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  1. Re:Shows what you know on GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage · · Score: 1
    It's time to admit that blacklists don't work and try something else.

    Some of us have. I've switched to a combination of SPF, procmail, and TMDA; SPF filtering is done at the SMTP server, then procmail filters out messages from mailing lists and people I know, then TMDA handles the rest. It's quite effective. With DNSSEC, it'll get a lot stronger.

    Of course, this isn't something every AOL user could understand yet, although I'm sure AOL's developers could cook up a nice GUI for the system.

  2. Re:the product is stupid on A New Technique to Quickly Erase Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    No, all the communists are running Linux now.

  3. Aaugh! My eyes! on Flickr to Grant Commercial API Key to Competitors · · Score: 1

    WTF? Where do you people get these photos? Aren't there, like, ITAR controlling the distribution of those things?

  4. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    Oh no, I might look like a dumbass on Slashdot! Heaven forbid!

  5. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    Oh, and now for my amusement, I don't think it's a Slashdot bug; It's probably a PEBKAC bug.

    This:

    • Test
    • Test 2
    • Test 3

    is produced by this code:

    <ul>
    <li>
    Test
    </li>

    <li>
    Test 2
    </li>

    <li>Test 3</li>
    </ul>

    Thanks for playing!

  6. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1
    That would be Nazigrammatik.

    Yes, it would be -- if I were writing in German.

    Thanks for playing; you still fail. By the way, Nazi isn't a word in German. It's an acronym. German doesn't allow the adoption of acronyms into compound nouns.

    You are taking this far to seriously. I know that it's ridiculously inaccurate. It's a joke. Get over it.

    Does it embarrass you to be corrected in your native tongue by an American?

    No, because German isn't my native tongue. In fact, I barely speak it. I am somewhat proud of myself, though, since I apparently writing an effective troll without even trying. :-P

    Have a nice day!

  7. Re:Really? on New Caldera Promised · · Score: 1
    Missing step 5 to abbreviate OpenLinux by SCO X to OS X.

    Hmm...

    SCO OpenLinux 10
    SCO OpenLinux X
    OpenLinux by SCO X
    SCO X (Their stock ticker symbol!)
    SCO OS X
    ... Apple sues
    X
    ... The Open Group sues

    The SCO Group has just announced its new product: "" (pronounced "hot air")...

  8. Re:Really? on New Caldera Promised · · Score: 1

    SCO may have already lost the right to distribute GPL code anyway, thanks to their $699 "IP licensing" program.

  9. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    It's a joke? "Nazis" is German and capitalized compound nouns are the norm in German.

  10. Re:2-40 what? on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    So, you're suggesting that it be reworded: "a typical speedup of 2-40 times faster"? Brilliant.

  11. Re:Free speech? Think of the children! on Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    TFA makes it sound like this isn't only about selling games to children:

    The measure proposed by HB 1381, which was drafted with the help of controversial Florida attorney and anti-game activist Jack Thompson, allows a judge to rule on whether or not a video game meets established criteria for being inappropriate for minors and be subsequently pulled from store shelves.

    The law is either overreaching, or this is yet another case of inaccurate reporting.

  12. Re:Free speech? Think of the children! on Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law · · Score: 1
    This generation of parents has been told it takes a "village" to raise their children rather than two dedicated parents of opposing gender.

    It does take a "village" to raise children. i.e. If your kids are being brats outside and one of your neighbours tells you about that, your response should not be to scold the neighbour (e.g. "I think I know how to raise my kids" is the wrong answer). Why the government should be involved with this, though, I haven't the slightest idea.

  13. Free speech? Think of the children! on Jack Thompson's Violent Game Bill Signed Into Law · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I like how this generation of parents is teaching this generation of kids to value and defend their freedoms.

  14. Give the man *some* credit on Why Ballmer Should Leave Microsoft · · Score: 1

    To be fair, the writing was on the wall by the time Ballmer stepped up as CEO. Although he hasn't done much that has improved the situation, I don't think it's fair to put the blame entirely on him for Microsoft's stagnation.

  15. Re:rats on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    Fact: If I had a S.O. I'd spend less time on Slashdot.

    The implications of the foregoing are left for others to debate.

  16. Re:Speaking of monopolies... on Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Gets you Al Gore! on Arctic Sea Level Falling? · · Score: 1
    Annual global average temperatures are rising more over the past hundred years than the previous several hundred years.

    Heh. The "previous several hundred years"... That's a classic understatement.

  18. Re:File as NBNC (Nice But No Cigar) on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1
    Why? Read the linked page? Says it all. Violates most any Python code of any complexity out there. So if it doesn't convert Python code from the real world, what is it for? Making Python coders learn enough about C++ to remember the limitations and write/rewrite Python code to use it?

    And when Linux was still at 1.x, it should have been dismissed by business because it didn't support SMP.

    The software is barely written. Have patience.

  19. Re:Yeah, but that's not what we need. on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1
    Neither CPython nor PyPy is a strict interpreter, both of them compile source to byte-code and then act as a virtual machine to run that byte-code.

    I think that falls under the standard definition of "interpreter".

    Even ancient versions of MS BASIC were bytecode-oriented. They had to be to fit any decent-sized program into the limited RAM available.

  20. Re:2-40 what? on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Times faster" is a unitless quantity.

  21. Re:Why not just use pure C++? on Python-to-C++ Compiler · · Score: 1

    I think the Python Glade bindings require the GTK bindings.

  22. Obligatory Schneier quote on Microsoft Says Vista Most Secure OS Ever · · Score: 1

    Computer security is often advertised in the abstract: "This system is secure." A product vendor might say: "This product makes your network secure." Or: "We secure e-commerce." Inevitably, these claims are naïve and simplistic. They look at the security of the product, rather than the security of the system. The first questions to ask are: "Secure from whom?" and "Secure against what?"

    They're real questions. Imagine a vendor selling a secure operating system. Is it secure against a hand grenade dropped on top of the CPU? Against someone who positions a video camera directly behind the keyboard and screen? Against someone who infiltrates the company?

    A broad claim that an operating system is "the most secure ever" is completely devoid of meaning.

  23. Re:Still getting the raw end of the deal? on How iTunes Hurts Weird Al · · Score: 1

    s/subsidiary/member/. "Subsidiary" would mean, for example, that the RIAA owns Sony.

  24. Re:His behavior is a problem. on Hifn Restricts Crypto Docs, OpenBSD Opens Fire · · Score: 1
    Jeeze, people get free stuff and then do nothing but bitch about it.

    If you don't like it, fork OpenBSD.

  25. Re:By my math... on Hifn Restricts Crypto Docs, OpenBSD Opens Fire · · Score: 1
    Your logic is that this company is indebted to OpenBSD and must cater to the demands of OpenBSD.

    If they want support for their hardware in OpenBSD, then yes. Hifn is quite able to fork OpenBSD and maintain their own tree if they want to.