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| 2003/3/24 [Computer] UID:27818 Activity:nil |
3/23 Does anyone know of a way to map a file's type (magic number, extension
etc.) to its mime-type? Specifically, I'm looking for a way to include
binary files into messages composed via mh-e or comp without having
to manually type in the content-type for each binary file. |
| 2003/3/24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:27819 Activity:nil |
3/23 What motivation is there for anyone to follow the Geneva Convention
in terms of POW treatment? Everyone's up in arms about how the Iraqis
are treating those captured, but why should they care about so-called
international law? |
| 2003/3/24 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:27820 Activity:moderate |
3/23 I configured sendmail 8.12.8 to use STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH. For mail
clients that only use LOGIN and PLAIN (like Outlook Express) is the
password still encrypted? STARTTLS encrypts the transmission before
the password is sent, right?
\_ yeah ask the peep here, they can't even get SSL over POP working
right
\_ According to RFC 2487, there is no guarantee that mail will be
processed in this way (see 5.1). In the case of sendmail you can
force it to require clients to use a TLS encrypted session via
TLS_Clt. For more info see:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html
\_ Cool, thanks. |
| 2003/3/24 [Computer/HW/Laptop] UID:27821 Activity:nil |
3/23 GPG question. I am trying to do the usual GPG on windoze
(don't have choice, use Win at work). The only thing is
I prefer not store my private key on the laptop which I am using
(it belongs to my company). I am thinking of buying one of those
flash-rom drive (thumb drive) and dump my key rings there. Have
anyone done that before? what kind of problem would you encounter
if you do that?
\_ Losing your thumbdrive would be bad. I have an IBM Microdrive
that I use to store all my personal info. The sensitive files
(e.g., private keys) are all encrypted, in case the laptop gets stolen. |
| 2003/3/24 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:27822 Activity:high |
3/24 I dd's an entire windows disk (it had 4 partitions) to a file, and
now I'd like to mount the image. What's the best way? |
| 2003/3/24 [Health] UID:27823 Activity:nil |
3/25 All of your rights were not earned by weekend protestors, news
journalists or hollywood actors. They were earned with blood and are
protected with blood. Regardless of your position, think about someone
beside yourself. Why don't we see the same size protests in support
on Veterans Day?
OUR TROOPS MORALE
link:www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/special_packages/iraq/5445066.htm |
| 2003/3/24 [Transportation/Car] UID:27824 Activity:kinda low |
3/24 What is the situation in downtown SF? various groups on the internet
are claiming that there are mass protests that have shut things down.
is this true? -3000 miles from SF
\_ there's some stoppage, nothing on the scale of last thu
though. I think everyone is kind of tired and
gearing up for a major push at the end of this week. - danh
\_ a major push to what? hurt people who work hourly wage jobs?
\_ Not true. My brother is at UCSF and he says that the protests have
hardly affected anything.
\_ UCSF is nowhere near downtown
\_ They've stopped traffic in the days since the beginning of the war,
but it hasn't shut things down.
\_ I made it to work Thursday, but most did not. Traffic was
not moving. Things were pretty shut down. Since that day,
protests have only been a minor distraction. -ausman
\_ I work 3rd/Market. It was shutdown to cars and buses along Market
on a few blocks for a while the other day but the rest of the
city was fine. |
| 2003/3/24 [Politics/Domestic/California, Politics/Domestic/President/Bush] UID:27825 Activity:very high |
3/24 Michael Moore is a fat whiny twit, and a not particularly bright or
witty one at that. I thought I should point that out. -John
\_ I doubt anyone was particularly surprised that he took time
to speak his mind (as that's what his career is based on),
and I thought it was pretty nifty for him to invite his fellow
documentarians up on stage with him. As for the rest, I can
understand why you'd say that, and I can also see why people
think otherwise. He earned a lot of cred with "Roger and Me."
--erikred
\_ I think it's pretty silly that everyone criticises hollywood
celebrities for using their "soapbox" of fame to get whatever
message they may have out. yes, they're mostly idiots. but it's
the press's fault that they treat what hollywood people say
as news. what if they treated everything we say on the motd as
news? I realize that Moore is not part of hollywood exactly,
but people have been making a stink about this issue recently,
and i think it's relevant.
\_ Hey, he gets his opinion, I get mine. And why voicing an
opinion about his personality constitutes a judgment on any
"issue" is beyond me.
\_ sort of like you.
\_ Hey, great point. You're pretty funny. Do you sign your
posts, or do you just make kneejerk anonymous digs? Do you
think dumbshit cowards like you deserve anything but scorn?
Sad pathetic fuck. -John
\_ I think Moore acted like an idiot too. I mean it may be
a war fought on "fictitious" reasons, but Bush won the
election fair and square, nothing fictitious about that.
That Bush is a moron doesn't change that fact.
\_ I respectfully disagree: The number of votes by which
Bush "won" was so slight as to be well within the
the statistical margin of error for an election of
this size. Further, machinations by Republican
appointees to the Supreme Court made a controversial
decision that lent legititmacy to an otherwise shady
outcome. I don't expect that to sway you, but I want
you to know that I disagree. --erikred
\_ Well put. I agree. - some other guy
\_ He won, period. Every reasonable vote count since
has come to the same conclusion. The Supreme Court
simply preempted the state legislature and expedited
a foregone outcome. The Florida Supreme Court severly
overstepped its delegated powers and deserved to be
smacked down. The relevant USSC decision was 7-2.
The legal opinion is available, search for it.
Whether Bush won by 500 votes or 50,000 is irrelevant.
No president has had a majority of votes since Reagan.
\_ Keep towing that line.
\_ And if you're feeling frisky, you can toe
that line too.
\_ Recounting all of the ballots in Florida would
have led to a Gore victory, according to NYT,
Washington Post, et al. Or is that not a
"reasonable count" in your definition, since
it does not give the conclusion that you
desire?
\_ Go read the legal opinions and decisions.
Don't demagogue from a point of ignorance, at
least be intellectually honest and research
it yourself. USSC decision 7-2. The same
thing happened to Nixon against Johnson.
Nixon chose not to litigate it.
\_ Got the decision. More specious was
whether the Supreme Court should have
reviewed the case at all.
Also, the number of votes is important
to our claim of being a democratic
country and opens the discussion for
the need for severe electoral reform.
\_ Electoral reform, for what?
Do you understand the point of
the electoral college
or why Senators, until Wilson, were
elected by state legislators? Please,
again, to be intellectually honest
with yourself learn about the
electoral college and read the legal
opinions.
\_ do you understand why no other
democracy uses an electoral
college? -tom
\_ none as old as our's.
\_ Yes. The EC is what gives
states equal footing in the
national discourse. It allows
for equal representation of
ideas in our REPUBLIC (not
a democracy).
\_ Could it be because we are not
nor were ever meant to be a
democracy?
\_ We have the opportunity
to have an educated
electorate vote in
free elections for
elected representatives.
Times have changed since
1776. It's time we
changed with them. Thus
the call for reform.
"One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with
complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's
presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.
It is the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian
of the rule of law. I respectfully dissent." -Justice Stevens
(writing for the 4 dissenting judges who voted against the
decision awarding the election to Bush, not 2, like you imply)
\_ This was not the relevant decision. There were two decisions handed
down, one 5-4, the other 7-2. |
| 2003/3/24 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:27826 Activity:very high |
3/24 THE WAR THAT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/71309.htm
\_ The New York Post is a tabloid with about as much credability as
as the weekly world news. Please don't post NYP articles, it just
makes you look like a moron.
\_ oh, as opposed to freerepublic
\_ is there a list of 'motd acceptable' news sources? I should we
should only allow NPR quotes and Salon.
\_ This is a serious question. What makes you think that our attempts
to create a democracy by force in Iraq will be any more successful
than our attempts in Afghanistan, Panama, Haiti, etc?
\_ We never attempted in Afghanistan, it seem to be going
as well as expected thus far. It worked in Japan,
South Korea, Europe, Taiwan, Chile, and was working in Iran.
What is the alternative? I propose there are only two:
1) kill the Arabs ala colonial Europe or Rome.
2) make it more attractive economically to lay down arms
and live and prosper with a non-belligerent society.
\_ Taiwan? South Korea? Europe? What the heck are you
talking about?
\_ history?
\_ History? US invaded Taiwan to bring about
democracy while it is under dictator CKS?
\_ You do not build weak, nascent democracies
to counterbalance the Soviets. You align
with stable dictatorships with capitalistic
tendencies in order to transition to liberal
styles of government.
This was the essence of US Cold War policy,
I'm actually expected to explain this?
\_ Sure, but how is this relevant? We are
talking about the feasibility of a direct
US invasion and regime change here.
This is not analogous to any of the
countries you mentioned except Japan and
Germany. Vietnam, for example, blew up
in our face because while we were thinking
of fighting against communists and the
soviets, we miscalculated vietnamese
nationalism.
\_ "except Japan and Germany" is the
point. thanks.
\_ I would grant you that, but I
would also point out that Japan
and Germany were actually occupying
nations they invaded when we decided
to topple their regimes. Perhaps
there are better ways to change /
mellow out the regime in Iraq under
scenarios similar to what happened
in places like Taiwan and South
Korea, given that there is limited
evidence that we would be successful
in building a democracy in Iraq.
How much effort and resources are
we willing to devote to this
enterprise, or would we just get
another puppet dictator, someone
like Ferdinand Marcos or the
Saudi sheiks, who constantly steal
from their people? |
| 2003/3/24 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:27827 Activity:high |
3/24 I dd's an entire windows disk (it had 4 partitions) to a file, and
now I'd like to mount some of the partitions in the image. I used
losetup, so "sfdisk -l /dev/loop0" shows this:
Disk /dev/loop0: cannot get geometry
Disk /dev/loop0: 0 cylinders, 0 heads, 0 sectors/track
Warning: The first partition looks like it was made
for C/H/S=*/255/63 (instead of 0/0/0).
For this listing I'll assume that geometry.
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes,
counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/loop0p1 * 0+ 260 261- 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/loop0p2 261 1022 762 6120765 5 Extended
/dev/loop0p3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/loop0p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/loop0p5 261+ 521 261- 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/loop0p6 522+ 782 261- 2096451 6 FAT16
/dev/loop0p7 783+ 1022 240- 1927768+ 6 FAT16
Do I have to make a device called "/dev/loop0p1"? 'cause that device
doesn't exist yet. Or is there a different way to mount the
partitions contained in the image? Thanks. |
| 2003/3/24 [Uncategorized] UID:27828 Activity:high |
3/24 I am all for massive demonstrations, but this closely
follows what I feel about some recent SF trashing:
link:www.csua.org/u/b73 - danh
\_ fascist! |
| 2003/3/24 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:27829 Activity:high |
3/24 Continuing the Electoral College thread. Say the Presidential
election was to be decided by popular vote from now on. Would
candidates even bother campaigning in states like New Mexico
or Idaho? Bush would have also spent much more time campaigning
in California and Gore would have spent more time campaigning
in Florida.
\_ Probably not. So what? You think it makes sense for votes in
Wyoming to count for more than votes in California? -tom
\_ Yes. It was a founding principle. It would be nice if each
electoral vote were determined by district too, with the winner
of the state getting the 2 extra. If you want to change what's
been in place for over 200 years, go for it. You know the proc.
\_ Heard of protecting the minority against tyranny of the
majority?
\_ That's a red herring, unless you think "People from
Wyoming" are a minority group in need of protection. -tom
\_ Of course. They represent rural interests.
Another example - If minority interests are not
protected, every drop of the colorado river
might have been diverted to Los Angeles.
\_ like I said, a red herring. -tom
\_ We are talking about Electoral College
in general right? You do not believe that
people living in less densely populated
areas and less densely populated states
often have interests different and in
conflict with those living in major
urban centers?
\_ I believe there are hundreds of different
groups with different interests in the US, and
that "rural people" do not deserve special
protection, compared to, say "black people" or
"men". -tom
\_ Except that the former is written into the
constitution and the latter isn't.
\_ well, actually, the latter is as well.
The purpose of the electoral college was
not to protect the interests of rural
voters, and it's silly to suggest that
it should be. -tom
\_ Sure they do, but why should their votes
count for more? -!tom
\_ someone else said before: it isn't that they
count for more. it's to make sure they count
at all. they still barely count as it is.
\_ yeah, that must be why 80-90% of the
water in California goes to farmers, they
get screwed because we elect our
governor democratically. -tom
\_ Why don't you read what the writers of the Constitution
thought about democracy and the parallel events in France.
\_ I didn't see the earlier thread so excuse me if this was said before
but this is a republic (or close to it), not a democracy. It's all
nice to talk about democratic ideals but you can't run a country of
any real size that way. To my knowledge there are no true
democracies right now (or anything close) and haven't been since the
Greeks experimented with it and even theirs was a limited form.
\_ every democratic nation in the world, except for us, chooses
its president/prime minister on the basis of popular vote.
No one else sees a need for an "electoral college." -tom
\_ Under the current Electoral College system, California is worth
so many more votes than Wyoming that the effect is virtually
the same. The way you beat the California edge is by winning
a coalition of Mid-West States that vote along similar lines
and bring in more votes combined. The EC only extended reasonable
protections when the population was small: Rhode Island's
guaranteed 2 votes were worth something when the total vote tally
was in the low hundreds. If you want true rural representation,
allocate EC votes to voting districts, not winner-takes-all. |
| 2003/3/24 [Science/GlobalWarming, Politics/Foreign/Europe] UID:27830 Activity:nil |
3/24 This crazy world, from
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/5318.html :
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a
white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, France is accusing
the US of arrogance, and Europe doesn't want to go to war." |
| 2003/3/24 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:27831 Activity:nil |
3/24 Re: earlier post about POW. Geneva convention obliges waring party
to ensure they are protected, anonymous, and unhumiliated. Inviting
mobs of "embedded" journalists to have a feeding frenzy is about as
in compliance as having a mob of thugs not controlled by the
government beating the POWs. Both sides violated the convention,
but the civilized coaliation so far has much more serious violation.
It achieves so by having a poorly informed but self-righteous
population.
\_ is a declaration of war necessary for Geneva convention to apply?
\_ embedded journalists didn't film any pow's. it was pows left behind
to be picked up by later troops that random non-embedded independent
journalists filmed. I believe what they did was wrong but it was
not an official U.S. government sanctioned act. |
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