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  1. Re:IMAP on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 1

    Seriously?

    It's a protocol/language. It doesn't even list a single client or server implementation on the page. So I'll try again with you:

    Do you use a client/server config that allows you to create filters using a client UI that then executes on the server? If so, what is it?

  2. Re:IMAP on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 1

    It always made me crazy that I would create a filter on a client and it didn't work with other clients - so I'm happy to do my filter config on the server (using gmail's web UI).

    Do you use a client/server config that allows you to create filters using a client UI that then executes on the server? If so, what is it? I guess MS Exchange may do something like that?

  3. Re:IMAP on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 1

    Yeah.

    • The FBI cares about what you discuss
    • They can't possibly see what it is, already, because your system is super secure - as are all the systems your email travels through inbound and outbound.
    • Everyone you exchange email with wears the same brand of tinfoil hats you do, and there is no way they could be leaking data.
    • Storing stuff on gmail means you could not possibly use PGP (or similar)
  4. Re:IMAP on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Archive and Access Ancient Emails? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This.

    I fired up imap servers for all my old mail.
    I fired up a modern mail client (OSX Mail.app) and connected to all of 'em and also to gmail.
    I dragged all my old email into gmail. In a GUI. And it worked.

    Done.

    I no longer run mailservers. Too much of a headache. gmail is awesome (with imap access, even). Indexing, instant searching, etc.

    If you don't want/trust your email to the cloud, then this isn't for you. Unless you want to run your own imap server with whatever backend suits you - then you can dump it all there. I just can't be bothered to manage that after 15+ years of doing so.

  5. Re:Not the technology on FAA Pushed To Review Ban On Electronics · · Score: 1

    The announcement goes "turn off all phones, tablets, computers, or anything with an off switch."

    It does not go "stop doing anything but pay attention." No mention of not sleeping. No mention of not reading a book/newspaper. No mention of putting down the crossword.

    This is all about electronics interfering with equipment. And it's bogus and should go away.

  6. Re:So... on CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon? · · Score: 1

    And if he is ever called to task for it, congress will just retroactively immunize him, or the president will pull a Ford and pardon him.

    So... FUD.

  7. Re:So... on CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon? · · Score: 2

    And if martians give him a super shrink ray then he can just zap anyone he wants and feed them to goldfish.

  8. Re:So... on CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon? · · Score: 2

    Does this mean the President can still murder his own citizens whenever he feels like it?

    No.

    I still can't work out how this is acceptable to anyone in the western world?

    I don't know that it is.

  9. Re:Price it reasonably on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 1

    Yup. In addition, make it insanely easy to pay for something. When you buy something in a store, you grab the item and exchange some cash or slide a card at the door. Too often, software isn't that easy to buy.

  10. Re:Alternatives? on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 1

    Three responses and yours is the only one that doesn't sound like self-entitled BS.

    Yes, they are. They drove almost all the competition out of business and provided an API to encourage RSS readers to hit their servers directly. As a result, nearly all RSS readers are now just interfaces to Google Reader, so when it dies so do most RSS apps.

    Optimistically, I hope this sparks a resurgence in innovation and competition between the remaining few aggregation services and applications. Pessimistically, I think Google might have single-handedly just killed RSS.

    Good points. I moved to GReader from some other [free] reader whose name I can't even remember. I hope 3 months is long enough for some other reader to pick up the torch. Now to head over to today's thread and see what the options are...

  11. Re:Alternatives? on Google Reader Being Retired · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yeah, I hate companies that let me use something for free and then drop it.

    With 3 months notice.

    And directions for how to get your data out.

    What a bunch of jerks.

  12. Republicans of course are against those cuts on Nuclear Arms Cuts, Supported By 56% of Americans, Would Make the World Safer · · Score: 1

    Why of course?

    Why at all?

  13. Re:Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo... on Discovery Increases Odds of Life On Europa · · Score: 2

    With no atmosphere and such a great distance from the sun - and given that there is geological activity making its way to the surface, I have to imagine the surface is anything but smooth. I mean - that recipe is basically volcanic with no atmosphere to weather down the resulting mountains and debris.

    I doubt lithobraking is an option.

  14. Re:Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo... on Discovery Increases Odds of Life On Europa · · Score: 1

    Except that Europa has slightly less gravity than our moon - more than 1/3 of mars. So I have to imagine it has no atmosphere to speak of. I would imagine that would make a Europa landing much more like a moon landing than the Mars landing. Of course Jupiter's gravity well is something to contend with - but at least you don't have to land there - just in the neighborhood. All in all, I imagine that a Europa landing would be easier than a Mars landing (assuming the surface is friendly, etc).

  15. Re:Closed on weekends on 'Bandwidth Divide' Could Bar Some From Free Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Your local library is closed on the weekend? All our regional libraries of any size are closed Sunday Monday and are open on Saturday. Some of the tiny ones are only open 2-4 days a week. I think they mostly run as book drops for the larger branches.

  16. Re:Still need IE 9 to test in IE 9 on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 2

    I use the developer modes of IE9 to test pre-IE9 browsers. It's not perfect, but I don't need it to be (my requirements are pretty simple).

    Does IE10 have the same developer modes?

  17. Re:How to block IE10 on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I'm curious: why would you not want IE10?

    I mean - sure - you should be using chrome :-)

  18. Re:So? on Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 10 For Windows 7 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Holy crap! County yourself lucky.

    I had to wrangle with websites that used activex controls even though they could/should have been javascript. What a freakin' nightmare. Thank goodness it seems to have come to an end.

  19. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    You sound like you know something about this - I certainly don't. Isn't part of a decoy solution the ability to move away from the previous (now decoy) trajectory?

  20. Re:It is Bandwidth and latency stupid. on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Oh, and clouds.

  21. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    I have to think that the ability to do higher G turns results in better missile avoidance capability.

  22. Re:lag on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Thanks to IFF, that seems barely necessary.

  23. Re:Hope no one hacks our entire Air Force one day on Future Fighters Won't Need Ejection Seats · · Score: 1

    Lucky for us there also exist altimeters and maps!

  24. Re:Isn't there an OS box that'll solve this? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    And just to answer your/my question - again:

    http://www.fsckin.com/2007/11/14/7-different-linuxbsd-firewalls-reviewed/
    summarizes 7 OS solutions that are exactly what I was looking for.

  25. Custom email addresses on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Company Their Subscriber List Is Compromised? · · Score: 0

    YourName+anything@gmail.com

    I recommend you register that way at any domain if you have gmail.