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  1. Re:A warning on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Hates what about it? That almost doesn't even make sense.

  2. Second IP address too expensive? Just curious.

  3. Re:Spammers can choose to use reverse DNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    They can only use reverse DNS for IP's they own if they're using their own mail servers.

  4. Re:Better Question... on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't need IP delegation. Most ISP's offering business class Internet will just set the reverse DNS records up for you on your static IP address. Yes, you have to get in touch with their support, and yes, you have to get a rep that knows what you're talking about - but there's typically not even an extra charge.

  5. Re:Absolutely required. on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 2

    That's not how the reverse DNS check works. When your SMTP server connects to another computer, it announces itself with a HELO. That HELO should resolve to that server's IP address. The reverse DNS of that IP address should be the same DNS name given in the HELO. This has nothing to do with using a different outgoing vs. incoming server or anything in your SPF records.

  6. Re:Firewire on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    Apple never used PS/2.

  7. Re:TFA (-2, wrong) on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 1

    They were dumb enough to call their first revision "full speed." Next, HiSpeed was taken, and no -- "full" speed is not faster than "Hi" speed... You can't expect too much from them.

  8. Re:We want something new but the same. on Google+ Loses 60% of Active Users · · Score: 1

    Facebook offers a good deal of your data for export/download http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-now-allows-you-to-download-your-information/

  9. Re:"Quikster" split a dumb move to begin with on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    That explains the billing split earlier this summer. The branding split was so they could sell off the DVD service when they expected it to fail.

  10. Re:Why replace? on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    unshielded longer HDMI and analog signal cables is all I could think of for the TV. Cordless phone is probably more a faraday cage effect.

  11. Re:Has to do with TZ change dates on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    I definitely like that idea, but especially the older and more flammable film stocks require a lot of delicate work. More expense would go into the scanning than into the restoration, and it would seem to the studio like not enough financial motive - since other studios can leverage the first studio's investment to create another restored version and compete with them. Your method does, however, keep all the creative portions of that derivative work protected.

  12. Re:Has to do with TZ change dates on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    And what would that do? Having exclusive distribution is essentially the only financial motive for corporations making these restoration efforts.

  13. Re:Atlas companies have used copyright traps on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    That would be a creative work protected by copyright, yeah. Though I personally think it's stupid.

  14. Re:Has to do with TZ change dates on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    That's not just data. If any restoration or color correction is applied, they own copyright on the derivative work. We really need more orgs setting out to restore old films for non-profit publishing and replication. It doesn't help that the original reels are in the hands of a select few.

  15. Re:A Few Things on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Jumping to the top is a javascript goof. They are probably using an <a> with a link to # and are overriding its functionality with javascript. Only problem is that they're not stopping the propagation of the click event back to the URL. This is a quick fix and a beginner's mistake.

  16. Re:Moderation system on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 2

    While your at it, you might as well have foes' mod points not counted in your view of Slashdot.

  17. Re:Uncle Larry is not in the "giving stuff away" b on Oracle: Proud, Self-Reliant, Increasingly Isolated · · Score: 1

    and cutting ties with interoperability, which means you have to be an all-or-nothing Oracle shop for the most part.

  18. Re:But Facebook... on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 1

    You're the only one that can see that they are labeled as you, other than the person who did the tagging. What difference does it make if the two of you can see that if nobody else can?

  19. Re:Includes FB API. on An Operating System For Cities · · Score: 0

    How about the inane stoplight twitter feed:

    NYStoplight3428: Turned Green

    NYStoplight3428: Turned Red

    NYStoplight3428: Turned Yellow

  20. Re:There was once a time that startrek predicted.. on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 1

    How about a reflection off a water droplet on a handrail at that stadium? I love this video: Red Dwarf CSI Spoof

  21. Re:But Facebook... on Cloud-Powered Facial Recognition Is Terrifying · · Score: 2

    That's a lot of work. Didn't you know you can change your privacy settings so that tagged photos of you aren't searchable by other people? http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=267508226592992

  22. Re:Errors in article on Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the number is in aggregate for the whole installation? What would I know, I'm not reading the article.

  23. Re:Laws of Thermodynamics... on Pavegen To Tap Pedestrians For Power In the UK · · Score: 1

    And that orange spray paint they use.

  24. Re:It's a tablet, not a ball & chain. on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    The iPod Touch does NOT have the same camera as the iPhone. It's dramatically inferior. And almost unsuitable for all but very well-lit bar/QR-code scanning.

  25. Re:So... on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Before it ships in November?