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  1. PostgreSQL? on Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That work for you?

    PostgreSQL

  2. Re:So will verizon FIOS now open port 25? on FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    Should not be a problem unless Verizons engineers are complete idiots and preventing you from talking to any SMTP server they don't own. Talking to someone else's SMTP server will make a connection TO other port 25 FROM your randomhighport. Residential internet typically blocks connections FROM randomhighport TO your port 25.

  3. Re:So will verizon FIOS now open port 25? on FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might want to read your ToS on that residential line. I'll put money on you agreed not to run internet services on it.

  4. Re:Judges, that's who! on FCC Finalizes US Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    If lawful is interpreted as "an application or webpage that is guaranteed to have no illegal content" the whole internet would have to be shut down in the US. HTTP, SMTP and BitTorrent all can be and are used to disseminate content that breaks the law.

  5. SSO on SUA Deprecated In Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Other than the LDAP extensions SFU/SUA added to the active directory what else was really used from it? It seemed to me that anything else you would use from it would be better handled with a real UNIX or Linux install, either on it's own box or in a VM.

  6. Sh*ting D*ck Nipples on PETA To Launch Pornography Website · · Score: 3, Funny

    some of whom will be shocked by graphic images that maybe they didn't anticipate seeing

    So they're implementing Encyclopedia Dramatica?

  7. Re:Awful value. on Maine School District Gives iPad To Every Kindergartner · · Score: 1

    Your order of tinfoil hats is ready.

  8. Re:Deserts can be cold on First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars · · Score: 1

    That's one definition, another is -

    a lifeless and unpleasant place, esp. one consisting of or covered with a specified substance.

    A gas giant would be a place covered with specified substance, the gas. Being really pedantic now, but, take that.

  9. Deserts can be cold on First Exoplanet Discovered Orbiting Two Stars · · Score: 2

    A desert doesn't have to be hot and covered in sand.

  10. Re:FIRED ?? on UBS Rogue Trader Loses $2 Billion In Unauthorized Trades · · Score: 4, Funny

    At a competitor? Hell, this man is CEO material. You can't let assets like that get away.

  11. Re:Every other release on Microsoft Reveals More Windows 8 Details · · Score: 1

    Those users will simply run the classic Windows 7 Desktop app, and probably find a way to automatically run that on login.

    9 will probably do the same thing, if not make it harder to run the Windows 7 Desktop.

  12. Re:Is it my imagination... on "Wi-Fi Refugees" Shelter in West Virginia Mountains · · Score: 1

    You could use that there internet and find out.

  13. Re:Read the writing on the wall on Appropriations Bill Threatens Future Space Science Missions · · Score: 1

    Add to that that no one has the balls to look at defense or education spending. Cutting NASA's funding ($17b*) will totally make more of an impact than looking at Defense ($613b*). More money has been spent on Air Conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan than is being spent on NASA.

    Americans spend more on pizza every year than they do NASA.


    * - 2009 budget levels.

  14. If something interests you on Are Games Worth Complaining About? · · Score: 1

    If you are interested in something at a level above 'neat' then you will complain about its flaws, because you care about it. If you don't feel something is important enough to you to complain about, you don't care about it.

  15. Re:Good test. on Researchers' Typosquatting Stole 20 GB of E-Mail · · Score: 1

    Example:

    Me: bob@aple.com
    Not Me: bob@apple.com

    Amy means to send to bob@apple.com but can't be bothered to be careful and sends to bob@aple.com.

    Can I read it?
    Of course. It is addressed to me so "offence to open, destroy, hide or delay any post that is addressed to someone else" doesn't apply. It was addressed to me and therefore delivered to me so "someone knows or reasonably suspects the post has been incorrectly delivered" so this too doesn't apply. Also, I did not delay delivery since it was addressed to me and probably delivered in a prompt manner.

    Now, you are going to point out this part - "someone knows or reasonably suspects the post has been incorrectly delivered" and say that since I don't know Amy I should reasonably suspect her messages are not for me. I do get mail from people I don't know, it is rare but it does happen. I do not have any reason to assume any e-mail was not intended for me until I have opened the message and seen it's contents. This is not a physical package, e-mail out of the blue is not that uncommon.

    And just to throw water on the whole thing, I doubt that you could get laws governing physical mail to cover e-mail.

  16. About time on Nike to Unveil Self Lacing Shoes? · · Score: 1

    2015 is right around the corner. Pepsi Throwback should have been named Pepsi Perfect.

  17. Re:I still don't understand why... on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    Because someone is going to walk on to it with a sweater just out of the dryer suffering with static cling and it's going to be all "OH THE HUMANITY." A terrorist doesn't need to plant a bomb on it, the whole thing is a bomb. And smokers, don't get me started.

  18. Re:It's an old scam on British CS Majors Doing Badly In the Jobs Market · · Score: 1

    My goodness, the human resources sure do get uppity when you remind them they are just an unimportant cog in a machine.

  19. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    The problem is that once you point out that Marx voiced these issues, or people find it out, even if Marx wasn't the first to say it you're dismissed as a communist and everything you say on the matter is ignored.

    People like to do so little thinking that ideology is everything, if you say something against what they believe, even if you're right or your views merit a discussion, you're wrong and ignored.

  20. Re:Finally on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 0

    It's a chick. We're not talking about a delicious turkey dinner here, so of course she's out in left field and making all sorts of mistakes. That's what happens when you talk outside your area of expertise.

  21. Re:Linus is right on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 1

    Can you say for a certainty that your current hardware will support Windows 9 or Linux 3.4? Certainly now. Are you CERTAIN unreleased future OS's will support your current hardware?

    No you aren't, you can't be. Oh they probably will, but then again, VirtualBox and kvm will probably support the next few releases of the major OS's as well. So again, what have I given up, other than 2 keyboards and at least one mouse of course? There are many tools out there to convert virtual disks from one format to another so moving data to another VM package (if you just had to keep it local to that VM for some reason) is easy, and much cheaper than buying adapters for hardware interfaces.

  22. Re:Linus is right on Linus Thinks Virtualization Is 'Evil' · · Score: 2

    If I run Linux as a host and FreeBSD and Windows in kvm or VirtualBox, to whom have I given up my control too?

  23. Re:A fine business opportunity: on A TV That Knows and Shares What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    Don't give it an internet connection. Problem solved.

  24. Re:FRIST POAST on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    Yep, Coming Soon - Me not buying any games new.

  25. Re:Hitler on Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Totally agree with Hitler here.