I apologize for the personal attack. Not sure why I did that. Guess I let my emotions get the better of me.

Still, fuck RBLs. Sadly, many who should know better do not weight RBLs, and instead outright reject any mail that scores a hit. These operators are slowly destroying the email infrastructure by not only fragmenting and marginalizing the smaller email providers (including individuals who choose to responsibly run their own SMTP service), but by implicitly forcing individuals to seek mail services through corporate providers (think "do no evil"). I have gotten to the point where I simply tell subscribers to the lists I admin that they will have to use another ISP if they want to subscribe because their email provider blindly defers to one or more RBLs, most of which are dodgy to begin with (think pay to play, or let's ban entire subnets because we aren't technologically adept enough to filter on just one IP address).

At this point he can then run the mail through a series of weighted RBLs.

Fuck you and your RBLs. RBLs are a draconian solution that do immeasurable damage to those of us who (1) aren't spammers, and (2) choose to run our own mailservers on business-class IPs. I can't tell you how many times various IPs I use for outbound mail (I run several mailing lists) end up on an RBL for absolutely no fucking reason.

Oh, because someone in the same /24 block sent spam? Really? That's a good reason to block an entire /24 subnet?

RBLs are a solution in search of a problem. Some of them are nothing more than moneymakers for the people that run them: In order to get off their list, they blackmail you into paying money.

Want to do the world a favor? Don't use RBLs. You'll just end up finding yourself blacklisted at some point anyway.

have you tried spamassassin?

Don't follow this advice. SA has become so slow that it's almost useless. On a VM with 1GB RAM, it takes anywhere from 15-60 seconds to process a single e-mail, and is an incredible resource hog. I've been running SA for years, run the latest stuff, and have pretty much done every tweak imaginable. And the default rules are about useless now as well: The scores are set so low that you have to set a low threshold, increasing your false positive rate. About 50% of the mail on my mail server (personal use, maybe 200-300 inbound messages a day, 90% spam) just gets passed due to spamd timing out.

Unfortunately, there appear to be no decent alternatives out there. Greylisting is nice, but spammers are wising up to it, and simply resend spam. There was a time about 3-4 years ago that zero spam came through (same inbound volume)...now, it's more like 5-10 a day. Not that I'm complaining. My point being that switching over to SA will not solve any of the submitter's resource woes with procmail.

Bedbugs are known to drop down onto beds from the ceiling. They can also crawl (not jump) from furniture that happens to be touching the bed as well.

Sorry, folks, but no Master's in CS is worth $45,000, and certainly not from Georgia Tech when better schools offer the same for half the tuition (Univ. of Texas comes to mind), and regional schools for a quarter of this. This seems to be nothing more than a marketing ploy to show what a good "deal" you could get if you went 100% online while at the same time inflating the quality of the on-campus program at Georgia Tech.

The only one I know of is down I-45 in Garrett. Where are the others?

Fuck you.

The other day a Google tech recruiter (not a headhunter) contacted me about an interview at Google. This after I turned down a second interview with them seven years ago. Yes, seven years ago. It got me to thinking: Is Google that desperate for qualified employees that they are having to dig that deep into their interview files to find talent? After doing some research, it seems as though they want to interview me for a "technical sales engineering" position or some such thing. Still, this article and the fact that Google is searching their archives for help seems to point to a dwindling supply of technical types in the market.

And since I'm a few years older than Vince Vaughan, I seriously doubt I'd quite fit in anymore. Say what you want about The Internship, but Google's imprimatur was all over it.

Glad you were able to speak to him. Don't beat yourself up over leaving. He didn't pass away alone.

I have a perfectly usable 2G iPod that is perfectly unusable because it's no longer supported and it doesn't talk to anything except the mothership that disowned it.

Rockbox!

I was honored to be able to hold my father's hand when he passed away from stage IV lung cancer a few years back. One can never really say they are ready for a loved one to pass, but I was resigned to the fact, and therefore there weren't many emotions going through my head while telling my dad it was ok to let go. (I had read in a couple of places that scientists believe hearing might be one of the last senses to shut down immediately prior to death, so I figured I could do no harm telling him everything would be ok.)

One thing I did notice, and will probably never forget: In the moments up to his final breaths, while his BP was dropping, his eyes never stopped moving, It could have been involuntary movements, but they would stop for an instant as if to focus on something, then move again. He never acknowledged me while I was with him the last few hours, but his eyes: They would flick around the room as if he was looking for something, or maybe seeing something only he could see. The doctor said it was likely his vision had already shut down at that point, which made it all the more impactful on me. Even as his BP dwindled away to 0/0, after his breathing had stopped (no death rattle, just shallower and shallower, with increasing apnea gaps, until it simply stopped), his eyes made a few last furtive movements, then were still.

Who knows what my dad was seeing in his final moments? Obviously he didn't live to tell me about it. But the scientific part of my brain tells me something was going on his brain right up to the moment that he no longer had blood flowing through his brain.

All I can say is never in a million years did I think I would ever search for "wombat turds." Even more surreal is this video. I'm just astounded. Fuck the iPhone tritone, this is far more interesting....

Not only this, but you don't even have any idea of what you're trying to do. If the company is sending your personal data to you, they need your public key. Really, go read up on PKI first before you embarrass yourself further.

Actually explains the process in detail:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/plans-for-nextgen-chips-imperiled

BTW, it's considered good practice in anything related to scientific research to define acronyms the first time they are used. In this case, EUV == extreme ultraviolet

...because avast! has been offering this for a while now. Plus, I'm not sure I want allow more Google access into my life.