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Maybe not. PErhaps he WILL do as he says and its already happened. There might still only be 1 satan because maybe JTVal IS the root of that particular belief. Could JTVal in fact BE satan in our past (his future)?

I take it you are not a religeous man I think that Joseph would kick your ass and history would be relatively unchanged. Except that you might end up being one of your own decendants...

So dont post any real personal info if you are concerned for your privacy. Theres no reason to close your account.

Thats easy. They dont I just thought it was funny when this guy did. Me? I believe in Santa!

yup. 10 week plus or minus for the Vector 3 24 weeks plus or minus for the Javelin This changes all the time though. As I understand things, if RWS suddenly got a big military order that wait can change overnight to a number as big as the JAvelin and vice versa. I went with the Vector 3 because of the skyhook

This remonded me of something I read. You all have probably seen this before but it never ceases to make me laugh. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Is there a Santa Claus? As a result of an overwhelming lack of requests, and with research help from that renown scientific journal SPY magazine (January, 1990) - I am Pleased to present the annual scientific inquiry into Santa Claus. No known species of reindeer can fly. BUT there are 300,000 species of living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects and germs, this does not COMPLETELY rule out flying reindeer which only Santa has ever seen. There are 2 billion children (persons under 1 in the world. BUT since Santa doesn't (appear) to handle the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Buddhist children, that reduces the workload to 15% of the total - 378 million according to Population Reference Bureau. At an average (census) rate of 3.5 children per household, that's 91.8 million homes. One presumes there's at least one good child in each. Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical). This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say that for each Christian household with good children, Santa has 1/1000th of a second to park, hop out of the sleigh, jump down the chimney, fill the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left, get back up the chimney, get back into the sleigh and move on to the next house. Assuming that each of these 91.8 million stops are evenly distributed around the earth (which, of course, we know to be false but for the purposes of our calculations we will accept), we are now talking about .78 miles per household, a total trip of 75 1/2 million miles, not counting stops to do what most of us must do at least once every 31 hours, plus feeding and etc. This means that Santa's sleigh is moving at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound. For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made vehicle on earth, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a poky 27.4 miles per second - a conventional reindeer can run tops 15 miles per hour. The payload on the sleigh adds another interesting element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more than a medium-sized Lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is carrying 321,300 tons, not counting Santa, who is invariably described as overweight. On land, conventional reindeer can pull no more than 300 pounds. Even granting that "flying reindeer" (see point #1) could pull TEN TIMES the normal amount, we cannot do the job with eight, or even nine. We need 214,200 reindeer. This increases the payload - not even counting the weight of the sleigh - to 353,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second creates enormous air resistance - this air will heat the reindeer up in the same fashion as spacecraft's re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of reindeer will absorb 14.3 QUINTILLION joules of energy. Per Second. Each. In short, they will burst into flame almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer behind them, and create deafening sonic booms in their wake. The entire reindeer team will be vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second. Santa, meanwhile, will be subjected to centrifugal forces 17,500.06 times greater than gravity. A 250-pound Santa (which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the back of his sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force. In conclusion, if Santa ever DID deliver presents on Christmas Eve -- he's dead now.

I am not people. I am person I dont lump them together on either side, so I dont have to remain silent while others do it. You dont have to either if you dont want to

Are we talking infinitely big?

Dats why I only use it (sendmail) on the gateway. I use iPlanet 5.2 and Directory (ldap) 5.1 on Solaris for the actual messaging server. I agree on the config issues but take a look at a product called "Webmin". This can be used to configure and maintain a lot of those hard to configure apps like Sendmail. I'll take any decent standards based application over proprietary crap like Exchange any day of the week.

If your main deployed at 669,600,000 mph (speed of light) I think that would hurt.

As a matter of fact, the extreme holes you refer to are because it was originally written back when security was not the primary consideration. This has been addressed 10 fold since that time. Its not perfect though, what is? It IS the most reliable (and most widely used) MTA in the world. I use it on my external smtp gateway because its very robust, cant take a MAJOR pounding without failing, and by default is not a 3rd party relay.

2 whats in one week? Again, sendmail is an application, not an OS. This would make 1 vulnerability in a crypto library and 1 vulnerability in a smtp application in the same week. So far I have seen none for OpenBSD or any other open source UNIX OS OpenBSD and OpenSSH are created and maintained by the same folks. This does not make them the same thing. Sendmail has nothing to do with either of them. By your initial reasoning, the Mustang would be defective if the Taurus were found to have a defect. With regard to sendmail, its like saying that the Mustang is defective because the sterio inside it isnt indestructible. Try to be at least a LITTLE fair even if you dont like UNIX. Of course if your intent is merely to prod the UNIX guys into reacting, well....you win!

Holding my sons for the very first time :-) I doubt their mother would want to relive the birth though

only a couple myself, but if I can get to "Seeing earth from space" before I die, that one would make up for a lot of the ones I'll never get to do.

I dont think any options are a must. Thats why they are options That said, my new one has a Skyhook. I went with the vector over other rigs because of that feature.

I'm approximately 4 weeks away from my new rig. (first ever brand new gear) In the last 2 weeks I have had no less than 3 dreams in which the rig gets stolen before I ever get a chance to jump it. Also had a couple where someone else jumps it before I do and I'm all pissed off about it. Am I wrapped too tightly here or is this normal?

30 minutes?!? They've never seen me pack!

This looks like an openssh vulnerability rather than an OpenBSD vulnerability. Most open source UNIXes come with OpenSSH including FreeBSD, Linux, etc... This hole is not specific to any OS so I dont think its fair to claim OpenBSD is insecure because of it. I use FreeBSD myself and have no direct experience with OpenBSD but I think I can still say this. Any OS that uses these crypto libs will have the same vulnerability until its fixed. I wouldnt claim that Win2k is insecure because of an Exchange exploit. One is an OS, the other is an Application. In this particular case, one is OS, the other is the Crypto libraries it uses for secure connections. I'd be willing to bet that the OpenSSH guys have this fixed in very short order. In any case, I dont think that this debunks any claims. These UNIXes are quite secure. NOTHING is totally secure nor do any of them claim to be as far as I know. PS. Thanks for the info. I'll be updating my systems as soon as the updates are available

After much thought, I'd have to say:

People are snowflakes. You cant classify them with such a simple scheme. Period.

In response, after careful comsideration, I would have to say:

Its that kind of exceptional performance that will make him an ideal governor

Actually, that sounds kinda nice!

I am one of the guys that made this statement. Although I have only 57 jumps, about the last 40 of them were with no AAD, no RSL, and a round reserve. Not old school, but maybe middle aged school? I also did the static line method being too poor for AFF. Radio didnt work on the very first one. JM told me afterwards that I obviously didnt need it so I was signed off radio from jump #1. I think I went solo. The point I was trying to make with the quotes statement is that if its available to me, I'm not gonna go without it just to prove to someone else that I'm not too dependant on it. I know what its there for. Its there for that one jump in ten thousand (or more) where I am somehow incapapacitated and unable to open my parachute. In that situation, I certainly DO depend on it to save my sorry ass. Thats what its for. If I couldnt afford one, I'd go back to jumping without it as I have for most of my jumps. I dont think I missed the point. I believe that I have nailed it on the head.

Come on dude, dont sugar coat it! Tell us what you REALLY think!