It tends to be old. Debian was the first Linux that I liked, I was a user since the Hamm came out. Until Ubuntu 5 or so, when I jumped ship on the desktop...but.... on servers.... I still run Debian.
Why?
Well.... Last I ran debian on the desktop, I compared it to Ubuntu and it was several years old. It was taking Debian folks upwards of 4 years between releases, and I was finding myself in the conundrum of really wanting newer tools, but not wanting to build them myself, go "off the reserveration" and then have to deal with manual upgrades or headaches on system upgrades.
Of course, I could run unstable or testing, but, those came with their own pain, and I know, I did it for a while. Hell, I was a Debian developer for a short while (a over decade ago). I know why they take so long, part of it, was they were "doing it right" and doing freezes and trying to make things really work.... but... the time lag was just too much and unstable was....too unstable.
Ubuntu WAS exactly what I wanted...Debian...released every 6 months.
Now, abandoning sysv init scripts for upstart annoys me, but, its a desktop.... I can live with it. Unity just doesn't work for me. I will stay with Ubuntu as long as they continue to have a working Gnome system (though what little I hear of Gnome3 is not encouraging), just because I like Ubuntu. So far, I am still a bit wary of the 11.10 upgrade, and since other upgrades in the first week have burned me, I am waiting for at least the weekend.
If we are talking servers, Debian all the way baby, but, I don't know if I am ready to go back to them for the desktop quite yet.
Is it really? I have always felt that "the answer to bad speech is more speech", so maybe the answer to bad exploration is more exploration.
What bad things would they really do? In fact, what bad COULD they really do? It is one thing to be the only player in space, that is nowhere near the case, there is nothing they could do up there, that couldn't be discovered and retaliated against.
I think people do too much worrying about what everyone else is up to, and put too much faith in public statements, which always contain a lot of political message. The Iranian government sucks, but more so for its own people than anyone else. Some factions within them are troublemakers, some of them are extreme fundies. It is as much a mistake to believe they are a single cohesive group as to believe our congress is.
If their government represents the will of the people, then ours does too...and I think we all can agree how laughable that statement is.
Gee maybe there is some similar chemical componenet between chilies and Mace....guess you should google that;)
Ok...sarcasm aside.... from wikipedia:
In large quantities, capsaicin can cause death.[50] Symptoms of overdose include difficulty breathing, blue skin, and convulsions. The large amount needed to kill an adult human and the low concentration of capsaicin in chilies make the risk of accidental poisoning by chili consumption negligible.
Blue skin is "cyanosis", usually caused by rather low blood oxygen. Now inflammation can block breathing, and the article talks of it causing general inflammation. So it sounds to me like an extreme sort of "death by acute inflamation".
I was looking for info on first aid, which would corroborate this, or "capscasin poisoning", but, best I can find online is to "call a poison control center". I did find one case study of an 8 month old who was given it orally and admitted, but I can only read the abstract on pubmed, relevant info is not in the abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11741759
Ahem.... actually the second phrasing only implies multiple girlfriends. One or more of them could still have had multiple, possibly polygamous mothers.
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the difference between the concept of a "rare event" and something which "never happens".
Oh and did I mention that violent crime, overall, has been on the down trend since the 80s?
In any case...lets take an example....
Mothers who make their kids fat by feeding them fast food all the time are real and common, thus constituting a social problem, but not a newsworthy event each time it happens.
Mothers who murder their children and leave them in dumpsters are fantastically rare, thus constituting a freak show on the news.
See the difference? One happens every day, to hundreds of thousands of people, and can be seen easily in any city. The second happens a handful of times a year in a population of hundreds of million.
Now maybe you would like to review your single point of evidence against this standard and tell class which category something supported by a single event goes into?
EVen then.... its not the technology that they would be protesting. Nobody is protesting the fact that these companies provide services, its the manner in which they conduct business.
Its only a very superficial sort of hypocrisy, and really none at all. Afterall... who better to protest a companies business practices than the very customers who pay them for their services? You can't say that such a person doesn't have a stake in whats happening.
And hey, maybe once the gloves are really off, those ex-military "Super Heros" will drop the silliness and go directly after the gang bangers.
My experience may be mostly from playing games like counter-strike so correct me if I am wrong but.... I would put my money on a squad of 4-6 trained ex-military "heros" against untrained street gang groups several times their size... especially if given the advantage of planning their strike.
Maybe if these guys want to get past their reputation for being problematic do-gooders they can push MS-13 out of some neighborhoods... that will give them some instant street cred.
Not that I particularly want to see blood in the streets at that level but.... if civil government does fall the gangs really are the major and immediate threats to public safety. Non-violence is great but... is optional against groups that have demonstrated their willingness to use it on a whim.
I know the feeling. Sometimes I think back to stuff I wrote online as a teenager, or, half my lifetime ago, and think "shit, thats still out there"?
Luckily, someone with my name joined the Bostones, and so,.... I went from being 90% of the first 2 pages of google search on my name to...pretty much being banished from the first page of results (not sure where I am now) by his fame. At first I was shocked, and a bit annoyed, but, as time went on, I have come to appreciate it...that and that my old content is mostly very hard to find except by people who know exactly where to look.
I had an online diary before livejournal. I can say I would hate to have to explain or defend some of the things that I wrote then. It makes me think of people who were sentanced to long jail sentences at 15 or even 20. It reminds me of an interview with someone who worked with death row inmates who said it was striking how many had been there for so long that they are barely the same people who committed their crimes, so many years ago.
Thats a good point. I may do that but one of the problems is that (as said in other posts, some in other threads) that part of the issue is a lack of ability to get info later. I don't see anything that says they block tor nodes, but I am told that was part of the issue.
SO.... being unable to find information on a "removed block", leaves me wary of turning it back on and then finding out that they have done it again.
In any case, I have another node running, on a different server, so I am still helping out.
Hmmm actually.... the hosting ISP changed recently and....long story short, now that you mention it.. if anything went to our "hosting ISP", he may have seen them and I did not, I will check back with him and see if maybe there is part of the story that I missed.
Also, as I was discussing this in another thread...one issue seems to be that they don't keep information around after an incident. I can find no record of our block, why it happened etc, and it was all gone before I got back from vacation. I have a URL, but, when I go to it it just says that this block doesn't exist anymore.
Hmmm I must admit, I came back from a vacation to find all this out.... do they keep a historical record of all this after a block is removed?
I have been meaning to investigate more, but, since it was a solved issue by the time I got back, and I have been busy with other projects, I only spent an hour or so looking for more information and finding little to nothing. If there is a "right place" to go look, I would love to know. Apparently we were on the "SBL" list.
My co-admin sent me a URL reference but, when i go there it just tells me that this is no longer in the SBL, with no other info.
Thats really the thing, I am not an ISP, I am running a co-located server with some people. I am a unix admin, I know how to run a mail server, but, I am not active and following these things as "mail admin" is a hat that I need to put on in earnest about once a year, at most.
I guess I can't be 100% sure of that but, I, personally recieve every email (all 0 of them) that come to abuse@ for my domain.
If a real incident happened, nobody bothered to tell us about it, or accuse us of it.
I wouldn't have a problem if they contacted us to talk about it, said "hey we have some concerns" or "hey this happened".
Instead we found out when users started complaining of mail not arriving...and that is just not cool.
I mean, if there is an active situation, its understandable to shoot first and ask questions later but, without so much as an accusation? Not even an attempt to "ask questions later"? Just "lets see if they find out they are blocked now and complain"?
If you can't afford to do it right, you can't afford to do it period.
Um right, so we pretty much agree then, except that you refuse to accept the use of the "judge jury and executioner" analogy except in the most strict sense. Ok Fine.
Is the problem that their opinions suck? Or is that that people listen to them? Actually, the problem is that their opinions suck AND people listen to them.
If their opinions sucked and people ignored them, we would have no issue and nothing to talk about.
If their opinions were good and people listened, we would have no issue (other than a philosophical one)
There exists a problem in that spamhaus issues opinions that are not grounded in good reasoning and legitimate evidence, and mail admins use that decision as is in their own setups automatically.
Right, except that many people just configure their mail servers to take that opinion as gospel, and spamhaus certainly makes it easy to do so and encourages it.
So legally, you are indeed right. However, the end result is that their opinion carries a lot of weight, mostly because many many people just blindly apply it.
So, in effect, they become judge jury and executioner, in that, once their opnion is that you have transgressed, you will instantly be blackballed all over the internet. They have become little more than a bully, which is too bad because, I mostly like them and mostly agree that this is the right way to operate.
Of course.... I JUST posted my experience with them (or I should say, the experience that I came back from vacation to find one of my co-admins had):
It does, indeed, have a hand on the arm. Compared to some robotic hands it looks very handlike. That said, it still looks like nothing that I want giving me the TSA treatment on my junk.
I have a rather new machine with a nice graphics card (when not running linux, I am booted into windows playing video games like Fallout New Vegas).
XFCE is not what I am looking for....really the classic GNOME desktop is what I have used for...um.... too long now:)
Good idea though, actually, I meant to include other buntus in possible distro switches.... I love ubuntu, because I was a Debian guy and still use Debian on servers.... but I always wanted Debian that was released more often.
You know....I hate spam. It made usenet useless for years, it continues to degrade the usefulness of email, spamers steal resources and are underhanded dickwads.
All that said, some of the anti-spam people are ridiculous zealots who don't care who gets caught in the crossfire.
I have a server in colo. Its my mail server, but it also does a number of other things. Until recently, it ran a tor node. Why? Because i had sooo much more allocated bandwidth than I was using on a monthly basis that it cost me nothing extra to run. Ran it for at least 6 years on the same node.
Its now shut off, why? Because some idiots at Spamhaus decided that running a tor server was suspect. Never mind that it was disallowed from exiting on port 25, which is publically posted info in its service descriptor....no... Of course, I think they are also fooled by the fact that several windows users have shell accounts and use it as a web proxy.... so somehow my box also was infected with a Windows trojan according to these geniuses.
We got it cleared up, but still are not able to donate excess bandwidth allowance to the tor network.... which is bad enough, but this isn't the first time I have had my server blacklisted for no good reason at all. I don't even remember what BS it was last time, just that it was... BS.
Now will this kill me? No.... I have reverse DNS setup and have for years but...come on.... seriously? Bouncing mail sucks, especially when you suddenly start doing it to whole domains.
If it were just me, my opinion is that anyone using one of these RBLs has a misconfigured mail server, I wouldn't have "fixed it".... but I host other peoeple's email domains, so the black ball tactics worked.
Wow.... its been a good run but, Unity just doesn't cut it for me.
I like where they are going with it, its cool, It was a fun toy, but, it was also klunky for me. Now, I know I am going to get roasted, but, sorry I used Unity for all of 3 days, so my memory may be fuzzy but....
I use multiple firefox profiles...at the same time. Often I have one that is a proxy into an internal net, and another that is public. Often i am doing things on the public one that I wouldn't want going over the private net. Think of this scenario... I have to proxy into work at night to fix a server, but, just before I was paged I was browsing porn. I don't want to be browsing porn through the proxy, and setting up foxy proxy with rules is just asking for an embarassing mistake. Actually, this is a rare scenario, but theres multiple networks I need to work in, and several of them I wouldn't want associated with my blog postings or slashdot rants.
Unity just failed to manage this at all. Part of this is, indeed, that firefox profile handling is brain damaged (if I specify a profile on the command line, why do I need "-no-remote"? shouldn't it be able to tell that the open window is a different profile and no I don't want to just connect to that?) but it would totally ignore the second profile. No way to get a second firefox dock icon, no way to deal with this, now rogue, application.
That was the real nail in the coffin for Unity, but beyond that....
I am an advanced user. I have things setup in GNOME the way _I_ want. Sure, I can rip out the unity stuff, it wouldn't be the first time that I went to down on an X Session config...but I chose ubuntu because it allowed me to minimize that shit. I like the defaults and found them easy to customize to be what I wanted. I like my setup and that Ubuntu has been fairly good about not stomping on my setup since I started using it around 6 or 7.
I will likely choose a new distribution if there isn't an easy way to not use unity.
Exactly. And... hey, sex toy isn't a bad auxiliary use. Most everybody likes to get off, and even those with a steady partner (or partners) have the occasional lonely night, or night when she isn't feeling well etc.
Yah the thought of people replacing human interaction with robot interaction is kind of sick on some levels, I tend to think that its going to be far more mundane. Its no different than having a cat that you talk to...which all pet owners do, and those who don't are liars. Do some people go overboard and use them as a substitute for social interaction or to avoid dealing with social anxiety? Sure... but what percentage of pet owners are we really talking about here?
Sure, anyone who gets one is probably going to lose a few days interacting with it, but, I doubt that we are looking at something thats going to hold many people's interest to the exclusion of real social interaction for long, most people aren't even that interesting for very long, and these are hardly even boring people yet.... though is still very impressive for what they are.
So yes... I fully support the addition of a mouth with fully articulated tongue, and some sort of lube secreting substitute for a salivary gland.
rotfl my wife just got the dvd of that movie recently, after seeing the clips of it in that MC Chris music video "Japanese Maid".
We haven't watched it yet but it looks amazing lol.
I never really fantasized about being robosexual, but if a robot looked like the girl in that movie, I think I would give it a try.
This thing however um.... I mean... it doesn't even have any orifices? When I saw that they "don't judge" and "robot head", shit, I was expecting at least a mouth orifice with an attempt at a silicone covered, fully articulated tongue.
If these guys really want to make some sales, and work the "we don't judge" angle, they should team up with the real doll folks.
Well yes..... but that they are not the same is obvious. My point is... situations where 3 guys are beating up one guy are rather rare. In fact, sutiations that are easily cut and dry are fairly rare..
I mean seriously.... in my entire life I have witnessed a handful of actual violent situations, and the majority were over faster than anyone could "do anything about it" or were ridiculous fighting that wasn't going to go anywhere and just ended in someone getting a few bruises. Or, as my own martial arts instructor, who earned his citizenship training troops for hand to hand combat used to say.... a real fight is over in seconds.
So I seriously question....if these guys really are ONLY involving themselves in actual dangerous/violent situations where everything is easy, cut and dry, and someone is really in danger.... then they are utterly useless in that there is so little for them to do and so little chance they will ever be in the right place at the right time to do any good.
On the other hand, if they are entering any other area, they are probably acting out of ignorance... like say... the situation where they attempted to intervene between a "drug dealer and a citizen".
Well... what did the police say to the man? He shouldn't get involved in situations where he doesn't know the facts.
The twist was intentional, glad someone appreciates a little writing style.
It was simply a story to illustrate the point of what can happen when people get involved without knowing the facts. Not the least of which, that I didn't mention as I figured would be obvious, is the absolute jaw dropping response that everyone else in the family had. The "how dare she involve herself in a family matter"
Maybe these guys don't get involved like that, maybe they really do show restraint and only involve themselves in obvious problems. That said... I would not be happy if I locked my keys in my car and some dude tackled or maced me while I was trying to jimmy the door. Or if a friend of mine and I started sparing or wrestling in the park and suddenly got maced... etc.
However, the impression that I get from the things the article claims the police have said to him, makes me think that this has not exactly been the case.
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It tends to be old. Debian was the first Linux that I liked, I was a user since the Hamm came out. Until Ubuntu 5 or so, when I jumped ship on the desktop...but.... on servers.... I still run Debian.
Why?
Well.... Last I ran debian on the desktop, I compared it to Ubuntu and it was several years old. It was taking Debian folks upwards of 4 years between releases, and I was finding myself in the conundrum of really wanting newer tools, but not wanting to build them myself, go "off the reserveration" and then have to deal with manual upgrades or headaches on system upgrades.
Of course, I could run unstable or testing, but, those came with their own pain, and I know, I did it for a while. Hell, I was a Debian developer for a short while (a over decade ago). I know why they take so long, part of it, was they were "doing it right" and doing freezes and trying to make things really work.... but... the time lag was just too much and unstable was....too unstable.
Ubuntu WAS exactly what I wanted...Debian...released every 6 months.
Now, abandoning sysv init scripts for upstart annoys me, but, its a desktop.... I can live with it. Unity just doesn't work for me. I will stay with Ubuntu as long as they continue to have a working Gnome system (though what little I hear of Gnome3 is not encouraging), just because I like Ubuntu. So far, I am still a bit wary of the 11.10 upgrade, and since other upgrades in the first week have burned me, I am waiting for at least the weekend.
If we are talking servers, Debian all the way baby, but, I don't know if I am ready to go back to them for the desktop quite yet.
Is it really? I have always felt that "the answer to bad speech is more speech", so maybe the answer to bad exploration is more exploration.
What bad things would they really do? In fact, what bad COULD they really do? It is one thing to be the only player in space, that is nowhere near the case, there is nothing they could do up there, that couldn't be discovered and retaliated against.
I think people do too much worrying about what everyone else is up to, and put too much faith in public statements, which always contain a lot of political message. The Iranian government sucks, but more so for its own people than anyone else. Some factions within them are troublemakers, some of them are extreme fundies. It is as much a mistake to believe they are a single cohesive group as to believe our congress is.
If their government represents the will of the people, then ours does too...and I think we all can agree how laughable that statement is.
Gee maybe there is some similar chemical componenet between chilies and Mace....guess you should google that ;)
Ok...sarcasm aside.... from wikipedia:
Blue skin is "cyanosis", usually caused by rather low blood oxygen. Now inflammation can block breathing, and the article talks of it causing general inflammation. So it sounds to me like an extreme sort of "death by acute inflamation".
I was looking for info on first aid, which would corroborate this, or "capscasin poisoning", but, best I can find online is to "call a poison control center". I did find one case study of an 8 month old who was given it orally and admitted, but I can only read the abstract on pubmed, relevant info is not in the abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11741759
This one looks at "in custody deaths" of people who had been maced
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7495257
Again.... not much in the abstract.
At least you caught the "possibly" in polygamous, as one can still have multiple mothers in a serial fashion.
Ahem.... actually the second phrasing only implies multiple girlfriends. One or more of them could still have had multiple, possibly polygamous mothers.
Clearly you are unfamiliar with the difference between the concept of a "rare event" and something which "never happens".
Oh and did I mention that violent crime, overall, has been on the down trend since the 80s?
In any case...lets take an example....
Mothers who make their kids fat by feeding them fast food all the time are real and common, thus constituting a social problem, but not a newsworthy event each time it happens.
Mothers who murder their children and leave them in dumpsters are fantastically rare, thus constituting a freak show on the news.
See the difference? One happens every day, to hundreds of thousands of people, and can be seen easily in any city. The second happens a handful of times a year in a population of hundreds of million.
Now maybe you would like to review your single point of evidence against this standard and tell class which category something supported by a single event goes into?
I am unfamiliar with this term, "prepper". I wasn't aware that I was trying to prep.
EVen then.... its not the technology that they would be protesting. Nobody is protesting the fact that these companies provide services, its the manner in which they conduct business.
Its only a very superficial sort of hypocrisy, and really none at all. Afterall... who better to protest a companies business practices than the very customers who pay them for their services? You can't say that such a person doesn't have a stake in whats happening.
And hey, maybe once the gloves are really off, those ex-military "Super Heros" will drop the silliness and go directly after the gang bangers.
My experience may be mostly from playing games like counter-strike so correct me if I am wrong but.... I would put my money on a squad of 4-6 trained ex-military "heros" against untrained street gang groups several times their size... especially if given the advantage of planning their strike.
Maybe if these guys want to get past their reputation for being problematic do-gooders they can push MS-13 out of some neighborhoods... that will give them some instant street cred.
Not that I particularly want to see blood in the streets at that level but.... if civil government does fall the gangs really are the major and immediate threats to public safety. Non-violence is great but... is optional against groups that have demonstrated their willingness to use it on a whim.
I know the feeling. Sometimes I think back to stuff I wrote online as a teenager, or, half my lifetime ago, and think "shit, thats still out there"?
Luckily, someone with my name joined the Bostones, and so,.... I went from being 90% of the first 2 pages of google search on my name to...pretty much being banished from the first page of results (not sure where I am now) by his fame. At first I was shocked, and a bit annoyed, but, as time went on, I have come to appreciate it...that and that my old content is mostly very hard to find except by people who know exactly where to look.
I had an online diary before livejournal. I can say I would hate to have to explain or defend some of the things that I wrote then. It makes me think of people who were sentanced to long jail sentences at 15 or even 20. It reminds me of an interview with someone who worked with death row inmates who said it was striking how many had been there for so long that they are barely the same people who committed their crimes, so many years ago.
Thats a good point. I may do that but one of the problems is that (as said in other posts, some in other threads) that part of the issue is a lack of ability to get info later. I don't see anything that says they block tor nodes, but I am told that was part of the issue.
SO.... being unable to find information on a "removed block", leaves me wary of turning it back on and then finding out that they have done it again.
In any case, I have another node running, on a different server, so I am still helping out.
Hmmm actually.... the hosting ISP changed recently and....long story short, now that you mention it.. if anything went to our "hosting ISP", he may have seen them and I did not, I will check back with him and see if maybe there is part of the story that I missed.
Also, as I was discussing this in another thread...one issue seems to be that they don't keep information around after an incident. I can find no record of our block, why it happened etc, and it was all gone before I got back from vacation. I have a URL, but, when I go to it it just says that this block doesn't exist anymore.
Hmmm I must admit, I came back from a vacation to find all this out.... do they keep a historical record of all this after a block is removed?
I have been meaning to investigate more, but, since it was a solved issue by the time I got back, and I have been busy with other projects, I only spent an hour or so looking for more information and finding little to nothing. If there is a "right place" to go look, I would love to know. Apparently we were on the "SBL" list.
My co-admin sent me a URL reference but, when i go there it just tells me that this is no longer in the SBL, with no other info.
Thats really the thing, I am not an ISP, I am running a co-located server with some people. I am a unix admin, I know how to run a mail server, but, I am not active and following these things as "mail admin" is a hat that I need to put on in earnest about once a year, at most.
I guess I can't be 100% sure of that but, I, personally recieve every email (all 0 of them) that come to abuse@ for my domain.
If a real incident happened, nobody bothered to tell us about it, or accuse us of it.
I wouldn't have a problem if they contacted us to talk about it, said "hey we have some concerns" or "hey this happened".
Instead we found out when users started complaining of mail not arriving...and that is just not cool.
I mean, if there is an active situation, its understandable to shoot first and ask questions later but, without so much as an accusation? Not even an attempt to "ask questions later"? Just "lets see if they find out they are blocked now and complain"?
If you can't afford to do it right, you can't afford to do it period.
Um right, so we pretty much agree then, except that you refuse to accept the use of the "judge jury and executioner" analogy except in the most strict sense. Ok Fine.
Is the problem that their opinions suck? Or is that that people listen to them? Actually, the problem is that their opinions suck AND people listen to them.
If their opinions sucked and people ignored them, we would have no issue and nothing to talk about.
If their opinions were good and people listened, we would have no issue (other than a philosophical one)
There exists a problem in that spamhaus issues opinions that are not grounded in good reasoning and legitimate evidence, and mail admins use that decision as is in their own setups automatically.
Generic and pedantic enough?
Right, except that many people just configure their mail servers to take that opinion as gospel, and spamhaus certainly makes it easy to do so and encourages it.
So legally, you are indeed right. However, the end result is that their opinion carries a lot of weight, mostly because many many people just blindly apply it.
So, in effect, they become judge jury and executioner, in that, once their opnion is that you have transgressed, you will instantly be blackballed all over the internet. They have become little more than a bully, which is too bad because, I mostly like them and mostly agree that this is the right way to operate.
Of course.... I JUST posted my experience with them (or I should say, the experience that I came back from vacation to find one of my co-admins had):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2474882&cid=37703752
It does, indeed, have a hand on the arm. Compared to some robotic hands it looks very handlike. That said, it still looks like nothing that I want giving me the TSA treatment on my junk.
I have a rather new machine with a nice graphics card (when not running linux, I am booted into windows playing video games like Fallout New Vegas).
XFCE is not what I am looking for....really the classic GNOME desktop is what I have used for...um.... too long now :)
Good idea though, actually, I meant to include other buntus in possible distro switches.... I love ubuntu, because I was a Debian guy and still use Debian on servers.... but I always wanted Debian that was released more often.
You know....I hate spam. It made usenet useless for years, it continues to degrade the usefulness of email, spamers steal resources and are underhanded dickwads.
All that said, some of the anti-spam people are ridiculous zealots who don't care who gets caught in the crossfire.
I have a server in colo. Its my mail server, but it also does a number of other things. Until recently, it ran a tor node. Why? Because i had sooo much more allocated bandwidth than I was using on a monthly basis that it cost me nothing extra to run. Ran it for at least 6 years on the same node.
Its now shut off, why? Because some idiots at Spamhaus decided that running a tor server was suspect. Never mind that it was disallowed from exiting on port 25, which is publically posted info in its service descriptor....no... Of course, I think they are also fooled by the fact that several windows users have shell accounts and use it as a web proxy.... so somehow my box also was infected with a Windows trojan according to these geniuses.
We got it cleared up, but still are not able to donate excess bandwidth allowance to the tor network.... which is bad enough, but this isn't the first time I have had my server blacklisted for no good reason at all. I don't even remember what BS it was last time, just that it was... BS.
Now will this kill me? No.... I have reverse DNS setup and have for years but...come on.... seriously? Bouncing mail sucks, especially when you suddenly start doing it to whole domains.
If it were just me, my opinion is that anyone using one of these RBLs has a misconfigured mail server, I wouldn't have "fixed it".... but I host other peoeple's email domains, so the black ball tactics worked.
Ok... whew I did a quick search because.... I couldn't believe there was really no way to easily abandon Unity.... took me about 3 seconds of web searching:
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2011/08/return-to-ubuntu-classic-desktop-in-ubuntu-11-10/
I get to keep it a little while longer!
Wow.... its been a good run but, Unity just doesn't cut it for me.
I like where they are going with it, its cool, It was a fun toy, but, it was also klunky for me. Now, I know I am going to get roasted, but, sorry I used Unity for all of 3 days, so my memory may be fuzzy but....
I use multiple firefox profiles...at the same time. Often I have one that is a proxy into an internal net, and another that is public. Often i am doing things on the public one that I wouldn't want going over the private net. Think of this scenario... I have to proxy into work at night to fix a server, but, just before I was paged I was browsing porn. I don't want to be browsing porn through the proxy, and setting up foxy proxy with rules is just asking for an embarassing mistake. Actually, this is a rare scenario, but theres multiple networks I need to work in, and several of them I wouldn't want associated with my blog postings or slashdot rants.
Unity just failed to manage this at all. Part of this is, indeed, that firefox profile handling is brain damaged (if I specify a profile on the command line, why do I need "-no-remote"? shouldn't it be able to tell that the open window is a different profile and no I don't want to just connect to that?) but it would totally ignore the second profile. No way to get a second firefox dock icon, no way to deal with this, now rogue, application.
That was the real nail in the coffin for Unity, but beyond that....
I am an advanced user. I have things setup in GNOME the way _I_ want. Sure, I can rip out the unity stuff, it wouldn't be the first time that I went to down on an X Session config...but I chose ubuntu because it allowed me to minimize that shit. I like the defaults and found them easy to customize to be what I wanted. I like my setup and that Ubuntu has been fairly good about not stomping on my setup since I started using it around 6 or 7.
I will likely choose a new distribution if there isn't an easy way to not use unity.
Exactly. And... hey, sex toy isn't a bad auxiliary use. Most everybody likes to get off, and even those with a steady partner (or partners) have the occasional lonely night, or night when she isn't feeling well etc.
Yah the thought of people replacing human interaction with robot interaction is kind of sick on some levels, I tend to think that its going to be far more mundane. Its no different than having a cat that you talk to...which all pet owners do, and those who don't are liars. Do some people go overboard and use them as a substitute for social interaction or to avoid dealing with social anxiety? Sure... but what percentage of pet owners are we really talking about here?
Sure, anyone who gets one is probably going to lose a few days interacting with it, but, I doubt that we are looking at something thats going to hold many people's interest to the exclusion of real social interaction for long, most people aren't even that interesting for very long, and these are hardly even boring people yet.... though is still very impressive for what they are.
So yes... I fully support the addition of a mouth with fully articulated tongue, and some sort of lube secreting substitute for a salivary gland.
rotfl my wife just got the dvd of that movie recently, after seeing the clips of it in that MC Chris music video "Japanese Maid".
We haven't watched it yet but it looks amazing lol.
I never really fantasized about being robosexual, but if a robot looked like the girl in that movie, I think I would give it a try.
This thing however um.... I mean... it doesn't even have any orifices? When I saw that they "don't judge" and "robot head", shit, I was expecting at least a mouth orifice with an attempt at a silicone covered, fully articulated tongue.
If these guys really want to make some sales, and work the "we don't judge" angle, they should team up with the real doll folks.
Well yes..... but that they are not the same is obvious. My point is... situations where 3 guys are beating up one guy are rather rare. In fact, sutiations that are easily cut and dry are fairly rare..
I mean seriously.... in my entire life I have witnessed a handful of actual violent situations, and the majority were over faster than anyone could "do anything about it" or were ridiculous fighting that wasn't going to go anywhere and just ended in someone getting a few bruises. Or, as my own martial arts instructor, who earned his citizenship training troops for hand to hand combat used to say.... a real fight is over in seconds.
So I seriously question....if these guys really are ONLY involving themselves in actual dangerous/violent situations where everything is easy, cut and dry, and someone is really in danger.... then they are utterly useless in that there is so little for them to do and so little chance they will ever be in the right place at the right time to do any good.
On the other hand, if they are entering any other area, they are probably acting out of ignorance... like say... the situation where they attempted to intervene between a "drug dealer and a citizen".
Well... what did the police say to the man? He shouldn't get involved in situations where he doesn't know the facts.
The twist was intentional, glad someone appreciates a little writing style.
It was simply a story to illustrate the point of what can happen when people get involved without knowing the facts. Not the least of which, that I didn't mention as I figured would be obvious, is the absolute jaw dropping response that everyone else in the family had. The "how dare she involve herself in a family matter"
Maybe these guys don't get involved like that, maybe they really do show restraint and only involve themselves in obvious problems. That said... I would not be happy if I locked my keys in my car and some dude tackled or maced me while I was trying to jimmy the door. Or if a friend of mine and I started sparing or wrestling in the park and suddenly got maced... etc.
However, the impression that I get from the things the article claims the police have said to him, makes me think that this has not exactly been the case.