It's both vastly simpler and more powerful protection.
It's the same thing as a DMZ but opens up access for all your users instead of just one. Your PC becomes your vastly more powerful firewall working transparently between your users and the internet. The best part is it gives you total control over a far stronger firewall than the weak, company-supplied router.
It also gives you the ability to stop background shenanigans between modem and CO equipment that was inflating bandwidth counters and wasting bandwidth you had already paid for. Now you can see and stop it with your PC's firewall and can disable services on your PC you aren't using [and they were exploiting on the modem to pad bandwidth counts.]
You get all your bandwidth back and total control to boot. ;]
Solution: [Some learning and trial-and-error involved.]
Put your modem into bridge mode and disable it's WiFi. [You'll find instructions for bridging most modems online.] Now it's strictly a modem without an internet-facing address of it's own but you can still connect to it's local address. Your PC will negotiate a public IP address every time it connects and will be directly connected to the internet through that modem from now on.
To maintain control of the modem on the same wire you can have your PC's TCP/IP driver use a local and an internet address at the same time. Look up "multi-homing" for instructions on that simple little trick.
Traceroute anywhere and note the IP address of the first hop. Block that address in your PC, which is now your [infinitely more powerful] router/firewall. If that suspect IP address is in the same local subnet as your modem be sure to add that address to your modem's own little firewall. This ends the hidden waste of bandwidth. If that breaks things block only the pings and anything else you see from the suspect AFTER your PC gets access to the internet. Your PC will probably resist other abusive ISP traffic by simply not responding like the expected custom-linux-based modem.
If you want WiFi and/or wired access for more users get a cheap router and connect any of it's LAN ports into your PC. [Add an Ethernet card if the PC only had one port.] Leave the router's WAN or "upstream" port unused and disable it's weak firewall. Now it's just a simplified, crashproof high-speed hub between your users and your PC. Other PCs and laptops in your house can hook up through your cheap in-house hub and everything's protected by your PC's stronger firewalls and defenses instead of a mere company-supplied (always-underpowered) router/modem. Each user will also have a public IP address and seem to be directly connected to the internet even though connected to and protected by your PC. No more port-forwarding needed! ;]
The above isn't exactly simple for a beginner but your PC's vastly greater processing power makes your connection that much more reliable. It puts control of your firewalls and other defenses into your hands with better PC-based tools you are familiar with and effectively stops the abuse.
Remember the "Muslim Bans" and how they were blocked?
Trump's "government" is sued for overreaches like these quite often, and in this case they are probably expecting it because the FCC is specifically forbidden to reverse public policy in such an impulsive way and without proof that actual facts have changed to make such a U-turn necessary for the public good.
The internet has not changed radically since the Obama administration and the vast majority of Americans are supporting net neutrality through Title II status so yes, they will be sued, they will lose and then use the false narrative of "rogue courts" to try to pass anti-neutrality legislation to work around the obstacle. At that, they might also fail.
Watch that bill as they cook it up. They will pretend it supports neutrality while crafting it to do the exact opposite.
No doubt the industry lawyers have already started on that in secret. ;]
Defining them as a hosile intelligence agency does exactly that, by explicitly quashing the definition of journalist.
Though it remains to be seen that the novel concept of a “non-state hostile intelligence service” survives a court challenge, it deliberately strips away constitutional protections from these journalists and all Americans who donate or leak to them.
Until a court rules against this novel legal maneuver, which may take decades to play out, the NSA and CIA may begin to carry out all sorts of previously illegal actions.
What it does is frees the CIA and NSA from constitutional safeguards that held them back from these journalists and thousands of americans who donated or contributed to WikiLeaks.
The Constitution IS binding and makes them uncomfortable. ;]
They are referring only to theoretical hours of work, not to who or how many people might be doing it; and, of course, the number they quoted is an obvious lie to excuse noncompliance.
Tax information for American corporations and subsidiaries is always presumed to be at the point in America where it was incorporated or has it's offices. You can't evade the IRS by moving American tax information out of the country because it is, by law, always held in U.S. jurisdiction.
In other words, unbelief causes one to "miss the mark"; because genuine faith cuts through distractions and helps one to overcome personal weaknesses.
The result of sin is the result of unbelief, hence "by their fruits you shall know them."
Note that every time someone is declared sinless in the bible, it is when they first believed, not when they performed a ritual or carried out tasks that God or any church imposed upon them.
That proves (by the Word itself, no less) that sin is unbelief. History books and reasonings of theologians are not needed when it's in the bible, plain as day; so clear a child can understand it.
"By your fruits you shall know them." By that standard the average atheist is a better person than the average Christian.
Precisely. To those churchgoers the bible's message is simple:
Rev 3:15-22 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Athiests are cold to the idea of a god; but because they value truth over religion they are closer to God than the churches, who kicked Him out and closed their doors long ago. ;]
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It's the same thing as a DMZ but opens up access for all
your users instead of just one. Your PC becomes your vastly
more powerful firewall working transparently between your users
and the internet. The best part is it gives you total control
over a far stronger firewall than the weak, company-supplied router.
It also gives you the ability to stop background shenanigans
between modem and CO equipment that was inflating bandwidth
counters and wasting bandwidth you had already paid for.
Now you can see and stop it with your PC's firewall and can
disable services on your PC you aren't using [and they were
exploiting on the modem to pad bandwidth counts.]
You get all your bandwidth back and total control to boot. ;]
On the post: As Broadband Usage Caps Expand, Nobody Is Checking Whether Usage Meters Are Reliable
Solution: [Some learning and trial-and-error involved.]
[You'll find instructions for bridging most modems online.]
Now it's strictly a modem without an internet-facing address
of it's own but you can still connect to it's local address.
Your PC will negotiate a public IP address every time it
connects and will be directly connected to the internet
through that modem from now on.
To maintain control of the modem on the same wire you can
have your PC's TCP/IP driver use a local and an internet
address at the same time. Look up "multi-homing" for
instructions on that simple little trick.
Traceroute anywhere and note the IP address of the first hop.
Block that address in your PC, which is now your [infinitely
more powerful] router/firewall. If that suspect IP address
is in the same local subnet as your modem be sure to add
that address to your modem's own little firewall. This ends
the hidden waste of bandwidth. If that breaks things block
only the pings and anything else you see from the suspect
AFTER your PC gets access to the internet. Your PC will
probably resist other abusive ISP traffic by simply not
responding like the expected custom-linux-based modem.
If you want WiFi and/or wired access for more users get a
cheap router and connect any of it's LAN ports into your PC.
[Add an Ethernet card if the PC only had one port.]
Leave the router's WAN or "upstream" port unused and
disable it's weak firewall. Now it's just a simplified,
crashproof high-speed hub between your users and your PC.
Other PCs and laptops in your house can hook up through
your cheap in-house hub and everything's protected by your
PC's stronger firewalls and defenses instead of a mere
company-supplied (always-underpowered) router/modem.
Each user will also have a public IP address and seem to be
directly connected to the internet even though connected to
and protected by your PC. No more port-forwarding needed! ;]
The above isn't exactly simple for a beginner but your PC's
vastly greater processing power makes your connection that
much more reliable. It puts control of your firewalls
and other defenses into your hands with better PC-based
tools you are familiar with and effectively stops the abuse.
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The courts, and only those with jurisdiction over their head office.
demands to censor should be met with demands to get a court order.
Imagine how much censoring that would stop. ;]
On the post: British News Channel Touts Amazon Bomb Materials Moral Panic That Ends Up Being About Hobbyists And School Labs
Ball bearings are unsuitable for bombs anyway.
a powder, the effect worsening with greater diameters.
This is why munitions factories use mild or softened
steel, which would be completely useless as bearings.
Scrap or nails could be good because of that but can't
produce an even shrapnel pattern of sufficient range.
…The More You Know… ;]
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A pathetic liar is too impaired to know whether or when he is lying…
…thus making polygraph tests a exercise in futility. ;]
On the post: The Senate Is Close To Undermining The Internet By Pretending To 'Protect' The Children
Nerd harder!
On the post: The Senate Is Close To Undermining The Internet By Pretending To 'Protect' The Children
On the post: Screen Actors Guild Tells Court There's Nothing Unconstitutional About Curbing IMDB's Publication Of Facts
Perhaps they don't, preferring to keep their health… ;]
On the post: 98.5% Of Original Comments To The FCC Oppose Killing Net Neutrality
Nice theory, but…
…apparently you don't remember the "Muslim Bans" and how they were blocked. ;P
On the post: 98.5% Of Original Comments To The FCC Oppose Killing Net Neutrality
Remember the "Muslim Bans" and how they were blocked?
and in this case they are probably expecting it because the FCC is
specifically forbidden to reverse public policy in such an impulsive
way and without proof that actual facts have changed to make such
a U-turn necessary for the public good.
The internet has not changed radically since the Obama administration
and the vast majority of Americans are supporting net neutrality through
Title II status so yes, they will be sued, they will lose and then use the
false narrative of "rogue courts" to try to pass anti-neutrality legislation
to work around the obstacle. At that, they might also fail.
Watch that bill as they cook it up. They will pretend it supports
neutrality while crafting it to do the exact opposite.
No doubt the industry lawyers have already started on that in secret. ;]
On the post: Intelligence Committee Pins A 'Surveil Me' Sign On Wikileaks' Back In Latest Authorization Bill
that, by explicitly quashing the definition of journalist.
Though it remains to be seen that the novel concept of a
“non-state hostile intelligence service” survives a court
challenge, it deliberately strips away constitutional
protections from these journalists and all Americans
who donate or leak to them.
Until a court rules against this novel legal maneuver, which
may take decades to play out, the NSA and CIA may begin
to carry out all sorts of previously illegal actions.
On the post: Intelligence Committee Pins A 'Surveil Me' Sign On Wikileaks' Back In Latest Authorization Bill
Re: Weak headline.
safeguards that held them back from these journalists and
thousands of americans who donated or contributed to WikiLeaks.
The Constitution IS binding and makes them uncomfortable. ;]
On the post: Sonos Users Forced To Choose Between Privacy And Working Hardware
Here's a cheap, old-school solution that works a LOT better:
Amazon: FM Stereo Transmitters
For example:
Signstek 0.5 W 05B Dual Mode Long Range Stereo Broadcast Home FM Transmitter
On the post: Texas Agency Says It Needs $1 Million To Hand Over Records On Prison Sexual Assault
to who or how many people might be doing it; and, of course,
the number they quoted is an obvious lie to excuse noncompliance.
On the post: Texas Agency Says It Needs $1 Million To Hand Over Records On Prison Sexual Assault
hours regardless of who or how many people did the work.
On the post: Federal Judge Upholds Magistrate's Ruling, Says Google Must Hand Over Data From Overseas Servers
is always presumed to be at the point in America where it
was incorporated or has it's offices. You can't evade the
IRS by moving American tax information out of the country
because it is, by law, always held in U.S. jurisdiction.
On the post: Court Tells Government Sticking FOIA Waivers In Plea Agreements Is Probably A Bad Idea
genuine faith cuts through distractions and helps one to
overcome personal weaknesses.
The result of sin is the result of unbelief, hence
"by their fruits you shall know them."
Note that every time someone is declared sinless in the bible,
it is when they first believed, not when they performed a ritual
or carried out tasks that God or any church imposed upon them.
That proves (by the Word itself, no less) that sin is unbelief.
History books and reasonings of theologians are not needed when
it's in the bible, plain as day; so clear a child can understand it.
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On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
would effectively blind you, thus the headlights must be off.
On the post: Court Tells Government Sticking FOIA Waivers In Plea Agreements Is Probably A Bad Idea
Precisely. To those churchgoers the bible's message is simple:
Rev 3:15-22 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Athiests are cold to the idea of a god; but because they value truth over religion they are closer to God than the churches, who kicked Him out and closed their doors long ago. ;]
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