway.
Copfilter has a digest option too. We're not using it ATM, since I have it set up to block only the most egregious examples of SPAM i.e. those with scores of 25 or above. The rest simply gets tagged and put in users' junk mail folders by the Groupwise clients. Users can do what they will with junk mail and are instructed to check their junk mail folders regularly. We haven't needed the feature so far, but Copfilter accepts whitelist mods via e-mail.
My only wishes for Copfilter are: that the SPAM filtering be somewhat more configurable from the Web interface and that it would be able to block e-mail not destined for local domains before it ever gets to the server. We had some asshat try to relay a lot of spam through us, and it basically clogged up the works (actually, it was more of a DDoS attack disguised as a spam relay attempt, but having non-local domains blocked at the firewall would have been nice).
we can have open standards for phones that'll allow us to run any (even unsigned!) software. Otherwise, the media that we'll be able to download on phones will come encumbered by DRM and other garbage restrictions. MS is the worst offender here, BTW. Windows Mobile phones come locked down and won't run a lot of 3rd party apps unless you apply some hacks that reduce security. This is even true of phones that are not locked to a provider's network.
So is the SKA really a code name for some sort of WMD? Or are you just a moron who is not afraid to show it?
??? No, I'm saying that with the amount of money we spend annually on Iraq, certain other government projects have to get the axe. There's limited money to go around and we're already up to our nipples in debt. Pretty soon, we'll be in up to our noses and unable to breathe, so something's got to give, I guess.
And no need to resort to ad-hominem attacks. We're not in grade school here...
My guess is that he was using the laptop to download porn off the clock (possibly at home), but when word got out, the employer sacked him for misusing their laptop. I'm not going into whether or not he should have been doing this, or whether the employer had a right to fire him, I'm just stating that it doesn't sound to me like he was downloading porn at work.
What he *was* was stupid. He should have booted from a Knoppix LiveCD before engaging in... questionable... activity. After you shut down, the RAMdisk is wiped and no one would ever know.
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IE? Why when Firefox is just as good?
Outlook Express is a bad joke and is less useful than most other e-mail clients. The only cool thing about it is its ability to read USENET, but there are plenty of news clients for Linux.
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Sun is putting out one of the best server OS's these days.
Apple is putting out probably the best and most usable music player, in addition to computers with innovative design features and an OS that's first-rate for the desktop. True, OS X server isn't great, nor is Spotlight (just wait till 10.5 though) but they've made a very usable, easy-to-install and powerful OS for the most part!
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Install the Windows driver under ndiswrapper if there's no supported Linux driver for your chipset.
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Actually, it could be argued that NT/200x/XP is a *nix variant as well. NT is (or was) based on a heavily modified version of the Mach kernel, the same one used by OS X.
To get Ubuntu to install on my machine, I had to manually edit a config file to get the screen to display correctly, but could only do so *after* the Ubuntu installer crashed (like, duh?). I found this out after digging through Ubuntu forum posts for about an hour (there was nothing in the Wiki related to this).
You may have been just unlucky. I've had no such problems - for me, it was install wait and go. But I've had similar problems installing XP on occasion. As in, a BSOD on first boot due to a poorly-written default video driver. I had to boot into recovery console and replace the driver file manually. Point is, shit happens with any complex hardware-universal OS. The only reason why Apple gets less of these complaints is that its OS is meant to run on certain very specific hardware and it gets the final say-so on what it will support (OSx86 and other unauthorized projects aside.)
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Actually, both thank you very much. One for backup and collaboration, the other for use when I'm not on the 'net. But I'm not sure if I'd feel comfortable uploading financial or other sensitive documents to Google, at least not without strong encryption. I'd keep those on my HDD for the time being and sync them to an NFS share on a different box on my home network. Sorry, but not knowing the management of Google personally, I have zero reason to trust them not to release my personal data.
I didn't bring a floppy disk to the coffee shop, but I can show someone I just met my document. Why carry around a disk?
It doesn't have to be a large disk. It can be a 1GB or larger keychain flash drive...
What if I want to collaberate with multiple people? Pass the disk around? I recently coordinated a party with my girlfriend by sharing the invite spreadsheet over google docs.
That is definitely an advantage, though I'm not sure if it's a huge advantage over just e-mailing back and forth or whatever.
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Using the phone is also a normal activity. Should be require every mom-and-pop store and restaurant to buy a TDD (Teletype Device for the Deaf) so that deaf people can call them on the phone and place orders? Disabled people have to allow for some loss in "functionality" compared to normally abled people. Deal with it and move on.
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Are we running it on comparable servers, first of all? Google has a lot of 'puter power at its fingertips. Also, one may be more efficient with local caching than the other. Who knows?
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Your reseller may have already unlocked it. Trivial to do with the right software. Also, you may have been using software that was signed and blessed by MS. The phone in question was bought from a reseller, not through a cell provider. New.
The real PITA came when we tried to install a self-signed certificate issued by our company on the phone. It refused to install it until another crack was done, and the certificate was needed to do wireless ActiveSync with an Exchange server. We didn't want to pay several hundred dollars to VerySlime or a similar company just for the priviledge of doing something that should Just Work.
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Well, anyway, interpretations of ADA are taken too far. There are some things that handicapped people just cannot do - that's the very definition of a handicap. Should we require rock-climbing equipment stores to accomodate double amputees?
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I'm still advocating local caching of applications and data, at least for frequently used stuff. It's grossly inefficient to keep downloading the same data over and over again. There's also stuff (like financial records) that should not be stored anywhere but under the control of the owner. I don't trust never-delete-anything Google that much with my personal data. The problem of hard drive failure can be dealt with via smaller (1.5?") drives running on a Raid 1 scheme. Yes, even on a laptop. Or perhaps automated software that does backups to flash disk...
Also, fast wireless Internet access for laptops isn't that ubiquitous just yet. In urban and suburban areas, yes, but elsewhere you often revert to a slower mode or have no access at all. Even many tunnels for trains and buses still don't have cell service.
For enterprises, it makes a lot more sense to use a bunch of dumb terminals and keeping all the application logic and data where it can be centrally managed.
Agreed for within a business, depending on how critical it is to have some ability to do work 24/7. Intranets are very reliable and fast these days. Not so the internet, IMHO. HOWEVER, with dumb terminals you're introducing a single point of failure (the network and the server room) that will render multiple machines incapable of use if it fails. Not so with apps running or at least cached locally.
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Well, this would be more like a $30/pack tax on cigarettes. It won't stop people from smoking entirely, but it would relegate cigarettes to luxury status i.e. something that you smoke one or two of when going out rather than something that you smoke a pack a day of.
Actually, taxing fossil fuels would be more like finding a "safe" cigarette (read: plug in hybrids powered by renewable or nuclear) that smells and tastes more or less the same and has the same effect of getting you wired without most of the negative health effects. Don't prohibit the old kind for those who want the *exact* same experience as before, just tax it so it'd be annoying to smoke a lot of them.
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4mm/yr worst case is a lot. That's 1/2 meter per century. We won't be swimming in Morristown for a while yet, but the ocean will reach a few miles inland in some places in another century. And I've heard estimates as high as 1 meter per century. This is of course neglecting beach erosion due to increased force of storms combined with higher sea level.
About sea level rise: it's not due to the melting of the north polar ice cap as many people think it is. Ice in water is actually in equilibrium (more or less) since a floating piece of ice displaces its own mass in water. So when it melts, it occupies the volume previously displaced by it. The rise in sea level is due to runoff from land-based glaciers melting, thermal expansion of the ocean water and ice shelves previously supported by land but overhanging the sea breaking off and falling in. Ultimately, sea level rise may even be reduced due to increased evaporation of the oceans eventually which would increase cloud cover, possibly reducing solar penetration and moderating the warming trend. But we don't want to run this experiment and find out that the worst case scenario was true.
Also, I don't think social engineering works. The little tax nudge is a bad idea, because we're relying on politicians to re-distribute the money to the "research and development". I don't trust them, regardless of their political party, to do the right thing. I have already volunteered for that tax by switching my energy supplier, and I think people deserve to make their own choice as I did. I don't like the idea of the government forcing them to agree with me on this subject. Why not simply convince others to do what I have volunteered to do with ad/education campaigns? Prohibition failed, the war on drugs is a failure, and every other government attempt at social engineering has failed as well.
Yes, I am talking about essentially a punitive tax on fossil fuels. Not necessarily re-distributing money. Just punishing financially the use of fossil fuels. Note that I am *not* talking about outright prohibition, nor do I support it. Basically, price people out of the market so they'll either be forced to switch or use less. I do agree that outright prohibition and throwing people in jail for trafficking in fossil fuels would be stupid. Didn't work with Prohibition, the War on Drugs, or the slave trade after 1809. Won't work now.
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Micro$oft in their infinite wisdom started requiring tru$ted applications starting with WM2005.
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Uh, but the NSF as a whole might be allotted less money this year than in, say, 2000, as a result of other Federal costs.
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Money has to be worth something - i.e. it has to be backed up by assets, tangible objects that it can be traded for, or services. If you print more money, money will just experience a commensurate reduction in value. Weimar Germany tried that and people ended up bringing baskets of money to the store to buy a loaf of bread.
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Going to all web apps would be going back to the mainframe/dumb terminal days of the 1970s. It would negate most of the advantages of owning a PC.
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The rules are the rules because they are the rules. Sounds like a tautological argument if I've ever heard one. Unless someone was actually aggrieved by the "offense", why bother firing the employee. Just give him a stiff talking to.
The typical /. aversion to management is disappointing. Management is important, particularly in IT. Without it, nothing gets done, nobody gets paid.
Nothing wrong with management. I just come from a small company mindset - I've never worked for a company with more than 20 employees except on temp jobs while in college. And I'm quite happy with that since I hated the bureaucracy and the attitude that your own time wasn't your own in the large companies that I worked for. Oh yeah, piss into this cup and we'll see what you're putting into your body on your own time. Oh joy. Yeah. I think that management should be whenever possible informal and results-based, dedicated to the premise that as long as you're not hurting anyone and pulling your weight for the company, you can do whatever you like. And, as I've said before, if I were in IT, if I found simple porn on someone's computer, I'd delete it and maybe talk to the person in private. The current fad for zero tolerance policies is a terrible idea.
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I agree with you about investing in alternate energy technology. And, BTW, nowhere did I mention that Kyoto should or should not be signed. I'm just saying that fossil fuels should be very gradually taxed and tax breaks should be given for use of alternative environmentally-friendly technologies to encourage people to switch. Nothing should be mandated per se. Just a nudge in the pocketbook to get people going in the right direction. Also, research on how to mitigate global warming should be funded *now*. Meaning that the space-based sunshade idea and ideas like it should be seriously considered and developed. As I said, I don't want to lose our cities and our coasts. The US and the world is already crowded enough without losing more land area to the sea. And I mentioned that much of the land that would be submerged is somewhat polluted - this wouldn't have good effects on ocean ecology. With sudden change like that, you also wouldn't get nice beaches like we're used to and love. A sandy beach isn't going to magically appear in the Poconos or in Morristown, NJ. What we'll get is a coastline of rocks and mud at least for the next few millenia. Do you want to tell your grandkids to tell their grandkids: "when I was a boy, I used to go to the beach..."
The problem with this warming trend is that it's happening much faster than previous warming. That doesn't give nature much time to adapt.
Anyway, now that you've resorted to threatening me, instead of offering me evidence that could change my mind, I will not listen to you. For your sake, hopefully, someone else will offer me that information without at silly threat.
Threats? No, I'm just giving an example of what will happen (not may happen) if there are suddenly a lot of displaced, likely armed and hungry, people wandering the countryside with nothing to lose. It may not happen to you, but it'll happen to your friends or your neighbors. Unless you're willing to live in an armed camp, of course, but would you be willing to shoot to kill to defend your property?
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Copfilter has a digest option too. We're not using it ATM, since I have it set up to block only the most egregious examples of SPAM i.e. those with scores of 25 or above. The rest simply gets tagged and put in users' junk mail folders by the Groupwise clients. Users can do what they will with junk mail and are instructed to check their junk mail folders regularly. We haven't needed the feature so far, but Copfilter accepts whitelist mods via e-mail.
My only wishes for Copfilter are: that the SPAM filtering be somewhat more configurable from the Web interface and that it would be able to block e-mail not destined for local domains before it ever gets to the server. We had some asshat try to relay a lot of spam through us, and it basically clogged up the works (actually, it was more of a DDoS attack disguised as a spam relay attempt, but having non-local domains blocked at the firewall would have been nice).
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That's done all the time anyway with custom software.
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??? No, I'm saying that with the amount of money we spend annually on Iraq, certain other government projects have to get the axe. There's limited money to go around and we're already up to our nipples in debt. Pretty soon, we'll be in up to our noses and unable to breathe, so something's got to give, I guess.
And no need to resort to ad-hominem attacks. We're not in grade school here...
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What he *was* was stupid. He should have booted from a Knoppix LiveCD before engaging in ... questionable ... activity. After you shut down, the RAMdisk is wiped and no one would ever know.
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