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  1. All I can say is, thank God for Spamassassin on Spam Costs U.S. Companies $22B Annually · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I am running Spamassassin 3.0 (using qmail-scanner) with Razor, Pyzor, clamav and F-prot. 90% of the email coming into my server (with 10 or so users) is spam, but with the Razor rules and the URI blacklists turned way up one a day or so gets through, and no false positives yet that I have found. (I won't even talk about the 30+ viri a day.) Qmail-scanner can be set to reject mail at the SMTP level too, which doesn't save much bandwidth but does prevent extra work from bounces bouncing etc.

  2. took you four minutes to type that message? on Clean System to Zombie Bot in Four Minutes · · Score: 2, Funny

    guess you better learn to type faster, huh.

  3. sigh on ROTK:EE Trailer Released · · Score: 1, Funny
    We get to see some snippets of the final confrontation between Gandalf and Sauroman

    It's Saruman, not Sauroman. sigh...trying to review a movie and can't even spell Saruman. What kind of LOTR geek are you anyway?

  4. urban legends on Will Our Cars Become Our Chauffeurs? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Like that guy who set his RV on cruise control and went in the back to make a sandwich? I smell disaster.

  5. Keyhole interesting, but not all that great on Google Keyhole, Google Scholar · · Score: 1

    I tried out Keyhole for a few days - it was interesting, but it seemed like most of the images I looked at that I could date were a couple of years out, at least. Also, the only hi-res images that exist are major population areas, which is slightly annoying if say, you want to examine Palo Duro Canyon or something like that.

  6. what is he smoking? on MSN Search Roundup · · Score: 5, Funny
    the product bears all the hallmarks of the feisty, upstart side of the company.

    What is he talking about? Microsoft hasn't been a feisty upstart since about 1986.

  7. well guess that's it on Novell Pulls Out Their Ace Against SCO · · Score: 5, Funny

    Party's over, let's go home, if there's no SCO to bash there's just no joy in living.

  8. considering... on Defending Harsh Sentences for Spammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the amount and cost of the bandwidth they stole, nine years is about right.

  9. And the burning questions remain on AOL Subscribers Finding Greener Pastures · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why do the remaining 20 million stay? There is nothing on AOL that can't be accessed from the internet at half the cost.

  10. Bad planning? on Google Acquires Keyhole Corp. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So if they don't yet know how they're going to use it, why did they buy it? I hope Google isn't falling into the trap of buying up companies with cool ideas because they have lots of money burning holes in their pockets. That will lead to overexpansion, and with MS breathing down their necks, they can ill afford missteps in their corporate strategy.

  11. Old Slogan, new meaning on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 1

    Brings new meaning to "Nothing Runs Like A Deere".

  12. Alien oil on Titan's Alien Thunder · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Titans might not be too happy about us making gasoline out of their ancestors.

  13. I could have helped out with this on Saving Huygens · · Score: 5, Funny

    I drove a Fiat for years. I could have told them an Italian radio wasn't gonna work. :)

  14. Maybe so but on Warm Offices Boost Productivity · · Score: 1

    Warm bodies boost productivity too.

  15. slashdotted already on Transistor Radio Turns 50 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Must be using one for his web server.

  16. low on endurium on Mysterious Force Affects Pioneer 10 & 11 Probes · · Score: 1

    It's bumped up against the edge of the Starflight map.

  17. beans!! on Mushroom Cloud Reported Over North Korea · · Score: 1

    the musical fruit!

  18. everyone together on Should Star Trek Die? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's dead, Jim!

  19. Re:joking aside, on Grow Your Own Replacement Bones · · Score: 1
    as good a job as they did with metal, cement, etc.,

    So, you have a Hellboy-style wrist now?

  20. obligatory invader zim on Grow Your Own Replacement Bones · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Such a lovely child...so full of bones"

  21. politics on Microsoft Funded Study Cinches 10yr Deal · · Score: 1, Insightful

    it's all about who gets the money, with an occasional intern thrown in.

  22. obligatory Futurama on The Cost of Computer Naivete · · Score: 2, Funny

    No it goes like this:

    Tech: Where's your backup?
    Client: Back what?
    Tech: Backup.
    Client:What up?
    Tech: Backup.
    Client What what?
    Tech: Never mind.

  23. a new breed of super-nerds on Northface University - Computer Science in Half the Time? · · Score: 3, Funny

    As if it wasn't hard enough for computer people to learn social skills. There's gonna be a new crop of CS people graduating from a total-immersion CS program with nothing to talk about except computers. Wait, that's what we do now. Hooray for nerds!

  24. obligatory army of darkness on SCO Playing Name Games · · Score: 1

    "It's a trick. Get an axe."

  25. What about JFS? on The Linux Filesystem Challenge · · Score: 1

    I am using JFS on my Gentoo server, and it's just fine - fast and stable. Not that I know much about filesystems, but the fact that IBM is behind it gives it some credibility, it would seem.