But there are victims, even if they're not direct. And child porn is unique in that it's victims are victimized over and over.
It's a very short leap between 1 and the remainder. I would bet that most if not all start at 1. These types should be weeded out before they do real harm.
I hope I'm reading the parent wrong or missing something as I often do. People who molest children, or partake in child porn, are the scum of the earth. I can't believe what I'm reading here. There are intelligent people who believe it shouldn't be a crime, or a big deal, to possess child porn, or molest children and record it?
I know it's not popular to have morals or take a stand these days, but here it goes. People who get off on naked children are beneath the scum of the earth. There should be little leniency for these "people." The "humans" who use children for their own sexual pleasure are not normal and should be removed from the population post haste.
And anyone who disagrees is naive, inexperienced in life, or abnormal themselves and should seek professional help.
I agree, except much spam is now coming from hijacked accounts. So domain keys, SPF, and signed DNS would not help much as the spam is coming from legitimate email accounts.
On Ubuntu 9.10, if wine is installed, there will be a file in the same location,/etc/sysctl.d/ named wine.sysctl.conf that sets vm.mmap_min_addr = 0. This should be commented, unless 16 bit programs are used with wine.
I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 on one laptop and two desktops. The laptop is an older IBM i386. The desktops are a Lenovo 64 bit Intel and a white box AMD Phenom 64 bit. The Lenovo interacts with the Active Directory services here at work.
I almost always have issues upgrading when logged in as an AD user. This was no exception. I had to logout and $ sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a as a local user. I rebooted and had to run $sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and $ sudo apt-get -f install a couple of times.
My home laptop and desktop went better. I think I had to dpkg on my home machine as well.
The desktops run great and have nothing strange happening. My laptop won't login to the wireless automatically. I have to restart knetworkmanager to get it to prompt to open kwalletmanager. Also, the sound works, but it displays a message about pulse (I think) not being available and it falls back to something else. It also prompts me to remove the device permanently, which I am going to try when I get a chance. I haven't reported, or done much debugging, because these aren't show stoppers, but I will in the next couple of days and I hope everyone reports bugs that are encountered.
I have been using kubuntu since the days of 3.5. I love KDE 4. In my opinion, it will be the desktop of the future. In fact, after using Windows 7 all this week, I'm pretty sure it's what Microsoft was aiming for. I use Kubuntu 40 hours a day in a Microsoft environment, joined to the domain, and I have yet to run into a show stopper, or a bug that wasn't easily fixed. KDE 4 has made tremendous strides and has laid the framework to do great things in the future, while being stable and feature-full enough to be my daily driver. And it is as aesthetically pleasing productivity enhancing as desktop environments get.
There are households, that do not own a big screen television, that already have trouble paying utilities. Tax credits and discount programs don't usually get the job done.
to programming. I started and learned it on my own, in my spare time, while working retail, manual labor, or whatever other crap job was available. Now I have a family, a house, a full time job coding, a part time business coding, and I *still* love coding in my spare time, what little there is.
I don't see how hiring someone who loves what they do is a bad thing, even if they love it enough to do it in their spare time.
I use BFD and CPanel enforced strong passwords. I don't know how well BFD would do against distributed attacks though. I also don't allow SSH access to just anyone, and if I do, it's using public key authentication, but they have to have a very good reason. SSH is also listening on a non-standard port. Really, the vast majority of clients will never *need* SSH.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Microsoft is saying that because, by default, Windows firewall does not allow any listening services, the client is safe?
So anyone running Windows XP should not have any listening services. I just realized that, by default in our enterprise environment, the Windows firewall on our desktops are shut off (not my decision). This probably isn't a good thing.
More companies should consider this, rather than designing their jobs to have a single pay rate with no possibility of advancement apart from leaving to work elsewhere.
This is exactly how government jobs are structured. It's no wonder so many people tend to hold a negative view of government workers as there really is no incentive to produce more.
From http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox
To prevent entries from History or bookmarked items from appearing but show those that you have specifically typed into the Location Bar (url bar), use about:config to toggle browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. To completely disable the Location Bar autocomplete function in Firefox 3, modify the preference browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 (zero). [1]
What you want is a system where the payer initiates the transfer, like giro or electronic fund transfers. Then there's no waiting for the transaction to be authorized by the payer's bank (because it already is authorized by the nature of being submitted). The net result is that you get your money quicker and don't have to worry about bounced or stopped checks, withdrawn credit, or credit card reversals.
What I want, as a business owner, is a free way to accept payment that isn't cash. That is a check. I always have to "worry" about the authenticity of payment, even cash. Checks are still very useful in a variety of situations.
The losers are the banks, who no longer have an excuse for debiting the payer 3-5 days before crediting the payee, which in effect is a free loan.
And merchants can no longer hide behind "we haven't charged you yet, so stop complaining about it taking weeks before we ship". Because they receive the money on day 1, the onus is on them to deliver.
If I take a check a customer has given me to the bank, the bank, depending on the amount, usually credits me the money, then collects the money, using the check, from the drawing bank. There is no free loan there. Even if they hold the bank until funds are collected...that's just it..funds aren't collected, so again, no free loan.
Debit processing costs money as well. Giro, not available in the US, is really just the reverse of the payee presenting the check. It's not feasible for, say, pizza delivery. But in my business, it would work.
The only other major option, besides cash, is credit card processing which costs businesses money. I run a small hosting business for local clients and prefer a check versus paying a fee to the credit card company just to get a payment, although I offer both. I would be very disappointed if checks disappeared.
"The bill by San Francisco representative Tom Ammiano, would legalise the cultivation, possession and sale of marijuana by people 21 and older. It would charge growers and wholesalers a $5,000 (£3,400) initial franchise fee and a $2,500 annual renewal fee, and would levy a $50 per ounce fee on retailers."
So, no, it will not be $10 per ounce. And, once this becomes a cash cow, the government will *still* need to enforce it's regulations on growing, cultivating, and selling.
Marijuana is a weed and very easy to grow and cultivate. The government would only legalize something like this to make money, and they won't make money if I'm getting it for the cost of electricity and soil.
I never said there would be an up tick in use. My statement was, if you try to limit someone's supply, or limit the type of drug supplied, you will still have the same problems with cartels and crime.
My primary concern would be meth, our number one drug problem in my opinion. I did not see that mentioned in the article you referenced.
As a person with an addictive personality, I have to say it's my opinion that legalizing all drugs is a very bad idea unless the government is willing to pump a steady stream of unlimited drugs into the population for free...all drugs. If not, then the war on drugs, the war on addiction really, will still need to be fought. The people who cause problems for everyone else with their drug use will still be looking for a high.
That being said, I'm not completely against marijuana legalization, although it won't be the panacea many make it out to be. You won't be able to grow it, after all, you cannot make your own liquor. The government can't tax something you grow easily. And, in my first-hand experience there are definitely affects of long term use yet to be realized.
"This Toyota does the same thing, it just does it better, faster, and/or more reliably."
That's why I use Linux, and drive a Hyundai (-the warranty), and that's why the handful of average users I know have switched. It's not because Linux does something that the others don't.
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But there are victims, even if they're not direct. And child porn is unique in that it's victims are victimized over and over.
It's a very short leap between 1 and the remainder. I would bet that most if not all start at 1. These types should be weeded out before they do real harm.
I hope I'm reading the parent wrong or missing something as I often do. People who molest children, or partake in child porn, are the scum of the earth. I can't believe what I'm reading here. There are intelligent people who believe it shouldn't be a crime, or a big deal, to possess child porn, or molest children and record it?
I know it's not popular to have morals or take a stand these days, but here it goes. People who get off on naked children are beneath the scum of the earth. There should be little leniency for these "people." The "humans" who use children for their own sexual pleasure are not normal and should be removed from the population post haste.
And anyone who disagrees is naive, inexperienced in life, or abnormal themselves and should seek professional help.
I agree, except much spam is now coming from hijacked accounts. So domain keys, SPF, and signed DNS would not help much as the spam is coming from legitimate email accounts.
On Ubuntu 9.10, if wine is installed, there will be a file in the same location, /etc/sysctl.d/ named wine.sysctl.conf that sets vm.mmap_min_addr = 0. This should be commented, unless 16 bit programs are used with wine.
I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10 on one laptop and two desktops. The laptop is an older IBM i386. The desktops are a Lenovo 64 bit Intel and a white box AMD Phenom 64 bit. The Lenovo interacts with the Active Directory services here at work.
I almost always have issues upgrading when logged in as an AD user. This was no exception. I had to logout and $ sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a as a local user. I rebooted and had to run $sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and $ sudo apt-get -f install a couple of times.
My home laptop and desktop went better. I think I had to dpkg on my home machine as well.
The desktops run great and have nothing strange happening. My laptop won't login to the wireless automatically. I have to restart knetworkmanager to get it to prompt to open kwalletmanager. Also, the sound works, but it displays a message about pulse (I think) not being available and it falls back to something else. It also prompts me to remove the device permanently, which I am going to try when I get a chance. I haven't reported, or done much debugging, because these aren't show stoppers, but I will in the next couple of days and I hope everyone reports bugs that are encountered.
I have been using kubuntu since the days of 3.5. I love KDE 4. In my opinion, it will be the desktop of the future. In fact, after using Windows 7 all this week, I'm pretty sure it's what Microsoft was aiming for. I use Kubuntu 40 hours a day in a Microsoft environment, joined to the domain, and I have yet to run into a show stopper, or a bug that wasn't easily fixed. KDE 4 has made tremendous strides and has laid the framework to do great things in the future, while being stable and feature-full enough to be my daily driver. And it is as aesthetically pleasing productivity enhancing as desktop environments get.
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
Thanks, Ubuntu!
There are households, that do not own a big screen television, that already have trouble paying utilities. Tax credits and discount programs don't usually get the job done.
to programming. I started and learned it on my own, in my spare time, while working retail, manual labor, or whatever other crap job was available. Now I have a family, a house, a full time job coding, a part time business coding, and I *still* love coding in my spare time, what little there is.
I don't see how hiring someone who loves what they do is a bad thing, even if they love it enough to do it in their spare time.
I use BFD and CPanel enforced strong passwords. I don't know how well BFD would do against distributed attacks though. I also don't allow SSH access to just anyone, and if I do, it's using public key authentication, but they have to have a very good reason. SSH is also listening on a non-standard port. Really, the vast majority of clients will never *need* SSH.
I read up on the syndrome you described because I had never heard of it. It's Guillain-Barré (pronounced ghee-YAN bah-RAY) syndrome (GBS) and seems to manifest after a bacterial or viral infection, which can include a flu shot. Other than that, there's not much else known of the syndrome. For what it's worth, the CDC reports only one of many studies found that around one in one million vaccinated persons may be at risk for developing the syndrome.
Still very interesting. Thanks for pointing this out.
Yes. But that doesn't stop internal attacks.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Microsoft is saying that because, by default, Windows firewall does not allow any listening services, the client is safe?
So anyone running Windows XP should not have any listening services. I just realized that, by default in our enterprise environment, the Windows firewall on our desktops are shut off (not my decision). This probably isn't a good thing.
More companies should consider this, rather than designing their jobs to have a single pay rate with no possibility of advancement apart from leaving to work elsewhere.
This is exactly how government jobs are structured. It's no wonder so many people tend to hold a negative view of government workers as there really is no incentive to produce more.
From http://kb.mozillazine.org/Disabling_autocomplete_-_Firefox To prevent entries from History or bookmarked items from appearing but show those that you have specifically typed into the Location Bar (url bar), use about:config to toggle browser.urlbar.matchonlytyped to true. To completely disable the Location Bar autocomplete function in Firefox 3, modify the preference browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 (zero). [1]
Linus committed a patch correcting this issue on 13th August 2009. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=e694958388c50148389b0e9b9e9e8945cf0f1b98
My insurance company isn't bankrupt?
And when I say accept payment, I mean at time of service..not when the client feels like paying me and issues an ETF or whatever.
What you want is a system where the payer initiates the transfer, like giro or electronic fund transfers. Then there's no waiting for the transaction to be authorized by the payer's bank (because it already is authorized by the nature of being submitted). The net result is that you get your money quicker and don't have to worry about bounced or stopped checks, withdrawn credit, or credit card reversals.
What I want, as a business owner, is a free way to accept payment that isn't cash. That is a check. I always have to "worry" about the authenticity of payment, even cash. Checks are still very useful in a variety of situations.
The losers are the banks, who no longer have an excuse for debiting the payer 3-5 days before crediting the payee, which in effect is a free loan.
And merchants can no longer hide behind "we haven't charged you yet, so stop complaining about it taking weeks before we ship". Because they receive the money on day 1, the onus is on them to deliver.
If I take a check a customer has given me to the bank, the bank, depending on the amount, usually credits me the money, then collects the money, using the check, from the drawing bank. There is no free loan there. Even if they hold the bank until funds are collected...that's just it..funds aren't collected, so again, no free loan.
Debit processing costs money as well. Giro, not available in the US, is really just the reverse of the payee presenting the check. It's not feasible for, say, pizza delivery. But in my business, it would work.
The only other major option, besides cash, is credit card processing which costs businesses money. I run a small hosting business for local clients and prefer a check versus paying a fee to the credit card company just to get a payment, although I offer both. I would be very disappointed if checks disappeared.
California is talking about taxing marijuana at 50$ per ounce:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa/2009/feb/24/california-marijuana-legalisation-legislation
"The bill by San Francisco representative Tom Ammiano, would legalise the cultivation, possession and sale of marijuana by people 21 and older. It would charge growers and wholesalers a $5,000 (£3,400) initial franchise fee and a $2,500 annual renewal fee, and would levy a $50 per ounce fee on retailers." So, no, it will not be $10 per ounce. And, once this becomes a cash cow, the government will *still* need to enforce it's regulations on growing, cultivating, and selling.
Marijuana is a weed and very easy to grow and cultivate. The government would only legalize something like this to make money, and they won't make money if I'm getting it for the cost of electricity and soil.
I never said there would be an up tick in use. My statement was, if you try to limit someone's supply, or limit the type of drug supplied, you will still have the same problems with cartels and crime.
My primary concern would be meth, our number one drug problem in my opinion. I did not see that mentioned in the article you referenced.
As a person with an addictive personality, I have to say it's my opinion that legalizing all drugs is a very bad idea unless the government is willing to pump a steady stream of unlimited drugs into the population for free...all drugs. If not, then the war on drugs, the war on addiction really, will still need to be fought. The people who cause problems for everyone else with their drug use will still be looking for a high.
That being said, I'm not completely against marijuana legalization, although it won't be the panacea many make it out to be. You won't be able to grow it, after all, you cannot make your own liquor. The government can't tax something you grow easily. And, in my first-hand experience there are definitely affects of long term use yet to be realized.
Unless the average car buyer is thinking:
"This Toyota does the same thing, it just does it better, faster, and/or more reliably."
That's why I use Linux, and drive a Hyundai (-the warranty), and that's why the handful of average users I know have switched. It's not because Linux does something that the others don't.