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@ageor check out coworking.info, too - http://twitter.com/Dimitri...
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Introducing Google Public DNS, for a faster, and safer, internet experience: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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Yay!
- DeWitt Clinton
I'm also pleased with the Privacy Policy: http://code.google.com/speed.... Full IP logs are deleted within 24-48 hours. This is a very good thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
And Google Public DNS telephone support! http://code.google.com/speed...
- Tony Ruscoe
I'll have to do some tests to see if this is any faster than my local ISP DNS.
- Benjamin Golub
hmmm... and the reason behind this offer?
- MikeAmundsen
They will then know every single domain name that every user is trying to resolve, and how often, etc.
- Glen Mistletoe
DeWitt that doesn't mean they aren't copied elsewhere or they will actually follow through with the policy.
- Todd Hoff
anyone know what appears when the domain request is invalid? i.e. will i see a google search page w/ ads?
- MikeAmundsen
Yay! This is super cool. I'm using it to work around my ISP (Comcast) hijacking DNS requests.
- Joe Beda ()
Another cool thing are the vanity IP addresses that were obtained for this: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. '8' is a lucky number, you know.
- Joe Beda ()
@Todd: Actually, the privacy policy is pretty clear about what's temporary and what's permanent. If temporary logs were "copied elsewhere" as you suggest, it would be a pretty obvious violation of this policy. And I think it's pretty unreasonable to suggest that Google wouldn't "actually follow through" on its own privacy policy.
- Joel Webber
Joe, do you know who had 8.8.8.8 prior?
- Micah Wittman
Fast, doesn't seem to hijack 404s in any way. But I will have to go over the privacy policy carefully, in the context of Google's broader privacy policy. I wish we knew if the NSA had direct access to Google's traffic like they do for ISPs. This will certainly give Google a lot of data about web use.
- LogEx
Joel, it's just a policy. If the NSA or some other agency says Google won't get this slice of spectrum etc then don't be surprised of all that traffic is split off some switch somewhere into total information awareness.
- Todd Hoff
@Todd - half the company would quit in protest on the spot if Google even contemplated doing something like that. Including our own founders. But here's a question -- what could a company do that would reduce your fear? Clearly you use the Internet, and DNS, today. What assurances did your ISP make that cause you to trust them? Personally speaking, I find the Google DNS privacy policy a heck of a lot more reassuring than my ISP's. At least Google is promising in writing to do the right thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
People don't know DeWitt. All those fat internet pipes hook into switches that have tap lines on them. And are there any examples of people quitting en masse in protest? I've not seen it. There's nothing people can do to reduce my fear because I know too much about it. Those promises don't matter. They can change at anytime and there's no external verification and as I said, the data is...
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- Todd Hoff
I wonder how much this gets traction beyond things like Chrome OS where Google can require the client to use their name servers. DNS is an abstract concept to most people, and for businesses, Google Public DNS doesn't offer the level of control other managed DNS services offer (like OpenDNS, for example). As an IT guy, one thing that I see missing is the ability to manually refresh the cache. I'm also interested to see how Google respects TTLs.
- Mark Trapp
BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos.... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy.... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen.... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they want (even sell) your personally identifiable information, including IP addresses. Those ISPs are seeing every bit of traffic from our machines today.
- DeWitt Clinton
@Mark - technical details, including TTL policy, can be found here: http://code.google.com/speed...
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I went through that, and I'm still left wondering what Google's caching does. It doesn't explicitly say that Google will always respect the TTL on a record, and I don't see a remedy to resolve an outdated cache (for example, if Google fetches a record with a TTL of 86400 10 minutes before I change that record, if there's no way to force a manual lookup, even changing the TTL to...
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- Mark Trapp
@Mark -- I can't see how to force a manual refresh either, but I'll find out. I agree that it's necessary in some situations.
- DeWitt Clinton
Mark, that page DeWitt linked to seems to infer that they respect TTL for prefetches: "The complexity of the name selection problem makes it impossible to solve online, so we have separated the prefetch system into two components: a pipeline component, which runs as an external, offline, periodic process that selects the names to commit to the prefetch system; and a runtime component, that regularly resolves the selected names according to their TTL windows."
- Matt Mastracci
@micah Level3 owns 8.0.0.0/8 and Google has 8.8.8.0/24. BTW, 7.7.7.7 is owned by the US Dept. of Defense.
- Joe Beda ()
Matt, what concerns me about that is it seems they interpret the TTL as a range of times they're allowed to ask for a new record; that is, if they automatically refresh records faster than the TTL, that's okay, as long as they don't hold onto it for longer than the TTL. A TTL shouldn't be a guideline: if I set a TTL to 86400, unless I manually tell you to fetch it again, you shouldn't...
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- Mark Trapp
Cool, added them to my list of servers that dnsmasq is to use.
- Grant Bierman
The RFC does specify TTLs as "a 32 bit unsigned integer that specifies the time interval ... that the resource record *may be* cached before it should be discarded" I don't know if there's ever going to be a rock-solid guarantee that a resolver will cache your records (its cache could always overflow or become corrupted). Jumping TTLs isn't half as annoying as the broken resolvers that cache one of your round-robin DNS responses for all their customers for days, though. ;)
- Matt Mastracci
Oh yes, checking too quickly is definitely a better problem than checking too slowly. One of the things we used to deal with was managed DNS that charged by the record lookup; in cases like that, you absolutely want people to respect the TTLs you specify or it can wind up costing you dearly. I don't really know if companies still get away with that (we get managed DNS for free now), but...
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- Mark Trapp
seems pretty good to me so far
- Logan Lindquist
http://OpenDNS.com have been doing the same thing for a while if you are worried about Google owing all your data!
- John Cooper
OpenDNS FTW
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm not happy with this. I feel it is a step too far. They could know and control way too much... from the OS Chrome to DNS/ mweh! And then what about a system fail! Laugh! I'm sure Murphy is working on it. How much of the network could go down with it. #don't-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket
- DC Crowley
4.3.2.1
- Schadenfreude
@Glenc +1
- Serkan Unsal
Virgin Galactic ready for test flights - http://www.news.com.au/travel...
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"VIRGIN Galactic will begin test flights on its space tourism venture SpaceShipTwo in early 2010. Tests will be carried out on the small, rocket-propelled shuttle which will launch to 50,000ft above sea level by its mothership - WhiteKnightTwo. SpaceShipTwo's own rocket engine will then fire, launching both crafts between the atmosphere and the vacuum of space at three times the speed of sound."
- Demetrios the Traveller
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υποχρεωτική ανάρτηση στο διαδίκτυο όλων των αποφάσεων, αλλιώς δεν θα ισχύουν!! via ΓΑΠ κ ΓΝΡ +1
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Ολο το Kράτος στο διαδίκτυο: Προϋπολογισμοί, ισολογισμοί κ οι δαπάνες υπουργείων http://www.tovima.gr/default... #govmeter (via @tovima) #fb
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RT @vrypan Ελεύθερη πρόσβαση στα ΦΕΚ: http://vrypan.net/weblog...
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10 Adobe AIR Apps That Simplify Our Lives - http://mashable.com/2009...
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Just upgraded to the latest Tweetdeck. This thing just keeps getting better.
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Turning off Skype for now... too much spam. They need to get with it or I'm going to stop using it altogether.
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Ελεύθερη πρόσβαση στα ΦΕΚ. Σημαντική νίκη! - http://vrypan.net/weblog...
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basics: learn the difference between cc and bcc if you mind about privacy and not being seen as spam.
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The bionic hand controlled by thoughts - The Sun - http://news.google.com/news...
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CBC.ca The bionic hand controlled by thoughts The Sun The RoboCop-style device was attached to the nervous system of 26-year-old Pierpaolo Petruzziello, who lost most of his arm in a car accident. ... Experts: Man controlled robotic hand with thoughtsThe Associated Press Robotic hand controlled by thoughtPublic Service Man controls cybernetic hand with thoughtsCNET News Beaver County Times -Product Reviews (blog) -Press Trust of India all 321 news articles »
Wow!
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Είμαστε φοβεροί: μόλις επέτρεψα ανώνυμη ψήφο στο @prosfores όλοι ψηφίζουν ανώνυμα! Να βάλω κι ανώνυμα σχόλια μήπως σχολιάσουν κιολας; :)
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RT @pasok Ζωντανή μετάδοση της Συνεδρίασης του Υπ. Συμβουλίου. 3.12.2009, 12:00. http://www.pasok.gr/portal...
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παίζει ή όχι ακόμα;
- George Tziralis
Greek Cabinet meeting started. No sound (Real Player & m3u)
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Correction: Sound is veeery low, inaudible. Meeting also on NET
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Καταπολέμηση της παράνομης online διακίνησης πνευματικών έργων ζητούν 14 Οργανισμοί Συλλογικής Διαχείρισης Πνευματικών και Συγγενικών Δικαιωμάτων - http://www.lawnet.gr/news...
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Υπάρχει μία κινητικότητα στο θέμα. Νομίζω ότι θα έπρεπε να δούμε θέματα που θέλουμε να θέσουμε και εμείς...
- Panayotis Vryonis
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Η συζήτηση για τη διανομή της μουσικής και τα Πνευματικά Δικαιώματα έχει ανοίξει στο http://musicunites.gr/
- Alexandros Georgiadis
Καλό που γίνεται ζύμωση. Λέγοντας όμως «εμείς» τι ακριβώς εννοούμε;
- Sykofantis Bastoyni
@Sykofantis: όταν *λέω* "εμείς", εννοώ όσους έχουν παρόμοιες ιδέες για το θέμα με... εμένα :-)
- Panayotis Vryonis
Παναγιώτη ήταν λίγο ρητορική η ερώτηση. Έτσι κι αλλιώς έχω συμφωνήσει μαζί σου παλαιότερα για το θέμα. :->
- Sykofantis Bastoyni
Καλά έκανες και ρώτησες, διότι το πρώτο πληθυντικό δημιουργεί παρεξηγήσεις :-)
- Panayotis Vryonis
αν σκεφτουμε ότι η οικονομία στηρίζεται στην εκμεταλευση της εργασίας του άλλου.. ο καυγάς είναι μόνο για το ποιός είναι ο νόμημος εκμεταλευτής.. μεγάλη κουβέντα.. :):)
- koulpa
Acer, Θα παρουσιάσουμε πρώτοι netbook με Chrome OS - http://techblog.gr/noteboo...
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PhoneGap - an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript http://www.phonegap.com/
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Μέχρι κι οι άγιοι το λένε :) RT @AgiosVasilis: @prosfores Τίποτες! Ελλάδα... μόνο το prosfor.es εμπιστεύομαι!
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Yahoo Outsources All That Social Nonsense To Facebook - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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31 Google Maps tips for smooth sailing through the holiday season - http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009...
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Η ηλιθιότητα είναι αήτητη - http://mementumvivere.blogspot.com/2009...
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#GOVMETER – Μπορούμε και καλύτερα http://govmeter.wegov.gr
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Docs Are Old-School, We Need PageRank for People - http://threeminds.organic.com/2009...
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"PageRank assigns a reputation score to the URL where content is published. This makes it a great fit for content that stays put in one location. However, evolving content distribution via blogs, RSS, guest columns, and syndication are a challenge for PageRank. Tweets, retweets, micropublishing, ratings, and comments - even bigger problems. The solution lies in associating reputation with the identity of the author - a PageRank for People."
- Leo Laporte
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Reminds me of "wuffie" where personal reputation replaces monetary wealth in Cory Doctorow's DOWN AND OUT IN THE MAGIC KINGDOM.
- Liam Watts
I love that comic. Makes me chukle every time.
- Roberto Bonini
Doctors are catching on to this and have slipped a "patient will not post online comments about doctor" clause into their standard forms. You don't even know you've agreed to it unless you read the whole thing, and who does that?
- jjjobst
Desirable, but immensely difficult: how do you define a "person" for rank purposes? We are talking here about a huge collection of disparate things. And, what if, contrary to the online reputation, the real reputation sucks?
- Nikos Anagnostou
Agree that we need a soltion for this but a Nikos touches upon is need to agree definitions of scope. Others male valid point also some further discussion and thinking required.
- Najeeb Mirza
PersonRank tied to (possibly) OpenId anyone? ...Everytime I click „Like“ FF brain is assigning whuffie to the author of a message.
- Mindaugas Dagys
Great analogy Liam. Loved that book.
- dthree
Doesn't Googles Sentiment Analysis a step in the right direction? It infers sentiment to rank http://www.seobythesea.com/... and “service,” “value,” and “general comments.” Aspects are defined in one of Google’s papers on sentiment analysis as “properties of an object that can be rated by a user.” Unfortunately, Google is attempting to Patent this process.
- Greg
Yup. This made me think of "Down and out in the Magic Kingdom" too. If you haven't read it, it's worth it.
- Chad McCoskey
I would say not desirable - relevance is highly relative when it comes to people, and frankly anything that ranks people by the noise they make online and how many people they can get to claim they are great... will produce the wrong kind of behaviour
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
I agree with Joelle, mostly. The exceptions would be for trolls and spammers -- it's too much work to be on a constant lookout for trolling, and I'd really like to have an automatic metric which would enable me to automatically filter out such rubbish.
- Nathaniel Thurston
leo: yes indeed, and such a content filter would work well by taking into account the distance through the social graph between the author and each reader, rather than using a fixed measure of the author's reputation for all readers.
- Bob Hitching
from fftogo
Nathaniel - I might agree for spammers, but "trolls" are a difficult thing. Many game changing people were labelled troublemakers first, today we'd call them trolls...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hi Guys - I'm the author of the original article. One thing to keep in mind is that this system could be made topic sensitive. We'd be looking at total contribution/reputation for each person for a specific social graph relating to a specific topic. Is some ways this would be like mapping the Hilltop/HITS algorithms used in algorithmic text search to the social space. The similarity is...
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- Marshall Clark
The problem with any such measure is that some people will take it far too seriously - make it into something authoritative instead of something helpful - and some people will game it. I dont want to have to think about my "score" in any field and have to "work" in the way the score measure in order to be taken seriously
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Interesting post, I was just thinking today when reading about Listiti.com about how Twitter Lists plus this new form of "Track"/search on them can at least partially solve that problem: Just pick a reputable List, one that is large enough to create a thorough but vetted "universe of discourse" (e.g. Scoble's Tech-News-Brands with 500 entries). Then you're searching over that set, and not over the entire freaking Internet. This pretty much bypasses all of Google's PR machinations and their gaming by SEOs.
- Alex Schleber
On SocialToo we're assigning a rank to people based on various points assigned by other people they come in contact (via follow, dms, etc). It has the potential to become this.
- Jesse Stay
Yep eBay comes to mind A+++++ Quick operator will deal with again!!!!!!!!!111one
- Phill Price
from iPhone
But isnt the problem then that all you see and hear is from the "big guys" who are already established, as defined by "in" players who by nature will want to be in the "big guys" good books? We're right back in the landscape of television, where the barrier of entry for new players is high, opinion and value is centrally defined... and we get lower quality and service as none of them tries very hard...
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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And this is why iPhone will lose in the long run.
- Panayotis Vryonis
Redesigned: 3-Prong Power Cords into Flat & Portable Plugs | Dornob Design - http://dornob.com/redesig...
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"Sometimes, companies spend fortunes on industrial design teams for decades only to be outdone by a simple student project like this one: a flat fold-out version of the traditional three-prong power cord as thin and mobile as the Apple MacBook Air."
- Kol Tregaskes
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How is a power cord at all "mobile" like a MacBook Air is?
- Andy Bakun
Herman Miller Setu Review » Yanko Design - http://www.yankodesign.com/2009...
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"Lets keep it real. The Herman Miller Setu is priced to sell at $650. It’s no Embody but in this economy throwing around over $1k for a chair is wishful. The good folks at Herman Miller sent one to try out and my bum (queue Brits laughing) and back thank you. The supportive mesh and innovative spinal support really do make the difference.Whatever you do, don’t call it a poor man’s Embody. Hit the jump for my review. So what about this spinal support system? Herman Miller calls it a Kinematic Spine. The rib cage-like design flexes as you lean forward and back. There are no adjustments. They’ve simplified the ergonomic chair into what all chairs should have done years ago when that word first started floating around – it just works. Sit down and it hugs you spine. The mesh doesn’t cut into your skin yet provides plenty of support. Ever sat in a cheap generic mesh chair? They quickly lose their form. You get what you pay for."
- Kol Tregaskes
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Το τέρας στο δωμάτιο - http://www.protagon.gr/Default...
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"Δεν πήγα Μπιγιονσέ, πήγα Κούνεβα. Και η ψυχή μου ακόμα χορεύει."
- papachatzis
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Πραγματικά υπέροχη συνέντευξη! Η γυναίκα είναι τόσο ταπεινή, τόσο ήρεμη, τόσο πνευματική που με άφησε να σκέφτομαι για ώρες την στάση ζωής της απέναντι στα καλά και τα ...κακά!
- Vicki Kolovou
Η Microsoft υποστηρίζει το OpenOffice.org! - http://techblog.gr/softwar...
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I don't mean to be discriminating, but is there a way to only show Friendfeed only in a certain language? More and more people are adding items & comments in rooms in their own language, which frankly doesn't add any value to my life.
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