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Comment Re:Insensitive? Or too sensitive? (Score 1) 352

by 10sball (#25188525) Attached to: When Digital TV broadcasts kick in in earnest ...

How do you learn that you like a show enough to buy a season pass without testing the water first? On cable this is built into the cost. On legal download media occasionally a pilot or other episode will be free. But if you're going the itunes or amazon route there will probably be some small incidental costs each month while you check things out.

That is, unless you rely TOTALLY on hulu style sites, or just watch the daily show or whateer on the networks web site the next day -- neither which are still comprehensive.

[or just get everything from bittorrent]
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Fight Spam With Nolisting 410

Posted by kdawson from the noncompliant-spambots dept.
An anonymous reader writes with the technique of Nolisting, which fights spam by specifying a primary MX that is always unavailable. The page is an extensive FAQ and how-to guide that addressed the objections I immediately came up with. From the article: "It has been observed that when a domain has both a primary (high priority, low number) and a secondary (low priority, high number) MX record configured in DNS, overall SMTP connections will decrease when the primary MX is unavailable. This decrease is unexpected because RFC 2821 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) specifies that a client MUST try and retry each MX address in order, and SHOULD try at least two addresses. It turns out that nearly all violators of this specification exist for the purpose of sending spam or viruses. Nolisting takes advantage of this behavior by configuring a domain's primary MX record to use an IP address that does not have an active service listening on SMTP port 25. RFC-compliant clients will retry delivery to the secondary MX, which is configured to serve the role normally performed by the primary MX)."
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Sony and Universal Prohibit Sharing Via Zune 325

Posted by Zonk from the as-if-the-zune-didn't-have-enough-trouble-already dept.
ack154 writes "Engadget has a story about Sony and Universal Music apparently denying Zune owners the ability to 'squirt' songs by certain artists to other Zune users. That's right, if you've actually purchased songs from the Zune marketplace and happen to run into another Zune owner, you're prohibited from sharing certain songs. From the article: 'In a non-scientific sampling of popular artists by Zunerama and Zune Thoughts, it looks like it's roughly 40-50 percent of artists that fall under this prohibited banner, and the worst news is that there's no warning that a song might be unsharable until you actually try to send it and fail.'"

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