We would love to have you look into joining our project.
We work from Oregon and Maryland. Currently we are a team of 2.
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We work from Oregon and Maryland. Currently we are a team of 2.
We would love to have you join our team.
I just announced beta of host based DNS whitelisting app. It trusts top 10,000 domains, then user has to allow other domains.
Trust the top 10,000 domains, then the user has to allow anything beyond that. Built off of dnsjack. App will point to corporate dns server.
FROM THE ARTICLE
"A funny thing happened when I banned tablets in my house on weekdays and curtailed their use on weekends. My children, ages 6 and 4, became less cantankerous. They also became happier, more responsive and engaged in more imaginative play. They rediscovered their toys. Outside the home, they became less demanding and better at self-regulating.
Friday, the American Academy of Pediatrics validated my experiment, recommending that children younger than 18 months get zero screen time, and those ages 2 to 5 be limited to one hour a day—half of its prior recommendation. The group recommended that the hour be “high quality programming” that parents watch with their children.
The academy doesn’t set limits for older children, but suggests curtailing screen time before bedtime and when it conflicts with healthy activities.
Most parents haven’t been listening. Mobile devices—tablets, smartphones and the like—in the hands of children are a big business. Time spent in apps from the “family” category on the Google Play store doubled in the past year, according to app-tracker App Annie. Children ages 2 to 11 watch an average of 4 ½ hours a day of recorded programming. And more than 50% of Netflix Inc. accounts world-wide watch some form of children’s content, a spokeswoman says.
We have been conducting a social experiment on our children since the arrival of the smartphone a decade ago and the tablet soon after. A rich library links too much television for children to ill effects ranging from obesity to attention disorders. But there are few studies examining children using tablets and smartphones.
Such research is “in its infancy,” says Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital and a co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. But we know that screens’ effects on young children depend on what they are looking at and how they are used..."
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btw, our team is working on a solution to help parents with this issue :)
SmartMadre helps parents manage internet addiction by directing their children to educational sites while online. Internet access to time wasting websites is blocked until measurable progress is made on over 40 educational sites. The software leverages internet addiction and uses it as a motivator for online learning.
Currently we have a working product online that supports all major operating systems. We have identified many amazing free and low-cost education websites that parents can connect to SmartMadre allowing them to see their child’s learning progress across all sites in one place.
Our mission is to provide affordable, easy to use tools to help parents reduce the time their children spend on time wasting websites and increase the time children spend on education websites.
I always allow manual time, but restrict the hours to 5 or 10 per week. If the hire does not meet my expectations, I move on and accept the lost money as a learning experience.
I don't give a negative review, I know that I won't rehire, but I don't think I know the person well enough to tell the world they are bad.
There are some great people on upwork. The best advice is to be really nice to your hires and if possible, have interesting work for them to do. Nobody wants to freelance for a jerk.
Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio who <edit> claims to have </edit> resisted NSA spying is out of prison (2013)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
InfoSec talk. Best lines from talk..
"Basic lessons are not learned such as know thy network"
"You have to learn your network, you have to have skin in the game"
"Defense is hard, breaking stuff is easy"
"If you serve the God's of compliance you will fail"
"Compliance is not security"
"Perfect solution fallacy"
"People are falling over themselves not to change, shooting great ideas down."
"Perfect attacker fallacy, they don't exist, they are a myth!"
"Attackers are not that good because they don't need to be that good."
Speaker is Eric Conrad
SmartMadre helps parents manage internet addiction by directing their children to educational sites while online. Internet access to time wasting websites is blocked until measurable progress is made on over 40 educational sites. The software leverages internet addiction and uses it as a motivator for online learning.
Currently we have a working product online that supports all major operating systems and is (in theory) ready to scale to millions of users. We have identified many amazing free and low-cost education websites that parents can connect to SmartMadre allowing them to see their child’s learning progress across all sites in one place.
Our mission is to provide affordable, easy to use tools to help parents reduce the time their children spend on time wasting websites and increase the time children spend on education websites.
Prefer US / Canada candidates so that the team can travel to meet face to face. Currently we are a team of 3.
Relevant skills
-strong Linux command line, node.js, docker, bootstrap, MySQL and GIT.
apply here
support -at- smartmadre d0t com
* Note hourly rate must be under $50 hr
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/powershell/2016/09/27/power...
Imagine if your child asked an adult neighhbor about the movie "beaches" and they responded with the same answers YouTube does. Go ahead search beaches. Or Beach, or vine.
-create a linode, AWS or DO instance.
- Have trusted friend config wireless router to use new instance IP for DNS.
- Run modified nodejs dnsjack on new instance.
- Add my SmartMadre traffic control code to instance. Config oAuth or our APIanySite
- Now, code will cut off non allowed sites after X mins. SmartMadre code requires some amount of measurable progress to allow full internet back
- give trusted friend control of instance. You and friend could get email showing amount of daily progress.
- Suggestions welcome!
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To help younger kids with repetitive learning, consider smartmadre.com (beta). Once configured, it will deactivate your child's access to time wasting websites. In order to get internet access back, the child has to spend a few minutes earning points on readtheory.org, quizlet.com, khanacademy.org or typingclub.com etc..
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"Senores y Senoras Nosotros tenemos mas influencia sobre sus hijos que tienes. Pero los queremos"
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we have more influence over your children than you do. But we love them."
Speaking of addiction. Youtube, and the internet in general can be very addicting for young children. I created smartmadre.com (beta only!) to help parents manage their children's internet addictions. The 2 core features are.
-Learning system that will deactivate your child's access to time wasting websites. In order to get internet access back, the child has to spend a few minutes earning points on readtheory.org, quizlet.com, khanacademy.org or typingclub.com etc..
-Optional youtube monitor allows parents to see in near real time what videos a child is watching and what ads youtube is showing your child.
Parents have a right to decide what content is not appropriate for their child. SmartMadre.com aims to provide affordable and simple to use tools so that parents don't need a computer science degree to control network traffic in their own home.
Smart Internet tools for Smart Parents, Internet Monitoring and Learning system.
The Learning system deactivates internet access until your children have made measurable progress on dozens of supported education websites.
Internet monitor:
- Youtube search and view history
- Youtube Ad history
- Google search history
Our mission is to provide affordable, easy to use tools to help parents reduce the time their children spend on time wasting websites and increase the time children spend on education websites.
We need about 30 volunteer testers.
support -at- smartmadre d0t com
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quiet-3-0GHz-core-2-duo-pfSense-Fire...
Join our team of 2. Project is already pretty far along.
We need another strong PHP dev to help us make the upcoming ycombinator application deadline.
Prefer US / Canada candidates so that the team can travel to meet face to face if necessary.
Required skills
-strong PHP, strong Linux command line, GIT
Nice to have
-Docker, bootstrap, MySQL
apply here
support -at- smartmadre d0t com
* Note hourly rate must be under $40 hr
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnromsft/2016/06/14/wh...
"I can’t stress how important this change is – an administrator who connects using “normal” RDP exposes his or her credentials to the remote system with every connection. RDPRA, on the other hand, ensures that credentials aren’t exposed to the attacker on the remote computer being managed."