Internet 'kill switch' proposed for US – Security – News. So there's criticism of other countries when they censor the internet, but there is a proposal to give the President the power to shut it off. That's not making sense… or is it. The Fairness Doctrine, per Wikipedia: "required the holders of broadcast licenses both to present controversial issues of public importance and to do so in a manner that was, in the Commission's view, honest, equ … Read More

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Uh oh…just read this article , took the interactive quiz (below)and it seems I may have a computer addiction problem, which, according to the article, may change the "core" of who I am and cause impatience and forgetfulness (all this time, I have been blaming these very real problems on my dried up ovaries). While I am not on Facebook and I do not have an iPhone, I do check my blog, my email, my Huffington Post, my Daily Beast, my New York Time … Read More

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I have always wondered if the Internet has an "Off" switch. Is there a short chubby man from Oz hiding behind a curtain controlling everything? If he decides he no longer wants the Internet available for people, will he just turn it off? Most everyone is becoming extremely dependent on technology, namely the Internet. You cannot hide from it anymore, as much as some people want to. The Internet is everywhere. If you want to buy a new phone, you c … Read More

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Today I needed access to some old files. I had an old tar file from around 1998 that held several gigabytes of files. It came from large Unix servers, and for many years I had no easy access to it's contents – Windows would cringe at trying to access the large number of files (43502 files, some very big and some with very long file names). Solaris, of course, could easily handle all of it (10 years earlier). But now my main work horse is the new … Read More

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This is an error I’ve never run across before.  Tui_007 has a great solution that worked for him “I have solved my problem. I might also have an idea what is causing your problem (not promising anything though).

First how I solved my problem:

I am using Little Snitch, a reverse firewall type programs that prevents applications from connecting to the internet without permission (Some apps phone home, with news about your mac, etc.)

Little snitch was preventing a process called ocspd from connecting to the internet. This process is required for certificate verification (see link below). So I let this through, with these steps, in “Little Snitch: click “New”, then click the arrow in the popup window, select “Choose System Process…”, navigate to /usr/sbin/ocspd and allow connections to any server. I also allowed any connections to verisign.com which is probably unnecessary.

ps (My Kerberos and Systemdefault certificates are still “not trusted” in my keychain, but all levels of my certificates in Safari are.)

<http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ocspd.1.html>

Now your mail problem:

I had two problems with my mac Mail program. At first I had trouble accessing my gmail account, then I had problems accessing my work account. The two had very different solutions.

The first was a problem with the settings on my router. My router’s firewall had blocked smtp traffic, and perhaps pop3 and imap too (Can’t remember, it was a while ago). You need to make sure that your router isn’t blocking these protocols. If necessary phone your ISP for info.

The second problem was was solved by phoning my ISP. Because my work is on a different network my ISP had to forward my mail through to their smtp server (not sure of the details). I could receive mail, but not send it, except through google’s smpt server. Talk to your ISP.

It sounds like your problem probably has something to do with a firewall, or Little Snitch. If you’ve recently installed it, be aware it works and some services on your mac need internet access to work properly. You may need to allow things like Finder.app and Dock.app access to the internet in your /System/Library/CoreServices directory.

Good luck, I hope that helps.”

Then you might be interested in reading this article.  I don’t mind surfing the web non anonymously.  If what I look at is dangerous then authorities should have a talk with me.  Privacy is great if you are doing something great with it.  How often does that happen?

This study in Cleveland is going to find out. It is a good idea but I wonder if they will have computers that can connect. I think more than just hardware you also need to provide education on how to use it. I know that the Internet has helped me to have a better life.

It makes sense. Sometimes parents aren’t always around when someone has questions.  Plus it might be more accurate information than the parents can give. The issues were sexuality, housing and relationships. Read more here.

Very nice!  Guess what one of them was? “Cut back on surfing the Web for non-professional reasons. It’s negatively correlated with the experience of both happiness and meaning.”  Click here to read and then go exercise!

Thoughtful post here.  I responded to it.

Security continues to be a question I believe that stops most people from adopting a cloud only workflow. There isn’t any technical reason that people need for a desktop anymore. Performance? You can have plenty of that with caching and proper programming design.

Don’t you think that the rise of virtualization such as Citrix and remote desktop solutions has shown that people are taking baby steps toward trusting the cloud? I am not sure if this is a helpful or unhelpful thing. I personally have my data in both the cloud and locally. Yes there is always the lack of privacy, but honestly storing locally isn’t that private either. Ask anyone who has had a home invasion.

Open source is great from a cost standpoint of course, but the real challenge is that people have an ease of use and comfortable feeling with technology. I can’t see data being stored in the cloud safely until some kind of PKI or biometric infrastructure is developed and tested and has gone years without being cracked. Then I think the days of local computing are numbered.