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  1. Re:Simply Amazed on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 1
    Not necessarily - the bug isn't as bad as one would have it.

    I for one have six possible From: addresses, three of which I actually use, and invariably there is a Return-Path: header indicating the MTA I use on my home domain. If SPF can be set to use that, rather than the From: the bug *should* be fixed.

  2. Re:AOL muscle on AOL Tests Sender Permitted From / E-mail Caller ID · · Score: 1

    If this really was somebody muscling a standard on us, it would be Microsoft. Hackers for the most part don't tend to respect AOL - just look at some of the disparaging comments elsewhere in here.

  3. Re:How come... on Apple and Pepsi Ad Sports RIAA Targets · · Score: 1
    Because the "everything has changed" line is marketing fluff. People legally download regardless of RIAA FUD saying that everyone downloads illicit MP3 files.

    Frankly, though, maybe RIAA was playing dirty pool by suing parents for this, but at least the copyrights are somehow being honored.

  4. So.... on Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Who do all these people who are concerned about false labelling go to for enforcement?

  5. OK, now we have a problem on SCO Lobbying Congress Against Open Code · · Score: 1

    The fact remains that Congress may just very well try and pass this. Anyone remember the CDA from about ten years ago? Get on the word processor and WRITE YOUR FSCKING CONGRESSCRITTER NOW.

  6. My own thoughts on State of the JPEG2000 Standard? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's because people have it set in their minds that a JPG is a JPG, and this is being touted as Yet Another Image Format. Same reason (I think) that PNG, though it is enjoying wide popularity against GIF, hasn't totally caught on yet.

  7. Oh, groovy.... on MySQL Official GUI Interface · · Score: 1

    It's about bloody time. Shame it's only screencaps in the meantime. Oh, hey, FP! =^_^=

  8. Drugs on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    You're lucky. My employer is a heroin addict. I hope to be out soon.

  9. My thoughts on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 2, Funny
    I have a long standing policy of refusing to have duels of wits with unarmed parties. And SCO appears to be sorely unarmed.

    That being said, I await the day that I get an invoice from them to submit to my attorney.

  10. Re:A dozen enquiries? on Australian Firm Asks SCO To Detail Evidence · · Score: 1

    Perchance it would be the thousands of clients this guy says he has by way of spam.

  11. Re:SCO's next target for lawsuit on SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership · · Score: 0

    Don't mention Jesus Christ. Given their current history, I wouldn't put that one past their lawyers for fear of an ironic turn....

  12. Slander of title? on SCO Files Suit Against Novell Over System V Ownership · · Score: 1

    SCO is doing that to themselves quite nicely by threatening Linux users. They don't need to sue Novell.

  13. SCO's tactics aren't really working anyway.... on Red Hat's Open Source Assurance Program · · Score: 1
    Spoke with a local purveyor of Linux systems recently. One thing that was pointed out on my questioning is that the only way SCO's tactics are affecting them is that they removed UnixWare from their list of options, and that some of the "fence sitters" (those who are just considering Linux or other *nix operating systems as an option over Microsoft) are a little hesitant.

    Be that as it may, this is evidently RH calling SCO's bluff and, for all intents, giving them the finger and goatse all at once.

  14. Prior art, film at eleven on MS Files For NZ Patent On XML Word Processor Files · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Other word processors do XML, and have been doing it. It can probably be overturned.

  15. Oh schnidt! on Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word) · · Score: 1
    Well, it's just another technology I can't take advantage of because it's not Linux compatible. Dammit, why did I even think of not wanting Windoze?!

    Oh, yeah, that's right, I remember now....

  16. DNS level blocking? on Pop-Up Ads Lead to Consumer Revolt, Ad-Blocking · · Score: 1

    Perhaps one could individually block the ad purveyors at the DNS level?

  17. Logical moderation: -1 lame and not creative on Microsoft to sue Mike Rowe for Copyrights · · Score: 1

    Come on, man, Google does that anyway.

  18. Re:An Excellent Example on Local News Anchor Feels Pain from Afar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Insightful, but whether he is telecommuting is not relevant in this case. Frankly, if I want to hear somebody complain about how farcking cold it is where they are in Boston, they really should be in Boston.

  19. Re:Exchange Rates Against the Deal on SCO Wants to License Europe · · Score: 1

    Feh, I wouldn't pay them in that. It would remove the monopoly money from my monopoly set.

  20. Replacing SCOX with.... on SCO Expands Licensing Money Chase Worldwide · · Score: 4, Funny

    We've secretly replace the SCO Group's stocks with Folger's Crystals. Now let's watch them fluctuate.

  21. Re:1 in 10? on Current Unemployment Rate in the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Um, dude, 1 in 10 is ten percent.

  22. Sodium hypochlorite would be safer on Safer Means Of Disposing Of Mad Cows · · Score: 3, Interesting
    While sound, the problem with sodium hydroxide (lye) is that it doesn't readily break down. It will definitely work on the proteins, but it won't readily break down before hitting water. So now you have all this toxic waste.

    So why not a concentrated form of common household clorine bleach (sodium hypochlorite)? Yes, I know, it's toxic, but read on. Straight from the bottle, it dissolves hair in ten minutes, and will likewise break down other organic proteins. It's one of the ingredients in liquid drain opener products, in fact, along with lye. So in a concentrated form (remember, Clorox and its ilk is maybe 4% Na HypoCl), while it would produce fumes that would need to be contained, in the end the proteins could simply be flushed, and the bleach would eventually break down into salt water.

  23. Re:Sounds like they won't meet the Judge's thresho on SCO Files Response To Demand For Evidence · · Score: 2, Interesting
    On the other hand, she could simply demand more. If she was irate at SCO, though, it's a simple matter of "dismissed with prejudice".

    (It would probably be "without prejudice" though - the contention is that there's insufficient evidence to back the claim, and this is the first time the claim is brought up, albeit ad nauseam.)

  24. Time for a press release? on Novell Releases SCO Letters · · Score: 1

    SCO's stock is down a couple of dollars over the past few days. Mayhaps it is time for Darl to make Yet Another Press Release saying how they really own Linux, and their evidence is the number of lawsuits they've filed?

  25. Doesn't this happen elsewhere? on Squid Eye for the Reflective Guy · · Score: 1

    Isn't this the same phenomenon that makes cats' eyes "glow" at the right angles?