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Comment Re:Still continues to be an asshole (Score 1) 576

He has the typical east coast bravado and dismissive atitude. I don't mean to stereotype EVERYONE from Boston/New York area, but that whole area is infused with people who are just mean. The only way they are equipped to work with other people is through a method of communication that involves a complete lack of tact and understanding.

Ok that is not entirely fair, but it is fair to say that the east coast is where I usually find people like this. Pushy, dismissive, self centered etc.

Comment technically unfeasable (Score 4, Insightful) 263

This would not have been feasible, which is why it didn't work. the idea of a carrier pushing through a wifi network with enough coverage space is laughable. The 3g/4g wireless spectrum operates entirely different than wifi because wifi is limited in many ways..

The point is, we can all sit around and throw ideas and himhaw back and forth, but if things don't pass engineering/financial spec the don't get done. Applauding Jobs as a visionary for an idea that failed on technical and financial merit is kinda stupid.

Comment rDNS bad (Score 1) 301

Many email servers do not have rDNS, therefore it is not advisable to filter based on a lack of rDNS alone.

It can be argued that it should have an rDNS, but if they don't, you have no control over that since it's their system. Then you'll be spending way too much of your time tweaking spam filters and creating white lists, contacting the sending company's administrators...

It's just a bad idea, don't do it.

That said, I prefer SaaS email spam filtering like Symantec's Messagelabs. (Disclosure, I am an ML partner)). I like this service because I don't have to worry about managing it. It saves me a lot of time.

Comment Re:sure looks like she was misinterpreted (Score 1) 303

From the italian press release: "Alla costruzione del tunnel tra il Cern ed i laboratori del Gran Sasso"

It seems the word "tunnel" is shared between English and Italian. That said, the cultural context and definition /could/ be different, meaning instead not a literal tunnel but ... ahh whatever.

Comment Free OSS for lawyers? (Score 3, Insightful) 67

Just what lawyers need, free software because they don't bill enough to pay for software and the jobs it supplies.

Typical lawyers, want to charge you $$$ (250+ an hour) and yet spend NOTHING on the backend. They do not know the value of other people's time while over-valuing their own.

Comment never happen (Score 4, Interesting) 341

unfortunately there is no way this will happen. There are too many important competing interests which act at the beaurocratic/governance level which are anti-bandwidth.

MPAA/RIAA don't want people to stream quickly because they fear content being stolen
CIA/FBI don't want increased bandwidth because they need(or think they need) to be able to monitor and index all communication (TIA)
ATT/Verizon and other telecoms don't want to because it represents a cost that will interfere with their milking of customers
Comcast doesn't want it because it will interfere with their control over content

Everyone just wants to stay status quo or worse. This will never happen.

Comment Re:master password (Score 1) 188

I appreciate you taking the time to look, but not really. Near as I can tell, the only password storing/saving mechanisms available for Chrome are in the form of "online services" which I've no interest in being a part of.

I just want my passwords saved, securely encrypted with seed, to my local hard disk. I don't want to create an account with a service, because I don't trust them to safeguard my passwords, nor have any interest in them knowing which sites i save passwords to or any other number of things online services have access to when you use them.

Comment Re:Not anti-intellectualism (Score 4, Insightful) 949

In order for the statement "college is a waste of time" to be anti-intellectual, one has to presume there is intellectual knowledge to be obtained exclusively from college and nowhere else.

I find a vast majority of students (these days or perhaps any other) treat college more as an extension of high school and a social/networking opportunity more than raw pursuit of exposure to academics.

I do not like the way the question is posed. It seems to make assumptions that are not necessarily true in order to posit that "geeks are becoming anti-intellectual".

Comment Liberia is a US offshoot (Score 2) 2288

The interesting thing about this is that Liberia is comprised of US ex-pats; slaves who populated the country when "Back to Africa" was embraced by ex-slaves. It's really amazing to study this area of history. Even their flag is Red White and Blue. It's weird that they share the same addiction to imperial measurement also.

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