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  1. Re:Ashworth the Enlightened on Ghenghis Khan Descendants Eat For Free · · Score: 1, Insightful



    "The Mongol Horde, swept through raping and pillaging" tells me a fact about the Mongol Horde.

    "The Mongol Horde took their women", tells me that the speaker considers that the women were property.

    It matters not what position *they* considered the women, the speaker is also making that assertion.

  2. all paid for on Does Your Company Pay For Broadband? · · Score: 1


    I work from home, work pays for :
    {
    home telephone
    dsl
    cabletv
    } > all on one package

    plus my mobile telephone

    seeing as these things would be provided if my office were in the same building, it is to be expected that they cough up

  3. Ashworth the Enlightened on Ghenghis Khan Descendants Eat For Free · · Score: -1

    David Ashworth, a geneticist who is Oxford Ancestors' chief executive. "He took their cities, he took their land, he took their women."

    Corporate institutional sexism alive and well.

  4. Re:1554980 bytes on OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing · · Score: 1

    yes, kernels are statiically linked

    modular drivers have been suggested, experimented with etc.

    but when a kernel takes 8 seconds to compile and 15 seconds to boot it doesn't seem so bad

    if you are feeling lucky

    mk 'CONF=customkernel' && cat 9customkernel > /dev/reboot

  5. Re:IT"S A MOVIE, FOR CHRIST"S SAKE! on Spider-Man 2 Has Over 30 Mistakes · · Score: 2, Funny


    there's also the salient point that Spiders don't go round catching petty criminals and saving girls.

    The ones round my house pretty much stick in one spot eating whatever comes along, not exactly benevolent.

  6. Re:end cometh - it should never have started! on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 1


    I used to type in full listings from magazines.

    I have also have vinyl records with code on (even those floppy ones) that you stick through a n A/D.

    The BBC used to distribute code via teletext also, you hooked up a decoder and downloaded it.

    I think computing was more fun back then if my rose colours specs are correct.

  7. Re:end cometh - it should never have started! on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 1


    which one would you rather have running your enterprise?

  8. Re:So, windows is affected by a worm? on Evaman Worm Attacks Email Servers · · Score: 1


    I'm not a defender but I have never had a windows virus or any significant problems with windows. I've been using it since version 2 through to XP and been a windows 3.1/NT developer.

    Statistically, motorbikes are dangerous to ride but I know motorcyclists who have never had an accident.

    Believe what you like but it is just predjudice.

  9. Re:1554980 bytes on OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing · · Score: 1


    last time I looked, the NT kernel used external binaries to provide device drivers etc.

  10. Re:repeat after me - Java is *not* cross platform on Sun's JDIC And JDNC: A Cross-Platform ActiveX? · · Score: 1

    flash, hmm

    you might want to read this

    http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alter nates/

  11. Frames, new fangled rubbish on HTML Frames Considered Harmful · · Score: 1

    You insensitive clods, my web browser doesn't even have tables, let alone frames.

    It was something Tom Duff wrote at Bell Labs before moving on to Pixar.

  12. Re:repeat after me - Java is *not* cross platform on Sun's JDIC And JDNC: A Cross-Platform ActiveX? · · Score: 1

    How would you define 'ubiquitous'?

    When it's running on my terminal

  13. Re:good luck with that on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 1

    What's your problem with doing that? If you're coming from DSL, cable, dialup, or some other residential service then you should be relaying through your ISP and your ISP should be blocking outbound port 25.

    why *should* I ?

    what business is it of anyones what ports I use and who's right to block it?

    certainly if the provision is in one's contract then one can't argue but it seems a drastic solution to Zombie Windows PCs and Open Relays that I should have my service curtailed.

    But, like I say, something has to give

  14. Re:Moron. on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: -1

    lol, haha idiot

    RCTP TO: is rock fucking solid yah right

    same shit, different text

  15. good luck with that on Lead Developer of SPF Anti-Spam Scheme Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful


    my webmail rightly lets me send with whatever From: field I choose

    So I can emailwise be both at work and at play from the same webmail

    for spamming from a zombie (with an IP of 111.222.123.124)

    From: zombie@111.222.123.124
    Subject: Stop spam now!

    or it wouldn't be too much trouble to look up the MX record of 111.222.123.124 and set an appropriate From: header accordingly

    This scheme is as temporary as any other and it also prevents me from sending mail with my own computer, I will have to route my mail through my ISP's mail server in order to tag on to their SPF

    oh well, something's got to give

  16. repeat after me - Java is *not* cross platform on Sun's JDIC And JDNC: A Cross-Platform ActiveX? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It may have a few platforms but ubiquitous it isn't.

    It is like saying that Flash / Shockwave is cross platform just because there are a few players.

  17. cd /var/mail on Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    grep -i -n -A 3 username * > password_list

    thanks for that

  18. Copyright violation never hurt anyone? on Canadian High Court Says ISPs Don't Owe Royalties · · Score: 4, Interesting

    At the end of this dispute 3000 lay dead, a man was exiled and a saint was borne.

  19. victimless ? on New Safety Feature Detects Flesh · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know Apu might sell soy-dogs but making one from cows is not a victimless crime.

    Time to send some of these saws to the abattoir.

    Now, if it's a victimless breakfast you want ......

    bring it on

  20. Perhaps they will be sued by Rockstar on Spider-Man 2 Game Goes Spider-Man Theft Auto? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Perhaps Rockstar have a Euro-Patent on free roaming crime games. They might sue like Sega tried to sue Fox with Crazy Taxi & Simpsons Road Rage

  21. Re:end cometh - it should never have started! on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 1

    point taken, I think my blood was up a bit with such a silly question :)

    I think it actually makes my point *more* prevelent, MIME and Simple are two phrases that should ever sit together unless it's to say "MIME is anything but Simple"

  22. end cometh - it should never have started! on The End of Email Cometh? · · Score: 1


    If you have *any* kind of tech nounce then you should know that attachments are stupid

    "hey lets convert this binary file to 7 bit ascii and send it via email"

    why not say "lets convert this binary to bar code and fax it"

    SMTP - Small Message Transfer Protocol
    FTP - File Transfer Protocol
    HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

    MIME - Multile Incompatible Message Extensions

    If you don't respect the conventions, how the hell can you expect the conventions to respect you!

    SMTP doesn't and never has guaranteed message delivery and if you have been assuming it does for your business then you are a fool and serve you right.

  23. 1554980 bytes on OpenBSD AMD64 SMP in testing · · Score: 1



    plan9% ls -l 9pccpu
    --rwxrwxr-x M 106460 andrey andrey 1554980 Jun 27 13:23 9pccpu

    1554980 bytes

    eee, I remember back in the days when it was less than that

    --rwxrwxr-x M 9 sys sys 1485859 Feb 17 20:23 9pccpu

    8s to compile, 15s to boot

    if only I was allowed to use it to make weapons of mass destruction I could rule the world !!

  24. Re:Centericq is also broken on Yahoo Changes Protocol, Blocks Third Party Clients · · Score: 1


    Yahoo's official FreeBSD's client has never worked for me, stupid binary. It depends on XFree3 as well !

    what other choice to I have, I don't like *anyone* enough to dump bsd

  25. I agree on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1


    I wasn't trying to be funny