My last tussle with samba was yet another try with ubuntu on this old macbook.
Samba refused to accept proper config messages through gnome's graphical tools, I had to go in and edit the config manually, and samba did not respond properly to the config.
Why not just create a front end for samba and distribute it with the server and client software rather than depend on distributors?
It's great and all that he's so smart, but how will his experience translate into change in our nation's energy policy? We get most of our power from coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro, so how does his research have any bearing on those sources?
well, as a physicist he would know from examination of the energy alternatives being debated whether energy lobbyists are blowing smoke or voicing genuine concerns.
The Act prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future.
"we noticed you paid for a few more tests recently, and have been sick more often"
there go your rates, or "im sorry your coverage is denied"
WOW.. I haven't seen a loophole this big for abuse since the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA
How about a better one.. what about the fact men pay about 25% more than women for health, life, and auto?
Funny how some forms of discrimination are allowed, but not based on genetic tests.. OH WAIT, IT IS ALLOWED, they can examine your records, determine tests showed genetic predisposition, deny coverage.
Pretty much every libertarian economist who has respect for empiricism has renounced their purist point of view on this subject since the credit crash.
There are no semantics to argue this time around like there were in others, libertarian theory failed.
The economy is composed of people, just like society. The government was removed (no more police), and we had anarchy in which the most predatory rose to the top (or raced to the bottom), took their share, and bailed, letting everyone else take the fallout.
The author of TFA, writing for a libertarian magazine, has made a fundamental socialist blunder. He has assumed that there is such a thing as objective value and that the market reveals it (or hides it).
There is such a thing as objective value.
Ask anyone if they want to live, if they say no and flinch when you swing something at them, they're lying. Objective value number 1: life > everything else.
Now lets move on to another fun exercise.
I want many things the free market wont produce.
Objectively, this means the libertarian system is not producing the most effective result, because a government program WOULD service me.
In a free market there will always be those who go unserved because of inadequate profit margin and imperfect information (to both the consumer and producer).
This is what makes free markets inadequate for providing services people believe should be the common standard of living (electricity, water, sewage, roads, medical care)
You leave out the interesting case where the person abroad is a foreign correspondent for an American news agency. Its been established by whistle blowers that journalists have been a particular target of this eavesdropping, along with aid workers. You are in fact trampling freedom of the press if you let the government read and listen to all the emails and phone calls of a journalists without a warrant. It allows the government to immediately identify all of the journalists sources unless the contact is only made face to face which is pretty constraining. It places an immediate chilling effect on an independent press and on anyone telling a journalist anything. This is a big plus for the government and military which would prefer the public not know about all their dirty laundry.
Take file, encrypt in rar, e-mail, offer to pass the password over instant message clients.
Until Americans are afraid to go on camera with a joke about their president, we're nowhere near Egypt.
The dixie chicks Cindy Sheehan
Shall I name more.
The american system of oppression has benefited from the capitalist system in that the free market provided excellent refinement to marketing and behavioral psychology, allowing you to better target who will actually be an effective political force rather than just a dismissed/marginalized malcontent.
Once that has happened, those same refined sciences provide much more subtle and effective tools by which to marginalize those individuals.
Killing someone with a large following creates a martyr, it's better and more effective to marginalize them, and the fourth estate (particularly the right-wing variety) have become highly adept at this.
Yes, all data would be rendered inaccessible. However, the user or sysadmin should be making backups of their data in the first place. Under no circumstances should a user keep all of their important data in one place. There is simply no excuse for it.
bitlocker is marketed to small-time users. Commercial companies already had encryption solutions.
Online distribution of hi definition content is the future. We're seeing services like Netflix, and Amazon unbox flirting with the idea, and I'm convinced that this will kill bluray like bluray killed hd-dvd.
Because when I want to see a classic visual masterpiece like akira, I want it to be covered in huge blocks, green splotches, and artefacts, and i want to rent rather than own it.
Now the DRM on these disks is annoying as hell, but you still own the disk and the DRM can be cracked more easily client side than server side.
Cruise lines are a massive market. There are entire shipyards dedicated to them.
A properly managed Sirius/XM could shift focus from average customers to cruise lines (while still keeping single user service)
Tangentially, I listen to WRAS where I am, and while it's been getting watered down lately it's much much better than anything else nationwide. I'm thinking of moving to a better job market and am checking into satellite radio to see if they're carried.
How many scandals have there been in which major bloggers on (insert subject here) have been bribed to post favorable reviews.
Lets drift a bit from the internet as well, how about hannity and faux news? Multi-million person audiences watching the media equivalent of a strip-club garbage chute.
It always amazes me how science-leaning people such as those on slashdot seem to think all disease should be made to go away. Anybody who has any sense of reality knows that our species is FAR BEYOND overpopulated. I find it sickening that those who claim to have logical minds think that unnatural population levels can "be made to work".
The fact is that we need BILLIONS of people to die if the planet and its inhabitants (all living species, not just human) are ever going to have a chance. Call me sadistic, but for the sake of every other species of life on this planet... I wish the rate of heart disease was 30-60%, not 1%.
Or we could look at it from the other perspective.
Our evolutionary specialty is technology. Crisies place pressure on us to create new technology, we lose part of our species, then create the new technology and move on.
The dramatic increase in population is necessary to compel the colonization of nearby celestial bodies.
I applaud it, and hope it continues. We either adapt or die, and if we can't exercise our evolutionary niche, then it was truly limited and its time for us to go.
It can be used for good, as well as evil. Microsoft also used it to implement BitLocker (whole-disk encryption), with the TPM used to store the decryption key.
So when your mobo gets fried by an errant cup of sysadmin coffee (or mountain dew) you lose all your data! YAY!
Slashdot Mirror
My last tussle with samba was yet another try with ubuntu on this old macbook.
Samba refused to accept proper config messages through gnome's graphical tools, I had to go in and edit the config manually, and samba did not respond properly to the config.
Why not just create a front end for samba and distribute it with the server and client software rather than depend on distributors?
My kingdom for a mod point!
sadly you didn't tell the mod you traded your kingdom to where it should be placed.
It's great and all that he's so smart, but how will his experience translate into change in our nation's energy policy? We get most of our power from coal, oil, natural gas, and hydro, so how does his research have any bearing on those sources?
well, as a physicist he would know from examination of the energy alternatives being debated whether energy lobbyists are blowing smoke or voicing genuine concerns.
Yeah, because that's worked *SO* well for the past 38 years.
fixed
This is what I get for quitting caffeine cold turkey.
it should read 28 years!
Yeah, because that's worked *SO* well for the past 38 years.
fixed
Here's your loophole:
The Act prohibits group health plans and health insurers from denying coverage to a healthy individual or charging that person higher premiums based solely on a genetic predisposition to developing a disease in the future.
"we noticed you paid for a few more tests recently, and have been sick more often"
there go your rates, or "im sorry your coverage is denied"
WOW.. I haven't seen a loophole this big for abuse since the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA
Actually it's highly variable, but the results of bad subs are a whole new product in and of themselves.
7 years ago my friend ordered vandread dvd's from a dodgy HK dealer and we ended up with completely incongruous subtitles.
"it's not gasco, it's gascogne" turns into "need more gas, pump in the gas!"
I bought those versions off him and find them more entertaining than the fansubs were (story was too shounen for my taste)
As the genome gets further and further mapped, expect more and more people to be "uninsurable at any price".
Discrimination based on genetics is already outlawed by the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
How about a better one.. what about the fact men pay about 25% more than women for health, life, and auto?
Funny how some forms of discrimination are allowed, but not based on genetic tests.. OH WAIT, IT IS ALLOWED, they can examine your records, determine tests showed genetic predisposition, deny coverage.
Pretty much every libertarian economist who has respect for empiricism has renounced their purist point of view on this subject since the credit crash.
There are no semantics to argue this time around like there were in others, libertarian theory failed.
The economy is composed of people, just like society. The government was removed (no more police), and we had anarchy in which the most predatory rose to the top (or raced to the bottom), took their share, and bailed, letting everyone else take the fallout.
The author of TFA, writing for a libertarian magazine, has made a fundamental socialist blunder. He has assumed that there is such a thing as objective value and that the market reveals it (or hides it).
There is such a thing as objective value.
Ask anyone if they want to live, if they say no and flinch when you swing something at them, they're lying. Objective value number 1: life > everything else.
Now lets move on to another fun exercise.
I want many things the free market wont produce.
Objectively, this means the libertarian system is not producing the most effective result, because a government program WOULD service me.
How about this conclusion:
In a free market there will always be those who go unserved because of inadequate profit margin and imperfect information (to both the consumer and producer).
This is what makes free markets inadequate for providing services people believe should be the common standard of living (electricity, water, sewage, roads, medical care)
You leave out the interesting case where the person abroad is a foreign correspondent for an American news agency. Its been established by whistle blowers that journalists have been a particular target of this eavesdropping, along with aid workers. You are in fact trampling freedom of the press if you let the government read and listen to all the emails and phone calls of a journalists without a warrant. It allows the government to immediately identify all of the journalists sources unless the contact is only made face to face which is pretty constraining. It places an immediate chilling effect on an independent press and on anyone telling a journalist anything. This is a big plus for the government and military which would prefer the public not know about all their dirty laundry.
Take file, encrypt in rar, e-mail, offer to pass the password over instant message clients.
Until Americans are afraid to go on camera with a joke about their president, we're nowhere near Egypt.
The dixie chicks
Cindy Sheehan
Shall I name more.
The american system of oppression has benefited from the capitalist system in that the free market provided excellent refinement to marketing and behavioral psychology, allowing you to better target who will actually be an effective political force rather than just a dismissed/marginalized malcontent.
Once that has happened, those same refined sciences provide much more subtle and effective tools by which to marginalize those individuals.
Killing someone with a large following creates a martyr, it's better and more effective to marginalize them, and the fourth estate (particularly the right-wing variety) have become highly adept at this.
Yes, all data would be rendered inaccessible. However, the user or sysadmin should be making backups of their data in the first place. Under no circumstances should a user keep all of their important data in one place. There is simply no excuse for it.
bitlocker is marketed to small-time users. Commercial companies already had encryption solutions.
News sites reliant on Economic Fearmongering
Online distribution of hi definition content is the future. We're seeing services like Netflix, and Amazon unbox flirting with the idea, and I'm convinced that this will kill bluray like bluray killed hd-dvd.
Because when I want to see a classic visual masterpiece like akira, I want it to be covered in huge blocks, green splotches, and artefacts, and i want to rent rather than own it.
Now the DRM on these disks is annoying as hell, but you still own the disk and the DRM can be cracked more easily client side than server side.
You're kidding right?
Cruise lines are a massive market. There are entire shipyards dedicated to them.
A properly managed Sirius/XM could shift focus from average customers to cruise lines (while still keeping single user service)
Tangentially, I listen to WRAS where I am, and while it's been getting watered down lately it's much much better than anything else nationwide. I'm thinking of moving to a better job market and am checking into satellite radio to see if they're carried.
How many scandals have there been in which major bloggers on (insert subject here) have been bribed to post favorable reviews.
Lets drift a bit from the internet as well, how about hannity and faux news? Multi-million person audiences watching the media equivalent of a strip-club garbage chute.
It always amazes me how science-leaning people such as those on slashdot seem to think all disease should be made to go away. Anybody who has any sense of reality knows that our species is FAR BEYOND overpopulated. I find it sickening that those who claim to have logical minds think that unnatural population levels can "be made to work".
The fact is that we need BILLIONS of people to die if the planet and its inhabitants (all living species, not just human) are ever going to have a chance. Call me sadistic, but for the sake of every other species of life on this planet... I wish the rate of heart disease was 30-60%, not 1%.
Or we could look at it from the other perspective.
Our evolutionary specialty is technology. Crisies place pressure on us to create new technology, we lose part of our species, then create the new technology and move on.
The dramatic increase in population is necessary to compel the colonization of nearby celestial bodies.
I applaud it, and hope it continues. We either adapt or die, and if we can't exercise our evolutionary niche, then it was truly limited and its time for us to go.
How exactly would a memory chip define "power first applied"?
How exactly would we integrate color into a tv set?
How exactly would we go to the moon?
It can be used for good, as well as evil. Microsoft also used it to implement BitLocker (whole-disk encryption), with the TPM used to store the decryption key.
So when your mobo gets fried by an errant cup of sysadmin coffee (or mountain dew) you lose all your data! YAY!
Watch health insurers start demanding blood samples.
They already rifle through our health records freely thanks to holes they bought in our so called medical "privacy" standards.
As the genome gets further and further mapped, expect more and more people to be "uninsurable at any price".
I welcome another 1-4% of the world to my hell.
A mutant with 60+million descendants. Perhaps there is hope for me after all.
circulation issues are known to cause ED, but are also known to cause priopism.
I suspect the latter happened in this "mutant".
ilverlight handled the Olympics which is an amazing feat.
yep, bribing a couple chinese officials is a really amazing feat!
i mean.. those guys need millions, not just the hundreds of thousands us politicians demand.
Note the e-mail contact and comment forms which litter most obama related web material are conspicuously missing, not even a webmaster contact link.
The only contact is snail mail.