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  1. Mining is a one-off capital cost on 'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' (grist.org) · · Score: 1

    Soon mining will stop. End of problem.

  2. Block it with a firewall app on Ask Slashdot: Are My Drone Apps Phoning Home? · · Score: 1

    A firewall app will block this kind of thing. For example: https://play.google.com/store/...

  3. time() for unixtime on Torvalds Polls Desire for Linux's Next Major Version Bump · · Score: 1

    The kernel version numbers should just be the unixtime of their release. Or the number of days since the the first release.

  4. Re:No more Bandwidth ... dead on For Sinclair Fans, The ZX81 Lives On · · Score: 2

    They are using ZX81s to run their webserver

  5. What would Joseph Swan have thought? on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 1

    Who cares about that rogue Edison. Joseph Swan was the inventor of the light bulb and what he thought about it would be more interesting. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Swan

  6. Victoria and Albert on Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? · · Score: 1

    The British museum mostly things from foreign cultures, like blocks of stone written in three very exciting ancient languages! The V & A is much more interesting.. http://www.vam.ac.uk/

  7. Yes it exists on Home Phone System That Syncs To Computer? · · Score: 1

    The Siemens Gigaset SL78H does most of the things you say. You can sync to your PC, have a text message sent to your mobile whenever someone leaves you a voice message, sync the address book to other handsets or to your mobile via bluetooth. http://gigaset.com/

  8. Re:In other news on New Ethernet Standard — Both 40 and 100 Gbps · · Score: 1

    Voice over pots is not modulated, so is BASEBAND (having the bottom 12Khz of a phone line.) Broadband is anything that is not baseband. (eg: ADSL freqs starting from 12KHz upwards.) It has nothing to do with speed for anyone except beaurocrats and politicians.

  9. The documentary will be on Panorama tonight. on Scientologists In Row With BBC · · Score: 2, Informative

    The documentary "Scientology And Me" is being shown tonight (Monday 14/5/2007) on BBC1 at 8:30pm

  10. English evolves into Chinese. on Merriam-Webster Launches Open Dictionary · · Score: 1

    1. The last Webster to compile an "English" dictionary completely bastardised the language.
    2. There are now more speakers of "English" in China than England.
    Therefore the final result will be closer to Chinese than English.

  11. Gmail works fine on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Time to hang my head in shame!! Gmail works fine.

    I made a coding error, missing off the trailing "--"s from the closing boundries. ie: The closing boundries should be:
    --[BOUNDRY2]--
    --[BOUNDRY]--

    It is just that the others mail clients are more forgiving of fools and led me into a false sense that my code was OK. Very sorry to have posted. Andy.

  12. Re:Gmail MIME handling behind Yahoo/Hotmail/MS... on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 1

    Google does not show the plain text or the html. Just a blank message.

  13. Gmail MIME handling behind Yahoo/Hotmail/MS... on Email Turns 34 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe he could celebrate by unscrewing Gmail's MIME handling. That would
    improve the way we communicate. Gmail does not appear to handle recursive
    mime, such as a multipart/related inside a multipart/alternative. Yahoo,
    Hotmail, Thunderbird, Microsoft all seem to manage it ~ Why can't Gmail?

    Example:

    From: someone@domain
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="[BOUNDRY]"

    This is a multi-part message in MIME format with text and recursed Mime alternative.

    --[BOUNDRY]
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.txt";
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

    This is the text message. Gmail does not even show this.

    --[BOUNDRY]
    Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="[BOUNDRY2]";

    --[BOUNDRY2]
    Content-Ty pe: text/html; charset=us-ascii
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    Content-Disposition: inline;

    <HTML>This is the HTML message with pictures. <IMG SRC="cid:whatever"></HTML>

    --[BOUNDRY2]
    Conten t-Type: image/jpeg; name="file.jpg"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
    Content-ID: <whatever>
    Content-Disposition: inline;

    /9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEASABIAAD/4QAWRXhpetc

    --[BOUNDRY2]
    --[BOUNDRY]

  14. Skype was already naff.... on eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ... as it is does not use the accepted SIP VOIP standard, nor does it interoperate with other VOIP providers.

    Get yourself a real VOIP provider that uses SIP.

  15. Bluetooth - Skype is BAD. Bluetooth - SIP good. on Skype With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    Skype is really NAFF because they do not allow SIP clients or interoperbility with other SIP services.

    A mobile phone handset is useful, but as SIP is the public RFC standard that has existed for ages for this kind of thing it should be bluetooth to SIP.

    Skype are a closed shop. Dump Skype and get yourself a real VOIP provider that uses SIP.

    Make a bluetooth to SIP dongle and I might be impressed.

  16. Re:Skype protocol / SIP on Skype Start-Up To Undercut International Wireless · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Skype is naff because they do not allow SIP clients. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt The protocol has existed for ages, but Skype are a closed shop - another Microsoft in the making. Dump Skype and get yourself a real VOIP provider that uses SIP.

  17. Re:god or mear mortal on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    I once did "rm -rf /tmp/blah" as root, except I must have accidently inserted a space before "tmp". Never again.

  18. China vs America in a few years on Global Air Pollution, From Above · · Score: 1
    America are without doubt the energy gluttons of today. China will almost certainly be the energy gluttons of tomorrow(Here is a nice article in The Times on that.)

    However America can do something about it right now if they want to while China probably cannot. Indeed, if the USA do not act now they probably will not be able to in ten years because by then the Chinese renminbi will be the foreign reserve currency of choice & the USA economy will most likely be running on fumes. China's growth was 9% last year & they now have the second largest GDP (by purchasing power parity) on the planet. Exports to the USA are rising at 20% pa. This is probably the Americans last chance.