For big domains with multiple machines and customers who access the net in many different ways. Having an SPF record with "-all" is a guaranteed way to have your legitimate customer emails blocked at some point.

I don't see why, if it's correctly configured. The domain I run has hundreds of machines. There are bigger domains out there, but I don't see how they would be significantly different. "Having an SPF record with -all" simply means you're confident that you know what IP addresses your domain's outgoing mail mail will be sent from. Do you not think most organizations will know the IP addresses of their own outgoing MTAs? Is it so difficult to set up all of an organizations' mail clients so they ALWAYS relay mail through one of those servers?

Changing one tilde to a dash would solve this problem for 90% or more of the phishing targets.

$ dig txt linkedin.com

;; ANSWER SECTION:
linkedin.com.        21600    IN    TXT    "v=spf1 ip4:70.42.142.0/24 ip4:208.111.172.0/24 ip4:64.74.220.0/24 ip4:64.74.221.0/26 ip4:64.71.153.211 ip4:64.74.221.30 ip4:69.28.149.0/24 ip4:208.111.169.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.128/26 ip4:64.74.98.16/29 mx ~all"

You've just not read enough. Like the 1970s manslaughter committed by Ford (using Pinto cars), or the blatant poisoning of water by various chemical corporations over the years. While they are not as dangerous as government (which sucks money direct from your wallet) (or drafts you to die in Nam), megacorps are still a danger to individual consumers and workers, and must be watched just like any other predator that is more powerful than you are.

Oh, for heaven's sake. OK, I'll bite, but I probably shouldn't. Your use of hyperbole and radical left catchphrases (megacorps? Really?) makes it difficult to take you seriously, but I'm gonna take a leap of faith and assume you're not just trolling.

The specific example you described as "manslaughter" by the Ford Motor company was a myth -- the Pintos were no more dangerous than any other average car on the road at the time. http://www.pointoflaw.com/articles/The_Myth_of_the_Ford_Pinto_Case.pdf

Both government and large private organizations, in the long run, are generally beneficial to individual "consumers and workers," to borrow your terminology. Yes, they bear watching, but don't let a few bad apples spoil your whole worldview.

I found it useful last week. I was doing a search on the model number of the water heater in my house, looking for a replacement part. There were no search results for the full model number, but when I hit the backspace button a couple times in the Google Instant search, I was able to find some search results for a model that was pretty close to the same one in my house. As it turned out, they were close enough and I was able to find the replacement parts I needed.

I'm gonna hold out until they release its canine robotic companion, the DRP-4.

The release of pre-alpha source code for their Diaspora social Website was only a few hours old on Wednesday when hackers began identifying flaws they said could seriously compromise the security of those who used it. Among other things, the mistakes make it possible to hijack accounts, friend users without their permission, and delete their photos.

"The bottom line is currently there is nothing that you cannot do to someone's Diaspora account, absolutely nothing," said Patrick McKenzie, owner of Bingo Card Creator, a software company in Ogaki, Japan.

So in other words, yes, it's a little bit worse than Facebook at this point.

Have you ever seen Idiocracy?

All except the last fifteen or twenty minutes, at which time the storyline predictability and the two dimensional characters actually put me to sleep. There were a few great lines, but that was about it. It is actually possible to make dumb characters who are also interesting, you know. The movie assumed everyone was stupid in the same way, which is stupid.

Having said that, it appears that Buddhism requires a belief in supernatural (thoughnot immortal or omnipotent) Devas

As with Christianity, there are hundreds of different traditions within Buddhism. Many have different beliefs. Some believe in Devas, some don't, but all are properly considered Buddhists. Some Christians believe the communion wine and wafer literally becomes the blood and body of Christ, some don't. Both are properly considered Christians.

Do you have any idea how much carbon I've sequestered in fat? Get off my roly poly back.

"Nontechnical people -- for example marketers or small business owners -- increasingly get the feeling they should know more about technology. And they're right. If you can throw up a small website or do some real number-crunching, chances are those skills will help you feed your family. But how should they get started?"

Every application will have tools that are more or less appropriate for the task at hand. Even just the two you listed -- throwing up a small web site and doing serious number crunching, are very different tasks, and there is no one tool that would be ideal for both (for some definitions of 'serious' number crunching).

It sounds like you're focusing on people who have no desire to become techies down the road -- people who don't want to invest a lot of time in learning the nuances of different programming tools. The most widely applicable tool available right now is probably Java, but I wouldn't recommend it to people who aren't interested in software development for its own sake.

Marketers and small business owners would be best served by farming out things like web site development -- good web development requires a very broad skill set that is rarely found in any one person anyway. If you want to learn some basic programming to automate repetitive administrative tasks like manipulating Excel spreadsheets on Windows systems, learn C# (...I feel so dirty). Visual Basic would be a good choice too.

Personally, I'm a Perl guy. I LOVE Perl. I deal with lots of text files, often on non-Windows machines. Perl is easy to learn, it can run on lots of different operating systems, and it has an AMAZING collection of modules that let it do just about anything. But... I can't really recommend it to someone who's probably never going to need to interface with anything but Microsoft applications on Microsoft operating systems.

Huh, I just found more detailed specs for the 2.4v single cell and the 24v pack, and both of those list max charge rates at 50A. So the 8.4A max charge rate for the 12v pack must have something to do with the pack itself, rather than the cells. Cheap-o BMS, maybe?

Am I the only one who noticed that at the max charge rate listed in the specs (8.4A), it's probably gonna take more like 20 minutes to charge a 48Wh battery to 90%?

• Nominal Voltage 12V
• Nominal Capacity 4.0Ah
• Max. Charging Current 8.4A
• Max. Discharging Current 8.0A (continuous) 25A (within0.3s)
• Size Approx. 145 x 109 x 48mm
• Weight Approx. 1.0kg

He went on to say that only 0.55% of all iPhone 4 users have called in to complain about reception problems

Yet there's a suspiciously high number of calls on that line where the caller mumbles something incomprehensible and then hangs up.

Maybe even to the dark side of the moon.

Were these European swallows, or African swallows?