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'methods' package feature request / discussion starter: perhaps a call to 'validObject' should occur at part of any slot replacement operation (and the operation not be carried out if it would invalidate the object)? this may prevent the need for prophylactic 'validObject' calls in other user-defined functions. in the example below, the slot assignment occurs even though it invalidates the object. the 'show' method then fails somewhat deep in a subsequently-called coercion method. library(Matrix) test <- Matrix(1:4+0.1, nrow...

...a website and/or have it available upon request (via client to client email rather than client to list to everyone email).". Then, the offending attachment would only eat ONE email worth of xiph's bandwidth vs. N where N=NoOfSubscribers+WWW_ML_ArchiveHits. Also, it would have an added prophylactic effect on virus spread :) Just my .02. I have never run a mailinglist so I don't know if this is possible or not. --- Yours, Charles T. Houghtby IV IT Manager, Rapid Appraisal, INC --- During a grouse hunt in North Carolina two intrepid sportsmen were blasting away at a clump of tr...

...to stop if you have a default accept stance. I've observed that most of the attacks to my site are from the enormous Chinese stated owned public network superblocks. I finally got sick of them so I now spiral these IMAP/POP connections into the Scharwzschild radius of my firewall. It's a prophylactic measure and not a reactive system like fail2ban, and may not work for you if you got road warriors that frequent that part of the world. However, it did get rid of a metric ton of BFD connections. Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>

*You a condom tester? Durex wants you:<http://tomorrowsmedicinetoday.blogspot.com/2007/08/you-condom-tester-durex-wants-you.html> * *International prophylactic maker Durex is hunting for 500 condom testers in Thailand to assure that its products are providing "end-user" satisfaction, media reports said Wednesday. FOR MORE INFORMATION LOG ON:<http://tomorrowsmedicinetoday.blogspot.com/2007/08/you-condom-tester-durex-wants-you.html> * * ht...

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote: > Security is *always* opposed to convenience. False. OS X by default runs only signed binaries, and if they come from the App Store they run in a sandbox. User gains significant security with this, and are completely unaware of it. There is no inconvenience. What is the inconvenience of encrypting your device

...assword guessers banging on every public IP that responds to port 22. Why? Because it still occasionally works. Increase the password strength minima, and this class of worm, too, will quickly die out. > Computers with strong passphrases still sometimes get pwned The occasional failure of a prophylactic measure does not tell you that you should discontinue its use. > and at a much higher rate than vaccines not working. I thought you threw out a 95% number for vaccine effectiveness above. You are saying that more than 5% of all computers with strong passphrases are currently infected with som...

...ngth minima, and this class of worm, too, will quickly die out. No they just get better, like they have been, at an exponential rate compared to our ability to recall login passwords. > >> Computers with strong passphrases still sometimes get pwned > > The occasional failure of a prophylactic measure does not tell you that you should discontinue its use. > >> and at a much higher rate than vaccines not working. > > I thought you threw out a 95% number for vaccine effectiveness above. You are saying that more than 5% of all computers with strong passphrases are currently...

Not sure if it''s been posted yet, my email is currently down... http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/archives/2007/10/suns_zfs_is_clo.html Interesting piece. This is the second post from Yager that shows solaris in a pretty good light. I particularly like his closing comment: "If you haven''t checked out ZFS yet, do, because it will eventually become ubiquitously implemented