Comment Re:robots.txt (Score 1) 2
Good to know.
Thanks!
Journal Journal: Dan Dreifort 2
Blogging somewhere else these days. You can find Dan Dreifort goodness on my wordpress blog. I don't think anything I journaled on /. ever got picked up by any search engine. I wonder if that's intentional.
Comment Re:YRO?!!! (Score 1) 67
The offical secrets act is actually very weak. How many succesful prosecutions of the act have you seen? very few if any i would bet, the gorvernemnt always prosecuts but rarley gets the conviction it would like. and to qoute yes primeminster the oofical secrets act isn't there to protect secrets its there to protect officals".
Comment My easy solution (Score 1) 295
1. Pay $5/year for a domain.
2. Use an ISP that'll host it at no extra charge.
3. Set up a catch-all forward. (e.g. [anyprefix]@yourdomain.com all goes to a specific email address.)
4. Use different addresses for every purpose. (e.g. sign up to store.com w/ store@yourdomain.com - maillist.com uses maillist@yourdomain.com - etc.)
5. Consider buying multiple domains to keep your options open.
All the email still goes into one convenient box.
When you start receiving spam addressed to a particular address, forward that one to devnull@yourisp.com... and then make the connection that if abcstore@yourdomain.com gets spam, that they sell your address. They're assholes. Don't do business with them anymore. If they're in violation of their privacy policies, notify the correct parties.
2. Use an ISP that'll host it at no extra charge.
3. Set up a catch-all forward. (e.g. [anyprefix]@yourdomain.com all goes to a specific email address.)
4. Use different addresses for every purpose. (e.g. sign up to store.com w/ store@yourdomain.com - maillist.com uses maillist@yourdomain.com - etc.)
5. Consider buying multiple domains to keep your options open.
All the email still goes into one convenient box.
When you start receiving spam addressed to a particular address, forward that one to devnull@yourisp.com... and then make the connection that if abcstore@yourdomain.com gets spam, that they sell your address. They're assholes. Don't do business with them anymore. If they're in violation of their privacy policies, notify the correct parties.
Journal Journal: /. Editors Can Eat my Ass (NPR Funding Story) 2
I submitted a concise story to /. yesterday about NPR/PBS actually, really-o truly-o losing govt funding. Lo and behold, it was rejected. What made the front page today instead? A story about Batman's new suit. Thanks for the fluff.
Journal Journal: ADD Ritalin Adderall and other speedy goings on
Just a rant. Look elsewhere for something else.
I've never been a huge fan of our increasing emotional health medicating trends. I'm of the school that leans toward a decent diet, exercise and mental stimulation for what seems to ail most of us. Seems doctors and drug companies don't agree though. So many fucked up people on specious pills.
Comment Hackable Humans (Score 1) 248
In time with development the human brain could be used as a massive data storage device for PC information. You could have fingerprint recognition on the PC itself and then download/upload vast amounts of information.
All someone would have to do is touch you (easilydone in a crowded place) and give you a virus, take private inforamtion, or assimilate you like the borg...
Resistance is futile...
Here is an old link about Microsoft who already patented this technology...
http://www.betanews.com/article/1088039192
Sorry, you'll have to copy and paste...
Journal Journal: Blind Fanboys being hypocrites
I have yet to receive a single reply to any of my comments on Apple's attempt to take Ben Cohen's Itunes website not a single apple fanboy was able to refute my argument that Ben was acting within the law and that apple have not got a leg to stand on. Despite all the cries of unfair and the accusations launched at Ben Cohen not a single person was able to say why the site is legally Apple's n
Journal Journal: Basement Drain Sewage Odor New Invention
The current scenario is ugly, rusty, and requires occasional maintenance to be effective.
When it rains a lot, (and it's rained more here in the past few months than any other few-month period I can recall,) the small hole in the foundation from the old oil tank (used to be used for heating,) sends a little rivulet into my basement.
Journal Journal: Open Edition Web Radio Show
I and two other co-owners of FrogNet do a once a month radio show on the Open Source movement. You can find the last couple of shows on the WOUB Studio B site. We'll soon mirror the streams at http://opensource.frognet.net, but that's not up as of this posting.
Journal Journal: Cactus Pears Tubes Link Smoked Meat
The amazing CactusPears are back from the dead. We practiced for about five hours tonight, and took the goofiest set of promo pictures I've ever seen. Hope to have those on the site (and in papers) soon. The big to-do is Friday October 29th in Athens, OH. Not sure that this'll be an ongoing thing, but it'll be great for sure.
Journal Journal: Radiant Floor Heating under tiles
I'm tiling a small (8'x6') bathroom. On a whim, I looked into radiant heating. It doesn't cause drafts, can use as little as 10% of the energy required for typical heating solutions, raises your floor only 1/8"", makes for a wonderful warm floor and etc.
Journal Journal: Basement room
I bought a great house. But the basement was very basement-like. I wanted to rent out one of the basement rooms. Purchased and installed subflor advance subflor.com Works great. Highly recommended. Painted the walls with Big Lots waterproofing paint. As far as I can tell, more water gets in now, but maybe that's because we got the ass-end of a couple of hurricanes in SE OH this month. Next spring, I'm digging a ditch around the foundation, putting an imperm membrane aro
Journal Journal: dand.net for sale
I lucked upon www.dand.net a few years ago. Got it for a song. Somebody must've been smoking crack and forgot about it.
It's got built-in hits. It's a homonymn for "Dandy!" It'd be a great business name. Etc.
So I'm selling it. Bids start at $5k. Thats five-thousand, not five, and a free "k" thrown in for kicks. I'm even throwing in five years of free hosting with a gig of storage and over 10GB/mo transfer. Wow.
Journal Journal: Ask slashdot about *this* explosion
I correspond with a guy named Der Voron. Pretty neat, eh? He's written a couple of books about alien encounters and intervention, etc. Interesting fella. He recently sent me this (below) and asked me to find an "answer" to it. Not sure what that means exactly, but I know that he is willing to subject himself to a, "helmet with electrodes." I'll pay a bu
