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  1. Re:DMARC and Google: multiple foobars on Ask Slashdot: How Useful Are DMARC and DKIM? · · Score: 1

    No, the solution is to only check SPF and DKIM at your external borders (ie incoming mail on servers listed in your MX records). Internal servers should not be checking SPF or DKIM,

  2. Re:I'm surrounded by morons on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    By the time DST starts, it is already light past the time for getting home for work, and when DST ends it is starting to get dark at go-home time. During the summer it would be light during both morning and evening commute, and in winter it would be dark irrespective of DST. It is only during the few weeks around the clock changes that it affects whether the commutes are in daylight or darkness. Also as others have pointed out, the clock changes are at the time of year when it is getting light/dark during the morning/evening commute which leads to having to two periods each years of suffering the sun just over the horizon during each commute.

  3. Re:I'm surrounded by morons on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    No. Most of (Western) Europe should be on GMT/UTC. The timezone system is based on the sun being at its highest point within 30 minutes of noon local time, with it being at exactly noon at the 15N degree longitude lines. So it is continental Europe that should change to the 'natural' timezone rather than the UK changing to CET.

  4. So just have 2 sets of doors and arrange so that they cannot both be open simultaneously - ie an airlock type system. The first set of doors is open and the second closed. People pass through the 1st door, the door closes and the 2nd door opens to allow the people to exit. The second door will not close (and the first remains closed) while there is anyone in the area between the doors. This means that if someone does try to go the wrong way, they will have to turn back and exit through the door they entered by.

  5. Do not do geo-blocking on BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    If VPN use impedes the enforcement of geo-blocking then the answer is very simple - do not try and use geo-blocking. Restricting where content may be viewed is a concept which should have passed its 'sell by date'.

  6. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    Once Office is gone, Linux on the desktop is in. Office is the reason why businesses need windows on client, and exchange servers on the back end. Game over man, game over.

    Why do you need Exchange Server on the back end to handle office? Office works fine on a standalone PC, SOHO users just have it running on a single PC or use windows shares (without a domain controller) to share documents. Office documents can be stored on any shared file system and sent/received by any email system. So exchange server is not needed to support office.

  7. Re:customer-centric on Microsoft Defies Court Order, Will Not Give Emails To US Government · · Score: 1

    But could they order that the unopened box be shipped to the USA, where it will be forced open by US law enforcement and the contents examined?

  8. Re:Anyone know what, exactly, was the issue? on BBC and FACT Shut Down Doctor Who Fansite · · Score: 1

    If BBC iPlayer were to have the old episodes available, rather than its usual habit of removing programmes N days after broadcast, then there would be no incentive for fan and torrent sites to 'pirate' them.

  9. Re:Why is on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 1

    True,. If you distribute a Linux binary then as long as the user is running the same library .so versions as it was linked with, chances are that it will run with no problems irrespective of the distribution.

  10. Arch not the first on Linux Kernel Shuffling Zombie Juror Aka 3.16 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article suggests that Arch will be the first distribution to have 3.16, but Gentoo got there before it,

  11. Re:Customer service? on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    Where there are allocated seats (which is not the case in this story), why would anyone want to pay extra to board first? In many other situations, the more important, or higher ranked, the person the later they have take their seat. For example in the Navy, the most senior officer is the last to board a transport and the first to disembark. When there are state occasions (such as a Royal marriage), the "ordinary" people have to arrive first and sometimes be in their seats hours in advance, whereas the VIPs arrive at the last moment.

    As a business, or first class, traveller, which would you prefer - staying longer in the first/business class lounge and boarding last or boarding first and having to sit on the plane for longer before it departs?

  12. Re:Damn I used to like southwest on Man Booted From Southwest Flight and Threatened With Arrest After Critical Tweet · · Score: 1

    I get the impression that you have about equal chances of getting a rude gate agent no matter what airlines you fly with.

    Probably because the gate agents are not employed by the airline but by a third party contractor who provides the agents for all gates irrespective of the airline.

  13. Re:There is supposed to be a penalty. on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 1

    Maybe apply the 'three strikes' doctrine and make it that after N false take-downs all of the copyrights they do own revert to the public domain.

  14. Re:Sorry... on "Internet's Own Boy" Briefly Knocked Off YouTube With Bogus DMCA Claim · · Score: 1

    And those doing so should be also charged with perjury, as allowed for by DMCA. Claiming to own the rights to something to which you do not own the rights should be treated as being far more serious that copying (or distributing) something without permission (so called 'piracy').

  15. Re:Idiots on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 1

    Why not? Here the OTA terrestrial TV is a mixture of 'free to view' and encrypted 'subscription or pay-per-view' channels all using the same spectrum. The encrypted and unencrypted channels not only use the same spectrum but also share the same MUX..

  16. Re:Idiots on Aereo Embraces Ruling, Tries To Re-Classify Itself As Cable Company · · Score: 1

    Or they could encrypt the OTA transmissions and require viewers to use a CAM to decode them.

  17. Re:Seems appropriate on UK Computing Student Jailed After Failing To Hand Over Crypto Keys · · Score: 2

    Yes, you turn over they keys to the safe and inside they find sheets of paper with what appears to be random letters and numbers written on them. Can the court compel you to disclose the "meaning" of what is written on those documents?

  18. Re:If Netflix, then DRM too on Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules · · Score: 1

    As do territorial rights/restrictions - you cannot access this information because of where you are (or where geolocation of your IP address thinks you are). Or "we do not support the browser/OS you are using.

  19. Re:Of course they do ... on Wireless Industry Lobbying Hard to Keep Net Neutrality Out · · Score: 1

    Why should ISPs not be regulated the same as phones? They both do basically the same thing - provide the infrastructure for party A to connect to party B and exchange information. The only real difference is that a phone line only (normally) allows communication with a single peer at one time but communication to multiple peers can be multiplexed over the connection to an ISP.

  20. Re:FYI: remove from Youtube not from 'Google' on Google: Indie Musicians Must Join Streaming Service Or Be Removed · · Score: 1

    The agreement protects google against legal action arising from hosting copywriter content.

    Do not forget that someone owns the copyright on every video posted on YouTube, whether it is a private individual posting a video of their cat playing with a ball of string or a TV company posting a complete TV show.

  21. Re:conflict of interest on Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist · · Score: 1

    Yes, but we can do that without restricting them from providing other services.

    Why not? It seems to work for the landline and mobile telecom companies. Basically you can dial any number from any phone, including one which connects to a competitors service. The way they handle it is in the charging structure. If they provide service X then access to this is included in the basic charge. If you want to connect to service X provided by a competitor then you will have to pay the call charges. Translating this to ISPs would mean that access to the service provided by the ISP would either not be metered or would not count towards any data caps or allowances.

  22. Re:There's no financial incentive to play fair on Mozilla Offers FCC a Net Neutrality Plan With a Twist · · Score: 1

    So maybe there needs to be legislation which requires these ISPs to operate a "Chinese Wall" between their content provider and customer connectivity operations.

  23. Re:link on Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You · · Score: 1

    What is the purpose of restricting it to US only? Do they think that people outside the US would not be interested in seeing what could be mined about them from Facebook?

  24. Perfect Forward Secrecy on Aussie Attorney General's War On Encrypted Web Services · · Score: 4, Informative

    So they would ban the use of Perfect Forward Secrecy. Using PFS it is impossible to decrypt the intercepted content even with the Certificate's private key.

  25. Was it picked up in Beta? on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 1

    Chrome 33 was in Beta for a while before being released as stable. So these issues should have been picked up/highlighted then. How much negative feedback on the new 'new tab' page was there during the beta cycle? I am using Chromium beta cycle and soon got used to the new 'new tags' page.