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  1. Korea *shudder* on Earthlink Teams Up With SK-Telecom · · Score: -1, Troll

    Is it just me or does any involvement in Korea just means that spam will make the leap onto our phones?

  2. Re:Now only if they'll kick off their spammers... on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 1

    Problem is, the sites they're hosting are the cause of some of the spam and since there's no communications...

    Read the article on AOL that was up today.

  3. Now only if they'll kick off their spammers... on Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Looks like not only do they have multiple Spamhaus SBL listings including a few repeat offenders, they're under a SPEWS Level 2 (monitor, don't block) advisory.

  4. Blacklisting them publically. on ISP Responsibility in Fight Against Spam · · Score: 4, Interesting

    For every listing backed by proof, post a large ad in the New York Times saying "THIS ISP SUPPORTS SPAMMERS" with the proof behind it. Enforce the PR leverage.

  5. Re:Thank god for wireless on Through The Steve Ballmer Looking Glass · · Score: 2, Funny

    I take it you were recreating the MIT Athena Bathroom Cluster?

  6. 503's of '05 on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    I'm getting those too now. And they're not all that nice.

  7. But will it be a PCI killer? on ExpressCards, the new PCMCIA? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Wait... we have a 10 Mhz 16-bit PC Card Services bus, a faster, 32 bit CardBus, and what's this now?

    Let's pull the white paper.

    First, it's 1 PCI Express lane (2.5 Gigabit) plus USB 2.0 (480+ Mbit) in about 20 pins. USB already is installed on laptops -- this is just another form factor for it. I'll ignore it and concentrate on PCI Express.

    Now what are we using that requires that much bandwidth? All together now: Uncompressed video and Gigabit Ethernet.

    I think we'll have alot of high-end laptops in 2005 have this, the ones who need to muck with video on the go.

    A side note: Currently mainstream PCI is a 32-bit bus at 33 Mhz (Although we can double the size and the speed, it's allowed in the spec). That's about 132 Megabytes per sec, or 1.056 Gigabit. Five channel, 48Hz 16-bit audio is about 480 Kbyte/s. 1 Gigabit Ethernet would flood a PCI bus -- but current speeds comming out of Cable, DSL, and Fiber To the House are sub-10baseT speeds.

  8. IBM got alot patented... make that EVERYTHING! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 1

    Yeow... Some of these patents may of been tripped over by alot of companies. IBM may of just patented the Cable/DSL modem, some types of PCI/DMA chipsets, computer multitasking, the file system, web browser interfaces and operations... Damn. Where's IBM's lawyers and why haven't they sued Microsoft's pants off yet?

  9. Press release with list of patents! on IBM Opens Their Patent Portfolio to Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    IBM has the offical release up and it has a PDF of the patents:

    http://www-1.ibm.com/press/PressServletForm.wss? Me nuChoice=pressreleases&TemplateName=ShowPressRelea seTemplate&SelectString=t1.docunid=7473&TableName= DataheadApplicationClass&SESSIONKEY=any&WindowTitl e=Press+Release&STATUS=publish

  10. Wait a min... Sanford starting to SPAM AGAIN?!? on "Spam King" Agrees to Stop Spamming For Now · · Score: 1

    Whoa whoa whoa... if he's spamming again, then he better have his lawyer on speed dial. He just violated court orders in lawsuits done by AOL, Earthlink, and about half the US ISP's!!!

  11. NASCAR Decal technology has similar tech. on James Bond Peelable Automobile Paint · · Score: 1

    Ether NBCsports or FoxSports demonstrated a decal technology which they covered a complete NASCAR stock racer (think bigger than any car blown up by Bond -- CAR, not TANK, CAR) in a thin printed film. After a race or a sponsor's age, they don't repaint the car, they just rip the film off with their bare hands and slap on a new one.

  12. ReStreaming RealMedia/Windows Media as Ogg... on Realtime Audio Conversion And Serving · · Score: 1

    Hard, very hard. You need to do alot of work.

    First, you need to install MPlayer (1.0-preX), so you can play most of those streams. I'm not sure about RealMedia files, but Windows Media it should play 99% of.

    Then, you need to set up MPlayer to shoot out raw audio and pipe it into LAME, and then IceS. The latter two you may want to try coding up a script with Icecast's Shout perl module, which should do the job roughtly.

  13. Welcome back! Glad for the update! on Patrick Volkerding Back to Work · · Score: 1

    Now I can start updating my laptop and firewall boxes again. :)

  14. I use both at the same time. on Mozilla 1.7.5 Released · · Score: 1

    Seriously. When you have multiple avatars on a forum RPG, logging out and in over and over again is error prone. So I have Mozilla be "STrRedWolf", KHTML be "Sandra Felis" and Firefox be "Dr. Mikail Markov" and post as usual.

  15. Credit Raitings and Cingular? Yeah Right! on Sprint Close to Buying Nextel · · Score: 1

    Early on, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and TracPhone came out with prepaid cellular. AT&T called their's "Free2Go" and "Prepaid Advantage". I was the latter, because the phone was cooler. This was back in 2000.

    In 2003, AT&T Wireless One upp'ed and brought out the GoPhone service -- Prepaid w/automatic debit. I got the one w/Wireless Internet.

    Now, in 2004, AT&T Cingular are one, and my GoPhone service is little more than a renamed Take Charge service.

    My credit? Shot.

  16. Re:autorefresh on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Both Konquerer, and KHTML doesn't impliment the HTML Meta-Refresh tag directive.

  17. I hope... on Preview of KDE 3.4 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...they fix alot of old bugs with KDE, including no auto-refresh!

  18. Re:I heard crime was bad, but... on Verizon Central Office Heist Spoiled By 911 Outage · · Score: 2, Informative

    Local police stations have individual normal phone numbers, and some districts have 311 for nonemergency police. All they had to do was call the local station, have them get out there.

  19. I miss Gnome 1.4 on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I really do. 2.0 (with the 2.x GTK series) really messed things up, and with more and more crud going in, the good stuff going out...

    I switched to KDE. It's much cleaner. So much cleaner. I'm now tempted to build Mozilla with QT.

  20. Maybe they raided Indymedia for SPAMMING on Indymedia Server Raided by FBI · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Indymedia... that name vaugely rings a bell...

    Indymedia...

    Google is my friend. Google Group search for Indymedia in news.admin.net-abuse.* (email and sightings especally)...

    64 threads (some with hundreds of examples of related spam) sight some examples.

    What does SPEWS, SPAMHAUS, and other DNS RBL's say? Nothing. Take it with a grain of salt.

  21. Can we say... Prior Art? on Kodak Wins $1 Billion Java Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, pull out your first issues of Dr. Dobbs Journal (Running Light without Overbyte) from the 1970s and chant:

    Tiiiiiiinnnnnny Baaaaaaaasssssssssiiiiiicccccc

  22. Raw stats on movies... on Germans Reach 360 Mbps in Mobile Network Tests · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay, let's get some raw movie stats. Assume plain RGB pixmap flipping at 24 frames per sec, movie size. That's 720x480, three bytes per pixel.

    That's about 1 Megabyte a second, or 8 Megabit. Add another 256 Kilobits/sec for audio (Mp3, Vorbis, or AAC, anyone?) and that's 10 Megabit and change.

    Isn't Divx compression good?

  23. Re:Site and Video Mirror on Does Your LCD Play Catch-Up To Your Mouse? · · Score: 1

    Someone mod this parent up! The guy's being slashdotted and he needs all the help he can get!

  24. Of Political Spam. on Submit and Moderate Questions for Bush and Kerry · · Score: 1

    Dear canidates, please answer truthfuly. Recently, we the public in general have received spam from both campaign offices, as well as from lower offices -- govenors, senators, representatives, mayors. The fundimental problems are this:

    First, they are not targeted. Folks in Maryland are getting advertisements in the email for canidates in Texas. California's getting ads for Maine. Republican ads for Democrats and Democratic spam in Repblican hands. The Postal Service is more reliable.

    Second, they are violating the host ISP's contracts. Take Senator Kerry's host, Rackspace. Their Terms of Service and Acceptible Use Policy states (and I quote) "Use of the Rackspace network, servers or services to transmit any unsolicited commercial or unsolicited bulk-e-mail is expressly prohibited, as is hosting web sites or services on a server which are advertised in any UCE/UBE." Spams traced back to Senator Kerry's site are in violation of this, and we hope Rackspace removes the site.

    It's also to note that the Republicans back in 2000 are also guilty of such spamming. Documentation is already public on Usenet.

    Third, THERE IS NO SUCH THING IS LEGAL SPAM! We don't want to eat it. We're paying for the bandwidth that this junk travels through. If you are truly wanting to improve the economy, Senator Kerry and President Bush, why are you not seeking to ban all types of unsolicated bulk email?

  25. Is it in M*ENCODER* on Interview With BBC Dirac Developer Thomas Davis · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Having decode support in Mplayer is good. but it's not going to fly well if there's no support for encoding! How are you going to use it to it's full potential in Unix if you can't back up your DVD's with it?

    It goes double for the Ogg Theora format.