Sure. But shit rolls down-hill, and it's not the MD who's going to get fired.

I manage to cut over 75% of spam before it gets to content filtering by greylisting, and the spamhaus zen block list. The vast majority of spam doesn't even get to my content filter.

No, it's not perfect, but if your boss isn't willing to shell out for an ironport or you're trying to do it yourself, cutting 75% out before it even sends the content to your server is a win in my book.

See megaupload. If you're a business, using cloud a service for email storage is just WAY too legally grey right now. IMHO.

Of limited usefulness. MD walks in "i'm expecting this email for a potential tender, the client tells me we are rejecting their email, and submissions close today!".

The MD receiving the odd spam is not a career limiting prospect. Missing a multi-million dollar contract due to non-delivery of business correspondence (or that reason being used as a scapegoat by your company's tendering department) potentially is.

If you are in the business world this will simply NOT work. Presumably, you are talking about russia and china - big businesses are doing a lot of work both in those regions and with companies located in those regions. For your home connection, sure....

This.

If email filtering was as simple as dropping non-SPF approved mail, spam would not exist. There is no single silver bullet in the war against spam. And besides, when domains cost a couple of dollars to register, it's entirely possible to set up an SPF enabled domain and spam from that.

Because of course SMTP administration competence of the company's (possibly hosted) email is directly proportional to competence in the field the company works in.

Pull your head out of your arse - in the real world, businesses need to communicate.

Unless you have been deemed an unlawful combatant or otherwise stripped of your citizenship.

... feminine hygiene products are marketed towards women, and beer ads target men.

By windows box, i mean servers in this context. A number of rooted Windows workstations of course. But almost all of those were caused by a user running as admin and installing "free" shit. Group policy, Windows firewall, UAC and WSUS on a corporate network make keeping WIndows boxes reasonably secure pretty easy. Many people turn all that shit off and run as admin which is where the problems start.

"Our link is slow". "We can't send email".

Stuff like that.

Admittedly, I haven't had to deal with one for some years now, but I've not had to deal with a rooted windows box in that time either. And I currently administer a network with over 100 of them. As mentioned above - competent administration is more relevant than OS selection.

I used to be a contractor doing per hour unix support.

You can somewhat simulate coming out of the sun - even some home sims like Falcon BMS do it. And yes, there is no simulation for G of course (I've been up in an old WW2 era fighter and even 4-5 G was like ... whoah... props to the guys in jets!) - which is why cockpit time will still be necessary.

But things like radar management, weapons deployment, formation flight, emergency procedures, etc. can all be performed in the sim. There's a hell of a lot more to a modern fighter aircraft than point and shoot with guns :)

Yeah, due to inability to supply. the iMac was only available for 6 weeks of the quarter.

No. My point is un-tethered means UN-TETHERED. As in via a web exploit you can go to through the in-phone browser. As per the prior definition of un-tethered, and as per previous un-tethered jailbreaks that have previously been available.

That must be why the PC market is in decline and the OS X market has been growing double-digit percentages since about 2005.