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Comment Re:Google doesn't send the sender IP in the header (Score 1) 46

I wasn't aware of this. I thought sender IP is generally send together with the email?

So gmail is good to be used by scammers cos victims will have to spend a bunch of money to subpoena google to get the IP (most of the time police don't do much in such cases, as I understand). And if you cleaned out a victim, they may not have the resources to get a lawyer anyway.

Good to know what "industry" gmails are good for.

The sender IP is for the originating SMTP server. The only time the local IP would be in the email is if you're operating your own server. This isn't just a Google thing, it's how the standards always worked. The user's web browser is just the interface. Back when the interface was a terminal, we never included the logged-in user's telephone number. The email headers are for troubleshooting purposes, not digital forensics. That's what server logs are for.

Comment Re:Completely unsurprising (Score 3, Informative) 46

I don't think TFA is very poorly written; it is leaving out an important statistic. Only about 1% of the population express this particular mutation at this age, and only 10-20% of the population over 70 years of age can be observed expressing this mutation. According to this study, 100% of astronauts of any age have it. That's noteworthy and concerning. If a significant portion of your blood is cloned from a single cell, one should have that cell is a perfect specimen and that the source remains a perfect specimen forever. Currently it looks like your chances for disease increase ten-fold once you've developed clonal hemotopoiesis.

Submission + - No more FTP at Debian (debian.org)

Gary Perkins writes: It looks like anonymous FTP is officially on its way out. While many public repositories have deprecated it in favor of HTTP, I was rather surprised to see Debian completely drop it on their public site.

Submission + - SPAM: Cord-cutting spikes fivefold in cable TV's worst quarter ever

schwit1 writes: Cable's day of reckoning has come. With all the major cable and satellite companies having reported their quarterly numbers, analyst firm MoffettNathanson put together a new cord-cutting report, and things are bad. Pay-TV providers lost an estimated 762,000 pay-TV subscribers over the first three months of this year—five times more than they lost during the same period last year. To make matters worse, Q1 has historically been a strong season for pay TV.
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Comment Re:MaBell (Score 1) 82

I think the entire phone system could merge back into one company, and no one important will blink an eye. It's a different world. We now have various cellular companies offering phone service, not to mention hundreds (thousands?) of various sized VOIP internet companies.

For instance, in my household alone I use a cell phone and MagicJack each tied to a Google Voice number. We use Spectrum/TWC here. Landline company mergers won't even affect many of us.

While mergers could be a big problem for communities that are far from being served by cable or good cell service, it could be a nice incentive to start local internet co-ops.

Comment Re:Ding ding ding. (Score 1) 532

Even if it is a real effect, I can't see a real use for it. For instance, someone said in another comment something to the effect that satellites could use it to maintain their orbits... except that the amount of thrust I see being mentioned likely wouldn't overcome atmospheric drag or solar wind. However, it is science worth exploring. Either the thrust is eventually found to be some unaccounted for noise, or we eventually figure out the science behind it. If it's real, the new ideas could be expanded to become something useful, or the ideas could find a use in another area.

Comment Solar wind interactions (Score 2) 26

If I remember correctly, auroras here on Earth are produced by charged particles being funneled into the atmosphere by our magnetic field, and the lights are produced by ionization of various elements in the process. However, I can't help but wonder if there would be any observable effects of a strong planetary magnetic field so close to the sun? In other words, would Mercury appear any different than it does now in our sky, viewed either against black space or as it traverses across the Sun?

Comment Re: $5k??? Really, NASA? (Score 1) 156

If most of the ideas in the proposal pan out, you make it into the history books for all time. Most likely, the final plan would barely resemble anything that comes out of this, so it seems like more than a fair deal to me. This is just an example of a public private partnership in its simplest form. It'll save the government some time and money by jumpstarting the initial phase of designing a colony. And who better to lay out initial requirements than potential future colonists?

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