To bring it back to the original topic - you offer your personal opinion on why we shouldn't associate Southern Baptists and Jack Thompson's wacky crusade, but typing in "videogames" in the search field of the SBC site brings you right to
this: (Faith and Family purports to be the public policy arm of the SBC in their about page)
"Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" allows players to run over prostitutes with stolen cars.
Research has shown that video game violence leads to long-term aggressive behavior. A video game that combines violence and pornography "threatens to create a generation of young men who are addicted to violence and sexual exploitation of women. Parents should carefully monitor the kinds of videogames they allow in their homes."
How is that different from what Jack Thompson is saying?
Uh, your people are Southern Baptists (remember, you started your post by mentioning that?) saying "I'm a southern Baptist, but I subscribe to evolution theory, and play violent video games" is a little like saying "I'm a vegetarian, except I eat veal and enjoy biting off the occasional live chicken head."
Membership is by definition subscribing to a particular set of beliefs and values; different beliefs and you become part of another group.
Perhaps to further illustrate my point you'd like to buy a lump of metal I have here which I'm willing to part with for around $400.00 an oz. It's gold, I swear, though it may have a few too many or too few protons.
Heh that's like being a pro-abortion anti-pope Catholic. Good luck with that whole burning damnation thing. Here's what your people seem to think about GTA:
From everyone's favorite Christian news source, Agape Press (why do i always think of the goatse man when I read their name?)
...In the aftermath of the controversy over hidden codes in the video game "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" that can unlock sexual content, members of both the U.S. House and Senate have asked the Federal Trade Commission for an investigation. That development pleases a California congressman who has long been a watchdog of the industry. Leland Yee says he welcomes the help of legislators that have already been concerned -- and those whose names have surfaced recently, such as Senator Hillary Clinton -- because the point of everyone's concern is the children who are affected by the video games. "Our children are extremely fragile, and they are in fact our future -- and if we don't protect them, as a society, then there's not much of a future to look forward to," the lawmaker asserts. Yee says the reason for concern -- the reliability of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) -- is crucial to parents. He says it is clear that the developers of "Grand Theft Auto" intentionally denied the truth about their placement of hidden codes in the game -- and that is why he says Senator Clinton's request, backed by an overwhelming 355-21 vote in the House of Representatives favoring the investigation as well, is totally appropriate. "You have to ask the question: what is the [rating system] for anymore," Yee says. "And if we can't rely on them, then we really need to look at some other alternative." He explains that Senator Clinton has asked the FTC to review the entire rating system, and to determine "whether or not [the rating system] can in fact protect our children." [Ed Thomas]
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Voltaire was talking about a person's right to express themselves, (think first amendment) not saying that stupid opinions should be respected. If anything I think Voltaire would be on the side of those who think Thompson is a fucking moron: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Well, one option would be to go with wireless MANs (tech has caught up to the point where l0pht's guerrilla net is now feasible on a pretty large scale) as the intracity transfer network, and which used a whole bunch of hosts on the MAN as ingress/egress points to the larger Internet.
Traffic modeling could be used to insure that the traffic sent across the Internet is not only encrypted, but that it looks like some other sort of traffic (fake game server or web cam traffic or something, anything that has packets flowing 24/7)
(obviously this is an assload of work and would only make sense if it's done just for the sake of building a cool-ass private city wide wireless network or because shit from the handmaids tail is coming true)
heh I really recommend doing some reading before using Mother Theresa as the yardstick for all that is kind and good in the world. She certainly was good at doing things that had the appearance of kindness (washing the feet of the poor, etc.)
I for one would not want to be a patient with a terminal illness in one of her clinics - denied pain medication as "suffering brings you closer to God."
Get a blackberry - they specifically don't include cameras because their data security conscious customers (govt military, etc.) are concerned about them.
I would second Domino. Exchange is definitely a lot more popular in the SMB space, but I think a pretty compelling argument can be made for Domino.
I (along with one other admin) support around 9000 mailboxes for a F500 on Domino 6.5 on Linux. We still have plenty of time for other projects. Exchange is easier to set up, but Domino is far easier to keep running. (try manipulating messages in an active mail queue in Exchange.)
The major complaint about Domino is the unappealing client. I happen to like it, but then I'm a Lotus fanboi:) (Though I also think that OWA2003 is a much nicer webmail client, in Internet Explorer at least, than DWA6.5) For multiple sites however Domino replication could be a huge benefit since I think the performance is substantially better over slow connections than the equivalent in Exchange/Outlook.
I also suggest looking at IMP/Horde (http://www.horde.org/) as a front end for IMAP. I think IMP is a fantastic mail client, and previously while consulting for small and mid size businesses I found that people loved it.
Working with VMWare ESX, I've found that most vendors charge per physical CPU.
This works out pretty well if you have high enough VM density to take advantage of it (>n VCPUs where n is the number of physical CPUs in the box.)
It kind of sucks when you just have a single instance of a server which won't be hit very hard (perfect case for slapping in a VM) and you would have to buy a 4 CPU license if you virtualized it.
I don't mean to be rude, but if you're using Debian, what you're doing probably isn't "Enterprise Grade".
Supporting many varying architectures, and allowing you to install every Tetris clone ever written is great, but most corporations I've ever worked with are more interested in stability and making sure there's a decent support path if say I get hit by a bus, or when there's a problem and the three vendors for the proprietary software running on a particular Linux box all start pointing fingers at each other and the distro.
i spent a week working with a network provider to fix an ATM connection that they had misconfigured. The building it was going into was unfinished and the demark was in the attic (the downstairs wasn't at all done so no wiring extensions were in place) this was during the summer east coast heatwave of a few years back. i brought a thermometer with me and it was easily over 130 in the attic where i was. lucky there was no cell phone access there, (and no copper lines into the building) so i had to run outside to a pay phone to speak to the provider's techs. (the solution btw, was that the setting for payload scrambling they had given was incorrect)
last winter i installed some parabolic antennas for a point to point wireless connection on top of two aircraft hangars. this was naturally during the extreme cold weather that we were blessed with (both of these things happened in NH) standing atop a scissor lift extended to its max height in 30 knot winds with tempuratures right around -5F, I kind of wished i was back in that attic.
Why not allow the credit card companies to reject payment to any company identified as selling through spam? That would provide economic incentive for them (the cc card companies) to hunt down everyone involved in the spam process.
This was done in an attempt to stop people in the US from patronizing offshore gambling sites. It's made transfering funds to those sites something of a pain in the ass. I doubt most people would be willing to go through the same trouble for penis enlargement pills and such.
The cable monopolies are just like any other service provider monopolies - terrified of change, and totally freaked out when people don't buy %100 into their latest revenue generation scheme.
I find particularly funny the latest "don't get a satellite dish!" ads (even though IMO dishes offer much better service) There's one in particular playing here in Boston (On broadcast TV mind you) where these two parents say how "they have 5 kids and going 5 minutes without TV would be worse than cancer"
unfortunately Lotus hasn't released iNotes for Domino (R5) for Linux, so you really only get full Outlook functionality if you're running Domino on Windows (or OS/400 if you're a pimp). Supposedly R6 for Linux will include iNotes support, which would be killer.
Do you happen to be in Waltham, MA? I used to work for a company that built a building there. (They were called Renaissance at the time, I think they've since been bought out) There was some sort of design flaw in the first floor plumbing and the drain pipes from the toilets went downhill where they met up with the drain pipes from the HVAC in the NOC. Someone went in monday morning and noticed an awful smell in the NOC. Eventually someone pulled up a floor section and discovered several inches of poo. This was still a step up from their old building where someone came in on a monday morning a rainstorm to find 4 feet of water in one of the server rooms.
outlawing home movie projectors at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
I've heard that the reason that the movie industry ended up in CA was because Edison didn't want to share his patented camera with them and they figured he wouldn't chase them that far to enforce the patent.
As I understand it, some of the system measure other stuff like tissue density and electrical charge, so a chopped off finger won't work.
That having been said if someone's willing to hack off a person's finger to get access to their ATM (or whatever) why not just hold a gun on them and make them access it.
Every few times I'm at the grocery store I turn to the person behind me in line and offer to trade savings cards. Most often, the appeal of fucking with their big database of who buys what puts a smile on their face and then we trade cards. so when i buy depends, treet lunch meat, and 6 pounds of radishes, they may be recording it, but the data is of no value.
i get a free flight to hawaii by using the companies travel coordinator and giving her my FF number. You don't need to purchase the tickets to get the FF miles.
the total goatse experience (http://oym.org/totalgoatse/) gets the job done for wind0ze boxen. put it on cd with an auto run, insert into random machine at best buy, and watch the fun begin!
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How is that different from what Jack Thompson is saying?
Uh, your people are Southern Baptists (remember, you started your post by mentioning that?) saying "I'm a southern Baptist, but I subscribe to evolution theory, and play violent video games" is a little like saying "I'm a vegetarian, except I eat veal and enjoy biting off the occasional live chicken head."
Membership is by definition subscribing to a particular set of beliefs and values; different beliefs and you become part of another group.
Perhaps to further illustrate my point you'd like to buy a lump of metal I have here which I'm willing to part with for around $400.00 an oz. It's gold, I swear, though it may have a few too many or too few protons.
From everyone's favorite Christian news source, Agape Press (why do i always think of the goatse man when I read their name?)
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Voltaire was talking about a person's right to express themselves, (think first amendment) not saying that stupid opinions should be respected. If anything I think Voltaire would be on the side of those who think Thompson is a fucking moron: "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O, Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
Well, one option would be to go with wireless MANs (tech has caught up to the point where l0pht's guerrilla net is now feasible on a pretty large scale) as the intracity transfer network, and which used a whole bunch of hosts on the MAN as ingress/egress points to the larger Internet.
Traffic modeling could be used to insure that the traffic sent across the Internet is not only encrypted, but that it looks like some other sort of traffic (fake game server or web cam traffic or something, anything that has packets flowing 24/7)
(obviously this is an assload of work and would only make sense if it's done just for the sake of building a cool-ass private city wide wireless network or because shit from the handmaids tail is coming true)
heh I really recommend doing some reading before using Mother Theresa as the yardstick for all that is kind and good in the world. She certainly was good at doing things that had the appearance of kindness (washing the feet of the poor, etc.)
I for one would not want to be a patient with a terminal illness in one of her clinics - denied pain medication as "suffering brings you closer to God."
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Get a blackberry - they specifically don't include cameras because their data security conscious customers (govt military, etc.) are concerned about them.
I would second Domino. Exchange is definitely a lot more popular in the SMB space, but I think a pretty compelling argument can be made for Domino.
:) (Though I also think that OWA2003 is a much nicer webmail client, in Internet Explorer at least, than DWA6.5) For multiple sites however Domino replication could be a huge benefit since I think the performance is substantially better over slow connections than the equivalent in Exchange/Outlook.
I (along with one other admin) support around 9000 mailboxes for a F500 on Domino 6.5 on Linux. We still have plenty of time for other projects. Exchange is easier to set up, but Domino is far easier to keep running. (try manipulating messages in an active mail queue in Exchange.)
The major complaint about Domino is the unappealing client. I happen to like it, but then I'm a Lotus fanboi
I also suggest looking at IMP/Horde (http://www.horde.org/) as a front end for IMAP. I think IMP is a fantastic mail client, and previously while consulting for small and mid size businesses I found that people loved it.
Working with VMWare ESX, I've found that most vendors charge per physical CPU.
This works out pretty well if you have high enough VM density to take advantage of it (>n VCPUs where n is the number of physical CPUs in the box.)
It kind of sucks when you just have a single instance of a server which won't be hit very hard (perfect case for slapping in a VM) and you would have to buy a 4 CPU license if you virtualized it.
I don't mean to be rude, but if you're using Debian, what you're doing probably isn't "Enterprise Grade".
Supporting many varying architectures, and allowing you to install every Tetris clone ever written is great, but most corporations I've ever worked with are more interested in stability and making sure there's a decent support path if say I get hit by a bus, or when there's a problem and the three vendors for the proprietary software running on a particular Linux box all start pointing fingers at each other and the distro.
the other day after bush made his bogus comments about wanting to heal the country, one of the commentators on NPR made a pretty funny comment.
as bush: "the first act of my second term is to nominate john ashcroft to the supreme court; now let the healing begin!"
i spent a week working with a network provider to fix an ATM connection that they had misconfigured. The building it was going into was unfinished and the demark was in the attic (the downstairs wasn't at all done so no wiring extensions were in place) this was during the summer east coast heatwave of a few years back. i brought a thermometer with me and it was easily over 130 in the attic where i was. lucky there was no cell phone access there, (and no copper lines into the building) so i had to run outside to a pay phone to speak to the provider's techs. (the solution btw, was that the setting for payload scrambling they had given was incorrect)
last winter i installed some parabolic antennas for a point to point wireless connection on top of two aircraft hangars. this was naturally during the extreme cold weather that we were blessed with (both of these things happened in NH) standing atop a scissor lift extended to its max height in 30 knot winds with tempuratures right around -5F, I kind of wished i was back in that attic.
Why not allow the credit card companies to reject payment to any company identified as selling through spam? That would provide economic incentive for them (the cc card companies) to hunt down everyone involved in the spam process.
This was done in an attempt to stop people in the US from patronizing offshore gambling sites. It's made transfering funds to those sites something of a pain in the ass. I doubt most people would be willing to go through the same trouble for penis enlargement pills and such.
that gave us 2002-1900 = 100th Anniversary of Quantum Physics
The cable monopolies are just like any other service provider monopolies - terrified of change, and totally freaked out when people don't buy %100 into their latest revenue generation scheme.
I find particularly funny the latest "don't get a satellite dish!" ads (even though IMO dishes offer much better service) There's one in particular playing here in Boston (On broadcast TV mind you) where these two parents say how "they have 5 kids and going 5 minutes without TV would be worse than cancer"
unfortunately Lotus hasn't released iNotes for Domino (R5) for Linux, so you really only get full Outlook functionality if you're running Domino on Windows (or OS/400 if you're a pimp). Supposedly R6 for Linux will include iNotes support, which would be killer.
Do you happen to be in Waltham, MA? I used to work for a company that built a building there. (They were called Renaissance at the time, I think they've since been bought out) There was some sort of design flaw in the first floor plumbing and the drain pipes from the toilets went downhill where they met up with the drain pipes from the HVAC in the NOC. Someone went in monday morning and noticed an awful smell in the NOC. Eventually someone pulled up a floor section and discovered several inches of poo. This was still a step up from their old building where someone came in on a monday morning a rainstorm to find 4 feet of water in one of the server rooms.
with the help of a warez copy of premiere, i couldn't agree more: http://bespattered.net/oilsupportsterror.mpg
done and done: www.bespattered.net/suk2300.html
outlawing home movie projectors at the turn of the 19th/20th century.
I've heard that the reason that the movie industry ended up in CA was because Edison didn't want to share his patented camera with them and they figured he wouldn't chase them that far to enforce the patent.
As I understand it, some of the system measure other stuff like tissue density and electrical charge, so a chopped off finger won't work.
That having been said if someone's willing to hack off a person's finger to get access to their ATM (or whatever) why not just hold a gun on them and make them access it.
hey, I'm using the same accounting method to get $500.00 in farm subsidies for not growing soy in my window flower boxes, so keep the fuck quiet.
Every few times I'm at the grocery store I turn to the person behind me in line and offer to trade savings cards. Most often, the appeal of fucking with their big database of who buys what puts a smile on their face and then we trade cards. so when i buy depends, treet lunch meat, and 6 pounds of radishes, they may be recording it, but the data is of no value.
i get a free flight to hawaii by using the companies travel coordinator and giving her my FF number. You don't need to purchase the tickets to get the FF miles.
the total goatse experience (http://oym.org/totalgoatse/) gets the job done for wind0ze boxen. put it on cd with an auto run, insert into random machine at best buy, and watch the fun begin!