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  1. Re:Define professionals? on Is Apple Pushing Away Professionals? · · Score: 2

    You've never heard of a vertical market, have you. You have no clue what it is, nor what depends on it. Worse, you have no clue how it doesn't work under the Apple scheme.

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

    Because it might impact his ability to resolve a specific query, while having ZERO impact on me, or the DNS service itself, whatsoever.

    Respectfully - if you don't understand how peering works... take this as an opportunity to look it up and understand what I just said.

  3. Re:Emergency Response on US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network · · Score: 1

    LOL, P25 works great as long as you're outside and the building is not on fire.

    So what if you need to reach the tower to talk to the guy in the next room - what could possibly go wrong! /sigh

  4. Re:Emergency Response on US Blocks Huawei From Building LTE Network · · Score: 1

    Ha! But your portables, batteries and accessories would NEVER enjoy the immense Floating Point support that's built in to Motorola RF products, batteries, and accessories!

    (For the uninitiated - no, the decimal point never floats to the left.)

  5. Re:I don't get this on Android Phones Get Dual Accounts · · Score: 1

    Little to do with that.

    Everything to do with me dictating how you will use the company phone I am providing you - security vs usability.

    Now, I have the security and micromanagement that I need (in theory)... and I can also give you the herd-of-cats usability you desire, without threat (hopefully) to why I provided you the device in the first place.

    Also has everything to do with me owning the phone and data that is on it... you can imagine that co-mingled data is a nightmare when you own half the crap on the device, and I own the rest. "Hey Bill, we're upgrading. Gimme the phone back. NOW." This setup goes a long way toward making that painless - you backup and wipe your personal partition, and move on to the next device I give you.

    Pretty cool if it survives the test of time, IMO.

  6. Re:Get another one, then. on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    > If email is important to your organization then the cost of a correctly configured mail server is insignificant.
    > Seriously, your email server can be anywhere in the world.

    Yes, for example it may be located in the hotel room with the rest of the staff, as you work on borrowed laptops while watching your building burn down across the street.

    Seriously, disasters happen, and sometimes they might exceed what you planned for. Your email server can NEED to be anywhere in the world. Stop being so myopic.

  7. Re:Incorrect summary on Dutch ISP Files Police Complaint Against Spamhaus · · Score: 1

    Spamhaus does not block anything.

    Spamhaus can block A2B all day long - and I will STILL get any email from that Netblock.

    Care to guess why?

    Spamhaus is a list, and *** I *** choose how to use it.

  8. Re:Better Question... on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1

    Because they have several of them behind several NATs, with no clue as to which NAT they'll be using this instant?

    Not all "SMTP Servers" are Exchange or Postfix... some are nice UPS boxes, others are embedded rack management cards...

  9. Re:rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 0

    You're dumb enough to host your external domain recs on the same DNS server that's used by your MTA?

    Your PTR recs aren't actually hosted by your IAP? You actually host your external domain recs yourself? You don't resolve via OpenDNS or that type of thing? You send AND receive via the same, SINGLE MTA???!

    FFS! lmao

  10. Re:rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I don't think the actual internet works the way you think it does. However, I have no doubt that your view is perfect for the very simplified myopic universe you live in.

    Things like OpenDNS.com should make you shut up, hopefully. If it doesn't, then perhaps the DNS hosting provided by NetSol and Dotster and that ilk, will. And please do not comment on the impact of screwed BGP if you don't comprehend how it affects peering. If you actually insist that a DNS query to god-knows-what server is going to take the exact same route to god-knows-some-MTA on another ASN, you're a moron. If you actually insist that the PTR records are hosted on the same DNS server that MTA uses for resolution, you're an even a bigger moron.

    That, or you have not the slightest clue as to what you are talking about. From a reliability standpoint, PTR checks are horrible risk with low value.

  11. Re:rDNS on Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam? · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yep, rDNS works really well until your DNS goes tits up, or until MY DNS goes tits up, or until Pakistan accidentally BGPs something that makes you unable to resolve the query... again.

    If the email you receive is anecdotal crap, it won't be a big deal. If the email you receive is of merit, then this test makes an unreliable protocol even worse.

  12. Re:Not that sophisticated... on RSA Blames Nation State For Cyber Attack · · Score: 2

    > The Lockheed Martin breakin is being used to suggest that the RSA hack must have been carried out by a nation state

    That's puzzled me, however.

    The RSA hack was a black swan, but it bridged enough facets to not be trivial - so we're not talking about the attackers being morons, here.
    But then actions against LM were beyond stupid. Not only because of the sledge-hammer tactic that even HBGary could have found, but more because it confirmed what RSA refused to reveal - it confirmed that they had the seeds. Doing so completely devalued them... for what equates to little more than a dozen failed password attempts. That's just... "Duh?"

    One attack smells like for-profit/for-hire, and the other attack smells like short-term stupid-n00b on many levels. If there's a nation-state involved, it wasn't during the RSA part... the subsequent stupidity at LM could not have been the same talent.

    On the LM side, it'd be a nation that (1) is stupid enough to blow the seeds over a short term access attempt, and (2) doesn't have a lot of nationals hired by LM with existing long term access, assets and options. That means it wasn't China, India or Taiwan... all three nations already have people who will (and will continue to) do things the old fashioned way: crawling through air ducts, walking a freakin drive out the door, or social eng. None of them would piss the seeds away like what was tried - they'd integrate them into their existing tactics, AFTER a valid user/pass had been acquired by those tactics.

    It smells more like someone who wanted to FUD the RSA product, quite frankly.

    Cheers,

  13. Re:Impressive on Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons · · Score: 1

    It's suborbital ballistic engineering, silly.

  14. Re:Those aren't the same. on Was the iPod Accessory Port Inspired By a 40-Year-Old Camera? · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that in 20 years of cell phones, not one phone has ever had a charger that'd work for another. And then Apple came along and managed to not only get an entire data port that works BETWEEN MODELS...

    Very, very significant. /sarcasm

  15. Re:If only they would think twice next time. on Oracle To Pay US Almost $200M To Resolve False Claims Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    Indicates? Ya think? :)
    http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2005/Oct/56

    If you see the name "Oracle"... consider another solution. That includes any vendors who use them (banks, stores, etc).

  16. Re:Hmm... on Ohio Supreme Court Drawn Into Magnetic Homes Case · · Score: 1

    Nah, it was just a shrinkwrap building agreement. You're only allowed to see it after you buy the house, and "Ts&Cs subject to change at any time without notice."

  17. The Website is down. on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    Do not reboot the web server!!!!

    Didn't you get my email?

  18. Re:Divulging on After Six Days of Outages, BofA Claims It Hasn't Been Hacked · · Score: 1

    The whole topic is highly inflammable.

  19. Re:Non-story on Big Brother Calls 'Shotgun' In Illinois · · Score: 1

    No, it won't be used against drunks.

    It'll simply snap a photo of the driver every mile that it sees you're over the speed limit, beep a warning that you're speeding, and file a traffic infraction with the time, place, speed, and your photo behind the wheel. A separate violation, every mile.

  20. Re:Okay, I'll ask first: on Ask Slashdot: What To Do In SW:TOR For Just 3 Days? · · Score: 1

    IT'S A TRAP!

    That's what.

  21. Re:One of 'us' on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    I'm quite certain that al-Awlaki very much considered himself at "war", very much an "enemy" of the US and its civilians, and very much a "soldier" in what he considered to be "God's Army" for the Jihad, intentionally lived long term in a foreign country for that purpose, willfully surrounded by other "soldiers" of like mind and intent. If you don't call that an enemy combatant... you might want to check the batteries in your CO detector, because you are clearly hypoxic.

    Armchair What-If's, Theorycrafts and Coulda-Beens don't apply, here. al-Awlaki made himself VERY fair game for open slaughter. If you wish to game some other scenario or variant - great, but do NOT apply it to this guy's death.

  22. Re:5th Amendment on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    What's that "Jihad" word mean, again?

    How about you drive over there, and tell THEM they did not declare war on us, tell THEM they are not real soldiers (of God or any other army), and tell THEM that they are, in fact, simple criminals.

    Pretty sure they'd have a very special kind of death planned out for you.

  23. Re:Other Countries Can Do This Too, You Know... on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Actually, your question is exactly the point.

    Dirty Pool has been around, and has been actively played by every party on the planet, forever.

    The reason Iran will not launch attacks you mention is quite simple - we can hit them back. Really, really hard. It's more effective for them to play the law game, most of the time. You see this illustrated when they arrest retard civilians who are too near their border. You see it when a solo aircraft is told that it is in Iranian Airspace, and that it must leave or they will launch some fighters to shoot it down. You see it when that solo aircraft replies that it is an F18, "Send em up, I'll wait," and then the fighters never show up.

    NK, you'll notice, is not stupid enough to shoot at US warships. They'll go for low hanging fruit, but their weapons get real quiet when something shows up that can hit back. And the reason is simple. It would hit back. Really, really hard.

    This will come as a shock to some reading this - but believe it or not, some people are only stopped by threat of force. And some others - they're only stopped by use of force. It stops the USA from doing a lot of things. It also stops a lot of others from doing things, too.

    I know it doesn't make any sense, but some people actually don't give a shit about what "rights" you have. They are beyond narcissism. Their limit is defined by what they can get away with, and nothing less. And, these people are everywhere. Some run huge corporations. Some of them sucker teens into wearing bomb-vests and send them into crowded markets. And still others have positions in government.

    You know what keeps them in check? The work of a man named Sam Colt. Nothing less. NOTHING less. Paper can be reasoned with, rationalized, postponed, misdirected, bought, sold, or ignored. Lead... not so much.

    I'm not going to pretend that I know what the answer is. But I do know the answer entails people doing the wrong-thing being more expendable than people who try to do the right-thing.

    As to al-Awlaki's death... I'm pretty sure he declared war on us, which qualifies him as a combatant. I'm also pretty sure he considered himself to BE a combatant. I'd love to see one retard claim he wasn't doing the wrong-thing, ESPECIALLY as a US Citizen. After all - he could have filed a petition, sued, formed a PAC, or run for office. As a citizen, those were his primary means of recourse. He did none of them. Instead, he jumped on the Jihad train - which, what's that word mean again?

  24. Re:War /= civil process. on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    So, what IS the exact definition of Jihad, then?

  25. Re:War /= civil process. on Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure · · Score: 1

    Not sure. I think it's because it's really hard trying to justify flying a fucking airplane into a building.

    Twice.

    Err, almost 3 times... ...and then claiming to have any morals, at all.