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  1. Does kahn host his own servers at home? on Father of Internet Warns Against Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't net neutrality help to stop the ridiculous arbitrary blocking of ports that many ISPs impose, which basically keeps people from using the Internet as it was intended?

  2. Re:no need to panic on Chinese Prof Cracks SHA-1 Data Encryption Scheme · · Score: 1

    Lrnu, jryy, V gevcyr rapelcgrq zvar. Zhpu zber frpher!

  3. HTML Mail? What's that? on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML · · Score: 1

    Enabled in my mimedefang-filter:

            remove_redundant_html_parts($entity);

    Ok, there are those douchebags that don't ever send a text/plain part at all still *sigh*. Worse are people who use HTML markup in messages that are content-type text/plain. Grrrrr!

  4. Re:A few gems in there. on Predicting the Internet in 1995 · · Score: 1

    And i use it as a dirty hack over SSH to tunnel into work :)

  5. suing the wrong people? on RIAA Goes for the Max Against AllofMP3 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So why isn't the RIAA suing the RIAA equivalent body that AllofMP3 paid fees to, you know, the ones who are supposed to be taking care of all of the copyright stuff? Russian law dictates that AllofMP3 go through that body, which they did. If RIAA has a problem, they need to address it there.

  6. stupid flash on CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator · · Score: 1

    This would be a lot more useful if it were an RSS feed.

  7. Re:As They Should on Department of Defense Now Blocking HTML Email · · Score: 1

    Personally I'd miss the formatting features of HTML. Bold, Italic, etc. I'm a little surprised there hasn't been a middle ground estbalished at some point. You know... pretty text, no exploits.


    There is. Enriched text:

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt

    Which is really just a subset of HTML for the most part.

  8. Re:This is sad ... on Hans Reiser to Sell Company · · Score: 1

    "The worst possible outcome is that you will be found guilty and gang raped repeatedly in prison. In america any jail sentence carries with it an adjunct punishment of rape."

    Is that really true?
    I kinda think it is an urban legend. Not that it never happens ... but does it happen to everyone?


    I don't know, but there is this: http://www.spr.org/
  9. Re:Meh on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 1

    "to my home server" means I can access it from anywhere I happen to be. Work. Dad's. Mom's. Whatever. That's the whole point to implementing (and requiring it if coming from the outside) auth and tls on the SMTP side of the house.

    Worst case, if somebody is blocking those ports, I can bring up an ssh tunnel to the mail server itself. With the portable app on the USB disk, it's no more hassle than a webmail app would be, but done using a real mail client, so a bit more flexible.

  10. Meh on A look at Thunderbird 2.0 Beta · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I looked at Thunderbird a couple of times to see what it had to offer. I always end up going back to Sylpheed. Sylpheed has its own little problems, but overall is a good mail client. I use it with IMAP over SSL and SMTP Auth with Starttls to my home server, and also take advantage of its multiple account capability to use as a dual mail client at work (I'm the mail admin, so the SMTP servers forward to a local mailbox on the linux box on my desk ... local mailboxes is one thing that thunderbird continually fails to get right). I have Sylpheed on 2 different machines at home, my work machine, and as a windoze portable app (nothing special to do there, it just works, point it to a config file on the USB key). Coupled with IMAP this works great for me.

  11. Re:Mac Mini as PVR? on MythDora — MythTV 0.2 In a Box · · Score: 1
    Oops. Dammit. Wrong cut buffer:


    I don't want a big, noisy computer next to my TV. I've priced out the components for making low noise small form factor rigs, but it seems that a Mac Mini is cheaper. Could it be used?


    Fanless:
    http://www.logicsupply.com/index.php/cPath/49

    But in my experience, even their fanned solutions have incredibly quiet fans (including the rackmounts with a row of little fans)
  12. Re:Mac Mini as PVR? on MythDora — MythTV 0.2 In a Box · · Score: 1

    I don't want a big, noisy computer next to my TV. I've priced out the components for making low noise small form factor rigs, but it seems that a Mac Mini is cheaper. Could it be used?


    Fanless:
    http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=211786&o p=Reply&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid= 17241772

    But in my experience, even their fanned solutions have incredibly quiet fans (including the rackmounts with a row of little fans)
  13. Re:It's HOLLAND on The Dutch Kill Analog TV Nationwide · · Score: 1

    Isn't that Weird?

  14. Should have taken 'cents' out of the equation on Verizon Can't Do Math · · Score: 1

    and just said "I was quoted .00002 dollars per KB, but you charged me .002 dollars per KB", that or just faxed the results of the google query above to the idiots.

  15. Re:can anyone tell me on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1

    they *used* to do tv listings better than anybody else. And until google maps came out, they were better than mapquest for that. They are still the best place for movie listings (that likely won't last long, given what happened to tv.yahoo.com), and are still decent with weather (although, I use weather underground now).

    In fact, before google came out with maps, I used to use google for searches, and yahoo for pretty much everything else. It was a good balance, using each for what they excelled at.

    Alta vista is still pretty good for media searches. They used to be better than yahoo and google at that.

  16. Re:TV on Yahoo CEO Speaks Up about Shake Up · · Score: 1

    And their maps too. They are trying to emulate google now, and doing a horrible job. For example type "washington, dc" in google maps, and it takes you there. Do the same with yahoo...you get a crapload of business 'map pins'. Good luck at actually finding the city center you were actually looking for.

    Hopefully google will come up with a nice tv listing. I haven't found any that were as nice as what yahoo *used* to have yet. Excite won't remember settings unless you are a member, titantv is too busy with their javascript, tv.com is mostly nice, but doesn't show original airdates, and zap2it lacks detail.

  17. Re:Argh!!! on Professor Comes Up With a Way to Divide by Zero · · Score: 1

    like i.

    Imaginary planes come in very handy when dealing with, for example, source/sink problems.

    But anyway... this whole other field would have already come to be had it been that simple.

  18. Re:W00t - not. on EMI Experiments With DRM-free MP3's · · Score: 1

    My suggestion is run, don't walk, to your computer and buy these tracks, even if you hate the artists involved. The music industry is quite predictible in that they always seem to go in the direction that they think will make them more money. We want to encourage this behavior.


    Sorry. I'd rather just pay a decent price for a CD and then encode/index/tag/etc the stuff to be used with my computers/sansa as I see fit.

    Why is this simple concept so hard for everyone to grasp?
  19. Re:TV Listings on Yahoo Shakes Things Up · · Score: 1

    Me Too

    I discovered tv.com is good. And I also discovered excite.com has a great tv listing! Too bad they don't let you store your settings (maybe they do if you have an account with them, but I didn't want to do that).

    It's a shame. The Yahoo TV listings used to be the best. Of course, so did their mapping before google maps became so amazing. Maybe we'll get lucky and soon get tv.google.com...

  20. Re:.xxx .mat on The DOJ's New Spin on Blocking Software · · Score: 1

    An easier to control option would be .kids or something. Not that I think any of these would solve the 'problem'. Why don't parents just, uh, parent?

  21. Re:and..,.? on Opening Statements Begin in Microsoft - Iowa Case · · Score: 1

    I think you need to go educate yourself before you make these claims. Microsoft was found to not only be a monopoly, but to use that power to manipulate the market, creating high barriers to entry, etc. etc. If you are doing business with microsoft, you are doing business with a criminal organization.

  22. Re:The most secure version of Windows on Vista Hackers Get Busy · · Score: 1

    You forgot to add the word "remotely". Hard to do when there is no network support in the OS.

  23. Re:Helping Hacker Culture Grow on Vista Hackers Get Busy · · Score: 1

    Or just accept to use it as both. I say 'I like to hack neat soultions together' and also say "yeah, those hackers love to put botnet backdoors on your private LAN". I don't know why it can't have both meanings effectively and make everyone happy.

  24. Re:busted! from TFA, maybe can't sell office on Microsoft Loses South Korea Patent Ruling · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just don't allow *their* cars to run on the rails while letting others.

  25. Re:Stop letting the companies control the wires on The Turf Wars Between Phone and Cable · · Score: 1

    Sounds great, but what are they blocking for that $40/month to force you to use the $125/month business class line instead? It's become nearly impossible to host your own mail/web servers on your home broadband these days. The market will not correct this, unfortunately.