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  1. Re:Planting the Plant... on Fusion Plasma Plant in The Future · · Score: 1

    It's 70% ... How amazing is the great amount of clichés and "all-made" ideas that can be read on slashdot...

  2. Re:dredging up the sedna debate on Best Images Yet Of Saturn's Moon Titan · · Score: 1

    Actually with this system,

    Mercure would be a planet and our Moon wouldn't be a moon. Because both Mercure and Moon does have a tenuous atmosphere.

    Planets are some of the objects orbiting around a star. moons are objects in rotation around planetary objects. There are some criteria that helps to diffenciate a planet from a stellar object:

    And to define what is a planet in OUR solar system, we can't use criteria such as astomosphere. Simply because many of the objects in our solar system have a tenous atmosphere.

    A better definition for planet would be an object that does not have any similar objects in its neighbourhood orbits and which gravitates around the sun.
    This is not really rigourous, but it helps to differenciate planets, asteroid, and not well defined object like Sedna without taking into account criteria that could be common to all this objects. An asteroid with a big enough mass could probably have a tenous and light atmosphere.

  3. Installing Windows on worms day ;P on Win32 Blaster Worm is on the Rise · · Score: 1

    Yesterday i had just setup a computer with a Windows OS, of course as it was just installed, there was no patches nor Firewall set up.

    And i was wondering why this new freshly installed machine was crashing all the time with svchost.exe and RPC server. :)

    So to avoid me this kind of troubles in the future i think we should forecast such worms! ;D

  4. Spam may won the fight against Bayesian filtering on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    Spam are intented to people who are in need of a miracle products or enough credule to purchase what spammers have to offer. And i don't think that those people will take the pain to run a spam filter and moreover to learn it to recognize spam. Because bayesian spam filters need to learn and it can take a week or two before it is efficient. This way spammers will always reach their goal, but you will have a way to filter the spam from your mailbox. The only solution that would really annoy spammers will be Bayesian filtering on server side. But ISPs will probably never do that, because the bayesian algorithm is not reliable at 100 percent and can filter the so-called "false positive". IMHO, bayesian filtering will never be the solution to *reduce* the spam flow. It could be useful for people who will classify the spam in a junk directory. Or for business who want to get rid of spam at the risk to loose some good emails. Oh by the way, Spam is a trademark! ;p Regards

  5. Re:Spam on Russian Minister Gets Spammed, Spams Back · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well if i was a Spammer and i get "Spam back attack", i will modify my "viable command return address" into the attacker address. Say for one day or two days.

    Of course it is a loss of money, but an efficient way to fight against "Spam back attack" :)

    But i'm not a Spammer :P