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Since rDNS is one of the simplest things to fix, and absent or inconsistent rDNS one of the most obvious signs of spam, I'm with AOL on that one.

If fact, every email server setup I've seen explicitly rejects emails simply due to absent or inconsistent rDNS records.

I think you'll find a whole lot more wouldn't work if the speed of light were infinite. Life, for example.

"Were there an infinite value for the speed of light, light itself would not exist at all."

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-isnt-th...

<quote>I haven’t read the British legislation, but what it apparently does is...</quote>

I wonder if this admission might suggest both the cause of this controversy and a way to resolve it?

Definition of kid (noun): 1. informal a child or young person

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/kid?q=kid

Thankfully, the last sentence of the article states: "Then I'm going to the beach with my partner to 'do nothing' for an evening."

Just to add, it's not mererly a lack of "doing" something, but valuing the "being" part of ourselves: Father, husband, partner, friend, etc - out of which the "doing" bit naturally flows. Due to my personality flaws, I too often "do nothing" when in presence of my wife, which can be just as destructive for the relationship as wishing I was doing something somewhere else.

Your desk, computer, guitars, etc, are not "shit" but "stuff", to use the the terms as definined in the blog.

Stuff is fine. Shit needs to be got rid of.

Some of us can fit our stuff into a suitcase. Others need a 4 bedroom house to store our stuff. In both scenarious, there should be no "shit". Or so says the blogger.

"So then why didn’t Google shut down Google Plus if it was purportedly such a colossal flop?"

Because failure wasn't an option, considering the landscape of social networking and the consquencies of failing.

You would enjoy rural Uganda then (and, I presume, other similar areas). It's a little uncomfortable being watched by 15 kids when called by nature. Some of them have never seen a mzungu go to the toilet, I guess.

The hand-washing bit is a problem, though. You'll notice that no-one eats using their left hand in such areas. :-O

I find this kind of issue with conferences generally, in many subject areas.

I find that I can get more detailed and expansive information from a book for a vastly smaller price compared with attending a conference on the subject.

Also, many papers are published after a conference. So, I just save the air fare and hotel costs and buy the book!

I don't get it. Perhaps the main point of conferences is the coffee breaks, rather than a keynote address.

The former. There was no mechanism to allow someone to leave the Euro - it just was never an option and the "coherence" of the system depends on this not happening. So, once you permit a member to do so, the whole Euro system becomes precarious, to say the least.

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15575751

The drive for greater fiscal union, a common regulatory authority, etc, that we see now is an attempt to fix such issues - ie having so much control that these defaults never happen.

Please excuse me while I try to suppress my cynicism.

From what I have read on the fastmail.fm blog, etc, they tend to do some very good stuff on the back-end, particularly(open source) contributions to the Cyrus IMAP server. These, I understand, have improved the failover and resilience of the IMAP server a lot. These might not be "innovations" in a technical sense, but they certainly make Cyrus a much better server for Enterprise users.

The less said about fastmail.fm's "innovations" on their web interface the better.

You can backup your purchases using copy-and-paste to your hard drive. Or do you mean "remove DRM"?

I agree with your second paragraph.

Agreed. But, we've yet to establish if indeed they do take away rights that the law provides. I would have thought HN would have uncovered such a law by now.

A cursory glance at the Wikipedia article on DRM suggests the law is favourable torwards DRM and all that that entails.

The kindle license agreement is relatively short and perfectly understandable.

The moral of this story is: if you give a website some money, find out what you are getting for your money.

Trouble is, you are bound by the license agreement, not by the text on the buttons, as the Conditions of Use and Sale makes clear, which is linked to on every page of Amazon's site.

Well, good luck with the "1-click" button defense. heh.

I agree that Amazon could be a LOT more open and clear about what it is that changes hands (ie some "rights") when we pay "applicable fees".

But, it took me the best part of 10 seconds to find the license agreement. And, once found, couldn't be clearer.

And, how, pray tell, will you convince the judge of that? You didn't purchase a book, as the T&C's make clear - the contents of which you agreed to by entering into the said agreement.

You paid applicable fees to enter into an agreement to view digital content. Nothing more. There was no purchase of a book.

Where's your evidence to the contrary?

You did read the Terms and Conditions before you "bought" the books, didn't you?

If you bought the books, you agreed [in the eyes of the law] to this kind of eventuality..

I'm as guilty of this kind of thing as well. We tend to assume an imaginary T&C that conforms to we think is fair when we buy things online - and we have to learn the hard way that the real T&C's are very much more dubious.

Here's the relevant bit in the T&C's:

"Upon your download of Digital Content and payment of any applicable fees (including applicable taxes), the Content Provider grants you a non-exclusive right to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times"

"Your rights under this Agreement will automatically terminate if you fail to comply with any term of this Agreement."

The key points is that this is a "license agreement" that grants you rights on the payment of applicable fees.

TL;DR: You don't own any content you licensed to read on your kindle.

Have you seen the film "The King's Speech"?

King George VI must have led a deprived and impoverished life to be so insecure and inarticulate in public. ;)

In a smaller arena, some of the CEO's I have worked under have shown signs in insecurity also. So, I don't think confidence necessarily comes from power and wealth.

So, the only difference between the anti-English banter I experience and racism is that I don't get offended?

You had better hope I don't start being offended, then! :)

And, yes, this argument also applies to Scots living in England, or any other similar situation.

So, what criteria must hold for "banter" to be classed as racism towards an Englishman in Scotland?

So, based on the context you have described, it is impossible for me to experience racism in Scotland under the veil of "banter". It can only be just a joke?

English guy here, living in Scotland.

I personally don't take offence at the anti-English banter.

But, I challenge you to engage in the same kind of banter with Asians, blacks, or homosexuals, etc, and let me know how that pans out for you.

Is there a material difference, apart from the fact that English people don't take offence? In my opinion, anti-English statements don't really offend because a sense of Englishness is felt much less by an Englishman compared to how a Scot would feel his/her Scottishness. We're just not a very nationalistic buch.

I do agree that most Scottish people have no problem with English folk. On a personal level, it is just "banter". The more distateful sentiments are aimed at England as a nation, as far as I have experienced.

Still having the sames issues with the pre-prepared welcome email.

I like the simplicity. However, i think there might be a few bugs left.

I got my temporary email address, but when I click on the email from "team@receiveee.com" in the inbox, I get "Sorry we where looking hard, but could not find that mail :("

Also, I've just sent two test emails to the temporary address, and neither has arrived in the inbox.

edit: I'm now getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors.

I agree.

I tried some Hegel, who scored 0.18. Clearly broken.

Schopenhauer got it right, where BlaBlaMeter gets it wrong:

"If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right. Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus ... scribbled nonsense quite unlike any mortal before him, so that whoever could read his most eulogized work, the so-called Phenomenology of the Mind, without feeling as if he were in a madhouse, would qualify as an inmate for Bedlam, I should be no less right."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/flounder http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flounder#Verb

(intransitive) To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.

    "He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience
 members asked questions he could not answer well."

I thought the graphic element of "infographics" is supposed to make the information more digestible and understandable. This example makes it more difficult to digest by including superfluous elements that add nothing to the information, but distract from the important information.

For example, how does an abstract hand holding onto a bra help me to digest the information immediately adjacent to it, which refers to government budgets?

Here are some good examples of infographics, where the graphics help present the info, rather than distract from it:

http://2toria.com/tag/infographic/

1. The beach, where my 5-year old paddles in the water, is also the ocean floor. Can get fairly shallow.

I understand your point. Here are two more points:

1. We should remember that young kids have no idea that, while we are absent, we are sacrificing, providing and succeeding. To them, we are just absent.

2. Reading Dr. Suess and playing Lego with our kids is an expression of sacrifice, provision and success, albeit with different currency and goals.