Recent Posts
Please tell me you've personally tested this!Yes, it works fine. A great little near-indestructible phone.-mwb1100 (April 02, 2012, 09:47 AM)
Oh... From the title, I thought it was a new Linux distro...Har-de-har-har.
-Renegade (April 01, 2012, 08:12 PM)
How do you know they don't exist?Yes, well, of course I don't know that (How could I know?), it's just that I am unaware of any, that's all.
Do Not Track & LinkSys Router Admin
by The Guru
I discovered an odd glitch when trying to access LinkSys Router Admin interface via Firefox. I was using the correct user name and password, but I was being told my login was wrong. I was able to get in via Chrome or IE, but not Firefox. I was looking around the LinkSys forums for something else when I came across a couple of posts from other people who could not get in via Firefox. Turns out if you have the Do Not Track (Tools > Options > Privacy > Tracking [Tell websites I do not want to be tracked]) enabled, the router admin will not work in Firefox. Turning this feature off and restarting Firefox I was able to access the router admin via Firefox with no issues.
Yes, Stephen. The link I posted is to the 64-bit installer which is why I typed "here's a direct link to the x64 installer" and the FTP URL even has x64 in the path name.That's nice.-Innuendo (April 01, 2012, 09:26 AM)
...They moved it to the 19th instead of the 13th....Thanks for the link. After posing the Q, I then did some fossicking about, and had already found the github page and downloaded the file.
...And just to make it easy, here's a direct link to the DNSCrypt download page: https://github.com/o...rypt-proxy/downloads-Deozaan (March 30, 2012, 02:11 AM)
However, even broader, I just use Google Superstars and tag "decayed emails" (where it once was a typical email but some portion of it or the attachments turned out to be wrong and contain mistakes), I just mark that email "radioactive". So that when it turns up in a search for some topic, I just know to go back to basics to recreate that topic and not to trust the email. By that point if I am caught up there is a better copy of all those documents on our company server.Yes, I tend to use all the features and labs in Gmail that are on offer, as they can provide you with some great ways to turn the vanilla webmail service into some potentially very useful workflow and To Do/action tools/methods.-TaoPhoenix (March 28, 2012, 04:45 PM)
...it fills a handy niche that cannot otherwise be filled. (See Where Gmail Notes Are Used, above.)
OpenDNS's latest newsletter makes a call for application ß-testers:DNSCrypt for Windows: After weeks of searching for the perfect candidate to build DNSCrypt for Windows, our own Senior Software Engineer Geoff Townsend took on the challenge. In a matter of days he had the client ready and we recently announced a call-for-beta-testers-dnscrypt-for-windows/]call for beta testers[/u]! It won't be long before everyone can use the revolutionary DNSCrypt. Stay tuned here for updates on the full release.
The link takes you to an OpenDNS blog entry that has an application form (the form uses Google docs forms).
I had been skeptical that this would occur, but maybe I misjudged the thing:The OpenDNS experiment to offer PC-to-DNS node encryption - added to existing node-to-node encryption, and currently only available in ß on Mac, not Windows - must be scaring the pants off the Establishment. Anarchy must not be tolerated. Regulation will be necessitated.Anyway, here's hoping.
This OpenDNS venture could be quietly shut down as it "Didn't work very well", or something. Or maybe the encryption keys will be stored by a government department - same difference.-IainB (March 12, 2012, 06:23 PM)-IainB (March 28, 2012, 02:15 PM)
But I can't find the code at at the link given by @Deozan - http://blog.opendns....nscrypt-for-windows/DNSCrypt sure looks useful. FYI there's already another thread with some discussion about this:Ah! Thanks for that @Deozan - I knew it had been discussed, but I had not read the rest of the thread where you provide the link.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=30362.0-Deozaan (March 28, 2012, 02:45 PM)
Nor was I aware that - from the thread you link to - you could already get your hands on the ß Windows code, without being an offcial ß tester.
I shall cross-post this to the link you give.
So, this thread can be closed.-IainB (March 28, 2012, 04:20 PM)
DNSCrypt sure looks useful. FYI there's already another thread with some discussion about this:Ah! Thanks for that @Deozan - I knew it had been discussed, but I had not read the rest of the thread where you provide the link.
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=30362.0-Deozaan (March 28, 2012, 02:45 PM)
DNSCrypt for Windows: After weeks of searching for the perfect candidate to build DNSCrypt for Windows, our own Senior Software Engineer Geoff Townsend took on the challenge. In a matter of days he had the client ready and we recently announced a call-for-beta-testers-dnscrypt-for-windows/]call for beta testers[/u]! It won't be long before everyone can use the revolutionary DNSCrypt. Stay tuned here for updates on the full release.
The OpenDNS experiment to offer PC-to-DNS node encryption - added to existing node-to-node encryption, and currently only available in ß on Mac, not Windows - must be scaring the pants off the Establishment. Anarchy must not be tolerated. Regulation will be necessitated.
This OpenDNS venture could be quietly shut down as it "Didn't work very well", or something. Or maybe the encryption keys will be stored by a government department - same difference.-IainB (March 12, 2012, 06:23 PM)
As though we needed an excuse to switch to Jabber/XMPP.Which of the IMs are "secure" in any real sense?-Ehtyar (March 28, 2012, 12:21 AM)
I'm perfectly capable of descending into a frothing mass of obscenity all by my lonesome~!Well, I don't blame you, and don't you dare apologise for it.-Renegade (March 26, 2012, 09:36 PM)
My response: It sent my mind spinning over the ethical issues around the use of embryonic material from deliberately aborted human foetuses. This has kept me awake some nights.
It was not something that I knew about until a couple of weeks ago, after following up a news item about which Snopes had this to say:Pepsi/SenomyxI was completely dumbfounded when I did some research about:
In January 2012, Oklahoma state senator Ralph Shortey introduced a bill to the state legislature which proposed that: "No person or entity shall manufacture or knowingly sell food or any other product intended for human consumption which contains aborted human fetuses in the ingredients or which used aborted human fetuses in the research or development of any of the ingredients." To many people, this nature of this bill sounded bizarre and left them questioning why food producers would possibly be using aborted human fetuses as ingredients.
- HEK293 from Senomyx.
- Agilent Technologies' website $elling MVP Human Fetal Tissue Poly(A)+ RNA
HEK293 is bad enough: it is a specific and stable/reproducible cell line derived from an experiment (the Human Embryonic Kidney experiment number 293) using kidney cells of a foetus aborted in 1972. (I think that's a correct summary.)
But the Agilent thing seems incredible. It even says on their website:"Check Certificate of Analysis for donor information"The correct definition of "donor is "a person who gives or donates", but I don't think the foetuses in this case would have had any option, and they are not animals, so the medical use of the term does not apply either. It is therefore a euphemism, presumably used in an endeavour to mask or ameliorate the unpleasant truth of what has been done.
The Chinese habit of using/"farming" political prisoners as organ-donors-to-order seems rather tame by comparison. They kill them to schedule, after having previously taken a sample of their DNA to tissue-match with someone requiring an organ transplant. The Chinese have just declared that they will cease this practice in about 5 years, once they have a voluntary public donor scheme in place. (That's right, they don't already have one.) They would not have done this if there had not been a public and international outcry about it in the first place.
I don't think I've seen a public outcry about HEK293 or Agilent, yet those foetuses never got a chance at life, unlike the Chinese organ "donors", who were killed for their organs in maturity.
The amazing thing is that Pepsi, Coca-Cola and Campbell Soups (to name but a few from the Snopes and other articles) all use this "embryonic product" HEK293, though Coca-Cola, and Campbell Soups have ceased to do so after it being revealed publicly, and only Pepsi steadfastly continues. They all use this material to see how it reacts/responds to different food flavours, which apparently helps them to improve the taste of of the food products that they sell. MSG it is not.
The thing is, it is not essential to use HEK293, nor would it seem to be ethical. There apparently are synthetic alternatives. So why on earth use it in the first place?
AFter reading about this a couple of weeks ago and after doing some research and discussing it with my 10yo daughter Lily, I have rather reluctantly boycotted the food products from all 3 manufacturers. I like some of those products too - especially Pepsi. Lily suggested the boycott and refuses to eat anything that has foetal products associated with its manufacture. I am 100% with her on that.
But who has been able to ensure supply to Senomyx and Agilent Technologies with the necessary raw material - human embryonic body parts - for such a vital and (apparently) lucrative business to continue?
Hmm...
Well, if it is US abortion clinics or the PPA (Planned Parenthood Association), then presumably that's OK...Oh, but wait...
