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

    If that kind of thing were covered by the commerce clause, then why is it described elsewhere, in such detail that it specifically excludes what you're talking about?

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

    That would require a Constitutional amendment.

    Of course, an awful lot of stuff that should, doesn't, so maybe it wouldn't.

  3. Not necessarily. on Nvidia Waiting In the Wings In FTC-Intel Dispute · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If AMD and Nvidia can truly make competitive products, then having more of a non-Intel option makes that option seem much more mainstream.

  4. Re:No, and I won't on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    The RFC forbids rejecting the message due to the domain of the EHLO string not matching the IP address of the sender.

    It doesn't say anything about rejecting based on EHLOs that are missing, badly formed, refer to nonexistent addresses, etc.

    So I certainly may and will use the EHLO string to block senders, as long as I don't reject mail for the reason that the connecting IP doesn't like up with the EHLO (which would be stupid for many reasons).

  5. Re:No, and I won't on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    There are a lot of assertions here, but no quotes or references to specific parts of RFCs.

    The RFC never said anything about adding some other server's address to a MAIL FROM line

    A server doesn't go in there, an email address does. The address of the sender.

    That is: by listing an address in mail from, you PROMISE you can immediately return mail to the host you received it from

    Who says? Is "PROMISE" defined like "SHOULD", "MAY", "SHOULD NOT", etc?

  6. Re:No, and I won't on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    Please bear with me, I'm confused.

    RFC 821 has specific requirements about the return path, then RFC 1123 says those are void, and so the conclusion is that RFC 1123 says they're still intact?

    I often send email from my servers on behalf of third parties, with the return path being the email address of the third party, because that's where I want the bounces to go. Is this illegal according to RFCs currently in effect?

  7. Re:No, and I won't on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1

    But due to RFC 1123, if you place another mail server's hostname in the "MAIL FROM" line, you are committing forgery, regardless of any ad-hoc justification you may come up with for "permitting" it.

    I don't see that in RFC 1123. Can you be more specific? I could easily have missed it.

  8. No, and I won't on Are You Using SPF Records? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    SPF is harmful.

  9. Re:Wrong on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is a US site; it isn't spelled "spelt" it's spelled "spelled"!

  10. "incited" on FCC's New Broadband Plan Prioritizes Competition · · Score: 1

    There's no "insensitived". It's "incited".

  11. Re:Something screwy w Firefox... on Brain of Patient H.M. Being Sliced, Streamed Live · · Score: 1

    Same thing happens to me every time I do a Wolfram Alpha search.

  12. Re:Should they get off tax-free? on AU Senator Calls Scientology a "Criminal Organization" · · Score: 1

    The currently proposed FairTax taxes necessities, as defined based on the poverty line, at 0% via a rebate. It is the most poor-friendly tax ever. Bleeding hearts should be eating it up.

    After necessities, why should the poor pay a lower percentage of tax on the items they buy than anyone else?

  13. SQL injection? on Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday · · Score: 2, Funny

    Somebody's fired.

  14. WebKit on Palm Pre? on Alternative Mobile Browsers Tested For Speed, Usability, JavaScript Rendering · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What about the Pre's browser? It'd be interesting to see how it differed from Safari.

  15. Re:virtualization on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing you didn't use rant mode. From the original Ask Slashdot question:

    "If you run them at their original resolution, they're tiny"

    So that option has been considered and rejected.

  16. Re:virtualization on Making Old Games Look Good On Modern LCDs? · · Score: 1

    The problem doesn't appear to be the size of the windows, but the size of the pixels. Virtualization wouldn't help here.

  17. Re:There's an easier way on Become Your Own Heir After Being Frozen · · Score: 1

    I'd like a cheese pizza and a large soda, please.

  18. Re:Debian Linux on SSL Renegotiation Attack Becomes Real · · Score: 1

    Well, that's nice, but there are many other web servers and proxy servers in Debian which are still vulnerable. And from what I can tell, there are no plans to fix the root vulnerability in stable. What are we supposed to do?

  19. Re:One major issue with it on Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput · · Score: 1

    You just need to load the kernel from some other medium. An old hard drive, a USB stick, an old flash card or something.

    Unless you're running a truly backwards OS like Windows. Then, yeah, you have to put a lot of stuff on your boot drive.

  20. Re:sweet on Fusion-io IoXtreme's Consumer-Class PCIe SSD — Impressive Throughput · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's the read latency, not MB/s that's most important for desktop usage or for most databases. Everybody quotes the numbers that they're used to quoting, but the game is different with SSDs.

  21. Re:How can xterm be improved? on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You're looking for Yakuake. It's just like Quake: hit the tilde and a command console drops down from the top.

  22. Re:Who to blame for the delay? on GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Actually it was soccer.

  23. Re:Why you're not responding? on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1

    So why are people's emails going into a blackhole, rather than them getting a bounce from their server?

    Or maybe I misread your original sentence about people contacting you out-of-band; I interpreted that to mean they had no clue why you weren't answering, but it could easily be as a result of an undeliverable notification. My bad.

  24. Client. on Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's not a problem for Web sites, except for their users that run crappy software (ie Flash).

  25. Exactly!! on Recovering the Slums of the Internet? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    They're desperate to show that they're doing something. Make it so they have to do something to maintain the status quo and everybody's happy.