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  1. Re:False positive rate? on Stopping Spam Before It Hits the Mail Server · · Score: 1

    What's the problem with rejecting the SMTP session, with the error displaying the SMTP error code along with your phone number/error message in it?

    qmail is usually the problem, not supporting recipient verification during smtp out of the box due to its security model of minimum privileges for each subsystem.

  2. Re:Nothing New on Software Price Gap Between the US and Europe · · Score: 1

    Then he states this:

    The Gibson Melody Maker costs 399, dollar or euro.

    Which I take to mean he believes that this Guitar is of the same price in Europe or US.

    no, what he states is that the guitar costs 399 units of currency, no matter if the currency in question is euro or dollars.

  3. Re:Get an older computer. on Working With 2 ISPs For Home Networking? · · Score: 1

    yes, a stub wiki article is the very definition of a nice tutorial. there are some suggestions there, but nothing that might be called "tutorial" on the subject.

  4. Re:Impressive, but broken on Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced · · Score: 1

    i've had no problems entering cyrillic text and copy&pasting japanese. everything worked fine, the text was rendered correctly, even in the slide tooltips. i've tested this in safari 3.1.1 and firefox 3, both were ok.

    i have no idea how the browser could even intercept the input method switch combo. the OS shouldn't pass such keyboard events to applications at all.

  5. Re:Reinventing XUL... BADLY on Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced · · Score: 1

    why, how many different browser platforms support XUL?

  6. Re:do something new, please on Cocoa-Like JavaScript Framework Announced · · Score: 1

    The point wasn't to create a Keynote clone. The point was to demonstrate the toolkit.

    There are lots of Javascript-based presentation packages. So what does writing another one demonstrate?

    they're not demonstrating a toolkit for building presentation packages. they're demonstrating a general-purpose framework for building any GUI web application you might think of.

  7. Re:Wow... on If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax? · · Score: 1

    but operating systems aren't equal in the same sense as, say, grains of the same type and quality but from different producers. if one producer tries to sell his grains above their market price, buyers will go to other producers and will buy exactly equivalent quality of the same grains at lower prices. with IP, you cannot go and buy an exactly equivalent version of Vista from another producer - the good itself is unique and even though it might be possible to substitute some other good for it, it will not be an equivalent choice. thus the producer of IP really does have a monopoly on his specific good (as opposed on the entire class of goods, operating systems in this case), which is absolutely unobtainable from other sources.

  8. Re:It can't possibly work either on Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize · · Score: 1

    why move it aside? move it above the lamp, so that it will actually assist lifting the weights. however, lifting the hole itself might be a problem, but then again moving all that mass sideways isn't gonna be very easy either.

  9. Re:The real questions are... on ZFS For Mac OS X Source Code Available · · Score: 1

    UDF is not read-only.

  10. Re:Search engines replacing DNS? on Verisign To Sell DNS Root Server Lookup Data? · · Score: 1

    except that it wouldn't work at all, as a huge number of websites are hosted on shared servers via name-based vhosts. i've worked at a webhosting company which had about 70000 customers at the time i left, and i can assure you that they didn't allocate one IP address per customer, much less one IP per hostname hosted. with access by IP your browser doesn't know the hostname it needs to provide to the webserver in the HTTP request, and without it the webserver doesn't know which vhost to serve to you.

  11. Re:Macs on 'Hybrid' HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting · · Score: 1

    duh i've never seen a mac in my life but that won't stop me from babbling nonsense on slashdot weird, just noticed that my macbook has two ports on the side that are extremely similar to usb ports... i wonder what will happen if i plug an usb device into one of them?
  12. Re:Firefox password manager on Holes Remain Open in Firefox Password Manager · · Score: 1

    no, you can't actually do this. opera needs to have the plain text passwords in order to fill them into login forms. if you do not have a master password set, then opera must have all the necessary data to decrypt the stored passwords to plain text. if opera has all the necessary data, then a program running on the same machine will be able to extract that data from opera itself and use it to decrypt its stored passwords in the same manner that opera does when it needs them. without an external key (the master password), any program would be eventually able to do the same things that opera can do with its passwords.

  13. Re:Nice urban legend on What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes? · · Score: 1

    Spoofable.

  14. Re:me too on Proving You Are Not a Spammer? · · Score: 4, Informative

    no, a joe-job is when a competitor sends spam advertising (in the actual message body) your website/product/service/whatever, in hopes to discredit you. what the original poster complains about is simple from-spoofing; i don't believe anybody would block his domain due to its use in spoofed from: headers. my domain has been used this way by spammers in the past, and i haven't noticed anybody blocking my mails.

  15. Re:Isn't that ..... on MS Security Guy Wants Vista Bugs Rated Down · · Score: 2, Funny

    while it's true that the price of freedom is eternal VIGILANCE, remember that you can get Vista Ultimate for as little as $399.95. perhaps they should release a new edition, Vista Vigilante?
  16. Re:so close... on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    Just like he gave Adam and Eve a choice to obey Him, we have a choice as well.

    the ongoing attempts of american legislators to ban teaching of the theory of evolution in schools does not sound like much of a choice to me. teaching the doctrines of any one religion in the public school system does not sound like much of a choice.

  17. Re:Lots to cover on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    The better question is: Would Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it? Would you? If not, then why would He do such a thing, being infinately more wise. So, as long as the answer is "no" then the question of "could He..." becomes moot.

    ah, but it is not as long as the answer is "no", it is if the answer is "no". according to your argument, you should have no way to know what the answer would be, because, as you said, that jesus person is "infinitely more wise". you assume he would not microwave the burrito so hot, but that's an assumption of an infinitely less wise individual. so, the question "could he" cannot be said to be moot.

  18. Re:Lots to cover on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    FWIW - God did not stop talking to Adam. Adam still had some relationship with God - it was simply fundamentally different from the previous relationship. Adam had hope of fully restored relationship with God on the basis of God's mercy.

    i don't know why i read these arguments and can't stop thinking "stockholm syndrome"...

  19. Re:so close... on Creationism Museum To Open Next Summer · · Score: 1

    A parent doesn't have to buy a stove, or have children.

    i do believe that a parent pretty much does have to have children.

    A parent could keep their kids locked in a room where they can't get at the stove.

    you fail to evaluate the situation properly, i believe that's because you are desperately trying to force your point. a parent could very easily have the stove locked in a room where the kids can't get at it. restrict the danger, not the endangered.

  20. Re:Try seeing it from the POV of the victim. on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    The only thing worse is how no one seemed to care beyond the person smart enough to record it.

    i saw at least two other phones pointed at the accident, apparently recording.

  21. Re:Why He Should Not Have Been Tased on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    doesn't interfering with authority automagically make you a terrorist in the US these days?

  22. Re:Profiling is worse than random searches. on You Have Been 'Randomly' Selected? · · Score: 1

    ah, but it would be much more inconspicious, if you actually DO use the second part, and make your hit then :)

  23. Re:Other Famous Version Number Skips on Java 1.5.0 Now Officially Java 5.0 · · Score: 1

    nvidia's drivers for linux still haven't moved past 1.0 - even though the current version is 1.0-6106 (which should really be 0.0.1-prealpha, in terms of reliability)

  24. Re:As I've said before... on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 1

    and i ride a bicycle because it is fun and i enjoy it extremely :)

  25. Re:How does this compare to the Gimp ? on Photogenics 4.5 Beta For Linux Released · · Score: 1

    Com'on, all gtk+ applications allows you to changed the menu-keybindings. _BUT_ no application that I know if actually saves the keybindings since the author has to implement that. And keybindings generally in GTK+ sux. Just try to use nothing but keyboard in the GTK+ demo (testgtk)

    as a matter of fact, gimp actually saves the keybindings, since it seems the authors have implemented that. although this doesn't compensate well for the random interface.