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  1. Re:Waste of money on SETI Gains Respect, NASA Funding · · Score: 5, Interesting
    SETI is important because it:
    • seeks to answer an important question: are we alone? Statistically, probably not. But finding that 'first contact' will have a world-altering impact upon technology and religion etc
    • gets punters involved in science
    • utilises information already gathered and processed for other astronomical research. It really is about making maximum use of the data gathered by the radio telescopes of the world
  2. Re:A few questions on Jabber Gathers Steam In Australia · · Score: 1

    Exodus supercedes Winjab as the main client on windows.

  3. Re:Perhaps it's not lost. on Search for the Missing Universe · · Score: 1
  4. So clever so soon? on Everything you Want to Know About the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Maybe Turing imagined that _he_ would build such a robot so quickly. Very few modern engineers can light a candle to him..

  5. Re:Just wondering on Sony Ericsson P800 Reviewed (Again) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most new cellphones use Symbian which is a completely open OS
    Symbian is not open source.

    At the moment Linux is simply unsuitable for putting on a cellphone
    I think Motorola disagree.

    .. Orange SPV which has gone down to rave reviews
    yeah right. Some links:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/68/29800.html
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/64/28464.html
    etc

    without the need for slow and inefficient java code
    How about efficient java code? Incidently, Symbian phones like the P800 are open in the sense that you can program native apps (in c++). And the Symbian APIs are IMHO much better than the CE one

  6. Re:Simple Solution on ISP Operator Barry Shein Answers Spam Questions · · Score: 1

    Assuming the mail-server sending the emails is not a willing participant, the mail server could throttle emails on an account basis.

    This might be rather resource-intensive in practice because you'd need a recent-history for each account..

    Maybe there is a better algorithm that can use very little data per account.. hmm, yes, think about this:

    each account has a single weight and a last-sent timestamp associated with it. As new mail arrives to be dispatched, the account's weight is aged. If the account weight is below a freshold when the cost of the new email is added, the email is dispatched ok and the account weight and last-sent is updated. Otherwise the email is returned to sender with a retry soon error code (which proper mail clients will cope with).

    Would that be a simple hack for sendmail etc?

  7. Re:Okay, hate to be the first "help me post"... on Freenet 0.5 Released · · Score: 1

    there is nothing wrong with running a single node on your server for your local clients to use communially