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  1. An Excellent Follow-Up to their Swastika Mistake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on How 8 Pixels Cost Microsoft Millions

    At least this time, Microsoft only offended a country (India), instead of offending every single Jewish person on the planet!

    See http://www.usethesource.com/articles/04/02/11/1258 242.shtml to see exactly how Microsoft managed that one..

  2. Re:sending e-mail by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 4, Interesting · on People with real l337 speak names?

    Who knows, but I can't get a Hotmail account using my real name, but I did manage to register one in the name Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head (story).

    John.

  3. Re:nice name by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Armoring Spam Against Anti-Spam Filters

    Yes, that's a constant problem for me (and anyone else named Cumming or Cummings in the world). For example I can't get a Hotmail email account because of my name, but I did manage to sign up an account using the name Ivana Watch-Teens-Give-Head :-)

    John.

  4. 92 Turn off your HTML email by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Insightful · on 101 Ways To Save The Internet

    Yes, yes, yes.

    HTML email is an abomination that must be stopped. It's bigger than necessary, it's ugly and it's the spammer's friend.

    John.

  5. I don't have quicktime by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 4, Funny · on The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online

    I guess I'll have to wait for an ascii version ...

  6. Re:Bayesian anti-spam filters by crisco · · Score: 2 · on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing
    FWIW, I've been playing around with POPFile on Windows after the mention on /. a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if it is using Bayesian filtering or something else, but I'm starting to get impressive results. This AC post on that site is a snapshot of my results so far. It works with just about any POP client.

    Rather than implementing a specific filter for spam, I'd prefer a pluggable filter API. As the war on spam escalates, new techniques for bypassing spam will have to be paired with newer filtering techniques. Some people like RBLs, others won't use them. Some people like to bounce their spam, thinking it reduces the total they get. Others realize that too many addresses are spoofed and they'd rather dig through headers and email admins (ala Spamcop) to get results. A flexible and chainable filter API would accommodate all this and more. Actually, something modeled on the way procmail on a *nix box allows flexible mail filtering and handling.

  7. Re:Bayesian anti-spam filters by crisco · · Score: 2 · on Mozilla 1.2 Betas Start Flowing
    FWIW, I've been playing around with POPFile on Windows after the mention on /. a few weeks ago. I'm not sure if it is using Bayesian filtering or something else, but I'm starting to get impressive results. This AC post on that site is a snapshot of my results so far. It works with just about any POP client.

    Rather than implementing a specific filter for spam, I'd prefer a pluggable filter API. As the war on spam escalates, new techniques for bypassing spam will have to be paired with newer filtering techniques. Some people like RBLs, others won't use them. Some people like to bounce their spam, thinking it reduces the total they get. Others realize that too many addresses are spoofed and they'd rather dig through headers and email admins (ala Spamcop) to get results. A flexible and chainable filter API would accommodate all this and more. Actually, something modeled on the way procmail on a *nix box allows flexible mail filtering and handling.

  8. Pay to not see JonKatz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions
    How about the subscription offering both no ads and no JonKatz, guaranteed.

    I'd pay extra for that... Over at UseTheSource there's a Slashdot BS meter that measures the number of JonKatz stories on the /. home page and warns you before you click through :-)

  9. 5x faster by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Intel's 802.11A Wireless: 5x Faster

    to hack : doesn't 802.11a use RC4 like 802.11b ?

  10. Kitchen Computer of... 1965 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Sony Axes eVilla, Offers Refund

    Check out this article about Honeywell's $10,000 kitchen computer from 1965. It didn't sell well either...