I need to correctly [...] keep up with all the security patches and spam filters
Uhm, and that's much work... how? You need to do a manual intervention once a couple years, to move to the next stable release. Security updates get pretty thoroughly tested (Microsoft aside...), so outside of especially complex deployments not having them as a cronjob tends to be a waste of time. Spamassassin updates its rules automatically, which is probably good enough if you don't feel like tweaking them.
Even if you blanketed the area with nukes you're not going to make a sizeful dent in the amount of artillery deployed there. We're talking about an enormous number of hardened bunkers in a large mountainous area.
Thus, I say that email must not be placed in a cloud. Some companies like Google try to be no evil but have little wiggle room -- the bad guys (yes, the current crop of governments work against rather than for you) can access your mail at a whim. Unless you use email only to send Christmas greetings to aunt Jane, you have private and/or business data that should not be viewable by third parties.
If you host your own mail server (even at home), the bad guys at least need an actual warrant, and can't do this without your knowledge. Sorry, but that's the only way.
Another problem, this time technical, is that DANE becomes an absolute must. Current schemes for TLS encryption for SMTP are bad jokes that give an illusion of security: all an attacked has to do to completely override any mail security is to have port 25 connections to go somewhere else. Opportunistic encryption helps only passive snooping, and in almost all cases where passive snooping is possible, active is a matter of slightly more effort. DNSSEC can be subverted by ICANN and your top level domain's registry, but unlike issuing a request to an ISP, this would be a major undertaking that's moderately easy to detect, and in cases it would matter, you can have your private trust anchors. Or, if your data is important enough that the spooks mess with ICANN, just use gpg.
Why I'm speaking about DANE/DNSSEC? Because once they're supported well in common MTAs, deploying them is a matter of a single easy action by a sysadmin.
The bad guys can still know the IPs of both parties, ie, whom do you send mail to. This is a harder issue, with no obvious drop-in solutions. You may use a.onion email address, but that doesn't work without setup on both sides.
That is talking about forgiving crimes... what's your point?
Let's quote that passage in entirety and in context: 2:107 Knowest thou not that it is Allah unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; and ye have not, beside Allah, any guardian or helper? 2:108 Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime ? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road. 2:109 Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things. Not a single crime mentioned here, just disbelief.
This sounds too hateful for my tastes. A majority of people who call themselves muslims are good, reasonable people who are capable of living well next to infidels -- they pay only lip service to their religion, same as most christians do. I do say Islam is irredeemably evil, and trying to excuse it is fooling oneself, yet that doesn't say anything about people whose parents' ancestors happened to live in a particular place. It's only actually believing in what Islam says what's bad.
It's consistency what damns Islam: the Bible contains so many contradictions that there's no such thing as "the christian faith" -- you need to go into massive cherry-picking and willfully ignore parts of the Bible. Some parts of it include outright calls for genocide, thus at least some variants of christianity are inexcusably evil. The Koran leaves no such wiggle room, and it even explicitly provides a resolution in case of contradictions (revelation given later overrides that given earlier) -- and even if we did not have such a resolution, if you take Skeptic's Annotated Quran's list, drop literary devices and "how many angels came to $FIGURE", what's left is: 1. permissibility of alcohol, 2. whether angels and jinn are the same, 3. will Allah forgive the same sin (other than disbelief) more than once?, 4. Epicurean problem (no deity may be both omnipotent and benevolent). Yes, that's the entire list.
The Qur'an and the history of Islam generally expresses great tolerance towards other religions. People of the Book
Ie, they are allowed a brief despite during the forced conversion, being merely considered a lower class of beings and forced to pay tribute for being allowed to be left alive -- then they need to be put to sword and fire once Allah gives a command to continue extermination (unless they convert to Islam). Yes, quite a stellar example of "great tolerance".
As someone who's not a "person of the Book", and thus has to be slain immediately, especially if I dare to express my views, I think I'll pass praising such a great religion of peace.
The only "compassionate" thing about Islam is that in the all-out war against infidels you are allowed to merely lie, cheat and use "stratagems" when you have no chances of a direct victory by force (Taqiyya), and that, if strategy demands so, you may enter a temporary truce with "people of the book" but must be prepared to stab them in the back and resume the all-out war the moment "Allah giveth command" (2:109). Yes, the very line that says "forgive and be indulgent" continues with "until".
Unlike Bible, the Koran contains very few contradictions, and it's message is clear. And I really dislike what it says.
Since this has been modded "flamebait", some explanations. Did I intend to call your religion evil, even if hatred towards unbelievers "is something only bad fringes do"? Yes, even with full good will, it still redirects a good part of people's lives to something harmful or at the very best, wasteful.
My apologies though for unqualified "muslims are murderous barbarians", as the word "muslim" can be argued to apply to good people who call themselves muslims but don't really care about what Koran orders them to do. Obviously, it's not my intent to insult them -- by not being rigid adherents to Islam they made a giant step forward. Paying lip service to religion to avoid being ostracized is an acceptable compromise. It is Islam, Christianity, Scientology, Communism, Juche, etc, what's evil, not people who live in places corrupted by these faiths.
I'm including even those worshipping the same deity. Living in squalor because you must build an opulent cathedral, or burning books because "if they're saying the same as $SCRIPTURE, they're redundant, if they say something else, sinful", or even telling your kids to pray instead of enjoying life -- that's all evil that doesn't involve hating infidels.
I'd say "love of God" comes pretty high on my list of evils.
Christianity: murder count that makes Godwin cry, depriving billions of people of joys of life, robbing them blind of wordly possessions, setting back science and culture by ~1.5k years; being less evil recently not because of good will but because of the Western civilization shedding religion quickly. Islam: denying the right to live to infidels (some religions being merely dhimmied), doing everything of the above.
Christianity went on their rampage as soon as they seized power (Constantine the "Great", Theodosius the "Great"); Islam, after Muhammad's warlordy rule, had a benign era until around 12th century, then became murderous closed-minded barbarians they are to this day.
Then we have communism, which is a religion in everything but name (prophets, scripture, clergy, portraits of deities/saints, rituals, fighting heretics and unbelievers, their own "science" (dialectical materialism, Lysenkoism, etc).
Ordinary greed is nowhere as vile as the above organizations.
Sedition: Speech that advocates unlawful conduct against the government or the violent overthrow of the government.
Isn't sedition against an oppressive rule all what early US was about? This makes any claims that it goes against the purpose of 1st Amendment laughable.
For anything even resembling security, you would need to run ten or more of such authenticators. You're supposed to never, ever, put all your eggs into one basket.
Oh, and that's for just one identity. In current online world, revealing your true identity to everyone means you're either naive or suicidal. Do you propose I should give every spammer or sleazy website all of my personal information, either directly or by giving them something they can look up?
Because communism is a religion in anything but name.
Prophets? Check. Scripture? Check. Clergy? Check. Portraits of deities/saints everywhere? Check. Rituals and celebrations? Check. Fighting heretics and unbelievers? Check. Ubiquitous propaganda? Check. Skewed "science"? Check.
Heck, when I was in 1st-2nd grade, we were told to go to the Labor Day procession or we'd get expelled from school. By the end of my elementary school, we were made walk in catholic processions during school hours.
While MATE is nice, it's not as nice as Gnome 2 was in all respects. You don't have compiz, so no wobbly windows or desktop cube, for example.
Uhm... compiz works just great with MATE, exactly the same as with Gnome 2 (which required it to be installed separately just as well). Compiz works almost as good with XFCE, too.
And compiz has more than just wobbly windows. Nice zoom (Super-MWHEELUP). Partial transparency of windows on demand (Alt-MWHEELDOWN). Deuteranope/tritanope colour filters. And so on, so on.
You can do a lot better with a wide open case (it's a 6cm cube if you wonder about size) for a sweet ARM 4-core 1.7-2.0GHz machine. This kind of gear used to cost over $800 early last year, this one is $89, or after including 64GB disk and other "optional" components, shipping, etc, $226. And instead of RasPi's ~$100 toy, you get a fully capable, perfectly quiet computer.
Crap, the above paragraph makes me sound like a shill:p
Most of us Polacks who are not elderly or nationalist are already in Ireland, UK, or, well, Germany, so you can take the old piece of dirt if you want.
Drunk driving should come with an attempted murder charge, as that's what it is. I completely fail to understand US laws where they allow such an asshole to drive, even just "from home to work". Quite a few people around here lobby for a lifetime driving ban -- I disagree with them about length (if you were an idiot in your 20s, you may have learned in your 40s), but I'm all for such a ban being strict.
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I need to correctly [...] keep up with all the security patches and spam filters
Uhm, and that's much work... how? You need to do a manual intervention once a couple years, to move to the next stable release. Security updates get pretty thoroughly tested (Microsoft aside...), so outside of especially complex deployments not having them as a cronjob tends to be a waste of time. Spamassassin updates its rules automatically, which is probably good enough if you don't feel like tweaking them.
Even if you blanketed the area with nukes you're not going to make a sizeful dent in the amount of artillery deployed there. We're talking about an enormous number of hardened bunkers in a large mountainous area.
At least, when it comes to Google, there's at least a good chance the data travels between their data centers encrypted.
Thus, I say that email must not be placed in a cloud. Some companies like Google try to be no evil but have little wiggle room -- the bad guys (yes, the current crop of governments work against rather than for you) can access your mail at a whim. Unless you use email only to send Christmas greetings to aunt Jane, you have private and/or business data that should not be viewable by third parties.
If you host your own mail server (even at home), the bad guys at least need an actual warrant, and can't do this without your knowledge. Sorry, but that's the only way.
Another problem, this time technical, is that DANE becomes an absolute must. Current schemes for TLS encryption for SMTP are bad jokes that give an illusion of security: all an attacked has to do to completely override any mail security is to have port 25 connections to go somewhere else. Opportunistic encryption helps only passive snooping, and in almost all cases where passive snooping is possible, active is a matter of slightly more effort. DNSSEC can be subverted by ICANN and your top level domain's registry, but unlike issuing a request to an ISP, this would be a major undertaking that's moderately easy to detect, and in cases it would matter, you can have your private trust anchors. Or, if your data is important enough that the spooks mess with ICANN, just use gpg.
Why I'm speaking about DANE/DNSSEC? Because once they're supported well in common MTAs, deploying them is a matter of a single easy action by a sysadmin.
The bad guys can still know the IPs of both parties, ie, whom do you send mail to. This is a harder issue, with no obvious drop-in solutions. You may use a .onion email address, but that doesn't work without setup on both sides.
That is talking about forgiving crimes... what's your point?
Let's quote that passage in entirety and in context:
2:107 Knowest thou not that it is Allah unto Whom belongeth the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth; and ye have not, beside Allah, any guardian or helper?
2:108 Or would ye question your messenger as Moses was questioned aforetime ? He who chooseth disbelief instead of faith, verily he hath gone astray from a plain road.
2:109 Many of the people of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them. Forgive and be indulgent (toward them) until Allah give command. Lo! Allah is Able to do all things.
Not a single crime mentioned here, just disbelief.
This sounds too hateful for my tastes. A majority of people who call themselves muslims are good, reasonable people who are capable of living well next to infidels -- they pay only lip service to their religion, same as most christians do. I do say Islam is irredeemably evil, and trying to excuse it is fooling oneself, yet that doesn't say anything about people whose parents' ancestors happened to live in a particular place. It's only actually believing in what Islam says what's bad.
It's consistency what damns Islam: the Bible contains so many contradictions that there's no such thing as "the christian faith" -- you need to go into massive cherry-picking and willfully ignore parts of the Bible. Some parts of it include outright calls for genocide, thus at least some variants of christianity are inexcusably evil. The Koran leaves no such wiggle room, and it even explicitly provides a resolution in case of contradictions (revelation given later overrides that given earlier) -- and even if we did not have such a resolution, if you take Skeptic's Annotated Quran's list, drop literary devices and "how many angels came to $FIGURE", what's left is: 1. permissibility of alcohol, 2. whether angels and jinn are the same, 3. will Allah forgive the same sin (other than disbelief) more than once?, 4. Epicurean problem (no deity may be both omnipotent and benevolent). Yes, that's the entire list.
The Qur'an and the history of Islam generally expresses great tolerance towards other religions. People of the Book
Ie, they are allowed a brief despite during the forced conversion, being merely considered a lower class of beings and forced to pay tribute for being allowed to be left alive -- then they need to be put to sword and fire once Allah gives a command to continue extermination (unless they convert to Islam). Yes, quite a stellar example of "great tolerance".
As someone who's not a "person of the Book", and thus has to be slain immediately, especially if I dare to express my views, I think I'll pass praising such a great religion of peace.
The only "compassionate" thing about Islam is that in the all-out war against infidels you are allowed to merely lie, cheat and use "stratagems" when you have no chances of a direct victory by force (Taqiyya), and that, if strategy demands so, you may enter a temporary truce with "people of the book" but must be prepared to stab them in the back and resume the all-out war the moment "Allah giveth command" (2:109). Yes, the very line that says "forgive and be indulgent" continues with "until".
Unlike Bible, the Koran contains very few contradictions, and it's message is clear. And I really dislike what it says.
Since this has been modded "flamebait", some explanations. Did I intend to call your religion evil, even if hatred towards unbelievers "is something only bad fringes do"? Yes, even with full good will, it still redirects a good part of people's lives to something harmful or at the very best, wasteful.
My apologies though for unqualified "muslims are murderous barbarians", as the word "muslim" can be argued to apply to good people who call themselves muslims but don't really care about what Koran orders them to do. Obviously, it's not my intent to insult them -- by not being rigid adherents to Islam they made a giant step forward. Paying lip service to religion to avoid being ostracized is an acceptable compromise. It is Islam, Christianity, Scientology, Communism, Juche, etc, what's evil, not people who live in places corrupted by these faiths.
I'm including even those worshipping the same deity. Living in squalor because you must build an opulent cathedral, or burning books because "if they're saying the same as $SCRIPTURE, they're redundant, if they say something else, sinful", or even telling your kids to pray instead of enjoying life -- that's all evil that doesn't involve hating infidels.
love of money placed before the love of God
I'd say "love of God" comes pretty high on my list of evils.
Christianity: murder count that makes Godwin cry, depriving billions of people of joys of life, robbing them blind of wordly possessions, setting back science and culture by ~1.5k years; being less evil recently not because of good will but because of the Western civilization shedding religion quickly.
Islam: denying the right to live to infidels (some religions being merely dhimmied), doing everything of the above.
Christianity went on their rampage as soon as they seized power (Constantine the "Great", Theodosius the "Great"); Islam, after Muhammad's warlordy rule, had a benign era until around 12th century, then became murderous closed-minded barbarians they are to this day.
Then we have communism, which is a religion in everything but name (prophets, scripture, clergy, portraits of deities/saints, rituals, fighting heretics and unbelievers, their own "science" (dialectical materialism, Lysenkoism, etc).
Ordinary greed is nowhere as vile as the above organizations.
Sedition: Speech that advocates unlawful conduct against the government or the violent overthrow of the government.
Isn't sedition against an oppressive rule all what early US was about? This makes any claims that it goes against the purpose of 1st Amendment laughable.
For anything even resembling security, you would need to run ten or more of such authenticators. You're supposed to never, ever, put all your eggs into one basket.
Oh, and that's for just one identity. In current online world, revealing your true identity to everyone means you're either naive or suicidal. Do you propose I should give every spammer or sleazy website all of my personal information, either directly or by giving them something they can look up?
Because communism is a religion in anything but name.
Prophets? Check. Scripture? Check. Clergy? Check. Portraits of deities/saints everywhere? Check. Rituals and celebrations? Check. Fighting heretics and unbelievers? Check. Ubiquitous propaganda? Check. Skewed "science"? Check.
Heck, when I was in 1st-2nd grade, we were told to go to the Labor Day procession or we'd get expelled from school. By the end of my elementary school, we were made walk in catholic processions during school hours.
The best wandboard has half the cores, half the memory, and half the clockage, for the same price. Oh, and you can't actually buy it yet.
RasPi has very close specs, this one adds just a tiny 4GB flash card, which is obviously not worth the $44 price difference.
You'd want this one instead: more than 10x the performance, 2GB memory, $89 w/o disk.
While MATE is nice, it's not as nice as Gnome 2 was in all respects. You don't have compiz, so no wobbly windows or desktop cube, for example.
Uhm... compiz works just great with MATE, exactly the same as with Gnome 2 (which required it to be installed separately just as well). Compiz works almost as good with XFCE, too.
And compiz has more than just wobbly windows. Nice zoom (Super-MWHEELUP). Partial transparency of windows on demand (Alt-MWHEELDOWN). Deuteranope/tritanope colour filters. And so on, so on.
You can do a lot better with a wide open case (it's a 6cm cube if you wonder about size) for a sweet ARM 4-core 1.7-2.0GHz machine. This kind of gear used to cost over $800 early last year, this one is $89, or after including 64GB disk and other "optional" components, shipping, etc, $226. And instead of RasPi's ~$100 toy, you get a fully capable, perfectly quiet computer.
Crap, the above paragraph makes me sound like a shill :p
You mean, like Scorched Earth's "lazy boy" which was a walking device? Or if there's no nasty terrain, an ordinary remotely controlled truck bomb.
Most of us Polacks who are not elderly or nationalist are already in Ireland, UK, or, well, Germany, so you can take the old piece of dirt if you want.
For a humorous take on it, please read the author's text under this strip of Schlock Mercenary.
And please no word starting with f either...
Yeah, getting rid of that site whose name starts in F would be a good idea.
Drunk driving should come with an attempted murder charge, as that's what it is. I completely fail to understand US laws where they allow such an asshole to drive, even just "from home to work". Quite a few people around here lobby for a lifetime driving ban -- I disagree with them about length (if you were an idiot in your 20s, you may have learned in your 40s), but I'm all for such a ban being strict.
Before of course (grepping for perm rejects (734 in these three days), plus manually counting five or so spams that got through).
My point is that certain filtering schemes are going to be hindered by ip6.
And my point is that, at least at the moment, giving a message some negative spamminess score just because it came on IPv6 could be a good idea.
TFA used violence as an example, this is something that interests boys from the age of, say. 4-5. And nearly as widespread as porn on teh interwebs.