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"This guy likes Google phones." - Daniel Miessler

"Exactly. They are compatible only because/if they nerf the definition of free will." - Daniel Miessler

"Yes, you are missing something--the fact that the key is the definition that's being used rather than them believing differently than you. They believe in *practical* free will, not in *absolute* free will. http://danielmiessler.com/blog... It is the failure to make that distinction is what causes all the confusion." - Daniel Miessler

"It did clober my SEO since I'd been using dmiessler.com since 1999, but I don't care about SEO enough to keep me from doing the best thing, and firstnamelastname.com is much cleaner going forward. If my content is good I'll get SEO back eventually, and I'm not in a rush. The site is my personal avatar, not a business. Any ads I have are to try and pay for hosting. As for the no-www piece, well, it presents issues with cookies if you don't use hostnames, i.e. all your cookies would be set for your root. So there's more thinking to go into it. As for the decal, I don't have any of those anymore." - Daniel Miessler

"Absolutely. :)" - Daniel Miessler

"Absolutely. :)" - Daniel Miessler

"The link to the guide (which I've never read) was never the point, so I removed it. The point of the post can be decrypted from the obfuscated title: "A Few Apache Hardening Basics"." - Daniel Miessler

"Because nothing was taken from that article at all. I simply went and found an Apache hardening guide and linked to it--separate from the three tips I did the post about. Check before being a dick." - Daniel Miessler

"How is this different than a regular cookie on any ecommerce that you're not logged in at? It's not. Sites set cookies regardless of whether or not you're signed in. Relax." - Daniel Miessler

"In a month that'll be 10-year-old technology. I'd spend the money on getting off of 2000 if at all possible." - Daniel Miessler

"They call it Jihad when he yells out religious stuff in the middle of killing people...in Arabic." - Daniel Miessler

"That a unified theory of the universe would be every bit as complex as the universe itself, so it wouldn't really be a simple formula like e=mc^2." - Daniel Miessler

"Bigfoot *is* blurry. And that's even more scary." - Daniel Miessler

"I too discovered Mitch Hedberg after he had died. I found him and then started asking around and stumbled upon a guy who told me, "Dude, he's dead." It was as if I had been personally robbed. But then I realized it was more than me who had been stolen from." - Daniel Miessler

"But I wrote the conservative side in such a way that many conservatives will identify with. In fact, that's the test I used to make sure it was decent." - Daniel Miessler

"Unfortunately, there aren't enough of us." - Daniel Miessler

"I believe it should be considered evil to reproduce without having a reasonable chance of the child being happy, and of it offering something to society. Or, to put it another way, I believe it should be considered evil for people to reproduce without thinking, as a product of their own personal pleasure, when the outcome is very likely to be a human being who not only suffers, but adds to the suffering of others. As such, I believe in controlling immigration from third-world countries. I believe in promoting education in a mandatory, self-preservation sort of way. I believe in saying, "your way of life causes harm to humanity, so you should stop doing it." These are all anti-liberal, but if we were to do them we would bring the possibility of a liberal goal into focus. Without doing these things, liberals will have no chance in a world controlled and determined by the basest of human tendencies." - Daniel Miessler

"I don't really use labels, since they always seem to fail me. This is because words mean what people think they mean, so when I use a label it immediately becomes limited by what the receiver thinks it is. If I'm with someone bright, however, I can give them the statement above and it usually tells them where I stand. Not always, but often. I'm not a libertarian, that much is obvious. A hands-off approach brings the exploitation of the weak at the hands of the strong. And I'm not a communist because I believe in using incentive to push progress. I'm not a liberal because I believe in things like population control and immigration control and having standards for raising children and such (like considering it evil for someone in pain to raise a kid, because they're going to create someone else in pain). But I'm not a conservative because they believe in an ideal that I do not. Here are my definitions of liberal and conservative:..." - Daniel Miessler

"Thanks, dude. :)" - Daniel Miessler

"It's a botnet detection system that utilizes a very large detection network, which gives it the ability to analyze traffic patterns on your network and compare them against known botnet-like activity." - Daniel Miessler

"You've my site there; I'm touched. :)" - Daniel Miessler

"> you've made it a condition on having influence Independent influence. I'm not sure if you saw my previous piece on absolute vs. practical free will, but I do believe in practical free will, which is basically a functional or effective free will. This means that we as humans are able to look at situations and avoid danger coming in the future and such. And those decision points end up affecting the rest of the world in turn. So that's real--no doubt. The real question is whether or not you had any choice in doing what you did. And that's where absolute free will comes in. So for all intents and purposes, on Earth, we have free will. We need that instrument in order to have courts and a functional society. But it's an entirely different question as to whether people are truly responsible for their actions. And that's the whole point of looking beyond practical free will to absolute free will--the latter having serious moral implications." - Daniel Miessler

"So where would free will come from for a compatibilist who accepted my two points?" - Daniel Miessler

"Determinism is out of the picture. It's not relevant. We are not discussing predictability or anything of the sort. The issue is with whether or not we have *control* of the essential pieces that allow us to manipulate outcomes." - Daniel Miessler

"I don't understand your question." - Daniel Miessler

"* WebInspect (technically appsec) * Tipping Point * AppDetective * Damballa * Vontu * NetWitness" - Daniel Miessler

"We already make a lot of assumptions that the universe is naturalistic. That's how we predict weather and what stars will do, and how our bodies work. Why should free will be different if you omit the supernatural?" - Daniel Miessler

"Because computers change future-state." - Daniel Miessler

"Basic deterministic theories deal with predictability as the source of countering free will. My stance is that we can show that we lack control over the only levers that could possibly allow for it. This has nothing to do with whether or not the outcomes could be predictable." - Daniel Miessler

"> Ask the Pope. LOL." - Daniel Miessler

"Agreed, and well-said, but unfortunately you can use that same line to explain Jesus as the son of God. I'm using Occam's razor here: if the universe is naturalistic and explains most things, why assume this is any different just because it feels different? The love of Jesus feels different too--doesn't make it real." - Daniel Miessler