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  1. I'm glad on Africa - Offline And Waiting for the Web · · Score: 0, Redundant

    that 4% is in Nigeria.

    Oh look, and email from a long lost relative needs my help in a financial transaction....

  2. Re:It makes me wonder... on Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times · · Score: 1

    It's really not an option to drop IE testing. It's still the browser on windows and it has about 60% of the market. You just can't expect users to change their habits just so that they can view a bunch of sites. They simply won't.
    Really? There seems to be quite a few web sites out there that are IE only. I believe those sites are expecting me to change my habits....
  3. Re:Well, both use one product to support another on Google's Love For Small Businesses · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I see many distros of linux being sold in many computer stores (and pre-installed on machines). Just because Microsoft is the most popular at this time, doesn't make them a monopoly. Nothing is stopping you from creating an OS and selling it.


    I believe that both the US Government and the EU would disagree with you about Microsoft not being a monopoly.
  4. Re:The Solution Is Crypto on Creating a Backboneless Internet? · · Score: 1

    Change the email rfc to allow people to require TLS on mail servers....

  5. Re:my experiences with AD&D on Fear of Girls, a D&D Documentary · · Score: 1

    Of course it didn't work. But it only took a d6 of damage since it was ten feet.

  6. Re:This is absurd on Unsecured Wi-Fi to Become Illegal? · · Score: 1

    You sir, are stupid.

  7. Re:Just an idea, but on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually when I think of the hardcore mac user I think of people attending XML conferences, Next hackers, people at the MIT doing OS research, etc.

    A friend of my once said that OSX is the 21st century Sun workstation.

    Maybe I just think that because I dig having a unix box that can also run microsoft word at the same time.

  8. Re:U.S. Constititution 101 on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    But I do own the airlines...actually I own a very, very, very small percentage of the airlines since they are public companies.

  9. Re:How is crossing the Atlantic a "right?" on Airport Screeners could see X-rated X-rays · · Score: 1

    Buzzz....try again. Most airlines are public companies not private companies. Also airlines have common carrier status so they can't be held responsible for what people do on their planes....

    Also as others have already pointed out, security rules are mandated at the federal level and its the airports that conduct the security screenings not the airlines themselves.

  10. Cheap Hardware on Short Lifetimes of Optical Drives? · · Score: 1

    Stop trying to save a few bucks and buy some decent hardware and you won't have these problems.

  11. Re:domainkeys, SPF on Gmail Begins Signing Email with DomainKeys · · Score: 1
    Except of course any sensible cybercafe doesn't allow SMTP out


    I don't which cybercafe's you have been going to but all the ones I visit allow smtp out, kind of. Actually they redirect all port 25 connections to their own mail smtp server, but they still allow you to send mail.
  12. Re:domainkeys, SPF on Gmail Begins Signing Email with DomainKeys · · Score: 1

    Like SPF, there are problems people are working from home and want to send email, or when you are in a cyber cafe.


    Unlink SPF, this allows you to send email when you are working in a cyber cafe.

    Run an MTA on your laptop configured to send mail for your domain. Publish the key for that laptop in your dns records and now you can send email from the cybercafe. The reason this works is becuase it doesn't depend on IP addresses like SPF.
  13. Re:Repairs? on 19th Century Airship Technology for Port Security · · Score: 1

    Not least, the air pressure is much lower, which will mean that the bags holding the helium will be under much greater stress.


    The air pressure on the surface of the earth is only 14.7 psi. The air pressure on these blimps are not that much lower.
  14. Re:Military or FBI? on Pentagon Seeks A Loophole In The Privacy Act · · Score: 1

    I don't normally feed the trolls but I couldn't help myself this time.

    >More importantly, what fucking section of the Constitution gives the goddamn US Army the right to exist *at all* unless in time of war?

    That would be Article 1, Section 8.

  15. Re:It's simple. on What Differentiates Linux from Windows? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a troll, right?

  16. Panther on NetBSD Announces Four New Security Advisories · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if this also affects Panther (OSX 10.3) which also ships with racoon?

  17. Re:Only Intel on Rob Enderle Announces Death of Bluetooth · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah just like intel backed homeRF and it really went some where all the while they were ignoring a inferior technology called wifi.

  18. CodeWarrior on Metrowerks Putting Linux on Hold · · Score: 1

    I just talked with metrowerks customer service and they have not heard about this. Customer service forwarded my name and email to the Linux group that is supposed to get back to me.