Pauline doesn't like it when they twist her words about, her shopping trolley murdered, her groceries just gone. I guess Little John doesn't like it either.
Actually I find it quite likely MelbourneIT believed it was a phishing site. Not because it was a phishing site mind you, but because MelbourneIT's skill level is that high (IMHE).
Well, sure. At least up until the point that you say you're not interested and close the door. Of course, the next set of missionaries assigned to your area won't have any idea that the previous set talked to you, and probably wouldn't do anything different even if they did. After all, you might have changed your mind. Missionaries work about 12 hours per day, 6.5 days per week and they have a specific area to work in. Knocking on doors is pretty much an activity of last resort for them, when they don't have anything more worthwhile to fill their working hours, so they'll figure they might as well try you just to see if something has happened in your life to make you change your mind.
That's funny, I thought I was in news.admin.net-abuse.email for a second...
I can understand the first three, but transgender... I just don't get it. I can understand that some people like people of the same gender in the same way that I like people of the opposite gender, that's pretty easy to do. But I can't seem to grasp that some people want to be the opposite gender and some of those even take steps to become so. What is it like, or how is it that somebody wants to be the opposite gender? Somebody please explain.
And it's stupid that I have to put this for some certain people out there but I bascially think: If somebody wants to do something that isn't hurting anybody else then I don't see that there it is anyone's business but their own.
In regards to solar power in.au, the max. government rebate is $4000 and the rebate program ends at the end of 2007 (I think), after which no rebate will be available. Try http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/renewable/pv/ for more details (including links to state websites).
I'm a Christ follower but I have many problems with Christianity and the overall Body of the church. Your questions are some of the more frustrating ones because the average Christian is so holier than thou when they answer it.
Those are interesting questions, but sometimes I wonder if they are the right questions to be asking. Religion is for the most part not logical (eg A Woman having children without sex is not logical). I think it is pretty safe to say that religion is based on blind belief, not logic, and that any logical argument against religion is doomed to fail because of this.
So perhaps an more interesting question might be: Why do people believe things which, if they took time to examine them, are obviously wrong? Are they just stupid to the facts? (I don't think so) Or, perhaps just as you or I are willing to supend belief when reading a sci-fi book or watching a movie so that we can enjoy it, are religious people willing to suspend rational belief to get the rewards that they apparently do from religion?
Whatever the answer might be, I think that a lot of religious people are simply scared. Scared of sex, other people, the world in general and *especially* of death. I think they turn to a group which thinks like they do to gain the rewards of comfort and security. (I would apprecite any counter views to this so I can refine my thoughts).
Steve Gibson's best skill appears to be making an ass of himself in public. One would think that after making all the mistakes he has in public he would learn that he should check his facts before he publishes. But fortunately for him he doesn't need to, his audience is not the technically minded or those interested in computer security, his audience is the average user who doesn't know anything about security. People who don't have the knowledge to tell fact from headline grabbing doom and gloom. And he will continue to grab headlines because most people don't know any better.
I think most of your comments are pretty harsh. Sure 5 or 6 years ago not many people knew about OSS or Linux, but these days I frequently meet *sales people* who know about Linux. Sure, there usually isn't driver support, but one gets that everywhere. Most places even let me buy whatever I am looking for and return (for cash) it if I can't get it to work (eg printers & camera) and I'm talking about office supply stores who sell more pens and pencils than technical gear.
I have also seen a great deal of movement in the industry in which I work towards making data available in open formats (eg XML). I believe open source & Linux in the marketplace has had a significant role in this. For example, most (>90%) publishers and book suppliers in Australia are now encoding all title information in a standard open format. It is changing the haphazard, complex and time consuming task of collecting, extracting and sorting data from 100 different suppliers into one simple task. Soon I will be able to collect data from *one* source, extract the information *once* and update my database *once*. I believe it is due to the open source movement as a whole that things like this are happening.
Which reputation, the reputation which is held about Steve Gibson by people who actually know about security, or the reputation he has amoung the clueless?
Or for those who perfer postfix the Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat-Sheet works well for me. My mail server gets about 500 hams per day only 1-2 spams per week (usually those which have not been picked up by spamhaus.org lists) and have only had 1 false positive.
Hmm, those are two good points, with just two minor problems: 1. If greylisting is done properly, for most mail server connections there is no delay. IE check the auto whitelisting feature of your greylisting software. 2. If your queue is full of spam bounces you are part of the problem. Has it ever occured to you that most spam is from forged email addresses? So why are you boucing to it?
Is there any actual proof that it was a lack of belief in an all powerfull being which directly caused those deaths? Or is this just another case of false logic? (ie: it would be equally as valid to point out that more people have been killed by regimes who believe the Earth is a sphere (more or less)).
Do you really want your teenagers first impression of sex to be some woman with six inch long nails taking it up two orifices while screaming "CUM INSIDE OF ME!!!"?
Deciding ownership is not something done by vote, committee, or edict. You either own something or you do not. The owners of the Internet are the ones who funded its invention, the ones who decided to open it up to other countries, and the ones who have controlled it since its inception: The U.S.
The USA ownes the internet only as much as Britain ownes all the worlds railways. Can you get past your own bullshit to see that the internet, despite starting in the US, does not belong to the US? Can you not see that many people, companies and organisations funded and built the collection of networks that is called the internet and that many of those same people/companies/organisations are not in the USA?
It's nice to see that the DMCA is actually a valid refelction of the attitudes of the people (ie "I made it, it's mine, I will keep it forever and lord it over everyone else").
Come on people! We need to start stockpiling canned goods, fresh water and shotgun shells now! If we wait until the first reports of infection, it may already be too late!
You must be mad to think that this would ever happen, especially while most famous Zombie (John Howard) is still in office. Most people don't even realise that little John is a Zombie. I must admit though, he does have a good defense. All he has to point out that Zombies like to eat brains therefore he can't be a Zombie because he is always following his pal, George Bush around...
What we should be really doing is thanking the developers of OO. OO is a great program... You have to understand that most people don't care whether Java is closed or not. It is the final product's functionality that matters most, so quit your bitching.
Indeed, in fact who cares if software is OSS at all. Most people don't bother with source code, so why don't we all just go and buy MS Windows?
What I think OO needs is a better interface and more of the lesser-used features that make MS Office such a complete suite.
Well now I am confused, you don't seem to care much about the "free"ness of the code so why are you using OO at all? Why not just go out and buy MS Office? Or is it only the free in cost part that you care about? If so I think you underestimate the actual value of an open code base (and OSS in general). It's not just about money; OSS is changing the whole industry (as can be seen with Firefox and websites now coding to standards instead of IE), government systems (in many countries are becomming more open) etc etc. What do you need to convince you that there is more to "free" than cost?
Bah, Capt Kirk stole it from the Doctor, the original robot/machine paradox creator. In fact lots of things from Star Trek were from Dr Who (eg the Borg and "you will be assimilated")
FTA: "Icann had tentatively approved the new domain name, called.xxx, several months earlier, but at the last moment the Department of Commerce removed its support, after it said it received thousands of letters of complaint from conservative Christian groups and others."
Say it isn't so! In this article and just about every other covering this topic, people are crying out saying that the US is a haven for freedom, a beacon for the world and as such should retain control of the DNS. And now we find out that it is the USA which is resticting the internet based upon some puritanical crusade by a bunch of religious nutjobs who want to control the internet based upon their own agenda. Talk about poetic justice:-)
Actually, from the listening to the man himself and dubyaspeak I would not find it hard to believe "Bush Disappointed To Learn Chinese Foreign Minister Doesn't Know Karate".
Perhaps it is that the people potentially being taken in by these sort of comments and headlines doesn't say so much about the person, but about Bush himself.
"You can give people free software or computers, but they won't have the expertise to use it..."
Apparently Microsoft assumes just because you life in Africa you must be stupid. Apparently they don't get out much:
Delhi children make play of the net "In the slums of Delhi, an experiment has shown how illiterate street children can quickly teach themselves the rudiments of computers and the internet.
The aim of the experiment, funded by the Indian Government, local institutions and the World Bank was to see what role computers might play in educating India's illiterate millions.
The results were startling, showing how much children with little or no English and no computer training at all could achieve."
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Pauline doesn't like it when they twist her words about, her shopping trolley murdered, her groceries just gone. I guess Little John doesn't like it either.
Actually I find it quite likely MelbourneIT believed it was a phishing site. Not because it was a phishing site mind you, but because MelbourneIT's skill level is that high (IMHE).
That's funny, I thought I was in news.admin.net-abuse.email for a second...
As the Esperantinos would say: Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston? Lausajne estas rano en mia bideo!
Gay
Lesbian
Bisexual
Transgender
I can understand the first three, but transgender... I just don't get it. I can understand that some people like people of the same gender in the same way that I like people of the opposite gender, that's pretty easy to do. But I can't seem to grasp that some people want to be the opposite gender and some of those even take steps to become so. What is it like, or how is it that somebody wants to be the opposite gender? Somebody please explain.
And it's stupid that I have to put this for some certain people out there but I bascially think: If somebody wants to do something that isn't hurting anybody else then I don't see that there it is anyone's business but their own.
Can it get any more exciting than this?
Your IP address has scored: 0. This is ranked #61427 of the 61437 IP's spotted so far.
There are some energy effecient housing resources out there though, including:
. htm, but you are better off going to the original site (which doesn't include acrobat reader) at http://www.seav.sustainability.vic.gov.au/building s/firstrate/index.asp. Or download direct from http://www.seav.sustainability.vic.gov.au/ftp/exe/ FRDEMO401.exe (about 7M in size).
.au, the max. government rebate is $4000 and the rebate program ends at the end of 2007 (I think), after which no rebate will be available. Try http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/renewable/pv/ for more details (including links to state websites).
www.greenhouse.gov.au which has a great section called Your Home (the technical manual being the best palce to start from).
There is also a page about a software packages (win32) called First Rate at http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/yourhome/about/tools
In regards to solar power in
I'm a Christ follower but I have many problems with Christianity and the overall Body of the church. Your questions are some of the more frustrating ones because the average Christian is so holier than thou when they answer it.
Those are interesting questions, but sometimes I wonder if they are the right questions to be asking. Religion is for the most part not logical (eg A Woman having children without sex is not logical). I think it is pretty safe to say that religion is based on blind belief, not logic, and that any logical argument against religion is doomed to fail because of this.
So perhaps an more interesting question might be: Why do people believe things which, if they took time to examine them, are obviously wrong? Are they just stupid to the facts? (I don't think so) Or, perhaps just as you or I are willing to supend belief when reading a sci-fi book or watching a movie so that we can enjoy it, are religious people willing to suspend rational belief to get the rewards that they apparently do from religion?
Whatever the answer might be, I think that a lot of religious people are simply scared. Scared of sex, other people, the world in general and *especially* of death. I think they turn to a group which thinks like they do to gain the rewards of comfort and security. (I would apprecite any counter views to this so I can refine my thoughts).
Steve Gibson's best skill appears to be making an ass of himself in public. One would think that after making all the mistakes he has in public he would learn that he should check his facts before he publishes. But fortunately for him he doesn't need to, his audience is not the technically minded or those interested in computer security, his audience is the average user who doesn't know anything about security. People who don't have the knowledge to tell fact from headline grabbing doom and gloom. And he will continue to grab headlines because most people don't know any better.
I think most of your comments are pretty harsh. Sure 5 or 6 years ago not many people knew about OSS or Linux, but these days I frequently meet *sales people* who know about Linux. Sure, there usually isn't driver support, but one gets that everywhere. Most places even let me buy whatever I am looking for and return (for cash) it if I can't get it to work (eg printers & camera) and I'm talking about office supply stores who sell more pens and pencils than technical gear.
I have also seen a great deal of movement in the industry in which I work towards making data available in open formats (eg XML). I believe open source & Linux in the marketplace has had a significant role in this. For example, most (>90%) publishers and book suppliers in Australia are now encoding all title information in a standard open format. It is changing the haphazard, complex and time consuming task of collecting, extracting and sorting data from 100 different suppliers into one simple task. Soon I will be able to collect data from *one* source, extract the information *once* and update my database *once*. I believe it is due to the open source movement as a whole that things like this are happening.
Which reputation, the reputation which is held about Steve Gibson by people who actually know about security, or the reputation he has amoung the clueless?
Or for those who perfer postfix the Postfix Anti-UCE Cheat-Sheet works well for me. My mail server gets about 500 hams per day only 1-2 spams per week (usually those which have not been picked up by spamhaus.org lists) and have only had 1 false positive.
Hmm, those are two good points, with just two minor problems:
1. If greylisting is done properly, for most mail server connections there is no delay. IE check the auto whitelisting feature of your greylisting software.
2. If your queue is full of spam bounces you are part of the problem. Has it ever occured to you that most spam is from forged email addresses? So why are you boucing to it?
Is there any actual proof that it was a lack of belief in an all powerfull being which directly caused those deaths? Or is this just another case of false logic? (ie: it would be equally as valid to point out that more people have been killed by regimes who believe the Earth is a sphere (more or less)).
Oh, and look up happy slapping while you're at it (honestly).
People can't "happyslap" if they have broken legs...
Do you really want your teenagers first impression of sex to be some woman with six inch long nails taking it up two orifices while screaming "CUM INSIDE OF ME!!!"?
Lnk plz
http://127.0.0.1/
Deciding ownership is not something done by vote, committee, or edict. You either own something or you do not. The owners of the Internet are the ones who funded its invention, the ones who decided to open it up to other countries, and the ones who have controlled it since its inception: The U.S.
The USA ownes the internet only as much as Britain ownes all the worlds railways. Can you get past your own bullshit to see that the internet, despite starting in the US, does not belong to the US? Can you not see that many people, companies and organisations funded and built the collection of networks that is called the internet and that many of those same people/companies/organisations are not in the USA?
It's nice to see that the DMCA is actually a valid refelction of the attitudes of the people (ie "I made it, it's mine, I will keep it forever and lord it over everyone else").
When I bought mine I made sure it went up to 11
Come on people! We need to start stockpiling canned goods, fresh water and shotgun shells now! If we wait until the first reports of infection, it may already be too late!
You must be mad to think that this would ever happen, especially while most famous Zombie (John Howard) is still in office. Most people don't even realise that little John is a Zombie. I must admit though, he does have a good defense. All he has to point out that Zombies like to eat brains therefore he can't be a Zombie because he is always following his pal, George Bush around...
What we should be really doing is thanking the developers of OO. OO is a great program... You have to understand that most people don't care whether Java is closed or not. It is the final product's functionality that matters most, so quit your bitching.
Indeed, in fact who cares if software is OSS at all. Most people don't bother with source code, so why don't we all just go and buy MS Windows?
What I think OO needs is a better interface and more of the lesser-used features that make MS Office such a complete suite.
Well now I am confused, you don't seem to care much about the "free"ness of the code so why are you using OO at all? Why not just go out and buy MS Office? Or is it only the free in cost part that you care about? If so I think you underestimate the actual value of an open code base (and OSS in general). It's not just about money; OSS is changing the whole industry (as can be seen with Firefox and websites now coding to standards instead of IE), government systems (in many countries are becomming more open) etc etc. What do you need to convince you that there is more to "free" than cost?
Bah, Capt Kirk stole it from the Doctor, the original robot/machine paradox creator.
In fact lots of things from Star Trek were from Dr Who (eg the Borg and "you will be assimilated")
FTA: "Icann had tentatively approved the new domain name, called .xxx, several months earlier, but at the last moment the Department of Commerce removed its support, after it said it received thousands of letters of complaint from conservative Christian groups and others."
:-)
Say it isn't so! In this article and just about every other covering this topic, people are crying out saying that the US is a haven for freedom, a beacon for the world and as such should retain control of the DNS. And now we find out that it is the USA which is resticting the internet based upon some puritanical crusade by a bunch of religious nutjobs who want to control the internet based upon their own agenda. Talk about poetic justice
Actually, from the listening to the man himself and dubyaspeak I would not find it hard to believe "Bush Disappointed To Learn Chinese Foreign Minister Doesn't Know Karate".
Perhaps it is that the people potentially being taken in by these sort of comments and headlines doesn't say so much about the person, but about Bush himself.
Didn't customs know that "Computer Associates" is an anagram for "It comes as crap to use"?
"You can give people free software or computers, but they won't have the expertise to use it..."
Apparently Microsoft assumes just because you life in Africa you must be stupid. Apparently they don't get out much:
Delhi children make play of the net
"In the slums of Delhi, an experiment has shown how illiterate street children can quickly teach themselves the rudiments of computers and the internet.
The aim of the experiment, funded by the Indian Government, local institutions and the World Bank was to see what role computers might play in educating India's illiterate millions.
The results were startling, showing how much children with little or no English and no computer training at all could achieve."
article continues at the BBC: Delhi children make play of the net