I wonder if any spammers do scrape Slashdot for address?
I can personally assure you that they do.
So I wrote my own AutoBahn robot. If I get spam,
I bounce it to spam@pillars.net, which is a perl
script that auto-extracts the headers and adds the
entire ISP to my blocking list.
So maybe I'm blocking legitimate senders? (shrug)
I run my own mailserver. My friends can get to me; I don't worry about anybody else.
Travelling is a privilege; it may be extended or
revoked by any official representative of the
government.
"Papers, citizen?"
Seriously, though, you seem to think that the
government is authorized to regulate any potentially
dangerous activity, simply because there is potential
for wrongdoing. This viewpoint is called "marital law", or
"maritime law", or "the law of the sea." There was
a time in the history of this country when such a mindset
was considered perfectly suitable for the administration
of a seagoing vessel (hence the name, "maritime law")
but outrageously inappropriate for governing a free people
on their own lands.
You also seem to be confused about the difference
between "rights" with "privileges." Allow me to
step on my soapbox for a moment:
Rights are inherently yours, by virtue of
your existence as a human being with independent
volition (a.k.a. self-will, or freedom). Some rights
are alienable. You have the right to procreate.
You can give up that right by getting an operation, such
as a vasectomy or a hysterectomy. But people who have done
so can remain independent, self-willed, self-directed
people. That is, they can remain free. Other rights are inalienable.
You have the right to travel. If you are refused
that right (by being placed under house arrest, for instance)
it changes the nature of your being. You would no longer
be an independent, self-willed, self-directed (free) person.
You would then become a prisoner or a slave.
Privileges, on the other hand, are granted (usually selectively)
by an authoritative body. They are gifts from that
authority which you could not have acquired on your own.
For instance, you have the right to learn, (by virtue
of being a thinking human being), but if you live in certain
states, you have the privilege of attending a state
college, free of charge, funded by state taxes.
Some people argue that since roads are (usually) built by a government,
and driving (on those roads) would not be possible without
that government, therefore driving is a privilege extended by that
government.
Others counter that any roadways paid for by
public funds belong to the common trust, and no
government has the right to selectively refuse
access to them.
Whatever the viewpoint, there are certainly many
places in the United States where, if you limit
yourself to walking, you won't be able to travel
very far without either trespassing or violating
some ordinance. Most highways, bridges, and tunnels
have signs specifically forbidding pedestrians.
Realistically, if you can't legally drive,
(or hire somebody to drive for you),
then you are effectively forbidden to travel beyond
a certain range. In that sense, you would
arguably become a prisoner of the state, under a
limited form of "house arrest."
That's like saying 100% of the Mercedes market is a monopoly, because nobody else makes Mercedes automobiles except Mercedes.
Actually it's like saying that if you want to produce an aftermarket floor mat that is an exact replacement for the Mercedes originals, then you'd better get ready for a lawsuit the first time you actually sell one.
The homeless person shouldn't HAVE
to steal his food in the first place.
The proper adjective is DESTITUTE,
not HOMELESS.
There are many people who have enough
money for food, but not enough money for
rent.
He should be able to walk in the doors of
any religous organization and get help.
I take it you've never run a soup kitchen
before. Not every religious organization
has the resources to operate one. As far
as I know, there is only one soup kitchen in
my city, but over 2000 churches.
If you want a system designed with fancy automated caching that people can use without dicking around with Kerberos, freenet's a good choice. Of course, there's no guarantee that the data will stay around, but cest la vie.
On the contrary, you can guarantee the data stays around.
I think that the best way would be to store it on freenet. It takes care of all the above problems, but introduces one of its own: data expiration.
You can force any Freenet data to remain persistent as long as you periodically access it. Of course, the data may reside *only* on your node, but it will be as available (to the public) as your node is.
I think that expecting somebody else to make your data available *forever* is an unrealistic expectation, regardless of the technology or circumstances.
Even if I pay an ISP for secure webhosting with backups and everything, the most I can legally require is that they'll *TRY* to not lose my data.
I work from home, on a contract basis. Effectively, I'm my own boss. I "slack off" as much as I want to.
I just don't want to. Every hour that I'm not being productive is an hour that I'm not making any money.
It's amazing how this changes your perspective.
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The one thing I go back to Netscape/MSIE for
is printing. Why doesn't anybody talk about
printing?
For instance, has anybody figured out how to print a multi-page document with Konqueror so that it doesn't look like crap?
I'm using US-Letter-sized paper; I tell it I'm using US-Letter-sized paper; and still it breaks lines in half.
I mean it leaves the upper half of the characters at the bottom of one page, and the lower half of the characters at the top of the next page.
'Course Mozilla printing still isn't as pretty as Netscape 4.7, either, but it's starting to get marginally useful. Opera is okay on some pages but cuts others off at the right margin.
Still, when I want a hardcopy of a webpage, I go back to Netscape or (shudder) MSIE.
Sensors can be a real bummer, too. Around here we have a really busy road where all of the side-roads have sensors.
At 5:00am it's the quickest way to get downtown, because nobody's on the side roads.
But any other time of day, it's jam-packed with traffic because every time you have one stinking car waiting on the side road, the light changes and dozens of cars pile up on the main road to wait for him to make that right-hand turn...
I've lived in Virginia for twelve years and
to date nobody has offered to me a reasonable
explanation of the difference between a
state and a commonwealth, apart from the
spelling.
The standard solution for radioactive waste is to concentrate it into dumps. The object is to package it well enough that by the time the containers start to leak, the radioactivity will have died down to acceptable levels.
Of course, nobody really knows for sure, because nobody's been around long enough to do a realtime test.
Any real nuclear engineer will tell you that the most effective way to dispose of radioactive waste is to evenly disperse it over a large area (for example, the ocean). If you spread it thin enough, it won't significantly raise the radioactivity above background levels.
This, however, is not a politically acceptable solution.
Slashdot Mirror
That text is crying for a link to a news story about their efforts to stop the "hackers."
Here's a good one.
I can personally assure you that they do.
So I wrote my own AutoBahn robot. If I get spam, I bounce it to spam@pillars.net, which is a perl script that auto-extracts the headers and adds the entire ISP to my blocking list.
So maybe I'm blocking legitimate senders? (shrug) I run my own mailserver. My friends can get to me; I don't worry about anybody else.
Essentially the same thing as halon, but hugs the ground better because it has a higher boiling point and a denser vapor.
I hope I'm not the only one who sufficiently comprehends the English language to appreciate how oxymoronic that was.
"Papers, citizen?"
Seriously, though, you seem to think that the government is authorized to regulate any potentially dangerous activity, simply because there is potential for wrongdoing. This viewpoint is called "marital law", or "maritime law", or "the law of the sea." There was a time in the history of this country when such a mindset was considered perfectly suitable for the administration of a seagoing vessel (hence the name, "maritime law") but outrageously inappropriate for governing a free people on their own lands.
You also seem to be confused about the difference between "rights" with "privileges." Allow me to step on my soapbox for a moment:
-
Rights are inherently yours, by virtue of
your existence as a human being with independent
volition (a.k.a. self-will, or freedom). Some rights
are alienable. You have the right to procreate.
You can give up that right by getting an operation, such
as a vasectomy or a hysterectomy. But people who have done
so can remain independent, self-willed, self-directed
people. That is, they can remain free. Other rights are inalienable.
You have the right to travel. If you are refused
that right (by being placed under house arrest, for instance)
it changes the nature of your being. You would no longer
be an independent, self-willed, self-directed (free) person.
You would then become a prisoner or a slave.
-
Privileges, on the other hand, are granted (usually selectively)
by an authoritative body. They are gifts from that
authority which you could not have acquired on your own.
For instance, you have the right to learn, (by virtue
of being a thinking human being), but if you live in certain
states, you have the privilege of attending a state
college, free of charge, funded by state taxes.
Some people argue that since roads are (usually) built by a government, and driving (on those roads) would not be possible without that government, therefore driving is a privilege extended by that government.Others counter that any roadways paid for by public funds belong to the common trust, and no government has the right to selectively refuse access to them.
Whatever the viewpoint, there are certainly many places in the United States where, if you limit yourself to walking, you won't be able to travel very far without either trespassing or violating some ordinance. Most highways, bridges, and tunnels have signs specifically forbidding pedestrians.
Realistically, if you can't legally drive, (or hire somebody to drive for you), then you are effectively forbidden to travel beyond a certain range. In that sense, you would arguably become a prisoner of the state, under a limited form of "house arrest."
Actually it's like saying that if you want to produce an aftermarket floor mat that is an exact replacement for the Mercedes originals, then you'd better get ready for a lawsuit the first time you actually sell one.
True. In the entirety of American history,
no harmful monopoly ever existed unless it
was created and/or perpetuated by government
regulation.
On the contrary, you can guarantee the data stays around.
You can force any Freenet data to remain persistent as long as you periodically access it. Of course, the data may reside *only* on your node, but it will be as available (to the public) as your node is.
I think that expecting somebody else to make your data available *forever* is an unrealistic expectation, regardless of the technology or circumstances.
Even if I pay an ISP for secure webhosting with backups and everything, the most I can legally require is that they'll *TRY* to not lose my data.
The correct quote is:
Few people know that the actual debate concerned the
oneness (versus the plurality) of God.
Geez! It's natural only to people who can't
type anyway.
And what's worse, every cheap keyboard
manufacturer in taiwan copied their mistake!
Umm.. That would be 8" floppy. Or punchcards, more likely.
Effectively, I'm my own boss. I "slack off"
as much as I want to.
I just don't want to. Every hour that I'm not
being productive is an hour that I'm not making
any money.
It's amazing how this changes your perspective.
For instance, has anybody figured out how to print a multi-page document with Konqueror so that it doesn't look like crap?
I'm using US-Letter-sized paper; I tell it I'm using US-Letter-sized paper; and still it breaks lines in half.
I mean it leaves the upper half of the characters at the bottom of one page, and the lower half of the characters at the top of the next page.
'Course Mozilla printing still isn't as pretty as Netscape 4.7, either, but it's starting to get marginally useful. Opera is okay on some pages but cuts others off at the right margin.
Still, when I want a hardcopy of a webpage, I go back to Netscape or (shudder) MSIE.
At 5:00am it's the quickest way to get downtown, because nobody's on the side roads.
But any other time of day, it's jam-packed with traffic because every time you have one stinking car waiting on the side road, the light changes and dozens of cars pile up on the main road to wait for him to make that right-hand turn...
If you'd bothered to read the linked article you'd have your answers...
'Course, they went bankrupt, too...
Thanks for the reference, tho...
I've lived in Virginia for twelve years and to date nobody has offered to me a reasonable explanation of the difference between a state and a commonwealth, apart from the spelling.
(even if it's off-topic, it helps explain a joke that was on-topic.)
The standard solution for radioactive waste is to concentrate it into dumps. The object is to package it well enough that by the time the containers start to leak, the radioactivity will have died down to acceptable levels.
Of course, nobody really knows for sure, because nobody's been around long enough to do a realtime test.
Any real nuclear engineer will tell you that the most effective way to dispose of radioactive waste is to evenly disperse it over a large area (for example, the ocean). If you spread it thin enough, it won't significantly raise the radioactivity above background levels.
This, however, is not a politically acceptable solution.
And exactly what government facilities were the woman and her german shepherd using?
duck!
(Yes, I read the story; just poking fun.)
Okay, so it's funny (if you're a farmer), but somebody should have offered a link (for those of who aren't).