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  1. Re:Monsanto on Group Tries To Open Source Seeds · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's also a way to ensure that GMO seeds can't spread beyond their intended planting and coincidentally would resolve a major issue with GMO approval in Europe.

    Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

  2. Re:why can we trust systemd? on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    Binary is encryption? Wow, won't the NSA be happy to know that.

  3. Re:Opposition is from a small elite on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    So develop an alternative to udev support and be happy in your contribution to linux. Oh wait, you expect other people to do this for you.

  4. So your solution to bugs is to blow your foot off and delete the package? Are you serious? In the real software world we fix bugs, not declare the software worthless and delete it. It should be noted that the "bug" you've declared as catastrophic enough to warrant deleting the package could in fact be a debian bug and not a systemd bug. Ever considered that?

    And that's the problem with this entire issue. You aren't interested in fixing bugs, you want to dictate to the rest of the community that we can't use the software if we want to.

  5. Re:Not resigning from Debian on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    This wouldn't be a systemd thread without a RedHat conspiracy. You need to go back on your meds, RedHat has done more for free software than anyone on the planet.

  6. Re:Not resigning from Debian on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 0

    You are missing the OP's point, anything systemd does is wrong. It doesn't matter if it does the right thing or follows an RFC, it just means those things are wrong. He expects that if the right thing is what systemd does then the wrong thing should be done, in other words the system should boot and corrupt all the disks. Because clearly that's a better solution than systemd being right.

  7. Re:Not resigning from Debian on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    It could easily be avoided by the anti-systemd crowd developing and supporting alternative packages that support the required functionality. Gnome is only dependent on cgroups, not systemd. Unfortunately consolekit the only software outside systemd to support cgroups died in 2012 (the upstream died completely in that there were no active developers). To break the Gnone-systemd dependency the only thing needed is software that offers cgroup functionality, yet for two years no one stepped up.

  8. Re:Not resigning from Debian on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 1

    The only Unix like system that uses SysV init is openBSD. Every other unix like system has their own init which offers similar functionality to systemd and is tied to features in their kernels that make use on other kernels impossible without massive feature porting at the kernel level. This is the most specious argument you could make.

  9. Re: Not resigning from Debian on Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team · · Score: 2

    The single biggest indictment of the anti-systemd crowd isn't that it will fail and waste everyone's time and eventually be replaced. It's that it will succeed and other software will come to depend on it. That's not a rational objection.

  10. Re: Split Comcast in two on Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? · · Score: 1

    Telecommunication like any last mile utility service is a natural monopoly. The infrastructure build out costs are so much and the pay off time so long that competition is naturally discouraged. Not only that but the first person in the market can put such heavy economic pressure on an over-builder that it is almost impossible to get investment money to do so.

    Ma-Bell was broke up about 30 year ago, the baby bells were encouraged to enter each others markets. In that time with free reign to do so how many of the Baby Bell's overbuilt into each others territory? What you suggest is simply so unlikely that it's laughably stupid. Only in the urbanest, wealthiest, densest areas of the US will you ever see an over builder under the best of circumstances.

    You blame the lack of competition on government manipulation but you ignore or deliberately downplay the reality of free markets is that they naturally move towards monopolies. This is especially true in markets that are naturally inclined to monopolies because start up costs are so large. In these markets without government regulation costs will go up rapidly and quality will go down dramatically. An over builder attempts to enter the market and the monopoly provider simply provide predatory pricing in the areas where the over builder offers service.

    You want good quality service at a low price? Then we do like every other western country, we regulate a monopoly provider. All the industrialized countries except the US have heavily regulated monopoly providers that provides regulated pricing to consumers and business. What we have in the US right now is totally unregulated markets where everyone is paying to build out the market 2 times and the one or two providers that exist jack up prices to their maximum limit and shut down all maintenance spending and milk the existing infrastructure for every dime before abandoning all the unprofitable areas.

    There is one simple rule in a free market, without regulation the market will not remain free.

  11. Re:Huh on Comet Probe Philae To Deploy Drill As Battery Life Wanes · · Score: 2

    The battery life is good enough for the primary mission which is to plunge a drill into the comet. After they've accomplished the mission they will probably try something, but give them time to analyze things and accomplish the primary goal before they try.

    Keep in mind they try to jump and they might jump into deep space.

  12. Re:Much more secure... on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    Not if the server is using TLS, most do these days.

  13. Re:I'd reject your email too. on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    You are rejecting TONS of valid email. At least I was when I did the same thing. The problem with FQDN is that tons of major businesses using servers with invalid FQDN's or relay it through other servers that don't match the FQDN of the sender. I don't get a lot of spam because of my filtering measures but when I toggled FQDN on in postfix I started tossing 80% of my valid email. Major hosts such as Amazon couldn't send to my server because they have hundreds of randomly named relays sending our their automated messages. After my experience I realized that with VM's and the way things are setup now at most places FQDN filters are damn near worthless. There are far better filtering methods.

  14. Re:Call Comcast? on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    One thing I forgot to mention, in reading the other replies people are claiming that google at least requires DKIM in that they reject all mail without a valid DKIM. My server is setup to use both SPF and DKIM and I'm not having problems.

  15. Re:Act like a business, not a consumer.... on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    As a comcast user with nearly the same described setup (business grade connection, 5 static, mail server) I can say affirmatively it's not Comcast's problem. It's on his end, not Comcast's.

  16. Re:tl;dr on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    The comcast business forums online have a few techs moderating who are not morons and have access to fix many things. I've had very good luck there and highly recommend it over phone support for anything that's not in a script (for example reverse DNS records). Be prepared for delays in getting a response though.

  17. Re:First step is to collect data. on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 2

    Gmail at least doesn't use blacklists. They have custom spam filtering built off their huge position in email.

  18. Re:Call Comcast? on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm using Comcast Business with 5 static IPs like yourself, I also run my own email services like you. I just sent an email to my gmail account from my domain and it was passed through cleanly, not spam filtered.

    Your IP is likely blacklisted somewhere, that you are flagged in multiple providers says you're on a list somewhere whether that's an RBL (there are literally hundreds of RBLs) or one of the others or you have a configuration issue that is triggering the flag. What have you changed recently or applied security updates to? I had an update at one point that toggled a configuration overwrite and took ages to find because I didn't think the configuration had changed.

  19. Re:Straw man on Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's not a straw man, it's a deliberate attempt to prevent citizen review. If any joe shmoe can request the tapes he could find evidence of police malfeasance and bring it to the public's attention. If the only one that can request it is the one in the video the cops can intimidate or threaten them with charges to prevent it's reveal. You aren't looking for the ulterior motive here, did you notice the sly comment about commercial use?

    See even if the videos are being recorded their will be no review or punishment for cops violating civil rights if the victim doesn't come forward (and they might not want to because of what is recorded).

  20. Re:Simple fix on Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals · · Score: 1

    Except of course all those tax free countries don't have any revenue or sales, those all take place in those horrible taxable countries that want real standards of living, infrastructure, a relatively fair legal system and all those things you experience in modern society. I'd love it if all those CEO's and other fuckers that think they don't have any responsibility to contribute to society moved off to those tax free countries, as along as they surrender their citizenship on the way out. Because inevitably when the people of those countries see all that wealth and decide to seize it for themselves those jackasses will come running back to their countries of origin and demand that they be protected by force of arms.

    The companies can't move to those tax free jurisdictions at the same time all the revenue comes from the taxable jurisdictions. We've got a stupid loophole that people have put into the tax codes of Europe and America that allow this to happen and the simple solution is to close that loophole not eliminate the taxes. Those companies aren't going anywhere because they won't exist without American and European consumers.

  21. Re:Is /. just clickbait now? on The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat · · Score: 1

    People keep talking about slashdot going downhill but either they are new here or they've got selective memory. There are websites out there that have been around more than a decade that have discussion board rules that say "we are not slashdot". About the only thing that's ever been worse than slashdot is 4chan.

  22. Re:Scale down the land based forces on The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll concede there is an argument that submarine launch is sufficient. But, the facilities are already built, the missiles exist and the systems are already in place. Maintaining them is also far easier than a submarine. They've also got the advantage that being based inside the continental US they are nearly completely secure and the ICBMs are at the current time essentially unstoppable because you'd need an interceptor in the western hemisphere to shoot them down and the ability to deliver multiple warheads on one missile which submarines lack.

    As long as we have nukes I like having the ability to ensure that no matter what someone thinks they can accomplish in a first strike that the US would be assured the total destruction of said group of people stupid enough to try it. Mutually assured destruction is the only thing that kept WWIII from happening.

  23. Only a Moron would suggest that.... on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Born of Liberals?

    It was a policy release of the Heritage foundation (Koch Brothers) as a market based approach to healthcare that was offered as a counter proposal to Clinton's healthcare reform effort. Romneycare capitalized on that paper with an implementation that was put in place by a Republican goverenor to satisfy local demand for a solution to increasing healthcare costs. Obamacare took the RomenyCare attributes, re-added some of the heritage foundation items that had been removed from RC by the Mass legislature.

    Obamacare is the brainchild of the most conservative think tank in America which was test implemented by the Republican governor that ran for president in the last election. Only a moron would suggest it's a "liberal" plan, guess that's you.

  24. Re:Ok, so no net neutrality in US on President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility · · Score: 1

    Bush is irrelevant, don't bring him up on this point. Threatening to not raise the debt ceiling and have the federal government default was playing Russian Roulette with the economy. No congress in the history of this country has ever been that irresponsible. Many, many congress-critters of the R-type stated publicly that allowing the government to default wouldn't be a big deal.

    To this day people continue to argue that it wouldn't have done any damage to default. It's beyond maddening that someone would gamble with the entire world economy and the credit of the USA over something so incredibly stupid. Failing to pay debts after you've already incurred them isn't responsible governance nor is it even sensible. I support a balanced budget, but no R-Type politician is EVER going to support an actual balanced budget because it would mean massively slashing military spending. Just holding spending at 2007 levels (which was almost 50% higher than in 2000) was enough to have the DOD claiming they wouldn't be able to defend the country and many long time R-type's standing up and screaming about the end of America.

    The Tea party was originally about balanced budget and government overreach but it was promptly cooped and turned it's agenda towards lack of governance embracing the tax-cut and spend theology that the Neo-Cons had embraced so enthusiastically.

  25. Re:Getting trolled on Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment · · Score: 1

    If law enforcement gets involved they can almost certainly figure out who are you are trace you directly to the crime. The only hard part is actually getting them to care. She's got that in spades with the publicity she's got. The reward will probably get reliable information. She takes a name and probable cause to a posecutor looking to get their name in the news and these people will get prosecuted and "made examples of."

    Don't doubt the power of outraged masses and the power of a prosecutor looking for publicity.