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Comment Easy solution (Score 1) 288

by galexand on Thursday August 09, 2012 @09:25AM (#40930547) Attached to: Legitimate eBook Lending Community Closed After Copyright Complaints

Find the authors involved (people like british children's author Nick Mackie), and find their books on Amazon, and leave bad reviews stating that you shouldn't expose your children (or yourself) to the works of bad people. I vote we include Debbie Bennett in this little campaign, by virtue of the golden rule. Whine first, ask questions later. Maybe tomorrow we can apologize for being ignorant jerks, like she has, and that will make it all better.

Submission + - Carrier IQ claims are FUD (galexander.org) 2

Submitted by galexand on Sunday December 04, 2011 @07:53PM

galexand writes: I'm tired of hearing about Carrier IQ as if it invented the capability for telcos, device manufacturers, and Google to snoop on your activity. In fact, Carrier IQ is probably the most innocent piece of software on your phone, and the truly dangerous software you wouldn't have any other way. So I wrote an article about it. This FUD about Carrier IQ is simply not factually accurate!

Submission + - gmail's policies are abusive to small ISPs 1

Submitted by galexand on Thursday July 15, 2010 @11:38AM

galexand writes: My gmail-using friends were not getting my email, so I investigated. Similar reports abound, with suggested resolutions ranging from fixing your DNS to adding SPF, but many cases remained unresolved. So I putzed with my DNS, postfix, and SPF settings for a couple days and now my headers look perfect to me but gmail is still labeling my email as spam. This appears to be an intentional policy on google's part — they just assume that most small servers are run by spammers and accept that they'll knock off the occasional small business. The trouble is that gmail is so large that they can unilaterally redefine email, but they aren't publishing their specs so we can't conform. What can we do about this kind of abuse from big providers?

Submission + - NASA Hubble spots hot comet-like planet (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by coondoggie on Thursday July 15, 2010 @10:25AM

coondoggie writes: Is it a planet or a comet? Astronomers are calling a newly explored scorched object a "cometary planet" because it has the components of a planet but with a tail like a comet. Astronomers from the University of Colorado in Boulder using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say the planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space, creating a tail-like appearance.

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