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  1. Bullshite on Study Finds Value in Email Spam · · Score: 1

    They asked for this, ergo it's not spam. Besides, most of the spam I get isn't promoting healthy lifestyles, it's promoting erectile-dysfunction drugs, pornography, and money-making schemes, primarily the Nigerian 419 variety. Never mind the viruses and the chain letters I get from my mom.

  2. Re:Mutt on The Book of Postfix · · Score: 1

    You might also look into apt-getting webmin and webmin-postfix accordingly. Yeah, it's a bit of a hack, but it lays things out fairly logically so you don't have to dive into the config file much.

  3. Wombat? on A Wombat's Journey To Market · · Score: 2, Funny

    Only in this industry can we get a WOMBAT to market.

  4. Friends only on The Ham and Spam of Weblogs · · Score: 1

    Livejournal, for one, has such a setting where your entries are "friends only". Likewise, you can allow people who are anonymous to not post, or otherwise have various restrictions.

  5. All hardware, software, and pkg mgmt sucks on Norwegian Minister: No More Proprietary Formats · · Score: 1
    You'll be flamed because all package managers suck. You're not alone, anyway.

    In the Linux community, RH and Mandrake are kind of at odds, but Mandrake (sorry, Mandriva) users scoff at RH/Fedora due to its heritage. Debian-heads dislike Mandrake because URPMI is slow, Gentoo-niks scoff at all of them because they get a source compile for free with emerge (where as the others are typically binaries), and they all hate MSI packaging because it's Windoze. And Windozers will scoff at all Linux because of its presumed complexity.

  6. It bites! on U.S. Scientists Create Zombie Dogs · · Score: 1
    Wow, talk about a dog bite that you'll never recover from. At least, nothing that current medical science can help you with.

    Now we just need an analog to the rabies vaccine.

  7. Re:What's wrong with windows firewall on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's generally considered a Good Thing to keep a firewall box separate from the actual server - that way, if your network is taking a beating, the firewall absorbs the impact, thusly not killing your server boxen.

  8. Schroedinger's cat, anybody? on New Model Solves Grandfather Paradox · · Score: 1
    They explain the snag - as long as you don't know that your father is alive, you can kill him, thusly preventing the event from happening.

    So it's the basic concept behind Schroedinger's cat that prevents it.

    So I wonder how many people are going to kill themselves by locking their fathers into sealed boxes and irradiating the box.

  9. Re:Yes, please, please... at last! on Back to Moon in 2015? · · Score: 1
    That's fine, Mr. Koenig, but unless you provide anything except polyester uniforms, I'm off the project.

  10. BFG! on Who Will Google Buy Next? · · Score: 1

    Maybe they're getting big, but they seem to be a bit of a big friendly giant. Those who read a particular Roald Dahl story will remember the reference.

  11. jpilot and PDA on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    I just use an old Handspring Visor Deluxe and jpilot. Most of what's in my PDA is a checkbook, handyshopper, phonebook and work schedule, so it's pretty easy to keep track of to-do lists.

  12. Re:Tiger Woods? on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Oh, when Wil you stop punning at us?

  13. Re:Tiger Woods? on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, tennis, according to George Carlin, is not a sport. Rather, it is ping pong played whilst standing on the table.

  14. Other protocols should have been used on 3.9 Million Citigroup Customers' Data Lost · · Score: 1
    If they really wanted security, they should have not used UPS. Heck, even my employer, FedEx, is out of the running.

    Frankly, Registered Mail, as offered by the US Postal Snail, would have been the way to go.

  15. CDs? Bah on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Released · · Score: 1

    I don't care about the number of CDs, as long as I can use a few floppies, boot up, and do a network install.

  16. Re:Klinkos!? on Document Disposal Law Kicks In · · Score: 1

    Various locations do, but not all of them. I can count three of their ship centers (former FedEx WSCs) I've worked at that, while not shredders, employ destruction services and accordingly maintain a bin. This law, if anything, might be more of an incentive to get it going in more locations.

  17. Re:What you say??? on Morse Coders Beat SMSers · · Score: 1

    Sure, it's a pain in the ass to learn code if you try and learn it out of a book. Thinking "three dots" for S and "dash dot dash" for K means nothing if you don't know what "three dots" or "dash dot dash" sounds like.

  18. Re:I'm in the same situation on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    Hey, there's an idea. Build it, lease it, and eventually, they'll just buy it.

  19. Quoting Scott Kurtz on Cell Phone Service as High Speed Internet Link? · · Score: 1

    Can't get broadband? uhaul.com, dude.

  20. Re:Like all energy sources.... on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lessee, water converts to steam and might break down, but odds are will recondense into... water. So where are we depleting this source? And if it's temperature, remember that heat rises, so by default (and by convection) this water is its own heat sink.

  21. Age and whatnot on Water Now More Awesome Than Previously Thought · · Score: 3, Funny

    He's 80, so he can't be lasting very long from here on out. I hope he wrote something down then.

  22. Re:SPAM! on Hormel Back on The Spam Offensive · · Score: 1

    It actually is a portmanteau for "Spiced Ham". Research a bit on SPAM's home for details.

  23. Feeping creaturism on Just a Phone? · · Score: 1

    If I were to carry a cellphone, aside from being able to use it as a telephone, the only "feature" I would want on it would be the ability to plug in a ring tone. Something about the Flintphone ringing on my hip just reeks of "cool".

  24. Real geeks... on What's in a Typical Geek Home Network? · · Score: 1

    Real geeks have one or more static IP addresses, and run servers from their home. =^_^=

  25. Incidentally... on Free Software Mag Interviews Sys-Con Publisher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    PJ has her own pointers regarding what O'Gara did over here. Her side doesn't line up with Kircaali's statement - and under the circumstances, I'd believe her first.