OpenDNS is not the absolute solution for this. You need to check your every time you change your network location since some ISPs and corporate networks will not allow you to use external DNS servers and you need to make sure you have the correct DNS servers for your location. However, if allowed, OpenDNS is a good solution if you are in doubt.
Well, were you not child at one time? Please be a human for once. Unless you are a.... This banning stuff has to stop. It is not only the children is the issue but the parents. So many parents are so lax with their own children and the children just play off this and the children go crazy. The parents are on their cell phones or doing other thing but doesn't take care of their children so we, the public, are pay for this. However if your child did something the bad parents start complain about your child for doing the same thing since children are excellent for copying each others behavior. Don't blame the children or another type person for this problem. Please use reasonable senses to solve this one. This single door boarding need to stop. Just like the security lines. More lines the better. Just like trying to get mix high speed and slow traffic on a one lane road you will get a mess. We know that all planes have more then one door so if we can allow different passengers board at different doors we can solve part of this. We know that children, people with disabilities and other people that are "slow" need assistance and they can use one door. The ones who are faster can use another door. However layout of some planes this is not as simple because of the single aisle so there will be some interference with passengers in some areas and we need to accommodate this into the schedule. There will never be a perfect method of this but we can try and use other ways but there will be a limit any system which we can push. As a former pilot and passenger the really bad people are drunk and drugged up passengers and these people are just below terrorist on my scale. There are so many stories about drunk and drugged up people trying to do dangerous things like open the cabin door in flight, threaten other passengers/crew and other stupid stuff which put all of us in danger, in the air or ground. These are the ones that scare me most but we shouldn't ban them either. We should put them into a holding tank so they can be sober up before another flight and not hold up their current flight.
Murder or self-defense. Consensual sex or rape. Hate speech or freedom of speech. Protection or oppression. All of these have fine line between what one is versus the other. Each person views something one way and another person another way so to make it so one rights doesn't infringe upon another which is what the US Constitution is essentially is all about. Censoring doesn't really seriously accomplish anything since humans are innately curious and will discover things even through they are not supposed to and discover the truth of things. Take for example Galileo, he discovered other worlds in the sky but the churched essentially censored him speaking out about this but reality and Galileo eventually won. Some people want to live in a fantasy world where they are always right and they cannot do no wrong. But reality proves that we are all human and we all have human falsies.
Taliban is like any other totalitarian group where you must view their propaganda only which their form of YouTube. Also want these cell phones off so the members don't take part any "special" activities after hours.
This is somewhat a misleading title. There was a problem with a substation that caused the Turkey Point reactors and other generating station to shutdown. This is a normal protective measure for all generating stations, nuclear or not. What caused the substation problem is the real issue here and what possible isolation methods can be used to prevent such a wide spread outage. I used to be an substation engineer so it must have something really bad that cause a substation to trip generating stations that far up the line. Leaving the work safety grounds straps in substation and then re-energizing the substation can cause such a nasty drop in power in such a wide area and that would be one big ka-boom at the substation. In the San Francisco Bay Area we had that happen in the several years back and knocked some generating stations offline also.
Hmm. Oracle. Hmm. Oracle preach using Linux OS and they have an contract with RedHat for support and RedHat give Oracle RedHat Linux OS in turn. Oracle also acquired Berkeley DB so I wonder why Oracle, a for profit company, would put so much effort in FOSS? I think that FOSS promotes creativity and open thinking that allow new ideas without the deadlines and restrictions of corporate financial pressures. However without some gentle prodding from management software will not become a useful software. You need some form of leadership that will gently prod and form the product so that will become something that people can use. On the other side having the pressure to create software under a deadline and restrictions you will have buggy and not well tested software that we know that some companies put out and we complain about. Profit is a good motive to create but when it becomes ends justify the means then you are in trouble. Many disasters are caused because financial justified means so you have either a Titanic or a Enron.
Gee I'll leave the cell sites up in Afghanistan and listen into any large congregation cell phones that are of any real terrorist that really plotting something bad and then send in a HARM to finish the job.
Threading also takes material from the total material and improper threading will cause fissures in the material which under stress cause failure of material. This was a combination failure. Like most failures it requires many things to come into alignment before the disaster occurs. The Space Shuttle and Sky Bridge did fail because of one thing, but several factors that came together that occurred simultaneously then this disaster occurred. If any one of these factors where to be mitigated or removed then this disaster will not occur or if any did happen then there will be a recoverable situation. My friend when I was in the US Air Force, Lt Col Ellison Onizuka, died in the Challenger disaster and I took that more than anything else. I was just a 1st Lt when that occurred and we where the only few Asians as officers at Edwards AFB. I remember learning that management at NASA, Morton-Thiokol, and other contractors okaying the flight even though they where outside the known parameters. Richard Feynman best experiment in the hearings was putting a piece of O-ring material in to cup of ice water and the O-ring material was brittle. I have since taken a Richard Feynman view of the of the world and now work in research lab where critical thinking is in order all of the time and top down management is a joke. We laugh at Dilbert who view top down management in the same way but in more humorous light. However when it comes to lives we need to mitigate or remove management from putting pressure on engineering or any other person so management can "look good" rather than the safely of people.
If your TV remote dies then you will need to get up off the couch to change channels or adjust the volume on the TV. I don't know about not booting to floppy to update some BIOS on some new systems. Using a rotary phone will stop any cracker/hacker from logging your keys. I think for most people Calligraphy is art rather than mean of communications. Well for Double De-clutching I still have to do that with my 1981 Honda Accord with an 5 speed manual but the syncro between the 1 & 2 gears are worn out so occasionally I have to double de-clutching to get into and out of 1 & 2 gear. I use this lovely car to commuting to the train station and leave there and no one touches it. Even they did (they should be in a insane asylum) they would discover the 1 & 2 gear problem. Eventually I'm going to get rid of this car soon and I'll forget this.
This reminds me about a hilarious scene in the movie "Inner Space" where Tuck Pendleton (played by Dennis Quaid) has miniaturized and now inside of Jack Putter (played by Martin Short) Tuck is trying talk by mean of special device and Jack starts to hear Tuck's voice inside of him and then screams "I'm possessed!". The doctors says we can rule out demonic possession because demons talk through you and not to you.
I have a brother-in-law that is American born Cuban who would like to visit and bring things back from Cuba which his parents always talk about things in Cuba that they can never get in the US (ie cigars). BTW the cigars made in Cuba are really not as good as ones made by expatriates of Cuba since the tobacco in Cuba has problems due to diseases, drought and other factors that made the tobacco poor quality in the recent years so the reason for people wanting Cuban cigars because it a "embargoed" object.
Even though this is UK but someone notice how bad for the consumer these EULA are written. I wish that the Feds had enough nuts and intestinal fortitude to do this also. Reading the most EULA will take at least 1 hour and even you had a question it will take another day or more to get an respond (good luck if anything else without a form letter). I remember a long time ago that there was one EULA from a company that actually had a prize of $100 if anyone would read entire EULA and someone did get that prize. I wish that EULA were written in shorter and human language (not lawyerese) so humans hand read it in a reasonable period of time. Also someone like the ACLU (I'm not a fan of) or independent party that ensure that the EULA is not unconstitutional. Note I didn't legal since so many laws are leaning towards big business so the consumer is on the losing the end of most laws since the lobbyist are "encouraging" the law makers to make laws for the big business.
Is this anything like Polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko?
Yes, DNS is a failure under it current condition. Root DNS servers are well protected but all the other DNS servers can't be authenticated with the root servers so that where the problems are at. Any idiot can make a DNS server and then write a script or malware so they can rewrite the DNS server setting so it will point to that idiot's DNS server so they do what they can to you. A average person on the street doesn't know what DNS servers IP address are and what they are supposed to be is therein lies the problem. However even a technically savvy person will have a hard time also when they travel and they jump from one network to another and DNS servers change per ISP/network. Opendns is a good solution for those who are in doubt of their DNS server settings but some ISP/network doesn't allow external DNS servers into their network so you are at the mercy of the ISP/network. However this can goes it knees because of a a$$hole wants to do a DDOS on the root servers or opendns.
Microsoft house. A house that doesn't let's it owner in but lets other people (read hackers) in. Al house that periodically (more often than not) crashes and goes to blue screen.
Not exactly. I have a colleague that has Comcast at home and I send him a email message with a MS Word attachment and some of the messages go through and a few don't. We did a test with the same content message and found that long filenames (more than 20 characters not including extension) for MS Word documents don't go through. I sent him a jpeg with a long filename and it got through so we think it affects only MS Word. We didn't test MS Excel or PowerPoint. We don't a good reason from Comcast for this problem yet so your statement about email and Comcast is not true.
Remember that Maine and Nevada are caucuses and not primaries. Some caucuses have strange rules so they are not recognized by everyone (ie Nevada and Florida) but gives some indications how the state may lean to in the primaries, if the candidate survives the other states primaries and caucuses, then they be really be voted in the real primary of the state. Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul have some interesting views but some are "too radical" for the majority republicans and some republicans view that these two candidates are not "voteable" in the general election.
Not to cap Britney Spears when she is down but her song "Opps! I did it again" is aptly named for these events. WTF is happening in the Middle East with all of these cable cuts. If I didn't know any better that all of these events could be planned events. Maybe I'm a paranoid android but what are the chances (statisticians please answer) that three cables cuts in such a limited geographical area could occur?
Are you sure we are not in the space age? We have a space station in orbit with humans on board. We have interplanetary probes investigating other planets in our solar system. We are using Global Positioning System to check where we are in the world. We use satellite communications to talk, connect to the internet and send other information. We use satellite sensing equipment to view our world like cloud patterns, deforestation, and other environmental systems. There are many other things that I may have missed but space environment is the next of many more frontier for expansion of our knowledge. We may gone beyond the space race but space age is here to stay.
The Pope is on another hypocritical rant. For a this sect of Christianity is the worst of the all. First it was the Inquisition which stopped the European open thinking. Second the paying of bribes and other evils that Martin Luther alluded to 95 Theses (Martin Luther was no saint either but that is all relative). Third is the current sex scandal with alter boys. There are many more but I don't have time. I'm a Protestant Christian so I have my bias but have studied this from in college understand that people are the hypocrites that takes the religion way out of context. Similar to Osama Bin Laden with his "Fundamentalists" Islam which has no bearing with Islam or the Quran. I don't want to use the Pope in relation to Osama but if Pope goes over the deep end again like the Inquisition then there will be no difference.
Platinum? What about Lutetium? Californium-252 or any man-made element will be expensive due to huge effort in processing that doesn't exist in nature. Nevertheless RIAA has gone off the deep end with this. $1.5 million for 10 songs is well beyond any sane persons thinking. I don't think you can share a single song that many times in anyones lifetime.
Ditto. It is the spammers, phishers and other malware makers that abuse the "tasting" of the domains. They take the domain and then spam, phish and other junk at you then when you finally have can check and have law enforcement to go after them then they disappear with the "tasted" domain. Also the "tasted" domain is also on every blacklist in the world so when someone tries to use that domain "tasted" you can't do anything with it since it is blacklisted. Like anything the in the world, some people abuse something and then the "ban" it so that other people can't use it. It is a pity was have come to this point in our existence.
This is the similar to Red Hat with Linux. Barracuda Networks uses open source applications and then pay the people who created/own the application so they sell it as part of their device. The clamAV is not the issue but how Barracuda Networks used clamAV and other open source applications as an "gateway" device which somehow TrendMicro has the patent for. Other gateway device manufactures are looking at this carefully since most of them are in a similar situation. Patents, like anything, can be misused and original intent of the patent system is lost which we all suffer for.
Just like the TV series "Criminal Minds", law enforcement officers understand criminals without being criminals. Good law enforcement officers have understanding of a criminals but doesn't go over the line because his/her consciences will stop him from doing that. Engineers are the same way which good engineers will understand the engineering of something without crossing the line of criminal activity (ie destroying a building). It is not the profession, device, or knowledge but the character of the person who uses it makes it a good thing or a terrorist dream.
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OpenDNS is not the absolute solution for this. You need to check your every time you change your network location since some ISPs and corporate networks will not allow you to use external DNS servers and you need to make sure you have the correct DNS servers for your location. However, if allowed, OpenDNS is a good solution if you are in doubt.
Well, were you not child at one time? Please be a human for once. Unless you are a....
This banning stuff has to stop. It is not only the children is the issue but the parents. So many parents are so lax with their own children and the children just play off this and the children go crazy. The parents are on their cell phones or doing other thing but doesn't take care of their children so we, the public, are pay for this. However if your child did something the bad parents start complain about your child for doing the same thing since children are excellent for copying each others behavior. Don't blame the children or another type person for this problem.
Please use reasonable senses to solve this one.
This single door boarding need to stop. Just like the security lines. More lines the better. Just like trying to get mix high speed and slow traffic on a one lane road you will get a mess. We know that all planes have more then one door so if we can allow different passengers board at different doors we can solve part of this. We know that children, people with disabilities and other people that are "slow" need assistance and they can use one door. The ones who are faster can use another door. However layout of some planes this is not as simple because of the single aisle so there will be some interference with passengers
in some areas and we need to accommodate this into the schedule. There will never be a perfect method of this but we can try and use other ways but there will be a limit any system which we can push.
As a former pilot and passenger the really bad people are drunk and drugged up passengers and these people are just below terrorist on my scale. There are so many stories about drunk and drugged up people trying to do dangerous things like open the cabin door in flight, threaten other passengers/crew and other stupid stuff which put all of us in danger, in the air or ground. These are the ones that scare me most but we shouldn't ban them either. We should put them into a holding tank so they can be sober up before another flight and not hold up their current flight.
Murder or self-defense. Consensual sex or rape. Hate speech or freedom of speech. Protection or oppression.
All of these have fine line between what one is versus the other. Each person views something one way and another person another way so to make it so one rights doesn't infringe upon another which is what the US Constitution is essentially is all about.
Censoring doesn't really seriously accomplish anything since humans are innately curious and will discover things even through they are not supposed to and discover the truth of things. Take for example Galileo, he discovered other worlds in the sky but the churched essentially censored him speaking out about this but reality and Galileo eventually won.
Some people want to live in a fantasy world where they are always right and they cannot do no wrong. But reality proves that we are all human and we all have human falsies.
Taliban is like any other totalitarian group where you must view their propaganda only which their form of YouTube.
Also want these cell phones off so the members don't take part any "special" activities after hours.
This is somewhat a misleading title.
There was a problem with a substation that caused the Turkey Point reactors and other generating station to shutdown. This is a normal protective measure for all generating stations, nuclear or not. What caused the substation problem is the real issue here and what possible isolation methods can be used to prevent such a wide spread outage.
I used to be an substation engineer so it must have something really bad that cause a substation to trip generating stations that far up the line. Leaving the work safety grounds straps in substation and then re-energizing the substation can cause such a nasty drop in power in such a wide area and that would be one big ka-boom at the substation. In the San Francisco Bay Area we had that happen in the several years back and knocked some generating stations offline also.
Remember the lobbyist that Comcast really pays well so they can get Congress to pass laws to allow them to do this to us.
Hmm. Oracle. Hmm. Oracle preach using Linux OS and they have an contract with RedHat for support and RedHat give Oracle RedHat Linux OS in turn. Oracle also acquired Berkeley DB so I wonder why Oracle, a for profit company, would put so much effort in FOSS?
I think that FOSS promotes creativity and open thinking that allow new ideas without the deadlines and restrictions of corporate financial pressures. However without some gentle prodding from management software will not become a useful software. You need some form of leadership that will gently prod and form the product so that will become something that people can use. On the other side having the pressure to create software under a deadline and restrictions you will have buggy and not well tested software that we know that some companies put out and we complain about.
Profit is a good motive to create but when it becomes ends justify the means then you are in trouble. Many disasters are caused because financial justified means so you have either a Titanic or a Enron.
Gee I'll leave the cell sites up in Afghanistan and listen into any large congregation cell phones that are of any real terrorist that really plotting something bad and then send in a HARM to finish the job.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/agm-88.htm
Threading also takes material from the total material and improper threading will cause fissures in the material which under stress cause failure of material.
This was a combination failure. Like most failures it requires many things to come into alignment before the disaster occurs. The Space Shuttle and Sky Bridge did fail because of one thing, but several factors that came together that occurred simultaneously then this disaster occurred. If any one of these factors where to be mitigated or removed then this disaster will not occur or if any did happen then there will be a recoverable situation.
My friend when I was in the US Air Force, Lt Col Ellison Onizuka, died in the Challenger disaster and I took that more than anything else. I was just a 1st Lt when that occurred and we where the only few Asians as officers at Edwards AFB. I remember learning that management at NASA, Morton-Thiokol, and other contractors okaying the flight even though they where outside the known parameters. Richard Feynman best experiment in the hearings was putting a piece of O-ring material in to cup of ice water and the O-ring material was brittle. I have since taken a Richard Feynman view of the of the world and now work in research lab where critical thinking is in order all of the time and top down management is a joke. We laugh at Dilbert who view top down management in the same way but in more humorous light. However when it comes to lives we need to mitigate or remove management from putting pressure on engineering or any other person so management can "look good" rather than the safely of people.
If your TV remote dies then you will need to get up off the couch to change channels or adjust the volume on the TV.
I don't know about not booting to floppy to update some BIOS on some new systems.
Using a rotary phone will stop any cracker/hacker from logging your keys.
I think for most people Calligraphy is art rather than mean of communications.
Well for Double De-clutching I still have to do that with my 1981 Honda Accord with an 5 speed manual but the syncro between the 1 & 2 gears are worn out so occasionally I have to double de-clutching to get into and out of 1 & 2 gear. I use this lovely car to commuting to the train station and leave there and no one touches it. Even they did (they should be in a insane asylum) they would discover the 1 & 2 gear problem. Eventually I'm going to get rid of this car soon and I'll forget this.
This reminds me about a hilarious scene in the movie "Inner Space" where Tuck Pendleton (played by Dennis Quaid) has miniaturized and now inside of Jack Putter (played by Martin Short) Tuck is trying talk by mean of special device and Jack starts to hear Tuck's voice inside of him and then screams "I'm possessed!".
The doctors says we can rule out demonic possession because demons talk through you and not to you.
Good luck. Dept of State has stated that it won't change current policy:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152ap_us_castro.html
I have a brother-in-law that is American born Cuban who would like to visit and bring things back from Cuba which his parents always talk about things in Cuba that they can never get in the US (ie cigars).
BTW the cigars made in Cuba are really not as good as ones made by expatriates of Cuba since the tobacco in Cuba has problems due to diseases, drought and other factors that made the tobacco poor quality in the recent years so the reason for people wanting Cuban cigars because it a "embargoed" object.
Even though this is UK but someone notice how bad for the consumer these EULA are written. I wish that the Feds had enough nuts and intestinal fortitude to do this also. Reading the most EULA will take at least 1 hour and even you had a question it will take another day or more to get an respond (good luck if anything else without a form letter). I remember a long time ago that there was one EULA from a company that actually had a prize of $100 if anyone would read entire EULA and someone did get that prize. I wish that EULA were written in shorter and human language (not lawyerese) so humans hand read it in a reasonable period of time. Also someone like the ACLU (I'm not a fan of) or independent party that ensure that the EULA is not unconstitutional. Note I didn't legal since so many laws are leaning towards big business so the consumer is on the losing the end of most laws since the lobbyist are "encouraging" the law makers to make laws for the big business.
Is this anything like Polonium poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko?
Yes, DNS is a failure under it current condition. Root DNS servers are well protected but all the other DNS servers can't be authenticated with the root servers so that where the problems are at. Any idiot can make a DNS server and then write a script or malware so they can rewrite the DNS server setting so it will point to that idiot's DNS server so they do what they can to you. A average person on the street doesn't know what DNS servers IP address are and what they are supposed to be is therein lies the problem. However even a technically savvy person will have a hard time also when they travel and they jump from one network to another and DNS servers change per ISP/network.
Opendns is a good solution for those who are in doubt of their DNS server settings but some ISP/network doesn't allow external DNS servers into their network so you are at the mercy of the ISP/network.
However this can goes it knees because of a a$$hole wants to do a DDOS on the root servers or opendns.
Microsoft house.
A house that doesn't let's it owner in but lets other people (read hackers) in. Al house that periodically (more often than not) crashes and goes to blue screen.
Any relation to Jack Shit (aka Jack Schitt).
http://jack.zunino.net/knowjack.htm
Not exactly. I have a colleague that has Comcast at home and I send him a email message with a MS Word attachment and some of the messages go through and a few don't. We did a test with the same content message and found that long filenames (more than 20 characters not including extension) for MS Word documents don't go through. I sent him a jpeg with a long filename and it got through so we think it affects only MS Word. We didn't test MS Excel or PowerPoint. We don't a good reason from Comcast for this problem yet so your statement about email and Comcast is not true.
Remember that Maine and Nevada are caucuses and not primaries. Some caucuses have strange rules so they are not recognized by everyone (ie Nevada and Florida) but gives some indications how the state may lean to in the primaries, if the candidate survives the other states primaries and caucuses, then they be really be voted in the real primary of the state.
Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul have some interesting views but some are "too radical" for the majority republicans and some republicans view that these two candidates are not "voteable" in the general election.
Not to cap Britney Spears when she is down but her song "Opps! I did it again" is aptly named for these events.
WTF is happening in the Middle East with all of these cable cuts. If I didn't know any better that all of these events could be planned events. Maybe I'm a paranoid android but what are the chances (statisticians please answer) that three cables cuts in such a limited geographical area could occur?
Are you sure we are not in the space age?
We have a space station in orbit with humans on board.
We have interplanetary probes investigating other planets in our solar system.
We are using Global Positioning System to check where we are in the world.
We use satellite communications to talk, connect to the internet and send other information.
We use satellite sensing equipment to view our world like cloud patterns, deforestation, and other environmental systems.
There are many other things that I may have missed but space environment is the next of many more frontier for expansion of our knowledge.
We may gone beyond the space race but space age is here to stay.
The Pope is on another hypocritical rant. For a this sect of Christianity is the worst of the all. First it was the Inquisition which stopped the European open thinking. Second the paying of bribes and other evils that Martin Luther alluded to 95 Theses (Martin Luther was no saint either but that is all relative). Third is the current sex scandal with alter boys. There are many more but I don't have time.
I'm a Protestant Christian so I have my bias but have studied this from in college understand that people are the hypocrites that takes the religion way out of context. Similar to Osama Bin Laden with his "Fundamentalists" Islam which has no bearing with Islam or the Quran. I don't want to use the Pope in relation to Osama but if Pope goes over the deep end again like the Inquisition then there will be no difference.
Platinum? What about Lutetium? Californium-252 or any man-made element will be expensive due to huge effort in processing that doesn't exist in nature.
Nevertheless RIAA has gone off the deep end with this. $1.5 million for 10 songs is well beyond any sane persons thinking. I don't think you can share a single song that many times in anyones lifetime.
Ditto.
It is the spammers, phishers and other malware makers that abuse the "tasting" of the domains. They take the domain and then spam, phish and other junk at you then when you finally have can check and have law enforcement to go after them then they disappear with the "tasted" domain. Also the "tasted" domain is also on every blacklist in the world so when someone tries to use that domain "tasted" you can't do anything with it since it is blacklisted.
Like anything the in the world, some people abuse something and then the "ban" it so that other people can't use it. It is a pity was have come to this point in our existence.
This is the similar to Red Hat with Linux.
Barracuda Networks uses open source applications and then pay the people who created/own the application so they sell it as part of their device. The clamAV is not the issue but how Barracuda Networks used clamAV and other open source applications as an "gateway" device which somehow TrendMicro has the patent for. Other gateway device manufactures are looking at this carefully since most of them are in a similar situation.
Patents, like anything, can be misused and original intent of the patent system is lost which we all suffer for.
Just like the TV series "Criminal Minds", law enforcement officers understand criminals without being criminals. Good law enforcement officers have understanding of a criminals but doesn't go over the line because his/her consciences will stop him from doing that.
Engineers are the same way which good engineers will understand the engineering of something without crossing the line of criminal activity (ie destroying a building).
It is not the profession, device, or knowledge but the character of the person who uses it makes it a good thing or a terrorist dream.