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  1. Re:The solution on Spam is Back With A Vengence · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My ISP (www.ntlworld.com) doesn't allow you to use www if your connection has a high amount of outgoing port 25 action. I know this because a PC here got infected with a mass-mailer trojan once. Instead of seeing the webpage you're trying to see, you are shown a page telling you that you've been infected, along with access to several tools for removing these kind of infections. If ALL ISPs did this, I would think that spam traffic would be heavily reduced.

  2. Re:US is trying to enforce its law on the whole wo on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fine then! Iraq? 300k+ dead in a year? Nice going America! Good job you did there.

  3. Re:US is trying to enforce its law on the whole wo on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 1

    You "tried"? What makes you think you have to right to allow people to live their own lives? It wasn't your right to give in the first place. As for being annoyed at the prospect of 'doing another one', maybe you should vote some people into power who are intent on causing another one.

  4. Re:Not US Citizens... on FBI Arrests Neteller Execs · · Score: 5, Informative

    They wont do anything. I have a friend who works for a poker book publishing company who have an online poker site. His boss has been warned by other people in the business, not to travel to the US because if they arrested him, there would be no help.

  5. Re:IMHO on China Tests Anti-Satellite Laser Weapon · · Score: 1

    Enough is enough? I hope you're not the cretin you make yourself out to be. If anybody has had enough of anybody on this planet, it's everyone having enough of the US and UK starting a Middle Eastern crusade and being complete dicks about it. Disclaimer: I'm British.

  6. Re:Please explain on MySQL Falcon Storage Engine Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    last time i checked, this company used MySQL in their products.

  7. Re:Easiest code EVAR on YouTube's Content Identification Failure Raises Eyebrows · · Score: 0, Redundant

    For most of the drivel on YouTube: if (views > 5) { return "This Youtube content has been identified as: Illegal"; } else { return "This Youtube content has been identified as: Legal"; }

  8. Re:I'll miss' em on ORDB.org Going Offline · · Score: 1

    Are you sure that's what your ISP did? I wasn't aware that ISPs ban email on port 25 for IP addresses that have previously been open relays. Most ISPs offer their own mail services of SMTP/POP3 (eg @ntlworld.com addresses). If they stopped all of your outgoing mail through their servers, then you wouldn't be able to use your ISP supplied mailbox! On the other hand, this is the UK. Most of our ISPs aren't too restrictive on what you do with your Internet connection.

  9. Re:P2P not 'Long Tail' friendly on P2P - From Internet Scourge to Savior · · Score: 1

    If you're after the latest and greatest, try www.easynews.com Even on a 20mbps connection they've managed to *saturate* my downstream. Now that's bandwidth.

  10. Re:Ooh, goodie, p2p day on /. on P2P - From Internet Scourge to Savior · · Score: 1

    I'll set you straight. pfsense is built on FREEbsd and PF, not NetBSD and IPF. Also, PF came from OPENbsd, not NETbsd. I'd rather build my own FreeBSD box and retain a lot more functionality. If you're already a linux geek then you're used to the command line enough not to need all that web-gui stuff that new users want / need, plus you get the full potential of the system on top.

  11. Re:Oh no, think about our children! on Homeland Security Director Defends Real ID · · Score: 1

    It's not the French specifically, I'm talking about any illegal immigrant, whether they smell of Garlic or otherwise :)

  12. Not an Exploit - Gurenteeing Upgrades! on Third Microsoft Word Code Execution Exploit Posted · · Score: 0, Redundant

    At last! A reason to tell my IT department to fork out the money for upgrades to Office 2007 when it comes out due to it's "security". If they use the same line that the UK government does to sell ID cards, biometric passports, "it's safer", MS are sure to make more cash!

  13. Re:Oh no, think about our children! on Homeland Security Director Defends Real ID · · Score: 1

    This is similar to my thinking of the proposed ID cards in the UK. They tout them as able to control immigration. How are they supposed to stop immigrants from being transfered over the channel from Europe in the back of a truck? People will still pay immigrants to work, whether they have ID or not.

  14. Re:For a moment there on Approaching Solar Storm Forces ISS to Take Cover · · Score: 1

    we could only hope that IIS would be blown out of existance by the power of god. unfortunately we let 12 year old kids with perl scripts do it instead, slower but more entertaining.

  15. Copyright on Complete Mozart Works Now Free · · Score: 1

    Hold on, you mean he didn't lobby to have his copyright 'protected' for longer?

  16. Re:Classic Marketing on Skype's Free Phone Call Plan Will Soon Have Annual Fee · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was ever going to be 'free' forever. Skype-in is such a handy feature to have though, and it's cheap to grab a number (about £24/12 months) and with a VOIP phone my family can call me at a standard rate no matter where I am. I'm really looking forward to this feature when I'm in cuba next year :)

  17. Re:Awesome on Liquid Terror Charges Dropped · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You would have thought that after the whole threat was rubbished by just about anybody with any basic knowledge of classroom chemistry, the home office and BAA would have downgraded the threat. I must say though, I flew from Gatwick 1 week after the plot was 'uncovered' and it didn't really affect me in the slightest. The queues were orderly and moved at quite a good pace, but the security staff didn't have a clue what they were doing. One woman performing searches on people let several people through with cigarette lighters and cigarettes, both clearly not allowed through the checkpoints. Shambles.

  18. Re:with the what and the who and the what? on BitComet Banned From Private Trackers · · Score: 1

    yeah, this is totally clear to me.