Good points. I'm from Australia, and AFAIK we don't tend to use CGNAT. (Is that common in the US?)

Also, I'm not sure if they'd consider a private home server to be a "publicly visible" servers. Probably, if they can charge you business-plan rates instead.

With all the NSA revelations, I have a prediction that one day we'll be able to buy pre-built Pi-esqe home servers to use as an email server, cloud storage, etc., in a bid to totally de-centralise it all. Or maybe people just won't care, like most do now. :/

FWIW I use a (very cheap) raspberry pi as my home server. A stock standard internet access plan does fine, although doesn't give me static IP. That's not a big deal, as I just run a cron job to email me when it changes.

The single feature that prevents my wife from moving from Mac/Photoshop to Linux/GIMP is the lack of adjustment layers. This is the ability to non-destructively modify brightness/contrast/colour/etc. In GIMP, if you edit the contrast, then edit in another way, there is no way to re-manipulate the contrast again without losing information. As per the summary, Krita does have this capability. Apperently it's in development for GIMP.

It's really a logical conclusion of capitalism. We throw money at these corporations, and their amount of representation is proportional to our monetary endorsement.

Sorry, I was being unclear. I was implying that the Slashdot summary was incorrect. (Which is probably no news.)

This makes no sense. Actin is found in practically all eukaryotic cells, including those that are tiny. TFA makes no claim that "frog eggs evolved the [actin] mesh to counteract gravity".

Nice one. I use Google Apps too. I think that inactivating specific accounts is probably just as quick as creating a filter, in my estimation. It's a bit cleaner too, so I'll continue using it for now.

I did hear about this, but I hadn't thought about writing a filter after receiving spam. That's a cool idea.

The only part that makes me slightly wary is that since so many use gmail, you'd think that spammers would automatically remove the +slashdot part pretty soon.

I don't even use spam blockers. Instead I've purchased a domain, which is quite affordable nowadays. I have a catch-all redirect, so I any mail addressed to *@mydomain.com.

Then, I give a unique username to each organisation. e.g. slashdot@mydomain.com. If I receive spam at this address, I inform them, then kill the username. I can also just create slashdot2@mydomain.com if I want to keep dealing with their company.

Now, I receive only a few spam emails each year, so I need to do zero automated filtering. I also don't have to deal with the worry of false positives at all.

Also, now I think about it a bit more, I think the phase difference between ears is also enough to make this unfeasible for higher frequencies. But yes, I agree that it should be possible (and useful) to cancel the low-frequency engine noise.

Okay, so we've a got a proposal. Where do we pitch it?

That's a good point. I imagine that could work for gross cancellation of noise, especially at lower frequencies, but I still think there'd be too much variability at higher frequencies. For example, at 2 kHz, the wavelength is about 17 cm. Hence, if you are 9 cm away from the 'optimal' position, you'd be totally out of phase, and the noise would be worse. Obviously this precision is even more important for higher frequencies.

That's not really technically possible. Noise-cancelling headphones work by detecting the incoming sound at the position of your ears, then broadcasting the out-of-phase version of this sound into your ears (i.e. "anti-noise"). Passengers in a plane or train would each experience slightly different noise, with slightly different phases. This makes it impossible to broadcast a single sound that would cancel noise for all passengers.

What's even worse is that Ubisoft sent a plain-text email to everyone that incorporates a link to reset your password. Click on the link, and you are taken to a form where you can reset your password. The thing is, this form doesn't even require you to enter your old password. So, if anyone got their hands on this email, they have immediate access to you account anyway! Ubisoft started with a bad situation and made it a lot worse!

This reminds me of the opening scene of Robert Altman's "The Player" from 1992.

If you haven't seen it, it's a great satire on Hollywood. The opening scene in fantastic in its own right (8 minute, single take), and features writers pitching ideas to a producer, including the sequel to The Graduate. The conclusion is that Hollywood cannot find a new idea.