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  1. Re:tow-in on Birth of a Motorized Surfboard · · Score: 1

    I think we're not talking about the same thing :)

    I understand that some waves are too big to paddle into, and that towing-in is the only way. I don't hate that.

    What I do hate (and I have seen it happen) is when people are to lazy to paddle into even small surf, and rather use a tow, thus ruining the experience for the other people out there. Often, but I know I'm generalizing here, these are people who don't have much regard for other people, and pretty much do as they like.

    I have a big tolerance for newbies, stumbling in my way and endangering me and themselves. But I don't have the same patience with those tows, who only endanger me, and make a lot of noise.

  2. Re:You can still handwrite? on When Word Processors Are Out: What's The Best Pen? · · Score: 1

    This is why I stopped using my palm a while back. My handwriting was easily recognised by my palm, but when done with pen and paper, humans had some difficulty reading it.

    Of course, now that I'm in law school (I've returned to university, at 30), I my tolerance to cramp is growing steadily, and as I do have to read my own handwriting back after a semester, so does my handwriting.

  3. Re:tow-in on Birth of a Motorized Surfboard · · Score: 1

    As a surfer, i hate those tow-ins. Sure, they're fun for a time, but they make too much noise. I expect this motorized board to do the same.

    For me, a large part of the fun in surfing is the rest. Just the crashing of the waves and the noises the seagulls make, and not much else. No cars, mobile phones, and other distracting noises, just nature.

    Heck, it's been years since I last surfed, and boy do I miss that...

  4. Just got a new job... on Perl 5.8.1 Released · · Score: 4, Funny

    and now they release both a new perl and a new slackware, after 3 months of unemployment. I say they do it to pester me.

  5. Diva on Using a Pocket Audio Recorder with Linux? · · Score: 1

    I own a Diva Mp3 player, which can also record. It also works with linux, be it a little flakey. With a cardreader, it works like a charm tho.

    It works with compact flash cards. It stores about 10MB of voice per hour. It runs about 10 hours on one AA battery, which is enough for most interviews :) Highly recommended, at 99 euros.

  6. Make sure that everybody knows who's opposing it on U.S. Court Blocks Anti-Telemarketing List · · Score: 2, Insightful

    One important help in countering this threat, is by making it widely know which politicians, judges and other electable officials are opposing this do not call list.

    This is an excellent way to use votes to pressure these people, without waiting for the next election. Let them know this influences your votes

  7. Re:Ebay on Where Is Spam When You Want It? · · Score: 1

    Sorting != Filtering.

    The way I reccomend customers they set up their spam filters, is that suspected spams are put in a seperate imap folder on the mailserver, each recipient has. That way, each recipient can still read his mail normally, but can sift through the alleged spam if he or she wants to. Having it come in in a subfolder also doesn't trigger the new mail event in outlook(express), thus making the spam a lot less intrusive.

    In my experience, this sifting through spam ends in a week or two, after which everybody deletes it unseen (or keeps it unread until the mailbox runs over), but that is their own choice.

  8. Microsoft Natural Pro on Have Keyboards Gone Crazy? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, it's neither micro, nor soft, but it's a mighty fine keyboard. Unfortuanately, it is discontinued, but it was widely available, which is also a plus. I don't know about it's successor, the natural multimedia keyboard, but apart from a lot of colors it looks the same.

    Don't go for the natural keyboard elite, as it has the cursor keys in a + configuration, not an inverted T. That's annoying

  9. Re:Required materials on College Freshman Builds Fusion Reactor · · Score: 1

    Hard, yes, but not impossible. The hardest part is making it small enough to be able to transport it to a target.

    A terrorist doesn't have that problem. They can buy a 2 storey house, near a target, build a multistorey bomb, and set it off. The hard part for them isn't the design, but the availability of some materials.

    I doubt any terrorist will bother. If they do that, a house full of fertilizer and petrol will do the trick. Of course, the psychological effect is much more severe when a nuclear device is used.

  10. Re:deceit on New ssh Exploit in the Wild · · Score: 1

    It doesn't say in the last x years. But I do agree with you that it's misleading.

  11. Nice timing... on Alternative To Windows Desktops · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... as it was just yesterday that it became know that Ford Motor Company is joining the ranks. They are switching from Windows to Linux

  12. Re:Other factors to consider on Recommendations for the Right IMAP Server? · · Score: 1

    I have the same combination as you do, above.

    The most important reason to choose Maildir, for me, was that it is easy to make incremental backups: you only need to backup the new files. I have a couple of large mail accounts, and this keeps the storage space needed for backups (CD-RW) low. No need to do diff, and if ever a CD goes awry, I only lose the mail on that CD.

    I have been playing with cyrus Imap server, but I have a hard time setting it up, with pam and all. Yet, if you have a large stie, and don't want a unix account for every user, it may be the way to go.

  13. Re:300 emails? on Hacking By Subpoena · · Score: 1

    spam doesn't count

  14. Re:It's rated mature... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 1

    I'm dutch, so the fact that they had a gun didn't even register with me. Still, getting access to a gun can be an incident. As a parent, you can be sure there are lapses in your attention. Children are bound to escape your attention from time to time.

    On the other hand, playing a game isn't an incident, it's structural. That suggests that the parents were not paying attention to their children, over a prolonged period of time.

  15. Re:Read above on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    It's a service. People can use this, they don't have to. But people choose to use it because living with it is better than living without it.

    If you are so against these services, why not talk to the users? Are you a spammer? Fat chance they'll listen to you. Are you legitimate? Then find another ISP, one that acts ethical, and takes action against spammers.

  16. It's rated mature... on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The ESRB rating for GTA3 and VC is 17+. What were these kids doing with a game that they shouldn't be playing? They should sue the parents for negligence.

  17. Re:of COURSE they're not suing companies... on SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies · · Score: 1

    You are already one step too far. The point of the post above was that the small customer won't let it come before a judge, to take that risk. He will already have settled by then.

  18. Re:Do you think this is just a setup? on Plugin Patent to Mean Changes in IE? · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. Microsoft is damaged much more by software patents than open source will ever be.

    I think MS knows that: they have never been overly aggressive with software patents. With copyright and trademark protection (and marketing), yes, but never with patents, afaik.

  19. Re:yes, driver support is a problem on Other Web Browsers for Bell Labs' Plan 9? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, we are a small minority but growing steadily. We have 13 people in our little irc channel.

    Crucify one of those, and you might make it to world domination.

  20. Re:Mail server on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 1

    Have you checked your ISP doesn't have an open relay? If they do, AOL would be right to block you.

    Many parties complaining about blocked email actually have and open relay on their network. All ISP's should be required to block mail from open relays.

  21. Re:Stupid question... on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, I prefer postfix myself.

    The only thing missing with postfix is native authenticated smtp. One needs to authenticate through sasl to use it, and I don't trust sasl. I'm not implying that sasl is an insecure product by virtue of bugs, but there are too many variables to make me confident that I can configure and deploy it securely.

  22. Re:Stupid question... on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 5, Informative

    No it doesn't. Debian has Exim as it's default MTA.

  23. Re:bone's medicalkit on Spray-On Computers · · Score: 1

    Do you know how many Americans pray out their deepest darkest secrets on their knees by their bedsides each night?

    I don't think that many. You can never be sure if your wife's asleep deep enough.

  24. Re:Actually on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Or to put it another way it is, everything is an object of some sort. Granted software is merely a bit pattern on your disk but it's still something physical.
    For clarity you should try to look at it from the opposite side: everything is a right. Even property is a right: government can infringe on it under certain circumstances. If you own anything, all you have is a right to "it". The most encompassing right possible, yet a right still. And "it" can be anything, including other rights (e.g. copyright).

    Likewise your toilet can also be copied. Of course copying software is a lot easier, but hey one day maybe we will overcome the problem of speedy toilet replication.
    Unless it is a toilet you designed. In that case, you have copyright, and cannot (legally) be copied without your permission. Or, if someone else designed it, the permission of that someone else. The shape is what is copied, and that is information.

    The same with software. You can copy if you designed it, or you need permission (a license) from the copyright holder. But what makes it confusing (and is also a dangerous precedent) is that software is subject to a lot of rights infringing laws. E.g. you are not allowed to alter a copy you own (or have rights to), but you are allowed (for now!) to smash a toilet you own to bits if you like.

  25. Re:Actually on Ernie Ball - Model For Open-Source Transition? · · Score: 1

    Yes. You would be liable of course.