you've reminded me of my favourite MOTDs from fortunes package:

"Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX."
(By Stephan Zielinski)

"Problem solving under linux has never been the circus that it is under AIX."
(By Pete Ehlke in comp.unix.aix)

there's no issue. just a hissy fit thrown by a guy who has heard this expression addressed at him/his friends in a negative manner in the past (understandable). i mean, just look at the faces the girl in those pictures is making... isn't gorilla the first thing you think of?

what's next? are we going to pretend a closeup of a bald patch doesn't look like a billiard ball? or that asians don't look like they're winking in photos? or that dwarves in funny hats don't remind us of garden gnomes? some people just want to get offended and there's nothing we can do about it. i'm surprised google responded to it.

i don't think there are. (i'm not talking about blacklisting spammers)

regarding querying other dns servers to get content filtering on my dns server, that completely defies the purpose. whether my client PC uses opendns or my home dns server is the same thing (from their point of view). they are still queries from the same gateway IP address.

squid doesn't just summon a list of adult/malware/etc domain names out of thin air. opendns's advantage is in the gigantic crowdsourced database of domains and their classification. if that database were a separate opensource project that anybody could use and pull updates from, i'd happily use my own Unbound resolver.

but how do you do content filtering yourself? i do not want to worry about my children stumbling upon goatse when all they want to see are baby goats. believe it or not, opendns filters are pretty good. it would be nice if cisco made the crowdsourced domain name ranking database freely available but i doubt that'll happen.

i have tried norton connectsafe in the past but compared to opendns, it was rather poor.

please elaborate on the tracking. where did you get that from? that's an honest question; i use google's servers as last resort backup dns.

i think this has already been answered too many times. he does consider himself an asshole. yet oddly enough, in every single interview i've ever watched, he comes across as a humble softly spoken person whom i'd easily trust with my life.

Now that minix has seen some proper development and its latest versions have a useful amount of netbsd packages, where would you like to see it in a few years? Do you consider it an old friend or foe and what do you think its targets should be? And finally, if, in the long run, minix proves to be THE better option for everything, will you turn into an old grumpy fart or do you see yourself as somebody who could possibly even contribute code?

i, for one, like the idea of this feature. i just wish it would listen for a "f*ck you google" keyphrase and then immediately delete all google services related cookies from my browser. the "f*ck you google" subroutine should work completely locally but i'm ok with it increasing some kind of counter on google's servers. they should be able to see how many million people said "f*ck you google" this month.

it's a rhetorical device called hyperbole/amplification.

regarding the official child snatching, only Norway is known for having a more trigger happy social services. (no hyperbole here)

don't forget CCTV. mustn't forget the omnipresent CCTV (roads, streets and buildings). also, you aren't allowed to withhold your passwords from police, there's even less police/secret services transparency than in the US of A; your kids will probably be taken away if you discipline them in public or if you go to a doctor with any kind of genital problem (UK children are not allowed to have genital problems).

oh and the sweaty armpits on tube (mmmm yummy), yobs who'll knife you if you complain about their loud music at night (wo'd ya say to mee?) and among the highest rent and property prices in the world. however, it's a good place to live if you're a member of any oppressed minority (race, sexuality, religion) as with so many minorities present nobody gives a shit about that anymore.

and if you happen to speak the most common language of london - polish, your life will be much cheaper (plumbers, carpenters, builders, car servicing, etc). the first thing you should do when you move to london is get a polish friend. i kid you not, they're 100x more useful than your local "citizen's advice bureau".

how many separate instances of businesses trying to please governments have you encountered so far in your mega.co.nz project? e.g. paypal/visa/mastercard refusing to process payments for the service.
and have you come across any that went the opposite way? i.e. going out of their way to help you

my previous employer (in the UK) wanted to be able to store credit card details of customers for automatic payment processing. unfortunately for us, a law came out that essentially meant that to get certified, we'd have to switch to MS Windows servers. that was the only platform for which there were guidelines and which could be audited. in the end we gave up and had a 3rd party process payments for us. the law pretty much caused the monopoly of sagepay in the UK.

hmm... that will not get you very far. You don't seem to deal with LSO cookies at all, adblock is now as closed source as it gets (unlike adblock plus) and you are not addressing fingerprinting either (extensions like rubberglove, privoxy/proxomitron and disabling font enumeration in firefox).

soon enough there will be a university degree in safe/private browsing.