I understand well the intent behind the "unalienable rights" statement. The problem is that it doesn't reflect the physical reality and as such, it is untrue. I can make a document declaring that humans have the innate power of flight, but when I decide to jump off a cliff to act upon my belief, flapping my arms is not going to help me.

But that's my very point - they are not unalienable. They are made up. Human rights have no basis in reality, there's no fundamental law of nature that grant humans those rights. They are only an ideology and, as soon as someone with different views gathers the most power, they'll cease to exist. In the future, it's possible that technology will enable someone with a different ideology to seize power, and those "unalienable" rights would go away, perhaps never to return until humanity becomes extinct.

If rights effectively go away once you don't own the biggest guns anymore, then by definition they aren't unalienable : they are created by mankind. This is why you have to be willing to kill to defend your ideologies, otherwise people can use violence to enforce their way of life over you.

This is a ridiculous statement. The concept of human rights are a human creation. The truth is that every "right" you have is currently granted to you at the point of a gun, through social constructs like law and its enforcement. Viewing rights as intrinsic is dangerous, because in the end it's just an ideology. I do agree with the idea of basic human rights granted to everyone, but we should never lose sight that we only have them because we kill and imprison people who disagree.

Without the constitution, those "intrinsic" rights would cease to exist immediately to the whim of whoever owns the most efficient means of violence to enforce their views.

I don't really understand what you're trying to say. Even if the guy was the antichrist and his favorite hobby was raping babies, how does it change the facts?

There was an overzealous "watch" guy stalking an unarmed man coming back from the store. At no point did the victim ever do anything that warranted harassment or stalking. Zimmerman is the one who initiated the confrontation, the one who caused it and the one bearing full responsibility for the events that followed.

The fact that the victim might have been a criminal has nothing to do whatsoever with what happened.

Yeah, last time I had surgery, they wouldn't even lead me to any answer. It basically went :

Doctor : Why are you here?
Me : Surgery.
Doctor : What kind?
Me : Eye surgery to correct strabismus.
Doctor : Which eye?
Me : Left.

They didn't just read stuff asking me to confirm it, I actually had to give them the information. I assume this way there's much less risk of a patient just confirming all the surgeon's questions.

Google will host email for your own domain for free. All you need to do is point your MX at their servers and register for a free account. No hassle, I've been doing this for years for my domains. Works like a charm. They also support POP3/IMAP access if you don't like using the web interface.

Basically, there's nothing you can do if you keep using WPA.

One option is to lower your wi-fi antenna power to exclude the area where the attacks are coming from. This can be hard to do if you need good coverage for a whole house or some such.

Your best bet would be to use either 802.1x or EAP-PEAP. That's highly dependent on what router you're using, usually only high-end routers support these options, although some home routers certainly do (I remember the good old WAP54G supporting it). If you're going 802.1x, just setup a radius server, configure your devices and you're pretty much set. If you go the PEAP route, you'll need some certificates, and possibly a radius server unless you use client certificates for authentication.

Both options will foil your wannabe hacker. Plus, you'll likely have the only advanced Wi-Fi setup around, gaining you geek creds ;)

Oh yeah? You're just being a unitard.

The way I do is is that I send an NDR on rejected mail caused by bad SPF records (with some anti-flood limits). So far, as far as I know, bounced emails always eventually reached us. What happens is the person gets a NDR mail ("We have rejected your email due to bad SPF records"). The person getting the bounce forwards it to their IT dept, where it's usually taken care of rather quickly. If it's a small business without a dedicated IT staff, I'm sometimes asked to explain how this works, but usually, such companies do not have SPF records at all, which means the mail won't bounce.

I'm french canadian and I don't think that, here, the "HR speak" has quite reached the lofty levels of stupidity that I hear about in the USA.

There are such things as synergies, even if I might not have used the term correctly, as the AC below pointed out. I was referring to the "whole being greater than the sum of its parts" concept. I've seen it happen often enough to know it's a real effect. Some people have personality traits that aren't that great alone, but if you mix them with some other people, sparks start flying. It's like a feedback loop is established between the brains, each weirdly feeding the other ones.

Where I work right now we have a few of those people. They're highly valued and are usually part of different teams or divisions, but sometimes, when an especially hard problem comes up which looks like it might require lots of lateral thinking to solve, they put these people in the same team for a few weeks. Much craziness usually ensues. The results are often quite entertaining to watch.

I used to think like you when I was younger (early twenties). I'm a geek with somewhat limited social skills and statements like "I may not be as smart as you, but I'm street smart!" brought only snickering from me.

However, after gaining work experience and being part of several different teams, I can say that "social intelligence" is as important as the analytic kind. Not in all situations of course. Sometimes, having a good traditional IQ will save the day, but other times, you really need an empathic, smooth talker. Who's the most important person, the guy who knows how to build the rocket, or the guy who can convince people who know know how to build the rocket to set their differences aside and actually build it?

I'm guessing you haven't seen a good "people person" yet work their magic. They'll intuitively grasp that Bob feels under-appreciated because he isn't getting enough recognition, and they'll send some attaboy! emails to compensate. They're able to pair people with good synergies together. Maybe two guys are extremely competitive and it keeps slowing down the whole team's progress? The social person will naturally have them designing competitive solutions to problems so that the project will benefit from their "biggest penis" contest, without them even realizing they're being gently manipulated.

Like most geeks, early on I was mostly blind to these social games, but they are critical to the success of any project which has lots of people working towards a common goal. Don't dismiss it so easily.

That's entirely my point. What you link to isn't Cisco gear, it's rebranded Linksys. Any switch that isn't running Cisco IOS (or at least CatOS for the older chassis switches) isn't real Cisco gear. All Cisco did was confusing average person and destroy the good reputation of the Cisco brand.

On the other hand, there's a reason Cisco gear is expensive: it's enterprise class. A few months ago I went to a client's site to help expend a microwave network. Prior to doing the upgrade, I asked what gear was running at the remote location. "It's all Cisco switches and routers!", I was told. So we start working, installing new fiber lines and antennas. At one point, I needed to remotely shut down a switchport in one of remote locations to prevent a spanning loop. I try ssh, then telnet, no connection. I try http, and what do I see, it's one of those "Linksys by Cisco" SMB switch. That particular model didn't allow me to shut down a single port, nor did it allow me to re-allocate the limited PoE wattage to new equipment. Also, as far as I could see, no real diagnostic info on the ports, other than a packet counter and up/down status.

We lost almost 2 hours to send someone to drive to the location and back, just to unplug a network cable. Now, I'm not going to say that Linksys switches aren't perfectly fine in some small business environments, but once you start having a big network they're a headache. Rebranding consumer-grade equipment with the Cisco trademark was one of the stupidest decision I've seen a large company make. Every networking professional I've talked to thought it was a terrible idea; it's almost impossible to see how management could ever even consider the idea, let alone go ahead with it.

It's decisions like this one that make me think that Cisco's hegemony in the network is coming to an end. You can't have management that clueless and thrive. Also, they're still acting like they're the only game in town, with prices that are borderline ridiculous and byzantine licensing rules (ASA licensing, I'm looking at you!). It's a good thing Juniper has grown up and is now making some pretty awesome routers for very good prices. On the switch level, Cisco is still ahead of the pack, but other vendors like HP are stepping up.

I think it's sad, because Cisco hardware tends to be awesome. Hopefully Cisco can go back to having more engineers making some business decisions, because the current leadership certainly doesn't understand the moving market.

There is a reason for this non-indie bundle. THQ is on the verge of bankruptcy. This is basically their last attempt at getting some much-needed money so that they can release their in-development games (such as the South Park RPG) instead of going under. I suppose they contacted the humble bundle guys and made them an offer in percentages that they couldn't refuse.

I still think they should have called it something else than "Humble Bundle", maybe make another catchy name for enterprise sponsored bundles, but I don't think it was a bad idea by itself. If THQ can get say, 5 or 10 millions from the bundle, it might just allow them to turn around and come back to profitability.