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  1. Re:SPF /DKIM on PayPal Asks E-mail Services to Block Messages · · Score: 1

    We have spf for all our domains. DKIM is a pain if you have more than one domian, the dns bit is easy, the signing more iffy - result i gave up on dkim implementation.

    yes we could could easily check for dkim signatures, but i have spf. already - i saw little point to dkim. Main problem here is that mail clients don't do much with this extra header line that the mta/dkim signer puts in.

    The point to this is while its probably hard to fake, dkim does not offer much to the mail client. With more than one domain then dkim becomes a bitch to configure.

    I found dkim to be a waste of time, spf however is not.

    The day ebay tells me what i need to run a mail server (heard of rfc's ebay) is the day i tell ebay/paypall to go get lost.

  2. Time to buy that chemical warfare suit. on Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen · · Score: 1

    That should freak the newbies and normal office staff.

  3. Re:Of course I do on Do You Allow Webmail Use on Your Network? · · Score: 1

    Yes - but stop them using Internet explorer. Most 'issues' then go away.

  4. Re:Is this something that has to be fought? on Who Controls Your Television? · · Score: 1

    Currently i am doing an hour of tv a week. Of that I have to record tng reruns, and i like family guy for its off the wall moments and that is about all i watch on a tv.

    Since tng finished, and family guy has already been canceled once i say forget tv. - I see some things going straight to dvd (or hopefully ignoring big media outlet) which on dvd is where i caught up with 'over there' in January recently being that it got recommended by an acquaintance.

    Yes I could buy tng on dvd, as i also could with F.G. - so do i need a tv ? no, but the media industry NEEDS me to own a tv. Why ?

    Imagine i rent a dvd a week. how do I choose it - well 'Over There' was on tv first - it never made it to a channel i could get, So tv introduces me to things say F.G as a replacement to South Park.

    The less i watch - the fewer dvds i rent, buy, or even steal (say that heroes thing - no interest here). My dvd rental company sent me an email asking why i canceled my dvd subscription. I said that i cannot use there downloaded (drm) videos since i am not run windows media player (or have any intention to do so) and being honest I saw most of the things i missed in a year in month.

    Should drm enter the world of tv, i imagine like my windows xp friend (who has yet to get an update ever since wga came in) means that he will come the conclusion that his tv does not work one day. And he too will seek an alternative.

  5. Re:Too late. on SEC Halts Trading on Spam Driven Stocks · · Score: 1

    well even so - but if the sec investigate and find that x - sold $x.xx worth of shares - they might well find the spammer, and take action via a fraud charge.



    Dumb investors could then sue induvidual 'x' when made public. - Its a start

  6. no messages from the devil either on How MP3 Was Born · · Score: 1

    played 1000 times and still no messages from satan - sigh - i miss bible bashers.

  7. Re:No mention of DRM on Is Vista a Trap? · · Score: 1

    Give him a chance he does not have sound, so

    1. no music
    2. no games
    3. no realplayer streaming
    4. no annoying flash
    5. no skype

    should we continue ?

  8. \dev\null to dell catalogues on Pre-Installed Linux Tops Dell Customer Requests · · Score: 1

    We get the dell offer booklets, they are automatically binned in the recycle box.

    I might be a zealot in Linux department but i've heard too many other bad stories about Dell.

    Sure i could buy Dell - and hope that i can get standard drivers for say fc'x' that work but then i'd have to borrow a digital camera and document that i never ever pressed "i want to have s e x with Steve Balmer now" and then spend 5 hours plus talking to an array of indians at dell in order to get back the $30 windows tax back per dell pc.

    Look I didnt know about the dell ideas site and don't care about Dell. So Dell don't get our hardware orders - do we care no.

    Windows works for some folks. Linux works too, conclusion Dell does not want our money - thats fine by us.

  9. I the Nigerian scammer will fun on RIAA Admits ISPs Have Misidentified "John Does" · · Score: 1

    Dear victim My name is Prince Umlecki and if you Pay me $1000 usd to www.p2plawsuitsolved.com then i will pray to god that that the riaa won't sue you.

    Regards Prince Umlecki the third of Nigeria

  10. Re:Getting paid on Jonathan Lethem On Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    What do you think of the idea of granting interviews under copyleft terms?

    I'm for it but whether Journalist would agree to it would be another point.

    To be honest i'd dont really trust journalists. If you need a writer with a english degree to tell you 'THIS IS NEWS' and a man called Rupert Murdoch to approve it then theres more to news than that.

  11. Re:Getting paid on Jonathan Lethem On Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    I use

    Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 You are free: * to Share -- to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work * to Remix -- to make derivative work

    It seemed to scare my restaurant writer from an it reporting career and off back to restaurant reviewing.

  12. Re:Getting paid on Jonathan Lethem On Plagiarism · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a 'Journalist' - I write docs with a very liberal creative commons license and that seems to scare that sort of person away since they cant sell the copyright it as it not all there own work.

    That worked well for me here and scared the journalist off back to restaurant reviews or something and im not kidding.

  13. The Man Plus solution (Fred Pohl) book on Breakdown Forces New Look At Mars Mission Sexuality · · Score: 1

    Was turn a man (Roger Torroway) into a cyborg, remove his dinkle and pump him with estrogen. and send up mental health doctors.

  14. Wont work - retarded civil servants on Jail for Selling Email Lists to Spammers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Like your humour

    but the uk's information commissioners office is far too lame to do anything about it. - explain why evil empire Microsoft sued the Milton Keynes spammer ,and not the civil service.

    Blair and Bush masters of FUD '15 - minutes before you die'. Final thought: Imformation commisioners office (UK) could not party in brewery.

  15. Re:Opinion Center on Dell's Intel Bias Caused By Under the Table Cash? · · Score: 1

    huh you must be french right Intel exec trying to deflect a question

    what was funnier was Kevin (ceo of dell) was offering his latest intel powered server on an advert in slashdot - its true and he was smiling. Guity i say

  16. Re:Why would they subject themselves to this? on Vista Family Discount Keys Found Not Compatible · · Score: 1

    Thank heavens that the riaa, and mpiaa have 'control' of Vista, Vista users with this problem should ring up both organisations and ask for help

  17. Re:News Flash on 10 Years of Pushing For Linux — and Giving Up · · Score: 1

    This guy is looking for the wrong things - he wants a AD killer - so instead of trying of trying fedoras directory server (or redhat paid support) he gets unbunto (one cd if memory serves) and try's evolution as a gnome mail client.

    We run cyrus imap its amazing - i dont run FDS, how would i upgrade if i was him ? 1.create new ldap server - 2.make great new imap server/mailer 3.test 4. point new mail to new imap store, 5.keep $exchange running, 6.get users to shift mail to new imap box, 7.then turn off exchange

    yes open source can be a pain - but if you look for the wrong things and expect a button to be where it is in client y then hes plain asking for trouble, its his it budget.

    If he or his users dislike change that badly then he truely is locked into redmonds way.

  18. Re:I see a giant drop in revenue for GoDaddy on MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site · · Score: 2, Informative

    Parsons the evil man in charge of godaddy is running I consider something of pyramid like scheme - if you cause no problems (as defined by them) you get cheap domain names

    but if you break there rules (which they decide on) - they hit you for $$$$ on you pre authurised credit card hmmm nice. I bet the mafia would like that racket.

    Parsons screwed up on .eu and then whined and also whined about domain name knitting. As a european i'd not trust Bob Parsons with anything.

    I'd rather give my money to a chinese registrar than go daddy if they where the only two registrars left on the planet. There are other registrars but if Parsons thinks im stupid enough to give him our money and hope for the best he better think twice.

    Im not suggesting a free for all - but if you go to a higher power and not ask the people in charge then that means if a crime was commited i'd have to hold Bob Parsons responsible for all myspace hacking crimes/spamming. - After all as a board director he admitted his guilt.

  19. aha this explains Charles Dickens speaking tours on The RIAA and French Button-Makers · · Score: 1

    to America and probably why Henry James lived in England to my mind. Things start to make sense.

  20. Re:Nice gig for the Certificate Authorities on New Extended SSL Certs Make Online Debut · · Score: 1

    Well there Sales operation is good and no im not trying to troll

    Looking into certs, requested a free pdf, send all your details, click ok and wham bang thank you mam expect a pdf to download - nothing there. Think about something else and a week later Vogan from verisign rings

    can i help

    I politelly tell him that his request form was screwed up and no we would not be using you and could he please go jump under a train.

    I learnt to make my own ca's - Vogan and Versign pretty useless but good at salesmanship.

  21. Re:Why I don't buy online on Is DRM Intrinsically Distasteful? · · Score: 1

    As someone who reinstalls windoze and linux on a fairly often basis. I consider drm a pain and so avoid this stuff, for me its not practical, that also might explain why my dvd library consists of one film dvd, but i use dvd 4.7gb to backup stuff to.

    OK keys/challenge response might 'feel' right but when i have to rm known_hosts for ssh to work please dont expect me to buy drm crap. The perception that they have to check is bad. Should i query this i doubt that the helpdesk moron gives a sh*t and will be told by his riaa boss to tell me to buy it again to fix it - or redownload it until next time.

    I want to buy it once, not several times just to use what i have. I dont need that - nor do you need that

  22. Re:Putty w/ dynamic proxy support and an SSH serve on Hotel Connectivity Provider SuperClick Tracks You · · Score: 1

    or run this as a cgi script on a webserver http://www.jmarshall.com/tools/cgiproxy/ not that 'anon' but better and no adverts either. No website should be without one and we have it running too

  23. Re:Yes! Buy a new PC... on The NYT on the Proliferation of Botnets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Waiter Rant (some blog) covered this recently http://waiterrant.net/wordpress2/?p=400

    "Same old," Arthur says. "How's the writing thing going?"
    "Harder than I expected," I say. "But thank God for computers. I can't imagine typing this all out on a typewriter."
    "Computers are great," Arthur says. "Until they go wrong."
    "Ain't that the truth."
    "My old computer was so infested with porn I had to throw it out," Arthur says.
    "No way," I reply, taking a sip from my martini.
    "I'm not kidding."
    "Couldn't you reformat the hard drive?"
    "My ex brother-in-law tried to fix it," Arthur says, wiping down the bar with his towel. "He's a computer geek and even he couldn't do it."
    "What the hell were you looking at?" I ask.
    "Nothing illegal," the bartender says, suddenly defensive.
    "Sure."
    "I swear," Arthur says. "I'm surfing the net, minding my own business...."
    "Looking at naked women."
    "Perusing all the wonderful smut the internet has to offer," Arthur continues, "When a porn demon possesses my laptop."
    "Porn demon?"
    "Yeah," Arthur says, throwing up his hands. "A million pop-ups start exploding on the screen."
    "Oh no," I mutter. .....
    "So," Arthur says, pulling a frosted glass out of the freezer, "I had a millions pop ups. It took me forever to close them. My ex-wife saw them."
    "I'm not gonna even ask what she was doing there."
    Arthur just smiles. "So the computer's completely fucked," he says. "Ran slow, acted weird - the works."
    "Didn't you run a virus scan?"
    "This isn't a virus," Arthur cautions. "It's a porn demon. Virus scans are powerless against it."
    "I don't think the church exorcises computers," I say.
    "You sure?"
    I chuckle to myself. Every Catholic diocese has an official exorcist. I used to know the one from mine. It's a secret, mostly ceremonial post. Despite what you see in the movies, Linda Blair scenes are few and far between. Something tells me the Church isn't gonna whip out the bell, book, and candle to save a Duo-Core processor.
    "I'm sure," I say.
    "That's too bad," Arthur says. "My brother-in-law gave up. I had to throw the damn thing in the trash."
    "I don't know what's worse," I say. "You buying a new computer or your ex brother-in- law trying to fix it."
    "I learned my lesson," Arthur says, pouring my drink into the frosted glass. "I had to spend a grand on a new computer. No more internet porn for me." .....

    Seems drastic but it did solve the problem. - i make no comment about the tech but thats a user for you.

  24. Re:huh? on Blue Origin Release Flight Videos · · Score: 0

    Not if i get my way - I've got a patent on space travel, so i can sue.

  25. case in point: Tom Stephens on Social Network Users Have Ruined Their Privacy · · Score: 1

    was an english suspect in the recent english street walkers murders (it was reported in germany), Tom had an myspace account, the media thus determined he alone was guilty becuase he had a myspace account.



    Tom was released, but he must be regarded by all persons now as a deviant pervert for having a myspace account and knowing the persons. His employer is Tesco's (a walmart type operation).