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Comment Re:Already implemented here (Score 2) 299

Where do you see these 10 seconds ahead of an intersection? I only see them at the intersection. If these where put further away a simple computer would be able to evaluate the quantity of traffic in every direction and change the signal accordingly. As I see it now, I must pull up and stop at an intersection before I am detected.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 2) 206

Yeah, but we are just monkeys. Just because some people have the ability to do what they think is right has no bearing on what most people actually do. Plus, what people think is right is subjective. Do you live alone on an island, in a vacuum? I've read excellent arguments stating that rape is not a bad thing. Cite empathy and destructive repercussions all you like, but rape may have saved the human race from extinction. Good, evil, whatever... It is all subjective.

Comment Re:To Tape... (Score 2) 403

Yes, but I'm not interested in cheaper and faster. I want lightweight portability, reliability, and drop-ability. When I throw a few tapes in tupperware to be picked up I am fairly certain those tapes will survive the trip to and from the storage facility driven by who-knows-where-they-found-this-guy. I can effortlessly take a few home. HDD and SSD are too sensitive and too heavy. Sure they are easy to test because they are so fast and have huge capacity, and it is definitely time to move on, and I should, as the benefits of disks far outweigh the portability of tapes, but I dread the day when I have to drag a few hard disks around, or even have to carry a box of them. I have boxes of hard disks and they are really fucking heavy.

Comment Re:Usefulness (Score 2) 244

OP is concerned about automated lists not harvested lists. NDRs for spammers would create backscatter as the originating addresses are usually spoofed. Also, spammers DO spam random email addresses and they are using zombies so their resources are huge. I see terminated sessions in my logs everyday for addresses like a@, b@, c@, web@ user@, tech@, etc from zombified systems. Thankfully some ISPs egress filter destination port 25, even though I disagree on principal.

Comment Usefulness (Score 5, Informative) 244

Not even a 550 SMTP session will get you off most mailing lists because, even if it is a legitimate list, the marketers are too aggressive to care. Also, a NDR after a successful session will likely go to either an unmonitored mailbox, a hapless user who won't understand it, or null. Weed through some email logs and you'll see. I see some lists that have been emailing the same address for ten years and I always disconnect with a 550. That said, try Pegasus Mail. I find that it does almost anything.

Comment Re:Who, exactly, is losing money? (Score 1, Funny) 141

Dude, this is /. If you say SharePoint, they say Windows ME! If you say Dynamics, they say BSOD!, if you say Office, they say Ribbon! I suffered a decade of panics due to poorly written nix drivers and years of headaches putting up with glitches in GroupWise. If posters want to believe that Microsoft is on the brink of failure because IE is losing popularity and Bing has as much traffic as Dogpile, let them. It is the year of Linux on the desktop, for the nth year in a row and 640K should be enough. I have to go recharge my iPhone.

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