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  1. Re:Google Adwords on How Google Can Make or Break A Small Business · · Score: 1

    One spammer could do the trick using the hundreds of thousands of open proxies out there. Each proxy gets another bite at the apple every 120 seconds.

  2. Re:BINGO on The Trouble with RFID · · Score: 1

    How would this be any more annoying (to someone monitoring RFIDs) then if I carry around 15 other RFID tags I don't even realize I'm carrying?

    Unless it actually jams the ability to read other RFID tags you are carrying, then this won't really do much in the long run.

    Store A won't know what Store B's RFID tag 123 means, and I doubt stores would share inventory data willingly.

  3. Re:Loss of service on Cable Modem Hackers Release Improved Firmware · · Score: 1

    Motorola Surfboard modems aren't based on DOCSIS, so none of this applies, does it?

  4. Re:Antec Cases on Which Screw Goes Where? · · Score: 2, Funny

    And here I thought the standard was hanging out the side being held in place by ribbon cables...

  5. Re:Antec Cases on Which Screw Goes Where? · · Score: 1

    So now you're telling me you're supposed to screw in drives and stuff?

  6. Re:Slashdotted Reuters? on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    But if you happen to be infected, you can turn your clock ahead and get in on the ground floor!

  7. Re:I'm Doing My Part on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    Exactly! Think of the lost ICMP packets. I wonder if I could sue SCO for not returning my ICMP packets in a timly fashion?

  8. Re:Why today... on SCO Offline · · Score: 1

    Bring carrots.

  9. Re:Fits the pattern. on Whose Desktop Would You Most Like To See? · · Score: 1

    But if the cabinet member who wrote the report is sitting there in front of you, and you make him read it aloud, that's a different story alltogether. That is a meeting. You don't have anywhere else to be, or anything else to do until it's over. Oral dictation is much slower than reading, so you're only wasting everybody's time.

    That depends on how fast a reader your are. Your average 11 year old can read faster then most people can speak, but that doesn't apply to everyone.

  10. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    I have made it a habit to complain to the quality of service/feedback/pr department of every institution which harbours spammers when I receive spam. I also make it my mission to try and encourage legitimate companies away from spam infested networks.

    I fully respect your decision to embrace a spam funded provider -- I choose to not do business with spammers, or those who support spammers. You are free to make up your mind either way.

    You can choose to deal with me, or not, I have no issues with that. I've made my choice, and I am willing to cut off a portion of the good in order to try to kill the cancer. I don't get fanatical or anything anymore.

  11. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    I personally don't care what SPEWS does, who they do it to or what they claim they're doing. The only thing that I know for a fact is that they frequently block emails from companies with which I do business on a regular basis

    You get it. Great.

    What you don't get is that when you email me, SPEWS doesn't block your email. *I* block your email. The recipients choose to block your email.

    We don't trust this person/enntity, we don't subscribe to their beleifs on getting rid of spam at the expense of being able to communicate with one another and we will not support them with our dollars

    Indeed. Then you can feel free to boycott me, and anyone else that blocks your mail due to a SPEWS listing. That will save me the trouble of boycotting you.

    It sounds like we both agree here.

  12. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 1

    Now we're back to the "SPEWS doesn't block mail", mail server administrators block mail speech.

    But I digress.

    SPEWS doesn't list spammers. Well, not directly. SPEWS lists providers which knowingly accept money from spammers. SPEWS also lists customers which support spam supporters.

    Personally, I don't give my hard earned cash to criminals, and I do my best to avoid giving my hard earned cash to anyone that makes money from criminals.

  13. Re:The problem with lists like SPEWS... on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Your words would have more credit were they not from an anonymous coward.

  14. Re:I just can't believe this... on NASA Cancels Hubble Mission, and Other Space Bits · · Score: 1

    Because Photoshop can do pretty desktop wallpapers too!

  15. Re:So, anyone want to be the first to assume? on NASA Cancels Hubble Mission, and Other Space Bits · · Score: 1

    What happens if a nearby supernova happens when we have Hubble up there, but it's pointing in the wrong direction?

  16. Re:Too bad -- design was obsolete on Speak Freely To Be Withdrawn January 15 · · Score: 1

    If a private address is reachable, then why is it still private? Assuming no scarcity of public addresses (IPv6), then make it public and be done with it.

  17. Re:Too bad -- design was obsolete on Speak Freely To Be Withdrawn January 15 · · Score: 1

    Forget explicit routing, instead of 1.2.3.4/5.6.7.8 think of it like class-B routing, it's no better or worse then 1.2/3.4 (just that it's longer).

    His suggestion still results in the removal of NAT, and replace it with more routers and more address space.

    Unless I'm misreading something, this is IPv6 (Ignoring the other changes that IPv6 introduces)

  18. Re:Uh, because we're such a web-enabled family on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    For whatever it's worth, I'm pretty much the same. We sit 6-10 feet away from each other, we talk outloud and via IM, depending on what we're talking about, what we're listening to (music, phone calls, etc), and/or topic.

    There are somethings that are faster to type, there are some that are faster to speak, it all depends on the question, and the context.

    That being said, we do IM back and forth with the kids, their computer room is across the house, that one is to save yelling.

  19. Re:Non-Indentured Servitude link on Downsides to Intrafamily IM? · · Score: 1

    Most folks around here don't read the article anyway.

  20. Re:The Honorable Senator Jake Garn on Warning: Exploding Batteries · · Score: 1

    And more importantly, a reason why you shouldn't listen to copyrighted music, the entire city depends on YOU!

  21. Re:Targus on Recommendations For A Good Laptop Bag? · · Score: 1

    Or patents it...

  22. Re:"Loser pays" only benefits corporations on SCO Invokes DMCA, Names Headers, Novell Steps In · · Score: 1

    You can put reasonable caps on the legal fees. If a company chooses to pay their lawyers more then that, it is out of their own pocket regardless of win or lose.

  23. Re:Why has this taken so long? on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    Download DNEWS?

  24. Re:Amazing...WOW on Microsoft Looks At Integrating Forums and E-mail · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, Eudora from 1995 had this feature too. Way to catch up Microsoft!

  25. Re:Leaving cell phone off is not enough on Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You · · Score: 1

    huh? How do you figure? Is this anything other then a wannabe urban legand?