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  1. Re:It's a trap on Biodegradable Sneakers Sprout Flowers When Planted · · Score: 1

    Like everyone else, they too are just trying to get a shoe in.

  2. Re:Well, you got to feel pity for them on Voice of America Site Forced Offline By 'Iranian Cyber Army' · · Score: 1

    Oh really? Democracy ruined civilization??? The same civilizations that have been harbors of theocracies, dynasties, monarchies, dictatorships, and anarchy for thousands of years in the past? This Nietzsche fellow is a fucking moron and has already established zero credibility with me.

  3. Re:Well, you got to feel pity for them on Voice of America Site Forced Offline By 'Iranian Cyber Army' · · Score: 2

    But here's the REAL irony of it all. American's (such as myself) will always espouse the great virtues of freedom and democracy. Going so far as to even overthrow a little known dictator in Iraq. But you want to know what started it's spread? Debt! Yup, that's right. Only when our financial system collapsed did it create a domino effect around the world. The nations hit the hardest are 3rd world nations and the Middle East. Only when the people have a fire lit under their ass (no jobs and lack food) will change happen. But when the world is doing good, no one wants to risk what they have even in the face of oppression.

    And that's the irony. We don't want the world to become destabilized when we are not stable too. But that's the only time change will occur under those circumstances. Whether the change is for the better however...well that's the gamble you make. Or they make in this case.

  4. Re:NOK is in trouble. on Windows Phone 7 Update Jams Some Phones · · Score: 1

    There are old coders, and there are bold coders. But you won't ever find a coder that's both old and bold.

  5. Re:Somebody's Law: on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  6. Re:How to setup a SMB mail server on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    Ya, mxtoolbox is pretty sweet website. I love how you can cut-n-paste e-mail headers and have them rendered into an easy to decipher format. It makes troubleshooting mail flow a heck of a lot easier.

  7. Re:Video Removed on First Alpha of Qt For Android Released · · Score: 1

    Must be some fantastic porn with all the right curves in all the right places.

  8. Re:deep water is cold on Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor · · Score: 2

    Between the damage done by Mt Saint Helens in Washington and other underwater lava flow in Hawaii; I'm rather optimistic at the tenacity of life. I'm sure most of that oil will be dissolved leaving what amounts to asphalt behind. Now I'm not saying this is acceptable behavior, just pointing out some perspective here.

  9. Re:Mod parent up on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    Correct. a reverse lookup points to (static-71-178-232-50.washdc.fios.verizon.net) which means he hasn't set up a PTR yet. He needs to simply call his ISP and create one over the phone. A process that should take all but 5 minutes. Another problem I see is what's listed in the SMTP banner of the responding mail server. I'm not sure localhost.localdomain is valid. And while he's at it, cleanup those MX records. I don't see why there's triplicate of the same IP with different weighting. Not that this will cause any issues, but it's just messy IMHO.

  10. Re:Welcome to the club on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 1

    It's that damned DUHL list that SORBS keeps. Admins don't let fellow Admins use SORBS. They're freaking evil! Want to stop legitimate SPAM? Use an RBL provider such as Spamhaus (xen.spamhaus.org). And while I can recall, I seem to remember those Barracuda firewalls using SORBS as a anti-spam filter.

  11. Re:Using antimatter... on Physicists Build Bigger 'Bottles' For Antimatter · · Score: 1

    It wont blow up anything. Or will it? Sounds like a myth that needs busting to me.

  12. How to setup a SMB mail server on Ask Slashdot: Is There a War Against Small Mail Servers? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Being that I setup SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 boxes, let me explain what you really need to make it work.

    1. A business class ISP subscription. Along with this classification, you get a netblock of IP/s that (usually) wont be preemptively blacklisted by SORBS (I hate them).
    2. Reverse DNS (PTR) record. Not having one is almost guaranteed to get your sent e-mails blocked. Getting one created is easy as pie if you subscribe to a business class ISP.
    3. SPF record. They're many online wizards to help you create one. My favorite is from Microsoft.
    4. DNS that will host TXT records. Needed for that SPF record you just created.

    Once all completed, be sure you test out your handy work over at http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ Good luck.

  13. Re:Tax breaks might work on FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services · · Score: 1

    It would take another revolution before that power is given up. No way, no how. Sadly.

  14. Re:There's no intelligent life close by on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    Maybe that first race is very picky as to where and what to colonize. Just because the can doesn't have to mean they will.

  15. Re:The measure of a fool on Milky Way Stuffed With an Estimated 50 Billion Alien Worlds · · Score: 1

    A fool is someone whom lacks intelligence. The word you're looking for is "ignorant". For example, I'm knowledgeable of my work in IT. However, I'm ignorant in biology. It's not that I can't learn it, just that I've never had a need nor cared to educate myself on the topic.

    Please don't confuse the two. There is a difference between the ability to learn and the breadth of knowledge.

  16. Re:Worthless on Industry IT Security Certification Proposed · · Score: 1

    You're missing the entire point here. The US is primarily a service based nation. Obama knows this because of the high unemployment rate among new college graduates. His recent dinner meeting with Jobs, Zuckerberg and other industry giants is very revealing IMO. I predict that our federal gov is looking to create make-work IT employment boot strapped via bureaucracy. What they won't fucking understand is that this will do the exact 100% pure opposite. It will KILL the level of dynamic change and freedom that this industry has in effect, defined as a behavior.

  17. Tax breaks might work on FBI Complains About Wiretapping Difficulties Due To Web Services · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I was an evil politician, I would create and leverage US tax law to provide the economic incentive to those that provide ease-of-wiretapping features into their products. I could sell the bill as a way to further save lives and money as a result of less time and effort spent capturing communications.

    But, I'm a nice guy. So I could never run for office.

  18. Re:WTF on Bandwidth Being Throttled In Bahrain? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Courage, self confidence, and willing to sacrifice is all that's needed for a revolution to start. But I'm also reminded that while taking down a government is hard, creating a better one in its place is even harder. Egypt isn't out of the woods yet as they're severely wounded with a vacuum of power left in the wake.

  19. Re:So remind me again... on New Android Malware Robs Bandwidth For Fake Searches · · Score: 1

    Steve Chang with Trend Micro already stated that because of the open nature of Droid, it's more susceptible to malware.

    http://androidroid.com/trend-micro-android-much-less-secure-than-iphone/

    I've tried the trial version of Trend Micro Mobile Security. So far, it found nothing on my phone, and it lead to some instability causing my phone to reboot. Needless to say, I yanked it off before completing the trial (few days into it) and the problem went away. So being snake bitten by this genre of anti-virus software, I plan on doing without for now. I'll just have to be uber careful with what I install on my Droid. On a phone of all things *sigh*.

  20. Re:that's the replicators not skynet on Ants Build Cheapest Networks · · Score: 1

    The replicators communicate over skynet.

  21. Push it further. on X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ya ya, I know. But it sure would lead a thunderous applause if man landed on the moon (again) to hand deliver the robot onto the lunar surface. I mean, that would just be epic!

  22. Re:Nuke it from orbit on Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Or in a microwave. That seems to destroy the gates on the chip. 10 seconds on High should be enough. Just be sure to only place the PCB and not the entire drive as they can contain lots metal.

  23. Re:well, i can on 10% of IT Pros Can Access Previous Jobs' Accounts · · Score: 1

    Well, IT professionals should always adhere to proper conduct. Just because you can access resources from a previous employer (unauthorized) doesn't mean you should. Besides, it could be a liability to you just in case that outsourced group decides to audit log files and use you as the scape goat for their screw ups. Either way, it's in your best interest to purge from your mind whatever user accounts you used to know but no longer have authorization for.

  24. Re:AI Winter on Watson Wins Jeopardy Contest · · Score: 1

    It's been said before that the human brain doesn't actually compute logic, but rather approximates. Being an analog computer and all, I can only guess as to why math is so difficult to do in our heads. Unlike a CPU that does this in hardware, but suck at everything else unless specifically specialized, we have to abstract it out through approximations before we can later determine its truth.

    Which all makes sense when you think about it. Nature is analog, thus so should a biological apparatus be as well to live among nature.

  25. Re:Or a guy just got owned on Teenager Tries To Hire Hitman Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    AIDS. It can be used as a weapon!