I've been using MDaemon happily for many, many years. The administration is simple, I've not had any problems with my address being blocked, the spam problem is taken care of by MDaemon's options and all together I'm a happy camper. I used to use their calendar app too but it doesn't play well with Android, so I switched to Google. There's a free version that you can try. I no longer remember what the restriction was that led me to use the paid version.

Thank you! Mod parent up!!!

What is this junk doing on Slashdot? Did anyone look at the source of this "information" before posting it? The Heartland Institute? Really?

“No, it’s not an X-ray,” she told Abbott. “It is 10,000 times safer than your cell phone and uses the same type of radio waves as a sonogram.”

It's news to me that sonograms use radio waves.

About time. We are fussing about whether this will be safe after 10,000 years and meanwhile we store the waste in overcrowded pools spread around the country and continue to burn coal, which is an environmental disaster all by itself, never mind what it does to the climate.

It's even worse than that. There are over thousands of tax jurisdictions to keep track of. Not all items are taxed in all jusrisdictions. There is software that will deal with this but it costs tens of thousands of dollars a year. That's no problem for Amazon but it's a killer for all the small businesses that sell on the Web. If you really need to tax them (and I don't doubt that we do) the only reasonable way to do it is to impose a national tax and distribute it to the states.

What I want to know is, if they can focus at any point in the picture - and it looks as though they can, the interactive graphic is amazing - then why not just have the whole thing in focus at once. Infinite depth of field. If you wanted a shallow depth of field for artistic purposes, you could presumably add that later too. Neat.

Once you are logged in to a Citibank credit card account you can generate a virtual account number, complete with expiration date and cvv. That would have been an easy way to exploit the compromised accounts, without knowing the password, expiration date or cvv.

Joomla may be secure but look out for the third-party components. I've been upgrading a bunch of them to Joomla 1.6 and I can't tell you how many I've found to be open to sql injection.

Memory's a funny thing. I got my first Compuserve account around 1985 but I don't think it would connect to the Internet for email until a few years later. I know I could email my daughter when she went to college in '90 and I think that was about the time that Compuserve started to offer true, Internet email. Your address was your Compuserve number. Don't complain about 300 baud. In the late 60's I was working with room-sized computers that had modems working at 120 baud - or at least that's what I remember!

From the article: "Work on the bombe was handed to Alan Turing, who was developing a concept of a computing device, the Turing Machine, capable of performing rapid calculations. " Don't you just love technical writing in the media?

Me too - except mine's a 41c. I used it to check a set of printed financial tables that we were publishing at the time, and to navigate a small boat across the Atlantic (pre GPS). It's still going strong after what must be at least 30 years. Sadly my HP-80 died. That must have gone back to about 1972.

The problem was the hardware. Individuals couldn't afford a PDP 1. My first personal computer was an Apple II in 1981 and it cost $6,000, real money then. Universities had computers and the ones in science labs got used for all sorts of cool things.

The cards I remember were 80 columns. Generally you got one character per column. (6-bit characters to begin with and EBCDIC later on.) You could use them in a variety of 'binary' modes, which gives you a theoretical maximum of 80 x 12 = 960 bifs or 120 bytes. That was generally only used for run-time decks, not for programs or raw information.