In this tutorial we are going to install Plesk Web Admin SE Control Panel on Vultr VPS. This allows you to create 3 websites and unlimited sub-domains completely for free on per VPS instance. This free offer is limited to some VPS providers only, for other VPS providers which are not supported you will have to buy Plesk Control Panel license. So it is recommended to use Vultr VPS which offers really great performance at affordable price.

Look My DNS - Check Latest DNS Propagation Status

Lookmydns.com allows you to check various DNS records like NS, A, TXT, MX, CNAME, PTR, AAAA etc. You can check the whole list by clicking on the dropdown option.

To generate a Wildcard certificate, I found the way to do it is by adding an NS type record for _acme-challenge.domain pointing to the domain, and this way it takes the TXT record from Plesk.

Host Type Record Value
_acme-challenge NS yourdomain.com

The Republican Party gives Detroit a list of 676 Republican election worker candidates. Detroit hires 52 off the list. //

Election officials in Detroit, Michigan need more elephants in the room to get right with the law that calls election workers to equally represent both major parties. Currently, they are hiring mostly Democrats. //

Detroit election officials hired 2,340 Democrats, 308 Republicans, and 179 “other” poll workers for the Aug. 6, primary, indicate city records obtained by the watchdog group Michigan Fair Elections and reviewed by The Federalist. The records indicate Detroit hired 2,827 total poll workers and of those, approximately 10 percent were Republicans, missing the 50 percent mark by a country mile.

It gets worse. Many Detroit “Republican” poll workers were probably not party members or voters. Michigan Fair Elections looked at Detroit poll workers labeled “Republican” to see which party they voted for in 2024 and previous years. Of the 308 on the list, they were able to identify how 143 voted.

Of those 143 identified Republican poll workers, 44 requested Democrat ballots in the 2024 Presidential primary; 35 requested Democrat ballots in two primary elections (2024 and 2022), 27 requested Democrat ballots in three primaries (2024, 2022, and 2020), and 25 requested Democrat ballots in all 4 primaries (2024, 2022, 2020, and 2018).

That’s 131 of the 143 for whom Michigan Fair Elections could find voting records. It’s a highly unusual voting pattern for Republicans politically engaged enough to become poll workers.

British author and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray put the paramount choice in the 2024 presidential election — and all presidential elections — into proper perspective, and it couldn't be more stark.

Kamala Harris believes she knows the choice before the public in November. It is between going “forwards” and going “backwards.” Since the Democratic nominee is wise about the nature of time, she insists that this November, America should choose to go forward.

In fact, it would be good if this country could go back. To the economy we had before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden entered office. Because the most consequential choice there is in this election is between left-wing economics and right-wing economics. Between the economics of Biden-Harris and the economics of Donald Trump.

In some areas of life, the left-right divide is blurry. But in economics, the difference is clear. //

Murray then nailed the "clear difference."

It is between those who would grow the size of the economy and those who would grow the size of the state. //

"For once," Murray wrote, "we can judge the candidates not on their words but on their deeds," adding: "Unfortunately, this is not good news for Kamala Harris.". //

He also noted that Democrats like to pretend Trump's tax cuts only benefited the rich, which he called "simply untrue."

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) didn’t just massively spur economic growth, it also saw the average taxpayer receive an on-average tax cut of around $1,500.

Leor Sapir, PhD, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute whose areas of research include pediatric gender medicine, shared that anywhere from 5,288 to 6,294 double mastectomies were performed on girls under age 18 between 2017 and 2023 — and that 50 to 179 of those girls were just 12 years old or younger. //

This was based on analysis of an "all-payer national insurance database," including patients who were previously diagnosed with gender dysphoria and had the treatment covered by insurance, Sapir wrote in an article revealing the findings.

The actual numbers could be higher, the Manhattan Institute claims, because researchers did not include patients who paid for the procedure themselves without submitting an insurance claim. //

Thousands — thousands — of children are subjected to invasive, irreversible surgeries. These girls will never be able to breastfeed a child; if they are also being subjected to hormone treatments, they may never be able to have children.

To call this medical malpractice is to indulge in a gross understatement. //

adults, presumably able to give informed consent. Children are not; that's why we don't allow them to sign contracts, buy booze or guns, get married, or join the military. And to see these numbers — thousands of young girls, surgically mutilated because of a social contagion that they would have grown out of, that should have been treated at most with therapy and counseling — this is nothing short of horrifying.

I don't know a ton about Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA), but I do know he has a background in law enforcement, so including him on the bipartisan task force investigating the J13 assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump seems like a sound decision. As one of 13 congressional members assigned to the task force, Higgins has been delving into the incident — had, in fact, already been investigating it personally prior to his appointment to the task force.

On August 12, Higgins filed a preliminary report to the task force Chairman Mike Kelly (R-PA), whose district encompasses the Butler County Fairgrounds (commonly referred to as "Butler Farm") where the incident occurred. The report was initially embargoed but on Thursday, was authorized for release. //

• The Secret Service (USSS) had never assigned a counter-sniper team to a former POTUS before J13. [What about presidential candidates/nominees?]

• Butler County tactical command had set aside radios for USSS to use for the event in the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) command post RV and reminded the USSS counter-sniper teams to pick them up, but they were never retrieved by USSS.

• The FBI cleaned up biological evidence from the crime scene, which, according to Higgins, "is unheard of. Cops don’t do that, ever."

• The FBI released Crooks’ body to his family for cremation on July 23. No one else knew about this until August 5.

Kylie Jane Kremer
@KylieJaneKremer
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

Matthew Crook’s body is GONE

@RepClayHiggins
requested to examine the assassin’s body and was told it was released to the family by the FBI.

Nobody even knew his body was gone until August 5, including the Butler County Coroner, LEO, and the Butler County Sheriff.

Crooks was cremated on July 23, just 10 days after the assassination attempt.

All roads keep leading back to alphabet agencies being involved and/or covering up what actually happened in Butler, PA when President Trump was shot.
8:13 PM · Aug 15, 2024

• “[T]his action by the FBI can only be described by any reasonable man as an obstruction to any following investigative effort.” //

The key takeaway from this, in my view, is that the USSS didn't avail themselves of available radios, which would have allowed them to be in direct communication with the local law enforcement personnel with whom they were supposed to be coordinating and, more importantly, the FBI moved very quickly to clear the personnel, clear the crime scene, and clear the shooter's body, even while knowing that there were ongoing investigations and would be follow-on investigations. Why were they in such a hurry? How are we supposed to feel reassured that they are conducting and will conduct a thorough, honest investigation?

With resounding bipartisan, bicameral support that also achieved enthusiastic support of the Executive Branch, the US has enacted a new law announcing its support of nuclear energy. It has the potential to make an even larger impact on global atomic energy use than the combination of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and President Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program of international nuclear energy expansion.

Seventy years ago, that earlier combination of law and policy partially removed the blanket of tight security that had locked up fission energy in the years immediately following WWII. President Eisenhower’s clearly stated goal in enabling commercial atomic energy was to develop “the greatest of destructive forces” into a “great boon, for the benefit of all mankind.”

The “great boon” produced a wave of nuclear power plants that now produce the energy equivalent of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. That energy comes at a low marginal cost without air pollution or greenhouse gases, but nuclear power’s contribution to world energy production leveled off at roughly 2600 TWh/yr 20 years ago.

A growing fraction of the world’s science, engineering, environmental and political leaders agree that the situation needs to be changed. In November 2023, the United States led a coalition of two dozen nations in a promise to take action to triple world nuclear energy production by 2050.

Even before the U.S. signed that declaration of intent, House and Senate Republicans and Democrats began holding hearings, listening to constituents, debating with colleagues and engaging in what used to be considered the normal order of business to produce the ADVANCE Act of 2024. ///

Does this change anything about ALARA or LNT guiding regulations? Then I don't see it as anything more than a response to strong criticism of both. Changing the "mission" of the NRC without changing either of those is just more of the same, just "better". Which is not better for energy availability.

The mission of the NRC is still "avoid accidents", not balancing the tradeoff of "energy is dangerous, lets make sure its both available and safe."

Two-Lane Roadways

If a school bus stops on a two lane road and the red flashing lights are activated and the stop arm is extended, all motorists MUST stop.

Multi-Lane Roadways with NO Barrier between Lanes

When a school bus stops on a multi-lane roadway without a barrier and the red flashing lights are activated and the stop arm is extended, all motorists MUST stop.

Multi-Lane Roadway with a Grassy and/or Concrete Barrier

When a school bus stops and the red flashing lights are activated and the stop arm is extended, only vehicles behind the bus MUST stop. Vehicles that are approaching from the opposite side are NOT required to stop.

martyf Smack-Fu Master, in training
15y
63
You can't buy digital content.
You can only buy physical goods.
You never bought the digital content.

I think it should be illegal to use the word "buy" for a digital content license.

Why can't you buy digital content? Well, I read over the comments, and I was very surprised to see that nobody here has mentioned the fact that "First Sale Doctrine" does not apply to digital media. (Wikipedia).

In simplest terms, if you buy a copyrighted work in physical form, you can sell the physical form, rent it, loan it, whatever, all you want. You just can't make and sell a copy of the work that the form conveys.

The first sale doctrine does not apply to digital content (media and software) unless the seller of the digital content specifically grants you a license to sell the digital content (and, with some exceptions for software resellers, nobody does this.)

A streaming media company like Redbox, Amazon, Apple, whatever, rarely/never owns all the content they "sell" - they have a contract to be allowed to sell licenses to the content they have licensed in large and expensive deals. It's licenses all the way down.

At no time are the intellectual property rights to the content sold in this chain of sales.

When you "buy" digital content, you are buying nothing more than a license for unlimited replay of a media item, using technologies the seller deems appropriate for the replay of their content. That is all you're buying. A license. And the license may or may not transfer to another party in a bankruptcy. And the license may be revoked as a result of a dispute between the holder of the intellectual property rights and the distributor of the playback licenses.

But there is no good answer to this problem that conforms to the notion of copyright law as it is. Ultraviolet gave it a try, but it got so convoluted that it collapsed under the weight of it's own terms and conditions.

The economics of digital content are broken. The best we seem to come up with are advertising and subscriptions, sales are not really possible. Pirating and Streaming work really well at everything but getting the people who made the content paid.

Pirating content - that is obtaining a copyrighted work without the authorization of the copyright holder is, under numerous laws, theft. You can't just declare, "they didn't sell it to me, so I can just take it" and pretend there was no violation of the laws.

But, to be clear, I think that using the terminology of a sales transaction - specifically the word "Buy" - for streaming content is, put simply, fraudulent, misleading, etc etc...

Yes, in legal terms, I have "bought" a "right" that can be revoked - for example, I can buy a fishing license, but that license can be taken away for various reasons - but I think that most normal people do not see the purchase of a movie for their kids as something that can be taken away.

I'm not sure what the answer is here. An optical disc does not cost the rights holder or distributor anything once the physical object is sold; it does not matter if the seller goes out of business. Streaming media has perpetual costs that rise. If revenue does not offset the costs of the petabytes of storage and bandwidth needed to operate a well-rounded media library, it just vanishes. Even transferring it to the public domain isn't economically viable because of the costs needed to keep the media online.

In Star Trek, they allude to the huge economic disruptions caused to society by free energy, we're having a similar, smaller disruption to the "media" sector.

But when it comes to purchases made via streaming services, it’s more accurate to consider them rentals, despite them not being labeled as such and costing more than rentals with set time limits. As we’ve seen before, streaming companies can quickly yank away content that people feel that they paid to own, be it due to licensing disputes, mergers and acquisitions, or other business purposes. In this case, a company’s failure has resulted in people no longer being able to access content they already paid for and presumed they’d be able to access for the long haul.

For some, the reality of what it means to "own" a streaming purchase, combined with the unreliability and turbulent nature of today's streaming industry, has strengthened the appeal of physical media. Somewhat ironically, though, Redbox shuttering meant the end of one of the last mainstream places to access DVDs.

It’s always nice when a member of the establishment media actually gets it. Columnist Megan McArdle wrote an op-ed taking the misinformation/disinformation industry to task for a series of sins that explain why they have not been able to accomplish their objectives.

And what are those objectives?

Attacking former President Donald Trump and the right, of course. //

The reason the misinformation/disinformation industry failed to harm Trump is because it was so obvious that this was their entire mission. Even though they tried to disguise their aims under a veneer of a desire for accuracy, it was evident that they were motivated more by politics than a desire to make sure people are properly informed on the issues.

As McArdle highlighted – the bulk of their “fact-checking” went in only one political direction. It was rare for these intrepid seekers of truth to correct any of the long list of falsehoods coming from the left. It was as if they weren’t even trying to hide their bias. //

Members of the misinformation industry would have been smart to at least pretend to care about debunking false narratives on both sides by also going after folks on the left who propagated falsehoods in public spaces.

But they didn’t. This is why they continue to fail. //

GBenton
13 hours ago
McArdle is blinded by her bigotry toward Trump. Those weren't errors, no. The fact checkers lied.

but she doesn't ask why or connect the dots.

they had to lie in a coordinated conspiracy because Trump was revealing the truth and threatening the status quo, of which McArdle is a beneficiary.

Trump represents real reform and those who hate him most have something to lose if the corrupt status quo ends.

The purpose of fscr checkers is to enable leftist misinformation and hide the truth.

What are these “clear rules of the road” or the thresholds that determine when a price or profit level becomes “excessive”? The memo doesn’t say, and the campaign did not answer questions I sent seeking clarification. //

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad this policy is. It is, in all but name, a sweeping set of government-enforced price controls across every industry, not only food. Supply and demand would no longer determine prices or profit levels. Far-off Washington bureaucrats would. The FTC would be able to tell, say, a Kroger in Ohio the acceptable price it can charge for milk.

At best, this would lead to shortages, black markets and hoarding, among other distortions seen previous times countries tried to limit price growth by fiat. (There’s a reason narrower “price gouging” laws that exist in some U.S. states are rarely invoked.) At worst, it might accidentally raise prices. //

But more to the point: If your opponent claims you’re a “communist,” maybe don’t start with an economic agenda that can (accurately) be labeled as federal price controls. //

The "policy" is horrible, but you're just supposed to be vibing on how she's going to take care of the evil corporations. She apparently vetted this policy like she vetted her running mate Tim Walz — which is to say not at all or keeping her eyes covered about all the bad stuff. //

anon-aqyc Jerry's Middle Finger
an hour ago
They are just following the playbook of every Marxist since the beginning of time. Promise the world and when you get in power bring out the iron fist.

I am aware that Marx did not write about it until the 19th century, but the idea was not new with him. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons Jerry's Middle Finger
an hour ago
They know it doesn’t work and they don’t care. If everything fails, that means the elites get more money and more power. //

Donner’s Party
an hour ago
WaPo must have gotten the Memo from Bezoes, that Kamala’s new Joy policy wasn’t going to work for Amazon.
No Amazon, No WaPo, No Job.

Now they are pushing citizenship at a record pace, hoping to use new citizens that "historically lean Democrat" to boost Harris’s election prospects.

Over 3.3 million immigrants have become naturalized citizens since the two entered the White House.

It is, without a doubt, an active attempt at “reshaping the electorate” in a way that could alter the outcome of the 2024 election. //

msctex
an hour ago
The most purely Leftist result of this effort as it seems to stand, would be if they were to vote Republican, which is more than possible, given the contradiction of people fleeing Leftism voting for Leftists.

This is so true, perhaps it has not occurred to Democrats that no longer wearing the mask they maintained since the end of WWII, might just matter in this regard.

Unfortunately, it is likely not that simple. This is really about padding Voter Rolls which amount to nameless numbers, as opposed to adding potential Voters, however illegal they may be.

Always, always, always take the Evil to the nth degree, with these people. It's where the reality of any matter will be found.

Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team

MAD ISSUE #148

The Register's Geek's Guide series for explorers who love feats of tech and engineering prowess took a trip to the European mainland to see exhibits ranging from an Air France Concorde and a Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 "Concordski" to a Buran prototype, alongside various industrial marvels.

The spot? Well there are two of them: The Speyer and Sinsheim museums, both well worth a visit the next time you're in southwest Germany.

The two museums can be accessed by driving an hour south from the closest large airport, Frankfurt, and represent an effort, beginning in 1981, by a gang of vintage enthusiasts keen to show off their vehicles. The collection has since grown to include a variety of military hardware, a good number of aircraft, and, of course, the supersonic airliners and the Buran prototype. //

A two-day pass is €52 or €42 for children between 5 and 14 and includes a show at the IMAX theaters on each site, although we didn't bother with a viewing since there was more than enough at each museum to look at it.

There is also a parking charge at both museums.

After more than 15 years of insisting that "competition is only a click away," Google's antitrust mantra is no longer keeping the regulators at bay. //

In the past eight months, however, Google has lost two major US competition lawsuits: One brought by Epic Games over Google's grip on the Android ecosystem, the other brought by the Department of Justice over the Big G's market-dominating search advertising business. //

"What the judge made clear was that they [Google] have an overwhelming monopoly in search," said Kint. "And they've abused it." //

There's a real risk that a poorly targeted remedy would just allow some other data predator to thrive, or would degrade the overall ecosystem – as happened when wolves were removed from Yellowstone. Imagine a Meta operating Google Play, and what the privacy disclosures would look like then.

A Jerusalem Post story, citing sources in Kuwait, alleged that the Biden national security team gave the Iranians the names of deep-cover Mossad operatives working in Iran to try to de-escalate tensions between Israel and Iran. //

All of this may be true. The Kuwaiti paper may have pushed an Iranian story to stir up mischief. Fox may not have done due diligence on the story. It all might be a clever bit of disinformation.

On the other hand, "a hit dog will holler."

The counterargument to the story is based on the idea that the Kuwaiti newspaper has links to the Tehran regime and has posted inaccurate stories. //

That sounds plausible until you consider how many of the Steele Dossier stories that the media accepted at face value were also based on a single anonymous source. I'm not sure that is the strongest argument to make given our own media's performance during the Russia Hoax and COVID when they produced regime disinformation on a massive scale. I don't know why I'd believe the same people who were involved in sending $1.7 billion in cash to Tehran and lying about it rather than some other group of liars. //

The fact is that Biden's foreign policy is based on two impulses: fear and appeasement. Well, three impulses: fear, appeasement, and lies. We have read over and over about how the White House is trying to prevent "escalation" between Israel and Iran. We know from White House sources that Biden is trying to pressure Netanyahu into winding down the war in Gaza and not reacting to Hezbollah and Iranian provocations. We know that Iran has threatened to hit American targets if it can't adequately punish Israel; see Iran Warns US That If It Helps Israel Defend From Iran's Retaliation Itself Then the US Is Next – RedState. We know that the White House permits Iranian-backed gunmen to rocket US bases in the region with token retaliation. //

We know that Biden's foreign policy and defense agencies have senior people with very close ties to Tehran; see Defense Official With Frequent White House Visits and Known Iranian Ties Has a Link to Kamala Harris. Kamala's national security adviser has been employed by what is described as Iran's lobbying arm in Washington.

We also know that the White House is in thrall to the "Palestinian" movement and is deeply anti-Israel, if not outright antisemitic. //

I understand why people don't want to believe the story is true. I'd also love to be able to tell the story of an outrageous fraud. What I don't understand is what about the story isn't both plausible and totally on-brand for the Biden White House.  //

John Q. Public Dieter Schultz
4 hours ago
The people who say that the story isn’t true have lied about literally everything else. Is today the day they finally decided to be honest? //

Wabash08
2 hours ago
Even if it’s not accurate, it reflects the utter shambles Biden has left our relationship with Israel. That story wouldn’t get reported unless there is either hard evidence the US acted as accused, or Israel is angry enough at American behavior to let it be printed without definitive proof. I would put my money on the story being true given Biden and his Obama staffed state department’s obsequiousness to Iran.