I was listening to my favorite podcast today, This Week in Tech with Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak and others (pretty much the old TechTV gang when it was an awesome cable channel, before they were bought by G4 and subsequently run into the ground). But I digress... anyway, they were discussing an awesome service called OpenDNS , so of course I decided to check it out when I got back from lunch. Sure enough, this is a very cool, completely free DNS (domain name service). For those of you who don't know, DNS is what converts Internet name addresses (i.e. www.google.com ) to it's actual IP Address (i.e. 208.67.219.230). DNS was created in the early days of the Internet because humans can remember names a lot easier than number combinations. Typically, when you type an address into a web browser, for example, it goes and runs to your Internet Service Provider's DNS server to say "where the heck is google.com?" to which your ISP's DNS server
From its earliest beginnings, the idea of America united the thirteen British Colonies. There were many British subjects who took umbrage with the heavy hand of King George and the Crown's policies as they were were applied in the Colonies. These frustrations accumulated over time to the point where they became intolerable and more and more Colonists decided they had had enough, until eventually they got together and decided to declare independence from Great Britain. That idea, the spark that ignited what was to become the United States of America, was based on a set of shared principles and values. Those principles are what have held Americans together as a nation all these years, and resulted in the most powerful and productive nation the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, most of these principles have now been forgotten. They are no longer taught, and the majority of voters no longer understand freedom, the Constitution (and thus the proper role of government), and their
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