"be wary of apps that want permission to... connect to the Internet or reveal your identity and location"
So, pretty much all of them, then. Great.
Increasingly, I find myself alarmed at how many "need" the access to my contacts permission in order to operate. As well as those that need my location (for better targeted advertising, apparently).
I hope the masses eventually wise up to this and start refusing even the big-name apps until they relinquish permissions they don't *really* need.
I've always been of the opinion that no TLDs other than country codes should have ever existed. Might have kept things a little more civil. Might not have, too, of course.
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My understanding was while that he permitted source redistribution, he insisted that it be only distributed unmodified, and never binary distribution. He also generally refused to accept patches, apparently thinking his pristine work ought to be good enough for everyone. (It was good, but needed features as time went on.) This meant that any "improvements" could only be distributed as patches. As a result, only source-based distros had an easy time packaging it, since sources + patches + build instructions is how they do business anyway. Having no friends with the binary distros, it got little distribution. It also languished on the vine since no one could push improvements upstream.
Apparently he subsequently released both qmail and djbdns into full public domain, which means in theory they could be packaged and distributed normally now. Unfortunately, it seems too late for it to matter.
As a long-time BIND hater, I recently switched from djbdns/tinydns to NSD. I figured if it's good enough for a few root servers it was worth a look. It's very efficient and fast, uses standard zone files, fully ipv4/ipv6 dual-stack transparent, and is DNSSEC aware. Very pleased so far.
This is not a retransmission, however, which carries particular legal significance.
I recall noticing that, lately, sports leagues have been augmenting their disclaimers' legalese with the phrase "accounts of the game" when referring to what you may not transmit or retransmit without expressed written permission. I wondering if that would hold water should it ever be tested in a court. It seems, at least to me, that "accounts of the game" seem fundamental to sports journalism.
1. I have an Apple Macintosh computer. Will the disc work on my MAC?
Yes. This disc will behave like a traditional CD in a Mac.
Sounds to me, then, like it would play in a home player, or be rippable under linux. They also say:
3. My CD player will not recognize this disc. This disc contains both an audio session and a data session for computers which makes it a multi-session disc. These discs are fully compliant with the Sony/Philips CD disc specifications. If your player will not recognize the disc please check whether your player recognizes multi-session discs in general.
which further implies to me that the "DRM" (and I use the term loosely) relies on your computer to use the data session and not the audio session. Seems to me you could just rip the latter.
Even though no money changes hands, the geometric nature by which it spreads makes it smell kind of Ponzi-like to me. The more it spreads, the more the difficulty of benefitting approaches infinity.
Not a classic Ponzi, and probably won't spread prohibitively, but... just sayin'.
Very well spoken indeed. The GP invokes the name of DJB in a critical manner, but then proceeds to exhibit an arrogance vector with the same magnitude, if a slightly different direction.
There may be no single silver bullet to this problem, but I'm pretty sure that the GP's overconfident isolationist approach is not among the top alternatives for the community as a whole -- and, arguably, perhaps not even for himself.
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I'd consider buying a book about postfix if it clearly and objectively outlined the advantages that postfix offers over other MTAs such as exim and qmail. This book doesn't sound like it offers that kind of information for the potential postfix noob.
I've run heavy-load MTAs under qmail for some time now, and since djb won't bring it in to the current century, integrating all of the new features necessary for today's SMTP world becomes more and more hacky and patchy. Thankfully, gentoo eases it for me by including all of the most useful patches in its qmail ebuild, but some features remain unintegrated or can't easily be done early in the SMTP conversation.
I'd love to see a simple, objective, and comprehensive comparison made between postfix, exim, and qmail (include sendmail if you like, although I won't use sendmail for admittedly emotional and historic reasons).
Once you've made the commitment to go postfix, though, this review makes it sounds like this book might be a good resource.
As a small-time ISP, I recently took the admittedly draconian action of blocking SMTP from China, Korea, and a few others at the iptables level. Result: 50% reduction in spam instantly. I suppose I'll have to give my users a way around it if any complain, but I'm not expecting it.
Also: qmail admins, I highly recommend simscan. It invokes clamav and spamassassin during the SMTP conversation by way of QMAILQUEUE resulting in a 5xx error (and therefore an immediate bounce to the sender for legitimate false positives) and no local queue growth. Nice.
The reports I read mentioned anecdotal observations like these too. But none were repeatable or deterministically linkable.
If PEDs were the cause of those incidents, did anyone prove it measurably or repeatedly, or did they simply invoke post hoc reasoning to incite fear?
Let's face it, people leave their cell phones on during flight all the time, whether accidentally or obstinantly. If there was even a statistically remote likelihood of causal interference, wouldn't that be sufficient reason to not even allow them on board?
I've seen numerous legitimate studies and reports, originating in organizations from Boeing to the FAA, that found no verifiable or repeatable interference from any PED (personal electronic device) tested, including many which intentionally transmit.
Argue any conspiracy theory you like, whether financial or otherwise, but rest well assured that the device prohibition is NOT about interference.
The British way of driving on the left hails from the concept of keeping your "sword hand" nearer your oncoming opponent. I know of no such logic for passing oncomers on the right side.
I would have thought that it's a subject of the noun clause (whoever attempts), with the whole clause being the object of the preposition, not just the "whoever"
Very nicely conjectured, actually, and while the entirety of the prepositional phrase may constitute a subject equivalence, the prepositional phrase trumps during its context, and within it the rules of prepositional objects apply.
In a neighboorhood where I once lived, someone had a very high-powered (and likely illegal) phone of which this reminds me. It was so powerful, and perhaps poorly designed, that I'd hear his conversations inducted into my own landline as he drove by. Weird but kind of cool.
Please don't confuse redundancy and archival needs. To simplify: Redundancy (e.g. RAID) protects you against hardware failures. Archival protects you against "oops I deleted it" failures. Both are important.
As a "regular" (i.e. non-DirecTiVo) TiVo user, I lament the lack of DirecTiVo features (e.g. record-two-shows-at-once) while enjoying the analog TiVo features (e.g. TiVo2Go). Any word on which features ComcasTiVo(tm) will support?
Some people have become confused about that rule because they don't see embryos or fetuses as people, but they are.
You imply that all who disagree with you on this topic are confused, and you imply that societal rules exist without ratification (implicit or explicit) in the collective.
On the topic of when a growing set of embryonic organic matter becomes an autonomous human life (i.e. "a person"), not everyone agrees with you -- or with me for that matter -- including many educated people who are quite lucid and not confused at all.
Further, a society's "rules of ethics" are fluid in nature. They're not dictated by any one viewpoint, but rather by compromise and consensus. You're certainly welcome to define your own, and defend it vigorously, but you have no business telling any other person what his or her set of ethics should be. The ethics of a society are agreed to collectively, and the fact that there is so much disagreement on this issue is the reason there is so much debate on it.
I welcome the debate, and remind you that neither you nor I are "right" no matter what the outcome.
Would you be happier if, rather than taxing you 10 times at 5% your government taxed you 1 time at 50%
Actually, yes. It makes the big picture clear, so the public knows the real price of government. When nickel-and-dimed to death, the public often fails to do the math and acquiesces to what it otherwise wouldn't.
As the CTO of a very small tech company, I wear hats from strategist to manager to coder to sysadmin to level 1 tech support. I happily welcome any alternative that obviates MS Outlook. So far I have successfully upheld my corporate ban on that pst-file wielding blister, but it is a continuous challenge to keep at bay those who say "but it works and it's handy and swanky, and clippy is cute."
If google can provide corporate accounts on calendaring and gmail that makes it feel seamless and functional, while maintaining an agnostic view on platform and browser deployment, many of us would applaud and consider signing up.
I just want to be told what to buy so I can get on with other things
Congratulations! Your application to PHB candidate school has been accepted. A rewarding career awaits you.
Just kidding, of course. This kind of SAN device should be as ubiquitous as a TV. Unfortunately the general consumer doesn't know (s)he needs one, and the market isn't scrambling to provide them. Yet, hopefully.
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"be wary of apps that want permission to ... connect to the Internet or reveal your identity and location"
So, pretty much all of them, then. Great.
Increasingly, I find myself alarmed at how many "need" the access to my contacts permission in order to operate. As well as those that need my location (for better targeted advertising, apparently).
I hope the masses eventually wise up to this and start refusing even the big-name apps until they relinquish permissions they don't *really* need.
I've always been of the opinion that no TLDs other than country codes should have ever existed. Might have kept things a little more civil. Might not have, too, of course. $0.02, ptd
My understanding was while that he permitted source redistribution, he insisted that it be only distributed unmodified, and never binary distribution. He also generally refused to accept patches, apparently thinking his pristine work ought to be good enough for everyone. (It was good, but needed features as time went on.) This meant that any "improvements" could only be distributed as patches. As a result, only source-based distros had an easy time packaging it, since sources + patches + build instructions is how they do business anyway. Having no friends with the binary distros, it got little distribution. It also languished on the vine since no one could push improvements upstream. Apparently he subsequently released both qmail and djbdns into full public domain, which means in theory they could be packaged and distributed normally now. Unfortunately, it seems too late for it to matter.
As a long-time BIND hater, I recently switched from djbdns/tinydns to NSD. I figured if it's good enough for a few root servers it was worth a look. It's very efficient and fast, uses standard zone files, fully ipv4/ipv6 dual-stack transparent, and is DNSSEC aware. Very pleased so far.
This is not a retransmission, however, which carries particular legal significance.
I recall noticing that, lately, sports leagues have been augmenting their disclaimers' legalese with the phrase "accounts of the game" when referring to what you may not transmit or retransmit without expressed written permission. I wondering if that would hold water should it ever be tested in a court. It seems, at least to me, that "accounts of the game" seem fundamental to sports journalism.
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Interesting tidbit from the linked site:
Sounds to me, then, like it would play in a home player, or be rippable under linux. They also say:which further implies to me that the "DRM" (and I use the term loosely) relies on your computer to use the data session and not the audio session. Seems to me you could just rip the latter.
Almost as easy as holding down a shift key. ;)
I recommend keeping it as lightweight as you can. My MythTV system sports not much more than:
and various dependencies of those. The fewer moving parts you have, the less likely you are to break something in the future.
Oh, and I almost forgot -- once it's working, STOP MESSING WITH IT. ;)
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Not a classic Ponzi, and probably won't spread prohibitively, but... just sayin'.
There may be no single silver bullet to this problem, but I'm pretty sure that the GP's overconfident isolationist approach is not among the top alternatives for the community as a whole -- and, arguably, perhaps not even for himself.
$0.02,
ptd
I've run heavy-load MTAs under qmail for some time now, and since djb won't bring it in to the current century, integrating all of the new features necessary for today's SMTP world becomes more and more hacky and patchy. Thankfully, gentoo eases it for me by including all of the most useful patches in its qmail ebuild, but some features remain unintegrated or can't easily be done early in the SMTP conversation.
I'd love to see a simple, objective, and comprehensive comparison made between postfix, exim, and qmail (include sendmail if you like, although I won't use sendmail for admittedly emotional and historic reasons).
Once you've made the commitment to go postfix, though, this review makes it sounds like this book might be a good resource.
$0.02,
ptd
Also: qmail admins, I highly recommend simscan. It invokes clamav and spamassassin during the SMTP conversation by way of QMAILQUEUE resulting in a 5xx error (and therefore an immediate bounce to the sender for legitimate false positives) and no local queue growth. Nice.
$0.02,
ptd
If PEDs were the cause of those incidents, did anyone prove it measurably or repeatedly, or did they simply invoke post hoc reasoning to incite fear?
Let's face it, people leave their cell phones on during flight all the time, whether accidentally or obstinantly. If there was even a statistically remote likelihood of causal interference, wouldn't that be sufficient reason to not even allow them on board?
ptd
Argue any conspiracy theory you like, whether financial or otherwise, but rest well assured that the device prohibition is NOT about interference.
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ptd
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Very nicely conjectured, actually, and while the entirety of the prepositional phrase may constitute a subject equivalence, the prepositional phrase trumps during its context, and within it the rules of prepositional objects apply.
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ptd
We have enough trouble here with pedantry against legitimate grammar fouls... let's try to leave the correct ones alone shall we? :)
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Good idea, but unfortunately it would only help as an additional nuisance factor, since many interfaces can spoof MAC addresses.
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You imply that all who disagree with you on this topic are confused, and you imply that societal rules exist without ratification (implicit or explicit) in the collective.
On the topic of when a growing set of embryonic organic matter becomes an autonomous human life (i.e. "a person"), not everyone agrees with you -- or with me for that matter -- including many educated people who are quite lucid and not confused at all.
Further, a society's "rules of ethics" are fluid in nature. They're not dictated by any one viewpoint, but rather by compromise and consensus. You're certainly welcome to define your own, and defend it vigorously, but you have no business telling any other person what his or her set of ethics should be. The ethics of a society are agreed to collectively, and the fact that there is so much disagreement on this issue is the reason there is so much debate on it.
I welcome the debate, and remind you that neither you nor I are "right" no matter what the outcome.
$0.02,
ptd
Actually, yes. It makes the big picture clear, so the public knows the real price of government. When nickel-and-dimed to death, the public often fails to do the math and acquiesces to what it otherwise wouldn't.
They count on this, of course.
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ptd
If google can provide corporate accounts on calendaring and gmail that makes it feel seamless and functional, while maintaining an agnostic view on platform and browser deployment, many of us would applaud and consider signing up.
As long as they don't become evil, I guess.
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Congratulations! Your application to PHB candidate school has been accepted. A rewarding career awaits you.
Just kidding, of course. This kind of SAN device should be as ubiquitous as a TV. Unfortunately the general consumer doesn't know (s)he needs one, and the market isn't scrambling to provide them. Yet, hopefully.
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