I work for an organisation that has a private email system (private as in hardware, network lines). SPF works fine on that, though is also redundant. However, the network is accessible to other networks (ie the internet, as in, people can send mail to regular mail addresses, and vice versa), and SPF breaks here.

Due to the jump to the network, the "sender" is always the provider who handles said connectivity, where our area of the private network touches the internet. Thus we've had to completely disable SPF as it always comes back with negative results.

A good idea in principle, but fails when the two mail servers cannot immediately talk to one another. You'd need something like a validation chain to allow that scenario to work.

I remember, before TBC came out, trying to level alts to 5 in under 1 hour. That wasn't too hard, I got it down to about 40 minutes then. Last new character I made was a blood elf, and while I didn't stick around to 10, it was a lot quicker, I remember noticing.

This is a pity as a lot of the early quests, area atmospheres and monsters set the scene for the next progressions. The difference between each starter set, in every race on every faction, made for compelling play and in my opinion was the best part of the game in many cases. It's certainly what held people's interest while they got hooked, so it had to have been doing something right. It'll be a pity to miss that great experience.

Good point, and it would be good if it was so - I think it would still be hard. When I played a year-18 months ago, and was levelling alts, I often couldn't find a single person who wanted to do some of the more obscure ones, for hours on end - Razorfen, anyone?

Any changes to levels below 10 are inconsequential, that's about 3 hours of playtime. Removing the dazing effect and increasing regeneration just helps out new players, and i presume Blizzard is trying to recruit new players/subscriptions rather than just alts.

The meeting stone level requirement is effectively a nod toward boosting - given that low levels go past so quickly now, it's actually quite difficult to find a proper party for a mid level dungeon like maraudon, uldaman or that sort of thing. I guess Blizzard think it better that a new player get boosted through there, rather than miss it altogether.

Damn, I miss when you could get a full party for Scarlet monastery, though. Everything goes fine for the first 2 wings, then the leader switches on master looter for the tabard and hearths out - everyone else ragequits or goes to stormwind and badmouths him. Okay maybe I don't miss that so much.

If you want to play at 60FPS, run it on any hardware released in the last 5 years.

I ran it on a *laptop* from 2002, and it was still playable. Running it on an nVidia 6800 (launched early 2004), it pegged a solid 60FPS in all but the craziest raids.

Thinking you need a 4Ghz CPU to run WoW is ridiculous. Hell, you can probably buy a graphics card that runs it for less than the game itself.

> There is a lot of damage you can do to a minor that does not involve sex, and it's about time adults were responsible to what they knowingly say to minors.

No, it's about time that the child's parents/legal guardians were responsible for what the child is doing, giving them guidance about the world, and shielding them for what they are not prepared for. The internet and everyone else on it is NOT a suitable babysitter for a child, nor should they be expected to be accountable for someone else's poor parenting.

Would you sue a library because a kid left unattanded there picked up some traumatising sexual or horror content from the bookshelves?

This is a huge step backward making the terms of the law incredibly VAGUE, and making much normal, moral and legal behaviour illegal.

I'd say the WoW experience is closer to the "mastering" than the "performing", but it's 80% "ocd completist".

Hmm, just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean they're ignorant of the subject.

Of course, whenever someone questions what you want to believe you can just say they don't understand, but I think there is more value in asking the question.

Personally, if I was off work with a long term debilitating condition, I would be concentrating on getting better and getting back to work, rather than taking the time off as an opportunity to go on holiday.

The good news is that with that diet, the mouse's warranty will probably outlive you, so if it does die of grease, you can get another one.

I agree with most o the comments here, that the insurance company was not right to make the call based on photos they found on the internet, it's the doctor's decision.

However, if you're well enough to go on holiday (be it depression or anything), then surely you're well enough to go to work.

I know if I took sick leave from work and bunked off on holiday during that time, I'd get fired on the spot.

Would anyone like any toast?

I know the SR60s/SR80s win a lot of awards, but I've not been a fan of them. They don't have enough presence, and in any slightly noisy environment they got completely drowned out - either down to their not keeping ambient sound out, or not packing enough punch. In isolation, they are pretty good. They're also not as comfortable as a good sennheiser, for me, I find the foam a little scratchy. I'd like a comparison of the 80s with the 225s, though.

The Sennheiser 500/600 series (by budget) are universally awesome, though a bit big for travelling with. If your budget stretches that far, AKG 701s or the Denon AH series are also great bets. I'd thoroughly recommend you try some of those, the Senny 600/650s, the AKG 701 or Denon AH-2000 or 5000.

(I also have no fiscal interest in any headphone companies, just like good quality headphones!)

When the dousing rod flies 300 feet into the air, you've found the bomb.

You should not defrag an SSD. It won't give a performance boost, and will just contribute to wearing the drive down. Fragmentation is only an issue where access is not truly random, as it is with an SSD.

Example discussion: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/page-246283_14_0.html

The controller should do a decent enough job of spreading out the data for you.

I don't understand all the hate on this article. "You should have known what you were signing up for" "College degrees are worthless" "You're making six figures, you can afford it", a lot of rage, also some contradictory posts, but all of them lacking the basic tenet: Education is good.

The more people who go to university, the more qualified the nation as a whole. This increases their wealth and power internationally, as well as improving quality of life on a basic scale. The more wealthy and powerful they are, the more revenue they bring the government, and it goes on from there. Government investing in people and training is a good thing, surely?

The reason it's so expensive is self-fulfilling - people are prepared to have a lower quality of life (remortgage their home, work while they study) to fund it, so the universities jack up their prices to match. Just think, for the $84000 debt in the article, one could have hired a graduate for maybe a couple of years, and got 40 hours 1-1 training! Univesity does not cost tens of thousands of dollars per student per year to run. The money's being siphoned off to the private sector.

By making university less attainable, you end up with a lower quality workforce. This is why immigrants are flocking to the US, because they come from countries where education is more affordable, so they are more qualified. They're taking jobs (dey tk ur jerb!) because the american people is not educated enough as a whole to fill the market. The thing that I really don't understand, is you have a world leader country in terms of money, lifestyle, technology, science and research, why is it that poorer country immigrants are working for you, rather than you being paid large amounts of money to go over to their countries and bring them up to speed?

I think american corporations are rich; they have the money, the resources, they need the skills. The american people are increasingly education-poor, because the system doesn't help them. And increasingly, the corporations will take workers from other countries, who have the qualifications and skills necessary. The government of these countries (India, some European countries etc) are enabling their people, educating them, and it's working - they're getting well paid jobs in America! The American government needs to support their people to at least the same degree, make education available as a first step, rather than a challenge, and get their population being world leaders.