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Rolling your own firewall is almost always a bad idea. Hardening a full blown distro is a terrible place to start, and no place for a novice to "guess" that they have it locked dow…

According to DynDNS it's a malware site. www.csie.ntu.edu.tw is blocked in your Defense Plan Content Blocked This is a known Spyware? website, which is blocked as specified in your…

Why is this on HN? Trolling the Wikipedia site might be an interesting hobby, but I don't see in any way how it fits HN.

"Cutting the cord, in Comcast’s universe, just doesn’t save you very much money." And this is why (in general) Americans are in debt. They don't understand that ANY savings, is sav…

Easy solution, setup company name, use company name for all package shipments, wire transfers, checks, etc. Should solve everything but the travel.

I guess will see if that strategy works or not - Logmein will be a perfect case study. Years of free service - now its paid or use something else.

OMG not this again. This has to be the most overinflated topic in tech. Just do your thing, if you're good, nobody cares what sex you are, if you're bad, don't use your sex as an e…

Two 4TB Ext USB3 HD's and a Safety Deposit box at your Bank. Cheap, more or less convenient (get four drives and rotate your backup drives), and secure. Easier yet if you can pair …

If the only value your website offers is to bring eyeballs to ad's, then it's time for you to find a new vice. If you want to serve up ads on you site, make sure they're relevant, …

How long until Ads start showing up on your thermostat? Or on your smartphone controller app - want to change the temperature, please watch these short commercials and then we'll a…

Never take legal threats via email. If they can't have a lawyer, send via certified mail (yes, snail mail) specifying the actual complaint, and the legal justification behind said …

Guess he can't let Bezos and his dorky drones get all the media attention.

Just another whiny rich person trying to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

Google is NOTHING like Bell Labs. Bell did real research, not research that had a ROI counter tied to it. Google researches what makes Google money - period. If this is the current…

Ummm...hate to break the bad news, but floppy disks (and the rest of the removable storage ilk) was killed off years ago by the Cloud. Better luck next idea.

How awful, Apple breaks the law and then whines about the pocket change ($70K x 52wks x 2years = $7.3M) charge for enforcing it's own compliance. If Apple thinks $70K/week is high …

So rushing to stand on the cutting edge might result in bloody feet - whoda thunk it?

His reasoning can be applied to all free social media, which is a valid reason, and why smart people should avoid the step back in time to a central AOL-esque media hub. He has his…

So Dell Laptops stink? Hasn't that been common knowledge for at least a decade?

Probably not the best criteria to judge a posture perfect chair - but boy is that thing fugly. Throw in the outrageous retail price and I'm guessing it will be a hard sell.

Um... maybe get a real life and real friends instead of being addicted to social media? It's surprisingly doable - no one has ever died from not have a facebook account. No one has…

Must be a Gen Y thing (or whatever you call 20 somethings these days). I'm afraid to me, it seems exceedingly childish to need something like a chain of Red X's in order to get som…

T-Mobile (should be crushed by) Rocks. Here on the Western slope they have the worst service of the big four. Here, only people shopping strictly on price choose T-Mobile. They wan…

Huh? Since Gamers are only a tiny fraction of the PC User space that statement makes zero sense. Linux on the Desktop is dead because most of it's common apps either suck, or are a…

location-service-type-number accting-ws-01 email-server-01 building1-upstairs-switch-01 eastgroup-noc-router-01 Why go cutesy when you can actually define what they do and where th…