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  1. I am elated over this. on TracFone Finally Agrees To Allow Phone Unlocking · · Score: 1

    I've found a straight talk (Tracfone) is the only way to go as I see it. No contract, no free phone either. But I do have a MyTouch that's contract was fulfilled and given the number to use a different carrier.

    Why is it so important to me, I can add a HOSTS file to it for one.

    Google for one didn't care if one unlocked their "stuff", my Zoom tablet was rooted (I do hope the same as unlocking) and the ad blocking programs usable, as well as so much more ability, like changing ROMs on a whim.

  2. Re:RFC1812 has become unreadable as well on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    To add: MUST
              This word means that the item is an absolute requirement of the
              specification. Violation of such a requirement is a fundamental
              error; there is no case where it is justified.

  3. RFC1812 has become unreadable as well on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    This is the RFC that handled three reserved IP4 address blocks 10.X.X.X which Goggle uses or any large organization is able to use; one for semi large companies can use; as well as the 192.168.x.x a small group of users are to use, and most of us are familiar with. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf... I've read it many times in the past for those reserved blocks. Now can't make sense of it, it's grown by many many pages.

    At least the HOSTS file is safe (I think) "0.0.0.0 is an obsolete form of the limited broadcast address".

    A Router setup, I'll wait and see:
      "A router MUST allow a metric to be assigned to a static route for
      each routing domain that it supports. Each such metric MUST be
    explicitly assigned to a specific routing domain. For example:
    route 10.0.0.0/8 via 192.0.2.3 rip metric 3
      route 10.21.0.0/16 via 192.0.2.4 ospf inter-area metric 27
    route 10.22.0.0/16 via 192.0.2.5 egp 123 metric 99"

    And against all advice: "A router MUST support ICMP".

  4. I remember my first years on Usenet on Can New Chicago Taxes On Netflix, Apple, Spotify Withstand Legal Challenges? · · Score: 1

    Every February it started again anew, there's going to be a tax on the Internet, it became a ritual posting and thread. Now it seems to of taken place, it only takes one to spread.

  5. Re:Been There on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    Early on I built industrial scale robots for universities to train engineers and other professionals. This was about 1985.

    If I remember right that was about the time auto makers were introducing factory robots, and the people were having a fit over losing their jobs to them. To this day it's still the battle cry when mechanized labor is introduced into a work place.

    They need a different reason, the old tried and true one just doesn't work.

  6. A written procedure is needed (and followed). on Volkswagen Factory Worker Killed By a Robot · · Score: 1

    One for every repair or action to be taken on the "robots", so someone who has never done the required repair has not only a guide but safety requirements noted that need to be done prior and during it's required needs.

    If a procedure was used, it and the rest need to be updated.

  7. 10 Times The Military Mistakenly Dropped Nucks on How the Next US Nuclear Accident Might Happen · · Score: 1

    Hell any day now http://listverse.com/2014/11/0...

    Each time it mentions the bombs detonated it was due to conventional explosives that exploding out of sequence tossing or only blowing the core into dust (the explosives must blow up at the same time imploding the Plutonium core).

    This wasn't the article I was looking for as there are many more, When loading a nuclear missile into a sub it was dropped, these are listed in the "Family Almanac" Volume 1

  8. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Someone may correct me if there's more to it, but I think it's just that some people are uncomfortable with Google having so much access to information about us. Any DNS server you access will have the potential to keep records of which IP addresses made which queries, which potentially gives Google even more tracking data. As far as I know, there's no real sign that they're using that data, but to some extent, they're a company that makes money from collecting data about their users, so...

    I just happen to use and dare say trust Goggle, no matter what search engine you use with the exception of https://duckduckgo.com/ will track you. I do read the ToS's and privacy policies of any site I'm about to register on it's the data collected that your being informed of, I've refused to register on some sites over it or had second thoughts and bailed (Microsoft's Insiders program).

    It's many features or abilities is why I use Goggle - and they give back to the community, the only company I know of that does it on their scale, Goggle Earth while very useful was first seen as incredible; it's now Goggle Earth Pro.

    Above all you have to remember they make their living off of your data, Goggle Earth Pro was once sold (mostly to companies doing demographics), it will show you the tax assessment of every building I've check but one. I have an unlikely video hit on youtube.com the demographics given me are vast, and varied - while myself I'd never put an ad or overlay on any video; it's interesting the ages of people who are most likely to participate in a specific activity.

    Angry Birds (www.Rovio.com) has or had (it's been awhile, and now have it blocked) what was the most informative ToS and privacy policy I've ever read. They list where your data is being sent, the only one left in question is what does "data sent overseas" mean. The data they collect they sale to Flurry.com (Goggle) who with that data and what Goggle has collected are combined and sold to advertisers who wish to send ad's that you would be interested in (targeted ads). It's important to get your mobile devices opt'ed out of Flurry.com

    Bottom line, I trust Goggle to a point, as I won't use their DNS's, while tracking is ok within reason, I don't need to give it to them, and what's collected going through their DNS's? All ToS's and such claim unidentifiable information (but they've got your IP address) they don't need to know who you are, just your interest. There's a reason another Goggle sever center is being built, they need more space for what they do.

  9. Re:Bugs on a plane on Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter · · Score: 1

    Got it. Bugs in the airplane's airflow decrease fuel economy, but aren't considered a safety concern.

    Safety my first thought, but in respect to the stealth aircraft, and it's pilots. Missions launched from the U.S. to say Iraq, they should accumulate a lot of bugs, - I did check, Hemolymph being a copper-based protein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., not so stealthy when they arrive at their destination. I know they also fly patterns to avoid areas known to have radar coverage, but those times they are in an area of radar coverage.

    "May Berenbaum says pilots have long known insects can fly very high." http://www.npr.org/sections/kr... with the bumblebees as high as 18,000ft, so many that from China to the U.S. "They are likely to be burning a ton of energy to maintain flight." http://www.independent.co.uk/n... (Kool picture of a Bumblebee about to get high).

    So maybe it's already been done (finding a way to reduce bug splatter), but would be a security risk if revealed, as anything to do with the Stealth aircraft is.

  10. Re: I believe one already exists. on Airplane Coatings Help Recoup Fuel Efficiency Lost To Bug Splatter · · Score: 1

    Rain-X! Lots and lots of Rain-X!!!

    I've used Rain-X before. It's great stuff, (having some wax type properties) at and above 35 mph I never had to use my wipers and didn't. Any slower and there was no force (wind resistance) to move the rain/water, but at 35+ it was outstanding.

    Buying it at Costco I did indeed have lots of it, one purchase and I was bulked up with Rain-X for a long time.

  11. Re:It's not sacred on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    Our atoms will return and be re-used so, in some respect, it could be considered reincarnated... I am reincarnating as a star.

    Going full circle eh.

    My son's dog I was keeping was run over, having to bury it, I drove till I found soft soil but could only dig down about two-three feet.

    I saw my son on the weekends when he would stay with me, so had to make "that call". I wasn't going to say he's in a better place or something against my view. I told him the truth, Coyotes would most likely dig him up, eating him. This being a good thing as he would live on forever, through the Coyotes.

    While almost a awful thing to tell him at that age, it was the truth, a very real possibility and I didn't lie to him.

  12. Re:Had no idea indians ever lived in Hawaii on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    Custer surely would have never ever gotten that far. It takes a telescope to rile them up. Blankets? Do they need blankets?

    Depends upon how far back you wish to go.

    Hawaii was found by Polynesians who's DNA has proven them the discovers of America, I figure Columbus was the last person to of set foot on it's shore, yet gets all the credit.
    http://www.mnn.com/earth-matte...

    From South America they migrated along it's coast, to Central America, and spread out into North America, becoming the Indians we know today.

    This still agrees with the land bridge theory, yet A Clovis point was found to be allegedly older than possible by a land bridge crossing.
    http://america.aljazeera.com/a...

    The Kennewick Man was found so far out of place (and not and Indian), that made him so special. No reason there wasn't a spread of information by just that sort of person. History refuses to acknowledge the transfer of knowledge rather than inventing themselves.

    While mayhaps a bit off your topic, an interest of mine that I couldn't help but reply to.

  13. Re:Par for the course for religion on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    What law gives the government the right to destroy sacred land?

    I had to study law just enough to survive, and did rather well, I came across a statement I can't remember in it's entirety (I'm old and can get away with it) but there are two things law can't make you do, one is to decide who you are to marry, and one other I just can't come up with. and the first one is debatable.

    Three cities make up here, Lewis and Clark passed this way (You could walk on the backs of Salmon to cross the river), any island you dig on your most likely going to hit Indian artifacts, The Kennewick Man was found here by two sneaking unpaid into an event. -In effect the entire area is sacred land.

    Don't get me wrong I agree with where your going with this. The cities were here long before I was.

  14. Re:helocopters on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    It angers me, because those telescopes are ugly and ruin the natural landscape.

    You should see what my natural landscape looks like now - much different than 5 years ago.

    To the South are many hills that wind whips over, this is a windy area. For as far as they eye can see the very top of each hill is covered with equally spaced wind turbines - so you get to see the turbine in it's entirety . To a town (Walla Walla) the turbines follow the highway and they go on forever, I'm sure there's an end but I haven't seen one. Photo from Google Earth http://www.panoramio.com/photo...

    Further insulting, this area is known for it's cheap hydro electric power. Dams along the Snake river and Columbia river, which only allow the strong salmon to survive (a barb - but one mention of the dams and it normally comes up).

  15. Re:ignorance is not bliss on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    Find out what person or group benefits from this charade and eliminate their incentive to protest the telescope. Debunk the mystical nonsense that they use to indoctrinate their followers. In most (all?) cases the followers are motivated by fear, and the leaders are experts at exploiting that. Empower these ignorant people to understand the real world, which may not be quite as scary as they think.

    And why the first thing the Americas did were to send Christian missionaries everywhere to educate the heathens (one must know of god before being allowed into heaven - the key). The Spaniards sent Catholic missionaries, who had the backing of the pope and power, (Why in South America to this day east of a latitude one speaks Portuguese to the west Spanish, all to end a squabble.

    All sent to debunk existing thinking, and to what was the truth (to most), but it's a timely process. Christians practice peace so a long time, the Catholic's were mostly converted warriors spending little time explaining what was very important to them, by setting examples; faster but still taking generations.

  16. Re: Hawaii is not legally a part of the USA on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 1

    Technically, the acquisition of Hawaii was botched and it is not legally part of the United States. This may sound preposterous but it has been reported on. Essentially the United States to control of Hawaii in the same way that Russia took control of Crimea.

    Almost, usually it's the last line in the article you read, it was annexed to stop the depression cheaper sugar caused.

    Around 1893 "Without Presidential approval, marines stormed the islands, and the American minister to the islands raised the stars and stripes in Honolulu. The Queen was forced to abdicate, and the matter was left for Washington politicians to settle. "

    "Hawaii remained a territory until granted statehood as the fiftieth state in 1959."

    First hit, they are all the same http://www.ushistory.org/us/44...

    Guam, Marshall Islands, Johnston Island, there are a lot of US territories, as you were referring to.

  17. Re:It's not sacred on Protesters Block Effort To Restart Work On Controversial Hawaii Telescope · · Score: 2

    It isn't any more sacred than a church is. The people doing this protesting are no better than those who would block laws being passed in a country because they didn't go in line with their religion.

    Never underestimate the religion of a group of people, it's very important to them and nothing you can say will sway them. It drives their life and tells them what happens after they die, all their questions are answered in bliss and eternity. The Alaskan Aleut believe when they die they come back reincarnated as animals (a friend of mine, an Aleut does expect this). An example of how different it is from your own beliefs.

    How many have claimed we screwed the Indians. The Spanish conquest of central America robbed them of their religion and beliefs under threat of death. Even a staple (small bean) was outlawed as it was used in religious ceremonies, famine was the result, and many died. To be welcomed one allows the beliefs of that area, and works with it.

    We take their Hawaiian gods home as decorations, but to them it's serious stuff, more so for the elderly. They may very well have grounds in their ancestry to make a claim for that area, and or what it's to be used for. That they were screwed out of the land goes without saying, if not read up on how we (The United States) used then acquired Hawaii.

  18. Charter that's my ISP for years now on Charter Hires Net Neutrality Activist To Make Policy · · Score: 1

    Working on blocking a few Microsoft sites was a mistake on my part, as they are used to retrieve Certificates (Certs) so had to enable them again, But using Robtex.com to view the addresses, there are Edge servers between them and me; and I imagine all. Edge servers are exempt and can throttling traffic to maintain a server or balance the load, as per the Net Neutrality rules.

  19. Re:Summary's wrong on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    meat to of be played from.

    Does that really say meat and be? It was suppose to of said: meant to of been played from

    Should say: meant to have been played from.

    Actually thank you, but it's one of those errors I keep and will keep making by mistake, like the word tomorrow (I know easy) and a few others I'll misspell thinking it correct (spell checkers nice), or a post I'll read a hundred times (or much, much less) to insure it's what I want to post, send it off and one word throws the entire thought backwards from what I meant -good or bad one can't edit it even if it's glaring at them by that time :)

    I can't think of one post I haven't made an error in, discovered after the fact, be it a word, as you mentioned syntax, or a comma/period out of place - just being examples.

    And I really do feel bad one ) to those whom(?) I'm trying to reach, or myself) as it looks bad. But I do try.

  20. Re:Summary's wrong on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    They can go work for EA :)

    out of the frying pan..

    ...into the Battlefield 5?

    meat to of be played from.

    Does that really say meat and be? It was suppose to of said: meant to of been played from

  21. Re:Summary's wrong on After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs · · Score: 1

    They can go work for EA :)

    out of the frying pan..

    ...into the Battlefield 5?

    Personally I've never left 3 and enjoy it very much, and I do have 4.

    MW2 (Call of Duty) programmer's of and for EA.COM were laid off just before it's release, leaving in IW.net from which it was originally meat to of be played from. How after being hacked, I put my spare time into AlterIW.net banning MW2 cheaters (my part in their efforts), of which many many servers were connected to.

    AlterIW.net is now down and has been for years, but the doings of an amazing programmer named NTAuthority.

  22. Re:I'm game for that (not being embedded gung ho f on The Internet of Things Is the Password Killer We've Been Waiting For · · Score: 1

    DR TA

    This isn't the only site that's questioned my password, those requiring a new account.

    E-mails being sent to verify ones identity (sometimes) are sent to only one E-mail address, they don't allow forwarding nor POP3ing them as I normally do to get my e-mail (it's caused problems in the past, yet now I'm aware of it).

  23. I'm game for that (not being embedded gung ho for) on The Internet of Things Is the Password Killer We've Been Waiting For · · Score: 1

    DR TA

    I use a password manager (Acerose, Win), so know my passwords are correct, yet can't access my Hotmail account due to it being questioned. Hotmail's only use for me is to forward my e-mail from .com's I've used it on to my newer e-mail address at Gmail; so I don't mess with it, as it's working. This isn't the only site that's questioned my password, those requiring a new account.

  24. I've worked in the nuclear field producing Plutonium and what would be used in the war heads.

    No.

    But as a disclaimer, a lot of variables would need to be considered first, it's not really a yes or no answer.

  25. I have a Samsung S5, get a LG (horrid advice). on Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack · · Score: 1

    With My Samsung S5 or any mobile device I use a Blue-Tooth keyboard, as it's just down right easier (of course I don't travel). So a keyboard exploit shouldn't be a problem. I do have the keyboard, and other services I don't use updates disabled.

    My new LG (the Samsung S5's service is in limbo at this time), while it's a version of Android, it's tactile is so weak as to making it unusable. There is a feature to highlight then double click the screen, opening a function (whatever it may be), and now the only way tto open anything. I can't use it now (the phone) nor get back to that feature to disable. I've resorted to using my e-mailer to contact anybody who's phones e-mail address I have.

    but, you won't be having any cell phone security issues to confront.