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  1. Re:Willful ignorance on Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop" · · Score: 1

    Michigan has a similar law and a similar list, though I don't think Unspam runs it. I could be wrong about that.

  2. Re:the great American jobs scam, at work on One Step Closer To Spaceport America · · Score: 1

    You completely forgot to mention the absurdity of taxing the poor to build a spaceport for the rich.

    Then again it seems that the Democrats are supporting taxing the poor to provide these billionaires some welfare.

  3. Re:"Goodwill funds?" on Aqua Teen Stunt Costs Turner and Agency $2M · · Score: 1

    Let's call it what it is: extortion. If you or I were to do it, we'd face long prison sentences. But when Menino does it, he gets a round of applause.

  4. Re:Temporary Solution on Fight Spam With Nolisting · · Score: 1

    Spammers have already started using the secondary MX. I'm seeing maybe 1/4 of my spam coming in through the secondary MX in the past few weeks. Now I know why.

  5. Re:Try to give it a spin on Researchers Create Selfish BitTorrent Client · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm getting 0.6KB/sec! Whose bright idea was it NOT to put this up on BitTorrent anyway?

  6. Re:Questions? on EveryDNS Under Botnet DDoS Attack · · Score: 1

    My domain whose DNS is hosted at everydns.net suffered briefly during this attack, but I didn't see any major problems. All the mail came through, for instance.

  7. Re:Sales Push? on Fedora Linux · · Score: 1

    Maybe the book really is that good....... or maybe not.

  8. This is news? on How to Prevent Form Spam Without Captchas · · Score: 1

    It seems like people rediscover the same techniques over and over and over without even bothering to do a simple Google search to find out if things have been done before. I block about 90% of submitted spam using Bad Behavior. I'm working on the other 10%...

  9. Re:Uh, what? on US Citizens To Require ''Clearance'' To Leave? · · Score: 1

    It depends somewhat on where all that data goes, how people are screened, etc.

    I did a bit of digging into this story yesterday, and found it's at least partially true, but he missed the really good stuff.

  10. Not clicking is easy... on Must We Click To Interact? · · Score: 1

    ...since the site is already dead.

  11. Re:It's obviously the best solution on If Not America, Then Where? · · Score: 1

    Some of us are standing up and doing something, by moving to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project, and working to restore liberty to the state and become a shining example of freedom in this less-than-free country.

  12. Because it's a pain on Linux on Why Not Use Full Disk Encryption on Laptops? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Encrypting your whole disk on Linux is somewhere between a minor pain and a complete nightmare. Support for it doesn't even exist on certain high-profile commercial distros (Red Hat) which you would THINK would have had it long ago because it's something their customers would want.

    I had to put together my own unofficial packages to get an encrypted root filesystem on Fedora Core 5. (And then it broke on FC6, so no upgrading yet...) In theory, the support will officially be in Fedora Core 7, but there's still a bunch of code to be written between now and then.

  13. Re:Reiser 4 on Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Everytime I've used ReiserFS, some of my files have gone missing. I think they're dead.

  14. Re:This may come as news to these folks, but... on Calif. Initiative To Regulate Search Engines? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mod parent up... I love these CIFIP guys. They basically are saying: "We want you to run your business OUR way, and if you don't, we'll get the guys with guns (the state) to MAKE you run your business OUR way." They act as if they didn't have a CHOICE or the ABILITY to protect their own privacy, both of which they do in abundance. Maybe this will finally wake up Silicon Valley and they'll finally get the hell out of the People's Communist Democratic Republic of Kalifornia. There are much better places, even in the U.S., for the tech industry to be located.

  15. Re:Devil's advocate on Net Neutrality Is Just "Mumbo Jumbo" · · Score: 1

    Wasn't multicast IP supposed to solve this problem? Good thing it's built into IPv6...

  16. Re:High Alert on Do Not Flush Your iPod · · Score: 1

    As I said in my own post about this yesterday (which somebody ripped off) it's security theater. All this is meant to make people feel safe, not to make them actually safe.

  17. Re:Between Pavlov and Dr Moreau on Neuroscientist Halts Research to Stop Extremists · · Score: 1

    Let's not mince words. This isn't "like" terrorism.

    This is terrorism.

  18. Non-content based comment spam prevention on MS Research Automates Search Engine Spam Hunt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Microsoft forgot to mention my non-content based method of blocking comment spam entirely known as Bad Behavior. And now that they seem to have swiped a few of my ideas, I'm going to have to go see what they're up to...

  19. Re:Best support stories page on Your Favorite Support Anecdote · · Score: 1

    There's another good collection at http://www.techtales.com/tftechs.html .

  20. Re:Depends on the task on The End of Native Code? · · Score: 1
    If you're making a pretty GUI, you may want to use an easy-to-use and portable language and may not care about performance as much.

    And this is why GUIs are slow and bloated. Give me a lean, mean, fast GUI, please!

  21. Re:Nofollow - useful idea, applied incorrectly on Google, Submission AdSense and NoFollow Letdown · · Score: 2, Informative
    I was going to update my nofollow story from a year ago, but it seems nothing's changed -- except that blog spam has dramatically increased. Which anybody could have predicted -- and most people who thought about it for more than a second actually did.

    Nofollow was a hare-brained idea from the start, cooked up over a couple of apparently drunken (or perhaps stoned) nights between developers at Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

  22. Re:Good reading until the end on An Overview of Virtualization Technology · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks like you took at least one of those quotes out of context. Here's the context:

    If you're a developer looking for a flexible way to test your application in multiple environments, you'll probably want to go with either Virtual PC or VMware Workstation. If you want to use Linux as your host OS, you'll definitely have to go with VMware.

    Virtual PC doesn't run on a Linux host, so you'll definitely have to go with VMware.

  23. Re:Wow. on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    Well, I can't read the article because the server it's on is currently on fire, but I can say I found the parent quite amusing.

    An ape can use windows. It's made for apes. . . . Apes can't use it. It's too goddamn complicated.

    I think that just about says it all. But since the parent "ape" mentioned the start menu...

    7-Zip, Accessories, Adobe, AVG Free Edition, BitComet, FileZilla, GIMP, Last.fm Player, mIRC, Mozilla Firefox, QuickTime, Real, Rio, Soulseek, Startup, UltraISO, Weathercast, Winamp, WinRAR, X-Chat 2, Adobe Reader 7.0, Google Talk, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player

    Accessories, Games, Graphics, Internet, Office, Preferences, System Tools, Help

    Now you tell me which is better organized?

  24. Re:I call shenanigans. on NSA Caught With The Cookies · · Score: 2, Informative

    That AP article is full of errors, some of which I commented on yesterday. For instance, it happened twice this month. And those 30-year cookies are still around until you go and remove them...

  25. Re:Unfortunetly.... on Student-Made Satellite Goes Into Orbit · · Score: 3, Informative

    The satellite may well be in the Pacific Ocean. The ARRL is reporting the satellite went silent.

    The Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative (SSETI) Express satellite, sent into orbit from Russia October 27, has gone silent. "We have not heard anything from Express on UHF since last night when the telemetry seemed to indicate a very negative power budget," Graham Shirville, G3VZV, said on the AMSAT BB as he was departing Russia following the launch. "If it does not recover then it will be a sad end to a wonderful mission." Shirville said ground controllers were going to attempt a blind command of the satellite this weekend in an effort to revive the satellite, which carries an Amateur Radio package and three CubeSat picosatellites. The spacecraft had been transmitting AX.25 telemetry at 9k6 bps on 437.250 MHz. Shortly after this week's launch, Shirville had reported the satellite was in nominal mode, producing 9k6 data bursts every 18 seconds. Plans call for the satellite will be turned into a single-channel amateur FM voice Mode U/S transponder after the transmitter serves initial telemetry duty.