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  1. 5xx is the answer on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 3, Informative
  2. better avoid mom and dads house on Adrian Lamo Charged With Hacking · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, I guess he'd better avoid mom and dads house!

    And aren't we supposed to call it cracking instead of hackings? Or are we reclaimed it like the way gay folks now use "fag".

  3. Godwin's Law on Ian Clarke, Ernie Miller On Free Speech, Privacy · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Godwin's Law is mentioned. So I looked it up:
    Godwin's Law prov. [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely- recognized codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
    Pretty funny. hey's law is that everybody wants to have their own law.
  4. Canadian no smile rule just the start on Facial Recognition Fails in Boston, Too · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Recently there was a story in the press about a new rule for Canadian passorts: no smiles. Now we know why...to normalize the faces for facial recognition.

  5. Re:Rear Projection on Seamless Video Walls · · Score: 1

    You get more pixels with multiple monitors.

  6. Re:Interesting technique on IBM's Billy Goat Squashes Worms · · Score: 1

    Egress is exiting so don't you mean ingress (entering)?

  7. Re:DRIP is a better option, IMHO on AMTP as an Alternative to SMTP · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Thanks for the pointer. DRIP (Designated Relays Inquiry Protocol) sounds pretty good.
    Abstract The Designated Relays Inquiry Protocol, DRIP, is a method for domain name owners to specify the IP addresses that are authorized to relay mail as a domain name. The protocol provides a method for server MTAs to reject SMTP connections from IP addresses not authorized to use a domain name.
    I like this because it remains decentralized and is optional.
  8. hitech on Microsoft vs. Burst.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    The lawyers printed out all the message (140 boxes) then sorted them by hand it seems to find the missing dates. Maybe they should have used a computer.

  9. MIT everywhere (on slashdot) on Statistically Optimal Music · · Score: 1

    Its another MIT project on slashdot.
    That makes approximately 25 thousand this week.
    Time for an icon?

  10. Re:Worst designed web site ever... on Statistically Optimal Music · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I disagree.

    How shocking a site where you have to
    pan instead of scroll!!!
    Why not?

    It was easy to understand how to use it.

    It used html and not (yuck) Flash.

  11. SoBig.F zombies attack!!! on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Maybe this is the SoBig.F zombies at work. They have awakened from their "sleeper cells". There was a rummor that they were going to be used by spammers -- but not in this way.

  12. Re:yay (faker!) on New Low Bandwidth Denial of Service Attacks · · Score: 5, Informative

    "baud" is named after J.M.E. Baudot who was French. more info

  13. Re:UUCP! on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I liked the old bang paths.
    It was fun to experiment with different paths
    to find the fastest way to get mail to your pals.

  14. Re:IANAL but... on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    Well, is double taxation illegal?!
    Probably not.
    Gas, cigarettes are probably both double (multiple) taxed.

  15. Re:/dev/null is unacceptable on Slashback: Bouncing, Taxing, Releasing · · Score: 1

    I totally agree with this comment.
    My mail servers messages with executables with 5xx also.

  16. wxWindows? on GTK+ TTY Port · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it works with wxWindows and
    in particular with wxPythonGTK which I'm into
    these days. If so it would be pretty cool to
    have the same application work on MS Windows, regular GTK and TTY GTK.

  17. Re:DHTML and javascript on JavaScript and DHTML Cookbook · · Score: 1

    Hey that site didn't render correctly in Mozilla!!!
    It appeared nearly all black. It worked in Internet Explorer. Do I have to say this is the most ironic thing on the Internet!!!

  18. Re:Postfix virus filter on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 2, Informative
    Ooops, you are right. I have another line that catches other extensions (I just forgot to post it here). My second line:

    /(filename|name)=".*\.(scr|shb|shs|vb|vbe|vbs|wsf| wsh)"/i REJECT Executable content now allowed - you can place it in a zip

    Other example scripts can be fond on the left-bottom of
    here


    I prefer to keep it simple. Ie not filtered for spam strings, etc. Just stuff catching content that is very very obviously bad.

  19. Postfix virus filter on Postfix: A Secure and Easy-to-Use MTA · · Score: 3, Informative
    I love postfix. A while ago I added a filter to
    stop executable (ie virus) content. And nobody
    in my company got the recent SoBig virus. Here's the line:

    /(filename|name)=".*\.(asd|chm|dll|com|exe|hlp|hta |js|ocx|pif|lnk)"/i REJECT Executable content not allowed

  20. Re:I remember... on Introducing Probability into Chip Design · · Score: 1

    I always figured this was used for stuff like this:

    for (i = 0; i 10; i++)
    { // do something
    }

    The branch to jump outside the loop
    is the unlikely one. This is probably
    a good assumption to make for loops.

  21. Re:Sponsored and Featured sites on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    Sorry I wasn't clear, that was what I was saying
    featured by MSN, sponsored by MSN or faked search result is all the same thing. I was just saying that just because there is some fine print saying they how they cheated the results doesn't make it any less slimy.

  22. Re:try SCO... on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, they are getting DDoSed. Here's what ESR sez

  23. Re:Sponsored and Featured sites on How Objective Is Microsoft's Search? · · Score: 1

    But they are probably sponsored by MSN
    and they are certianly featured by MSN.
    So what's the diff?!

  24. Re:Pet Peeve on Standard Brewing For PC Card Replacement 'Newcard' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No that *my* pet peeve. Have about the "NT" (New Techology) OS? Not so new any more is it. I don't think New York and New Delhi are so new any more.
    Still users are aways calling files new this or new that. Then they come back in a year and say what's that?

  25. Re:A bit more difficult on A Fully Distributed Power Grid? · · Score: 1

    Er, maybe I don't get it but... isn't the point of hydrogen that it exists in water and air so it should not be necessary to pipe or ship it around.