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  1. Re:Costs? on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    Well, okay, but that's not really what we're talking about either. That's encryption when the user goes to get his mail from his mailbox, which is all well and good, but the emails themselves are completely unencrypted as they go from server to server on the way to their final destination. It's that issue which is meant by "email encryption".

  2. Re:Because nothing bad... on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    It's encrypted when the user goes and reads it from his mailbox. It certainly ISN'T as the mail bounces around between servers on its way to gmail. That's the encryption we're talking about here.

  3. Re:Costs? on What's Holding Back Encryption? · · Score: 1

    That's a Web page, not email.

  4. Re:Reverse engineered nVidia drivers? on Next Linux Kernel Due Early March · · Score: 1

    "nv" is the current nvidia kernel driver. "nvidia" is the official, proprietary driver from Nvidia.

  5. Re:Example? on Code Used To Attack Google Now Public · · Score: 1

    I did some contracting work for a company before that ran some specialized software that cannot run on anything past XP.

  6. Re:Example? on Code Used To Attack Google Now Public · · Score: 0

    None of that is a reason to run IE6 or Firefox 2. Sounds like the latest versions of IE and Firefox will run just fine on what they have.

  7. Example? on Code Used To Attack Google Now Public · · Score: 1

    Can you give us some of those "good reasons"?

  8. Re:what is the state of ext4? on Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 2 vs. Early Fedora 13 Benchmarks · · Score: 0

    You could lose data on it, if your software is poorly-written. Ext4 now caters to this poorly-written software, which is why it's lost some of its performance.

  9. Re:And how many won't give? on Digital Fundraising Booms For Haiti Relief · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You want to use guns to take money away from people and give it to other people, according to your whims, and that's what you call "fair"?

  10. Re:They called him mad... on "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight · · Score: 1

    Are they using a fing-longer to control it??

  11. Re:Thanks... on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    That's certainly true.

    Quite some time ago I was looking over your IPv6 transition plan, which you had posted in great detail. I pointed out that I needed to be able to add IPv6 glue records, which was a step left out of the plan. I very quickly got back something like "oh yeah, thanks" and not long after, the feature was there. /another satisfied DynDNS customer.

  12. Just because the math works doesn't mean it's true on The End Of Gravity As a Fundamental Force · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But it sure sounds promising.

  13. Re:Greedy traffic cops? on Recession Turning Software Auditors Into Greedy Traffic Cops · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If "traffic cop" implied "greedy", then there wouldn't be any need for the adjective.

  14. What field? on IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low · · Score: 1

    That's a great story. Can you give us any hints as to what you're doing now?

  15. Redundant on The LHC, Black Holes, and the Law · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think that "Redundant" mod refers to your use of "cockroaches" and "lawyers" as separate.

  16. Re:No real scarcity yet on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Everything in that list can be NAT'd, and in fact most of it SHOULD be.

    Nothing ever "should" be NAT'd. NAT is a necessary evil in the scarce world of IPv4. A world which should be abandoned in favor of IPv6.

  17. Re:But why? on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    NAT barely qualifies as being connected to the outside world.

  18. Re:But why? on At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 0

    Home Internet connections, cell phones, etc. have no need for public addresses.

    I'm so glad there are such great gurus who can tell us all which of our devices "need" to be able to talk to the outside world!

  19. Mod Up on Bruce Schneier On Airport Security · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Finally the right idea. Why should we gift-wrap defenseless sheep for the bad guys?

  20. Re:That's my first computer too on Happy Birthday, Linus · · Score: 1

    There wasn't an Intel 40MHz 386.

  21. Here's a rule: on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    Anyone who uses "irregardless" is an idiot.

  22. Re:[OT] Words on Best Filesystem For External Back-Up Drives? · · Score: 1

    But if "irregardless" were a word, it would mean the opposite of what most who use it believe it to mean.

  23. That's "incite" on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 1

    There's no "incentivize"; the word you're after is "incite".

  24. That's 50 lines/hour on Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    8000/40/4 = 50.

    Typing was hardly the bottleneck. In fact I bet there was quite a bit of staring into space.

  25. Re:Not 2017, but by 2023... on Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations · · Score: 1

    No, the Constitution specifically grants Congress the power to secure for limited times exclusive rights.

    That doesn't mean they can go make something else up that's unlimited!