Indeed. The SpaceX property, according to Google Maps (plus code: XRWV+X3 Port Isabel, Texas), is situated north of the Rio Grande river, which *is* the border between the US and Mexico. The terminus of the Rio Grande river where it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico is right there, and from satellite images, the ground looks kinda like wetlands.
Its located at the mouth of the river where it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico. The land looks like a mix of dry and marshy ground. The issue isn't that part of SpaceX's property is in Mexico (its not). Its that you can't build a wall like is being proposed in wet, marshy ground, so the actual wall will be north of the actual border, which means you can be on the south side of the wall and yet be standing on ground belonging to the US.
The aircraft was intentionally flying at a very low altitude as it was part of an airshow, demonstrating fly-by-wire. It was the fist public demonstration of fbw, which obviously didn't go well.
My DNS queries go through a local forwarder sitting on my desk, which forwards to two DNS servers over a VPN, which are themselves housed at a VPS provider. I own the VPS servers and maintain them, so I own the entire DNS stack. My VPS servers do the recursive DNS work, and that is where my control ends.
I did all of this because I got tired of CenturyLink always directing me to their "suggestions" page when I mis-spelled a URL (for those that I hadn't bookmarked in some way yet), which was all done with their DNS not returning an NXDOMAIN but instead returned a IP to their "suggestions" page for non existent domain names.
I could have just used either Cloudflare or Google's DNS service, but I wanted to keep CenturyLink's prying eyes off of my DNS traffic. I also host my own domain and authoritative DNS servers for it, so I already had the VPS infrastructure to do all this.
Its worked fairly well the past year I've been using it.
I saw the ad, and use a DNS service over a VPN to prevent CenturyLink from hijacking it in any way, so this wasn't done via DNS. It was actually blocking access. Others here have said it was only blocking port 80, and that would make some sense in my situation because some stuff was working fine, but other stuff didn't work until I discovered this by going to a URL housed on a port 80 web server.
I was in the mist of rebooting my Tivo Roamo box, and it simply wouldn't complete its network setup. I spent a good 30 minutes diagnosing my home network. It was getting its IP address via DHCP fine, was pingable, etc....
Its only when I went to the URL that the Tivo was telling me to visit that I ran into the "ad" (I'm in Utah). Sure enough, as soon as I acknowledged the ad, my Tivo was able to connect to the Tivo service. I found it more than a bit annoying that CenturyLink blocked my Internet access and forced me to read an ad for basically web filtering software. I don't have a copy of the ad anymore, but from what I remember, it was mostly talking about blocking porn.
And CenturyLink still does this, which is why I run my own DNS servers elsewhere and do a IPSec tunnel to them, to keep CenturyLink from mucking up how DNS is supposed to work ( I have CenturyLink as my DSL provider currently).
And further, Devon O'Brien, a Google Engineer working on this, posted this back in October 2017 (emphasis mine):
Since January 2015, Chrome has required that Extended Validation (EV) certificates be CT-compliant in order to receive EV status. In April 2018, this requirement will be extended to all newly-issued publicly-trusted certificates - DV, OV, and EV - and certificates failing to comply with this policy will not be recognized as trusted when evaluated by Chrome. Certificates issued from locally-trusted or enterprise CAs that are added by users or administrators are not subject to this requirement.
This is not retroactive, meaning SSL certificates that were issued prior to May 1, 2018, will continue to work without warnings, even if they are not in a public CT log.
From TFA: The new CT policy is not retroactive. This means that older certs issued before today that have not been recorded in a CT log will continue to work. But if a CA has issued a new SSL cert starting today and has not recorded it in a public CT log, Chrome will show an error.
For those who use self signed certs for whatever reason (I do for some things), simply turn the clock back prior to May 1, 2018 and issue a new cert that has a long expiration date (say 2+ years). Until they make this retroactive, those certs will not generate an error.
Lets Encrypt and other free services are fairly easy to use, but may not work well with internal-only domains, as they do verification via having you either add a specific DNS entry or a web page on the site's web server, and you have to renew it every 90 days (Lets Encrypt issues SSL certs for a 90-day validity period, others may have a longer validity period).
Except for absentee voting, or voting my mail. Where I live (Utah), you can vote absentee by filling out a ballot at home (or abroad if you are not currently in the state) and mailing it in. Whats to prevent someone from paying you to vote a certain way, by having you fill out the ballet, giving it to them, and if you have followed their instructions, they pay you and they put the ballot in the envelope and mail it for you.
Further, in the county where I live, they are providing a "vote by mail permanently" type program, where you can vote by mail every time, even if you are in town on election day.
Agree to very limited contact with the outside, and limited and/or prohibited personal use of cell phone, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc., during the residence period.
Absolutely no visitors overnight or when the Museum is closed to the public.
You must be available to live in the Museum for 30 days with no outside personal or work responsibilities.
If the person mentioned was on the jury, and there is nothing I've read of his to suggest otherwise, I highly recommend reading his recent posts on his slashdot user page: http://slashdot.org/~BengalsUF
I learned more in 5 minutes about the case than I have over the past 2 years reading Slashdot and news stories. And, as it turns out, most of what I've read up until today has been embellished or simply was an opinion of someone who knew little about the case.
Do you know the song Ninety Nine Red Balloons? The original German was Neun und Neunzig Luft Balon (SP?). I understand it was inspired by a wayward bundle of helium balloons that was mistaken by the Soviets as a missile launch.
One of Nena's band members saw balloons floating away at a Rolling Stones concert in the Allied sector of Berlin and thought about what would happen if/when they crossed into the airspace over the Soviet sector.
And it can affect more than just the engines. In the above cited incident, the windscreen was sandblasted to the point that it was nearly impossible to see out through it.
Various webcams also caught the moments after the collisions. I also cannot understand why Slashdot, or CERN for that matter, are still available on the Internet after this.
http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
Doing a Google search of just the name, the first hit that comes up that mentions the 1995 incident is on the 4th page of 10-per-page search results. Before that there are a bunch of links about what he's currently doing.
It would appear that if it is Jesse Hirsh, its somewhat buried already.
And doing the "site:textfiles.com university computer system" search in Google, although the first hit is about Jesse Hirsh, Jesse's name isn't in the blurb shown in the Google search results, so you wouldn't know that the first hit in the search results had anything to do with Jesse Hirsh unless you actually followed the link.
The vibration problem appears to have been caused by the engines being "steerable" and having a hard time finding their "sweet spot", so they kept adjusting where they were pointing during the firing.
In Utah at least, there are two areas where the analog signals have already been turned off. Granted they are areas that are served via translator stations, but AFIK, the analog signals were turned off (one in December, one earlier).
All stations should be broadcasting in digital already. Most Utah stations have been broadcasting in digital for a while. They turned on the digital broadcast tower in 1999 (see here) for which most local stations use.
The only reason for the delay would be to give the consumer with old televisions more time to get a converter box if they need one. The infrastructure on the broadcaster side has to all be in place and ready to go by now, otherwise they'd probably miss the deadline.
Do you have any source for your claim that they found Earhart's plane? This is the first I've heard that it was found, and Google doesn't turn up any evidence that it has been found yet. There are a number of websites that have theories as to where Earhart's plane is, but no one has yet claimed to have found it.
That statement did appear in the makezine.com link however. The Slashdot summary was quoting from there, not the actual news story on the Telegram's site.
After reading the makezine.com story and then reading the actual news story on the Telegram's site, its apparent that the makezine.com's intention was to sensationalize a story that otherwise most no one would have a second thought about.
I wouldn't want this kind of chemistry lab next to my house. There was a fire in a second floor air conditioning unit which the fire department responded to, and it was then that the chemistry lab was found. What if the fire had gotten out of control? Who knows what kind of mess that would have caused not only for the house it was in, but for the entire neighborhood.
Usually I would agree that a warrant would be needed, except in this case, the fire department showed up due to a fire at the residence.
According to the Telegram article, the house had a fire in a second floor air conditioning unit, which was responded to by the fire department. It was then that the fire department found the lab in the basement.
The opening ceremony took place in the early morning hours of Friday for timezones in the USA. Beijing is 16 hours ahead of US Eastern Dayliight Time. Where I live the opening ceremony was broadcast on NBC over-the-air TV at 8:00am Saturday morning Beijing time. Hardly what I'd call live.
I'm not sure if NBC broadcast it live over the Internet - I was sleeping at that time since it was still 5am Friday morning where I am (Utah).
In contrast to that, the opening ceremony for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah was broadcast on NBC over-the-air TV live - so there was no editing, though during the introduction of countries, some of them were not shown due to commercial breaks. In that case, when the coverage resumed, it was mentioned that countries X, Y, and Z had been introduced during the commercial break, but they were not shown.
This has been around since at least October 2005.
A slightly better article that contains a little more information (albeit its still kinda vauge) is here
Yes, this really did happen on Press Your Luck. The contestant was Michael Larson. He had spent quite a bit of time before appearing on the show analyzing how the different squares on the board flashed and in what sequence. He managed to win over $100,000 USD on the show.
Slashdot Mirror
Indeed. The SpaceX property, according to Google Maps (plus code: XRWV+X3 Port Isabel, Texas), is situated north of the Rio Grande river, which *is* the border between the US and Mexico. The terminus of the Rio Grande river where it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico is right there, and from satellite images, the ground looks kinda like wetlands.
Its located at the mouth of the river where it dumps into the Gulf of Mexico. The land looks like a mix of dry and marshy ground. The issue isn't that part of SpaceX's property is in Mexico (its not). Its that you can't build a wall like is being proposed in wet, marshy ground, so the actual wall will be north of the actual border, which means you can be on the south side of the wall and yet be standing on ground belonging to the US.
Out of 136 people on board, only 3 died, all of smoke inhalation due to not being able to escape the aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The aircraft was intentionally flying at a very low altitude as it was part of an airshow, demonstrating fly-by-wire. It was the fist public demonstration of fbw, which obviously didn't go well.
My DNS queries go through a local forwarder sitting on my desk, which forwards to two DNS servers over a VPN, which are themselves housed at a VPS provider. I own the VPS servers and maintain them, so I own the entire DNS stack. My VPS servers do the recursive DNS work, and that is where my control ends.
I did all of this because I got tired of CenturyLink always directing me to their "suggestions" page when I mis-spelled a URL (for those that I hadn't bookmarked in some way yet), which was all done with their DNS not returning an NXDOMAIN but instead returned a IP to their "suggestions" page for non existent domain names.
I could have just used either Cloudflare or Google's DNS service, but I wanted to keep CenturyLink's prying eyes off of my DNS traffic. I also host my own domain and authoritative DNS servers for it, so I already had the VPS infrastructure to do all this.
Its worked fairly well the past year I've been using it.
I saw the ad, and use a DNS service over a VPN to prevent CenturyLink from hijacking it in any way, so this wasn't done via DNS. It was actually blocking access. Others here have said it was only blocking port 80, and that would make some sense in my situation because some stuff was working fine, but other stuff didn't work until I discovered this by going to a URL housed on a port 80 web server.
I was in the mist of rebooting my Tivo Roamo box, and it simply wouldn't complete its network setup. I spent a good 30 minutes diagnosing my home network. It was getting its IP address via DHCP fine, was pingable, etc....
Its only when I went to the URL that the Tivo was telling me to visit that I ran into the "ad" (I'm in Utah). Sure enough, as soon as I acknowledged the ad, my Tivo was able to connect to the Tivo service. I found it more than a bit annoying that CenturyLink blocked my Internet access and forced me to read an ad for basically web filtering software. I don't have a copy of the ad anymore, but from what I remember, it was mostly talking about blocking porn.
So this blocked more than simple web browsing.
And CenturyLink still does this, which is why I run my own DNS servers elsewhere and do a IPSec tunnel to them, to keep CenturyLink from mucking up how DNS is supposed to work ( I have CenturyLink as my DSL provider currently).
And further, Devon O'Brien, a Google Engineer working on this, posted this back in October 2017 (emphasis mine):
Since January 2015, Chrome has required that Extended Validation (EV) certificates be CT-compliant in order to receive EV status. In April 2018, this requirement will be extended to all newly-issued publicly-trusted certificates - DV, OV, and EV - and certificates failing to comply with this policy will not be recognized as trusted when evaluated by Chrome. Certificates issued from locally-trusted or enterprise CAs that are added by users or administrators are not subject to this requirement.
https://groups.google.com/a/ch...
This is not retroactive, meaning SSL certificates that were issued prior to May 1, 2018, will continue to work without warnings, even if they are not in a public CT log.
From TFA: The new CT policy is not retroactive. This means that older certs issued before today that have not been recorded in a CT log will continue to work. But if a CA has issued a new SSL cert starting today and has not recorded it in a public CT log, Chrome will show an error.
For those who use self signed certs for whatever reason (I do for some things), simply turn the clock back prior to May 1, 2018 and issue a new cert that has a long expiration date (say 2+ years). Until they make this retroactive, those certs will not generate an error.
Lets Encrypt and other free services are fairly easy to use, but may not work well with internal-only domains, as they do verification via having you either add a specific DNS entry or a web page on the site's web server, and you have to renew it every 90 days (Lets Encrypt issues SSL certs for a 90-day validity period, others may have a longer validity period).
Except for absentee voting, or voting my mail. Where I live (Utah), you can vote absentee by filling out a ballot at home (or abroad if you are not currently in the state) and mailing it in. Whats to prevent someone from paying you to vote a certain way, by having you fill out the ballet, giving it to them, and if you have followed their instructions, they pay you and they put the ballot in the envelope and mail it for you.
Further, in the county where I live, they are providing a "vote by mail permanently" type program, where you can vote by mail every time, even if you are in town on election day.
Except 30,000 square meters is about 0.03 square kilometers according to Google.
It comes out to be about 7.5 acres, or 0.0115830648 square miles.
18.5 square miles would be quite large and cover an area slightly larger than 4 miles by 4 miles. That would be quite large.
From http://www.msichicago.org/matm/the-details
Agree to very limited contact with the outside, and limited and/or prohibited personal use of cell phone, texting, e-mail, Facebook, etc., during the residence period.
Absolutely no visitors overnight or when the Museum is closed to the public.
You must be available to live in the Museum for 30 days with no outside personal or work responsibilities.
If the person mentioned was on the jury, and there is nothing I've read of his to suggest otherwise, I highly recommend reading his recent posts on his slashdot user page: http://slashdot.org/~BengalsUF
I learned more in 5 minutes about the case than I have over the past 2 years reading Slashdot and news stories. And, as it turns out, most of what I've read up until today has been embellished or simply was an opinion of someone who knew little about the case.
Do you know the song Ninety Nine Red Balloons? The original German was Neun und Neunzig Luft Balon (SP?). I understand it was inspired by a wayward bundle of helium balloons that was mistaken by the Soviets as a missile launch.
Not quite, but close. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
One of Nena's band members saw balloons floating away at a Rolling Stones concert in the Allied sector of Berlin and thought about what would happen if/when they crossed into the airspace over the Soviet sector.
Flying through dense enough ash clouds can cause significant problems. British Airways flight 9 from London to New Zealand is just one example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9
And it can affect more than just the engines. In the above cited incident, the windscreen was sandblasted to the point that it was nearly impossible to see out through it.
Various webcams also caught the moments after the collisions. I also cannot understand why Slashdot, or CERN for that matter, are still available on the Internet after this. http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html
It would appear that if it is Jesse Hirsh, its somewhat buried already.
And doing the "site:textfiles.com university computer system" search in Google, although the first hit is about Jesse Hirsh, Jesse's name isn't in the blurb shown in the Google search results, so you wouldn't know that the first hit in the search results had anything to do with Jesse Hirsh unless you actually followed the link.
The vibration problem appears to have been caused by the engines being "steerable" and having a hard time finding their "sweet spot", so they kept adjusting where they were pointing during the firing.
More information here.
In Utah at least, there are two areas where the analog signals have already been turned off. Granted they are areas that are served via translator stations, but AFIK, the analog signals were turned off (one in December, one earlier).
All stations should be broadcasting in digital already. Most Utah stations have been broadcasting in digital for a while. They turned on the digital broadcast tower in 1999 (see here) for which most local stations use. The only reason for the delay would be to give the consumer with old televisions more time to get a converter box if they need one. The infrastructure on the broadcaster side has to all be in place and ready to go by now, otherwise they'd probably miss the deadline.
Do you have any source for your claim that they found Earhart's plane? This is the first I've heard that it was found, and Google doesn't turn up any evidence that it has been found yet. There are a number of websites that have theories as to where Earhart's plane is, but no one has yet claimed to have found it.
That statement did appear in the makezine.com link however. The Slashdot summary was quoting from there, not the actual news story on the Telegram's site.
After reading the makezine.com story and then reading the actual news story on the Telegram's site, its apparent that the makezine.com's intention was to sensationalize a story that otherwise most no one would have a second thought about.
I wouldn't want this kind of chemistry lab next to my house. There was a fire in a second floor air conditioning unit which the fire department responded to, and it was then that the chemistry lab was found. What if the fire had gotten out of control? Who knows what kind of mess that would have caused not only for the house it was in, but for the entire neighborhood.
Usually I would agree that a warrant would be needed, except in this case, the fire department showed up due to a fire at the residence.
According to the Telegram article, the house had a fire in a second floor air conditioning unit, which was responded to by the fire department. It was then that the fire department found the lab in the basement.
The opening ceremony took place in the early morning hours of Friday for timezones in the USA. Beijing is 16 hours ahead of US Eastern Dayliight Time. Where I live the opening ceremony was broadcast on NBC over-the-air TV at 8:00am Saturday morning Beijing time. Hardly what I'd call live.
I'm not sure if NBC broadcast it live over the Internet - I was sleeping at that time since it was still 5am Friday morning where I am (Utah).
In contrast to that, the opening ceremony for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah was broadcast on NBC over-the-air TV live - so there was no editing, though during the introduction of countries, some of them were not shown due to commercial breaks. In that case, when the coverage resumed, it was mentioned that countries X, Y, and Z had been introduced during the commercial break, but they were not shown.
And here.
This has been around since at least October 2005. A slightly better article that contains a little more information (albeit its still kinda vauge) is here
More can be found at Snopes and at Wikipedia.