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Comment Re:SPF.. (Score 3, Interesting) 83

A better solution might be to move the original sender's "From" to another header ("Return-Path", "Reply-To", - whatever works best for the list software/admin) and set a new "From" to an address that would feed any replies to the list's submission/moderation queue. If the address of the person replying is on the mailing list or the list accepts any submission address, it goes into the normal queue for remailing, if not it either gets discarded as a bogus reply that is probably spam or goes into a moderation queue, depending on the list.

This is still an implementation flaw in the way DMARC and SPF work with mailing lists rather than a problem with mailing lists though, so the onus really belongs with DMARC and SPF to better provide a way to support mailing lists. Including a way to specify in the DMARC/SPF configuration for the that the sender is a mailing list and that they need to validate the original sender against a different header instead - "X-Originally-From", rather than the mailing list's domain in the current "From", perhaps?

Comment Re:Correlation is not causation. (Score 1) 1037

It's a view point in the UK that has been around for years - at least a few decades - although where it originated from and when I have no idea. Quite possibly it was the Daily Mail or a similar rag going off on one of the their diatribes about "declining standards" or whatever they had a bee in their bonnet over that month. From comparing notes though it does seem C of E schools in the UK generally force much less dogma and indoctrination upon impressionable infants compared with church schools of other faiths, and even other christian denominations. I guess you really do reap what you sow... :)

Comment Re:Correlation is not causation. (Score 4, Interesting) 1037

The graphs certainly back up the idea that the best way to raise an atheist is to send the child to a Church of England school (in my case I was an atheist by the age of nine), but I suspect that the increasingly secularisation in UK education has something to do with that as well. When the only primary school in a small rural town is a church school (usually that would be C of E, but sometimes Catholic) and you have a typical rural UK demographic representing both major christian denominations plus a scattering of other faiths that school tends to get coerced into providing a more agnostic education if it wants financial support from the local government.

Comment Re:unfiltered information will make people THINK! (Score 5, Insightful) 1037

I think there's more to it than just being exposed to skepticism from existing atheists/agnostics too. You get much more exposure to people who are from different cultures and religions that you might in your own little neighbourhood, both knowingly and unknowingly, and when that penny drops, that's when the thinking part kicks in. Generally you are going to you realise that, hey, they are not that unlike us and we actually share many of the same views on life - most religions teach the same core principles wrapped up in some slightly different stories, after all. It's fairly well understood that major cities with cosmopolitan populations tend to be more open minded and their populations tend to have a less religious view than those from more rural communities, so I suspect this is just the same principle manifesting itself on a much grander scale.

Comment Re:Good idea (Score 3, Informative) 175

It might actually be more than that. Worst case, the screen in in 80x25 text mode (assuming a PC), which gives 2,000 binary bits, but if you start playing around with extended ASCII graphics characters you could probably encode a KB of data quite easily. Hardly a crash dump, but easily enough to get across the essentials.

Comment Re:Touristy places will be in for a surprise.. (Score 3, Insightful) 148

That would be excellent if this happened, although unlikely given how much the local population that supports the tourist trade is likely to rely on that same mobile coverage. I go on vacation to *get away* from the daily grind, yet of late it has got to the point that you can't go anywhere without someone yakking on a mobile phone, and I go to some pretty out of the way places to try and make that happen. The absolute last thing you want to hear when you reach Everest Base Camp, slightly out of breath from the lack of oxygen and effort, and are just starting to take in the amazing view is:

*Latest naff ringtone*
"Hello...?"
*pause*
"Yes, I'm climbing Mount Everest!"

It kind of ruins the moment, you know?

Comment Re:Everyone is a potential criminal in L.A. (Score 1) 405

It isn't a "dumb name", it's what the word "mall" means. It's only recently that "mall" is assumed to mean "shopping mall".

I think more people assume it's a streetlike thing than a lawn. In any case, we often give things multiple names, we could just call it some president's name park or whatever.

I propose "Metadata park."

Comment Re:How about (Score 2) 285

Not just tasty in their own right, but also not be so hot that you kill any chance of really enjoying the taste of whatever else that you are eating them with/in. I can manage peppers a fair way up the scale; a hot Piri Piri sauce doesn't bother me much, nor do habaneros, which are both around the 50-100K bracket IIRC, but all I can taste after a few mouthfuls is the pepper. I'd much rather have something like jalapeños or something even lower on the scale, so I can taste both the pepper and the rest of the meal for the entire sitting.

Comment Re:x.509 WTF? (Score 1) 110

Regarding binary and source code distribution, there's nothing to fix really - both source and binaries are already protected by X.509 certificates by virtue of being hosted on SSL-using websites: https://www.mail-archive.com/b...

This in no way prevents the server from being compromised and serving a malicious installer package. It prevents a MitM attack from compromising the package in transit, but that's it.
Code signing and SSL are protections against completely different attacks, and are not interchangeable.

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