This /is/ PasswordMaker in infancy. I was a PasswordMaker user for a 3 or 4 years until the project stopped getting updates and they couldn't (or wouldn't) support Chrome.
This is basically customer testing, except treating yourself like the customer. This can be a good starting point, but is also dangerous for a multitude of reasons you already know and I won't reiterate. It's a good way to get started thinking about your solution, but does not replace talking to real customers whose problems you're trying to solve.
The fact that the domain is "mozilla.org" means nothing. Should we remove every google.com post because it doesn't come from a Google employee but a Google+ page? Nothing is misleading here.
Firefox 3rd Party Plugin TOS: "If we can use your details to legally make a profit, we probably will."
The current headline, even if not deliberately misleading, is poor because it lacks proper context and isn't descriptive. Instead, it lets the user make assumptions about who said it and click the link to validate their assumption. It is most definitely misleading because the headline + domain is a half-truth.
It is /most likely/ link-bait, or at best an inexperienced user who should be taught that these sorts of headlines are not constructive to the community.
I'm not sure why this is being up-voted so much. It won't work. SOPA works by not routing specific IPs, not by failing to resolve domains (which is why it fundamentally breaks the internet). Additionally, a single IP won't work for a major site like YouTube or Facebook, which work off multiple data-centers and CDNs (which also complicates how to "block" a site served by 50 IPs that may also be distributing content for another major brand). This is bigger than a hosts file.
Cary Sherman, the head of the Recording Industry Association of America, wrote in a guest column for CNET that SOPA could be used to force Internet providers to block by "Internet Protocol [IP] address" and deny "access to only the illegal part of the site." The RIAA, along with the Motion Picture Association of America and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, strongly supports the legislation.
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An aide to the House Judiciary committee -- chaired by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), SOPA's principal sponsor -- did not dispute that IP address blocking and deep packet inspection could be required. It would be up to a judge to determine the nature of the court order that would be needed to block the site, the aide told CNET this afternoon.
They are definitely looking to block by IP, not just DNS.
As a commenter in the original article pointed out, homeschooling is a work around, not a solution.
As a home-schooled kid myself, I would suggest thinking very long and hard about all options and long-term goals before doing it. There are positives and negatives to everything of course, but the +'s and -'s of home-schooling can be very far reaching and long-term. You can't just exit the plan and move on without consequence.
It's not a workaround. A workaround wouldn't solve the original problem: getting an education. Homeschooling does that.
"It's not a solution, it's a workaround" is used when one does not wish to allow solutions that reject the current system, in this case education by the state.
That's a solution for you, but the education system would remain broken for everyone else. That is bad for the country as a whole. Thus, home-schooling your child is a work-around to the bad state of education, but the solution for all children is to fix education.
You assume that education for most must be done by the state. Yes, what I stated is a solution, and it does work around the state education problem. I admit the possibility that the state education system can be fixed, but I also admit the probability that it won't be in my lifetime.
If you have a problem, and you can use a different infrastructure to avoid it at an acceptable cost, it makes sense to use it.
You can on OS X Leopard, I think. It automatically unzips files once you download them. No clue if it does recursives and I really don't want to find out.
