I thought Slashdot's posts were primarily in English.

We have this issue at my company, and have resolved it through the use of "bypass codes" with OpenDNS as a web site filter. We have a basic access which has blocks by category, which OpenDNS does pretty well. We have some special company-wide exceptions for some customer sites which would fall under specific categories (A few gun catalogs or swimsuit catalogs that we print for customers fall in their weapons or lingerie categories) For this that may need access to some sites outside this, we have bypass codes that can be entered which allow access to a wider set of categories, but still block the porn and hate sites, etc. Finally we have a master code which is kept in IT which we can enter to allow access to any site, but it is valid only until they close the browser, at which point they are allowed only the standard level of access again. There is one issue with OpenDNS and SSL sites, as you are essentially using them as a proxy and the SSL certificate match fails, so it is not a perfect solution, but potentially a good for for the OP's needs.

Photovoltaic is what most people think of immediately when talking about "Solar Energy", and it does hold significant promise. Government programs are overlooking a couple of really high-payback, lower cost solar technologies in the big push for electrics that deserve much more support. Passive solar design for heating and cooling has almost immediate impact in significantly reducing the energy cost of a space, not just in the extreme cases where the design is so heavily skewed into support of the solar energy that no one would want to live there, but in much more modest but effective measures to be incorporated into more conventional designs. Requiring building code standards that require all new home construction to incorporate passive technologies to provide a minimum of 25% of a building's heating and cooling load, or perhaps 30-40% in commercial structures would provide work in the design and construction technologies, as well as making a very significant reduxction in the demand on outside power generation. Solar hot water units for residential and commercial spaces can provide very significant returns, often reaching a full payback of the investment in as little as 3 to 4 years. Combined with on-demand technology for water heating drawing from a tank or reservoir of solar pre-heated water and adding only the necessary supplimental heating to achieve the desired temperature if the solar heating had not already reached the desired temperatures could supply nearly 1/3 of a household's energy demand. Putting our focus on Photovoltaic is a limited strategy that needs to be broadened to include the available, proven and effective solar energy usage that will make the difference in a timely manner.

Back in the late 70's to mid 80's, this was a common enough technique that the US developed a secret system known as Tempest Shielding. In simple terms it was an active radio/electronic field around a sensitive device that was designed to block such electronic snooping. Georgia Tech has successfully recreated a technique used long before any of the researches existed.

Microsoft returns to the delusion that they can drop nearly 25 years of desktop productivity and working style with a wave of their magic wand and everyone will fall happily in line. Changes have to make sense, an offer an advantage, or they will never be adopted. Has Microsoft decided to completely concede the desktop space to Macintosh and Linux? The biggest strength of Windows for years has been that when you start a program, you know how to use it, even if you do not know what it actually does - F1 for help, File > open to get whatever you're working with as material,and other similar conventions that allowed users to go from one program to the next with a modicum of understanding of the tools, if not the functions. The Microsoft design team has gone deaf to the actual user, and it all about the science fiction interface. Funny how you never see anyone in those scifi images do anything for more than a minute at a time.

Wasn't this the major plot line of the movie Toys?

Please show me the average bicycle rider doing an 80 mile trip in under 90 minutes. Bike have their place. But comparing them to to vehicles meant for multipassenger transport over a reasonable distance in an equally reasonable period of time is not reasonable.

BMW has long been a company with superior engineering, and their efforts in the electric car market may set a standard that will require significant effort to match. While they have become more "market driven" in recent years, they still have a solid record of uncompromising engineering and design that is willing to ignore convention for a focus on effectiveness and reliability. Their motorcycle sector in particular is still in many ways years ahead of its competitors and they make some of the very few cars that can go from showroom to track/course and be competitive in their class. Looking at the design in the I series vehicles, I believe they will establish a solid place in the top of the electric vehicle market, though their pricing will undoubtedly reflect it. They are one of the few "you get what you pay for" high quality vehicles on the market.

If you take a video it is admissible, but the voice portion of it cannot be used. Unfortunately, while we all agree the kid was trying to do the right thing, the law the protects our right to speak includes rules in how our speech can be used by others. While it is hard to understand in context, the police were correct in their reaction to the recording under the law.

Recording a conversation without the consent of the other party even for the purpose of providing evidence requires a warrant, under the first amendment and the laws governing free speech. While I understand the intentions and agree that attempting to resolve it by providing clear evidence is reasonable, the simple truth is that under US law recording conversations is prohibited without the oversight of a judge who can determine whether or not it is an appropriate exception to the right of free speech. The worst part is that even though the officer probably has a very clear understanding of the circumstances that led to the desire to record the evidence, he cannot act on it if the evidence is gathered in an illegal manner. Without that safeguard, we have no right to control the content and audience of our self-expression, and no protection for our right to speak.

There are systems and processes that we run on a 24x7 basis on equipment that was built when NT was current, for which XP has been the final upgrade. The company is unlikely to replace a 25 million dollar machine so that its controllers can be front-ended with Windows 7 or anything of the kind, given that it still does half a million dollars worth of work for us a day. Some of the specialized software to drive the components and controllers is still 16 bit, and nothing beyond XP supports it. I've heard all the well meaning advice, and the folks that betray their lack of experience and understanding by declaring that we should have made these changes ages ago - the costs of designing new controllers for systems that were designed and built in the late 80's is prohibitive and the expertise and understanding of the processes necessary to replicate is for the most part lost to the ravages of time. Maintaining the most stable alternative is the only choice many companies have. I don't see the exceptions as to running desktop configurations like the one described as essential- there are current alternatives and it is only personal preference that keep people using systems like that; the desktop environment has progressed and there is little reason to stay behind. The control and process environment however, will probably keep XP running well into the 30's just because there are no solid, universally supported alternatives to running 16 bit systems for essential processes.

As consumers, we pay for internet access to get the content we are interested in, not the content the ISP can make the most money delivering. If AT&T wants the content providers which are what drives consumers to subscribe to pay for the bandwidth it takes to provide than content, then AT&T should not be charging the consumer for delivering the content at the same time. It is quite simple, the telecom providers want to be paid twice for delivering the content; by the consumer and by the provider. It is purely greed and until the regulatory agencies are given the power to correct it, it will get worse for both provider and consumer.

Backers that provide fund for the production of the film expect to receive a share of the return on the investment in the form of a share of the earnings of the film. There should be a class action suit to establish the kickstarter contributors as essentially the same class of backers, and a share equivalent to the portion represented by the kickstarter funding should be divided among the participants, Make Warner Brothers treat the people that funded the film through kickstarter the same as any other investor.

Buy a basic PC chassis and a MB that has multiple SATA ports, with a raid bios. Add 5 3T or 4T drives in a simple raid5 config, and use a dedupe program and some basic backup / sync software to run an incremental backup. It will take a while to initially get it all into the baseline, but a job will pull whatever has changed (at the file level, but that isn't too bad for this) and any decent dedupe application should get the files to under 50% and leave plenty of space for the offline de-dupe to work. Given the deals on drives you could run this pretty reasonably for under $600 or so with a little careful shopping. Set up the machine bios with a wake time and power down time to minimize power demand, or just leave it running. Not free, but compared to the cost of replaying 20T of files, music and pictures, a lot better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

The 80's called - they want their web technology back.