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  1. Re:Should be running already on Getting on Top of Spam Down Under · · Score: 1

    The good ISPs already have dedicated boxes. Lots of them. The ones who run SA have about 8 times as many dedicated boxes as the ones who purely block based on DNSBLs (IME).

    ISPs _can't_ afford to run filters generally. If you want to run SA or other content filters, you should be doing those at the end user nodes, and not at the central hubs. Content filters work after the fact of accepting the email, at which point the only reasonable responses are to discard the spam silently, or generate a bounce.

  2. Re:Funny on Why Windows is Slow · · Score: 1

    You are supposed to have more testers than developers. and testing with different hardware.

  3. Re:Yes and no. on 20 Network Changing Products · · Score: 1

    Postfix has had two _possible_ security holes, and those would happen if there was a system misconfiguration.

    On the other hand, qmail has not been developed since 1998, it still does an accept first and then bounce stance (contributing to the DoS attack of backscatter), it converts multi-recipient mail into single recipient messages when sending out, it doesn't support a lot of things natively, including TLS and SMTP AUTH.....

    It is easier to be secure when your code is Hello World..

  4. Re:Yes and no. on 20 Network Changing Products · · Score: 1

    Uhm, no.

    Message passing and repeated input validation imposes a performance penalty. However, with well defined interfaces, the interdependencies are highly reduced, and maintainance becomes simple.

    A large monolithic program leads to complex interdependencies in the code and maintainance becomes difficult.

    Security is easy to do, if you design it in right from the beginning (see Postfix, which doesn't even have a custom libc, but is simpler to run than qmail and gives better performance).

  5. Re:bad trend on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    Or for that matter, Bush.

    After all, the only winning move is not to play at all.

  6. Re:Designed to fight who? on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    Wargames. The US just can't move its heavy artillery fast enough. Of what use is an Abrams tank, if it can't get to the battlefield before the war is over?

    The only way to win is not to play at all.

  7. Re:bad trend on Automating Future Aircraft Carriers · · Score: 1

    The point isn't how brutally advanced you are. It doesn't matter _how_ unmatched the battle is, if the other side has weapons capable of reducing the world to winter, and is willing to use them.

    It doesn't matter how big your military is, they are still stuck on a single planet and if your opponent is willing to turn that into a pile of slag, you can't win.

    Mutually Assured Destruction works on that basis. I don't have to win, I just don't have to lose.

    Plus, remember that a small strike force can cause a hell of a lot of damage, given an element of surprise. If I wanted to strike at the US, I would just put out a rumour that there was plutonium in the water supply. No need for weapons, mass panic does everything I want it to do.

  8. Re: open source and web rush 2.0 on The New Wisdom of the Web · · Score: 1

    Because the important part of these sites is the storage service they offer.

  9. Re:Same as stealing chewing gum? on Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law · · Score: 1

    The asking price for making that copy available to you is the rental price or sale cost for the work. You have two choices: either pay the asking price or do without

    Germany has a blank media tax which covers copying. So if the poster buys blank media, they have already _paid_ money to be able to copy.

    And if that was less than what the creator^Wcopyright holder expects, sucks.

    Billing twice for the same item has a well known term: fraud.

  10. Re:Memory bound, not CPU bound ... on Dual-core Systems Necessary for Business Users? · · Score: 1

    If I was a developer, my _compile_ boxes would be separate from my development boxes. Normal work needs horrendous amounts of RAM, not CPU.

  11. Re:Agreed on Sendmail Hit by Data Interception Flaw · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't bother. qmail is a kludge after you have used Postfix. Having to patch source to get anything done?

  12. Re:Contradictory Article: Economic Theory Triumphs on Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career · · Score: 1

    Most of the high value stuff is bought from US companies. Cars (GM/Ford), shoes (Nike/Reebok), computers (Dell/IBM/Sun, Intel and AMD chips), bandwidth...

  13. Re:Backups shouldn't be fair use. on Region-free PS3 · · Score: 1

    I own 40+ year old books, and I can still read them. How much old electronic media is unreadable? Backups don't necessarily mean to the same format.

  14. Re:At last a solution for h264 DVD recoding!! on Sun Grid Compute Utility · · Score: 1

    Upload DVD. Encode. Download results. Remove old data. Loop.

  15. Re:Back in my day... on Will Wright's Dream Machines · · Score: 1

    In my day, we called it emacs.

  16. Re:Contradictory Article: Economic Theory Triumphs on Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career · · Score: 1

    Former Intel CEO Craig Barrett has stated that wage differentials aren't the issue and that Intel would hire more U.S. engineers if it could find them

    If both an American applicant and an H-1B applicant is qualified for a job, the manager will choose the applicant that is more qualified. That approach directly contradicts the stated intentions of managers from companies like Intel: the stated intention is that a manager will hire an American applicant meeting the qualifications but not necessarily offering better qualifications than a qualified H-1B applicant.

    I don't see a contradiction there. They are offering a fixed amount of money, and looking for the best qualified candidate for that money. Barrett is claiming that they cannot find enough US engineers at that salary.

    Washington should shut the Indians and the Chinese out of the American market until both the Indians and the Chinese establish free markets in their own countries.

    Washington imposes quotas on H1B visas. In a truly free market, there would be no quota on H1B visas either. And American companies would be able to sell their goods in India (most of them can sell in India, the ways in which they can retail is currently limited and even that is being opened up).

  17. Re:Contradictory Article: Economic Theory Triumphs on Dismantling the Myth of IT Being a Dead-End Career · · Score: 1

    When a labor shortage arises in the market for high-tech labor, such politicians attempt to damage the correcting force of the shortage by injecting H-1B workers into the market.

    Or perhaps you need to realise that the labour market is now global, and not local. The countries where you want to sell things are labour rich. So they buy American goods, in exchange for labour.

  18. Re:My wife gave me two thumbs up... on ATI's 1GB Video Card · · Score: 1

    At that time, argue that you are going to use the thermal output to generate power for the cooling systems. Bonus, massive uptimes!

  19. Re:so... on ATI's 1GB Video Card · · Score: 1

    Implying that this is a good card for use when reading usenet, slashdot and talking on IRC?

  20. Re:Monthly contracts? Do they mean... on How Great Cheap Phones Never Get to the U.S. · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are wrong. The popular plans here are prepaid ones, where you pay a fixed amount of money and get a certain talktime upto a given date. This allows for fixed expenses, and easy quitting if the provider isn't good enough (or someone else offers a better plan).

    This allows me to pay $10, and get 400 minutes of talktime to be used within 2 calendar months. I can choose to renew within that period (and extend any unused talktime), or move to another provider.

  21. Re:Well, they are spammed with traffic now... on Suing Google Over Pagerank · · Score: 1

    So when Slashdot links to you-know-where, you won't quickly hit the back button for fear of irreparable eye damage, because, well, it was linked from Slashdot?

    By the time (s)he hits the back button, the damage has already been done. If you have time to hit the back button, the site was relatively safe.

  22. Re:Not Speed - Latency on Wired and Wireless At the Same High Speed · · Score: 1

    Latency in non-overloaded devices is a function of the speed of light. Perhaps you can tell us how to transmit information faster than light.

    http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1925.txt is an important read.

  23. 2010 on Earth Life Possibly Could Reach Titan · · Score: 1

    About 100 have reached Jupiter's moon Europa - but they landed at 24 miles/sec

    All these world's are yours, except Europa. Do not land there.

  24. Re:SQL? on The Story of Tron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    you would have a guy that goes around doing the same thing every day. You know what that is?

    Work?

  25. SQL? on The Story of Tron · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cron of course.