Back to your mom's basement, please, and keep the noise down.

It must be lovely to be without error like you, other than hiding behind AC to cast insults of course.

I *do* know what I'm doing, generally, and have the track record to show it, but the threat landscape has changed quite a lot recently. And because I don't assume myself to be perfect I was alive to the issue when it showed up, and responded quickly, which seems like the rational and responsible thing to do for us normal non-perfect people.

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Damon

Really depends what you mean by 'private'.

I've been running my own (mine/company) Internet-facing DNS almost since there was live IP in the UK and I got caught out by this.

And I still see people regularly *trying* to use my DNS for amplification, ie probing, or at least laundering their attacks, but give up, after I made the appropriate fixes.

And I'm not alone. (See recent item on The Register for example.)

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Damon

[citation required]

Clue: not true

I had a poor experience with some very off-hand senior doctor(s) prescribing me huge quantities of carbamazepine such that I could hardly function at all with the dosage, and refusing to discuss dosage or reasons with me. Eventually after talking to a doctor friend or two about actual uses and side-effects on my next visit I told the prescribing doctor that if they weren't going to tell me what they were doing or why and leave me like a zombie as if I didn't matter at all that I was going to stop taking the stuff, to which they did not protest and I have been fine without for 30 years. The entire atmosphere in that particular surgery is what I'd describe as abusive, with patients' lives apparently unimportant to nursing and other medical staff, eg always minimum 2h waiting times just for a start.

Note: I did take lots of qualified advice before defying my prescription, and I'm glad that I did.

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Damon

THHGTTG

No; sensible limits on unjustified handling and use of possible weapons from knives to Plutonium are OK. The only possible definitions of "sensible" are not "always" or "never"; to suggest so is a straw man. Thus one element of the "nuance" I suggest.

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Damon

Seems obvious to most Europeans. And my emphasis is on 'easy'; not never no way ever, else I'd be all for unconditionally banning bleach and kitchen knives and human-driven cars too. This needs a more nuanced fix than most would like to admit I think.

I *never* want to see permits for concealed carry or similar in the UK, BTW.

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Damon

In conjunction with the "it's my damn right to have whatever I want whatever it costs other people" lobby.

Wow, I saw some ugly narcissism and self-entitlement in above comments: nuance hasn't had a look in.

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Damon

And you and I may both be psychopaths too, to some degree. I'm am occasionally manipulative to get things done, but I find it difficult to tell which side of typical some of that behaviour of mine is... On the other hand I do empathise, so I'm probably not a very good psychopath.

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Damon

Citation please?

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Damon

It's *maybe* a useful short-term skill *from the point of view of the psychopath* but not for the rest of the rest of society which sustains the psychopath and the people the psychopath is parasitical upon...

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Damon

PS. When an honest-to-goodness co-worker psychopath tried his smarm on me one particularly egregious time, the traits were so obvious that I actually found it entirely repulsive and made it my business to actively undermine him whenever I caught him behaving badly. So not a useful skill in fact for him.

Hi,

Have a read of this for an extreme (but not vastly so) case where *one* woodstove is unacceptable:

http://www.greenbuildingforum.co.uk/forum114/comments.php?DiscussionID=9305

Rgds

Damon

Yes, I've heard of fraud.

One reason to keep the tariff rise in check is to minimise the value and thus amount of such fraud while having something significant enough to be noticed by most people.

No single policy instrument can be perfect, but people do give at least some attention to things that they pay for, even though the response is massively non-linear.

Rgds

Damon

EROEI (Energy Return On Energy Invested) is better for solar PV than for tar sands for example, even in the UK, AFAIK.

Rgds

Damon