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  1. Re:Greylisting on I am the Most Spammed Person in the World · · Score: 1

    >if they use many servers sharing a common queue, the actual host trying to sending a particular piece of mail might change for each attempt!

    postgrey at least gives the option of looking at the /24 network address of the sender instead of the full ip, seems to help with server farms. It also has a whitelist.

  2. Re:Thanks, Tom! on Funding Promised for Trips to Moon, Mars · · Score: 1

    Fuck em. Tear up the treaties. What are they going to do, anyway?

  3. Re:I miss the old days on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1

    Notice that you never hear about a company or university having a significant percentage of their machines taken over, especially not for a long time

    Universites have the same end-luser problem that ISP's do. Many have started blocking port 25 outbound for the same reasons.

  4. Re:What's so bad? on Real ID: You Can Still Fight It · · Score: 1

    How come that we have never seen them in Belgium?

    Because they tend to stop in France.

  5. Re:intelegant design != God on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    We are talking about Darwin's Theory vs. a whole slew of other ideas including intelligent design.

    Only one of which is a testable scientific theory. The rest are, at best, wild-ass guesses with no evidence and no way to prove them true or false and have no place in a classroom. As far as science is concerned, evolution is it.

  6. Re:No evidence for God |- Atheism ?? on The Pseudoscience of Intelligent Design · · Score: 1

    Not only is it invisible, but if you question the existence of the dragon, it will condemn you to an eternity of suffering.

    So be quiet and do what the dragon tells you.

  7. Re:For the most part... on Converting Users to Open Source- Why Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    Uh huh.

    Before Outlook, there was a joke email that made the rounds. It warned of an email that, if you so much as viewed it in your email client, would infect your computer and do all kinds of nasty things.

    Of course, the very thought was ridiculous. Merely viewing an email could never infect a computer with a virus. We spent months educating customers that no such thing could happen.

    Then Microsoft created Outlook. Not only could you now catch a virus by merely opening an email, you could sometimes catch one by having some small part of it show up in a preview plane.

    Microsoft turned that joke into reality. Bravo.

    I truly wish I could understand how people can continue to apologize for the crap this company produces.

  8. Re:This movie is bad on Hitchhiker's Guide Reviewed · · Score: 1

    You've clearly never seen "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death". Or any given 2 minute sequence from it.

    Not that I've seen BFE, but it can't be any worse.

  9. Re:For the most part... on Converting Users to Open Source- Why Do You Care? · · Score: 1

    Yep, love that Outlook. Nothing else spread viruses faster.

  10. Re:License keys are a PITA; vendors kill software on Converting Users to Open Source- Why Do You Care? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Most of the time, it's up to you to stumbled into bugs and then figure out the best solution

    Name one bug you were the first to find in either MySQL or PostGreSQL.

    I have never ever found a problem that a minute with Google didn't explain and show a workaround or solution.

  11. Re:AOhell on AOL Placed on Spam Blacklist · · Score: 1

    The RBL lists have been around for a long time, yet there has been zero impact on spam. I'm frankly shocked that anyone still uses them at all.

    Really? Q: How many legitimate companies spam? A: very few. Why? Because they can't afford to get blacklisted.

    Spam would be _so_ much worse without people doing what they can to fight back.

  12. Re:Oh Canada! on Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff · · Score: 1

    It's an even worse scam. It isn't even illegal to download copyrighted material in Canada, so even the people supposedly doing something wrong, aren't.

  13. Re:As a Canadian on Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff · · Score: 1

    Because ridiculous taxes hurt sales? Because many people are buying their media in the US instead of from them? Could be a lot of good reasons.

  14. Re:As a Canadian on Canadians May Face 25% Download Tariff · · Score: 1

    If you bring it in under your personal limit you don't have to tell them what it is. I buy CDR's and blank DVD's in Bellingham whenever I go down to the US for the weekend and I've never paid any duty on them.

  15. Re:Free stuff isn't, freedom is! on Is Cheap Broadband UnAmerican? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not that I think you're wrong, but seriously, the government worker couldn't possibly be worse than the energetic unionized support staff at my telco, which also feels free to add service charges and increase fees regularly without asking me.

  16. Re:automated responses to probes? on Aggressive Network Self-Defense · · Score: 1

    I think most of China and Korea should just be stripped at the backbone level. This would cut spam and hacking activity in half

    Yep. Throw the US in there and that should go up to about 90%.

  17. Re:everyone should be concerned on Should Nanotech Be Regulated? · · Score: 1

    Of course everyone wants it, or nearly everyone, anyway. Where do you think religions come from?

  18. Re:on the other hand... on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    lmao peer1.net is one of the biggest spam sewers around. Check out their SpamHaus listings someday. They currently have 10 ROKSO-listed spammers hooked up and spamming away - some of whom they have had connected for almost a year.

    Peer1 is as bad as it gets.

  19. Re:Ignore the list, they'll render themselves usel on Should You Trust MAPS? · · Score: 1

    blacklists are extremely useful against all kinds of things:

    - hard-core spammers
    - trojanned windows machines
    - virus-infected machines
    - spam-sewers run by idiots, like MCI or Wanadoo

    You don't like them, don't use them. What do I care. I have better things to do than read the 400+ spam messages a day (or even scan the spamassassin-tagged subjects) I'd get if I didn't liberally use blacklists.

  20. Re:foreign keys? try write-ahead logging on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 1

    They fixed that somewhere in the 7.x series.

  21. Re:foreign keys? try write-ahead logging on 'Most Important Ever' MySQL Reaches Beta · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, you still need to vacuum Pg 8.0. It includes an auto-vacuum daemon that does a decent job, though.

  22. Re:$1.8 billion a year is a lot of dough on Microsoft Fails to Comply With EU Requirements · · Score: 1

    That's basically ALL the state does, is take money from one party to give to another. That and shoot people it disagrees with.

  23. Re:Traffic Costs Money! on BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash · · Score: 1

    Less. I've seen it for $.80 CDN. But not in a monopoly broadband market.

  24. Re:Unless you speak French. on P2P (More) Legal in France · · Score: 1

    sshh, don't tell the French that. Their language police will start removing all those nasty imported Latin words.

  25. Re:Other fields...? on Women Leaving I.T. · · Score: 1

    No, they're arguing about it because no one cares if men get into a female-dominated field or not. If women aren't in a male-dominated field, then obviously it's because they're somehow being discriminated against or pushed away or something. If men aren't getting into a female-dominated field, well, it's because the men don't want to. How sexist is that?