If your ISP is the one hacking the DNS they are providing to you - no problem, just access another or set up your own.
If it's the ISP of the server you are trying to access it means that the server in question is no longer accessible. - Nothing you can do.
The DNS provider for the service you are accessing is going down - you can still access the server if you have the IP address or if that server has a secondary DNS provider for another TLD.
If your ISP is blocking the IP address of the server you access - use a proxy.
Nimoy is still a youngster compared to Kirk Douglas.
And I think that he's very much part of what made the TOS a great success. (How many other TV series from that time period can you name? I can only think of The Addams Family)
In great success - count the influence it has had as well as number of viewers over time for the show.
Often the telemarketers has known numbers and then you can direct them to an answering machine "This number is not in use", "Please wait while connecting", "Temporary fault, please call again".
The best thing is to waste their time as much as possible - even if it will cost you some time to set it up.
Asterisk is a great little software for setting that up.
Or use a screwdriver, remove platters, process them with sandpaper. But if you have easy access to a cement factory then you can probably ask them if you can dump some sensitive stuff into that kiln. A 1300 to 1400 degree (C) environment in a rotating kiln is highly likely to wipe your data. (can also be used to wipe other evidence)
Then the question is the reasoning behind the need to go beyond a simple single overwrite of the data. Only a few cases validates the need to go any further - like top secret data that can cause great harm to your home nation or incriminating evidence that needs to be hidden from the authorities.
Most other types of data aren't worth the effort to recover after a single overwrite, even medical records. Unless you have an extremely evil Ex.
And for anyone involved with extremely sensitive data there are already procedures defined for destruction.
The good thing is that watching CSI will give you a broader sense of potential natural explanations to what seems really odd.
And if the victim died or was unconscious before combustion will probably remain unsolved. If it was self-ignition, wouldn't there be more traces spread over the room while he tried to extinguish himself?
From a technical point of view what can be done is to trace cell-towers and cells that his phone has accessed and do a rough estimation of his location.
However if you are indoors in rural areas you can get rather weird results in location-handling since your phone isn't omni-directional but only sees towers in certain directions, which can make it appear that you are 10 miles off from where you actually are.
And it's fairly easy to detect this on some devices - it's just a question of sending some "AT" commands to your phone and ask it which towers/cells it sees.
Revise the copyright laws to make sure that copyright can't be transferred from the creator and that the creator always must be a person.
And there are two kinds of copyright violations - the home copier which is relatively harmless and the commercial interest that uses a well-known tune for making an ad - which may be insulting the creator severely.
Imagine Neo-nazis using Michael Jackson songs to promote them.
And reality is - there's no need to rush updates of operating systems. All it does is to make a mess for the users.
Even though even XP has been around for almost a decade it's stable and useful for the majority of the users in the world and there are only a few things that you can't do with XP that you can with W7, and the same goes for W8.
So the only way for M$ to get people to upgrade is to enforce that through incompatible hardware for the older OS versions.
There should be rules stating that if someone has made an reasonable attempt to get hold of copyright owner (documentation needed of course) and failed then the software shall enter Public Domain.
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I have way too much items for that to work so I need both the start menu and the taskbar/quick launch.
Call me a victim of living in a semi-socialist country.
It depends - you have a few different cases:
Nimoy is still a youngster compared to Kirk Douglas.
And I think that he's very much part of what made the TOS a great success. (How many other TV series from that time period can you name? I can only think of The Addams Family)
In great success - count the influence it has had as well as number of viewers over time for the show.
You can always set up your own DNS server that talks to the root servers.
I'm running that setup and it works very well. Why depend on a lobotomized service from the ISP when you can get the real deal?
At least as long as the ISP isn't forcing you to use their DNS. And by then there may be problems for them with DNSSEC.
Often the telemarketers has known numbers and then you can direct them to an answering machine "This number is not in use", "Please wait while connecting", "Temporary fault, please call again".
The best thing is to waste their time as much as possible - even if it will cost you some time to set it up.
Asterisk is a great little software for setting that up.
Or you can use the platters as target for skeet shooting. They will be re-usable instead of those clay "pigeons".
But make sure that the landing area is clear - the platters can be great ninja stars!
Dynamite is just as fun!
Concentrated Nitric Acid will also take care of a lot of stuff in interesting ways. Just don't breathe the fumes.
Data on the platters will still be recoverable by professional firms.
Colt .45.
Commercial way is to use a shredder.
Or use a screwdriver, remove platters, process them with sandpaper. But if you have easy access to a cement factory then you can probably ask them if you can dump some sensitive stuff into that kiln. A 1300 to 1400 degree (C) environment in a rotating kiln is highly likely to wipe your data. (can also be used to wipe other evidence)
Then the question is the reasoning behind the need to go beyond a simple single overwrite of the data. Only a few cases validates the need to go any further - like top secret data that can cause great harm to your home nation or incriminating evidence that needs to be hidden from the authorities.
Most other types of data aren't worth the effort to recover after a single overwrite, even medical records. Unless you have an extremely evil Ex.
And for anyone involved with extremely sensitive data there are already procedures defined for destruction.
You are welcome to go here .
The good thing is that watching CSI will give you a broader sense of potential natural explanations to what seems really odd.
And if the victim died or was unconscious before combustion will probably remain unsolved. If it was self-ignition, wouldn't there be more traces spread over the room while he tried to extinguish himself?
A small hack to a mobile phone will be enough.
And this project is similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFP1bDyJWJg that I was involved in little over a year ago.
From a technical point of view what can be done is to trace cell-towers and cells that his phone has accessed and do a rough estimation of his location.
However if you are indoors in rural areas you can get rather weird results in location-handling since your phone isn't omni-directional but only sees towers in certain directions, which can make it appear that you are 10 miles off from where you actually are.
And it's fairly easy to detect this on some devices - it's just a question of sending some "AT" commands to your phone and ask it which towers/cells it sees.
Oh yes - they have already in reality mandated pre-installed OS on all computers. Only computers that aren't are those that you build from parts.
The way to automatically agree to things and you have to opt out may in some countries be illegal.
It's probably because too few of your posts have been awarded with positive mod points before they expired again.
Post more, and with posts that get positive moderations.
Or we will get a ring of ice around Earth - just like Saturn.
That can probably also solve the problem, but it may actually cause the problem of an ice age instead if something goes wrong.
"What can possibly go wrong?"
A physical person with flesh and blood.
Revise the copyright laws to make sure that copyright can't be transferred from the creator and that the creator always must be a person.
And there are two kinds of copyright violations - the home copier which is relatively harmless and the commercial interest that uses a well-known tune for making an ad - which may be insulting the creator severely.
Imagine Neo-nazis using Michael Jackson songs to promote them.
And reality is - there's no need to rush updates of operating systems. All it does is to make a mess for the users.
Even though even XP has been around for almost a decade it's stable and useful for the majority of the users in the world and there are only a few things that you can't do with XP that you can with W7, and the same goes for W8.
So the only way for M$ to get people to upgrade is to enforce that through incompatible hardware for the older OS versions.
Nothing will really pass the Turing test before it has been tested by Turing himself, but since he's dead it's impossible to pass the Turing test.
I agree - it's like talking to someone with an IQ below 50 and no short term memory.
Occasionally you can get a witty or funny answer, but no more than random chance. Often you just get something stupid or out of context back.
There should be rules stating that if someone has made an reasonable attempt to get hold of copyright owner (documentation needed of course) and failed then the software shall enter Public Domain.
S/N measured in dB.
Or signal strength in dBm.
At least this seems to be an alternative to the cantenna solution.
And there are a lot of cantenna articles on /. already: http://ask.slashdot.org/tag/cantenna