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  1. Re:Since you need FCRDNS to send mail these days on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 2

    Do STARTSSL certs work? They are free.

    http://www.startssl.com/?app=1

    Stupid IPv4 addresses and old clients like XP (and others) can make SSL a pain in the ass.

  2. Re:ISPs on DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range · · Score: 1

    If you have the right ISP and are willing to pay the money, you could have 4x that today.

    http://www.ubnt.com/airfiber

  3. Re:Quality article, full of technical details on DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range · · Score: 1

    You can buy 60GHz units that are from the 1Gbps to 2Gbps transfer rates, depending on lots of different factors. There may be faster licensed units then that, but I'm guessing the price would be insane. A 100x increase in bandwidth doesn't sound impossible if you have the free air space and are willing to spend the power.

    And 100Gbps is 1000 times more then 100Mbps

    100M x 10 = 1G x 100.

  4. If you remember exactly what you want to look for (or what ever the programmer decided to name that shit) it works quite well, except when it doesn't.

    I just make a folder named 'Start'
    Fill it full of the shortcuts don't use quite enough to want them pinned to my task bar.
    ->subfolders work fine too, keep all the networking stuff in one, adobe stuff in another.
    Click add toolbar from the task bar and add the Start folder.

    Ta da. I now have a start menu. It's far more information dense then the metro interface. Contains everything that I feel I need and it doesn't make me run the mouse all round the screen to click what I want.

  5. Re:It's not terrible on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I've made a folder of all the shortcuts I want on the start bar, and sub folders containing different groups of programs. You can then add it as a toolbar to the task bar and it behaves kind of like the XP start menu. Keeps me out of that clusterfuck of the metro start page thing.

  6. Re:Except people who join that program..... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because a lot of people have an issue with..

    "This application is going to send off 'some stuff you don't understand.. bla bla tech bla' to servers somewhere you don't know." They automatically mistrust a program that sends off unknown information when presented with the choice.

    What Microsoft says. "Send anonymous usage details to Microsoft servers"

    What the user reads. "Send your porn viewing habits to god knows where and who"

  7. Re:Consumer profit margins on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 1

    I don't think they wanted to become a consumer company. They just wanted to keep the low end products 'low' so they didn't compete with the enterprise offerings.

  8. Re:Wait, did I miss something? on Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys · · Score: 2

    Wireless N seemed to have brought a whole class of shitty routers out of Linksys (and plenty of other manufactures too). Very odd to find the same model with a completely different type of chip inside that's not compatible with DD-WRT.

    It's like Cisco spent $500M to get rid of a competitor, they just did it really slowly so no one else popped up right in their place.

  9. Re:It says... on Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#Controversies

    Carnegie did a lot of great and a lot of terrible things.

  10. Re:It's not an obesity on People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Must be the Spherical Cow. Physics will be easier in the future.

  11. Re:Extremely expensive on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    With such a high electricity bill, I suspect that your house lacks proper insulation and your AC is running basically 24/7 during the summer to keep up. (unless you're heating with gas or oil in the winter, the PV installation may have been both more economical and environmentally friendly than upgrading the insulation, doors and windows).

    He was saying it was about $166 a month. He also didn't state what size and design of house he had, so you're making a lot of guesses too. He could have a 10,000sq/ft house with insulation and a low electric bill. Also, there is something insulation has a hard time dealing with, is foot traffic in and out of the house. Most houses are designed with the AC on one side of the door and the summer heat on the other. Lastly, here in Texas, a $150 to $300 is pretty normal for the McMansions around here.

  12. Re:Irony of "affordable" German solar panels on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    Maybe you should read more about it... http://www.renewablesinternational.net/german-power-providers-raise-prices-by-12-percent/150/537/58855/

    Yes, there is some cost to support renewables, no it is not all the increase in power. A far bigger reason Germans can't afford power would be the rate of inflation in food prices.

  13. Re:Irony of "affordable" German solar panels on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    Wait, what? Your solar panel could catch your house on fire, maybe the neighborhood. At worst you have to rebuild. Your nuke plant blows up and burns a glowing hole in to the planet. Well, nothing human is going to want to live or grow things around there for a very, very long time. Same with releasing 50 bajillion gigatons of CO2. So yes, potential external costs are a very important part of total costs. All forms of power should be compared on a birth to death level when deciding on ones national infrastructure.

  14. Re:Bureaucracy on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1

    Florida has a undercover car that measures gas, I'm sure it can do so in volumes much larger then 5 gallons.

  15. Re:Bureaucracy on Solar Panels For Every Home? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:"Free market" scare quotes on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 2

    The problem with most be free email providers IS contacting them. You're not paying them, so they don't give a shit. Hell Google is hard enough to get a hold of when you are paying them.

    The second problem is spammers lie about everything. This has turned server operators on to the line of thought that 'everyone is a liar'. If you weren't a spammer you wouldn't have been blocked in the first place. Needless to say this causes a number of race conditions.

    And yes, I do run outbound and inbound SMTP services for a good number of customers at a small ISP.

  17. Re:Dude on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 1

    Why not use Verizon's mail server?

    Most likely, because it sucks great big donkey balls. Now, that said I don't use version so I don't know for sure. What I do know from working for one of the top 10 ISPs (size wise) in the country is, most big ISP mail servers suck. Send any attachments of any size and they're apt to be blocked, get stuck in the queue, or just go in to the blackhole. Other issues are that the ISP might flag or block as your messages as spam because you want to send 200 messages on friday. And you have to put up with their filtering and blocking choices, that may not meet your needs.

  18. Re:Hey, hey gauise... on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    Ah, a Libertarian vote... I'm sure the NCTC has a nice large folder on you.

  19. Re:What does criminal behavior have to do with ter on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 4, Insightful

    McCarthy supports this group from beyond the grave.

  20. Re:Exploit virtual keyboards? Good luck with that. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 2

    You are missing something here. Even with crappy feed back data you are reducing the password possibilities to a much smaller subset. Added to the fact that people choose terrible passwords you can easily reduce the search field from Billions and Billions to a few hundred or less.

  21. Re:exploited for what? on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    Well. Say I'm hawking advertisements. I know where your mouse pointer is. I know you're about to close my ad. So, I move the ad to somewhere else on the screen. I can see how it can be used for nuisance value.

    That's so 2001. They've made js that causes the ad to run away from the mouse for some time. Then I found the person who invented that code and shot him.

    Whats more interesting to advertisers and website owners is where you're keeping your mouse. Most of these things can be tracked by any browser when your mouse stays inside the window. This is just giving 'more' information then they had before. Do people tend to keep the website open while doing other things? Before when the mouse moved out, it was just gone, now they can tell that your are frantically clicking something else.

  22. Re:Criminal charges on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    In theory this is a *feature* of IE and not a bug.

    Then again this is why I use noscript and the EasyList + EasyPrivacy filter set

  23. Re:Some of these IE bugs are things of beauty. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 1

    There is some pretty good artistic videos on internet exploder catching fire out there.

  24. Re:Some of these IE bugs are things of beauty. on IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing · · Score: 2

    For a virtual keyboard that you'd be typing a password in to, there shouldn't be any issues with autocorrect. Just the series of movements would pretty quickly correlate to a low entropy password. Something stupid like 'Password1' would show up in a heatmap pretty easy.

  25. Position 9 and 10. on Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds · · Score: 1

    That Cox and Suddenlink are almost exactly the same is not a surprise. Suddenlink bought most of the midwest network of Cox when they decided to sell their assets.