cronot - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I Don't See A Scam (Score 3, Informative) 175

by cronot on Sunday February 08, 2009 @03:07PM (#26774591) Attached to: OpenDNS To Block and Monitor Conficker Worm

Well, I can't vouch for the GP, but my ISP has a very flaky DNS service. For some reason, every 3 out of 10 queries for a given DNS returns a NX - or (in layman's terms), every 3 (at least) out 10 times I try to access a website (that is, one specific website, 10 times), Firefox says the domain doesn't exist. After the first 3 errors the domain is found and cached, and all is well, but this annoyed me to no end.

There were some days when it was bad, and others days the problem never showed up. After trying to diagnose the problem on my end, I finally concluded the problem were my ISP's servers, so I gave up and switched to OpenDNS. Never had the problem again.

Submission + - Burning Saltwater for fuel (foxnews.com)

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gambit3

on Tuesday September 11, 2007 @12:32PM

gambit3 writes: "An Erie, Pa., cancer researcher says he has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by a retired chemistry professor as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius discovered that as long as salt water was exposed to certain radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel."

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