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Comment Re:WHY? (Score 1) 85

I hear that all too often. Personally, I think sense of entitlement has already done enough damage to IT security: there is this whole cottage industry of blackmailing services thriving on it, and despite it paying part of my rent, it only feels right and just to sabotage it.

I would have made the patch for myself anyway (it wouldn't have been the first), releasing it as open source was just the icing. I didn't do it for any particular reason other than the obvious: I want to be protected, and I can protect myself

Comment Re:Sender ID, SPF, DomainKeys (Score 2, Interesting) 128

SPF most certainly was not written by idiots, although MS's wacky SenderID carries the distinctive odor of cretinism. What you should perhaps understand is that SPF and DomainKeys/DKIM are complementary to each other, while SenderID bears all the hallmarks of yet another "just incompatible enough" Microsoft "extension" to SPF.
User Journal

Journal Journal: Abuse of moderation

Take a look at these posts:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275722
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275536
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=171402&cid=14275425

Republicans

Journal Journal: How to balance the budget and pay off the debt

This is a very easy plan on how to pay off the national debt and balance the budget. It is quite easy to grasp.

Let's say you borrow $100 from a friend. He asks you to pay back $15 over the next 10 years. At the end of the ten years, your debt will be paid off. If you only make enough money to handle all of your expenses, plus sum to pay off the money your owe on your debt, then after ten years, the debt will be paid. Simple, huh?

Republicans

Journal Journal: Prediction: Bush win

Bush has been climbing in the polls, despite the intense pressure the democrats have been exerting since last year. What is the secret of his success? Why is he doing so well despite such a coordinated effort to tarnish his record?

Quite simply, the democrats do more to drive the republicans than the republicans do. More than one republican has told me that they are voting for Bush not only because he is a good guy, but because the democrats have to be stopped.

Democrats

Journal Journal: Fun with the Left

The latest article about the Rather scandal have all but ferretted out the last of the loony left. My favorite conspiracy theory: that Karl Rove masterminded the entire event. I have this picture burned into my mind of Karl Rove typing furiously on his computer. He calls out to Dick Cheney, "Hey, does this look fake enough? Or should I use the Times New Roman font?" Cheney responds, "Times New Roman. And here, let me sign the thing. My handwriting is terrible."

Republicans

Journal Journal: Using the Moderating System

If you want to get your posts modded higher, and as a group of conservatives, get your rational viewpoint out there, try these tips.

(1) Go fishing. Post several different ideas in a single post that are all good. Each idea will appeal to different moderators. Your post will be carried upward.

Databases

Journal Journal: Relational Database - What does that Mean?

I posted a comment that said that humans think more like a relational database than a hierchical one. (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=120762&cid=10169159). I think enough people don't understand what a database is, nonetheless a hierchical or relational one.

A database is a store of information. Everything you put some data in and then retrieve later on is a database. Your filesystem is a database. The internet is a database. Even memory can be considered database.

Democrats

Journal Journal: What does John Kerry stand for?

I've been following the issues closely. Any news article about Bush or Kerry is one that I've read. Every day, I look at the polls and the current issues. I can't tell if it is raining or not but I can tell you how many points Bush is up nationwide or even how many states they have locked in and how many electorate votes that counts for.

Republicans

Journal Journal: Moderating political posts at Slashdot 1

Here is my pledge to use moderation appropriately on political posts.

(1) I will not upgrade or downgrade a post simply because of its views. In other words, I will disagree with things people say, but I will defend to death their right to say it.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Stand up for what you believe

The last series of posts I made resulted in numerous people jeering at me. Are you really a Christian? Do you really like Bush? I can't believe there are people like you even left around here.

These people think they can control me, make me feel inferior, outnumbered. They even think they can make me feel stupid. After all, you have to be one of those mind-controlled idiots to believe in Christianity.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Liberals are Close-Minded

We're too busy putting down the Iraqi resistance to occupation to get the oil flowin'. The invansion has only just begun. We've been riding on post-liberation euphoria up until this point. The Iraqi's are only just now waking up to the fact that we dont' give a *** about them.

User Journal

Journal Journal: Short-sighted Homosexuals

Watching the latest debacle in San Francisco, and across the country, when Mayors and others are encouraging citizens to break federal, state, and local laws by engaging in so-called "gay marriages" or as I'd like to term it, homogamy, it's become that the homosexuals are truly suicidal.

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