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  1. Re:Evil Harper Government - really? Wow. on Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions For Tiny US Biotech Firm · · Score: 1

    The irony to me is that when you start citing things the Harper government has done in the last ten years, its very hard for detractors to be against them. It seems they're all against theoretical things that could happen or might happen but haven't.

  2. Re:It is a lot more than just Canada on How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day · · Score: 1

    More or less what I was going to point out -- November 11th is about remembering those who've served their country in war.

  3. Re:CP/M needs to buried ... on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 1

    Never mind; I didn't realize you were a troll.

    Feel free to cite anything a GUI file manager can do that a CLI can't do better, besides thumbnailing.

  4. Re:Liberals are Egoistical Maniacs on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    That final paragraph is precisely the debate every rational pro-life person I know wishes would happen, and yet it gets stiffled continually by so-called "women's rights" which are supposedly being trampled.

    Once upon a time, women weren't allowed to vote, and letting them vote would've trampled "men's rights" ...
    Once upon a time, slaves were forced to labour in fields for no pay, and allowing them fair treatment would have trampled on "owners' rights" ...

    Having a tough conversation about where a woman's rights truly end and where the unborn child's begin isn't happening and it should. We may decide as a culture that children have no rights to live until they're 2 years old; we may instead decide that 5 months after conception is a viable human life that deserves recognition. Unfortunately this discussion is simply being stifled.

  5. Re:working as designed? on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    Therefore as I said, it works as advertised. Mailing lists should never have been forging from addresses in the first place and DMARC and SPF help prevent that source of spam for many people.

    Sometimes breaking things is the correct behaviour.

  6. Re:Immigration is not the problem. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    I could cite thousands of examples of religious people who are not delusional and you'd claim they were just because they're religious. That makes you closed-minded and bigotted. Just because some *people* have issues or are morons doesn't mean what they stand for should be painted in that light. What they stand for should be judged on its own merits, and the person on their own.

    Painting all religious people with the "delusional" brush as you did is far too broad a statement to be properly rational.

  7. Re:Only if you're a spammer on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    I don't know what your point is at all.

    A) I send my own mail, I sign it all using DKIM and advertise a DMARC record that says so.
    B) I have a third party I trust sending mail as me, I send them a key to sign mail with and add them to the SPF senders list and advertise a DMARC record saying so.
    C) I have a third party relay messages through my own server; A) applies and works fine.
    D) I use a third party relay myself, I sign the messages before going out and publish an SPF record saying they are trusted and a DMARC record saying these are true.
    E) I don't sign all my mail, I may or may not send from trusted hosts; I publish a DMARC record saying not to block unknown sender IPs and unsigned messages.

    In all cases, DMARC helps tell the recipient what to expect. The fact that your outbound server is blocked by a stupid IP-level blacklist based on your ISP has *nothing* to do with SPF, DMARC or DKIM.

  8. Re:Only if you're a spammer on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    I don't recommend hiring the OP here; not only do they not realize its DMARC, but they don't seem to realize what DMARC and DKIM actually accomplish.

    Luckily there are easy-to-read summaries like this one: https://support.google.com/a/a...

  9. Re:Sending e-mail reliably on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    That blocking of ISP ranges is a real problem -- many ISPs offer business dedicated IP ranges suitable for running services like E-mail off of but are incorrectly marked as home network addresses by various idiots.

  10. Re:Yahoo is a part of the problem on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    DKIM does NOT mean that a message isn't spam, it means that Yahoo really sent it.

    DKIM is fixing a completely different problem; random spammers sending out E-mail from their own servers claiming to be from Yahoo (or another domain).

    I've had this happen to domains I administer and its incredibly annoying, especially when clients get E-mail claiming to be from me. DKIM fixes this problem.

  11. Re:working as designed? on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    You obviously haven't experienced spam being sent out to people claiming to be from your domain yet -- you'll implement DKIM and SPF that week ...

  12. Re:working as designed? on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    I use DKIM and SPF on all domains I administer with appropriate settings on each and then advertise DMARC records stating that SPF and DKIM should be expected on all messages. This means anyone attempting to send E-mail as one of my clients to a server using DMARC will fail. I see no down side either.

  13. Re:Immigration is not the problem. on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    Sounds like being atheistic suddenly means being a closed-minded bigot ...

  14. Re:Liberals are Egoistical Maniacs on Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology · · Score: 1

    That's a strange requirement. What if a pro-life person said they're against killing innocent people? Wouldn't that be good enough for a morally valid judgement?

  15. Re:CP/M needs to buried ... on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 1

    Obviously you know nothing of the power of CLIs. No GUI file manager comes close to the power of bash, find and related tools.

    Microsoft has been promising such features for years (and has even improved their own CLI for obvious reasons -- its very useful).

    Its not *my* GUI, its any GUI.

  16. Re:CP/M needs to buried ... on Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto · · Score: 0

    The GUI rarely helps me focus on my tasks, especially with files.

    Finding a bunch of files, matching them to a set of parameters and then doing operations on them is not easiest to do with a GUI. It would be wonderful if it were, but its simply not.

  17. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    There really should be a national (if not international) standard for minimum amber light timings based on speed of the road in question.

    Local municipalities could of course increase it for accident-prone intersections.

  18. Nothing new on Automation Coming To Restaurants, But Not Because of Minimum Wage Hikes · · Score: 1

    Those kiosks have already been available in Canada at some Tim Hortons branches for years now. At least four or five years ago I used one to order my lunch in advance at a very busy downtown branch of the coffee chain in Toronto and it printed me a receipt, my number was called and I received my order before some people waiting in line.

  19. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Compile any Linux binary as static and it will include everything it needs to run -- although 64-bit binaries won't load on a 32-bit system of course.

    In fact just the other day I was on an older system and I couldn't find iperf in its distro so I downloaded the pre-compiled 32-bit binary to do some quick bandwidth testing.

    As a company that deals with industrial customers, we have dealt with plenty of Windows software that will not run on anything newer than XP, or sometimes 7, or 98 or 3.1 before those.

    The Windows API is not a static target.

  20. Re:And that's a good thing on Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a pretty good idea, except that I should be able to tell it I'm travelling soon to disable that country's block.

  21. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 3, Informative

    The red light camera issue is easily Googled, many municipalities have found that the companies installing these have turned down the timing between amber and red in order to catch more people running the red.

    http://www.motorists.org/red-l...

  22. Re:And this is why Linux will never win the deskto on Debian's Systemd Adoption Inspires Threat of Fork · · Score: 1

    Wait, there's only one Windows? I could've sworn there were at least a half dozen active versions out there with features that aren't all inter-compatible ... just like Linux. They don't even look alike, and it causes fragmentation.

    Why is Windows on the desktop? Applications and vendor support (bribed or otherwise) which boils down to "because it has been around longer."

    The difference with Linux is you get a choice, and you get to argue, and it makes a difference. There are far more on-line posts about people who do or don't like Windows 8's interface than about systemd, but that isn't the cause of Window's sudden failure on the desktop now is it?

  23. And that's a good thing on Gmail Security Is a Problem For Tor Users In Repressive Countries · · Score: 1

    This is an obviously beneficial security feature. Just use two-factor authentication and it will almost never come up.

    Or did you want random hackers in other countries to guess their way into your account data?

    Good for Google for protecting my logins.

  24. Re:Why do people still care about C++ for kernel d on Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support · · Score: 1

    How is adding an extra debugging step better than just not needing it in the first place?

  25. Re:Too much scripting in Linux on First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks · · Score: 1

    This has NOTHING to do with binary vs shell scripting and you're a completely uneducated newb to coding if you think it is.

    BASH itself is a binary and it is the problem -- your argument is ridiculous.