Palinchron - Slashdot User

Comment I hope the USA government has a lot of disk space (Score 2, Interesting) 459

by Palinchron on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @05:12PM (#25389835) Attached to: Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law

As the owner of a domain, I possess a countably infinite number of email addresses. All of them are mine, and I can use them when I feel like it. If I ever were to appear on this list, I suspect the USA government will run out of disk space before I run out of email addresses.

The same holds for anyone with a gmail account, by the way, with the *+username@gmail.com addressing scheme and all.

Submission + - Windows Home Server corrupts files (computerworld.com)

Submitted by

crustymonkey

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @04:17PM

crustymonkey writes: "From the article:

Microsoft Corp. has warned Windows Home Server users not to edit files stored on their backup systems with several of its programs, including Vista Photo Gallery and Office's OneNote and Outlook, as well as files generated by popular finance software such as Quicken and QuickBooks.

Don't back up you files to Windows Home Server as recommended by Microsoft themselves according to this article. I'm not exactly what the point is in having a home server if you can't backup files on it."

Submission + - new poll suggestion

Submitted by grookill on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @02:51PM

grookill writes: Pick one!

Natalie Portman,
Carrie-Ann Moss,
Jeri Ryan,
Morena Baccarin,
Michelle Pfeiffer, or
Cowboy Neal in drag

(That should generate some debate...)

Journal Journal: MPAA Violates Another Software License 297

Journal by Alien54 on Saturday February 17, 2007 @05:38PM

Patrick Robib, a blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the

Submission + - MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License

Submitted by

GRW

on Saturday February 17, 2007 @05:28PM

GRW writes: "TorrentFreak reports that the MPAA is using blogging software, called Forest Blog by web developer Patrick Robin, in violation of the "linkware" license. They have removed all links and references to the Forest Blog website, and have not purchased a commercial license. Is this a case of "Do as I say and not as I do"?"

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