Posts by Oliver P

Gmail is secure. Netflix is secure. Together they're a phishing threat

Re: Although...

mmccul, I think you have misread RFC 822 section 6.2.4. It says, 'This specification treats periods (".") as lexical separators.' It says that the effect of these lexical separators is to divide the name of the mailbox and turn it into a sequence of tokens.

Dividing a string in different places will yield distinct sequences. Note that the sequence ("a", "b"), which is a sequence of length 2, is a distinct sequence from the sequence ("ab"), which is a sequence of length 1.

Bloke in Belgium tries to trademark Je Suis Charlie slogan

Originality?

Surely there should be requirement that the image or text that you want to use as a trademark is your own work and is not already in use by others? Is it just me, or does that seem a sensible requirement to you?

They showed it on the BBC News last night.

Re: WELL DONE

"Well done for having the guts to show the cartoon, unlike other spineless extremist appeasing news outlets such as the BBC, ITN, ..."

If you are referring to the cover of the new issue of the magazine, you may be interested to know that they showed it on the BBC News last night.

Vodafone confirms Egypt lock-down

Not sure about that

I'm not sure that Vodafone would have benefited financially by disregarding the dictates of the Egyptian authorities. In the short term, yes, they would have got increased use of their service by the protesters, but they would have been risking having their Egyptian operations shut down altogether. Mr. Mubarak hasn't gone yet...