I think you are giving our chubby bearded nemisis far too much credit. The trilogy architecture is guided by something of an open standard: Aristotelian Three Act Structure
The simplest description of Three Act Structure is Act I - You get your protagonist into a Tree, Act II - You throw rocks at him (or her), Act III - You get him (or her) down.
Ford scraped a stick along the ground and shrugged.
"An imaginative solution to a problem I'd have thought," he said.
"Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" said Arthur.
Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh.
"Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin, "No, doesn't work. Never mind."
Arthur looked at him as if he'd gone mad and, seeing nothing to indicate the contrary, realized that it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that this had in fact happened.
"What do you think will happen to them all?" he said after a while.
"In an infinite Universe anything can happen," said Ford, "Even survival. Strange but true."
A curious look came into his eyes as they passed over the landscape and then settles again on the scene of misery below them.
"I think they'll manage for a while," he said.
Arthur looked up sharply.
"Why do you say that?" he said.
Ford shrugged.
"Just a hunch," he said, and refused to be drawn to any further questions.
Schneier said it better than I could so I'll just quote the article you failed to read...
The first problem is the card itself. No matter how unforgeable we make it, it will be forged. And even worse, people will get legitimate cards in fraudulent names.
Two of the 9/11 terrorists had valid Virginia driver's licenses in fake names. And even if we could guarantee that everyone who issued national ID cards couldn't be bribed, initial cardholder identity would be determined by other identity documents... all of which would be easier to forge.
Ah, a security-through-obscurity hater. It certainly hasn't worked for MS Outlook or Internet Explorer so I understand your reservations.
Assuming honest intentions as declared, the straight answer is "yes".
Outlook + IE users are in the bullseye of a majority of worm authors and getting out of range altogether is only a step away.
Saner advice would be to suggest that MS modify OfficeUpdate patching to suggest copying the cd to the users HD so that they won't need it agaiin and to integrate it into their auto-downloader -- Outlook users have already decided upon a feature set and suggesting they made the wrong choice is going to be ignored.
I agree and use transparent PNG's on my site. As hackish as it is, you could always use the javascript workaround.
You may not have heard and please correct me if I misheard but there aren't going to be any more vanilla IE releases. A service pack for XP does not an IE release make. Keep nagging MS, web-devs!
Have you ever used a VAIO? Have you ever compared the still quality on their camcorders to the video quality on their still camera's? Have you ever wanted to plug your memory stick in somewhere? Ever had a discman last more than a year?
I think you are a bit optimistic with respect to *when* the revolution will come. The RIAA is too evil to last that long imo.
By your math we get to live to be 125 -- where do I sign up?
Asserting that geeks are the only subset of society capable of passion is absurd. Unfortunately I'm not surprised to see it asserted here and I'm only slightly surprised to see it modded Insightful.
I have a few old UPS units to which are attached a handful of dual-power-supply servers and a laserjet printer. For some reason the UPS would beep whenever I printed a report, which is annoying, and it has now gotten to the point that one of the servers bounces midway through any longer print jobs. I've decided that adding batteries and modding the unit is the most cost effective solution for my employer.
Move the printer. Do not test with lightbulbs.
If your server gets fried -- and this is a driving-over-the-traintracks moment, when things like ones car stalling and not starting again happen all the time -- when your server gets fried and the tech comes out to replace the ps and mobo on warranty service and sees what you have it plugged into...
Joking aside, *is* there a whitebox-UPS community spec'ing and reviewing vendors and doing the math for the rest of us to build home units? Are there genuine warranty concerns for anything downstream of a whitebox-UPS?
You might like Rhythmbox a bit better than GQmpeg or xmms but it depends how you weight your different needs. It doesn't look like ass and it has neat metadata but 1. no viz, 2. no ID3 editing, and 3, no moon on a stick.
This is assuming a gtk2 app is acceptable, you can get it running-without-crashing for enough time to build up useful playlists and use it enough to make the metadata actually have an effect.
If you can't, there was a fork/branch a while back that add's streaming management and is relatively stable.
The lack of viz kills me - I generally run xmms and hide the ugly old winamp2x gui on its own desktop plus gtk playlist, a sticky cd-cover plugin and a sticky Goom vis.
For the id3 tags, I highly highly recommend EasyTAG.
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Assuming it's genuine (and the author person is called Peter Judge)
The poster sounds like a good candidate for MJR's ultimately secure firewall.
Try Zonealarm?
*spood* almost dodged cuiousyellow's rocket.
(still have the everglide I won at qcon2k)
Parent should be +5 Insightful for the subject alone. I'd get a kick out of the mac bashing but I'm posting from my 15" Powerbook :)
mi2g is a publicity machine ignored by anyone in the field.
Ah, a security-through-obscurity hater. It certainly hasn't worked for MS Outlook or Internet Explorer so I understand your reservations.
Assuming honest intentions as declared, the straight answer is "yes".
Outlook + IE users are in the bullseye of a majority of worm authors and getting out of range altogether is only a step away.
Saner advice would be to suggest that MS modify OfficeUpdate patching to suggest copying the cd to the users HD so that they won't need it agaiin and to integrate it into their auto-downloader -- Outlook users have already decided upon a feature set and suggesting they made the wrong choice is going to be ignored.
Funny, I guess we both had the same thing come to mind...
Raider's of the Lost Ark
Eww.. melty eye balls.
Try Open Office.
The person forcing you to use MS can be placated knowing that it uses XML somehow and you get an excuse to install perl on the servers!
(are there places on this fancy intarweb that don't have access to google?)
Indeed -- I'm reminded of the saturday night live skit interview with the unabomber police sketch artist.
Interviewer: "It seems that you always draw the sketches of suspects wearing aviator sunglasses?"
Artist: "Yeah, uhm, I've never been very good with eyes".
Interviewer: "...and the hat?"
Artist: "Uhm, yeah... not too good with hair either."
If the game is going to be feature complete, it needs:
n, b, c *flicker of a spliced pr0n frame*
I agree and use transparent PNG's on my site. As hackish as it is, you could always use the javascript workaround.
You may not have heard and please correct me if I misheard but there aren't going to be any more vanilla IE releases. A service pack for XP does not an IE release make. Keep nagging MS, web-devs!
Have you ever used a VAIO? Have you ever compared the still quality on their camcorders to the video quality on their still camera's? Have you ever wanted to plug your memory stick in somewhere? Ever had a discman last more than a year?
I think you are a bit optimistic with respect to *when* the revolution will come. The RIAA is too evil to last that long imo.
But does it have real People Personality?
If so it will give weight to my theory that Sony consists of a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes.
That name should be reserved for the first robot that actually follows the 3(+0) laws and not Sony's laws ;)
Please pass the dunce cap this way, I'll be in the corner. ;)
Using a powerbook seems to have leeched my mind of useful information.
But I just upgraded to 2.4.21!
Redhat is on version 9 wtf?
So uh, what is new in this version?
$foo_obscure_driver doesn't work I'll never use Linux again!
Now I can finally switch from windows!
$bar_obscure_feature which I can't live without never made it in, I hate Linux.
but I *liked* make menuconfig; make clean && make modules modules_install bzimage!!
Without their seatbelts on!!
There are quite a few options in order of preference:
I'm sure I missed some in the middle there...
As an aside -- you mention:
They already restrict relaying to hosts on their network.
This would defeat the point of their running a backup MX for you -- I'm sure that your secondary is relaying any envelopes addressed to your domain.
In the shadow of the worlds tallest five story building and a pyramid shaped aquarium with a submarine next to it, who wouldn't fear big brother?
Photography is line, form, composition, and color under the control of an individual - how is this not a fine art again?
tyvm - I love the irony of being prevented from reading an article about absurd anti-spammer legislation by absurd forms asking for my e-mail address.
(nytimes apologists need not reply)
By your math we get to live to be 125 -- where do I sign up?
Asserting that geeks are the only subset of society capable of passion is absurd. Unfortunately I'm not surprised to see it asserted here and I'm only slightly surprised to see it modded Insightful.
Move the printer. Do not test with lightbulbs.
If your server gets fried -- and this is a driving-over-the-traintracks moment, when things like ones car stalling and not starting again happen all the time -- when your server gets fried and the tech comes out to replace the ps and mobo on warranty service and sees what you have it plugged into...
Joking aside, *is* there a whitebox-UPS community spec'ing and reviewing vendors and doing the math for the rest of us to build home units? Are there genuine warranty concerns for anything downstream of a whitebox-UPS?
You might like Rhythmbox a bit better than GQmpeg or xmms but it depends how you weight your different needs. It doesn't look like ass and it has neat metadata but 1. no viz, 2. no ID3 editing, and 3, no moon on a stick.
This is assuming a gtk2 app is acceptable, you can get it running-without-crashing for enough time to build up useful playlists and use it enough to make the metadata actually have an effect.
If you can't, there was a fork/branch a while back that add's streaming management and is relatively stable.
The lack of viz kills me - I generally run xmms and hide the ugly old winamp2x gui on its own desktop plus gtk playlist, a sticky cd-cover plugin and a sticky Goom vis.For the id3 tags, I highly highly recommend EasyTAG.