I’m not a wizard… There are three options for “internal” networks. Your router has an outside IP address that is visible to the world. I won’t know what that one is unless you hit ipchicken.com and tell me what it is.

The three options for internal networks are the following ranges of IP addresses:

10.0.0.0 – 10.255-255-255. This range of addresses is typically used by Apple devices as the default. So your router, unless you have changed it, will usually be 10.0.1.1

172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255.  I have never run across a router in the wild that uses this range by default, but there probably are some.

192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255. Linksys usually runs in this range and the router address for their most popular models generally comes in at 192.168.1.1.

See, no magic.

If you want to check and see what the router address is, open a cmd window and type in “ipconfig” without the quotes. The default gateway will be your router. If it says nothing and it also says your ip address is 127.0.0.1, it means you have no network connection. 127.0.0.1 is the “local loopback” address that your computer gives itself if it can’t connect to a network.

Attain

It’s pretty plain to see that Google can’t lose in this scenario.

• Net neutrality = big win.
• Tiered internet = meh.

Google has forced the issue, and it seems it might actually come down on the side of the consumer, who is sick to death of being nickel and dimed by the telecoms. Come on EFF and FCC, take this opportunity to make it stick and keep the net neutral. Maybe Google can sabotage it’s own defense in this case. It will certainly work in their favor.

Kinda reminds me of the frog and the scorpion getting across the river. Except this time, the scorpion has wings. I’ve always liked Google, they have good products. I’ve also always kept a wary eye on them. It looks like Verizon should have been doing the same thing.

I have a better idea. How about instead of giving away fish, you teach people to fish. Small business and the middle class are in trouble. If you want to help, how about some low cost business loans or grants that will help people open their own shops and then hire other people to work there and then the money kinda stays in the community instead of being soaked up by the market which sits predominantly off-shore and thumbs their noses at us while we work our butts off and pay taxes while they don’t. Whew, that’s a helluva run on sentence, glad to get it off my chest. Oh, and keep the net neutral, while you’re at it. I wouldn’t stand for people telling me which roads I can drive on, so I have no interest in letting it slide on the “information superhighway”.

You can start by sending me a check for $100K to open a coffee/geek/hosting biz. Or, you can go ahead and put that on your charge card by hitting “Custom Deal” over here, just make the quantity 100,000.

You set up a new website and are excited for the client to kick the tires. You check logs regularly, and see someone from the correct town hitting the site. But, it looks like they aren’t really sure what’s going on, and then send something that resembles someone fishing for an old exploit.

You talk to the client and mention it to them in passing, and it turns out they haven’t hit the site. So you email an abuse notification to the registration, and what comes back? A canned reply, it turns out to be the cyveillance bot “protecting and serving” by masquerading as a person. Hrrm. That earns a ban. Get some couth, cyveillance.

…and, not a fan.

Add captcha to try and stop all the scripted autobids from Bulgaria. How in the world can anyone posting a project take any of the bids seriously with that going on? Much less give any kind of server access to actually fix problems. Yeah, I’m sure I’d let one of those guys in…

Get rid of the captcha monkeys. Good lord. No wonder spam is so bad. They even have an executable to download on one of them. Seriously?

Get rid of the “Buy 5000 fans on Facebook” contracts.

Ban the Craigslist spammers.

The site is a good idea, but good lord, it’s almost like wading through crack or keygen sites, kind of cesspoolish.