Somekind of wage at all is a great idea. We should re-invent the company store. Ban all labor unions, Dispatch with the EPA and OSHA. Dismiss minimum wages. Fuck, while where at it lets bring back slavery, because you know their masters had to take care of their slaves too.

Or you could wake the fuck up and read American history from 1850 to current and learn why we have many of the labor and wage laws we do. You have a wonderfully deluded idea that the past was some great and epic time where things where fair and anyone that wanted to work was showered with good wages. It is unfortunate that reality disagrees with you.

The problem here is you are blaming poor people and 'welfare' programs on being able to buy shitty food with SNAP.

Go ahead and see what happens the moment you foot a bill to ban cola purchases with benefits. Oh look, the coca-cola corp just cut all your reelection financing. Oh look, your political competitor just more funding.

It's easier for politicians to reduce the entire benefits system then attempt to define what is and isn't allowed to be purchased in the system.

Oh, and many poorer people are going to be pissed about your needs to be frozen and cooked with short shelf life food choices. And even after that, are you going to stop people from buying bags of sugar and flour so they can't 'bake' unhealthy food choices?

> plenty of other countries manage to feed their people without needing to resort to a program like that.

Trying to compare American problems to the problems of other countries is not easy. Western Europe isn't an easy comparison, they didn't have slavery and endemic racism affecting a significant portion of its population for a two centuries. There populations are very homogeneous. Add in that many countries don't have 'food stamp' program, there are benefits programs by other names to the same effect. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/mar/26/payment-cards-emergency-assistance-food-stamps

The U.S. has had a food stamp program for a very long time, it wasn't till the economic collapse 6 years ago that it doubled in size. Welcome to the world of outsourcing and increased robotics.

>The whole idea of paying farmers not to farm is wrong headed.

Yet another person who doesn't understand land and soil conversation, and the long term effects of farming on soil health.

> a bigbox store like walmart wants to open up and provide jobs that pay a wage

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-13/how-mcdonald-s-and-wal-mart-became-welfare-queens.html

Right, just like we ran computers before the internet existed. Why don't you just unplug yours and I'll mail you DVDs?

If you're the only company in the industry and exploits are very common your thinking would work.

Reality disagrees.

Your competitor will have vastly lower cost and higher efficiency up until the point that he is exploited. If it's 5 years between exploits, then it's likely you've already been put out of business.

>Your "bad situations" are easily controlled automatically with spam filters such as spamassassin.

Yes, but spamassassin is very heavy on a server if you are receiving far more email then normal, as was the case I listed. If you do not have lots of extra computing power, or you are paying per compute unit used dropping non-existent names 'significantly' reduces server load. My general setups do something like RBL > Address check > Content check.

Never use a catchall. And I repeat, never use a catchall. It's better to use a hosting service that allows you to control alias accounts easily and quickly. If someone types a non-existent address they are suppose to get a bounce email.

Catchalls also create some unique bad situations. A number of years ago I had a small client who had a domain similar to a large university. They had just a few accounts on the domain and in general received around 20 emails a day and ran a catchall to get mistyped addresses. When they came in to the office and had over 35,000 emails in the inbox we new something was wrong. A spammer was 'confused', or something and thought the domain was part of the university and was sending mail from a@domain to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz@domain and every possibly name and combination in between. It was coming from thousands of different IP addresses and hundreds of connections per minute.

We had to turn off catchall and implement a SMTP policy of instant disconnect in the RCPT TO: header to stop the flood. After around a week the barrage stopped.

That's a retarded way to think.

Lets imagine a LAN for a moment, where they hosts cannot talk to each other (host isolation), but they can talk to the router, then to the internet at large.

The router provides them DHCP and DNS.

You are host $B running secureXos.

Host $C running insecureBrowser has a cross site forgery attack that changes DNS on the router via an exploit.

A few days later host $B renews their DHCP lease and gets new DNS.

Host $B visits 'slashdot.org' only it's a imitation site designed to capture your login information or cookies transmitted over non-ssl channels.

You've just lost your login credentials with no compromise of your operating system. Only bad security practices on part of the website you were (and are) visiting. Many SSL sites can be compromised this way because they don't enforce Strict Transport Security settings.

Yes. Most of the time you may not get root on the infected device. Or the device will be some limited piece of crap. With an attack like this it is a stepping stone to get every device on the network under your control. Many computers will firewall themselves off from other devices on the network, yet allow some communications with the router. Also, most home routers provide DNS to the client computers.

strace -p $PID_OF_DBUS_DAEMON

As for your network, it's probably something related to this http://avahi.org/

Even on fast SSDs I've never seen 8 cold boot it in 3 seconds. 9-12ish maybe. Add in windows networking and it's much slower. Also Windows delays a lot of tasks so you are to the GUI but your actual services are not running yet. In the server market your boot speed is highly dependent on network resource dependencies with varying delays.

I would venture to say that you cannot make any assumption from hidden information. The NSA holds almost all the information on what they have done and who they have given information to. You, on the other hand, don't know jack shit about what the NSA does, well other then monitoring most of the worlds communications. Therefore you are jerking it just as hard as everyone else in the circle.

90% of the people you know are probably White. If you based world population trends on the area where you live you probably think most people in the world are White, followed by Blacks. Reality is most of the world population is Asian.

This is why so many U.S. science and medical studies fall under the W.E.I.R.D problem

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/05/weird_psychology_social_science_researchers_rely_too_much_on_western_college.html