Octopus Overlords

YellowKing wrote:

Lawbeefaroni wrote:At this point, I think people are just jumping on board and dressing as clowns and standing around looking suspicious. And/or every clown spotted, even if it's just some guy on the way to a kid's birthday party, is reported as a "creepy clown." It's infectious.

Yes, it's finally hit our town, as the neighborhood social group I'm on is now rife with supposed clown sightings. I think it's telling that most of these sightings are coming from kids, which leads me to believe most of them are simple schoolyard gossip. I wouldn't doubt an isolated incident or two, but I find it incredibly hard to believe there are large numbers of people dressed as clowns who have found a way to appear only to children and escape into the woods leaving no evidence whatsoever.

LordMortis wrote:

Kraken wrote:

stessier wrote:I can get there by typing in the address.

Maybe a DNS problem for you? Flush something or other and try again?

Chrome says its DNS address could not be found. Weird. Apparently the problem is with my ISP; I can connect via my phone when I turn off WiFi.

Not sure what to do about that. Flushing the toilet did not work.

Change your DNS from automatic to google public by manually entering 8.8.8.8 as the primary and 8.8.4.4 as the secondary. Change it back when you are done. You do this under Network>Change Adapter Settings>LAN (or whatever you are using) >Properties> TCI/IPv4>properties

Kraken wrote:

LordMortis wrote:

Kraken wrote:

stessier wrote:I can get there by typing in the address.

Maybe a DNS problem for you? Flush something or other and try again?

Chrome says its DNS address could not be found. Weird. Apparently the problem is with my ISP; I can connect via my phone when I turn off WiFi.

Not sure what to do about that. Flushing the toilet did not work.

Change your DNS from automatic to google public by manually entering 8.8.8.8 as the primary and 8.8.4.4 as the secondary. Change it back when you are done. You do this under Network>Change Adapter Settings>LAN (or whatever you are using) >Properties> TCI/IPv4>properties

By Jove, that worked. Thanks for your sorcery. Before I did that I was able to connect by using my mobile hotspot, so the problem is definitely at the ISP level.

Kraken wrote:

LordMortis wrote:

Kraken wrote:

stessier wrote:I can get there by typing in the address.

Maybe a DNS problem for you? Flush something or other and try again?

Chrome says its DNS address could not be found. Weird. Apparently the problem is with my ISP; I can connect via my phone when I turn off WiFi.

Not sure what to do about that. Flushing the toilet did not work.

Change your DNS from automatic to google public by manually entering 8.8.8.8 as the primary and 8.8.4.4 as the secondary. Change it back when you are done. You do this under Network>Change Adapter Settings>LAN (or whatever you are using) >Properties> TCI/IPv4>properties

By Jove, that worked. Thanks for your sorcery. Before I did that I was able to connect by using my mobile hotspot, so the problem is definitely at the ISP level.

Your Internet service provider runs DNS servers for you, but you don’t have to use them. You can use third-party DNS servers instead, which offer a variety of features that your ISP probably doesn’t.
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Possible Speed Improvements
Possible Reliability Improvements
Parental Controls
Phishing Protection
Security Features
Access Geoblocked Content
Bypass Web Censorship

When you apply heat to a muscle, it opens up the blood vessels in that area. This increases blood flow, creating two effects. It relaxes the muscles, which is the source of how soothing heat treatment can feel. It also accelerates some of your healing, as increased blood flow brings more cells that help repair the area faster.

Here's the problem with increasing blood flow: it also increases inflammation. Since inflammation of your muscles is not just a symptom, but a cause, of muscle soreness, anything you do that increases inflammation will slow your healing and cause additional pain once you take the heat off.

Although less common that other heat pad problems, it's possible to sustain first-, second- and even third-degree burns by leaving a heating pad on the same area for too long. This is an especially serious risk for people with diabetes or other conditions that reduce sensitivity or those who fall asleep while under a heating pad. It doesn't have to hurt immediately to burn. Just as you can get a sunburn without feeling anything until it's too late, the long application of slightly too-warm heating pads can cook your skin.

GreenGoo wrote:OpenDNS is hugely popular around here, and provide other services as well.

Kraken, the next time you have a problem like this, try pinging a site by address. Or use the 8.8.8.8 address LM mentioned. If you get a response, you're at least getting out of your house and onto the internet, which means your isp isn't down.

ping 8.8.8.8

It's a quick test and easy to use for a layperson. If it fails, you know it's not just DNS (which is how words (site names) get translated into numbers (ip addresses), if you're not sure what DNS is).

LordMortis wrote:So what *really* happens if you use a heating pad for more than 15 minutes? Do you start to slow cook?...

Zarathud wrote:

LordMortis wrote:So what *really* happens if you use a heating pad for more than 15 minutes? Do you start to slow cook?...

Yes. The trick is to stop before you're cooked.

GreenGoo wrote:OpenDNS is hugely popular around here, and provide other services as well.

Rates remain unchanged for passengers who park at the airport terminal for less than two hours, a group that accounts for more than half of the 36,000 vehicles in and out of the airport each day. Those rates will stay at $2 for parking between eight minutes and half an hour, and $3 for those parked between 30 minutes and two hours.

The airport did slightly increase the cost for those who use the airport's access road as part of their daily commute, instituting a $4 charge for those who pass through the airport's toll gates in less than eight minutes. Those commuters previously paid the same $2 fee as those who parked at the terminal for less than half an hour.

Dozens of people trapped overnight in cable cars dangling at 12,000 feet in the French Alps have been rescued safely, officials said Friday.

At least three children and their families were among 33 passengers forced to spend the night in the cabins after weather conditions and the onset of darkness meant the operation to bring them down was halted late Thursday.

The passengers' ordeal began at about 4:30 p.m. local time Thursday when two cables crossed over each other, a local government official told CNN.

The cable cars became stuck in position, leaving 110 people trapped. French and Italian helicopters were called in, and rescue teams managed to get 65 of them to safety.

Hours later, workers were able to bring down 12 more passengers, who walked to a connecting cable car that took them to the Italian town of Courmayeur.
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Rescue workers conducted regular check-ins and phone calls with the remaining passengers through the night, Iain Cleaver, an employee of the Mont-Blanc Company, which operates the cable cars, told CNN.

Each cabin contained a survival kit including blankets, water and cereal bars, and extra food supplies were passed to those that the emergency services personnel could reach. The last passengers were finally evacuated early Friday morning.

Daehawk wrote:Just a small observance of the passage of time......

The Phantom Menace came out closer to Return of the Jedi than today. RotJ 1983 and TPM 1999 = 16 years. TPM to now 17 years.

It seems almost wrong to me. Time passed slower as a younger person or kid so from the time RotJ came out to TPM seems HUGE but nope...been longer since TPM till now. And it seems MUCH less time has passed. Sigh.

Unagi wrote:

Daehawk wrote:Just a small observance of the passage of time......

The Phantom Menace came out closer to Return of the Jedi than today. RotJ 1983 and TPM 1999 = 16 years. TPM to now 17 years.

It seems almost wrong to me. Time passed slower as a younger person or kid so from the time RotJ came out to TPM seems HUGE but nope...been longer since TPM till now. And it seems MUCH less time has passed. Sigh.

But you are taking the time between the Last of the First3, to the first of the Second3... Shouldn't you be comparing times between A New Hope and TPM ?