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  1. Re:UCEprotect is spamtrap based on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? · · Score: 1

    "It looks like you are appointing the ISP as the police. But are they?"

    No, not it is their property (ip adresses, bandwidth) customers are using. They own it, they make the rules, don't like the rules: move.

    "Is it really their responsibility to assure that their customers are operating to the standards that YOU define?"

    It is their responsibility to make sure the bad customers aren't interfering with the others.

    "When you don't want to receive spam, filter it. Don't choose an arbitrary target other than the sender of the spam and start harassing them."

    To my knowledge this is what UCE does, there a couple of levels of blacklisting. At first the 1 ipadress sending spam is listed, as a last resort the AS is listed.

  2. Re:People still use blacklists??? on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, only stuff that has to be stored (for 6 months) from email transactions is:
    -envelope from
    -from ip adress
    -rcpt to
    -date

    Which are all logged in most MTA by default. Nothing from after the DATA command has to be stored. At least till there is a lawful interception ordered by a judge.

    It is still a bad idea to have to log this, but it nearly has no intelligence value.

  3. Thanks to the People's Party for Freedom and Democ on Dutch Ministry Proposes Powers For Police To Hack Computers, Install Spyware · · Score: 2

    This message was brought to you by People's Party for Freedom and Democracy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_Party_for_Freedom_and_Democracy

    Main force behind these kind of laws/proposals are always the parties that have Freedom (to limit others) in their name (we have a couple of them) or from a Christian background (we know that is good for you plebs).

  4. Re:Sure on Former Australian Cop Wants Jail For Internet Trolls · · Score: 1

    They are on the B Ark and don't even know it.

  5. Re:A Supercomputer on the moon? on A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic · · Score: 1

    But they didn't have a super computer at the "dark side" of the moon, even a cellphone was super compared to the thing they attempted to use.

  6. Re:A Supercomputer on the moon? on A Supercomputer On the Moon To Direct Deep Space Traffic · · Score: 3, Informative

    My guess is OP is hinting at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_A_Harsh_Mistress
    Atleast that is what the other replies are hinting at.

  7. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    "The difference between Dutch drivers' awareness of cyclists and foreigners is immense, not because they are better drivers, but because they're so used to bikes"

    That is not the main reason, the real reason is that drivers know they are the ones to blame in the case of an accident between cars and cyclists. Cyclists are known for their bad, unpredictable, reckless driving. Since the cyclist is the weaker (both physical and psychological (due to a much younger age and no requirement of a license)) participant lawmakers decided to reverse the burden of proof, if a car hits a cyclist the car is always to blame.

  8. Re:In coming calls are free in India. on Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data · · Score: 1

    This is how telcos in my small EU country make money:
    +charge caller x/s + y setup (hard to calculate since most mobile users have bundles)
    -pay the receiving telco z/s (regulated at something like: 0.00027 EUR/s fixed dest., 0.00075 EUR/s mobile dest.)
    +if destination is 0800/0900 get an additional kickback fee per call from that telco
    -costs of running/maintaining/replacing/expanding network
    =Profit

    Someone has to pay for the virtual circuit to the receiver, why should it be me? If I have to call anyone it is their fault for not having a more modern method to communicate, they should at least pay some of the burden!

  9. Re:In coming calls are free in India. on Indian Minister Says Telecom Companies Should Only Charge For Data · · Score: 1

    There is no difference in used capacity of the network whether you are the caller or the callee. So why shouldn't both parties pay half the costs?

  10. Re:I would like an Android phone -- without the ph on For Android Users, 2012 Is Still the Year of Gingerbread · · Score: 1

    1-Turn on airplane mode.
    2-Turn on wireless.
    3-Take a look at the phone status
    4-Profit

    But it depends on the reason behind not wanting a cellphone radio in the first place. My guess it the radio will be on by default on a cold boot and you need to turn it of, maybe you could remove any RIL stuff from your ROM (rooted or custom ROMs). But when I go to places I don't want the radio enabled I do the above and tell Tasker to do this for me at boot just in case it restarts/reboots.

  11. Re:One of them will probably match! on Dutch Police Ask 8000+ Citizens To Provide Their DNA · · Score: 1

    They are not looking for a match with the criminal, they are looking for any one matching. They might find family narrowing the search for the real criminal.

  12. Re:Sounds lke the same thing as Google on Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen · · Score: 2

    -you opt to install/use chrome, it doesn't come standard. I presume people read the EULA if they install software! Same goes for Firefox BTW.
    -Google collects info on what you download from the Google store. Flip the checkbox to install from other sources, Google doesn't get that info. So not exactly the same as all downloads are send to OS manufacturer.

  13. Re:Sounds lke the same thing as Google on Microsoft Denies Windows 8 App Spying Via SmartScreen · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Yep.. when you get a new 'droid....automatically reinstall...wonder how that happens."

    Not much to wonder about, on Android you have to opt-in to this service.
    Settings -> Privacy:
    Back up my data [ ]

  14. Re:Wow... on Windows 8 Tells Microsoft About Everything You Install · · Score: 1

    I don't believe you, or you are just doing It wrong. It appears there are openjdk packages for Ubuntu.
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java has all the info you need.
    For debian it is no more than launching aptitude and selecting the openjdk jre package. I can't imaging it is harden on Ubuntu.

  15. Why selling secondhand games should be banned on Only English Final Fantasy 2 NES Cartridge On Sale for $50K · · Score: 0

    A prime example of why studios think you shouldn't get to sell the games you bought, none of the money is going to the studio, which makes them very sad.

  16. Re:Not too sure on this on Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums · · Score: -1

    You have something to hide? You must be a terrorist. But think about the monies you can save, what better incentive is there people?

    Luckily most will participate to earn a few bucks, making them drive safer and as a net effect the road a safer place to be?

    But really, what privacy concern is there in acceleration data?

  17. Re:Not too sure on this on Insurer Measures Driver Safety With Smartphone App To Calculate Premiums · · Score: 1

    "Sometimes...."

    Indeed sometimes. That sometimes you have to act will show abnormal in the data. If that sometimes becomes often and thus a pattern, either change your route (or timing) to a safer one or be come a better driver by anticipating more if you thing those anomalies in the data weren't your fault in the first place.

  18. Re:Partisan Politics, again.... on Inside the Real Economy Behind Fake Twitter Followers · · Score: 1

    Please do.

  19. Re:When Domination Isn't on Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight · · Score: 1

    I didn't to have the Ericsson/HTC problems you describe. I used my T39 till the battery went dead (about 5 years), it was a useful phone.

    I used my HTC G1/Dream 2 years until it ran out of memory, it was a greate phone till it couldn't keep up with the new Android releases memory requirements. You could upgrade (CM) but low memory resulted in swapping which killed the battery in a day.

    Switched to a HTC G2/Desire Z, which got a recent bugfixes. The battery is a bit disappointing though, 1.5 years in service it started to lose charge, but replacing it with an unofficial 1800mAh and I can go without charging for 2 days easily. Haven't heard any of the other $Desire users complain so far.

    But I'm not sure if the next phone will be a HTC, it seems they will not be making ones with keyboards. Motorola maybe, but the G2 will be running for at least a year with current Android version. Haven't felt the need to upgrade to a 4.x release so far, 384Mb might not be enough to keep a comfortable charged battery.

  20. Re:uh oh on MSFT Reaches Out To Hackers: 'Do Epic $#!+' · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thanks for the link, it thought it was perl code before your hint.

  21. Re:Does this actually work? on How To Watch Internet TV Across International Borders · · Score: 2

    The last time I tried the problem was in the flash players/plugin making direct connections to content by ignoring the http_proxy settings of the browser. Setting the default route to the VPN made it work, long story short: proxy settings in browser might not be enough.

  22. Re:*Yawn* on Gooseberry Launches Android-based Raspberry Pi Rival · · Score: 1

    Speed is reasonable these days with 80211n, it comes close to 100Mbps. But the latency is still horrible compared to wired.

  23. It will pass in some form on EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Ignore Any Rejection of ACTA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ACTA will be ratified in some form because it will be resubmitted again and again till the lobbyiest succeed. This happened before with the EU constitution, it will happen with ACTA and it will happen in the future for many more treaties/laws.

  24. Re:Suprising that no one has sued. on Apple Yanks Mac Virus Immunity Claims From Website · · Score: 2

    Last month the Dutch "ad regulation commission" forbade Apple to make invulnerability claims:
    https://www.reclamecode.nl/webuitspraak.asp?ID=76881&acCode (in dutch offcourse, use your favorite translation engine).
    The conclusion of the commission is that no software can guarantee immunity and asked Apple to prove their claims. Apple didn't (unclear if they even tried). So the commission ruled in favor or the complainer, thus banning Apple from making these false claims. It looks they changed this worldwide to prevent any further disputes/claims.

  25. Re:More than just a static IP on The NTP Pool Needs More Servers — Yours, If Available · · Score: 2

    I've seen spikes in traffic coming from eastern european countries and Turkey a couple of years ago. Using the recent iptables module I limit traffic to ntp:
    iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p udp --dport 123 -m recent --name ntp --set
    iptables -A INPUT -m recent --name ntp --update --seconds 30 --hitcount 6 -j DROP
    And the abuse eventually stopped.