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  1. Re:Two ways to look at this ruling on Virginia Court Overturns Spammer Convictions · · Score: 1
    What I'm saying is that where people choose to have email accounts, they implicitly welcome all communication, unless they explicitly provide reasonable notice that they don't want it.

    So you're saying that because you've opted to be alive, it's ok for someone to come kill you?

    Non Sequitur.

    If I have an email address, it is for the express purpose of having meaninful dialog. It is not an invitation to receive meaningless junk.

    Just because I have a door on my house doesn't mean I intend to invite anyone and everyone into my home!

  2. Re:Not exactly on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    You are close... Whether the carbon came from turkeys or from underground, if we burn it, it throws the carbon into the air at the same rate. I don't see any net change. To say it another way - the depth from which the oil comes from doesn't matter. It could come from 2 inches or 2 miles... or even from -2 feet. If we burn it, it goes into the air.

  3. Re:mad cow, anyone? on AgroWaste to Oil a Growing Market · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's really dumb. We have farmers who complain that they don't make enough money. Well, let's start sending animal waste into oil, and let the farmers raise feed for the animals. Win-win for everyone! (Except for our thanksgiving turkey will cost more.)

  4. Re:URI to the Rescue on Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down · · Score: 1
    I guess I still don't understand your point:
    host www.yahoo.com
    www.yahoo.com is an alias for www.yahoo.akadns.net.
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.117.106
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.117.109
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.117.207
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.118.66
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.118.70
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.118.74
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.118.77
    www.yahoo.akadns.net has address 216.109.118.78
  5. Re:infos ? on Serial Burglar Caught on Webcam · · Score: 0

    Looks like he used motion and some handmade scripts.

  6. Re:Nope, too little, too late. :) on Microsoft Opening Office XML Formats · · Score: 2, Informative

    Is that letter to an EU committee legally binding?

    Most probably. Look up the term "promissory estoppel". If MS turned around on this letter, they would get roasted by this common law concept.

    Of course, IANAL.

  7. On second thought... on The Dot Com Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    My bad, The slashdot effect will slow down the server soon enough.

    lol

  8. dizzy refresh rate on The Dot Com Super Bowl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Can anyone here actually read the entire slide before it reloads a new slide?

  9. Re:Or Faster? on Blazing Speed: The Fastest Stuff In The Universe · · Score: 1

    Gravity/antigravity can't cancel out mass. It can only cancel out weight. That second article was quite silly.

  10. Re:Short answer, no on Are Extensible Programming Languages Coming? · · Score: 1

    Exactly! This post, while intened to be funny, actually shows exactly why XML is so stupid.

    XML is written for people who like to type. In this way, I think they are related to JAVA and COBOL.

    OTOH, if you like easy to read, efficient code, look at Ruby or Python. ( I don't use either currently, but I can at least read them )

    Don't get me started on XSLT...

  11. Re:Negative Caching on Spammers' Upend DNS · · Score: 1

    Postfix *does* do this. I have had to clear out 20k messages because of this. "Bounce" messages will queue up. OTOH, if the server answered with a "reject" message to the original message, then no bounce message is generated.

    Granted, this is usually a problem when a server is under a dictionary attack, and doesn not have a proper recipient_map set up to reject unauthorized recipients.

    A properly configured postfix server would reject unknown recipients, and the dns load would be handled by a local caching dns server. The eweek article is just plain wrong.

  12. The article is wrong. on Spammers' Upend DNS · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article is just wrong, and there's a feedback post on the same page that explains why very well. (Although, what's with the stupid formatting?)

  13. Re:Negative Caching on Spammers' Upend DNS · · Score: 1
    Also, once the mail server has decided that a bounce reply is undeliverable (because of no DNS records), surely it is going to dump the email immediately, rather than continuning to attempt to deliver it?



    No, it will put it in the defered queue and try again later, finally giving up after 5-7 days, and potentially filling a mail queue with 20k-50k deferred bounce messages.

  14. Re:build in page validator. on Planning For Mozilla 2.0 · · Score: 1

    but you *can* "validate local HTML"
    which comes up with 66 errors on this posting page alone.

    good grief!

  15. Cuts Socializing time? on Internet Use Cuts Socializing Time · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that doing email and chatting on IRC count as more social than watching TV. At least it's a form of communication, whereas TV is just brainless.

  16. Re:Questioning this... on FBI Investigating Laser Beams Pointed at Aircraft · · Score: 1
    The sniper had to hit the target with a (relatively) tiny .50 caliber bullet.

    I'm no expert on this, but isn't it a violation of the Geneva convention to use .50 cal weapons on human target with a sniper rifle?

  17. Re:A Games CD for Linux on BitTorrent ... mmm.. on Games Knoppix · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a try at another version:

    • Castle-Combat
    • Globulation 2
    • Hatman
    • Kobodeluxe
    • Miniracer
    • Pingus
    • Rafkill
    • Lots of small games
    • Boson
    • Bsdgames
    • Crimson Fields
    • Dosbox (Emulator)
    • Empire
    • Konquest
    • Mangoquest
    • Pysol
    • Tuxcart
    • Zsnes (Emulator)
    • Ace-of-penguin
    • Battle for Wesnoth
    • Bzflag, zflag-Server
    • Clanbomber
    • Crossfire (GTK client)
    • Enigma
    • Foobillard
    • Freeciv, Freeciv-server
    • Freesci
    • Gltron
    • Gnuchess
    • Jump'n'Bump (joystick support patch, special
    • graphic atches)
    • Ksokoban
    • Lbreakout2
    • Lgeneral
    • Miniracer
    • Nethack
    • Netpanzer
    • Neverball
    • Tuxracer
    • Xgalaga
    • XMame, XMess (Emulators)
    • Xpilot

    Amazing, it stil won't allow it when it the list is all one html list. How in the world does it do that? It must strip and interpret all html and then apply the filter. Lame lamenes filter.

    However, the above sentance is enough to fix it, and the list looks better, too. :)

  18. Re:Personally, I'd prefer to see stability in Fire on How to Build a Better Browser · · Score: 1

    Hmm, but it doesn't crash! After chugging a bunch of CPU, a window came up and announced that a script was causing problems and wanted to know if I wanted to abort the script. I don't recal IE ever doing that.

  19. Re:Personally, I'd prefer to see stability in Fire on How to Build a Better Browser · · Score: 1

    Looks similar to a fork bomb... that algorithm would crash just about anything, in any language, on any platform, unless the OS steps in and stops a runaway process.

    Got a meaningful example? I still see Firefox as being far more stable and usefull.

  20. Firefly on A Strange Streak Imaged in Australia · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it looks like a firefly, flying up to the left during the picture, and maybe a little bit towards the camera. Alternately, is could be a bug captured by the flash at the beginning of the picture, fading out as it flew up to the left.

  21. Re:Ruby on Rails, and Trails on LAMP Grid Application Server, No More J2EE · · Score: 1

    Funny, I was just getting started on making a similar project on php, maybe called phpTrails.

    Anyway, the idea behind the rails concept is basically to have a framework that takes care of commonly used stuff, such as sessions, MVC structure, error reporting combined with an easy build sequence. No XML files to write, or jar files to create.

    Just write a controller class and method, and write a html template for it to view with. Done!

  22. Unreachable here... on Are Your Peripherals Monitoring You? · · Score: 1
    I can't even connect to that IP address. a traceroute dies shortly after att.net:

    3 12.124.142.225 218.574 ms 12.124.143.89 219.708 ms 12.124.143.81 221.850 ms
    4 gbr2-p50.sl9mo.ip.att.net (12.123.209.6) 72.486 ms 73.981 ms 87.997 ms
    5 ar1-p3110.lsvky.ip.att.net (12.123.198.1) 89.893 ms 100.274 ms 104.215 ms
    Pinging it says that it is filtered. Have they teken it down already?
  23. Re:Oh, we've violating at treaty! Heavens! on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1
    My apologies, I realized after I posted that that was too quick of a thought, and that I should have looked up the actual number. I was tired.


    Sure that is a vast change in number, but what ever you call the number, it was horrendous, and it is still a great victory of justice to have him removed from power.

  24. Re:Oh, we've violating at treaty! Heavens! on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1
    Ahh... the infamous tactic of post-justification. You republicans are *remarkably* good at it.

    Ah, good old argumentum ad hominem. Attacking the person does not prove the point.

    Your argument still does not disprove that removing the dictator was a just and beneficial result of the war.

  25. Re:Oh, we've violating at treaty! Heavens! on US Ready to put Weapons in Space · · Score: 1

    Actually, many of them are quite proud. Let's not cheapen their sacrifice by saying they died for nothing.