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  1. Re:Am I alone? on Interview With The SpamAssassin · · Score: 1

    Some people have had the same email address for 10-15 or more years and used them in public when spam wasn't really a problem. Also, if you have your own personal domain name and have default catch set to your email address, you can get spammed even if you never give out your email address. I get spam sent to some.common.firstname@mydomain.com all the time and it ends up in my inbox.

  2. Re:gmail has good spam protection on Interview With The SpamAssassin · · Score: 1

    I second that. I have all my mail from all my accounts forwarded to my gmail account. The spam filters are amazing. By the way, I have about 150 invites to give out if anyone wants one (they are getting harder and harder to get rid of.)

  3. Re:PHB says... on Do F/OSS Contributions Make You More Marketable? · · Score: 1

    Same here to a degree. However, I ask subtle questions to try to guage the zealot factor of the applicants. Even a hint of zeslotry can be a deal killer.

  4. Blah on GlobalFlyer Completes Record-Breaking Flight · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The only difference between Steve Fosset and myself is millions upon millions of dollars. People like him just buy records.

  5. Re:THANK YOU SLASHDOT!!! on New Vulnerabilities Discovered in Firefox 1.0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For some reason the front page of Slashdot fails to render correctly on Mozilla and Firefox for me.

    Someone is surely going to come along and say it's a bug in Firefox, the fix will be in 1.1, blah blah blah. Funny how Slashdot is the only site I have ever seen that renders so poorly as to make it unreadable at times under Firefox and Netscape 7+.

  6. Re:All in one? on Sony Ericsson Announces First Walkman Phone · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many "all on one" devices do consumers really need?

    The answer is obvious: One.

  7. Re:The Pilot's Creed on Fuel Loss May Cut Short GlobalFlyer's Journey · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Let my takeoff-to-safe landings ratio always remain at 1:1."

    Inerestingly enough, that's my personal "Air Traveler's Creed" as well.

  8. Why would you want this? on Face Recognition Comes to Cameraphones · · Score: 1

    I have never worried about the security of my cell phone. If I keep important stuff on a portable electronic device like a pda, I password protect it. If someone wants my phone numbers, have at em.

  9. Re:One more reason... on Sun Storms Deplete Ozone, Too · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Testing to see if something depletes ozone can be done in a lab. It's really not speculation to say that CFCs destroy ozone.

    A lab is a very controlled environment. There is a very, very big difference between a lab and the planet. It's like a petri dish with a purified cell culture vs the human body. Yes, CFCs destroy ozone, but that does not mean that CFCs cause global warming.

  10. Since it can use anything it wants on Webcam Jigsaw Solver in 200 Lines of Python · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here's a one line puzzle solver

    [user@localhost] perl -e '`python glyphsaw`'

  11. Re:indexing google on New Web Application Attack - Insecure Indexing · · Score: 2, Informative

    Even though here's about internal indexing, it reminded me of the old fashion google indexing: Search google with some sensitive terms such as : 'index of /' *.pdf *.ps

    This is an execellent trick for searching for porn (ie "index of /" lesbian).

  12. The only ringtone needed EVAR on Short History of Cellphone Ringtones · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Vibrate.

  13. Well on Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my experience, even managers with tech experience can't always run the show. There's certainly more to it then domain expertise, common sense being one of the most important.

  14. Wind chimes are the tool of the devil on How to Build a Hard Drive Wind Chime For Spring · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not really, but they should be banned. No one wants to hear your windchime at 2am, least of all me. I have actually gone to a few nearby windchimes in the middle of the night and tied them together with fishing line to shut them the hell up.

  15. Re:And the second image on The First Image Published on the Web · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ctually this is how the whole porn cult started.

    I can honestly say that within an hour or two of using Mosaic for the first time way back when (1992-93), starting with 'oh, you can click on some text and it will take you somewhere else?', I was browsing porn (at work, no less.)

  16. And the second image on The First Image Published on the Web · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was those same women with their clothes off.

  17. Re:comodo.com on Free SSL Certificate Project · · Score: 1

    Your $50 certificate is "InstantSSL". Those certificates do not contain your actual contact information, but only your hostname. That is, the visitor knows that he is actually communicating with www.neilblender.com but there is no way he can see who that domain actually belongs to (such as "Blender Ltd").

    More expensive certificates actually verify (or at least they should) your identity, company name, address etc. and include it in the certificate such that the visitor can see them by clicking the padlock icon.


    Sorry, but you are incorrect. These certs do list company name and address. From one of my InstantSSL certs (I have removed the actual info):

    CN = xx.xx.com (domanin name here)
    OU = InstantSSL
    OU = (organizational unit here)
    O = (Our company name listed here)
    Object Identifier (2 5 4 9 ) = (street address here)
    L = Seattle
    ST = Washington
    Object Identifier (2 5 4 17 ) = (zip code here)
    C = US

    This information and more can be seen by anyone who clicks the padlock. This is from an InstantSSL certificate that was purchased for $89 and is valid for two years. One year is $49.

  18. Re:Specs on 4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed · · Score: 2, Informative

    shows the server @ $5945, which imho is quite a reasonable price for this kind of heavy hitting hardware.

    Not that I looked or anything, but I am sure $5945 most likely gets you 1 weak processor, the onboard ram and an ide drive. Max it out and you could be looking an $20K or more.

  19. Hmmm on 4-Way Sun Fire V40z Reviewed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Reading through the benchmarks, I see they compiled KDE under gentoo in just under 17 weeks. I'm impressed.

  20. Re:comodo.com on Free SSL Certificate Project · · Score: 1
  21. comodo.com on Free SSL Certificate Project · · Score: 5, Informative

    $50 per year per certificate. I've had no problems getting them to work with all browsers. Since I can't read the article, are they giving out real authority certs? Ones that your browser won't pop up the window saying it's untrusted?

    If not, here is a recipe for free signed certificates:
    openssl genrsa -des3 -out server.key 1024
    openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
    openssl genrsa -des3 -out ca.key 1024
    openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -key ca.key -out ca.crt

    ./sign.sh server.csr

  22. Re:Why just doom? on Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console · · Score: 1

    | . <-- OG

  23. Re:Weblication? on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 1

    You misunderestimate their utility...

    No, I do not. I have been building applications that run over the web for the past 5 years (10 if you count non-professional work.) They are applications, that is all. By the way, I don't run PDApplications or Celplications, either.

  24. Weblication? on Building Richly Interactive Web Apps with Ajax · · Score: 5, Funny

    No more cutesy terms, please.

  25. Re:New jobs? on Australian ISPs Required To Report Child Porn · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Heh, I still have an old file cabinet from that company that is labeled "The PedoFile."

    I wouldn't keep that stuff around. True or not you get labelled a pedophile and your life is over.


    We had to deal with law enforcement on a regular basis. The 'PedoFile' was where we kept whatever records we needed to to keep track of these dealings. The label that I speak of is simply a piece of masking tape with the word PedoFile written on it. All the contents are long gone. Doesn't matter anyway, when you work in the porn biz, you see so many things that you can never unsee. Think goatse. You'll never forget that.