Always check before taking that beautiful portrait.

Always check before taking that beautiful portrait.

 

BlackFrog to Take up BlueFrog's Flag

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 26, @09:56AMfrom the internet-routes-around-stupidity dept.

Runefox writes "ZDNet UK has a story about a new SPAM defense mechanism called BlackFrog, a response to the demise of Blue Security's BlueFrog. According to the article, the new service is based on a P2P network of clients, called the 'Frognet', which allows the opt-out service to continue functioning even after a server has gone down, making a DDoS attack like that which crippled BlueFrog ineffective against the new service."

Doorbell...

You know? that's just not a doorbell I want to ring.. perhaps it helps keep door to door salespeople off your lawn.. or prehaps those damn kids. 

Can you really count the seconds between lightning and thunder to figure how far away a storm is?

Q: Can you really count the seconds between lightning and thunder to figure how far away a storm is?

A: Chances are you're not going to have a calculator handy during a storm. However you can approximate the storm's distance in miles by counting the seconds between the lightning and thunder and dividing by five. It takes about five seconds for the sonic boom to travel one mile, so if you see the sky illuminated by a streak of lightning and count 10 seconds until you hear the low rumble of the thunder, the storm is about two miles away.

Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge...

Farfrompoopen Road, the only road to Constipation Ridge, lost to Divorce Court and Psycho Path, which placed No. 1 in an online poll of the nation's wildest, weirdest and wackiest street names.

Mitsubishi Motors sponsored the poll on the Car Connection Web site and more than 2,500 voters cast their ballots during a week of voting."Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names," said Web site publisher Paul Eisenstein. "Our panel had a difficult time narrowing several hundred down to the 10 our readers voted on.

The complete top 10 list included:

10. Tater Peeler Road in Lebanon, Tenn.
9. The intersection of Count and Basie in Richmond, Va.
8. Shades of Death Road in Warren County, N.J.
7. Unexpected Road in Buena, N.J.
6. Bucket of Blood Street in Holbrook, Ariz.
5. The intersection of Clinton and Fidelity in Houston
4. The intersection of Lonesome and Hardup in Albany, Ga.
3. Farfrompoopen Road in Tennessee (the only road up to Constipation Ridge)
2. Divorce Court in Heather Highlands, Pa.
1. Psycho Path in Traverse City, Mich.

My life is...

"Partly cloudy. Areas of dense fog early in the morning. A 30 percent chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds up to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. "