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  1. Re:SPF! on Proper Ways to Dispose of Spam? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right, but that post was saying that he thought that spammers would avoid forging a domain with SPF on it, because it would be more likely that their mail would be rejected. Therefore, if you add SPF to your domain, you shouldn't get as many bounces, as spammers won't want to forge that as the sender.

  2. Re:Carmack? on John Carmack Discusses 360's Edge, Considers DS · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ITYM John Romero.

  3. Re:What is wrong with the proprietary driver? on Open nVidia Linux Driver Pledge Nearly Complete · · Score: 1

    Maybe the fastest way to do what they do uses a JIT.

  4. Re:What about the 100 worst places? on Google Tops 100 Best Places To Work · · Score: 1

    Well, you probably wouldn't want to do phone support for them, unless you like being yelled or screamed at.

  5. Re:I didn't RTFA, but... on Computer's Heat May Unmask Anonymized PCs · · Score: 1

    Sure there's clock skew normally. I know that my computer doesn't have a caesium-133 atom inside of it. As such, the clock is inaccurate and bound to vary relative to the correct time. I have noticed that it has been up to a couple of minutes off. Right now, as I updated it from an NTP server, it was 4 seconds off. It has to become inaccurate to have that problem.

  6. Re:I didn't RTFA, but... on Computer's Heat May Unmask Anonymized PCs · · Score: 5, Informative

    You measure clock skew before, during, and after you hit the hidden service. If the change in clock skew happens at the same time you load the server, that indicates that it's probably the correct server.

  7. Re:1258965 on The Numbers Stations Analyzed, Discussed · · Score: 2, Funny

    8008? I always knew that Intel was filled with perverts, but finally I have proof....

  8. Re:So.. on FDA Decides Cloned Animals Safe to Eat · · Score: 1

    So, no more human burgers? What a pity.

  9. Shocking on FDA Decides Cloned Animals Safe to Eat · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's amazing! Cloned meat is just as healthy for you to eat as meat from the adult that had been cloned. Wow.

  10. Re:It takes a while... on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray AACS DRM Cracked · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Wouldn't it suck to have your HD-DVD player stop working for new titles, because someone was using its key? Or are all HD-DVD players networked, so their keys can be changed at any time?

  11. Re:Why bother. on Zune Sales Continue to Weaken · · Score: 2, Funny

    What else is Microsoft going to do with their mountains of money? I suppose they could hand out more dividends, but their options are actually somewhat limited.

  12. Re:$40,000???!!! on Microsoft Formally Releases Robotics Software · · Score: 1
    And every automation control system I've used, PLC or CNC, has had the development software free with the unit.


    As a note, you have to buy the development software for the Allen Bradley Micrologix series. It's quite annoying to have to spend 2 times more for the software than the PLC (unless you want to pirate it, but we won't go there...).
  13. Re:This liquid bomb this is such a joke on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 1
    Unless you take the entire plane down, smuggling a bomb on board a plane is just moronic


    True, it didn't successfully bring the entire plane down. However, if they had successfully set the bomb off over the fuel tank, and the explosion had broken into the fuel tank, then it is very possible that the plane would have gone up in flames.
  14. Re:Study on effectiveness over time on Consumer Ad Blocking Doubles · · Score: 1

    Why can't they just send me $2.00 in the mail, demonstrating that they have enough money that they can't possibly be a fly-by-night company?

  15. Re:Keyboards on Why Do Gadgets Break? · · Score: 1

    You could probably use a 61 key synthesizer, if you don't have an 88-key one. Or you could use a piano, if you could manage to lift it.

  16. Re:Does this really mean anything... on 9 Billion-Year-Old "Dark Energy" Reported · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hah, the electric universe theory, including the idea that the sun is powered by a magical source of electricity. How did this get an "insightful?"

  17. Re:He mentions a whitelist. He must be joking. on Firefox 2.0 Wins Phishfight Against IE7 · · Score: 1

    Would there be a tag in the source, so that those pages will be checked? I suppose we'd have to mark every site that doesn't have that tag as phishing (with big flashing lights, of course), just so a phishing site doesn't try to pretend that it isn't banking.

  18. Re:Promotional CDs on Copyright Protection Problems For OSS Project · · Score: 1

    Just make sure you give the source along with.

  19. Re:A better goal: One water well per village on OLPC Wins Popular Science Award · · Score: 1

    Yes, but what do we do for the villages that already have wells? Do we let them wait until our global hunt for the last village without a well has finished?

  20. Re:Very good! on New Mono 1.2 Now Supports WinForms · · Score: 0, Troll

    And not one of those VB jobs that I would want to work on. Of course, I may not always get the choice...

  21. Re:compress knowledge = intelligence on First Hutter Prize Awarded · · Score: 1

    Intelligence != being able to store Wikipedia in a small space. In fact, according to Wikipedia, programs are already able to predict what comes next in English text approximately as well as humans, but they aren't as intelligent as humans.

    If we want to make something less intelligent more intelligent, it seems likely that at some point, when its intelligence is in some sense the same as the average human's, that its behavior would be more similar to a human's than it is now. Of course, that's hardly a certainty.

  22. Re:Analog? on AnalogWhole, an Alternative To FairUse4WM · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Right. So unless it's going through a DAC, it's the digital hole. Anyway, I thought everyone knew not to transcode files.

  23. Analog? on AnalogWhole, an Alternative To FairUse4WM · · Score: 1

    If it just uses the Windows mixer and the sound never actually leaves the soundcard, I suspect that it just stays digital the entire time, and is never actually converted to analog. I'm not sure how the Windows soundcard interface works, so I might be wrong. In any case, if you're using this program to play WMA files, you're still degrading their quality by transcoding them to MP3. That probably won't matter if you're just going to play them on your iPod though.

  24. Re:Who's on first? What's on Second? on How the DMCA Protects YouTube · · Score: 1

    Who's talking about torrents? The summary does, but it says that torrent sites have less protection than Youtube (due to the fact that they don't host copyrighted material).

  25. Re:I'm no expert, but... on A New Spin on Open Source Business Models · · Score: 1

    Profit? Why would they need that? Apparently, you're not a part of the internet economy.