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  1. Wont' work on IBM Researcher Offers an E-Stamp Spam Solution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Quote from the pdf:
    "When a message arrives at my machine or mail-server, it is examined. If the sender is on my accept list, the message is passed through to my in-box."

    spammers do this with forged email addressess all the time... and pass trough whitelists all the time as well.

  2. Re:But... on Google Hacks · · Score: 1

    You can't abuse the Google API as they allow you only 1000 API calls each day. Heck I know you could do something with various accounts/proxies etc...

  3. Re:invalid e-mail address? on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    I wanted to point out that it might be easy to check if you've been scanned by them - no matter if it's legal or not, just for your knowledge.

  4. Re:invalid e-mail address? on BSA Accuses OpenOffice Mirrors · · Score: 1

    Sysadmins all over the world: check your ftp logs for guest@nowhere.com as it seems it isn't widely used beside the BSAs crawler...

  5. Re:p2p apps on Swarm Intelligence · · Score: 1, Troll

    Attention: you are infringing Roxios Trademark. No swarm out :)

  6. Re:get over yourself on NYT on RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Ther's a huge difference between beeing watched at a place where you go voluntary and the fact, that each item with an RFID you just bought can be traced at other locations around the globe. Or let me ask you: would you like that anyone can have a RFID scanner and scan peoples recently bought items on the street? I bet you don't. Me neither.

  7. Re:Privacy issue explained on NYT on RFID Tags · · Score: 1

    Yeah right and I bet that the U.S. will (soon after this is common over there) begin to request foreign nations to provide them a list with each item you bought recently - otherwise you can't travel into the U.S. I thought that the U.S. will get access to the passenger list was engough of privacy invasion for a whole decade, but no no, the Bush Administration will soon have new goals, I am sure.

    As long as you leave some data, they want to have it - sooner or later.

  8. Re:So change the description on Verbing Weirds Google · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what the guy did as you look up the page mentioned within the article.

  9. Re:Every line? on Secret Irish Data Repository Uncovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    For billing purposes three year long? Why that? Six months seems long enough for most countries...

  10. Re:Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? on Do Scripters Suffer Discrimination? · · Score: 1

    No kidding? Your Java Team has no bathroom at all?

  11. Re:It's a guessing game on Microsoft Going After Hotmail Spammers · · Score: 0

    1) Turn off catch-all
    2) Setup specified boxen.
    3) Get less spam
    4) ...

  12. Re:We should be moderately safe on Cracker Gains Access to 2.2 Million Credit Cards · · Score: 1

    The same goes with mobile operators. At least Orange does exactly the same thing. If you step over the usual treshold, they ring you up and ask if everything is ok. IIRC, Swisscom did the same thing but that ended in a nice story in the press where someone used his mobile abroad above common use because his wife had a heart attack. He was organising everything by phone and wamms, he was locked of the networks... beeing in the big mess he didn't see the short message from his operator warning him...

  13. Re:Google has done similar things lately... on Opera Releases "Bork" Edition · · Score: 1

    So much about "Google does not alter the search algorithm for a specific page, it's all done automatic"...

  14. We then need a new gTLD on .NAME at a Crossroads · · Score: 5, Funny

    .bankrupt

    nuff said

  15. Re:Removed? on Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping · · Score: 1

    Go, have a look at CPAN for the EuroTV stuff.

  16. Any idea on 1st Episode Of Animatrix Released · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how to prevent our Netscape Proxy from lowering the download spead down to 4K/s? Or can someone zip it and put a mirror up, cause zips don't get lowered in d/l speed :)

  17. Re:I find the Neo bit interesting.. on Lindows CEO Funds XBox Hacking Contest · · Score: 3, Insightful
    It suddenly stroke me... is Xbox security a playground for upcoming Palladium?
    One Word: YES.
  18. Re:More afraid of the phones' security holes on The Growth of Picture Phones · · Score: 2

    Well they also demonstrated a hole in one of these new panasonic models where you could send an SMS message to the phone and it went then online via GPRS and downloaded a crapload of bytes in order to produce a lot of traffic.

    My vote: don't buy one until it is really necessary (well, I can't see any reason for a picture phone anyway).

  19. Re:Ignorant, only PC languages were chosen? on Number of Jobs by Programming Language · · Score: 2

    Right. But at least you can code with C and C++ on the S/390 with the C89 compiler...

  20. Re:Forward your spam to UCE@FTC.GOV on Turing Tests to Stop Spam · · Score: 2

    I think they get already half a million reports each day. What they are looking for is kiddie stuff and fraud - but the ususal crapload in our boxen (penis, dialers, diplomas etc) will be dumped I bet...

  21. Re:RBLs in Spamassassin on The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs · · Score: 3, Informative
    I don't really see why anyone would use RBLs just by themselves.
    That is easy. While spamassasin does the work pretty good - you still have to download the whole crapload. RBL enabled MTAs won't accept any email as soon as a blacklisted IP wants to connect. This saves bandwith, disk space, client side filtering (read: cpu time) and so on.
  22. Jamming the system... on Finns To Use Cell Phones To Monitor Traffic Jams · · Score: 2

    I wonder what the system says when every driver throws out the mobile on a specified route at mainly the same time....

    Error: Route A34 slashdotted, traffic stopped completely

  23. Tschernobyl on What's Your Earliest Memory? · · Score: 2

    Tschernobyl took place 25. April 1986. I can it remeber clearly as my mother was abroad and phoned home. After the accident, we weren't allowed to eat the whole yoghurt because of the fallout (which went into the gras->milk) but I eated up anyway and well, I'm still alive. I was then 4 and a half year old.

  24. Coding on How Are You Spending Your Christmas Vacation? · · Score: 2

    As usual, coding rules. After finished a beta of a website in PHP with the nifty smarty template (wow, paid job) did some ugly perl hacking just for fun. Well, no hacking tomorrow as it's the second christmas day but I'll take my Debian GNU/Linux Thinkpad for the car journey :)

  25. Re:Dum-de-dum on Powerline Broadband in Hong Kong · · Score: 2

    Where is your point? T1 looks pretty the same to me.